Developing Prosocial Communities Across Cultures

• Main Author: Tyler, Forrest B. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2007.
• Subjects: Psychology.; Clinical psychology.; Community psychology.; Environmental psychology.; Community and Environmental Psychology.; Clinical Psychology.

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 Fo...

Table of Contents:

• Definitions and Background Issues
• Psychosocial Integration: The Theoretical Framework
• The Current Situation: Psychologists’ Approaches to Community Change
• The Prosocial Effect of Changing One Aspect of a Community
• The Prosocial Effect of Coordinating Change in Two Aspects of a Community
• A Guide for Establishing Prosocial Communities
• Questscope: A Comprehensive Prosocial Community Program.