Community Psychology Coverage in Introduction to Psychology Textbooks

Heather M. Bauer, Olya Glantsman, Lauren Hochberg, Carleigh Turner & Leonard Jason

Peer Reviewed

The field of Community Psychology is approximately 50 years old, and it has become an active and invigorating source of ideas (e.g., prevention, ecological theory, sense of community, empowerment, participatory-based research, providing care to marginalized populations, etc.) for the overall field of Psychology. However, many undergraduates have never heard of this discipline in part because introductory Psychology textbooks are not providing adequate coverage of this field. The current study examined 53 introductory Psychology textbooks, published between 2010 and 2016, for their coverage of the field of Community Psychology.

Collective Impact: Operationalizing a Framework to Coordinate Community Service

Sara Schlemper, Julie Kapp, Sofia Campos, Riyad Haq, & Eduardo Simoes

The Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) program provides comprehensive early childhood services.Federal agencies emphasize coordination of stakeholders for systems-building. Designing a well-coordinated system is complex. We reviewed MIECHV’s literature and program documents to identify community-coordination infrastructure elements, and designed visual frameworks for each model to display infrastructure, components, and connections. In the collective impact model, relevant community stakeholders actively and collaboratively participate in service coordination. Visual frameworks allow stakeholders to align on process and infrastructure of their programs to facilitate planning activities, use these frameworks to identify whether the model under which they operate is ideal, and then evolve their infrastructure.

Addressing a Frequent Practitioner Question through Synthesizing Research & Practice Wisdom

LB Klein

Alcohol use is implicated in 50 to 70% of campus sexual assaults (Abbey, 2002; Carr & VanDeusen, 2004; Krebs et al., 2009). This intersection of sexual assault and alcohol on campus has led to great interest in alcohol’s role in sexual assault. While guidance from organizations ranging from the American College Health Association to the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault to the Centers for Disease Control recommends that campuses address this intersection, there is limited concrete guidance as to how campus practitioners should actually do so. To address this critical gap, my colleagues and I are completing a study that uses an interdisciplinary community participatory approach to synthesize the best available research and practice wisdom on this topic. There are four aspects of our approach that may be useful to others.