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Leveraging community psychology to counter harmful policies and foster well‐being in migrant children Open
Harmful child detention and deportation policies, along with dehumanizing migrant narratives, are part of a global pattern of systemic oppression targeting people on the move. This paper reviews the psychological harms experienced by migra…
Seven key insights from critical realism and their implications for ecological thinking and action in community psychology Open
This article explores some of the possible links between community psychology and critical realism, a relatively new approach to the philosophy of science that has received little attention from community psychologists. Critical realism is…
A community psychology for migrant justice: Critically examining border violence and resistance during the COVID‐19 syndemic Open
This article explores the magnifying lenses of the COVID‐19 syndemic to highlight how people racialized as migrants and refugees have been—and continue to be—disproportionally harmed. We use empirical evidence collected in our scholarly/ac…
Foundations for Relational Ethics: Introducing a Continuum of Community Psychology Praxis Open
Community psychology (CP) attends to the challenges facing communities in our efforts to bring about justice and well-being. We are explicitly concerned with understanding the origins of oppression within various contexts, using diverse ap…
View article: The Involvement in Alcoholics Anonymous Scale - Short Form: Factor Structure & Validation
The Involvement in Alcoholics Anonymous Scale - Short Form: Factor Structure & Validation Open
Background: The aim of this research was to examine the psychometrics of a short form version of the multidimensional Involvement in Alcoholics Anonymous scale (IAA-SF) by assessing the factor structure, internal consistency, and predictiv…
The Premise of Persistence: Deconstructing Colonial Authority in Community Psychology Curricula and Structures, Towards Liberative Andragogy and Practice Open
In the U.S., Community Psychology (C.P.) arose in the 1960s, attempting to break traditional clinical and research psychology patterns. While CP rejected many Eurocentric and oppressive ideas, remnants remain in every ecological corner of …
View article: The Roles of Settings in Supporting Immigrants’ Resistance to Injustice and Oppression: A Policy Position Statement by the Society for Community Research and Action
The Roles of Settings in Supporting Immigrants’ Resistance to Injustice and Oppression: A Policy Position Statement by the Society for Community Research and Action Open
In 2018, in response to increasingly oppressive and widespread federal immigration enforcement actions in the United States (U.S.) and around the globe – including family separation, immigration raids, detention, deportation of people who …
Empowerment and Accountability and Multi‐layered Contexts of Influences: Parenting and the Avoidance of Harm in Harare, Zimbabwe Open
In this paper, the authors discuss multi‐level systems for parenting in Harare, Zimbabwe. At the micro‐system level, the Tirere Pamwe parenting program is a supportive, empowering prototype, designed to educate parents on child development…
Reconnecting Fathers with Their Children: The Need to Directly Confront the Political and Structural Barriers for Successful Re‐integration Open
Key principles and theories in community psychology are used as a lens to analyse some of the ways social ecological factors impact low‐income fathers and their families. The US opioid crisis is often discussed as a public health crisis mo…
From Community Engagement to Community Emergence: The Holistic Program Design Approach Open
University-community engagement has the potential to positively transform higher education, but community-engaged institutions must overcome challenges related to defining, planning, and assessing engagement activities. The 2015 Carnegie C…
A Conceptual Model for Selecting Extension Delivery Methods to Plan Better Programs Open
Extension educators today face several challenges in designing, delivering, and evaluating programs. Achieving successful program outcomes is becoming increasingly difficult. Educators must choose amongst a wide variety of technology and d…
The Community Narration (CN) Approach: Understanding a Group’s Identity and Cognitive Constructs through Personal and Community Narratives Open
Community program evaluations, visioning and assessments must always endeavor to attain useful information in the most sensitive way. Most community-based organizations form, grow and continue on their own without the help of outside exper…