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| All chapters end with a summary. | |
| Foreword | |
| Preface | |
| Acknowledgements | |
| Introduction: An Overview of Community Psychology | |
| What Is Community Psychology? | |
| What Isn't Community Psychology? | |
| Principles of Community Psychology | |
| Organization of Chapters | |
| Origins Of Community Psychology | |
| Life Is a Soap Opera | |
| The Incidence and Prevalence of Problems in Living | |
| Institutionalized Population | |
| Outpatient Mental Health Care | |
| Alcohol and Substance Abuse | |
| Crime and Victims of Crime | |
| Problems of Children and Adolescents | |
| Medical Problems and Chronic Illnesses | |
| Psychosocial Adaptation to Health Problems: The Case of Genital Herpes | |
| Disasters | |
| Marriage and Parenting | |
| Divorce | |
| Economics and Employment | |
| Leisure-Time and Value Changes | |
| Aloneness in American Society | |
| The Availability of Professional Care | |
| Problems of the Medical Model | |
| The Origins of Community Psychology | |
| Origins of Mental Health Care in the Welfare System | |
| Community Mental Health | |
| Community Psychology Grows from Community Mental Health | |
| The Influence of Applied Social Psychology and the War on Poverty | |
| Current Issues in Community Mental Health | |
| Deinstitutionalization | |
| Homelessness | |
| Community Alternatives to Hospitalization | |
| Assertive Community Supports | |
| Minorities and Other Undeserved Groups | |
| Children and Adolescents | |
| Perspectives In Community Psychology | |
| A Conceptual Road Map of Community Psychology | |
| The Dohrenwend Model | |
| Stressful Life Events | |
| Person and Environment | |
| Outcomes | |
| Poverty, Unemployment, and Social Problems | |
| Opportunities for Intervention Based on Dohrenwend's Model | |
| Crisis Intervention | |
| Intervention to Enhance Psychological Mediators | |
| Intervention to Enhance Situational Mediators | |
| Psychological Characteristics of the Person That Increase the Likelihood of a Stressful Life Event | |
| Situations That Increase the Risk of Stressful Events | |
| Preventing Stressful Life Events | |
| The Ecological Analogy | |
| Ecology as a Paradigm | |
| A Paradigm Shift | |
| Community Research from an Ecological Perspective | |
| Implications for the Research Enterprise | |
| Principles of Ecology | |
| Interdependence | |
| Cycling of Resources | |
| Adaptation | |
| Niche | |
| Behavior-Environment Congruence in Geel, Belgium | |
| Succession | |
| The Boom in Hong Kong's Elderly Home Industry | |
| Mental Health and the Law | |
| Law as a Factor in the Ecological Analogy | |
| Adapting to Legal Change | |
| Unforeseen Consequences of a Changein Child Protection Laws | |
| Ecology and Values | |
| Ecology and Practice | |
| Five Psychological Conceptions of the Environment | |
| Social Environmental Influences on Behavior and Well-Being | |
| Perceived Social Climates | |
| Social Roles | |
| Social Capital: Community Cognitions, Behaviors, and Networks | |
| Physical Environmental Influences on Behavior and Well-Being | |
| The Socio-Physical Environment: Behavior Settings | |
| The Fairweather Lodge | |
| Postscript: What Role Remains for Individual Differences? | |
| Labeling Theory: An Alternative to the Illness Model | |
| The Social Context for the Development of Labeling Theory | |
| Principles of Labeling Theory | |
| Primary and Secondary Deviance | |
| Cultural Stereotypes and Labeling | |
| When is Residual Rule-Breaking Labeled? | |
| Diagnosis and Labeling Theory | |
| Behavior is Assimilated to the Label | |
| Stigma | |
| The Use of Law to Reduce Stigma | |
| Some Cautions | |
| Adaptation, Crisis, Coping, and Support | |
| Adaptation | |
| Research on Stressful Life Events | |
| Vulnerability: An Integrative Perspective | |
| Coping | |
| General Characteristics of Coping | |
| Pollyanna and the Glad Game | |
| Stages in Crisis Situations | |
| Individual and Situational Differences in Coping | |
| Social Support | |
| Theory and Research Concerning Social Support | |
| Coping and Support in the Context of Culture | |
| New Directions in Research on Social Support | |
| Support Interventions for People with Disabilities | |
| Applications Of Community Psychology | |
| Prevention | |
| Basic Concepts in Prevention | |
| Indicated (Secondary) Prevention | |
| The Primary Mental Health Project | |
| Preventing Child Maltreatment: The Problem of False Positives | |
| Limitations of Indicated Prevention in Mental Health | |
| Universal and Selective (Primary) Prevention | |
| Competence Building | |
| A Successful School Change Effort | |
| Prevention through Stepwise Risk Reduction | |
| Head Start and Early Head Start: An Experiment in Selective Prevention | |
| Prevention of HIV/AIDS | |
| Schools as a Locus of Prevention | |
| Community-Based Health Promotion | |
| Self-Help Groups | |
| Growth of Self-Help Groups | |
| Contemporary Reasons for Growth | |
| Types of Self-Help Groups | |
| The Nature of Self-Help Groups | |
| Dynamics of Self-Help Groups | |
| Self-Help and the Model of a Family | |
| How Self-Help Groups Work | |
| Self-Help and Ecological Concepts | |
| Are Self-Help Groups Effective? | |
| AA and Recovery from Alcoholism | |
| A Controlled Experiment | |
| Starting Self-Help Groups | |
| Advocacy Groups | |
| The Problem of Change | |
| The Creation of New Settings | |
| The Residential Youth Center (RYC) | |
| Change in Existing Settings | |
| Systems Theory | |
| First- and Second-Order Change | |
| Organizational Change, Development, and Learning | |
| Production and Satisfaction Goals | |
| The Social Context of Change | |
| Case Studies of Change in Existing Settings | |
| Changing a State Mental Hospital | |
| Court-Ordered Change in Caring for Persons with Mental Retardation | |
| Planned Change on a Statewide Level: The Texas Educational Miracle | |
| School Desegregation: A Societal-Level Intervention | |
| Slavery, Segregation, and the Constitution | |
| The NAACP and Its Litigation Strategy | |
| Social Science Theory and Integration | |
| Successful Desegregation of the Schools--A Case Study | |
| After Desegregation | |
| Future Problems | |
| Community Development and Social Action in Community Psychology | |
| The Politics of Problem Definition | |
| Blaming the Victim | |
| Paradox and Empowerment | |
| Competent Communities | |
| Community Development | |
| Social Action | |
| An Example of Social Action: The Love Canal Homeowners' Association | |
| Center for Health, Environment, and Justice and the Environmental Justice Movement | |
| Science, Ethics, and the Future of Community Psychology | |
| Ecology and Science | |
| The Ethics of Community Intervention | |
| Interdisciplinary Community Psychology | |
| Applying the Ecological-Psychopolitical Model to One Domain: The Physical Environment | |
| Community Psychology Around the Globe | |
| References | |
| Names Index | |
| Subject Index | |
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