Social, group or collective psychology

Developmental Assets and Asset-Building Communities examines the relationships of developmental assets to other approaches and bodies of work.

Although poverty is a global issue profoundly affecting millions of human beings, the psychology literature rarely focuses on this problem.

This book seeks to confront an apparent contradiction: that while we are constantly attending to environmental issues, we seem to be woefully out of touch with nature.

During the past quarter century, community psychologists have worked to make relevant contributions to human welfare in community settings and to effect social change.

Global Perspectives on Well-Being in Immigrant Families addresses how immigrant families and their children cope with the demands of a new country in relation to psychological well-being, adjustment, and cultural maintenance.

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The recent conflict in Iraq evolved from an insurgency against the interim U.

Community Based System Dynamics introduces researchers and practitioners to the design and application of participatory systems modeling with diverse communities.

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This book introduces an interdisciplinary lens by bringing together vital research on culture, psychosocial development, and key aspects of health and disease to address a wide range of salient concerns.

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Neuropschology with Asians and Asian Americans Practical and Theoretical Considerations J.

Based on a recently completed project of cultural consultation in Montreal, Cultural Consultation presents a model of multicultural and applicable health care.

Collective experiences in the former Yugoslavia documents and analyses how social representations and practices are shaped by collective violence in a context of ethnic discourse.

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This book explores the concept of "e;socially-responsible psychology in a global age"e; and how it might be used to organize, integrate and bring enhanced focus a field that has the potential to contribute to solutions to the world's most pressing problems.

Psychology has focused more on personalities in poverty -- pathologizing -- than on contexts for poverty reduction (Pick & Sirkin, 2010).

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Altruism in Cross-Cultural Perspective provides such a scholarly overview, examining the intersection of culture and such topics as evolutionary accounts of altruism and the importance of altruism in ritual and religion.

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Globalization pressures have made cooperation on a global scale both necessary and possible.

Disaster vulnerability is rapidly increasing on a global scale, particularly for those populations which are the historical clients of the social work profession.

School shootings are a topic of research in a variety of different disciplines-from psychology, to sociology to criminology, pedagogy, and public health-each with their own set of theories.

Encyclopedia of Critical Psychology is a comprehensive reference work and is the first reference work in English that comprehensively looks at psychological topics from critical as well as international points of view.

This book focuses on diversity, culture, and ethnicity as they relate to psychological assessment of Hispanics.

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During the past decade or more, there has been a rapid evolution of mental health services and treatment technologies, shifting psychiatric epidemiology, changes in public behavioral health policy and increased understanding in medicine regarding approaches to clinical work that focus on patient-centeredness.

The volume covers the development of peace psychology in the Balkans.

The book explains how multi-generational Australian-born Chinese (ABC) negotiate the balance of two cultures.

Armed conflict, on domestic or foreign soil, impacts people's daily lives and shapes policy around the world.

Consumer-run organizations and other types of mental health self-help are becoming increasingly popular in the public mental health system.

Mainstream psychology emanated from European-American and Judeo-Christian philosophical and scientific traditions.

This book is a case study of the development of peace psychology in Australia.

The psychology community recognizes that cultivating an international worldview is crucial not only to professionals and researchers, but more importantly, for professors and students of psychology as well.

This project is unique in the field for a number of reasons, both in structure and in content.

Although group conflict is hardly new, the last decade has seen a proliferation of conflicts engaging intrastate ethnic groups.

The present volume has been prepared during the International Year of the Child.

Psychologists have long been interested in the problems of children, but in the last 20 years this interest has increased dramatically.

This book is about explanation and experiment in a science of human action.

Writing a book about play leads to wondering.

The purpose of this volume is to explore theory, problem formulation, and methodology in "e;experiencing the environment.

Professor Piaget, who at this writing is in his eightieth year, has dedicated his life to the exploration and explanation of the genesis of knowledge.

No one would deny the proposition that in order to understand human behavior and development, one must understand "e;feelings.

The theme of the present volume concerns people' s response to the natural environment, considered at scales varying from that of a house- hold plant to that of vast wilderness areas.

This volume is addressed to professionals and students in community mental health-including researchers, clinicians, administrators, educa- tors, and students in relevant specialities within the fields of psychology, psychiatry, social work, public health, and nursing.

This book is about a new and different way of approaching and studying the history of the built environment and the use of historical precedents in design.

This second volume in the Advances in Environment, Behavior, and Design series follows the pattern of Volume 1.

The mastery of a variety of biomedical They avoided the self-destruction and dis- techniques has led our society to the solu- ease that can so readily follow the escalation tion of the problems in environmental con- of social disorder in an isolated colony.