Addressing community problems
Subtitle: psychological research and intervention
By: Ximena B. Arriaga and Stuart Oskamp, editors.
Contributors: Arriaga, Ximena B.; Oskamp, Stuart.; Claremont Symposium on Applied Social Psychology (14th : 1997 : Claremont, Calif.)
Publisher: Sage Publications
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
Subjects: Community life -- United States.; Social problems -- United States.; Community organization -- United States.; Social psychology -- United States.; United States -- Social conditions.
Description: In this new volume from the Claremont Symposium on Applied Social Psychology, contributors examine one or more pressing community problems - homelessness, racism, delinquency, alcoholism, violence, unemployment, workplace health - from a social psychological perspective as well as a clinical one. The contributors - all leaders in their fields - then integrate the results of their empirical research with approaches to intervention.
Notes: "The Claremont Symposium on Applied Social Psychology."

This volume originated from a session at the 1997 meeting of the Claremont Symposium on Applied Social Psychology in Claremont, Calif.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.