Principles of Community Psychology: Perspectives and Applications

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

�PRESENTS NEW INFORMATION ON:

�behavior-environment congruence

�social and physical environmental influences on behavior and well-being

�the use of law to reduce stigma

�organizational change, development, and learning

�problems in planned change on a statewide level

�political and legal events since desegregation in public schools

�future problems surrounding race in public schools

�making community psychology more interdisciplinary

�recognizing developments in community psychology outside the United States

�OFFERS NEW RESEARCH ON:

�homelessness

�adaptation, crisis, coping, and social support

�UPDATES AND EXPANDS TREATMENTS OF:

�fundamental principles and values of community psychology

�population parameters

�the history of community psychology

�HIV/AIDS, Project Head Start, and preventing child maltreatment

�self-help/mutual assistance groups

�desegregation of the public schools as a societal-level intervention

�community development

�science, ethics, and the future of community psychology