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T H E Community Psychologist A PUBLICATION OF THE SOCIETY FOR COMMUNITY RESEARCH AND ACTION Fall, 2005 Division 27 of the American Psychological Association Volume 38, No. 4 FROM THE PRESIDENT Ana Mari Cauce 2006. Since my first days as a graduate student, continue to combine these concepts and University of almost thirty years ago, my primary professional constructs in ways that are novel and Washington identification has been as a community exciting, and we continue to both inspire and psychologist. So, it was especially rewarding impel our students to not just discover and It is both a pleasure to spend some time with graduate students and understand, but to act. and an honor to recent graduates at both the Biennial at the serve as President University of Illinois and at APA in D.C. In this The desire to not only understand our world, of the Society sense, I found myself re-discovering my “home” but to change it, was fully on display during for Community through their eyes. Unlike thirty years ago, we the “Visioning” process that Tom Wolfe so Research and are no longer the only ones speaking about Action for 2005- prevention, empowerment, or diversity, but we Continued on page 4 Contents Columns 40 Section 2: Vision-to-Action Work Group Papers 1 President’s, by Ana Mari Cauce 40 Interdisciplinary Vision-to-Action Work Group 3 Editors’, by Joy Kaufman & Nadia Ward 42 Social Policy Vision-to-Action Work Group Papers 5 Book Review, edited by Ken Miller 43 Social Justice and Inequality Vision-to-Action Work Group Papers 6 Community Action, edited by Bradley Olson 44 Global/International Vision-to-Action Work Group 8 Children, Youth & Families, edited by Richard Roberts 45 Ongoing Vision Process Work Group 9 Cultural & Racial Affairs, edited by Pamela P. Martin 46 Concluding Remarks on the Biennial Visioning Process and Progress 10 Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender, edited by Alicia Lucksted & Gary Harper 49 “40 Years Post-Swampscott: Community Psychology in Global 12 Living Community Psychology, by Gloria Levin Perspective”: Evaluation of the 10th Biennial Conference of the 15 Prevention & Promotion, edited by Richard Wolitski Society for Community Research and Action, by Margaret Davis, 16 Regional, edited by Gary Harper Cécile Lardon, Heather Foltz, David Groh, Michelle Davidson, and 18 School Intervention, edited by Susana Helm & Jane Shepard Dan Cooper 22 Self-Help/Mutual Support, edited by Bret Kloos The Community Student, edited by Carrie E. Hanlin and Mike 22 Social Policy, edited by Jennifer Woolard Armstrong 23 Student Issues, edited by Carrie Hanlin & Michael Armstrong 54 Talking the Talk and Walking the Walk: Integrating Values into 24 Women’s Issues, edited by Nicole Allen & Christina Ayala-Alcantar Praxis, by Deanne Dworski-Riggs Special Features 56 Radical or Logical? Moving CP Training Outside of Academia, by Marcie D. McKay Community Psychology from Swampscott to Beyond, edited by 57 How to Collaborate in Research from a Student Perspective, by Joy S. Kaufman & Nadia L. Ward Jessica L. Vinograd 25 Introduction, by Joy S. Kaufman & Nadia L. Ward 60 Student Reflection on SCRA Student Research Grant, by Jordan 26 Swampscott Revisited—A Worthwhile Journey, by Ira Iscoe Braciszewski 29 Creating False Sides or Whole Communities: The Role of Ideology in Community Psychology, by Anne Mulvey The Community Practitioner 31 Good News, Bad News in Community Psychology, by Roderick J. 61 Future Directions, by David A. Julian Watts Articles 32 Six Paradoxes Post Swampscott: Struggles for the Next Four 62 The Components of Social Connectivity: A Work in Progress, by Decades, by Brad Olson Jeanne M. McIntosh and Timothy R. Wateridge 35 Stumbling Onto Community: A Community Psychology Student 65 The Ethics of Violence Research, by Chantal Poister Tusher, Sharon Reflects on Her Way Out, by Swassan R. Ahmed G. Smith, and Sarah L. Cook 36 Student Reflection on Community Psychology and its Future, by Patrick J. Fowler 67 Announcements Creating a Vision for the Future of Community Psychology, 70 SCRA MEMBERSHIP DIRECTORY ADDENDUM compiled and edited by Tom Wolff and Jessica Snell-Johns 36 Introduction and Opening Remarks from the Biennial Visioning Process THE THE SOCIETY FOR COMMUNITY SCRA RESEARCH & ACTION INTEREST GROUPS Community Psychologist Executive Committee 2005-2006 AGING Editors The Aging interest group focuses on the productive role of PRESIDENT: Joy Kaufman and Nadia Ward Ana Mari Cauce, University of Washington aging in the community and the prevention of mental health PAST PRESIDENT: problems in the elderly. Yale University Clifford O’Donnell, University of Hawai’i Chair: Margaret M. Hastings, (847) 256-4844, PRESIDENT-ELECT: [email protected] Associate Editor Carolyn F. Swift, University of Kansas Audrey Bangi TREASURER: CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILIES Joseph Durlak, Loyola University Chicago The Children and Youth interest group facilitates the Production Editors SECRETARY: interests of child and adolescent development in high risk Janis Celone and Mary Magnani Sarah Cook, Georgia State University contexts, especially the effect of urban poverty and STUDENT REPRESENTATIVES: community structures on child and family development. Past TCP Editors Carrie Hanlin, Vanderbilt University Chair: Richard Roberts, (435) 797-3346, Allen Ratcliffe, Dorothy Fruchter, Meg Gerrard, Michael Armstrong, Georgia State University [email protected] APA COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVE: Raymond Lorion, Leonard Jason, Joseph Galano Ken Maton, University of Maryland-Baltimore County COMMUNITY ACTION & John Morgan, Jean Ann Linney, Sharlene REGIONAL NETWORK COORDINATOR: The Community Action interest group explores the roles Wolchik, Shelly Harrell, Paul Toro Gary Harper, DePaul University and contributions of people working in applied community MEMBERS-AT-LARGE: psychology settings. Column Editors Anita Davis, Rhodes College Chair: Bradley Olson, (773)325-4771 Hiro Yoshikawa, New York University BOOK REVIEWS Bianca L. Guzman, CHOICES, La Puente, CA COMMUNITY HEALTH Ken Miller, San Francisco State University Committee Chairs The Community Health interest group focuses on health promotion, disease prevention, and health care service COMMUNITY ACTION APA 2006 PROGRAM COMMITTEE: delivery issues as they relate to the community. Bradley Olson, Pomona College Hiro Yoshikawa, New York University Co-chairs: David Lounsbury, (415)338-1440, CULTURAL & RACIAL AFFAIRS: COMMUNITY HEALTH [email protected] Pamela Martin, North Carolina State University David Lounsbury, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Susan Wolfe, [email protected] DISSERTATION AWARD: Center Courtney Ahrens, California State University, Long Beach DISABILITIES Susan Wolfe, U.S. Department of Health and FELLOWSHIP: The Disabilities interest group promotes understanding of Human Services Clifford O’Donnell, University of Hawai’i the depth and diversity of disabilities issues in the INTERNATIONAL: COMMUNITY PRACTITIONER community that are ready for research and action; and David Fryer, University of Stirling David A. Julian, Ohio State University INTERDISCIPLINARY LINKAGES: influences community psychologists’ involvement in Eric Mankowski, Portland State University policy and practices that enhance self-determination, CULTURAL & RACIAL AFFAIRS MEMBERSHIP: personal choice, and full inclusion in the community for Pamela Martin, North Carolina State University Brad Olson, DePaul University people with disabilities. DISABILITIES ACTION NOMINATIONS: Chair: Fabricio Balcazar, (312) 413-1646, [email protected] Meg Davis, Dickinson College Fabricio Balcazar, University of Illinois at Chicago LESBIAN/GAY/BISEXUAL/TRANSGENDER PUBLICATIONS: EDUCATION CONNECTION (LGBT) David A. Julian, Ohio State University Jim Dalton, Bloomsburg University SOCIAL POLICY: The LGBT interest group increases awareness of the need Preston Britner, University of Connecticut for community research and action related to issues that Maurice Elias, Rutgers University WOMEN: impact LGBT people; and serves as a mechanism for REGIONAL Mary Ellen Dello Stritto, Ball State University communication, collaboration, and support among Gary Harper, DePaul University community psychologists who are either interested in Regional Coordinators research/service/ policy related to LGBT people and INTERNATIONAL WEST: communities, and/or who identify as LGBT. Toshiaki Sasao, International Christian University, Ken Miller, Pomona College Co-chairs: Alicia Lucksted, [email protected] Tokyo, Japan Elizabeth Thomas, University of Washington, Bothell Gary Harper, [email protected] Emily J. Ozer, University of California, Berkeley LESBIAN/GAY/BISEXUAL/TRANSGENDER SOUTHWEST/MOUNTAIN: PREVENTION AND PROMOTION CONCERNS Vacant The Prevention and Promotion interest group seeks to Alicia Lucksted, University of Maryland MIDWEST: enhance development of prevention and promotion research, Susan Torres-Harding, DePaul University Gary Harper, DePaul University foster active dialogue about critical conceptual and Bernadette Sanchez, DePaul University methodological action and implementation issues, and LIVING COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY Steven Pokorny, DePaul University Gloria Levin, Glen Echo, Maryland Debra M. Hernandez Jozefowicz-Simbeni, Wayne State University promote rapid dissemination and discussion of new NORTHEAST: developments and findings in the field. PREVENTION & PROMOTION Cindy Crusto, Yale University Chair: Richard Wolitski, (404) 639-1939, Richard Wolitski, Center for Disease Control, Atlanta Tiffany Townsend, Pennsylvania State University