Talk:Community psychology

message: I've moved the following (again) from the article page. It is highly inappropriate and unprofessional for an encyclopedia article to present a definition and then critique itself. The problems should be worked out here, and content added to the article or modified in the article in the process. I have attempted to provide some neutral introductory remarks for the article in the meantime. Anyone is encouraged to change those comments to reflect a worldwide perspective more accurately, or to critique it here on the talk page. But lets keep our arguments out of the article itself. Add something constructive to the article or change something in the article that needs it; don't complain about the article within the article. The inset below is what was moved:
:Community Psychology lies at the intersection of Social Psychology, Political Science, and Community development. It is the study of how to use the principles of psychology to create communities of all sizes that promote mental health of their members.
:The basic tenets of Community Psychology are:
# Any non-biological mental illness can either be caused by or aggravated by a mismatch between a person's personality and the community environment in which he or she exists.
# It is often cheaper and more effective to change the environment than to treat multiple patients within it.
# Primary interventions (those aimed at preventing problems before they start) are much more effective than secondary or tertiary interventions (those that treat patients or incipient patients).
:The above definition can be read as particular to an American reading of community psychology. More specifically, it is probably an American reading of community psychology from a clinical psychological perspective. There are a number of other ways of defining community psychology. Presently, there are networks of community psychologists in Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe, North and South America, for example. Each network, in each continent, and in each country in each of those continents have particular historical, political and cultural interpretations of community psychology, how it has developed, how it is presently constituted and how it might develop in the future. Versions of what constitutes the course and content of community psychology are contested between as well as within countries, reflecting differing professional and political perspectives, socio-political histories and personal biographies.
-DoctorW 14:18, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
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message: I've reduced the status of this article to "Stub" class per the discussion above, however I'm leaving its importance as "High". The Community WikiProject has compiled a List of community topics and is using it to organize sets of articles like this one into a logically arraged list. This list will be used to build an infobox, Community topics. Aticles will be sorted and assessed by both importance and quality. Please see WikiProject_Community/Organization for more information. All are welcome to participate in the effort. • CQ 21:03, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
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message: I cannot fathom the reason for putting these two templates at the top of this page and the  navigation box in the article.  The templates do not seem to belong on this page.  The navigation box seems totally out of place in the article. I will remove the latter and would like to hear others' views about this. Sunray 20:45, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That's deep.  Think tractor beam. Maybe delving into WikiPedia:List of WikiProjects and into the history of the redirect, Wikipedia:WikiProjectCentral can put some lights on your submarine. Wikipedia:WikiProject Elvis should cover both Costello and Presley, eh Moonbeam? • CQ • 01:38, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Perhaps I was too hasty in my remarks about this. Community psychology is all about community, so perhaps the  tag does apply here.  I'm not so sure that the WikiProject Sociology templeate does, though. Community psychology seems to me the lens through which psychologists view community, not sociologists.  Hence the name.  Anyone else care to comment? Sunray 16:57, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think that there are a couple of ways that the relation between Community psychology and mainstream psych (on one hand) and sociology can be viewed. From a historical perspective, Community psych as a discipline arose as an offshoot from clinical psychology, while some of its current topics of study and research methods may share more in common with sociology or even social work (I'll be starting a Masters' program in Community Psych this fall, and one of my classmates is coming in with a Masters degree in Social Work). Like other disciplines that stand at the intersection of two or more fields, there is no easy classification. I don't see anything wrong with including it under sociology, as long as its also included under any psychology project. HighApostle 20:55, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've added the Psychology template. -Doct
orW 14:43, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Community and Sociology Project templates and "Community" NAV box

message: Commentary about the contents of the article belongs on this page, not in the article. If anyone is unhappy with the contents of the article, he or she should edit the article. Anyone can do so. Please have at it. -DoctorW 09:11, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Commentary on the definition in the article (see also above)

message: Structural abuse and structural violence would both have something in common with CP based on my understanding, and both are also in dire need of attention.  Any takers?  WLU (talk) 16:45, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
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