"I recommend this book to all mental health professionals and students in this field; it provides the reader with a historical perspective that can add meaning, and perhaps even reassurance, to those who continue to care for the mentally ill in these uncertain times." --Hospital and CommunityPsychiatry.  "Well worth reading, and graduate students, scientists, and professionals who are involved even obliquely with the field of mental health should add this one to their library." --Contemporary Psychiatry

The History and Politics of Community Mental Health

Levine, Murray

History

Oxford University Press

"I recommend this book to all mental health professionals and students in this field; it provides the reader with a historical perspective that can add meaning, and perhaps even reassurance, to those who continue to care for the mentally ill in these uncertain times." --Hospital and Community Psychiatry. "Well worth reading, and graduate students, scientists, and professionals who are involved even obliquely with the field of mental health should add this one to their library." --Contemporary Psychiatry

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

This text provides a coherent and balanced presentation of the principles and practices of community psychology. Opening chapters analyze the conceptual roots of community psychology in epidemiology, the medical model of mental health, and social ecology, while later chapters focus on practical applications in preventive mental health and social and community change. Unusual but increasingly important topics are also addressed, such as self-help, consciousness raising, labelling theory, school desegregation, and the role of behavioral scientists in social change. The authors subject basic concepts to critical analysis and provide up-to-date reviews of empirical research throughout.

Community Psychology: Perspectives and Applications

Perkins, David V.

Psychology & Counseling

Principles of Community Psychology, now in a new edition, is a comprehensive text integrating theory, research, and practice across the diverse subject matter of community mental health and community psychology. Emphasizing an ecological approach, this text places problems in both their current and historical perspectives, focusing on the individual in the environment and the influences that shape and change behavior and mental health. Conceptually built around the models of stressful life events, social support, and coping, it applies these concepts as a key integrative device for analyzing diverse phenomena and interventions which include self-help, prevention, and social action. Thoroughly updated, this second edition has been completely rewritten to include updated references and research, boxes on current topics, chapter outlines, expanded case studies, practical examples, and chapter discussions. The authors have made their arguments and research less abstract and more practical, offering students a more accessible text that presents concrete, detailed, up-to-date examples of programs, research, and scholarship from many different fields. The text covers the history of community mental health and shows its relationship to social welfare policies and legal and political systems. It also shows the limits inherent in the medical model of practice in dealing with such a full range of formal mental health problems, including the every day stressful life events that make up the Soap Opera life. Principles of Community Psychology ultimately challenges community psychologists as well as students of psychology, sociology, and social work to look at the impact of the new conservatism on human services and the opportunities that are presented for innovative approaches in the new political climate.

Principles of Community Psychology: Perspectives and Applications

Updated and expanded in this third edition, Principles of Community Psychology: Perspectives and Applications presents the most recent literature, empirical work, issues, and events in the field and the relevant policy debates surrounding them. The book maintains the basic architecture of the previous edition--integrating theory, research, and practice across the diverse subject matter of community mental health and community psychology--but reduces jargon and improves clarity. Applying an ecological perspective, it places problems in their current and historical contexts and employs a stress, coping, and social-support model as a key integrative device to analyze community mental health practice, prevention, self-help, and social action. Principles of Community Psychology: Perspectives and Applications, 3/e, is ideal for upper level undergraduate and graduate courses in community psychology, social work, and mental health. Features of the Third Edition ·PRESENTS NEW INFORMATION ON: ·behavior-environment congruence ·social and physical environmental influences on behavior and well-being ·the use of law to reduce stigma ·organizational change, development, and learning ·problems in planned change on a statewide level ·political and legal events since desegregation in public schools ·future problems surrounding race in public schools ·making community psychology more interdisciplinary ·recognizing developments in community psychology outside the United States ·OFFERS NEW RESEARCH ON: ·homelessness ·adaptation, crisis, coping, and social support ·UPDATES AND EXPANDS TREATMENTS OF: ·fundamental principles and values of community psychology ·population parameters ·the history of community psychology ·HIV/AIDS, Project Head Start, and preventing child maltreatment ·self-help/mutual assistance groups ·desegregation of the public schools as a societal-level intervention ·community development ·science, ethics, and the future of community psychology

Perkins, Douglas D.

This book takes a historical and systems perspective to examine the interaction between the social science community and the law. Each chapter contains an historical or a philosophical introduction to a problem, followed by discussion of the major legal issues and reviews of a wide range of research, including the experimental literature. In addition to covering many topics typically covered in psychology and law texts, Levine takes a social problem emphasis, dealing with such issues as abortion, intimate partner violence, divorce and custody, child protection, and more.

Psychological Problems, Social Issues, And the Law

LEVINE, DAVID M.

Wallach, Leah

Pearson

This book introduces a historical and systems perspective to the interaction between the social science community and the law. With unique chapters that introduce the reader to the American legal system and to the relationship between the law and the social sciences, the reader will come away from the book with an appreciation of the intimate interrelationships between the field of psychology and law. For potential or practicing psychologists and lawyers, or anyone interested in the psychology of law.

Psychogical Problems, Social Issues and Law

Ethics & Professional Responsibility

Allyn&Bacon

A social history of helping services;: Clinic, court, school, and community (The Century psychology series)

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Appleton, Century, Crofts

In the early 21st century the United States is attacked by both North Korea and internal enemies. A cabal of China and a number of international megacompanies almost brings the US to its knees, but a clever computer program that enables a successful missile defense ultimately enables the US in its effort to create peace and eliminate wars to achieve hegemony over the entire planet.

Hegemony

Literature & Fiction

AuthorHouse

The introduction of mandated reporting laws of suspected child maltreatment in the United States was intended to solve a problem - it has, however, also created new ones. What began as an effort to ensure that physicians were reporting physical abuse of children has expanded: psychotherapists, counsellors, social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists and other mental health practitioners are now included as mandated reporters. In addition, the scope of child maltreatment has broadened to include physical neglect, emotional maltreatment and sexual abuse.  The authors of this book discuss the profound effects - both positive and negative - that these changes have had on child protection services. In particular, they examine th

The Impact of Mandated Reporting on the Therapeutic Process: Picking up the Pieces

Self-Help

Doueck, Howard J.

Relationships

Sage Publications, Inc.

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The History and Politics of Community Mental Health

The History and Politics of Community Mental Health

Community Psychology: Perspectives and Applications

Principles of Community Psychology: Perspectives and Applications

Principles of Community Psychology: Perspectives and Applications

Psychological Problems, Social Issues, And the Law

Psychogical Problems, Social Issues and Law

A social history of helping services;: Clinic, court, school, and community (The Century psychology series)

Hegemony

The Impact of Mandated Reporting on the Therapeutic Process: Picking up the Pieces