Community psychology: individuals and interventions in community context.
Community psychology has historically focused on understanding individual behavior in sociocultural context, assessing high-impact contexts, and working in and with communities to improve their resources and influence over their futures. This review adopts an ecological perspective on recent developments in the field, beginning with philosophy of science and progressing through a series of substantive research and intervention domains that characterize current work. These domains include research on the ecology of lives, the assessment of social settings and their impact on behavior, culture and diversity as expressed in the community research process, and community intervention.
Trickett
Edison J
EJ
Community & Prevention Research Division, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60607, USA. trickett@uic.edu
D018864:Cultural Diversity; D004190:Disasters; D004463:Ecology; D006801:Humans; D007206:Individuality; D010684:Philosophy; D011593:Psychology, Social; D011640:Public Policy; D012106:Research; D012919:Social Behavior; D012931:Social Environment; D012941:Social Responsibility; D012944:Social Support