The Cambridge Handbook of Community Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Contextual Perspectives (Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology)

Cambridge University Press, 12/16/2021
EAN 9781108729093, ISBN10: 1108729096

Paperback, 696 pages, 24.4 x 17 x 4 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English

This comprehensive handbook provides community psychology approaches to addressing the key issues that impact individuals and their communities worldwide. Featuring international, interdisciplinary perspectives from leading experts, the handbook tackles critical contemporary challenges. These include climate change, immigration, educational access, healthcare, social media, wellness, community empowerment, discrimination, mental health, and many more. The chapters offer case study examples to present practical applications and to review relevant implications within diverse contexts. Throughout, the handbook considers how community psychology plays out around the world: What approaches are being used in different countries? How does political context influence the development and extension of community psychology? And what can nations learn from each other as they examine successful community psychology-based interventions? This is essential reading for researchers, students, practitioners, and policy makers involved with community well-being.

Foreword
Part I. Foundational Concepts
Interdisciplinary, Culturally Responsive, and Contextual Approaches
1. Promoting Change amidst Systemic Oppression
A Twenty-First Century Call to Action for Communities and Community Psychologists
2. Community Psychology
Getting to Work
3. Now Would be a Great Time to Raise your Voice
Empowerment as a Critical Community Psychology Concept
4. Ethics and Community Psychology
5. Defining Wellness across World Cultures
Part II. Research, Assessment, and Program Evaluation
Ecological Considerations
6. Conducting Culturally Responsive Community Needs Assessments
7. Comprehensive Evaluation of a Rural School Mental Health Program
8. Constructive Diversity Pedagogy for Challenging Classroom Dialogues
Participatory Action Research with Interdisciplinary Faculty
9. Critical Language Ethnography as a Community-Centered Research Paradigm
Part III. Community Psychology in Action
Critical Themes and Areas of Application
10. Women and Leadership
Building Community
11. Community Resilience
From Broken Windows to Busy Streets
12. Building Community Resilience and Supporting Disaster Risk Reduction through Social Action Efforts
13. The Consumer Recovery Movement in the United States
Historical Considerations and Next Steps for Action
14. Taking Back the Streets
Violence Prevention and Neighborhood Empowerment in the South Ward of Newark
15. Promoting Adolescent Mental Health
A Transculturally Informed Approach to Engaging Developmental Neuropsychology in the Support of Prevention and Intervention
16. Gowanus Canal and Public Policy
Community Well-being at a Superfund Site
17. Family Support Services at Ronald McDonald House Promotes Healing of Seriously Ill Children
18. Community Psychology and a Fresh Look at Faith Healing Camps
Experiences in Ghana
19. Community Impact of Social Media
20. Supporting Communities through Educational Access
21. Psychological Impact of Climate Change on Communities
22. Optimal Local Government and Public Service Provision
23. A Public Health Approach to Delinquency and Incarceration
A Case Study
24. Public Service Organizations and Community Empowerment
A Toolkit to Develop the School-Family-Community Connection at an Urban Middle School
25. Women and Immigration
26. Community-Based Transition Interventions for Adolescents and Young Adults (AYA) with Neurodevelopmental Disabilities
27. Mental Health on College Campuses
28. LGBTQ+ Communities
Confronting Discrimination and Gaps in Community Supports
Part IV. Where Do We Go from Here? Gaps and Opportunities for Community Psychology
29. Responding to Gaps in Research and Practice in Community Psychology
30. Changing the Community Psychology Narrative
A Contextual, Interdisciplinary, Inclusive, Empowerment Approach.