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| All chapters end with a summary. | |
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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Introduction: An Overview of Community Psychology | |
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| What Is Community Psychology? | |
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| What Isn't Community Psychology? | |
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| Principles of Community Psychology | |
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| Organization of Chapters | |
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| Origins Of Community Psychology | |
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| Life Is a Soap Opera | |
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| The Incidence and Prevalence of Problems in Living | |
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| Institutionalized Population | |
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| Outpatient Mental Health Care | |
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| Alcohol and Substance Abuse | |
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| Crime and Victims of Crime | |
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| Problems of Children and Adolescents | |
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| Medical Problems and Chronic Illnesses | |
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| Psychosocial Adaptation to Health Problems: The Case of Genital Herpes | |
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| Disasters | |
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| Marriage and Parenting | |
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| Divorce | |
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| Economics and Employment | |
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| Leisure-Time and Value Changes | |
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| Aloneness in American Society | |
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| The Availability of Professional Care | |
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| Problems of the Medical Model | |
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| The Origins of Community Psychology | |
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| Origins of Mental Health Care in the Welfare System | |
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| Community Mental Health | |
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| Community Psychology Grows from Community Mental Health | |
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| The Influence of Applied Social Psychology and the War on Poverty | |
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| Current Issues in Community Mental Health | |
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| Deinstitutionalization | |
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| Homelessness | |
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| Community Alternatives to Hospitalization | |
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| Assertive Community Supports | |
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| Minorities and Other Undeserved Groups | |
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| Children and Adolescents | |
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| Perspectives In Community Psychology | |
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| A Conceptual Road Map of Community Psychology | |
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| The Dohrenwend Model | |
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| Stressful Life Events | |
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| Person and Environment | |
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| Outcomes | |
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| Poverty, Unemployment, and Social Problems | |
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| Opportunities for Intervention Based on Dohrenwend's Model | |
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| Crisis Intervention | |
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| Intervention to Enhance Psychological Mediators | |
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| Intervention to Enhance Situational Mediators | |
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| Psychological Characteristics of the Person That Increase the Likelihood of a Stressful Life Event | |
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| Situations That Increase the Risk of Stressful Events | |
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| Preventing Stressful Life Events | |
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| The Ecological Analogy | |
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| Ecology as a Paradigm | |
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| A Paradigm Shift | |
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| Community Research from an Ecological Perspective | |
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| Implications for the Research Enterprise | |
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| Principles of Ecology | |
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| Interdependence | |
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| Cycling of Resources | |
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| Adaptation | |
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| Niche | |
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| Behavior-Environment Congruence in Geel, Belgium | |
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| Succession | |
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| The Boom in Hong Kong's Elderly Home Industry | |
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| Mental Health and the Law | |
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| Law as a Factor in the Ecological Analogy | |
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| Adapting to Legal Change | |
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| Unforeseen Consequences of a Changein Child Protection Laws | |
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| Ecology and Values | |
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| Ecology and Practice | |
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| Five Psychological Conceptions of the Environment | |
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| Social Environmental Influences on Behavior and Well-Being | |
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| Perceived Social Climates | |
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| Social Roles | |
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| Social Capital: Community Cognitions, Behaviors, and Networks | |
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| Physical Environmental Influences on Behavior and Well-Being | |
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| The Socio-Physical Environment: Behavior Settings | |
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| The Fairweather Lodge | |
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| Postscript: What Role Remains for Individual Differences? | |
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| Labeling Theory: An Alternative to the Illness Model | |
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| The Social Context for the Development of Labeling Theory | |
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| Principles of Labeling Theory | |
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| Primary and Secondary Deviance | |
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| Cultural Stereotypes and Labeling | |
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| When is Residual Rule-Breaking Labeled? | |
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| Diagnosis and Labeling Theory | |
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| Behavior is Assimilated to the Label | |
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| Stigma | |
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| The Use of Law to Reduce Stigma | |
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| Some Cautions | |
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| Adaptation, Crisis, Coping, and Support | |
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| Adaptation | |
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| Research on Stressful Life Events | |
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| Vulnerability: An Integrative Perspective | |
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| Coping | |
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| General Characteristics of Coping | |
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| Pollyanna and the Glad Game | |
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| Stages in Crisis Situations | |
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| Individual and Situational Differences in Coping | |
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| Social Support | |
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| Theory and Research Concerning Social Support | |
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| Coping and Support in the Context of Culture | |
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| New Directions in Research on Social Support | |
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| Support Interventions for People with Disabilities | |
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| Applications Of Community Psychology | |
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| Prevention | |
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| Basic Concepts in Prevention | |
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| Indicated (Secondary) Prevention | |
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| The Primary Mental Health Project | |
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| Preventing Child Maltreatment: The Problem of False Positives | |
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| Limitations of Indicated Prevention in Mental Health | |
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| Universal and Selective (Primary) Prevention | |
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| Competence Building | |
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| A Successful School Change Effort | |
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| Prevention through Stepwise Risk Reduction | |
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| Head Start and Early Head Start: An Experiment in Selective Prevention | |
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| Prevention of HIV/AIDS | |
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| Schools as a Locus of Prevention | |
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| Community-Based Health Promotion | |
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| Self-Help Groups | |
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| Growth of Self-Help Groups | |
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| Contemporary Reasons for Growth | |
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| Types of Self-Help Groups | |
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| The Nature of Self-Help Groups | |
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| Dynamics of Self-Help Groups | |
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| Self-Help and the Model of a Family | |
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| How Self-Help Groups Work | |
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| Self-Help and Ecological Concepts | |
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| Are Self-Help Groups Effective? | |
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| AA and Recovery from Alcoholism | |
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| A Controlled Experiment | |
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| Starting Self-Help Groups | |
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| Advocacy Groups | |
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| The Problem of Change | |
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| The Creation of New Settings | |
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| The Residential Youth Center (RYC) | |
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| Change in Existing Settings | |
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| Systems Theory | |
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| First- and Second-Order Change | |
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| Organizational Change, Development, and Learning | |
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| Production and Satisfaction Goals | |
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| The Social Context of Change | |
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| Case Studies of Change in Existing Settings | |
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| Changing a State Mental Hospital | |
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| Court-Ordered Change in Caring for Persons with Mental Retardation | |
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| Planned Change on a Statewide Level: The Texas Educational Miracle | |
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| School Desegregation: A Societal-Level Intervention | |
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| Slavery, Segregation, and the Constitution | |
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| The NAACP and Its Litigation Strategy | |
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| Social Science Theory and Integration | |
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| Successful Desegregation of the Schools--A Case Study | |
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| After Desegregation | |
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| Future Problems | |
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| Community Development and Social Action in Community Psychology | |
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| The Politics of Problem Definition | |
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| Blaming the Victim | |
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| Paradox and Empowerment | |
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| Competent Communities | |
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| Community Development | |
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| Social Action | |
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| An Example of Social Action: The Love Canal Homeowners' Association | |
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| Center for Health, Environment, and Justice and the Environmental Justice Movement | |
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| Science, Ethics, and the Future of Community Psychology | |
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| Ecology and Science | |
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| The Ethics of Community Intervention | |
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| Interdisciplinary Community Psychology | |
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| Applying the Ecological-Psychopolitical Model to One Domain: The Physical Environment | |
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| Community Psychology Around the Globe | |
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| References | |
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| Names Index | |
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| Subject Index | |