Updated and expanded in this third edition, Principles of Community Psychology: Perspectives and Applications presents the most recent literature, empirical work, issues, and events in the field and the relevant policy debates surrounding them.The book maintains the basic architecture of the previous edition—integrating theory, research, and practice across the diverse subject matter of community mental health and community
psychology—but reduces jargon and improves clarity. Applying an ecological perspective, it places problems in their current and historical contexts and employs a stress, coping, and social-support model as a key
integrative device to analyze community mental health practice, prevention, self-help, and social action.Principles of Community Psychology: Perspectives and Applications, 3/e, is ideal for upper level undergraduate and graduate courses in community psychology, social work, and mental health.Features of the Third Edition BLPRESENTS NEW INFORMATION ON:BLbehavior-environment
congruenceBLsocial and physical environmental influences on behavior and well-beingBLthe use of law to reduce stigmaBLorganizational change, development, and learningBLproblems in planned change on a statewide
levelBLpolitical and legal events since desegregation in public schoolsBLfuture problems surrounding race in public schoolsBLmaking community psychology more interdisciplinaryBLrecognizing developments in community psychology outside the United StatesBLOFFERS NEW RESEARCH ON:BLhomelessnessBLadaptation, crisis, coping, and social supportBLUPDATES AND EXPANDS
TREATMENTS OF:BLfundamental principles and values of community psychologyBLpopulation parametersBLthe history of community psychologyBLHIV/AIDS, Project Head Start, and preventing child
maltreatmentBLself-help/mutual assistance groupsBLdesegregation of the public schools as a societal-level interventionBLcommunity developmentBLscience, ethics, and the future of community psychology
Author Biography
Murray Levine is Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York.
Douglas D. Perkins is Associate Professor of Human and Organizational Development at Vanderbilt University.
David V. Perkins is Professor of Psychology at Ball State University.
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