Description
| Product ID: | 9781108729093 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology |
| Title: | The Cambridge Handbook of Community Psychology |
| Subtitle: | Interdisciplinary and Contextual Perspectives |
| Authors: | Author: Caroline S. Clauss-Ehlers |
| Page Count: | 850 |
| Subjects: | Social, group or collective psychology, Social, group or collective psychology, Health psychology, Clinical psychology, Health psychology, Clinical psychology |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating This comprehensive handbook provides community psychology approaches to address key issues that impact individuals and their communities worldwide such as climate change, mental health, health, racism, immigration, and more. It is essential reading for researchers, students, practitioners, and policy makers involved with community wellbeing. This comprehensive handbook provides community psychology approaches to addressing the key issues that impact individuals and their communities worldwide. Featuring international, interdisciplinary perspectives from leading experts, the handbook tackles critical contemporary challenges. These include climate change, immigration, educational access, healthcare, social media, wellness, community empowerment, discrimination, mental health, and many more. The chapters offer case study examples to present practical applications and to review relevant implications within diverse contexts. Throughout, the handbook considers how community psychology plays out around the world: What approaches are being used in different countries? How does political context influence the development and extension of community psychology? And what can nations learn from each other as they examine successful community psychology-based interventions? This is essential reading for researchers, students, practitioners, and policy makers involved with community well-being. |
| Imprint Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-12-16 |
