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Originally published in 1979, the research reported in this volume
is based on investigations of how tenth-grade boys cope and adapt
to the high-school environment in, specifically, two high schools
in suburban Detroit in 1970. In addition to information about the
ways that students relate to the high school environment, this
volume presents examples of how multiple research methods can be
used to investigate the expression of complex person and
environment relationships. This volume has been prepared to
illustrate the application of an ecological point of view for
research on person-environment relationships. It was hoped that the
community psychologist, social psychologist, and school
psychologist interested in doing research with adolescents and the
high school environment would find the presentation of research
methods informative and encouraging. For those readers involved in
teaching and administering in secondary education, the volume was
an example of how research can illustrate the ongoing personal and
social characteristics of students and the high school environment.
Originally published in 1979, the research reported in this volume
is based on investigations of how tenth-grade boys cope and adapt
to the high-school environment in, specifically, two high schools
in suburban Detroit in 1970. In addition to information about the
ways that students relate to the high school environment, this
volume presents examples of how multiple research methods can be
used to investigate the expression of complex person and
environment relationships. This volume has been prepared to
illustrate the application of an ecological point of view for
research on person-environment relationships. It was hoped that the
community psychologist, social psychologist, and school
psychologist interested in doing research with adolescents and the
high school environment would find the presentation of research
methods informative and encouraging. For those readers involved in
teaching and administering in secondary education, the volume was
an example of how research can illustrate the ongoing personal and
social characteristics of students and the high school environment.
Community Psychology in Practice: An Oral History Through the
Stories of Five Community Psychologists is a unique examination of
how community psychology evolved through the years. Five highly
respected community psychologists recount their personal histories
telling how they went from academia to careers disseminating
principles of community psychology. Newer members to the field of
psychology can trace how these leaders came to pursue careers in
community psychology. As these respected experts tell their own
stories in accessible narrative form, the reader gains a clear
understanding of how applied community psychology intertwines with
history, context, social movements, and individual personalities is
revealed. Each career story in Community Psychology in Practice: An
Oral History Through the Stories of Five Community Psychologists
illustrates how societal events such as wars, economic depressions,
the civil rights movement, and discrimination shaped personal
philosophies and ultimately lead to their decision to become
applied community psychologists and practitioners. Each contributor
was asked to discuss their stories from four experiential
dimensions: personal, contextual, intellectual, and ideological.
The various viewpoints reveal how each one's ethnicity, gender,
sexual orientation, and academic background affected how they
experienced the history of community psychology. Three eminent
scholars from the fields of community psychology, history, and
business psychology discuss the narratives to provide further
insight. The narrative studies in Community Psychology in Practice:
An Oral History Through the Stories of Five Community Psychologists
include: Anne Mulvey John Morgan Irma Serrano-Garcia Tom Wolff
Carolyn Swift. Community Psychology in Practice: An Oral History
Through the Stories of Five Community Psychologists is an
encouraging, stimulating look at community psychology that is
valuable to community psychologists, historians of psychology,
researchers, industrial organization (IO) psychologists, educators,
and students.
Six Community Psychologists Tell Their Stories: History, Contexts,
and Narrative presents the unique opportunity to examine how
culture and social norms have combined with chance, coincidence,
and serendipity to form the professional identities of men and
women who were among the first generation trained to work in the
field of community psychology. The book's contributors disciples of
those who founded the sub-field provide insights into the factors
(social status, family history, education, social environment,
cultural events, important ideas) that furthered their professional
development in an emerging field. Their stories still works in
progress go far beyond facts, figures, dates and details to
document what they've done with their lives and why. Six esteemed
community psychologists three men who began their careers as the
field was established in the mid-1960s and three women who took
part in the increased opportunities available in the 1970s recall
how important events and social movements affected them as they
fulfilled their personal and professional goals.They discuss the
effects of family values and styles, class, ethnic status, gender,
racism, anti-Semitism, the power of social settings, supportive
education and work settings, and the impact of post-World War II
government programs on their education, including the G.I. Bill,
and the establishment of United States Public Health Service
fellowships. Their stories touch on many common themes, including
social marginality and sex discrimination, making personal
discoveries in response to educational experiences, the
significance of fate, and the experience of gaining a new or
renewed sense of self through meaningful events, occasions, and
people. These Six Community Psychologists Tell Their Stories: Dr.
Jean Ann Linney (University of South Carolina), whose experiences
involve a combination of idealism, supportive contexts, and good
fortune Dr. Julian Rappaport (University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign), who views himself as an insider/outsider, whose
personal and professional identity crosses traditional boundaries
Dr. N.Dickon Reppucci (University of Virginia), who became a
community psychologist by accident, an outgrowth of his involvement
with social protest in the 1960s Dr. Marybeth Shinn (New York
University), whose story reflects her interest in the social
contexts of neighborhoods and community settings Dr. Edison J.
Trickett (University of Illinois at Chicago), who writes of the
life experiences that have influenced both his work and his
longtime involvement in folk music Dr. Rhona S. Weinstein
(University of California at Berkeley), whose work in the dynamics
of self-fulfilling prophecies in educational settings developed
early in her careerInsightful commentary on their recollections is
provided by two distinguished scholars Henrika Kuklick, Science
Historian at the University of Pennsylvania, and Dan McAdams,
Professor of Psychology at Northwestern University. Six Community
Psychologists Tell Their Stories: History, Contexts, and Narrative
is a unique resource for community psychologists, autobiographical
researchers, and anyone interested in the history of psychology.
Empowering Settings and Voices for Social Change combines a focus
on understanding social settings as loci for empowering
intervention with a focus on understanding and giving voice to
citizens. The volume illuminates advances in theory and method
relevant to changing a broad spectrum of social settings (including
programs, organizations, institutions, communities and social
policy) from a strengths-based perspective. Three cross-cutting
concepts -- a strengths-based approach to research and social
action, empowerment, and narrative research methods -- serve as
integrating and foundational themes.
Part I takes up issues of setting processes and outcomes of
influence, research methods, and implications for setting and
community change efforts and social policy. Questions addressed in
Part I include: What is the nature of current and future
conceptualizations of social settings? What are the actionable
features in social settings? How can settings that place a premium
on empowerment and promotion be created or restructured? What are
the organizational characteristics of empowering community
settings? What mechanisms mediate the impact of these
characteristics on individual well-being?
Part II examines how action scientists have sought to understand
and amplify the voices of those individuals and communities who
serve as the focus of their research and social change actions.
Part II authors explore the role of institutional beliefs,
community narratives, and personal stories in recovery from serious
mental illness; trace the cultural contours of "mental health"
among the Gros Ventres of the Fort Belknap Indian reservation;
examine youth voice in the juvenile justice system, illuminating
the loss of focus on individualized justice and accountability to
youth; and, outline ways in which community narrative can enrich
culturally anchored work in prevention and public policy. Finally,
chapters in Part III seek to situate the rest of the volume's
chapters in the context of decades of work on empowering settings,
giving voice and social change.
Community Psychology in Practice: An Oral History Through the
Stories of Five Community Psychologists is a unique examination of
how community psychology evolved through the years. Five highly
respected community psychologists recount their personal histories
telling how they went from academia to careers disseminating
principles of community psychology. Newer members to the field of
psychology can trace how these leaders came to pursue careers in
community psychology. As these respected experts tell their own
stories in accessible narrative form, the reader gains a clear
understanding of how applied community psychology intertwines with
history, context, social movements, and individual personalities is
revealed. Each career story in Community Psychology in Practice: An
Oral History Through the Stories of Five Community Psychologists
illustrates how societal events such as wars, economic depressions,
the civil rights movement, and discrimination shaped personal
philosophies and ultimately lead to their decision to become
applied community psychologists and practitioners. Each contributor
was asked to discuss their stories from four experiential
dimensions: personal, contextual, intellectual, and ideological.
The various viewpoints reveal how each one's ethnicity, gender,
sexual orientation, and academic background affected how they
experienced the history of community psychology. Three eminent
scholars from the fields of community psychology, history, and
business psychology discuss the narratives to provide further
insight. The narrative studies in Community Psychology in Practice:
An Oral History Through the Stories of Five Community Psychologists
include: Anne Mulvey John Morgan Irma Serrano-Garcia Tom Wolff
Carolyn Swift. Community Psychology in Practice: An Oral History
Through the Stories of Five Community Psychologists is an
encouraging, stimulating look at community psychology that is
valuable to community psychologists, historians of psychology,
researchers, industrial organization (IO) psychologists, educators,
and students.
Community psychology emphasizes an ecological approach to mental
health by focusing on the individual in the environment and the
influences that shape and change behavior. Becoming Ecological
brings together the work of James G. Kelly, one of the founders of
community psychology and among the field's national leaders.
The volume unites thirteen of Kelly's publications from 1968 to
2002 as well as four new essays on current issues in the field: the
theory, research, practice, and education of community
psychologists. Kelly introduces the work by offering connections
between his personal experiences and the topics he chose to focus
on throughout his long career. He begins each of the thirteen
essays with commentary that sets the article in its original
context so that the reader has a historical perspective on why
certain ideas were salient at a particular time and how they are
still timely today. Kelly concludes with a "summing up" section
integrating the previously published articles with the four new
essays. Throughout, he presents examples of how to plan and carry
out research and practice in the community. The principles
underlying the examples both enhance the relevance of the research
and practice and increase the potential of community residents to
use the findings for their own purposes.
A compendium of classic statements of community psychology's
philosophical and historical underpinnings, Becoming Ecological is
a must-read for scholars and practitioners of community psychology
and for those in the fields of public health, social work,
community development, education, and applied anthropology.
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