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2. Might We Practice What We'ved Preached? Thoughts on the Special Issue Papers
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Jean Ann Linney
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Health (social science) ,Community level ,Ecology ,Process (engineering) ,Ecology (disciplines) ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ,Community change ,Context (language use) ,Social Environment ,Community Mental Health Services ,Organizational Innovation ,Health psychology ,Humans ,Psychology ,Engineering ethics ,Quality (business) ,Sociology ,Social science ,Set (psychology) ,Applied Psychology ,media_common - Abstract
Commentary on the papers of the special issue identifies and discusses four themes: 1) strategies to bridge the gap between science and practice, 2) sources of community science questions of interest, 3) choice and quality of methods, and 4) epistemology and useful language for community science. The commentary identifies some limitations in the models proposed by the special issue authors, and proposes renewed attention to ecology, context and process in community change initiatives, calling for a common set of community level measures as one strategy to advance a community centered science agenda.
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- 2005
3. From 'Water Boiling in a Peruvian Town' to 'Letting them Die': Culture, Community Intervention, and the Metabolic Balance Between Patience and Zeal.
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Trickett, Edison J.
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INTERVENTION (Social services) ,COMMUNITY psychology ,COMMUNITIES ,CULTURAL relations ,PSYCHOLOGY - Abstract
While the concept of culture has long been central to community psychology research and intervention, it has most frequently referred to the communities in which such work occurs. The purpose of this paper is to reframe this discussion by viewing community interventions as instances of intercultural contact between the culture of science, reflected in community intervention research, and the culture of the communities in which those interventions occur. Following a brief discussion of the complexities of culture as a concept, two illustrative stories of failed community interventions are provided to highlight the centrality of cultural and contextual understanding as prelude to community intervention. These stories, set 50 years apart, reflect the depth and pervasive influence of both the culture of science and the culture of communities. Next, a series of propositions about the culture of social science as a partial reflection of the broader culture of the United States are offered, and their implications for the conduct of community interventions drawn. The paper concludes with a series of recommendations which, together, provide an ecological mind-set for taking culture seriously in community interventions. Central to this mind set are the importance of focusing on communities rather than programs and emphasizing the intervention goal of choice over change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2011
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4. Multilevel community-based culturally situated interventions and community impact: an ecological perspective.
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Trickett EJ
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- Humans, Community Mental Health Services organization & administration, Culture, Ecology, Ethnicity, Mental Disorders therapy, Social Environment
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The purpose of this paper is to apply an ecological perspective to the conduct of multilevel community-based culturally-situated interventions. After a discussion of the emerging consensus about the value of approaching such interventions ecologically, the paper outlines a series of questions stimulated by an ecological perspective that can guide further theory development in conducting multilevel interventions. These questions all derive from the importance of assessing the local community ecology where the intervention occurs. The paper concludes with a series of topics which, taken together, provide a roadmap for further conceptual development of multilevel interventions as vehicles for long-range community impact.
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- 2009
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5. The spirit of ecological inquiry and intervention research reports: a heuristic elaboration.
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Ryerson Espino SL and Trickett EJ
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- Cultural Diversity, Data Collection methods, Humans, Community Participation, Ecology, Health Services Research, Research Design
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One distinctive approach to community psychology intervention research involves finding ways to contribute to the development of communities. Ecological inquiry is a primary theoretical framework for this work. The purpose of this paper is to explore how the spirit of ecological inquiry may be expressed in the descriptions of how we design, conduct, and evaluate community interventions. We first elaborate a set of criteria as a heuristic framework for carrying out and documenting community intervention writing, theory, and action. We then pilot the application of these criteria to explore the presence of an ecological emphasis within intervention studies published in the AJCP between 1994 and 2002. This exercise helped illuminate the extent to which an ecological perspective is reflected in intervention accounts, and select intervention accounts that reflect a substantial ecological emphasis are described. Further, this review highlights the areas of our written work which contain fewer makers of ecological inquiry, as with the relevant exclusion of citizens in formative intervention roles. We conclude with a series of reflections about constraints on published intervention accounts and recommendations for those interested in furthering the spirit of ecological inquiry through their research and action commitments to community development.
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- 2008
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6. Culture and Community Psychology: Toward a Renewed and Reimagined Vision.
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Kral, Michael J., Ramírez García, Jorge I., Aber, Mark S., Masood, Nausheen, Dutta, Urmitapa, and Todd, Nathan R.
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COMMUNITY psychology ,CULTURE ,SOCIAL norms ,SELF-efficacy ,LINGUISTIC context ,ECOLOGY ,REFLEXIVITY - Abstract
Interest is growing in community psychology to look more closely at culture. Culture has resided in community psychology in its emphasis on context, ecology, and diversity, however we believe that the field will benefit from a more explicit focus on culture. We suggest a cultural approach that values the community's points of view and an understanding of shared and divergent meanings, goals, and norms within a theory of empowerment. Furthermore, we posit the importance of pluralistic, multi-method programs of research and action encompassing both idiographic and nomothetic approaches, and critical reflexivity of our roles and agendas. Culture can be further incorporated into all the branches and fibers of community psychology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2011
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7. Religion in the Hallways: Academic Performance and Psychological Distress among Immigrant origin Muslim Adolescents in High Schools.
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Oberoi, Ashmeet Kaur and Trickett, Edison J.
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IMMIGRANTS ,MUSLIM students ,PSYCHOLOGICAL distress ,HIGH school administration ,SECONDARY education - Abstract
Abstract: Islamic norms and Islamophobia present unique challenges for Muslim adolescents in Western countries. For Muslim students, even “secular” public schools are not a religion‐free space because their religious beliefs and values are central in their manner of living. To inquire more about these issues, an exploratory sequential design mixed‐method study was conducted that included focus groups and a survey addressing the public school experiences of Muslim adolescents in a Midwestern state in the United States and how those experiences are related to their academic achievement, educational aspirations, and psychological adjustment. Overall, the findings characterize this study's sample as coping well in the school context in terms of academic achievement, high educational expectations, and relatively low levels of psychological distress. However, those who experience greater frequency and severity of hassles at school report higher levels of psychological distress. In particular, the frequency of hassles associated with representing Islam, limited English competency, relations with both Muslim and non‐Muslim peers, and religious discrimination at school related to increased distress. Together, these findings suggest the importance of considering both individual and ecological determinants of wellbeing for Muslim adolescents. The findings also suggest the importance of looking more carefully at the sample, context, and time when the data were collected before making generalizations within or across cultural and/or religious groups. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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8. Multilevel community-based culturally situated interventions and community impact: an ecological perspective
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Edison J. Trickett
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Health (social science) ,Ecology ,Ecology (disciplines) ,Mental Disorders ,Perspective (graphical) ,Culture ,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ,Psychological intervention ,Development theory ,Social Environment ,Community Mental Health Services ,Local community ,Health psychology ,Intervention (law) ,Situated ,Ethnicity ,Humans ,Sociology ,Applied Psychology - Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to apply an ecological perspective to the conduct of multilevel community-based culturally-situated interventions. After a discussion of the emerging consensus about the value of approaching such interventions ecologically, the paper outlines a series of questions stimulated by an ecological perspective that can guide further theory development in conducting multilevel interventions. These questions all derive from the importance of assessing the local community ecology where the intervention occurs. The paper concludes with a series of topics which, taken together, provide a roadmap for further conceptual development of multilevel interventions as vehicles for long-range community impact.
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- 2009
9. The Social Ecological Model and Physical Activity in African American Women.
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Fleury, Julie and Lee, Sarah M.
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ECOLOGY ,AFRICAN American women ,SOCIAL services ,PHYSICAL fitness - Abstract
Little is known about the social and contextual correlates (e.g., social norms, environment, social networks, and organizational support) influencing the adoption and maintenance of regular physical activity among minority and underserved populations. The purpose of this review was to apply the social ecological model to better understand physical activity among African American women. A review of the literature pertaining to correlates of physical activity among African American women was conducted and applied to a social ecological perspective. Understanding and addressing social and contextual correlates of physical activity behavior among African American women are necessary to establish comprehensive programs, particularly within community settings. The social ecological model provides a strong theoretical basis to guide physical activity intervention in this population. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2006
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10. Swampscott in International Context: Expanding Our Ecology of Knowledge
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Christopher C. Sonn
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Internationality ,Health (social science) ,Ecology (disciplines) ,Context (language use) ,Psychology, Social ,03 medical and health sciences ,Politics ,Humans ,Community psychology ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Product (category theory) ,Sociology ,Intersectoral Collaboration ,Applied Psychology ,030505 public health ,Ecology ,05 social sciences ,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ,International community ,Knowledge ,Dominance (economics) ,Interdisciplinary Communication ,0305 other medical science ,Decolonization ,Forecasting ,050104 developmental & child psychology - Abstract
In this paper, I offer reflections as someone from outside the United States about the Swampscott conference. I refer to Fryer and Fox's (The Community Psychologist, 24, 2014, 1) critique of the "Swampscott discourse" and its role in fixing the birthplace of community psychology. While the critique is important, I note the growing references to international community psychology and the need to view the discipline as a product of social political realities in different contexts, as well as dynamics of dominance and marginality in knowledge production in psychology. The work in the Global South presents opportunities to contribute to developing a decolonizing community psychology through expanding the ecology of knowledge.
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- 2016
11. Collaboration and Social Inquiry: Multiple Meanings of a Construct and Its Role in Creating Useful and Valid Knowledge
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Trickett, Edison J. and Espino, Susan L. Ryerson
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- 2004
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12. Introduction to Ecological Description of a Community Intervention: Building Prevention Through Collaborative Field Based Research
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Gerald V. Mohatt and James Allen
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Health (social science) ,Community engagement ,Ecology ,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ,Community-based participatory research ,Poison control ,Suicide prevention ,Article ,Health psychology ,Empirical research ,Intervention (counseling) ,Community psychology ,Sociology ,Applied Psychology - Abstract
This special issue of the American Journal of Community Psychology is the result of a 18-year partnership with Alaska Native communities using collaborative field based research methods. Its goal is to provide a case study fulfilling the spirit of ecological inquiry, offering a detailed and nuanced description of a community intervention. The articles describe the nature of our work, including some of our successes, as well as challenges, dilemmas, and even disappointments we experienced along the way. Our primary aim was to develop and assess the feasibility of a complex, multi-level intervention to increase protective factors hypothesized to reduce suicide and alcohol abuse among rural Yup’ik Alaska Native youth ages 12 to 18. The articles that follow include descriptions of the cultural context, relevant literature and project history, our methods of community engagement in measurement development strategies, an empirical test of the prevention model that guided the intervention, the development and implementation of the intervention, a feasibility and impact assessment, and an evaluation of community engagement. A final article summarizes what is generalizable from the work in field based intervention research with rural and culturally distinct populations, and future prospects for decolonizing community intervention research methods. These papers raise important issues, including (1) need for deep, contextual ecological descriptions, (2) reconceptualization of time in the research relationship, (3) distinctions between populations and communities, and (4) the conflict between values of communities and intervention science.
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- 2014
13. Community organizing: An ecological route to empowerment and power
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Speer, Paul W. and Hughey, Joseph
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- 1995
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14. Acculturation and Psychological Adjustment of Vietnamese Refugees: An Ecological Acculturation Framework
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Corrina D. Salo and Dina Birman
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Adult ,Male ,Health (social science) ,Vietnamese ,Refugee ,Emotional Adjustment ,Structural equation modeling ,Job Satisfaction ,Social support ,Young Adult ,Surveys and Questionnaires ,Ecological psychology ,Adaptation, Psychological ,Humans ,Occupations ,Applied Psychology ,Aged ,Refugees ,Maryland ,Ecology ,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ,Social Support ,Emigration and Immigration ,Middle Aged ,language.human_language ,Acculturation ,United States ,Health psychology ,Cross-Sectional Studies ,Socioeconomic Factors ,Vietnam ,language ,Job satisfaction ,Female ,Psychology ,Social psychology ,Stress, Psychological - Abstract
Acculturation to the culture of the host society as well as to one's heritage culture have been shown to impact immigrants' adjustment during the years following resettlement. While acculturation has been identified as an important factor in adjustment of Vietnamese immigrants (Birman and Tran in Am J Orthopsychiatr 78(1):109-120. doi: 10.1037/0002-9432.78.1.109 , 2008), no clear pattern of findings has emerged and too few studies have employed an ecological approach. The purpose of this paper is to contextualize the study of acculturation and adjustment by taking an ecological approach to exploring these relationships across several life domains, using a bilinear scale, and examining mediators of these relationships for adult Vietnamese refugees (N = 203) in the United States. We call this approach the Ecological Acculturation Framework (EAF). Results of a structural equation model (SEM) showed that job satisfaction fully mediated the relationship between American acculturation and psychological distress, demonstrating that this relationship was specific to an occupational domain. However, while Vietnamese acculturation predicted co-ethnic social support satisfaction, it did not predict reduced psychological distress. Implications for a life domains approach, including domain specificity, are discussed.
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- 2015
15. Making big communities small: using network science to understand the ecological and behavioral requirements for community social capital
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Zachary P. Neal
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Agent-based model ,Health (social science) ,Social network ,business.industry ,Ecology ,Social change ,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ,Social Support ,Network science ,Models, Theoretical ,Social engagement ,Psychology, Social ,Homophily ,Residence Characteristics ,Community psychology ,Humans ,Social Capital ,Sociology ,business ,Applied Psychology ,Social capital - Abstract
The concept of social capital is becoming increasingly common in community psychology and elsewhere. However, the multiple conceptual and operational definitions of social capital challenge its utility as a theoretical tool. The goals of this paper are to clarify two forms of social capital (bridging and bonding), explicitly link them to the structural characteristics of small world networks, and explore the behavioral and ecological prerequisites of its formation. First, I use the tools of network science and specifically the concept of small-world networks to clarify what patterns of social relationships are likely to facilitate social capital formation. Second, I use an agent-based model to explore how different ecological characteristics (diversity and segregation) and behavioral tendencies (homophily and proximity) impact communities’ potential for developing social capital. The results suggest diverse communities have the greatest potential to develop community social capital, and that segregation moderates the effects that the behavioral tendencies of homophily and proximity have on community social capital. The discussion highlights how these findings provide community-based researchers with both a deeper understanding of the contextual constraints with which they must contend, and a useful tool for targeting their efforts in communities with the greatest need or greatest potential.
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- 2015
16. Concepts of Social Justice in Community Psychology: Toward a Social Ecological Epistemology
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Mark R. Fondacaro and Darin Weinberg
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Social psychology (sociology) ,Health (social science) ,Ecology ,Critical psychology ,Social epistemology ,Social ecology ,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ,Health Promotion ,Procedural justice ,Psychology, Social ,United States ,Epistemology ,Knowledge ,Social Justice ,Humans ,Community psychology ,Sociology ,Power, Psychological ,Distributive justice ,Applied Psychology ,Social theory - Abstract
In this paper we address the pervasive tendency in community psychology to treat values like social justice only as general objectives rather than contested theoretical concepts possessing identifiable empirical content. First we discuss how distinctive concepts of social justice have figured in three major intellectual traditions within community psychology: (1) the prevention and health promotion tradition, (2) the empowerment tradition, and most recently, (3) the critical tradition. We point out the epistemological gains and limitations of these respective concepts and argue for greater sensitivity to the context dependency of normative concepts like social justice. More specifically, we point to a pressing need in community psychology for an epistemology that: (1) subsumes both descriptive and evaluative concepts, and (2) acknowledges its own embeddedness in history and culture without thereby reducing all knowledge claims to the status of ideology. Finally, we describe and demonstrate the promise of what we are calling a social ecological epistemology for fulfilling this need.
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- 2002
17. The spirit of ecological inquiry and intervention research reports: a heuristic elaboration
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Edison J. Trickett and Susan Ryerson Espino
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Health (social science) ,Ecology ,Data Collection ,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ,Psychological intervention ,Community Participation ,Cultural Diversity ,Formative assessment ,Health psychology ,Action (philosophy) ,Research Design ,Intervention (counseling) ,Community psychology ,Humans ,Health Services Research ,Community development ,Psychology ,Set (psychology) ,Applied Psychology - Abstract
One distinctive approach to community psychology intervention research involves finding ways to contribute to the development of communities. Ecological inquiry is a primary theoretical framework for this work. The purpose of this paper is to explore how the spirit of ecological inquiry may be expressed in the descriptions of how we design, conduct, and evaluate community interventions. We first elaborate a set of criteria as a heuristic framework for carrying out and documenting community intervention writing, theory, and action. We then pilot the application of these criteria to explore the presence of an ecological emphasis within intervention studies published in the AJCP between 1994 and 2002. This exercise helped illuminate the extent to which an ecological perspective is reflected in intervention accounts, and select intervention accounts that reflect a substantial ecological emphasis are described. Further, this review highlights the areas of our written work which contain fewer makers of ecological inquiry, as with the relevant exclusion of citizens in formative intervention roles. We conclude with a series of reflections about constraints on published intervention accounts and recommendations for those interested in furthering the spirit of ecological inquiry through their research and action commitments to community development.
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- 2008
18. Quality and ecology of adversity as common mechanisms of risk and resilience
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Irwin N. Sandler
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Coping (psychology) ,Health (social science) ,Maslow's hierarchy of needs ,Adolescent ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Health Status ,Psychological intervention ,Self-concept ,Child Welfare ,Personal Satisfaction ,Environment ,Developmental psychology ,Interpersonal relationship ,Risk and resilience ,Risk Factors ,Personality ,Humans ,Interpersonal Relations ,Child ,Applied Psychology ,media_common ,Motivation ,Ecology ,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ,Self Concept ,Health psychology ,Affect ,Public Health ,Psychology ,Social psychology - Abstract
This paper proposes common mechanisms to explain the effects of adversities and of resources that promote resilience. Adversities threaten the satisfaction of basic human needs and the acquisitions of competencies to carry out valued social roles. Adversities can also be characterized in terms of their ecological properties of occurrence in time, and place. Resilience resources at the individual, microsystem and macro levels reduce the negative effects of adversities through their effects on satisfaction of basic human needs and their effects on the occurrence of adversities. The effects of resilience resources are described as preventive, protective and promotive. Implications are presented for the development of interventions to promote resilience.
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- 2001
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