Full Description
This comprehensive textbook throws light on the major ideas and themes associated with Community Psychology, its development, progress over time, and relevance in current times. It touches on the belief systems of readers to generate an alternative perspective on society, rooted in compassion.
This book highlights the contributions in community psychology through community action, research, and practice. It integrates current knowledge on pressing topics in the field with current research evidence and offers the foundations for future directions. It elucidates the major theoretical approaches, the primary values and ideas in the discipline, the goals and research methods and intervention strategies suggested by the pioneers in the field. There is an emphasis on international perspectives, research and global application through community-based interventions, prevention of psychological and social hazards in the community, promotion of prevention-based approaches, tools for action and public policies advocated by community psychology practitioners and researchers.
The book will be useful to students, researchers and teachers of Psychology, Social Work, Sociology, Public Health, and Social Economics. It will also be an indispensable companion to social workers, NGOs, advocacy groups, and policy makers striving towards social upliftment.
Contents
Preface 1. Introduction to Community Psychology 2. Critical Issues and Models of Community Psychology 3. Research Methods in Community Psychology 4. Inequality, Power Distribution and Empowerment 5. Community Psychology and Mental Health 6. Health, Wellbeing and Intervention 7. Stress, Coping and Social Support 8. Community Responsibility and Social Action References
