Principles of Community Psychology Perspectives and Applications
by Levine, Murray; Perkins, David V.Edition: 2nd
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1996-09-19
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary
Thoroughly updated, this second edition integrates theory, research, andpractice across a diverse subject matter of community mental health andcommunity psychology. The book emphasizes an ecological perspective, focusing onthe individual in the environment and the influences that shape and changebehavior and mental health. The authors have made their arguments and researchless abstract and more practical, and have completely rewritten this new editionto include updated references and research, boxes on current topics, chapteroutlines, expanded case studies, practical examples, and chapterdiscussions.
Author Biography
David V. Perkins is Professor of Psychology at Ball State University. Douglas D. Perkins is Associate Professor of Human and Organizational Development at Vanderbilt University. Murray Levine is Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York.
Table of Contents
| All chapters end with a summary. | |
| Foreword | |
| Preface | |
| Acknowledgements | |
| Introduction: An Overview of Community Psychology | |
| What Is Community Psychology? | |
| What Isn't Community Psychology? | |
| Principles of Community Psychology | |
| Organization of Chapters | |
| Origins Of Community Psychology | |
| Life Is a Soap Opera | |
| The Incidence and Prevalence of Problems in Living | |
| Institutionalized Population | |
| Outpatient Mental Health Care | |
| Alcohol and Substance Abuse | |
| Crime and Victims of Crime | |
| Problems of Children and Adolescents | |
| Medical Problems and Chronic Illnesses | |
| Psychosocial Adaptation to Health Problems: The Case of Genital Herpes | |
| Disasters | |
| Marriage and Parenting | |
| Divorce | |
| Economics and Employment | |
| Leisure-Time and Value Changes | |
| Aloneness in American Society | |
| The Availability of Professional Care | |
| Problems of the Medical Model | |
| The Origins of Community Psychology | |
| Origins of Mental Health Care in the Welfare System | |
| Community Mental Health | |
| Community Psychology Grows from Community Mental Health | |
| The Influence of Applied Social Psychology and the War on Poverty | |
| Current Issues in Community Mental Health | |
| Deinstitutionalization | |
| Homelessness | |
| Community Alternatives to Hospitalization | |
| Assertive Community Supports | |
| Minorities and Other Undeserved Groups | |
| Children and Adolescents | |
| Perspectives In Community Psychology | |
| A Conceptual Road Map of Community Psychology | |
| The Dohrenwend Model | |
| Stressful Life Events | |
| Person and Environment | |
| Outcomes | |
| Poverty, Unemployment, and Social Problems | |
| Opportunities for Intervention Based on Dohrenwend's Model | |
| Crisis Intervention | |
| Intervention to Enhance Psychological Mediators | |
| Intervention to Enhance Situational Mediators | |
| Psychological Characteristics of the Person That Increase the Likelihood of a Stressful Life Event | |
| Situations That Increase the Risk of Stressful Events | |
| Preventing Stressful Life Events | |
| The Ecological Analogy | |
| Ecology as a Paradigm | |
| A Paradigm Shift | |
| Community Research from an Ecological Perspective | |
| Implications for the Research Enterprise | |
| Principles of Ecology | |
| Interdependence | |
| Cycling of Resources | |
| Adaptation | |
| Niche | |
| Behavior-Environment Congruence in Geel, Belgium | |
| Succession | |
| The Boom in Hong Kong's Elderly Home Industry | |
| Mental Health and the Law | |
| Law as a Factor in the Ecological Analogy | |
| Adapting to Legal Change | |
| Unforeseen Consequences of a Changein Child Protection Laws | |
| Ecology and Values | |
| Ecology and Practice | |
| Five Psychological Conceptions of the Environment | |
| Social Environmental Influences on Behavior and Well-Being | |
| Perceived Social Climates | |
| Social Roles | |
| Social Capital: Community Cognitions, Behaviors, and Networks | |
| Physical Environmental Influences on Behavior and Well-Being | |
| The Socio-Physical Environment: Behavior Settings | |
| The Fairweather Lodge | |
| Postscript: What Role Remains for Individual Differences? | |
| Labeling Theory: An Alternative to the Illness Model | |
| The Social Context for the Development of Labeling Theory | |
| Principles of Labeling Theory | |
| Primary and Secondary Deviance | |
| Cultural Stereotypes and Labeling | |
| When is Residual Rule-Breaking Labeled? | |
| Diagnosis and Labeling Theory | |
| Behavior is Assimilated to the Label | |
| Stigma | |
| The Use of Law to Reduce Stigma | |
| Some Cautions | |
| Adaptation, Crisis, Coping, and Support | |
| Adaptation | |
| Research on Stressful Life Events | |
| Vulnerability: An Integrative Perspective | |
| Coping | |
| General Characteristics of Coping | |
| Pollyanna and the Glad Game | |
| Stages in Crisis Situations | |
| Individual and Situational Differences in Coping | |
| Social Support | |
| Theory and Research Concerning Social Support | |
| Coping and Support in the Context of Culture | |
| New Directions in Research on Social Support | |
| Support Interventions for People with Disabilities | |
| Applications Of Community Psychology | |
| Prevention | |
| Basic Concepts in Prevention | |
| Indicated (Secondary) Prevention | |
| The Primary Mental Health Project | |
| Preventing Child Maltreatment: The Problem of False Positives | |
| Limitations of Indicated Prevention in Mental Health | |
| Universal and Selective (Primary) Prevention | |
| Competence Building | |
| A Successful School Change Effort | |
| Prevention through Stepwise Risk Reduction | |
| Head Start and Early Head Start: An Experiment in Selective Prevention | |
| Prevention of HIV/AIDS | |
| Schools as a Locus of Prevention | |
| Community-Based Health Promotion | |
| Self-Help Groups | |
| Growth of Self-Help Groups | |
| Contemporary Reasons for Growth | |
| Types of Self-Help Groups | |
| The Nature of Self-Help Groups | |
| Dynamics of Self-Help Groups | |
| Self-Help and the Model of a Family | |
| How Self-Help Groups Work | |
| Self-Help and Ecological Concepts | |
| Are Self-Help Groups Effective? | |
| AA and Recovery from Alcoholism | |
| A Controlled Experiment | |
| Starting Self-Help Groups | |
| Advocacy Groups | |
| The Problem of Change | |
| The Creation of New Settings | |
| The Residential Youth Center (RYC) | |
| Change in Existing Settings | |
| Systems Theory | |
| First- and Second-Order Change | |
| Organizational Change, Development, and Learning | |
| Production and Satisfaction Goals | |
| The Social Context of Change | |
| Case Studies of Change in Existing Settings | |
| Changing a State Mental Hospital | |
| Court-Ordered Change in Caring for Persons with Mental Retardation | |
| Planned Change on a Statewide Level: The Texas Educational Miracle | |
| School Desegregation: A Societal-Level Intervention | |
| Slavery, Segregation, and the Constitution | |
| The NAACP and Its Litigation Strategy | |
| Social Science Theory and Integration | |
| Successful Desegregation of the Schools--A Case Study | |
| After Desegregation | |
| Future Problems | |
| Community Development and Social Action in Community Psychology | |
| The Politics of Problem Definition | |
| Blaming the Victim | |
| Paradox and Empowerment | |
| Competent Communities | |
| Community Development | |
| Social Action | |
| An Example of Social Action: The Love Canal Homeowners' Association | |
| Center for Health, Environment, and Justice and the Environmental Justice Movement | |
| Science, Ethics, and the Future of Community Psychology | |
| Ecology and Science | |
| The Ethics of Community Intervention | |
| Interdisciplinary Community Psychology | |
| Applying the Ecological-Psychopolitical Model to One Domain: The Physical Environment | |
| Community Psychology Around the Globe | |
| References | |
| Names Index | |
| Subject Index | |
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