title: Toward a synergism of rural development and community psychology.
abstract: It is a common experience that all social intervention programs planned and executed for social amelioration have not met with success. The major thesis of this article is that parallel growth of two subfields: rural development and community psychology, may not be coincidental, and the recent trends in Indian psychology readily lead themselves to a union between the two. The attempts to intervene in two different communities (heterogeneous and homogeneous) have proved an eye-opener for future interventions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Omprakash
mesh_terms: D003156:Community Mental Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards; D005006:Ethnicity; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D012424:Rural Population; D012922:Social Change