Community psychology goes beyond an individual focus and integrates social, cultural, economic, political, environmental, and international influences to promote positive change, health, and empowerment at individual and systemic levels. Screen Mothers, Help Kids: An Innovative Community-Based Partnership Helps Amplify the Voices of Children. Posted in: Violence Prevention | Tags: Featured ContentChildren are often the unheard voices of domestic violence.
Screening mothers for the impact of domestic violence on their kids is one way to connect kids with appropriate DV services in the community. Posted in: Environment | Tags: Featured ContentPublished in: American Journal of Community PsychologyA people-focused approach is a new framework for working within or alongside organizations to bring about sustainability-related changes.
Community Psychologists can work beside people within an organization to support them as they embed a sustainability culture. Posted in: Marginalized Groups | Tags: Featured ContentAlternative settings, like CBTL can provide relational healing spaces grounded in collectively held values of care, recognition, and reciprocity.
Screening mothers for the impact of domestic violence on their kids is one way to connect kids with appropriate DV services in the community. Posted in: Environment | Tags: Featured ContentPublished in: American Journal of Community PsychologyA people-focused approach is a new framework for working within or alongside organizations to bring about sustainability-related changes.
Community Psychologists can work beside people within an organization to support them as they embed a sustainability culture. Posted in: Marginalized Groups | Tags: Featured ContentAlternative settings, like CBTL can provide relational healing spaces grounded in collectively held values of care, recognition, and reciprocity.
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Community psychology goes beyond an individual focus and integrates social, cultural, economic, political, environmental, and international influences to promote positive change, health, and empowerment at individual and systemic levels.
Depending on one's training, experiences, and preferences, community psychologists can work as educators, professors, program directors, consultants, policy developers, evaluators, and researchers in community organizations, universities, or government agencies to promote mental health and community well-being.
Community psychology goes beyond an individual focus and integrates social, cultural, economic, political, environmental, and international influences to promote positive change, health, and empowerment at individual and systemic levels.
Depending on one's training, experiences, and preferences, community psychologists can work as educators, professors, program directors, consultants, policy developers, evaluators, and researchers in community organizations, universities, or government agencies to promote mental health and community well-being.
Visit the SCRA website for more information about Community Psychology, educational programs, conferences, and opportunities.
Society for Community Research and Action (SCRA) - Community Psychology, Division 27 of the American Psychological Association - serves many different disciplines that focus on community research and action.
Our members are committed to promoting health and empowerment and to preventing problems in communities, groups, and individuals.
The Society for Community Research and Action will have a strong, global impact on enhancing well-being and promoting social justice for all people by fostering collaboration where there is division and empowerment where there is oppression.
Society for Community Research and Action (SCRA) - Community Psychology, Division 27 of the American Psychological Association - serves many different disciplines that focus on community research and action.
Our members are committed to promoting health and empowerment and to preventing problems in communities, groups, and individuals.
The Society for Community Research and Action will have a strong, global impact on enhancing well-being and promoting social justice for all people by fostering collaboration where there is division and empowerment where there is oppression.
Learning happens both within structured and outside of formal school-based settings.
Community Psychologists focus on the person-environment-fit, or the ways in which a learning environment can promote or hinder learning.
We also develop understanding of the theories, methods, knowledge base, and setting factors pertaining to prevention and health promotion programs in schools to inform school based-interventions.
Posted in: Education, Marginalized Groups | Tags: Featured ContentGeorgia State University graduate student Alesha Bond discusses the necessity of student organizing to push for change and the intersections of her research and organizing.
Community Psychologists focus on the person-environment-fit, or the ways in which a learning environment can promote or hinder learning.
We also develop understanding of the theories, methods, knowledge base, and setting factors pertaining to prevention and health promotion programs in schools to inform school based-interventions.
Posted in: Education, Marginalized Groups | Tags: Featured ContentGeorgia State University graduate student Alesha Bond discusses the necessity of student organizing to push for change and the intersections of her research and organizing.
Healthcare reform is an important part of our domestic policy debate.
Community Psychology broadens this discussion by showing how the social and community context impacts physical and emotional well-being.
Community Psychologists working within healthcare settings promote overall health by identifying and addressing the social and ecological factors that promote and hinder wellness.
Posted in: Healthcare, Marginalized Groups | Tags: Featured ContentPublished in: American Journal of Community PsychologyCritical Conscious-ness Theory and Community Based Participatory Results can help communities address health disparities.
Community Psychology broadens this discussion by showing how the social and community context impacts physical and emotional well-being.
Community Psychologists working within healthcare settings promote overall health by identifying and addressing the social and ecological factors that promote and hinder wellness.
Posted in: Healthcare, Marginalized Groups | Tags: Featured ContentPublished in: American Journal of Community PsychologyCritical Conscious-ness Theory and Community Based Participatory Results can help communities address health disparities.
We believe that Community Psychology adds an important and often overlooked perspective into the human experience.
This category documents important discussions and turning points in the history of our field.
Posted in: Blog, History of Community PsychologyCrucial concepts in the field from a Community Psychologist teaching the subject.
Posted in: Blog, History of Community Psychology, Marginalized GroupsPublished in: The Community PsychologistFan activism is a new area of interest that looks at how organized communities of fans come together to take action in promoting diversity, education and other focal community psychology topics.
This category documents important discussions and turning points in the history of our field.
Posted in: Blog, History of Community PsychologyCrucial concepts in the field from a Community Psychologist teaching the subject.
Posted in: Blog, History of Community Psychology, Marginalized GroupsPublished in: The Community PsychologistFan activism is a new area of interest that looks at how organized communities of fans come together to take action in promoting diversity, education and other focal community psychology topics.
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