Researching community psychology : issues of theory and methods / edited by Patrick Tolan ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tolan, Patrick H.

American Psychological Association. Science Directorate.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Community psychology--Congresses.

Community psychology.

Psychology, Social.

Medical Subjects:

Psychology, Social.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

APA PsycBOOKS.

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, [1990]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Summary:

Discusses the developing scientific enterprise of community psychology research. The book begins with a discussion of an approach to evaluating the importance and robustness of a research endeavor and the questions driving that research. Part Two, Key Concepts: Approaches to Framing the Endeavor, addresses questions about how theories can contribute to our research and about the role of theory in community psychology research. Part Three moves the focus to hypothesis generation, with questions concerning the purposes of hypotheses, how they should be generated, and how much we should strive to bring together multiple perspectives in generating these hypotheses. The chapters in Part Four are organized around an extended examination of the central and thorny methodological issue of levels of analysis. Part Five focuses on the issues of implementing our research, which for community psychologists is a matter of actualizing our values in our research design and in our method of working with the community on research. The final major section (Part Six) provides a series of evaluations and perspectives on the topics discussed within the book and on the conduct and impact of community research (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2004 APA, all rights reserved)

Notes:

Papers from a conference sponsored by the APA Science Directorate and held Sept. 9-10, 1988, at DePaul University.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-254) and index.

Electronic reproduction. Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association, 1990. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreement. s1990 dcunns.

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