Developing Prosocial Communities Across Cultures - hardcover

EAN (ISBN-13): 9780387714844
ISBN (ISBN-10): 0387714847
Hardcover
Publishing year: 2007
Publisher: Springer
164 Pages
Weight: 0,382 kg
Language: eng/Englisch

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ISBN/EAN: 9780387714844

ISBN - alternate spelling:
0-387-71484-7, 978-0-387-71484-4
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Book author: forrest, tyler, tyl
Book title: across culture, communities, cultur, across cultures, dam

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Author: Forrest B. Tyler
Title: Developing Prosocial Communities Across Cultures
Publisher: Springer; Springer US
164 Pages
Publishing year: 2007-09-27
New York; NY; US
Printed / Made in
Weight: 0,940 kg
Language: English
54,99 € (DE)

BB; Community and Environmental Psychology; Hardcover, Softcover / Psychologie/Theoretische Psychologie; Sozialpsychologie; Verstehen; Community Psychology; community policies; culture; psychology; social action; Clinical Psychology; Community Psychology; Clinical Psychology; Klinische Psychologie; BC; EA

Skillfully combining psychological knowledge and humanitarian wisdom, Developing Prosocial Communities across Cultures shows how nurturing environments can be rooted in the common concerns of people and institutions, while giving readers the steps toward achieving this goal. Psychologist/activist Forrest Tyler emphasizes individuals’ collective responsibilities—to themselves, each other, and society—and describes a coordinated balance of discrete social changes brought about by civic action, policy changes initiated by officials, and collaboration between professionals and the community. Instructive examples from locales as varied as Colombia, Jordan, and the United States offer models from which readers can form unique, innovative solutions. And the author’s multicultural/ multiethnic approach clearly maps out the road from theoretical concepts to real-world action: Defining the prosocial community—core characteristics and elemental relationships. Observing communities: assessing their potential for intervention, determining change objectives. Thinking beyond traditional psychological/mental health approaches to community change. Prosocial effects of community projects involving multiple levels of action. Questscope: an extended example of community change in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan Tyler’s decades of experience, and the lucid perspective of Developing Prosocial Communities across Cultures, brings social and community psychologists new assurance that social programs can have greater relevance to the people and groups they serve.