title: Trust the process: community health psychology after Occupy.
abstract: This article argues that community health psychology's core strategy of 'community mobilisation' is in need of renewal and proposes a new way of conceptualising community health action. Taking the Occupy movement as an example, we critique modernist understandings of community mobilisation, which are based on instrumental action in the service of a predetermined goal. Aiming to re-invigorate the 'process' tradition of community health psychology, we explore possibilities of an open-ended, anti-hierarchical and inclusive mode of community action, which we label 'trusting the process'. The gains to be made are unpredictable, but we suggest that the risk is worth taking.
authors.affiliation: London School of Economics & Political Science, UK.
authors.forename: Flora
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Cornish
authors.forename: Cristian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Montenegro
authors.forename: Kirsten
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: van Reisen
authors.forename: Flavia
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Zaka
authors.forename: James
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sevitt
mesh_terms: D001524:Behavioral Medicine / Q000592:standards*; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D008960:Models, Psychological; D011057:Politics; D012111:Residence Characteristics
keywords: community health promotion; community health psychology; critical health psychology; health promotion; well-being