The Cambridge Handbook of Community Psychology
Interdisciplinary and Contextual Perspectives

This handbook provides community psychology approaches addressing the key issues that impact individuals and their communities worldwide.

Caroline S. Clauss-Ehlers (Edited by)

9781108492188, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 16 December 2021

850 pages
25.1 x 17.7 x 4.2 cm, 1.351 kg

'This handbook offers a full report on the state of the art of community psychology from a rich interdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspective. It covers the foundational concepts, followed by an interesting perspective on ecological considerations in research and assessment.' Christine Roland-Lévy, Professor of Social Psychology, University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France

This comprehensive handbook provides community psychology approaches to addressing the key issues that impact individuals and their communities worldwide. Featuring international, interdisciplinary perspectives from leading experts, the handbook tackles critical contemporary challenges. These include climate change, immigration, educational access, healthcare, social media, wellness, community empowerment, discrimination, mental health, and many more. The chapters offer case study examples to present practical applications and to review relevant implications within diverse contexts. Throughout, the handbook considers how community psychology plays out around the world: What approaches are being used in different countries? How does political context influence the development and extension of community psychology? And what can nations learn from each other as they examine successful community psychology-based interventions? This is essential reading for researchers, students, practitioners, and policy makers involved with community well-being.

Foreword
Part I. Foundational Concepts: Interdisciplinary, Culturally Responsive, and Contextual Approaches: 1. Promoting Change amidst Systemic Oppression: A Twenty-First Century Call to Action for Communities and Community Psychologists
2. Community Psychology: Getting to Work
3. Now Would be a Great Time to Raise your Voice: Empowerment as a Critical Community Psychology Concept
4. Ethics and Community Psychology
5. Defining Wellness across World Cultures
Part II. Research, Assessment, and Program Evaluation: Ecological Considerations: 6. Conducting Culturally Responsive Community Needs Assessments
7. Comprehensive Evaluation of a Rural School Mental Health Program
8. Constructive Diversity Pedagogy for Challenging Classroom Dialogues: Participatory Action Research with Interdisciplinary Faculty
9. Critical Language Ethnography as a Community-Centered Research Paradigm
Part III. Community Psychology in Action: Critical Themes and Areas of Application: 10. Women and Leadership: Building Community
11. Community Resilience: From Broken Windows to Busy Streets
12. Building Community Resilience and Supporting Disaster Risk Reduction through Social Action Efforts
13. The Consumer Recovery Movement in the United States: Historical Considerations and Next Steps for Action
14. Taking Back the Streets: Violence Prevention and Neighborhood Empowerment in the South Ward of Newark
15. Promoting Adolescent Mental Health: A Transculturally Informed Approach to Engaging Developmental Neuropsychology in the Support of Prevention and Intervention
16. Gowanus Canal and Public Policy: Community Well-being at a Superfund Site
17. Family Support Services at Ronald McDonald House Promotes Healing of Seriously Ill Children
18. Community Psychology and a Fresh Look at Faith Healing Camps: Experiences in Ghana
19. Community Impact of Social Media
20. Supporting Communities through Educational Access
21. Psychological Impact of Climate Change on Communities
22. Optimal Local Government and Public Service Provision
23. A Public Health Approach to Delinquency and Incarceration: A Case Study
24. Public Service Organizations and Community Empowerment: A Toolkit to Develop the School-Family-Community Connection at an Urban Middle School
25. Women and Immigration
26. Community-Based Transition Interventions for Adolescents and Young Adults (AYA) with Neurodevelopmental Disabilities
27. Mental Health on College Campuses
28. LGBTQ+ Communities: Confronting Discrimination and Gaps in Community Supports
Part IV. Where Do We Go from Here? Gaps and Opportunities for Community Psychology: 29. Responding to Gaps in Research and Practice in Community Psychology
30. Changing the Community Psychology Narrative: A Contextual, Interdisciplinary, Inclusive, Empowerment Approach.

Subject Areas: Clinical psychology [MMJ], Health psychology [MBNH9], Social, group or collective psychology [JMH], Psychology [JM]