title: Community psychology in Italy: introduction and prospects.
abstract: The history of community psychology in Italy is briefly reviewed. The field has developed extensively in universities and applied settings over the past 30 years. This issue presents 5 recent examples from different regions of Italy of preventive and other community psychological intervention studies. They include an evaluation of a program to increase the independent mobility of children walking to and from school, the ecological evaluation of child and adolescent residential care communities, participatory action-research with adolescents in schools and neighborhoods, evaluation of a participatory local health intervention planning process, and the description and evaluation of a collaborative, Internet-based community planning training program.
authors.affiliation: Department of Developmental and Social Psychology, University of Padova, 35131 Padova, Italy. massimo.santinello@unipd.it
authors.forename: Massimo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Santinello
authors.forename: Elvio Raffaello
authors.initials: ER
authors.lastname: Martini
authors.forename: Douglas D
authors.initials: DD
authors.lastname: Perkins
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D003256:Community Participation; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006293:Health Promotion; D006302:Health Services Research; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D011593:Psychology, Social; D011640:Public Policy