Addressing Community Problems: Psychological Research and Interventions / Edition 1

by Ximena B. Arriaga, Stuart Oskamp

Overview

Taking both social and clinical psychological perspectives, this volume examines pressing community problems such as homelessness, racism, delinquency, alcoholism, violence, unemployment and workplace health. The contributors, leaders in community and social psychology, present the results of their empirical research into these problems.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761910787
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	07/23/1998
Series:	Claremont Symposium on Applied Social Psychology , #69
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	271
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Ximena Arriaga is currently an Associate Professor of Psychological Sciences at Purdue University. Her doctoral degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is in Social Psychology, with minors in Quantitative Psychology and Developmental Science. Her primary areas of research are relationship commitment, uncertainty, and partner aggression. She also does some research on family functioning among Latinos. Her research has been funded by NIMH and contributes to the relationships and intimate partner violence literatures. She has served as an Associated Editor or Consulting Editor for Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, and Personal Relationships. Dr. Arriaga has received several teaching awards

Stuart Oskamp (Ph.D., Stanford University) has focused his research interests in the areas of attitudes and attitude change, applied social psychology, behavioral aspects of energy and resource conservation, and social issues and public policy. His books include Attitudes and Opinions and Applied Social Psychology. He has been elected a member of the American Psychological Association (APA) Council of Representatives and President of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) and of the APA Division of Population and Environmental Psychology. He has also served as editor of the Journal of Social Issues and of the Applied Social Psychology Annual. Since 1984 he has organized the Claremont Symposium on Applied Social Psychology and co-edited the resulting annual volume published for many years by Sage Publications and now published by Erlbaum.

Table of Contents

1.	Addressing Community Problems: An Introduction	1
Part I	Discrimination and Violence
2.	Community Stressors and Racism: Structural and Individual Perspectives on Racial Bias	19
3.	Is Housing the Cure for Homelessness?	52
4.	Violence Among Urban African American Adolescents: The Protective Effects of Parental Support	78
5.	Involving Schools and Communities in Preventing Adolescent Dating Abuse	104
Part II	Health and Work
6.	Life Contexts and Outcomes of Treated and Untreated Alcoholics	133
7.	Promoting Health and Well-Being Through Work: Science and Practice	160
8.	Job-Loss and Work Transitions in a Time of Global Economic Change	195
Part III	Community Empowerment
9.	The Art of Social Change: Community Narratives as Resources for Individual and Collective Identity	225
	Author Index	247
	Subject Index	257
	About the Contributors	261

Editorial Reviews

Attempting to correct the lack of attention paid by the field of applied psychology to such problems as homelessness, racism and prejudice, violence in the community as well as in relationships, substance abuse, workplace stress, and unemployment, nine chapters focus on recent research findings and analyses related to a broad range of community issues. Various suggestions for interventions are introduced, highlighting the activist tradition of applied social science. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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