Sustaining Oneself in Community Work: Three Key Aspects

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We invite Community Psychologists and those engaged in community work to write or re-post their ideas and stories from their work.

Militarism is a Form of Slavery: Community Psychologists take Notice

Posted in: Blog, Veterans
Published in: The Community Psychologist
Psychologists must choose peace over militarism. Militarism wastes funds that should go to public health and puts the world in danger. Psychologists must prioritize addressing racism and discrimination across the world and in their own work settings, organizations and structures.

Rock on! Heavy Metal Therapy Dispels Myths and Provides Support

Posted in: Blog
Online Community Psychology projects for people in alternative subcultures can be effective sources of peer support and promote community action. Heavy Metal Therapy can 1) Provide a forum for support and discussion for listeners who may be struggling with mental health, 2) Improve understanding by sharing ideas and research about the role of metal music […]

How I Used Community Psychology Values to Foster State-Level Change

Posted in: Blog, Public Policy
Published in: The Community Psychologist
Community Psychology aims to use research and action to promote positive change at the individual and systemic levels. Here is how I used Community Psychology values to help influence two major Michigan initiatives.

Were We Critical Friends? Working with Values in Research

Posted in: Blog
Published in: The Community Psychologist
Those working in program delivery often do not have the time to devote to learning new critical frameworks. A more scaffolded approach can make teachable moments by which critical reflection can become a part of the work the organisation does.

Establishing Environmentally Sustainable Practices through Community Engagement: A “Greener” Approach to the “Wicked Problems” of Industrialization

Posted in: Blog, Environment
Published in: The Community Psychologist
We can change our own individualistic lifestyle and adapt a more community-oriented and prosocial approach to environmentally sustainable behavior.

What Does a Community Psychology Student Learn?

Posted in: Blog, History of Community Psychology
Crucial concepts in the field from a Community Psychologist teaching the subject.

Fan Activism and Community Psychology

Posted in: Blog, History of Community Psychology, Marginalized Groups
Published in: The Community Psychologist
Fan activism is a new area of interest that looks at how organized communities of fans come together to take action in promoting diversity, education and other focal community psychology topics.

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Creating Accessible Community Psychology Documents and Websites-Some Helpful Tips

Posted in: Blog | Tags: Resources
Why Accessibility? What is Universal Design? We want for our SCRA-affiliated and Community Psychology materials to be widely used and shared by our members and community. We want to share what we know in accordance with our own organizational values for social justice. Our communities are diverse and differently-abled in terms of how we use […]

Shoulda. Coulda. Woulda: What Listening to Joe Durlak might have done

Posted in: Blog, Children, Youth and Families, Marginalized Groups
In 1979, a young psychologist named Joe Durlak published a controversial study in Psychological Bulletin that sent ripples through the helping professions. What Durlak sought to do was to combine all published studies that had compared the outcomes of experienced psychologists, psychiatrists, and social workers with those of paraprofessionals (i.e., nonexpert, minimally trained community volunteers and helpers). […]

Sustaining Oneself in Community Work: Three Key Aspects

Posted in: Blog
submitted by Jordan Jurinsky Although I’m still early in career, there are three key aspects that are imperative for me in my work with communities; mapping the system I’m working in, understanding how working at different levels and on varying time frames require different types of energy, and taking time to reflect. I still remember […]