1 option
Empowering settings and voices for social change / edited by Mark S. Aber, Kenneth I. Maton, and Edward Seidman.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Community psychology.
- Social psychology.
- Social change.
- Power (Social sciences).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (261 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This edited volume combines a focus on understanding social settings as loci for empowering intervention with a focus on understanding and giving voice to citizens. It illuminates advances in theory and method relevant to changing a broad spectrum of social settings from a strengths-based perspective.
- Contents:
- Empowering settings and voices for social change : an introduction / Kenneth I. Maton, Edward Seidman, and Mark S. Aber
- Changing social settings : a framework for action / Edward Seidman and Vivian Tseng
- Empowering community settings : theory, research, and action / Kenneth I. Maton and Anne E. Brodsky
- Pursuing paradox : the role of adults in creating empowering settings for youth / Reed W. Larson and Rachel M. Angus
- Settings and empowerment / Edison J. Trickett
- Voices from the ground up : the use of narrative in understanding recovery from serious mental illness / Deborah Salem
- "I came to tell you of my life" : narrative expositions of "mental health" in an American Indian community / Joseph P. Gone
- Tales of terror from juvenile justice and education / N. Dickon Reppucci
- The neglected role of community narratives in culturally anchored prevention and public policy / Hirokazu Yoshikawa and Maria A. Ramos Olazagasti
- On voice : difference, power, change / Eric Stewart
- Contradictions and consistencies : Rappaport's contributions to community psychology (1968-2007) / Irma Serrano-Garcia
- Searching for OZ : empowerment, crossing boundaries, and telling our story / Julian Rappaport.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed Jan. 12, 2011).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-970148-2
- 9786612953118
- 1-282-95311-7
- OCLC:
- 697182064
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.