E-Journal Characteristics | History
of Development | Mission | Management
Structure
The Global Journal of Community Psychology Practice (GJCCP) is a new e-journal for practitioners of community psychology and community
improvement around the globe. We look forward to working with practitioners
and applied researchers to share quality work and to foster a learning
community that will contribute to ongoing advances in the broad field
of Community Practice, both in psychology and related disciplines.
The unique characteristics of the GJCPP include opportunities
to:
- Reach a large number of practitioners instantly and
cost-effectively
- Facilitate real-time interaction around
issues, deadlines and opportunities
- Provide information access world-wide to
lay and professional audiences
- Reach individuals and organizations with
limited print journal access
- Substantially reduce publication
lag-time over print media
- Enhance breath and diversity of content
- Provide keyword searches and on-line inquiry about
most current content
- Disseminate content exponentially faster over
print media
- Allow real-time, multi-user interface for
open source projects
- Increase the likelihood of media coverage and
new media links
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This e-journal will also bring more specific benefits
to our professional field:
- It will extend our global reach and advance
our global mission.
- It will strengthen our interdisciplinary linkages.
We seek contributions from community practitioners in many fields,
including community psychology, but also including community
development, public health, community organizing and others. Please
consider sharing your knowledge, insights and accomplishments with the
practice community along with innovations that may help communities
throughout the world.
The GJCPP will be published quarterly on-line. Articles will
be a mix of peer-reviewed (e.g., articles and tools) and non-peer-reviewed
materials (e.g., submissions from section editors for videos,
book reviews and interviews). Manuscripts are invited on a variety of topics
related to the application of community practice in various settings.
Manuscripts addressing the following topics are especially encouraged:
- Case studies of approaches to community psychology practice that
would serve to teach others about values and techniques
- Ethical and philosophical issues related to practice
- Tools and materials that would be useful to share with other practitioners
(such as professional development, new software, social media tips,
etc.)
- Innovative partnership arrangements between practitioners and academics/researchers
- Community applications of new or innovative intervention strategies
- Policy advocacy and social environmental interventions to promote
health and development
- Evaluations of community interventions focusing on the utility for
practitioners as well as translation of evaluation/research into practice
- Marketing of community psychology practice
- Jobs and career development
- Lessons learned
- Sustainability/durability of interventions and policy initiatives
- Other applied practice topics, open to editorial board interpretation
and based on innovative submissions to the journal including practical
considerations for facilitating and measuring community change, implications
for special populations, diversity and disparity, cultural competence,
etc.
- Special issues and theme issues as proposed by potential special
issue and theme editors
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History of Development
This e-journal grew out of earlier organizing activities to develop
more of a community psychology practice presence within SCRA. That effort
spanned decades but more recently found traction at the Biennial Conference
held at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. Since then a “Community
Psychology Practice Group” emerged with a newfound zeal. At the
Biennial Conference in Pasadena the Group sponsored the “Practice
Summit.” Members have also actively participated at both International
Conferences on Community Psychology where there has been an even greater
interest in promoting the efforts of community psychology practitioners.
It became quite clear that there was not a single venue to publish the
work of practitioners or to serve as a forum where practitioners and
researchers could effectively collaborate. This new e-journal was designed
to take advantage of new and emerging internet-based technologies to
facilitate its mission.
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Mission
The following mission emerged over the past year as a way to guide
the e-journal’s initial development:
The Global Journal of Community Psychology Practice is devoted
to providing high quality and practical information on community practice.
It publishes authoritative peer reviewed articles and tools of strategic
importance to a broad base of professionals engaged in the practice
of developing, implementing and evaluating community interventions.
The Journal is committed to engaging and expanding the practice community
and its broader social impact by offering a new opportunity for community
practitioners of a variety of backgrounds and professional affiliations
for collaborative development, to increase skills and to exchange information,
ideas and resources. To that end, the Journal has sections with videos,
book reviews and interviews with practitioners in addition to peer reviewed
articles and tools.
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Management Structure
Given the desire for this to be a global forum for community psychology
practice and community practice more broadly, a multi-disciplinary team
is leading the effort. Partners represent eight countries so far and
efforts are underway to get additional partners. Materials will be published
initially in English (at the suggestion of our international partners).
Multiple languages are possible and encouraged although we plan to have
at least all the titles and abstracts of manuscripts in English. Translation
will be facilitated by international partners and materials can be made
available in their languages as the website infrastructure is extended.
GJCPP Management Team
- Vincent Francisco, University of North Carolina at Greensboro (Editor)
- Tom Wolff, Tom Wolff and Associates (Senior Associate Editor)
- Victoria Chien, University of South Carolina (Managing Editor)
- Dyana Valentine, DyanaValentine.com (Associate Editor)
- Liesette Brunson, Université du Québec à Montréal
(Associate Editor)
Editorial Advisory Board
- Wolfgang Stark, University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany)
- José H. Ornelas, Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada
(Lisboa Portugal)
- Irma Serrano-García, Universidad de Puerto Rico
- Neville Robertson, Waikato University (New Zealand)
- Brian Bishop, Curtin University (Australia)
- Toshi Sasao, International Christian University in Tokyo
- Donata Francescato; University of Rome
- Cheryl Ramos, University of Hawai’i at Hilo
- David Julian, Ohio State University
- Bill Neigher, Atlantic Health
- Greg Meissen, Wichita State University
- Thomas Saïas, L'Association Française de Psychologie
Communautaire
- Eduardo Almeida, La Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla
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