Principles Of Community Psychology ─ Perspectives And Applications

Updated and expanded in this third edition, Principles of Community Psychology: Perspectives and Applications presents the most recent literature, empirical work, issues, and events in the field and the relevant policy debates surrounding them.
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

David V. Perkins is Professor of Psychology at Ball State University.