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Published in Tony Cassidy, Stress, Cognition and Health, 2023
Community psychology is fundamentally concerned with the relationship between social systems and individual health and well-being in the community context (Orford, 2008). It follows that social support is recognised as an important aspect of community mental health.
Community Psychology and Disability Studies
Published in Christopher B. Keys, Peter W. Dowrick, People with Disabilities, 2021
Peter W. Dowrick, Christopher B. Keys
There are fifty-four million people in the U.S. who have been marginalized in society because of their disabilities (US Bureau of Census, 1999). Since the 1960s, with the advent of the disability rights movement and the emergence of the field of disability studies, there have been gradually increasing efforts to improve access and participation in the community for people with disabilities. In the same time span, the field of community psychology has emerged as the study of individuals and community systems, with increasing attention to the issue of the empowerment of members of marginalized groups. Surprisingly, these fields have evolved in parallel, with little interaction between the two.
Community as social ties
Published in S. Alexander Haslam, Psychological Insights for Understanding COVID-19 and Society, 2020
Carolyn Kagan, Mark Burton, Paul Duckett, Rebecca Lawthom, Asiya Siddiquee
One of the difficulties inherent in the term ‘participation’ is that the term is contested and used in different ways by different people. Brodie, Cowling and Nissen (2009) distinguish between public, social and individual participation. Public participation is “the engagement of individuals with the various structures and institutions of democracy”. Sometimes this is referred to as political or civic participation or participatory governance. Examples of public participation include voting; becoming an elected politician or joining a political party; becoming involved in the governance of a school, hospital or other public institution. Social participation refers to collective activities that people might get involved in, such as residents’ groups, clubs and societies, solidarity groups, local protest campaigns and so on. Individual participation refers to the choices and actions that individuals make and which are reflections of their values and concerns. They include, for example, buying fair trade goods, volunteering time to a local good cause, donating money to charities, writing letters in response to a campaign and so on. Clearly the modes of participation overlap. Community psychology might be concerned with them all, though perhaps is more focused on social and public participation.
“To feel supported in your community is to feel loved”: Cultivating community and support for Black transmasculine people navigating anti-Black racism, transphobia, and COVID-19 pandemic
Published in International Journal of Transgender Health, 2023
Gabriel M. Lockett, Kirsten G. Klein, Jordan Mike, Jules P. Sostre, Roberto L. Abreu
Researchers use the terms ‘community’ and ‘support’ as broad terms to explore and expand on the collective wellness of the Black transmasculine community in hopes of working toward liberation. Prilleltensky situates power as a pivotal role for wellness and tool for collective needs to overcome oppression (Prilleltensky, 2008). Previous research suggests that community and support are vital components to the overall wellness of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people, as well as Black, Indigenous, and other people of Color’s (BIPOC) ability to survive and thrive (Abreu et al., 2021b; Gonzalez et al., 2021; Graham et al., 2014; Mosley et al., 2021; Parmenter et al., 2021). While the researchers do not seek to define community and support for Black transmasculine people, we do hope to further explore their collective wellbeing. This study aims to build on fundamental premises of community psychology by viewing sense of community as a fundamental concept in the psychological study of community; moreover, exploring community development, social supports, community needs, community processes, and support for those communities (see Chavis & Newbrough, 1986).
Decoloniality and community-psychology practice in Puerto Rico: autonomous organising (autogestión) and self-determination
Published in International Review of Psychiatry, 2020
To the extent that the disciplinary boundaries in community psychology and other social sciences are blurred and we increasingly learn from cultural and geopolitical studies, the need for the decolonisation of the production of knowledge as legitimised in science and hegemonic knowledge(s) is also more evident (Mignolo, 2001). Some observe these developments with scepticism because, they argue, ‘science’ and its episteme are not susceptible to the influence and consequences of colonial processes, but rather to aspirations of universality. Despite this relative scepticism, many community psychologists have been stressing the need for decolonisation in the discipline (Reyes & Sonn, 2011; Rozas, 2018; Serrano García, 2019). As this conversation evolves, some fundamental questions are emerging: Which phenomena should community psychology study? From what perspectives do we define them? What knowledge do we legitimise? and, How does our work embody or not decolonial aspirations and postures?
Recovery homes: A social network analysis of Oxford Houses for Native Americans
Published in Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse, 2020
Leonard A. Jason, Ed Stevens, Jessica Kassanits, Angela Reilly, Ted Bobak, Mayra Guerrero, Nathan J. Doogan
At the 1965 Swampscott meeting, the field of community psychology emerged as a new discipline within psychology (Anderson et al., 1966). In one of the key addresses at this meeting, Glidewell (1966) commented that we needed to shift the attention of psychologists to interconnections, that values, motives, and feelings shape behavior and adaptation. This type of work had been occurring in sociology (e.g., Homans, 1950, 1961; Blau, 1964) and among theorists in social psychology who saw group contexts as ways to study attribution, social exchange (e.g., Festinger, 1955; Festinger, Schachter, & Back, 1950). The field of community psychology tried to go beyond “groups” to study “communities” as a geospatial/geosocial entity. This was also true of early work from the 1950s and 1960s based on social network (“sociometry”) conceptions (Leinhardt, 1977).