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Community Psychology Handbook of Community Psychology Handbook of Community Psychology Handbook of Community Psychology Edited by Julian Rappaport University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana, Illinois and Edward Seidman New York University New York, New York Springer Science+Business Media, LLC Librnry of Co n l:~ss C>ltaIOl:in.:-in-PubliclitioD Data Handbook of eommunity ps)'ebology/ediLed by Juliao Rappapon & Edward Scidmao. p. etil. Includes bibliographical rcîcrcnces and index. ISBN 978-1-4613-6881-6 ISBN 978-1-4615-4193-6 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-4615-4193-6 1. Comnlun.it)· p~ycholl>gy _ Handbo<.>ks. manual~. elCo 1. Rappaport, Juli",L. II. Seidm~n. Edward. RA 790.55 .H36 1999 362.2-dc21 ISBN 978-1-4613-6881-6 ~ 2000 Springer Scicnce+llusincss Media New York Originally publishcd by Kluwcr Ac:adcmic/Plenum Publishcrs, N\.."W York in 2000 Softcovcr reprint of the /1.8nkover 1SI cdilion 2CXX) http.flwww.wkap.nlJ 1098765432 A C.I .P. record for this hook ii a~ailabl e from the Librar)" of Congn:~~ Ali ~ghl~ re S ~r\' ed Nn p."t;t of tbis 00010. ma)" be repruduced. st.".cd in a rctrie"al system. nr transmiUed in ",,). fonD vr by >li,)' m~.1ns , electroni c, mechanical. pbol<lCOPyinll. mLcrofill"J'_mg, le~ording. OI olhawi;o,. ",ilh"u! writlen pennis~ioll (rom thc Pllblî,h", For our children and our grandchildren May you always live in a loving community where justice matters, where fairness and authenticity abounds and where the streets are filled with the joys of life, of learning, and of laughing. Contributors LARuE ALLEN, Department of Applied Psychology, New York University, New York, New York 10003 B. EILEEN ALTMAN, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, California 95064 BRUCE AMBUEL, Waukesha Family Practice Center, #201, 210 N. W. Barstow, Waukesha, Wisconsin 53045 KENNETH B. BACHRACH, Tarzana Treatment Center, Tarzana, California 91356 CHARLES BARONE, 3003 Van Ness Street N. W., #W1129, Washington, D.C. 20008 MANUEL BARRERA JR., Psychology Department, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287 G. ANN BOGAT, Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michi­ gan 48824 BILL BERKOWITZ, Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts 01854 SANFORD BRAVER, Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287 JULIA GREEN BRODY, Silent Spring Institute, 29 Crafts Street, Newton, Massachusetts 02458 GEOFFREY CARR, Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia V5A 156, Canada DAVID M. CHAVIS, Association for the Study and Development of Community, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20877 CARY CHERNISS, Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology, Rutgers Univer­ sity, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854 EMORY L. COWEN, Center for Community Study, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14620 ANTHONY R. D'AuGELLI, Department of Human Development and Family Studies, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802 WILLIAM S. DAVIDSON II, Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lan­ sing, Michigan 48824-1117 vii viii Contributors GENE DEEGAN, Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology, Department of Psychology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854 CHRISTINA DOUGLAS, Center for Creative Leadership, Greensboro, North Carolina 27438 STEPHEN B. FAWCETT, Department of Human Development and Family Life, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045 ROBERT D. FELNER, School of Education and the National Center on Public Education and Social Policy, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island 02881 TWEETY YATES FELNER, Department of Special Education, University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois 61820 PAUL FLORIN, Department of Psychology, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island 02881 CARRIE S. FRIED, Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 LEAH GENSHEIMER, Department of Psychology, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri 64110 JOSE ANTONIO GARCIA GONZALEZ, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas lOW-A, Venezuela MICHELLE GOYETTE-EWING, Child Study Center, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06511 KATHERINE GRADY, Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06511 KENNETH HELLER, Department of Psychology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405 ROBERT HUGHES JR., College of Human Environmental Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211 LEONARD A. JASON, Department of Psychology, De Paul University, Chicago, Illinois 60614 RICHARD A. JENKINS, National Center for mv, STD, and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333 JAMES G. KELLY, Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis, Davis, Califor­ nia 95616 KATHERINE 1. KLEIN, Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742 JANE KNrrZER, National Center for Children in Poverty, School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York 10032 LEON H. LEVY, Department of Psychology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia 23229 RAMSAY LIEM, Department of Psychology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts 02167 Contributors ix JEAN ANN LINNEY, Department of Psychology, Barnwell College, University of South Caro­ lina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208 ALFRED McALISTER, School of Public Health, University of Texas, Houston, Texas 77225 MIRIAM MARTINEZ, Department of Psychiatry, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, California 94110 KENNETH I. MATON, Department of Psychology, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Catonsville, Maryland 21250 JEFFREY P. MAYER, Department of Community Health, School of Public Health, St. Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri 63108 GARY B. MELTON, Institute on Family and Neighborhood and Family Life, Clemson Univer­ sity, Clemson, South Carolina 29634 JUDITH C. MEYERS, Child Health and Development Institute of Connecticut, Inc., Farmington, Connecticut 06032 JOHN R. MORGAN, Director of Clinical and Prevention Services, Chesterfield Mental Health­ Mental Retardation Department, Chesterfield, Virginia 23832 ANNE MORRIS, Center for Mental Health Services Research, University of California, Berke­ ley, California 94720 J. R. NEWBROUGH, Department of Psychology, Peabody College of Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37203 PATRICK O'NEILL, Department of Psychology, Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia BOP IXO, Canada DIANA OXLEY, Department of Special Education and Community Resources, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403-1235 KENNETH I. PARGAMENT, Department of Psychology, Bowling Green State University, Bowl­ ing Green, Ohio 43402 DENNIS N. T. PERKINS, The Syncretics Group, Branford, Connecticut 06505 DEBORAH A. PHILLIPS, Institute of Medicine, National Research Council, Washington, D.C. 20418 RICHARD H. PRICE, Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48106 R. SCOTT RALLS, Vice President, Economic and Workforce Development, The North Carolina Community College System, Raleigh, North Carolina 27603 BRUCE D. RAPKIN, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Hospital, New York, New York 10021 N. DICKON REpPUCCI, Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 TRACEY A. REVENSON, Department of Social-Personality and Health Psychology, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, New York 10016 JEAN E. RHODES, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois 61820 x Contributors RONALD ROESCH, Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia V5A 1S6, Canada ANN MARIE RYAN, Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824 IRWIN N. SANDLER, Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287 SEYMOUR B. SARASON, Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520 RUTH SCHELKUN, Late of Washtenaw County Community Mental Health Center, Washtenaw County, Michigan KATHLEEN M. SCHIAFFINO, Department of Psychology, Fordham University, New York, New York 10458 IRMA SERRANO-GARCIA, Department of Psychology, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico 00826 MORTON M. SILVERMAN, Department of Psychiatry, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60615 MARYBETH SHINN, Center for Community Research and Action, Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, New York 10003 VIRGINIA SMITH-MAJOR, Department of Psychology, University of Maryland at College Park, College Park, Maryland 20742 DAVID L. SNOW, The Consultation Center, Department of Psychiatry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06511 LONNIE R. SNOWDEN, Center for Mental Health Service Research and School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 ANN M. STEFFEN, Department of Psychology, University of Missouri-St. Louis, St Louis, Missouri 63121 STEPHEN P. STELZNER, Department of Psychology, College of St. Benedict, St. Joseph, Minnesota 56374 ERIC STEWART, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois 61820 CAROLYN F. SWIFT, 1102 Hilltop Drive, Lawrence, Kansas 66044 RALPH W. SWINDLE JR., Health Services Research and Development, VA Medical Center, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202 J. S. TANAKA, Late of the Departments of Educational Psychology and Psychology, University of Illinois at Urban-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois 61820 EDISON J. TRICKETT, Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742 COLLIN VAN UCHELEN, Cross Cultural Psychiatric
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