Community Psychology

by John Moritsugu, Frank Y. Wong, Karen Grover Duffy

Community Psychology provides students with an introduction to the concepts, research and applications emerging from the field of community psychology. Community Psychology focuses on the prevention of problems, the promotion of well-being, empowerment of members within a community, the appreciation of diversity, and an ecological model for the understanding of human behavior. Attention is paid to both “classic” early writings by the first wave and the most recent journal articles and reviews by today’s practitioners and researchers.

408 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2009

Reviews

[Jillian Bull · Rating 5 out of 5]

Absolutely delightful from start to finish. This book has everything I love: a mystery, a dynamic narration, and a group of hodge podge characters that come together to orbit around one person that creates home. Hilarious and heartfelt. Like a warm cozy cup of tea.

[Sarah · Rating 2 out of 5]

Personally, I didn't really like this textbook. The format is very wordy and it often felt like the authors were just going on and on about the same point. I tend to prefer my textbooks with more summaries and key words, and less long paragraphs. The vignettes that started each chapter also weren't that helpful (at times they were even a little bit annoying). I'll admit that it's difficult for me to be objective in this review because my dislike for the course I was in when I read this is certainly tainting how I felt about the textbook. I'll just conclude by saying that it was very difficult to study this textbook because of the way it was formatted and because it was so heavily focused around studies. The long and constant references were also distracting at times. While I certainly understand that citations are necessary, I can't deny that they felt very overwhelming in this text.