Community Psychology - Hardcover

Duffy, Karen Grover; Wong, Frank Y.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0205350267 ISBN 13: 9780205350261

Publisher: Pearson, 2002

Synopsis

Community Psychology provides students with an introduction to the concepts, theories, and research emerging in the field of community psychology.

Historical and alternative methods of effecting social change are explored in this book through an examination of the mental health system, the educational system, the criminal justice system, and the social service system. The central theme underlying all of the chapters is the idea that the setting or environment is as important as the individual in it.

Community Psychology focuses on the importance of and strategies for producing social change in order to allow students to discover how community psychology interventions solve community problems, and how the principles of prevent and empowerment can be shifted from one community arena to another.

About this title

About the Author:

John Moritsugu received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York.  He is Professor of Psychology at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington.   A co-editor of the text Preventive Psychology, he has also been on the editorial boards of the American Journal of Community Psychology, the Journal of Community Psychology, and Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology.  He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association in Divisions 1 (General Psychology), 27 (Society for Community Research and Action) and 45 (Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues).

 

Frank Y. Wong, Ph.D. is a social psychologist in the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education at Rollins School of Public Health, EmoryUniversity.   His expertise is in community-based research on HIV-related risk behaviors and alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs (ATOD) use/abuse among racial/ethnic and under-served populations. Dr. Wong currently has multiple NIH-funded R01 grants supporting his research programs. His NIH-funded research focuses on social epidemiology as well as prevention of ATOD and HIV targeting migrant and/or non-indigenous populations and sexual minorities and the effects of migration on ATOD use/ abuse and HIV-related knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors in the U.S. and China. He also has conducted and published research in South Africa.

 

Karen Duffy holds a Ph.D. in psychology from Michigan State University. She is a Distinguished Service Professor — Emerita from State University of New York at Geneseo. Dr. Duffy taught community psychology for many years as well as social psychology and psychology of personality. She instituted and directed the service learning program at her college. She won two Fulbright Fellowships to St. Petersburg State University in Russia where she taught both community psychology and community mediation. She still teaches in Russia and continues her award-winning community service projects in the United States, Russia, and other countries, most recently Mongolia.

 

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About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0205350267
• ISBN 13: 9780205350261
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 352