The peculiar successes of community psychology: service delivery to ethnic minorities and the poor.
The 20-year history of community psychology is considered with respect to activities on behalf of ethnic minority participation in psychotherapy, increasing cultural diversity, and to a considerably lesser extent, enhancing community systems. A discrepancy was found between community psychology in principle and community psychology in practice. For the future, community psychologists are advised to identify and seek to strengthen (a) indigenous resources for solving personal and community problems; and (b) pathways of help seeking followed by community members. Community psychology is encouraged to reclaim and enact more vigorously its own legacy. To do otherwise, it is argued, forfeits development of potentially significant research and practice and risks continued ambivalence and dissatisfaction despite worthwhile contribution--suffering the peculiar successes of community psychology.
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School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley 94720.
D003156:Community Mental Health Services / Q000639:trends*; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D008489:Medical Indigency; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D008913:Minority Groups / Q000523:psychology*; D014481:United States