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Topic: Community psychology

	Community Psychology Network (CPN) - Home
		Welcome to the award winning, searchable, comprehensive guide to the field of community psychology, prevention, intervention, and action research.
		The Community Psychology Network site is full of information including links and information regarding discussion lists, professional membership societies, graduate schools, community psychology course materials, funding sources, position announcements, community psychology books and suggested reading material, and various other miscellaneous resources relevant to the field.
		The Community Psychology Network site is an excellent resource to the field of community psychology and is useful for the novice undergraduate student, intermediate graduate student or the expert faculty member or mental health professional.
	www.communitypsychology.net (334 words)

	Community Psychology
		As scientists, community psychologists use qualitative and quantitative research methods to study the relationships between environmental conditions and the health and well-being of a community.
		The practice of community psychology is directed toward the design and evaluation of programs aimed at preventing distress, building competencies, and promoting social change.
		Community psychology is a challenging, reading-intensive and work-intensive course.
	www.lclark.edu /~jerusha/CommunitySyllabusSpr05.htm (2502 words)

	AN INTRODUCTION TO COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY
		Community psychology is like social psychology and sociology in taking a group or systems approach to human behavior, but it is more applied than these disciplines and more concerned with using psychological knowledge to resolve social problems.
		The new and disparate areas of community psychology are thus bound together by a singular vision: that of helping the relatively powerless, in and out of institutions, take control over their environment and their lives.
		Community research and action is an active collaboration between researchers, practitioners and community members and utilizes multiple methodologies.
	www.people.vanderbilt.edu /~douglas.d.perkins/commpsy.htm (2372 words)

	Community Psychology--What is it?
		Community psychology is the branch of psychology concerned with person-environment interactions and the ways society impacts upon individual and community functioning.
		Community Psychology is also a recognized division of the American Psychological Association and its members are represented by the Society for Community Research & Action (SCRA), division 27.
		Community Psychology is much closer to social welfare in social work than clinical social work which is interested primarily on counseling focused on individual and family concerns.
	www.communitypsychology.net /cmmtypsych.shtml (720 words)

	JMU - Psychology Learning Community
		The Psychology Learning Community (PLC) is designed for up to 20 first year students who have a strong interest in pursuing a major in Psychology and a future career in a Psychology-related field.
		When selecting students for our community, we are interested in freshmen who have declared Psychology as a major and who have demonstrated proficiency in mathematics and writing to enter the Psyc 212 and 213 sequence.
		In addition, other important characteristics in selecting members for the community will be interest in working in a community that promotes collaboration across individuals, interest in exploring psychology as a science of behavior, and willingness to engage in service-learning and other experiential learning opportunities.
	www.jmu.edu /orientation/learning_communities/psychology.shtml (501 words)

	MONTEREY DECLARATION OF CRITICAL COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY
		Community psychologists should employ a critical utopian vision of social life; i.e., we should evaluate policies and institutions on the basis of what could be, not on the basis of what is “normally” acceptable.
		Community psychologists should understand human behavior in context; i.e., we should actively work to develop an understanding of the social institutions and forces in which individual humans are enmeshed, and we should adopt a social-ecological perspective in our work.
		Community psychologists should collaborate with communities to evaluate/assess projects in light of their potential to affect social change and community psychology programs should place greater emphasis on community involvement in graduate practica.
	www.people.vanderbilt.edu /~douglas.d.perkins/ccpdecl.htm (526 words)

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