1st Edition

Community Psychology and the Schools A Behaviorally Oriented Multilevel Approach

226 Pages
by Routledge

226 Pages
by Routledge

226 Pages
by Routledge

Originally published in 1976, this volume begins with a theoretical overview of the major trends in the community psychology movement at the time, as well as a perspective on how the field was developing. The emphasis is on the utility of combining a preventative community-centered orientation with an applied behavioral-analytic focus. The authors take general theoretical notions and demonstrate... Read more

Foreword.  Preface.  Part 1: Collaborative Interventions with Schools: Making the Changing Scene in Community Psychology  1. A Guiding Framework for Community-Based Interventions in School Settings  2. Establishing a Partnership: Problems and Principles  Part 2: Toward a Theoretical Background for Multilevel Prevention in the Schools  3. A Strategy for Primary Prevention: The Social Problem-Solving Curriculum  4. Secondary Prevention: A Companion Program for Socially Isolated Children  5. Behavior Analysis and Tertiary Prevention: Teacher Training in Classroom Management  Part 3: From Principles to a Program: The Collaborative Intervention in Action  6. Getting It All Together in the School  7. Enhancing Social Coping Skills: The Creative Problem Solver  8. Promoting Social Interactions: The Blooming of Wallflowers  9. Building Constructive Teacher–Child Relationships  Part 4: Larger Social and Ethical Issues  10. Community Interventions Today and Tomorrow: The Challenge and the Promise.  Appendix: Social Problem-Solving Curriculum: A Workbook.  References.  Subject Index.

Biography

George J. Allen, Jack M. Chinsky, Stephen W. Larcen, John E. Lochman, Howard V. Selinger