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Discusses the developing scientific enterprise of community psychology research. The book begins with a discussion of an approach to evaluating the importance and robustness of a research endeavor and the questions driving that research. Part Two, Key Concepts: Approaches to Framing the Endeavor, addresses questions about how theories can contribute to our research and about the role of theory in community psychology research. Part Three moves the focus to hypothesis generation, with questions concerning the purposes of hypotheses, how they should be generated, and how much we should strive to bring together multiple perspectives in generating these hypotheses. The chapters in Part Four are organized around an extended examination of the central and thorny methodological issue of levels of analysis. Part Five focuses on the issues of implementing our research, which for community psychologists is a matter of actualizing our values in our research design and in our method of working with the community on research. The final major section (Part Six) provides a series of evaluations and perspectives on the topics discussed within the book and on the conduct and impact of community res

Author

Patrick H Tolan; American Psychological Association.; American Psychological Association. Science Directorate

Publisher

Washington, DC: American Psychological Association

Published

1993

Language

EN

ISBN

9781557980984

Subjects

Social Science, Christian, Medical