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Editor:
Jean Ann Linney
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Department of Psychology
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Volumll 30, Numbllr 2
April, 1997
A
Publication of the
Society for Community Research and "Action,
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Division 27 of th~ American PsychoioQical~s~clatIQn
Contributing
Editors
BOOK REVIEWS:
Kenneth Maton, U of Maryland-Baltimore
County
In this Issue:
COMMUNITY ACTION
David Julian, United Way of Franklin
County, OH
EOUCATION CONNECTION:
Jim Dalton, Bloomsburg University
Maurice Elias, Rutgers University
CULTURAL AND RACIAL AFFAIRS:
Shelly P. Harrell, CSPP Los Angeles
Randy Potts, University of Hartford
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Program Agenda: 6th Biennial Conference on
Community Research and Action
Society News and Columns:
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Women's Issues: Research in Women's Health
Cultural & Racial Affairs: Committee Report of Activities
Book Reviews:
Changing Cultural Practices by Anthony Biglan
Promoting Health and Mental Health in Children, Youth &
Families, Edited by D. Glenwick & L. Jason
NATIONAL PREVENTION COALITION:
Sandre McElhaney, NMHA
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Call for Nominations:
PREVENTION AND PROMOTION
Sally Canning, Wheaton College
Heather Barton, Univof Illinois-Chicago
Emily Ozer, UC Berkeley
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INNOVATIVE PROGRAMS
Matthew Chinman, Yale University
INTERNATIONAL ISSUES:
Adrian Rsher, Victoria Univ, Melbourne,
Australia
Brian Bishop, Curtin Univ, Perth, Australia
PUBLIC POLICY:
Brian Wilcox, University of Nebraska
Andrea Solarz, InstiMe of-Medicine
STUDENT ISSUES
Rebecca Lee, U of Maryland-Baltimore
County
Heather Barton, U of Illinois-Chicago
TRAINING ISSUES:
Clifford O'Donnell, Univ of Hawaii ~
Manoa
WOMEN'S ISSUES:
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Karla Fischer, Duke University
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Tim Ayers, Arizona State University
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SIXTH BIENNIAL
CONFERENCE
ON
COMMUNITY RESEARCH AND ACTION
Healthy Communities. Healthy People
May 28-31, 1997 on the campus of the University of South Carolina
PROGRAM
Wednesday
8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
WORKSHOP: The JOBS Program:
Enhancing
Coping Skills Through
the Active Learning
Process, Paula D. Wishart, University of Michigan
Wednesday
8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
WORKSHOP: The Healthy Communities
Movement:
An Exciting
New Areafor
Research
and Action
by Community
Psychologists,
Thomas Wolff, AHECICommunity Partners, Amherst,
MA, Peter Lee, Health Communities Initiative, SC
Department of Health and Environmental Control,
Columbia, SC, Kathleen Wilson, Institute for Families in
Society, University of South Carolina
Creating "Video Futures":
Positive
Strategies for Transition,
Peter W. Dowrick,
Children's Seashore House, Rachel Moreau, University of
Pennsylvania
WORKSHOP:
Wednesday
9:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
AGENDA
Discussants: Larry Davidson, Matthew Chinman, Bret
Kloos, Richard Weingarten, David Stayner & Jacob
Kraemer Tebes, Yale University
Nothing About Me, Without Me: Participatory Action
Research with Self-Help/Mutual Aid Organizations for
Psychiatric Consumers/SulVivors
Discussants: Geoffrey Nelson, Joanna Ochocka, Kara
Griffin & John Lord, Wilfrid Laurier University
Self-help Groups and Prevention Research - Facilitator:
Dorothy Goldklang, NIMH
Discussants: Jacob Kraemer Tebes, Yale University
Pre-Conference
Meeting:
Community
Action
Research Task Force Chair: J. Robert Newbrough,
Peabody College of Vanderbilt University
Community Action-Research Centers: The Woods Hole
Project I. The University of Puerto Rico Center as
Exemplar
Moderator: J. R. Newbrough, Peabody College of
Vanderbilt University
a)
The Woods Hole Idea: The Foundation for the
Community Action-Research Center Project - J.
R. Newbrough, Peabody College of Vanderbilt
University
b)
A Resource for a Community Action-Research
Center: The University Center for Psychological
Services and Research at UPR-RP - Guillermo
Bernal, University of Puerto Rico
c)
Community Action-Research Development and
Training - Blanca Ortiz-Torrez and Inna SerranoGarcia, University of Puerto Rico
d)
Hub Functions: The Task Force Technical
Support - Mark Salzer and Denine Northrup,
Vanderbilt University & J. R. Newbrough,
Peabody College of Vanderbilt University
Pre-Conference
on Self-Help/Mutual
Assistance:
Coordinator: Keith Humphries, Stanford University
Self-help Groups and Managed Care: Building a Research
& Action Agenda
Facilitators: Julian Rappaport, University of Illinois at
Champaign & Gregory Meissen, Wichita State
University
Discussants: Gregory Meissen and Mary Warren,
Wichita State University
A Review of Research on the Effectiveness of Self-Help
Mutual Aid Groups
Discussants: Elaina Kyrouz and Keith Humphries.
Stanford University
Mentallllness and Participatory Action Research:
Facilitator: Mellen Kennedy, Kansas City
Peer Support among Individual with Severe Mental Illness:
History, Roadblocks and a Review of the Evidence
Discussants: James G. Kelly, University of Illinois,
Chicago & Meg Bond, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
The Community Psychologist, Volume 30, Numbet 2, April 1997
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The Woods Hole Project ll: SCRA and Public Policy
Analysis of Welfare Reform as an Opportunity for
Influencing the Formation and Implementation of Public
Policy
Co-Chairs: Raymond P. Lorion, University of
Maryland & Frank Masterpasqua, Widener University
Ove/View of Welfare Reform as an SCRA
Opportunity - Raymond P. Lorion, University of
Maryland & Frank Masterpasqua, Widener
University
a)
b) Understanding Policy Formation: Advocacy
Before the Beginning and Beyond, Henry Tomes,
AP A Public Interest Directorate & Brian Smedley
and Charles Barone, American Psychological
Association
WORKSHOP: Empowerment
Evaluation:
Theory
and Applications:
Abraham Wandersman, Pamela Imm,
and Reginald Simmons, University of South Carolina,
Mary Resch, Communities in Schools, Beth SummerStrait, United Way
WORKSHOP: Addressing
Lesbian, Gay, and
Bisexual
Issues in Community-Based
Service
Delivery - Margaret Schneider and Don Ferren, Ontario
Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
WORKSHOP: An Assets-Based
Approach to
Working with Communities
• Kathleen K. Wilson,
Robert Ahlen-Widoe and W. Jesse Kloss. Institute for
Families in Society, University of South Carolina, Peter
Lee, SC Department of Health and Environmental Control
Healthy Communities Initiative
c)
Welfare Reform: Selected A venues for SCRA
Input and Involvement - Raymond P. Lorion,
University of Maryland, Jacqueline Gentry,
American Psychological Association & Jennifer
Friday, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The Formation of an SCRA Resource
Network: Entering Into a Reciprocal Partnership
with APA 's Advocacy Offices - Frank
Masterpasqua, Widener University & Charles
Barone, American Psychological Association
Policy Office
Wednesday
POSTER
- May 28,
SESSION:
7:00 - 9:00 p,m.
PREVENTION
d)
Wednesday
PREVENTION
OF VIOLENCE
An Evaluation of the Newberry County Youth
Violence Summit: Effectiveness of One-Day
Prevention Programs Reginald Simmons, University of
South Carolina
2.
Evaluation of Criminal Justice Intervention to Prevent
Violence Against Women Laura Salazar, Ann Price,
and Jim Emshoff, Georgia State University
3.
Evaluation of the Medium- Term Effects of a Prevention
Program for Violence in Teen Dating Relationships
Francine Lavoie, Martine Hebert, and Francine Dufort,
Universite Laval
4.
Preventing Domestic Violence Through CourtMandated Intervention with Abusive Men Tamara
Carter and Melvin Wilson, University of Virginia
5.
Violence Prevention: A Midterm Evaluation ola
School-Based Program Maury Nation, Simon Choi,
Brian Griffith, Jennifer Sanderson, and Susan Limber,
Institute for Families in Society, University of South
Carolina
6.
An Advocacy Intervention Program for Women with
Abusive Partners: Two-Year Follow Up Deborah
Bybee and William S. Davidson, Michigan State
University, Rebecca Campbell, University of Illinois,
Chicago
7.
The Effects of a Community-Based ltlte/Ventionfor
Children Whose Mothers Have Been Abused Jennifer
Juras, Angel Prewitt, Huong Nguyen, Glenn Stutzky,
Nicole Allen, Jennifer Veldhoff, Jennifer Rotter, Elaine
1:30 - 5:30 p,m.
Meeting of Directors
of Graduate Programs
Community
Research
and Action
Chair: Greg Meissen, Wichita State University
in
Internship Shortage: Crisis or Opportunity for
Community Psychology Training - Cary Cherniss,
Rutgers University & Greg Meissen, Wichita State
University
Developing Consortia Among Community
Graduate Programs - Clifford O'Donnell,
University of Hawaii, Beth Shinn, New York
University, William Davidson, Michigan State
University, Chris Keys, University of Illinois at
Chicago
New APA Accreditation Guidelines: Issues in
Training in Community Psychology - Raymond
P. Lorion, University of Maryland
Specialization in Prevention: SCRA Now or
Division 12 later - Brian Wi1cox, University of
Nebraska-Lincoln & Edward Seidman, New York
University
Discussion and Business Meeting
4
1.
The Community Psychologist, Volume 30, Number 2, April 1997
Shpungin, and Deborah Bybee, Michigan State
University
8.
Prevention and Intervention in Dating Violence Among
College Students Cindy Helff, Robin Binford, Leslie
Burke, Stephanie Hoyt, Rebekah Bradley, Dana DeHart,
and Diane Follingstad, University of South Carolina
9.
State Laws and Actual Parental Physical Aggression:
A Regional Analysis Sherry L. Hamby and Andrea
Sebetes, University of New Hampshire
10. Relationships Between the Use of Psychological and
Physical Abuse in Men Who Batter Karlene Kilmer,
University
RISK
22. Parental Conflict Post-Divorce: It's a New Fight M.
Smith, H. Wyman, S. L. Braver, and W. A. Griffin,
23. Event, Family, and Personal Influences on Children's
Coping Joan Twohey and Irwin Sandler, Arizona State
University
of South Carolina
II. Differences in the Social Histories of Violent and
Nonviolent Juvenile Delinquents David C. Tate and N.
Dickon Reppucci, University of Virginia, Gabriel P.
Kupenninc,
to Divorce Kathleen A. Nelson, Sharlene A. Wolchik,
and Irwin N. Sandler, Arizona State University
21. Specificity of Conflict Type in Relation to Children's
Post Divorce Adjustment: Mothers' and Fathers'
Perspectives H. Wyman, M. Smith, W. A. Griffin,
and S. L. Braver, Arizona State University
PROTECTIVE
Weitzman,
Jin Fan, and Daniella
Stojanovic.
New
York University
Yale University
AND
24. The Effects of Stressors on Depression and Anxiety
Symptoms in Impoverished Adolescents Nathaniel P.
Williams, Judith Schteingart, Beth Shinn, Beth
FACTORS
12. Understanding the Course of Homelessness: A
Prospective Analysis Based on a Probability Sample of
Adults Paul A. Toro, Lauren L. Rowland, and Marilyn
S. Goldstein, Wayne State University, Susan M.
Wolfe, University of Texas at Dallas
13. Daily Life Routines of Maltreating and NonMaltreating Mothers Lisa Watkins- Victorino,
University of Hawaii
14. Risk Factors of Chronically Angry Preadolescent
Youth Dale R. Fryxell, University of Hawaii
IS. Child Maltreatment and Delinquency: A Longitudinal
Study Clifford R. O'Donnell, University of Hawaii
16. Child Maltreatment Prevention: An Experimental Test
of the Effectiveness of a Home Visiting Program Julie
W. Chambliss, Georgia State University
17. Informing Home Visiting Practice Through Research to
Prevent Child Abuse and Neglect Richard Roberts,
Utah State University
25. Residential and School Mobility as Predictors of Social
Networks Among Poor Adolescents Tara M. Singer,
Marybeth Shinn, Beth Weitzman, and Daniela
Stojanovic, New York University
26. The Relationship Between Children's Social Networks
and Self-Concept Among Poor and Formerly Homeless
Children Rachel Becker-Klein and Beth Shinn, New
York University
27. Neighborhood, Family, and Meaningful Instrumental
Behaviors: Socioeconomic Correlates of Youths' Risk
Sexual Behavior Marc A. Zimmerman and Jesus
Ramirez-Valles, University of Michigan
28. Assessing Family Functioning and Juvenile
Delinquency: The Reliability and Validity of the
Family Assessment Measure III Samantha Suffoletta
and Emilie P. Smith, University of South Carolina
29. Examining Issues of Gender-Specific Programming:
Using the Moos Correctional Institution Environment
Scale with Juvenile Female Offenders Karlene Kilmer
and Kristie Puster, University of South Carolina
PREVENTIVE
18. Predicting Children's Adjustment in Reconstitured
Families Using an Ecological Model Kathryn L.
Wilcox, Sharlene A. Wolchik, and Sanford L. Braver,
19. A Meta-Analysis of Parental Remarriage and the
Adjustment of Children Shannon M. Greene, Edward
R. Anderson, Sharlene Wolchik, and Kathleen Nelson,
20. Competence as a Mediator Between Quality of the
Mother-Child Relationship and Children's Adjustment
INTERVENTIONS
30. Applying Prevention's Lessons to Communities
Raymond Lorion, University of Maryland-College
and Carl Latkin, Johns Hopkins University
Park
31. Mentoring: A Common Ingredient to Early
Intervention Efforts H. Ireys, Johns Hopkins
University
32. Easing the Burden of Relocation: Housing as a
Transitional Risk Factor K. Nickerson, Johns Hopkins
University
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33. Using Family as a Vehicle for School-Based Change
Carl Latkin and Wallace Mandell, Johns Hopkins
University
34. Children's Services as a Preventive Infrastructure
Philip Leaf, Johns Hopkins University
44. Lang Term Relationships, Academic Support, and a
Vision of the Future: An Evaluation of I Have A
Dream Programs in Chicago, Constance M. Yowell
and Joseph Kahne, University of Illinois at Chicago
45. The Effects of Fluency in English on the Self-Esteem
of Latino Mothers of Young Children Evellyn
Elizondo, San Diego State University
35-36. Goals For Health: A School-Based Life Skills
Program to Promote Health and Prevent Cancer in
Rural Adolescents Aleta Meyer, Elizabeth Fries,
Cassandra Stanton, and Steven P. Danish, Virginia
Commonwealth University
45a Differences Between Depressed and Non-Depressed
37. Preventing Mental Health Sequelae of Economic
Hardship Paula Barrickman, Amanda Sonnega, and
Amiram Vinokur, University of Michigan
46. The Effects of Ethnicity on Parent-Child Play Behavior
Blanca Canez, San Diego State University
38. Using a Citizens Watch to Reduce Illegal Tobacco
Sales Jannette Y. Berkley, Steve Russos, and Kim
Richter, University of Kansas, Lori Johns, Project
Freedom of Lawrence
39. Adolescent Project: Psychosocial Development and
Life Skills Training Arvin Bhana, University of
Durban-Westville, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
40. The Youth Diversion Program: An Investigation of
Program Intensity, Family Variables, and Labeling
Noelle C. Duvall, Christian Connell, and Emilie P.
Smith, University of South Carolina
41. An Experimental Evaluation of a Community
Intervention: The CASY Project Anthony Biglan,
Oregon Research Institute
42. Club HERO: Evaluation of a Multicomponent
Afterschool Program to Prevent Substance Abuse Gary
Uhl, Debi Starnes, and Virgil Murray, EMST AR
Research, Sue Rushe and Paula Kemp, National
Families in Action, Atlanta
Mothers in Their Interactions With Their Children
Silvia Bigatti, San Diego State University
46a. Timing Is Everything: The Right Time for an Early
Childhood Literacy Intervention Jeffrey Zimmerman,
San Diego State University
47. The Effects of Language Spoken on the Use of Parental
Praise in a Community-Based Literacy Program
Martha Gutierrez, San Diego State University
47a. The Effects of Maternal Depression on the Efficacy of a
Literacy Intervention Program Amy Anaya, San Diego
State University
48. The Effects of Ethnicity and Socioeconomic Status on
Parents' Reading Attitudes and Behaviors Gustavo
Martinez, San Diego State University
49. Evaluating Media Campaigns Ability to Change
Attitudes: The Virginia Fatherhood Campaign
Camille L. Preston, University of Virginia
50. What Works in Prevention: The Characteristics of
Successful Prevention Programs Maury Nation, Cindy
Crusta, Katie Davino, Erin Morrissey-Kane, Diana
Seybolt, and Abraham Wandersman, University of
South Carolina
43. Family Support Programs and the Reduction of
Aggression in Elementary School Children: Parental
Discipline Style as a Mediator, Barbara J. Graves,
University of Texas at Austin
51. NIMH Prevention and Behavioral Medicine Branch
Program Dorothy S. Goldklang, Prevention and
Behavioral Medicine Branch, NIMH
Thursday
Thursday
-
7:00 - 8:00 a.m.
Open Meeting,
SCRA Committee
on Women
Chair: Kelly Naylor, Children's Hospital, Denver
-
SYMPOSIUM:
the Transition
8:00 - 9:30 a.m.
The Ecology of the Child
to Public Schools
During
a) Making Lasting Changes in Schools Jeannette
M. Gassaway and Sandra Frassetto, Michigan State
University
b) Parentallnvo/vement in School Activities and Its
Relationship to Early School Adjustment and Achievement
o
Mona M. Ibrahim, Thomas M. Reischl, and Jeanette M.
Gassaway, Michigan State University
Thompson, Richard Gutierrez, and Dorothy Nary,
University of Kansas
c) The Relationship Between Church Attendance,
Family Distress, Difficult Life Circumstances, and
d)
Incubating Empowering Settings for People with
Disabilities and Their Families: Giving Psychology Away
Effectively Christopher Keys, University of Illinois at
Children's Academic Achievement
Jeanette M. Gassaway,
Thomas M. Reischl, and Shontaye Witcher, Michigan State
University
d)
Parenting Practices
and Children's Transition to
Elementary School Thomas M. Reischl, Pamela Martin,
and Jeanette M. Gassaway, Michigan State University
From Theory to Prevention:
Stress and Coping Literature with
SYMPOSIUM:
Linking
Chicago, Pennie Foster-Fishman, Michigan State
University, Meg Bond, University of Massachusetts
Lowell, Fabricio Baleazar, University of Illinois at Chicago
Action Research
Co-chairs: Manuel Barrera, Arizona
State & Krys Kaniasty, Indiana U of Pennsylvania
a) Communal Resources and Prevention
Hobfoll, Kent State University
Stevan
b) Development of a TheoreticallyBased Intervention
for Bereaved Children Irwin Sandler, Tim Ayers, and
Sharlene Wolehik, Arizona State University
c) Who Reallv Benefitsfrom Support Groups and
Why? Stephen J. Lepore, Carnegie Mellon University
Discussant:
Peter Dowrick, University of
Pennsylvania
SYMPOSIUM:
Empowering Government to Work
Better:
Community Psychology Contributions
to a Program Improvement/Program
Effectiveness Approach to Accountability
Chair:
Abraham Wandersman, University of South Carolina
a)
The Role of Community Psychologist in ResultsBased Accountability Lisabeth Saunders and Abraham
Wandersman, University of South Carolina
b) Collaborating to Meet Government Stakeholder
Needs Jim Hawkins and George Appenzellar, South
Carolina Governor's Office, Division of Health and Human
Services
d) Some Ideas on How to Stop Deterioration of
Social Support Experienced by Victims of Community
c) Developing an Accountability Model for State
Governmentin Theory and Practice Abraham Wandersman,
Krys Kaniasty, Indiana University of Pennsylvania,
Fran H. Norris, Georgia State University
Lisabeth Saunders, Mary Resch, and Pam Imm, University
of South Carolina, William Hallman, Rutgers University,
Andy Rowe, Andy Rowe Consultants, James Laughlin and
Moss Blachman, University of South Carolina
Stress
SYMPOSIUMI
SIMULATION:
When Action Leads
to Research:
The Challenges of Evaluating a
Civil Rights Law Carolyn L. Feis, US General
Accounting Office
SYMPOSIUM:
Disabilities
Community
Empowering People With
and Their Families: Innovative
Research and Action
Chair:
Christopher Keys, University of Illinois at Chicago
a) Developing the Capacity of Latinos with
Disabilities to Address Their Own Needs Fabricio Baleazar,
Developing an Agenda on
Community Psychology
PANEL
DISCUSSION:
Racism
for
Co-chairs:
Shelly Harrell, California School of
Professional Psychology & Randolph Potts, University
of Hartford
Panelists:
Copper Coggins, The Mediation Center of Asheville, NC
Toshi Sasao, International Christian University, Tokyo,
Chris Sonn, Curtin University of Technology, Australia
Howard Stevenson, University of Pennsylvania
Roderick Watts, DePaul University
Christopher Keys, and Daniel Kaplan, University of Illinois
at Chicago, Brigida Hernandez, Northwestern University
The Community Toolbox:
Using Electronic Technology to Communicate
Community Development Information
Steve
DEMONSTRATION:
Disability as the Lensfor New Perspectives With
Community Interventions Leonard Jason, Amy Kolak,
b)
Jennifer Camacho, Tanya Pernell, Dan Cantillon, and
Allison Lerman, DePaul University
c) Toolsfor Empowermentfor Persons with
Disabilities Using Individual, Group and Community
Fawcett, Jerry Schultz, Vince Francisco, and Eric Wadud,
Work Group on Health Promotion & Community
Development, University of Kansas, Bill Berkowitz, Tom
Wolff, and Gillian Kaye, AHEC/Community Partners,
Amherst, MA
Engagement Glen White, Katherine Froehlich, Richard
7
Thursday
10:00 a.m. - 11 :30 a.m.
SYMPOSIUM:
Building
Cultural
Through
Community,
University,
Partnerships
Bridges
and School
a) Building Cultural Bridges: A Community
Relations Council Perspective Jesse Washington.
Columbia Council on Race Relations, SC
b) Building Cultural Bridges: A Curriculum Author's
Perspective Joby S. Robinson, University of South
Carolina
c) Psychology Student Preparation in Building
Cultural Bridges Miriam Grace, Dylan McNamara, Cara
Marker, Amanda Nickerson, Jennifer Tillman, and Wendy
Waithe, University of South Carolina
d)
Evaluation of a Program to Build Cultural Bridges
Laurie Ford and Amanda Nickerson, University of South
Carolina
SYMPOSIUM:
Community
Psychology
Contributions
to School
Consultation
Research
and Practice
Moderator: Marsha Kline, Yale University
a)
Values and Theories of Community Psychology:
Implications for Consulting with Schools Jennifer L.
Juras, Juliette R. Mackin, Stacy E. Curtis, and Pennie
Foster-Fishman,
Michigan
State University
b) Teacher Empowerment, Consultation, and the
Creation of New Programs in Schools Cary Cherniss,
Rutgers University
c) A Community Psychology Model for
Understanding Home, School, and Community Partnerships
Emilie P. Smith, University of South Carolina, Alice
Hurley and Stephen Walker, Richland County School
District 1, Columbia, SC
d)
Community Psychology Consultation and the
Transition to Institutional Ownership and Operation of
Interventions Jeffrey S. Kress and Maurice J. Elias,
Rutgers University
SYMPOSIUM:
Innovations
University
Collaborations:
Methodologies
That Work
in CommunityReal World
a) Developing a Collaborative Relationship with a
Community: Reducing Smoking Prevalence by Restricting
Access to Cigarettes Leonard A. Jason, DePaul University
b) State and National Partnerships with a
Community-Building Organization: A Case Study Joseph
R. Ferrari, DePaul University
c) Data Feedback and Dissemination: Meeting the
Needs of the CBO Too W. LaVome Robinson, DePaul
University
d)
Community-Based Organization/University
Researcher Collaborations: What About the People? Gary
W. Harper, DePaul University
e)
Want to do Action Research with Community
Based Organizations? Start your own business. Rod Watts,
DePaul University
Discussant:
Edward Seidman, New York University
DEB ATE/INVITEDSPEAKER
Community
Participatory
Research
and Health:
An Inherently
Interdisciplinary
Endeavor
Moderator: Abraham Wandersman, U of South Carolina
Speaker: Lawrence W. Green, U of British Columbia
Discussant: Stephen Fawcett, University of Kansas
e)
Toward a Scale-up Modelfor Replicating New
Approaches to Schooling Howard S. Adelman, University
of California, Los Angeles, Linda Taylor, Los Angeles
Unified School District and UCLA
Discussant:
Joseph E. Zins, University
of Cincinnati
SYMPOSIUM: A Framework
and Techniques for
Implementing
Community Level
Interventions:
Three Projects Supported
by Local United Ways
a) A Frameworkfor Designing and Evaluating
Community Interventions David A. Julian, United Way of
Franklin County, OH, John Clapp, University of NevadaLas Vegas
b) The Nashville Needs Assessment Project Mark
Lipsey, Vanderbilt University
c) A Community Human Services Index Related to
Community Goals David A. Julian, United Way of
Franklin County, OH, Jodi Skeels and Suzanne Zivnuska,
The Ohio State University
SYMPOSIUM:
We're Not Satisfied:
Promoting
Alternatives
to Conventional
Clinical
and
Community
Approaches
to the Problems
of
Those Who Experience
Serious
Mental Illness.
Chair:
Larry Davidson, Yale School of Medicine
a) Broadening the Clinical Frame Stacey Lambert,
Yale University School of Medic;ne
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b) An Untapped Resource: Using Assertive
Community Treatment to Improve Person-Environment
Fit
Matt Chinman, Yale University School of Medicine
c)
Creating Systems' Change to Support Persons in
Recoveryfrom Mental Illness Bret Kloos, Yale University
School of Medicine
Development of An Integrated Approach to Address
Serious Mental Illness: Towards a Clinical wi
Community Psychology David Stayner and Larry
Davidson, Yale University School of Medicine, Richard
Weingarten, Connecticut Mental Health Center
d)
SYMPOSIUM:
The Ecological
Context of Sexual
Decision-Making:lmplications
for
Prevention
Chair: N. Dickon Reppucci, University of Virginia
a) Models of Sexual Decision-Making and the
Context of Research Jennifer L. Woolard, U of Virginia
b) Overview of the Sexual Decision-Making
Project Deborah Land, University of Virginia
c) Beyond Lolita:
and Power Relationships
the Implications of Different Ages
Between Sex Partners Kathleen
Whitten, University of Virginia
Discussant: Julian Rappaport, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
Discussant: Lynda Kettinger, South Carolina
Department of Health and Environmental Control
SIMULATION:
SimPrev:
Using Local Data to
Design
Strategic
Community
Prevention
Systems
Michael W. Arthur, University of Washington, John
A. Pollard, Developmental Research and Programs, Inc .•
David A. Shavel, South King County Youth Violence
Coalition, J. David Hawkins and Richard F. Catalano,
University of Washington
SYMPOSIUM:
with Problem
Youth
Thursday
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
SCRA Interest
Thursday
Group
Meetings
1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
SYMPOSIUM:
Recruitment
and Retention
of
High Risk Urban Families
in Community
Research and Prevention:
Barriers and
Strategies
in a Variety of Settings
a) Generating Culturally and Contextually Sensitive
Foundations for Preventive Interventions:
The Searchfor
Ecologically Valid Samples Marcia L. Michaels, Roxanna
Samaniego, Mark W. Roosa, and Manual Barrera, Arizona
State University Program for Prevention Research
b) Addressing the Barriers to Family-based Urban
Prevention Programs Mary McKernan McKay, University
of Illinois at Chicago,
Juvenile Research
c)
Patrick H. Tolan, Institute for
An Investigation into the Feasibility of Recruiting
and Retaining
Stepfamilies
Couples in an Educational
Programfor
Marcia L. Michaels, Arizona State University
Strategies for Retaining Court-Referred Juveniles
in a Community Intervention
William
H. Quinn, University of Georgia
d)
and their Families
Research
Cultural
Behaviors
Variables
Associated
in African-American
a) Psychometric Properties and Cultural
Appropriateness of Family Assessment Measures With
African-American Youth Katrina Walker, University of
South Carolina
b) The Effects of Witnessing Violence Between
Parental Figures On African-American Youth Karyn
Bentley, University of South Carolina
c) The Role of Culture and Context on Late-Onset
Antisocial Behavior: A Conceptual Model for Development
and Intervention With African-American Youth Reginald
Simmons and Wendy Waithe, University of South Carolina
d)
The Development and Effect on Elementary-Aged
African-American Youth of a Culturally Relevant Prosocial
Skills Group Jacqueline Atkins and Cindy Crusto,
Discussants: Emilie Smith and Laurie Ford, University
of South Carolina
SYMPOSIUM:
Sustainable
Communities:
The
Integration
of Community
Health
Promotion
and Economic Development
in Rural
Communities
Chair:
Sharon L. Rosen, The Pentagoet
Trust
a) The Renewal of Rural Community
Planting, Mission at the Eastward
Scott
b)
Working Together: An Island Community
Striving For Health and Economic Development Kimberly
Hutchinson, Healthy Island Project
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PANEL
DISCUSSION:
Dissemination
Issues
of Primary
in the
Prevention
Programs
University of California at Berkeley, Edward Seidman and
Sabine E. French, New York University
Steven Danish. Virginia Commonwealth University,
Sandra McElhaney, National Mental Health Association,
Valerie Nellen, Virginia Commonwealth University
Discussant:
SYMPOSIUM
David DuBois, U of Missouri-Columbia
The Guardians
of Knowledge
and
DEMONSTRATION:
Virtual Self-Help:
The
Emergence
of Online Support
Groups
Douglas Luke, Saint Louis U School of Public Health
Discovery:
Thursday
b) Impediments to Understanding of A New lllness
Leonard Jason, DePaul University
3:30 - 5:00 p.m.
SYMPOSIUM:
Putting Gay, Lesbian,
and
Bisexual
Issues on the Community
Agenda
a)
The Police Dialogue Project: Discussing Sexual
Orientation With Law Enforcement Officers Alicia
Lucksted, University of Maryland
b) Addressing Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual Issues in
Schools Margaret Schneider, University of Toronto
All Street Youth Are Not the Same: Sensitivity
to Sexual Diversity in HIV Prevention Programming Gary
Harper, DePaul University
c)
d)
Out in the Heartland: A Case Study of
Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual Community Organizing Craig
Waldo, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Fair Arbiters or
Censors?
a) Manhood Development Among African-Americans
Roderick J. Watts, DePaul University
c) Obstacles to the Discovery of Refugee Adaptation
in Psychological Research Dina Birman, Substance Abuse
and Mental Health Services Administration
d)
PO.fitivism VS. Relativism in Community
Psychology: Playing Both Sides of the Street Stevan E.
Hobfoll, Kent State University
e) Impediments to Psychological Discovery of
Ecological Context Edison J. Trickett, University of
Maryland and NIMH
SIMULA nON:
A
Transition-Reflection
Learning
Program
Michael Hough, H. Davies and S. Wishart, University
of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland
Discussants: David Lounsbury, Michigan State
University & Elizabeth Kemp, University of South
Carolina
SYMPOSIUM:
Developing
Explicit
Criteria
Evaluate
Community
Research
Christopher Corbett, Independent Researcher
Thursday,
]\Iay 29,
3:30 - 5:00 pm
POSTER
SESSION:
TOPICS IN
EMPOWERMENT
AND DIVERSITY
to
EMPOWERMENT
SYMPOSIUM:
Urban
Years Later Moderator:
School
Transitions
Several
Edward Seidman, New York U
a) Do Adolescents Bounce Back After the Transition
to Junior High School? Margaret Clements and Edward
Seidman, New York University
b) Long-Term Impact of the Transition to High
School Among Urban Minority Students Olga Reyes,
Karen Gillock, Kimberly Kobus and George Greene,
University of Illinois at Chicago
I.
Testing a Model of Empowerment in Early Adolescents
Lisabeth C. Saunders, University of South Carolina
2.
Empowerment Interaction Style: Preliminary
Development of a Scale to Assess Self-Focused vs.
Other-Focused Orientation in the Facilitation of
Empowerment Charles T. Diebold, Leah K.
Gensheimer, James F. Collins, and Joseph Hughey,
University of Missouri-Kansas City
3.
Using the Revised Social Climate Scale and the Work
Environment Scale to Empower Children and Develop
Prevention Initiatives in an Out-oj-Home Residential
Setting Kevin Everhart, University of South Carolina
4.
Measuring Empowerment: A Challenge or a Mistake?
Yann LeBosso, Dominique Damant, and Pauline Tardif,
c) How Long Do the Disruptions of the Transition to
High School Persist? Sabine E. French, New York U
d)
Trajectories of Self-Esteem Across the Transitions
to Junior and Senior High Schools JoAnn Hsueh,
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Laval University, C. Bouchard and Daniel Fortin,
Quebec University at Montreal
5.
Promoting Empowerment Through Cost Analysis
Erik J. Croessl, San Diego State University,
University of California at San Diego, Terry A.
Cronan, San Diego State University
6.
Pathways to Economic Self-Sufficiency: The Effects
of Welfare Reform, Human Capital, and Social Capital
on Earnings Melissa Huber-Yoder and Ellen Ernst
Kossek, Michigan State University
7.
Economic Development and Individual Career
Development: A Participatory Tool for Communities
(Including Youth!) Melissa Huber-Yoder, Rex LaMore,
F. Sam Carter, Joel Lichty, and Rene Perez
Rosenbaum, Michigan State University
8.
Student-Led Social Change In An Academic Setting
Mark Lindblad, Susan Scherffius, Laurie Wenninger,
and Rajika Bhandari, North Carolina State University
9.
Student/Faculty Retreat: Community Psychology in
Action Sharon Benedict, Leslie Burke, Elizabeth
Kemp, Margaret Kennerley, Robert Kennerley,
Catherine Ward and Lawrence F. McCLure, University
of South Carolina
10. Qualitative Approaches to Prevention and Community
Health: Economic Change, Families, Resources, and
Community Health Susana Helm and Clifford R.
O'Donnell, University of Hawaii
11. Paradigm ...Principles ...Practice: Connecting the Dots
in Community Psychology Carol J. Kasza, University
of Alaska-Fairbanks
DIVERSITY
12. Public Policy Decision Making for People with
Disabilities in Michigan Christina Rodriguez. Pennie
Foster-Fishman, and William Davidson, Michigan
State University
13. The Developmental Role of Protective Factors in
African-American Youth Avoidance of Risky Behavior
Paula Smith, Brian FJay, Carl C. Bell, and Roger P.
Weissberg, The University of Illinois at Chicago
14. Fostering Community Partnerships That Include
People With Disabilities and People from Diverse
Ethnocultural Populations Kari Krogh, The University
of Toronto, and Beyond Consulting, Inc., Manual
Salinas, Simon Fraser University
15. Using Research to Enhance Local Planning in
Culturally Diverse Rural Areas Delia H. Saldana,
Veronica Santos-Lane, and Mary Bollinger, University
of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
16. The Assessment of Interethnic Perceptions of Chicano
Children Mary Prieto-Bayard, University of La Verne
17. Diversity Dilemmas at Work Meg A. Bond and Jean
L. Pyle, University of Massachusetts at Lowell
18. Ideas About Adolescents Achieving Success: The
Perspective of Low-Income Ethnically Diverse Parents
Larry Dumka, Shannon McQuaid, Carolyn Foote, and
Nancy Hill, Arizona State University
19. Stressful Hassles and Immigrant Adolescents:
Instrument Development as an Ecological Probe
Andrey Vinocurov, University of Maryland - Baltimore
County, Dina Birman, U. S. Public Health Service;
Ed Trickett, University of Maryland - College Park,
Stephanie Skourtes, George Washington University,
Farimah Donesh, University of Maryland - College
Park
20. Predictors of Parenting Among Mexican-Immigrant
Mothers Charles Izzo, Ana Nunez, Flora RodriguezBrown, and Timothy Shanahan, University of Illinois
- Chicago
21. Community and Health Concerns of a Hispanic
Immigrant Population Yolanda Suarez-Balcazar and
Wendy Garrard, Loyola University of Chicago, Patti
Ludwig-Beymer, Advocate Health Care, Julie
Blankemeier, Genesis Health and Empowerment
Program
22. Resilience in Cross-Cultural Transitions: Influences
on the Psychological Well-Being of Jamaican
Immigrants Tracy A. McFarlane and Tracey A.
Revenson, City University of New York
23. Ethnic Identity Development Julia K. Barickman and
Yael Bat-Chava, New York University
24. Examining Factors That Contribute to Competence for
Ethnically Diverse Youth Edith G. Arrington and
Melvin N. Wilson, University of Virginia
25. Birth Order and the Values and Expectations of
Adolescentsfrom Immigrant Families Mary Lam and
Andrew Fuligni, New York University
26. Family Background, Language Use, and Relationships
Within Immigrant Families Vivian Tseng and Andrew
Fuligni, New York University
27. Adolescents' Goals and Perceptions of Parents'
Expectations of Career Goals: A Qualitative
Examination of Ethnically Diverse Low-Income
Adolescents Nancy E. Hill and Cynthia L. Ramirez,
Duke University, and Larry E. Dumka, Arizona State
University
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28. Fears of Family Planning as Genocide Among AfricanAmericans Ian M. Wiebe and Dee Burton, University
of Illinois at Chicago
29. Effects of Ethnic Make-Up and Gender on Attitudes
Towards School Bettina Friese and Lisabeth Saunders,
30. A Multicultural Intervention to Reduce Prejudice
Through Knowledge and Experience Lorna London and
Casolyn Furcron, Loyola University
31. Development and Initial Validation of Scales to
Measure Racism-Related Stress Shelly P. Harrell,
California School of Professional Psychology
32. African-American Male Reconnections and
Transformations: A Qualitative, Exploratory Study and
Implementation of a Program for African-American
Men Wendell W. Bonner, Saint Louis University
33. The Relationship of Acculturation to Mexican
American Family Characteristics and Child Conduct
Problems Maria Elena DeAnda and Mark Roosa,
34. Culturally Sensitive Health Care Outreach to Hispanic
Populations Rene Lavinghouze and Steve Erickson,
EMST AR Research, Rosalinda Ramirez, APC,
Patricia Murray, Grady Clinic
38. Towards a Greater Understanding of the VietnameseAustralian Health Seeking Behaviour H. S. Finney
and B. Bishop, Curtin University
39. The Impact of Neighborhood Poverty and Violence on
the Effectiveness of a Large-Scale Violence Prevention
Initiative in New York City Stephanie M. Jones,
National Center for Children in Poverty
40. The Influence of Exposure to the Resolving Conflict
Creatively Program: A Racial/Ethnic Comparison
Faith Samples, Columbia University
41. Student-Teacher Perceptions of Aggression and Change
in Students' Aggressive Cognitions and Behavior
Joshua Brown, National Center for Children in Poverty
42. The Relotionship Between Children's Normative Beliefs
About Aggression and Their Aggressive and Competent
Behavior: The Influence of Classroom Context Joshua
Brown and Stephanie M. Jones, National Center for
Children in Poverty
43. Diversity and Psychological Sense of Community in
the Workplace Yael Keren, University of Illinois at
Chicago, Meg A. Bond, University of Massachusetts,
LoweIl
Thursday
35. Essential Ingredients of the Rites of Passage Process in
the Socialization of African-American Adolescents: An
Exploratory Analysis Deborah A. Wilcox, Kent State
University
36. Predictive Factors, Acculturation Outcomes and
Psychological Well-Being of Anglo-Indian Immigrants
in Australia Simon Colquhoun and Chris Sonn,
Curtin University
37. We Don't Need To Change, The System Needs Change:
Steps Toward The Creation of Culturally Sensitive
Learning Environments C. Sonn, B. Bishop and R.
Humphries, Curtin University of Technology
Friday
7:00 a.m,
Ethnic-Minority
Mentoring
Breakfast,
Chair,
Shelly Hasrell, California School of Professional
Psychology
Journal
Open Meeting,
Editors of the American
Edison Trickett and
of Community Psychology:
William Davidson
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5:15 - 6:15 p.m.
CONVERSATION HOUR: What's Happening in
Primary Prevention:
Next Steps in Prevention
Research Joseph A. Durlak, Loyola University, Irwin
Sandler, Arizona State University, Richard Price,
University of Michigan, Jean Ann Linney, University of
South Carolina, Edison J. Trickett, University of Maryland
Graduate
Student
Meeting
Chairs: Rebecca Lee, University of Masyland-Baltimore
County, Heather Barton, University of Illinois at Chicago
Friday
•
8:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon
SIMULATION:
High Impact Planning for
Communities:
A Simulation
Marc B. Goldstein and Marian Sciacchitano, Central
Connecticut State University, John Terry, Pacific Institute
for Research and Evaluation (PlRE)
Friday
8:00 a.m, - 9:30 a,m.
SYMPOSIUM:
Exploring
the Development
of
Community
Leaders:
A Multi-Method
Approach
Chair: James G. Kelly, University of Illinois at Chicago
a)Personal Visions of Community Leaders: Using
Multiple Methods to Provide Construct Validity of a
Psychometrically Valid Scale Lynne Owens Mock,
b) The Views of Community Leaders: Identification
and Utilization of Personal Strengths and Community
Resources S. Darius Tandoo, University of Illinois at
Chicago
Profiling Community Leaders: A Visual
Representation of the Nature Of and Reasons For
Community Involvement Jill Williams, University of
Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
c)
Discussants: Thom Moore, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign, Abraham Wandersman, University of
South Carolina, Debra Strickland, Developing
Communities Project
b) The Influence of Maternal Support and Strain on
African-American Adolescent Mothers' Sexual Risk-Taking
Behaviors Ernestine Briggs, University of Illinois
c) Utilization of Prenatal Care Among AfricanAmerican Women Sharon Telleen, University of Illinois at
Chicago,
Discussant:
Tracey Revenson, City Univ of NY
SYMPOSIUM:
Influencing
State and Local
Policies
Relevant
to Community
Psychology
Chair:
Doug Perkins, University of Utah
a)
Community Psychology and Policies Affecting
Homelesmess and Child Care Beth Shinn, New York U
b) Community Psychology and Programs for the
Homeless in Two Cities Paul Toro, Wayne State U
c)
Community Psychology and Child Protection
Policy Murray Levine, State Univ of New York - Buffalo
d) Community Psychology and Welfare Reform Ray
Lorion, University of Maryland
ROUNDTABLE
DISCUSSION: Moving Beyond the
Qualitative
vs. Quantitative
Debate?
ARoundtable
Discussion
Moderator: Kenneth I. Maton, University of Maryland
Baltimore County
e)
Community Psychology and Child Support
Enforcement Mark Fondacaro, U of Nebraska - Lincoln
a)
The Intersection of Qualitative and Quantitative
Methods in Understanding Homeless Mothers Victoria L.
Banyard, University of New Hampshire
g) Community Psychology and Policy Making in
Australia Brian Bishop, Curtin University
Qualitative and Quantitative Assessments of
Substance Abuse in Communal-Living Sellings Joseph
Ferrari and Leonard Jason, DePaul University
b)
Identification of Quantitative Analyses Suitable for
Qualitative Data Rebecca Campbell, University of Illinois
at Chicago
c)
d) A Review of Research Which Combines
Qualitative and Quantitative Methods D. M. Colleen
Loomis, University of Maryland Baltimore County
SYMPOSIUM:
Young,
Reproductive
Health:
Directions
Minority
Women's
Current/ssues,
Future
a)
The Margins of Care: Barriers to Prenatal Health
Services and Young, Low-Income Women Claudia
Lennhoff, University of Illinois, Adena Meyers, Medical
University of South Carolina, Jean Rhodes, University of
Illinois
f)
Community Psychology and Youth Development
Brian Wilcox, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
h) Community Psychology and Local Community
Development Policy Doug Perkins, University of Utah
SYMPOSIUM:
The Study of Racial Identity and
Socialization:
Influences
Upon Child and
Adolescent
Outcomes,
Implications
for Policy
and Intervention
Chair: Emilie Smith, University of South Carolina
a) The Relationship of Family, School, and
Community Factors to Racial Attitudes and Academic
Outcomes Emilie P. Smith, Jacqueline Atkins, Monteic
Sizer, and Kristie Puster, University of South Carolina
b) Manhood and Womanhood Socialization Issues in
African-American Rites-of-Passage Programs Craig C.
Brookins, North Carolina State University
c) Investigating the Role of Parental Ethnic
Socialization in Chinese-American Families Lisa Chen,
New York University
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d) "TeWn' It Like It Is:" Implications of Racial
Socialization/or Family Intervention with AfricanAmerican Youth Howard C. Stevenson, University of
Pennsylvania
Dylan Mcnamara and Laurie Ford, University of
South Carolina
Partners for a Healthier
Community,
Inc.
(Fall River, Somerset, Swansea & Westport,
Massachusetts): David S. Weed. Corrigan Mental
Health Center, Fall River, MA.
e) Basic Research on African-American Cultureand
Social Functioning among Urban Children and Youth
Robert Jaegers, University of Illinois at Chicago
Programs of the Center for Disease
Control and Prevention (Atlanta, GA):
Discussants: Robert Sellers, University of Virginia and
Marsha Kline, Yale University
San Francisco
Services or System Change:
Families Most?
SYMPOSIUM:
Helps
Center for AIDS
Prevention
What
The Community Psychology Education
Connection: James H. Dalton, Bloomsburg
Framing the Issue Consequences of a Systems' vs.
a)
Janet
S. Harrison, CDC
University and Maurice J. Elias, Rutgers University
Services' Perspective for Prevention Programs Richard N.
Roberts, Utah State University
Sharing the Prevention Vision:
Rural
Prevention Programs for Local Media
b) Meaningful Community Collaboration from the
National Perspective: Lessons from the Healthy Families
America Initiative Kathryn A. Harding, National
Committee to Prevent Child Abuse Kenneth Hicks, Healthy
Families North Lawndale
c) Community Resource Mobilization: Its Effect on
Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect Julie Chambliss,
(Kansas): Tonja R. NanseI, Office of Community
Health, Manhattan, KS.
Friday
10:00 a.lI1. - II :30 a.lI1.
EMSTAR Research, Inc., and Georgia State
SYMPOSIUM:
Psychological Sense of
Community:
Cross-cultural
Considerations
Chair: J.R. Newbrough, Vanderbilt University
d) State Level Interventions to Effect Systems'
Change at the Local Level Carnot Nelson, University of
a) Psychological Sense of Community: Its Role In
Migrant Adaptation and Well-being C. Sonn, Curtin
South Aorida
Friday
University
10:00 a,m. - 3:00 p.m.
Resource
Fair
Self Help Network of Kansas:
Guiding the
Operations of a Self-Help Clearninghouse
(Wichita, Kansas) - Mary Warren, Scott Wituk. Matt
Shepherd, Greg Meissen, Wichita State University
b) Adolescents' Talk About Their Neighborhoods:
Constructing A "Sense" of Community in Canada and
Australia G. Pretty, University of Southern Queensland,
H. Chipuer, Griffith University
c) Psychological Sense of Community in the
Classroom and Relationship to Children's Sodal Skills and
Prosocial Behaviour H. V. Bateman, J. R. Newbrough and
S. R. Goldman Vanderbilt University
EMPower:
Emergency Medical Program
for Battered Women (Columbia, SC): Noel
Busch, Sistercare, Inc., Mary R. Faucette and Leslie
Burke, University of South Carolina
Teen Leadership Groups:
Empowering
Vulnerable Young Women (Chicago, IL):
Elena Klaw and Ernestine Briggs, University of
minois at Urbana-Champaign
d)
The Structure of Sense of Community in Rural
Shires B. Bishop, Curtin University, S. Coakes,
Department of Primary Industry and Energy
Discussant:
Carolina
Adventure Based Counseling:
Strategies
for Building Better Youth Partnerships
Across Race and Gender (Columbia, SC):
Psychology
of Identity
SYMPOSIUM:The
the Politics
Healthy Schools/Healthy
South Carolina
Network: Ruth P. Saunders, University of South
D. Chavis, Cosmos Corporation
Moderator:
a)
of Community
and
Julian Rappaport, University of Illinois
Masculinity, Identity, and Community: Changing
Men in Mutual Support Groups Eric Mankowski,
University of Illinois
b)
True Brain Stories: Women's Accounts of Brain
Injury Recovery Eric Stewart, University of Illinois
c) Resourcesfor Identity in Community Based
Programsfor Young People Elizabeth Thomas, University
of Illinois
Discussant: James G. Kelly, U of Illinois at Chicago
SYMPOSIUM:
Stereotypes:
Well-Being,
Countering Assumptions and
Support Services,
Family
and Welfare Reform
Chair: Hirokazu Yoshikawa, New York University
SYMPOSIUM:
Utilizing Models of Ethnic
Identity Development in Creating a
Comprehensive School-Based Mental Health
Program for At-Risk African-American
High
School Youth Nadia L. Ward, Marsha Kline and Larry
a) Mavin' On Up: Women Who Exit Welfare and
Achieve Economic Success Kimberly A. DuMont, Daniela
Davidso, Yale University
b)
Welfare and Domestic Violence: Economic
Dependenceand Job Readiness Courtney Ahrens and
SIMULA TION:Coliaborations
Between
Researchers and Service Providers: How Do
They Work? Ellen Goldstein, University of California,
San Francisco, Center for AIDS Prevention Studies
Stojanovic, Marybeth Shinn, Beth C. Weitzman, and
Kirsten Cowal, New York University
Stephanie Riger, University of Illinois at Chicago
c)
Welfare Dynamics, Support Services, and Family
Well-Being: Evidence From the National Longitudinal
Survey of Youth Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Edward Seidman
and Jennifer L. Friedman, New York University
SYMPOSIUM: Racial Identity and the
Educational Experiences of African-American
Students Moderator: Robert Jaegers, University of
Illinois-Chicago
a)
Discussant:
Friday
The Multidimensional Model of Racial Identity
Brian Wilcox, University of Nebraska
12:00 p.m. - \:00 p.m.
Robert M. Sellers & Mia A. Smith, University of Virginia
Meeting of SCRA Regional Coordinators, Carolyn L. Feis,
National Coordinator
b) School Selection Factorsfor African American
College Students: The
Injluence of Racial Ideology
SCRA
Interest
Group Meetings
Tabbye M. Chavous, University of Virginia
c) RacialIdeology and Racial Centralityas Predictors
of African American College Students' Academic
Petformance Deanna Y. Cooke, University of Virginia
SYMPOSIUM:
Partnerships:
University/Community
Underlying Dilemmas
Unintended
Consequences
Chair: Pennie G. Foster-Fishman,
University
and
Michigan State
a) Donuts Or No Deal: The Challenges of Multiple
Stakeholdersand Evolving Evaluation Targets Nicole
Allen, Pennie Foster-Fishman, Deborah Salem and Jonalie
Wosepka, Michigan State University
b) CollaborativeResearch With a Mutual Help
Organization: The Pitfalls of Too Much Cooperation
Deborah Salem, Tom Reischl, Fiona Gallacher, John
Chandler and Katherine Weaver Randall, Michigan State
University
Building Two-Way Traffic Jams Between the Ivory
Tower and the Community Joanne Keith, Karen Casey and
c)
Dan Perkins, Michigan State University
Friday
1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
SYMPOSIUM: A Preventable Death, Global
Health and Well-Being Concept: A Process for
Actualizing Research and Policy to Improve
Community and Global Health
Daniel Leviton, University of Maryland
SYMPOSIUM: Methodological Issues in
Implementing and Evaluating the Effectiveness
of a National Child Abuse and Neglect
Prevention Effort
Joe Galano, College of William and Mary, Elsbeth
Brown, Winthrop University, Lee Huntington, Research and
Evaluation Center, VA-DMHRSAS, Julie Chambliss,
EMST AR Research, Inc., Rhonda Impink and Virginia
Raul, META Strategies, Indianapolis, IN
PANEL
Visions for A Feminist
Psychology
DISCUSSION:
Community
Co-Chairs:
Meg A. Bond, University of
Massachusetts- Lowell & Ann Mulvey, University of
Massachusetts - Lowell
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Panel Members: Holly Angelique, Pennsylvania State
University, Rebecca Campbell, University of Illinois at
Chicago, Darlene DeFour, Hunter College, Irma SerranoGarcia, University of Puerto Rico, Stephanie Riger,
Vincent T. Francisco, Rhonda K. Lewis, Kimber P.
Richter, Kari J. Harris, Ella L. Williams, Jannette Y.
Berkley, Jerry A. Schultz, Jacqueline L. Fisher, Christine
M. Lopez, Stergios Russos and Paul Evensen, University
of Kansas
Discussants: Jean Hill, New Mexico Highlands
College & Kelly Naylor, The Children's Hospital, Denver
b) Collaborative Planning for Community Health:
Case Studies in Rural Communities Jerry Schultz,
Kimberlee Murphy, Christine M. Lopez, Kimber P.
Richter, Stephen B. Fawcett, University of Kansas
AWARD FOR DISTINGUISHED
CONTRIBUTION TO PRACTICE IN
COMMUNITYPSYCHOLOG~
c) Process Evaluation for Community Health
Initiatives: Where are Community Initiatives Putting their
Efforts Rhonda K. Lewis, Adrienne Paine-Andrews, Kari J.
Harris, Ella Williams, Jacqueline Fisher and Stephen B.
Fawcett, University of Kansas
Supporting Collaborarive Partnerships for Community
Health and Development
Stephen B. Fawcett, University of Kansas
SYMPOSIUM:
Transcultural
Perspectives
on
Racism and Mental Health:
From Experience
Action
Co-chairs:Shirley M. Collado, Duke University &
Christopher Sonn, Curtin University of Technology
to
Participants: Shelly Harrell, California School of
Professional Psychology, Hoa X Nguyen, Michigan State
University, Maya Dominguez McNeilly, Duke University
Medical Center, Natalie Contos, Curtin University of
Technology, Pam D'Rozario, Private Practice, Perth, WA
Discussants: Brian Bishop, Curtin University of
Technology & Randolph Potts, University of Hartford
SYMPOSIUM:
School-Based
Family
Services:
Service
System
Reform
Efforts
Chair:
Patricia Stone Motes, Institute for Families in
Society, University of South Carolina
Presenters: Susan P. Limber, Pauline Pagliocca, and
Jim McDonnell, Institute for Families in Society,
Friday
3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
SYMPOSIUM:
The Interaction
Between
Community
Psychology
and Feminist
Theory:
A Plan for Action
Jean Hill, New Mexico Highlands University, Kelly
Naylor, University of Colorado Health Science Center,
Marion Terenzio, Sage Graduate Schools, Kelly Hazel,
University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Margaret Schneider,
University of Toronto
SYMPOSIUM:
Initiatives
Evaluating
Community
Health
a) A Model for Evaluating Community Health
Initiatives Adrienne Paine-Andrews, Stephen B. Fawcett,
1 6 The Community Psychologist, Volume 30, Number 2, April 1997
d)
Intermediate Outcomes for Community Health
Initiatives: Assessing the Role as Catalysts for Change
Christine M. Lopez, Jeff Stowell, Adrienne Paine-Andrews,
Kimber P. Richter, Jannette Y. Berkley, Jeff Stowell and
Stephen B. Fawcett, University of Kansas
e) Changing the BOllom Line: Do Community
Partnerships Really Affect Impact Indicators ? Vincent T.
Francisco, Stephen B. Fawcett, Adrienne Paine-Andrews,
Stergios Russos, Heather Whitney and Lorraine Claasen,
University of Kansas
Discussants: Marc A. Zimmerman, University of
Michigan & Leonard Jason, DePaul University
SYMPOSIUM:
Community
Mobilization,
Community
Development,
and Community
Organizing:
Linking
Individual,
Organizational
and
Community
Chair:
Interventions
Joseph Hughey, U of Missouri-Kansas
City
a)
Community Collaboration, Citizen Participation
and Empowerment in Addressing Substance Abuse in An
Urban Core: From Ideology to Action Leah K.
Gensheimer, Charles T. Diebold, and Joseph Hughey,
University of Missouri-Kansas City, Keith Brown and
Jessie Jefferson, Project Neighborhood
b) An Urban Community Health Center Based Model
of Community Development R. Charles Gatson, Swope
Parkway Community Health Center and Community
Builders of Kansas City, Joseph Hughey, N. Andrew
Peterson and Alison Martin, University of Missouri-Kansas
City
c) Community Organizing for Individual
Development and Collective
Power Joseph Hughey,
University of Missouri-Kansas City, Warren AdamsLeavitt, Pacific Institute for Community Organization, Paul
W. Speer, Rutgers University
d) Institutional Cohesion: A Concept for
Understanding Community Based Prevention Paul W.
Speer, Rutgers University
Friday, May 30,
3:30 - 5:00 pm
POSTER
PRESENTA
nONS:
INTERNATIONAL
COMMUNITY
PSYCHOLOGY
COMMUNITY
HEALTH
ISSUES
SYMPOSIUM: Towards More Positive Portrayals
of African-Americans:A
Brainstorming
Session
Moderator: Ken Maton, U of Maryland Baltimore County
a) African-American Youth in the Schools: Towards
More Positive Portrayals Thorn Moore, University of
Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
b) Beating the Odds: Research on High Achieving
African-American Males Ken Maton, University of
Maryland Baltimore County
INTERNATIONAL
COMMUNITY
PSYCHOLOGY
I.
Reflection on the Ethics of Community Based
Interventions G. J. Syme and B. J. Bishop, CSIRO
and Curtin University, Perth
2.
Different Strokes for Different Folks: A Discussion of
Differing Levels of Sense of Community S. J.
Coakes, B. Bishop, A. Wilson, Curtin University of
Technology
3.
Little Things Mean A Lot: The Perceived Fairness of
Local Government Roadside Tree Lopping N. Drew
and B. Bishop, Curtin University of Technology
4.
The Relationship Between Psychological Sense of
Community and Psychosocial Climate Factors in
Community Groups of Urban Elders G. Kelly, S.
Coakes, L. Steed, and B. Bishop, Curtin University of
Technology
5.
A Critique of the Group Environment Scale G. Kelly,
L. Steed and B. Bishop, Curtin University of
Technology
6.
Internet Relay Chat: Virtual Community or Virtual
Wasteland? L. Roberts, L. Smith, and C. Pollock,
Curtin University of Technology
c) The Role of Fathers of Pregnant/Parenting
Adolescents: Interpretative Contexts Anita Davis, Rhodes
College, Jean Rhodes, U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
African-American Youth and the Journey to
Fatherhood Melvin Wilson, University of Virginia
d)
e) Appreciating the Historical and Current Success of
African-American Mutual Help Initiatives Keith
Humphreys, Stanford University
SYMPOSIUM: Community
Psychology
and the
Competent
Community
Psychologist:
A
Symposium
Honoring
Ira [scoe Upon His
Retirement
Chair: Brian L. Wilcox, University of Nebraska
Community Psychology in the Realm of
Dimethyl Meatball Julia Green Brody, Silent Spring
Institute
a)
Community Psychology and Public Health: HlV
and Unintended Pregnancy Among Women Christine
b)
7. Predictive Factors, Acculturation Outcomes and
Psychological Well-Being of Anglo-Indian Immigrants
in Australia
Simon Colquhoun and Chris Sonn, Curtin University
Galavotti. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
c) From Boston to Austin to Columbia: Creating
and Sustaining a New Field Brian L. Wilcox, University of
Nebraska
d)
Community Psychology and Family Medicine: A
Good Fit Judy Fleishman, Greater Lawrence Family HeaJth
Center
Discussants: James G. Kelly, University of IllinoisChicago & Dennis Andrulis, National Association of
Public Hospitals
8.
Indigenous--Non-Indigenous Relations in a Country
Town: Toward Social Justice and a Greater Sense of
Community
N. Contos and B. Bishop, Curtin University of
Technology
9.
We Don't Need To Change, The System Needs Change:
Steps Toward The Creation of Culturally Sensitive
Learning Environments C. Sonn, B. Bishop and R.
Humphries, Curtin University of Technology
10. Interpersonal Support: A Key Predictor
Psychological Well-Being in First Year
Students from Overseas, RuraVlnterstate
Settings R. M. Morrow and B. Bishop,
University of Technology
of
University
and Urban
Curtin
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11. The Constraints on Women's Participation in the
Social and Economic Development of Rural Western
Australia
C. Day, C. Roberts, and L. Roberts, Curtin University
of Technology
12. Towards a Greater Understanding of the VietnameseAustralian Health Seeking Behaviour H. S. Finney
and B. Bishop, Curtin University
13. Empowerment and Depowennent in Post-Colonial
Society--Social Change Partnership Work in
Aotearoo/New Zealand With Gender and Cultural
Protocols I. Huygens and V. Ussher, Independent
Research Associates, New Zealand
14. Meaning, Stress, Social Support and Stigma In the
Experience of Cancer: Introducing Community
Psychology to Malta Rita Penza, University of Utah
23. HIV-Serodiscordant Couples: Coping With HIV Janet
S. Harrison and Jan Moore, CDC, Nancy VanDevanter
and Cheryl Kennedy, Columbia University, Nancy
Padian, University of California - San Francisco, Judy
Abrams, Henry Ford Foundation, Linda Lesondak,
TRW, Inc., Tom O'Brien, National Cancer Institute
24. A Study of Perceived Associational Stigma Among
HIV/AIDS Workers: Implications for CommunityBased Prevention David W. Loundsbury, Michigan
State University
25. The Role of Depression in Family and Friendship
Relationships Among Inner-City African American
Adolescents: Implications for HIV Risk Prevention
Lynda M. Sagrestano, Roberta Paikoff, and Sheila
Parfenoff, U of Illinois, Chicago, Grayson N.
Holmbeck, Loyola U Chicago
26. Using Social Networks as Vehicles for HIV Prevention
15. Homesickness Michael Hough, University of
Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland
16. Barriers to Prevention Program Evaluation in the Third
World: One Consultant's Experience Alexandra
Gubin, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
27. Quantitative Findings of a Comprehensive HIV
Prevention Education Needs Assessment: Risk
Behaviors and Cognitions of Women at Risk for HIV
Infection Steven Godin, East Stroudsburg University,
Liz Brensinger and Susan Rubinstein, AIDSNet,
Pennsylvania
17. Rural Communities and Schools Working Together to
Meet Social and Educational Needs: An Experience in
Costa Rica Alicia Diaz, Universidad Nacional, Costa
Rica
HEALTH
18. Impact of Community-Based Self Help Empowerment
Intervention for Chronic Patients in Hong Kong
Cecilia Chan, University of Hong Kong
28. The Pennsylvania Elementary School-Based Health
Center Initiative: Process and Outcome Evaluation
Findings 1993-96 Steven Godin, Lynn Woodhouse,
and Bill Livingood, East Stroudsburg University
29. Reframing: Intervention for Changing Cardiac Risks
Latrell P. Fowler, Medical U of South Carolina
COMMUNITY
HEALTH
ISSUES:
HIV/AIDS
19. Positive Culture and Family Influences in Response to
a Multi-Method HIV/AIDS and Substance Abuse
Prevention Program Among Native American Youth
Tonja R. Nansel and Jon E. Rolf, Kansas State U,
Julie Baldwin, Northern Arizona U, Jeanette Johnson,
U of Maryland School of Medicine
20. Interviewing People About Sensitive Issues:
Recruiting a Random Community Sample Cheryl
Sutherland, Alison Ward, Heidi Vaughn Hosler, & Cris
Sullivan, Michigan State University
21. Descriptive Analysis of HIV/AIDS Public Policy in
Puerto Rico: Example of on Opportunity for
Community Psychology David Perez-Jimenez and
Irma Serrano-Garda, University of Puerto Rico
22. "What's So New About That?": Transfer of HIV-AIDS
Prevention Research to Communities Seth C.
Kalichman, Lisa Belcher, Charsey Cherry, and
Ernestine Williams, Georgia State University
30. Prevalence of Obesity Among Persons With Mental
Retardation: Healthy Lifestyle Patterns and Associnted
Risks Cheryl Gibson and Carl Calkins, University of
Missouri - Kansas City
3 I. Fire/Medics' Exposure to Traumatic Events:
Relationship to Depressive Symptomatology Rebecca
P. Cameron, Jeannine Monnier, Lisa Schwab, Stevan
E. Hobfoll, and J. Robert Gribble, Kent State U
32. Adolescents' Perceptions of Death: Working Toward
Prevention of Maladaptive Coping Strategies Sandy
Marks and Lorna London, Loyola University
33. Results of a Mental Health Promotion Program for
Rural Elders Michael Hendryx, Washington State
University - Spokane
34. Hazardous Waste Risk Perception in an Alaskan
Community Keri Frazier and Kelly Hazel, University
of Alaska, Fairbanks
35. Migrant Fannworkers Families: The Role of
Acculturation and Family Resources in Describing
Physical Health and Psychological Well-Being Andrew
L. Freeberg and Catherine H. Stein, Bowling Green
State University
36. The Enhanced Psychogeriatric Care (EPC) Program: A
Cost/Service Evaluation Keith E. Barnes,
Psychological Consulting Services
37. The Role of Secondary Stressors in the Parental DeathChild Distress Link Martie Thompson and Nadine
Kaslow, Emory U, Ann Price, Georgia State U,
Kimberly Williams, Clark Atlanta U
38. Community Effects on Adolescent Sexual Behavior
Djuana Stoakley, New York University
ALCOHOL
AND
OTHER
DRUGS
39. Use of Brief Motivational Telephone Counseling to
Complement Smoking Cessation Interventions in
Public Health Clinics: Non-Help Seeking AfricanAmerican Smokers Alicia K. Matthews and Clara
Manfredi, University of Illinois at Chicago
40. The Efficacy of A Community Intervention to Prevent
Adolescent Tobacco Use Anthony Biglan, Oregon
Research Institute
41. Placing Substance Use Attitudes and Behavior in the
Context of Social Environment and Neighborhood
Setting: Lessons From A Community-Based Alcohol
and Drug Prevention Program David Livert, Charles
Kadushin, David Rindskopf, and Leonard Saxe, City
University of NY
43. Academic Achievement in Adolescent Children of
Alcoholics Claire E. McGrath and Laurie Chassin,
Arizona State University, Amy L. Watson, University
of Missouri-Columbia
44. Risk and Protective Factorsfor Children's Substance
Use After Parental Divorce Jerome L. Short, George
Mason University
45. A Drug Prevention/Intervention Program for
Incarcerated Youth in the U. S. Virgin Islands Patricia
Rhymer Todmau and Rita Dudley Grant, Unviersity of
the Virgin Islands
Friday
5,]5 p.m. - 6:30
p.lII.
CONVERSATION
HOUR: Ethics and Ethical
Dilemmas
in Community
Based Interventions
Facilitators: G. J. Syme and B. J. Bishop, CSIRO and
Curtin University, Perth, Australia
CONVERSATION
HOUR: Life After Graduate
School:
A Sampling
of Career Options in
Community
Psychology
Moderators: Rebecca Lee, U of Maryland Baltimore
County & Heather Barton, U of Illinois at Chicago
Participants:
Anne E. Brodsky, Prevention Research Center, Johns
Hopkins University
David M. Chavis, Association for the Study and
Development of Community
Joseph Galano, The College of William and Mary
Andrea L. Solarz, Institute of Medicine
42. Barriers to Effective Substance Abuse Prevention: The
Role of Authoritarian Ideology Jeffrey L. Charvat,
University of Missouri-Kansas City
Saturday
Open Conversation
Hour
Executive
Committee
Saturday
7:00 a.m.
with
the
SCRA
8:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m
b)
Understanding the Roles of the Black Church in
Community Development Jon McCoy, U of Illinois
SYMPOSIUM:
History:
The Often Overlooked
Variable in Social Change and Community
Development
Chair: Thorn Moore, University of Illinois
c) 20/20 Ain't Good Enough: A Historical Look at
AA Workers In the U.S. Russell Wigginton, Rhodes
College
a) Historical Patterns of Social Change Martin
Nieto, University of Illinois
d) African-Americans and AIDS: The SocioHistorical Context Ernestine Briggs, University of Illinois
Discussant:
Mark Aber, University of Illinois
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SYMPOSIUM:
The North
of AIDS
Community-Based
Carolina Cooperative
Research
a) Overview and Barriers to Community-Based
Research Wendee M. Wechsbetg, Research Triangle
Institute
b) Non-Traditional Recruitment Strategies for Hardto-Reach Populations Peter C. Deichler, Research Triangle
Institute/N.C. State University
Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Methods
in the Trenches Kimberly H. Harris, Research Triangle
InstitutelN.C. State University
c)
d)
Understanding Refusalsfor HIV Antibody Testing
in Hard-to-Reach Populations Katherine Bruce and Henry
Beckwith, University of North Carolina-Wilmington
e) Introducing the Female Condom to Women at
Riskfor HIV Valerie Tavaves and Sara Wrenn, North
Carolina Cooperative Agreement, North Carolina State
University
1) The Enhanced Intervention and Preliminary
Outcomes Jennifer Rounds-Bryant and Wendee M.
Wechsberg, Research Triangle Institute
Discussant: Randolph F. R. Rasch, University of
North Carolina-Chapel Hill
SYMPOSIUM:
Communities
to
CHAMP - Involving
Prevent Adolescent
Families and
HIV Risk
The CHAMP Collaborative Board: The Evolution
of a Truly Meaningful University-Community Partnership
CHAMP Collaborative Board, U of Illinois at Chicago,
Sybil M. Madison, U of Illinois at Chicago
a)
b) Community Collaboration and Basic Research:
Necessary Ingredients for the Development of a FamilyBased HIV Prevention Mary McKernan McKay, Doris
Coleman, Donna Baptiste, and Richard Scott, U of Illinois
at Chicago
b) Where's the Lodge Today? Esther Onaga,
Michigan State University
c) ESlD and Head Start Terry Cronan, San Diego
State University
d) ESID and Domestic Violence Cris Sullivan,
e)
Challenges of ESlD in the African-American
Community Craig Brookins, North Carolina State U
f) Dissemination of Diversion in' the South Emilie
Smith, University of South Carolina
g) ESlD and Child Abuse Prevention
Georgia State University
Jim Emshoff,
h) Influencing Social Policy with ESlD Craig
Blakely, Texas A&M University
Discussant:
Ed Seidman, New York University
CASE STUDY/SIMULATION:
Overcoming the
Obstacles
to Structural-Change
Approaches
to
Integrated Services
Kathleen M. Donohue and
Vanessa 1. Kahen Johnson, University of California Berkeley, Marsha L. Kline, Yale Consultation Center
Saturday
9:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon
SIMULATION:
BaFa BaFa:
An Experiential
Game Simulation
for Cultural
Understanding
Facilitators: Gloria Levin, National Institutes of
Mental Health, Carolyn L. Feis, General Accounting
Office, David Chavis, Association for the Study and
Development of Community, Colleen Loomis, University
of Maryland Baltimore Cty, Andrea Solarz, Institute of
Medicine
Saturday
10:00 a.m. - II :30 a.m.
c) Involving Families in an HIV Preventive
Intervention Anthony McCormick, Mary McKernan
McKay, Greg Gillming, University of Illinois at Chicago
SYMPOSIUM:
An Open Discussion
Place of Spirituality
In Our Work
Community
Psychologists
Discussant:
Pennsylvania
a) An Eco- Transformational Approach: The Wisdom
Traditions As Our Guide Len Jason and Doreen Salina,
DePaul University
Howard Stevenson,
University of
SYMPOSIUM:
So ..•
Where's Bill Fairweather?
The Legacy of Experimental
Social Innovation
and Dissemination
Chair: Kelly L. Hazel, University of Alaska Fairbanks
a) Ecological Psychology and ESlD 101 William S.
Davidson, Michigan State University
on The
As
b) Spiritual Qualities and Community Outcome Bill
Berkowitz, University of Massachusetts Lowell
c) Spirituality and Spiritual Principles in
Community Coalition Building Work Thomas Wolff,
AHEC/Community Partners
SIMULA TION: School-Community
Collaboration:
Participant
Observers
Meet
"Trigger Tapes" Peter W. Dowrick & Thomas J.
Power, Children's Seashore House, Marika GinsburgBlock, University of Pennsylvania
Among Poor Urban Adolescents
University
SYMPOSIUM:
Social Change Partnerships
- The
Consciousness
Raising
of Dominant
Groups in
Support of Oppressed
Agendas
Co-Chairs: Ingrid Huygens, Independent Research, New
Zealand & Copper Coggins, Asheville, North Carolina
I) The Structure of Urban Public Elementary Schools
and Perceived Daily Transactions Sabine E. French and
Maha M. Younes, New York University
a)
Consciousness-Raising and Communication
Among North Americans - A Description of Models Used
in Mediation and Practice With Mixed Race and All White
Groups in North Carolina Copper Coggins, Asheville,
North Carolina
b) Accountability and Commitment to Partnership A Model As The Outcome of Bicultural Negotiation in
Aotearoa/New Zealand Ingrid Huygens, Independent
Research, New Zealand
c) Reconciliation Among Conservatives in Australia
Natalie Contos, Chris Sonn and Joylene Koolmatrie, Curtin
Daniel Chesir, New York
e) Perceived Neighborhood Profiles and Antisocial
Behavior: A Cluster Analytic Approach Ann E. Roberts,
New York University
g) Neighborhood Context and Adolescent
Development: A Cluster Analytic Approach Marc
Zimmerman, University of Michigan
h) Concept Mapping and Cluster Analysis: Setting
the Stage for Multi-Level Policy Initiatives for the
Community Response to Rape Rebecca Campbell,
University of Illinois at Chicago, Deborah A. Salem,
i) The Relationship Between Welfare Dynamics and
State Welfare Policy Contexts: Evidence from the
National Langitudinal Survey of Youth Hirokazu
Yoshikawa, New York University
University, Australia
Latina/os Perspectives on Racism in the United
States Shitley Collado, Duke University
d)
SYMPOSIUM:
Service System
Innovation
Western
Austrlian
Communities
with
African-Americans in the Rural Southern United
States Melvin Wilson, University of Virginia
a) Moving to Australia: Decision-Making in
English-Speaking Migrants Lynne Cohen, Edith Cowan
University
I) The Multidimensional Model of Racism: A
Descriptive Model for Research and Action Kim
Knickerson
b) Policy Development and Community Participation
in Western Australia Julie Ann Pooley, Edith Cowan
University
e)
SYMPOSIUM:
Strange Bedfellows:
Idiographic
Analyses
at Multiple
Levels of Analysis
Chair: Edward Seidman, New York University
c) Community Policing in A Multicultural
Moira O'Connor, Edith Cowan University
Saturday
Using Cluster Analysis to Study the Coping
Process of Marital Dyads Tracy A. Revenson, City
University of New York
Society
I :30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
a)
b) Patterns of Dyadic Adjustment Among Gay Male
Couples of Mixed HIV Serostatus: An Application of
Cluster Analysis Bruce D. Rapkin, Memorial Sloan
Kettering Cancer Center, Robert Remien, Alex Caraballo
and Glen Wagner, New York State Psychiatric Institute
Peer and Family Microsystems and Mesosystem
Influences on Antisocial Behavior: A Cluster Analytic
Approach Jennifer L. Friedman, New York University
c)
Nomothetic vs. Idiographic Approaches to
Understanding the Impact Of Family and Peer Microsystems
d)
SYMPOSIUM:
Social Support,
Service
Utilization,
and School
Dropout:
Psychosocial
Health Issues Faced By Minority
Adolescent
Mothers
a) School Dropout in Latina Adolescent Mothers
With Disabilities Holly E. Barnes, U of Illinois at Chicago
b) Patterns of Service Utilization Among Latina
Adolescent Mothers Karen B. Rothstein, University of
Illinois at Chicago
c) Postpartum Transitions in Pregnant Adolescent
Mothers' Romantic and Maternal Relationships Jean
Rhodes, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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d) Partner Emotional Support and Network Social
Support: The Differential Effects of Two Sources of
Functional Social Support on Adolescents' Adjustment to
Parenthood Lisa B. Galasso & G. Anne Bogat, Michigan
Working in Partnership With the Community
d)
From a Top Down Perspective
Colquhoun, Curtin University
Ros Morrow and Simon
State University
e) Between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Contexts:
Participant Conceptualizing Toward Social Justice Natalie
e) Psychological Adjustment Among Young Latina
Mothers Josefina Contreras, Kent State University
Contos,
Curtin University
Discussant: James G. Kelly, U of Illinois, Chicago
Discussant: Fabricio Balcazar, U of Illinois at Chicago
Public Policy and the Assessment
of Detained Juveniles' Mental
Health Needs
SYMPOSIUM:
SYMPOSIUM:
and Culture:
The Multiple
What's
Voices of Ethnicity
"Right" and "Wrong" in
HIV/AIDS
Prevention
a) American Indian/Alaska Native Community
CulturallLegal Mores and Norms Which Affect HIV
Prevention Connie Hunt, Portland Area Indian Health
Chair:
N. Dickon Reppucci, University of Virginia
f
I
Mental Heaith Needs in Detention: An Overview
a)
Jennifer L. Woolard, University of Virginia
Service
HIV/AIDS Prevention Within the AfricanAmerican Community W. La Vorne Robinson, and Gary
b)
Harper, DePaul University
b) Screening Instrument Optionsfor Use in Juvenile
Detention Centers Deborah Land, University of Virginia
c) Current Mental Health Services Lisa Laumann
Billings, University of Virginia
c) HIV/AIDS Prevention and Intervention Among
Asian and Pacific Islander Americans Frank Wong, Fenway
Community Health Center
d)
Modelsfor Mental Health Provision in the
Commonwealth of Virginia Deanna Yvonne Cooke,
University
Subverting Culture: Promoting HIV Prevention
Among Latinas Blanca Ortiz-Torres, Irma Serrano-Garcia,
of Virginia
d)
Nelida Torres-Burgos, and Yarira Feliciano-Torres,
University of Puerto Rico
Discussant: Guillermo Bernal, U of Puerto Rico
Saturday
The Applied Program of the
Southern Regional Chapter of the Association
for Women in Psychology:
Social Action
Through Community Partnerships in the
Southeast Susan P. Styles, Charleston Southern
SYMPOSIUM:
University,
Tia McKnight,
Georgia State University,
Discussant: John Morgan, Chesterfield Community
Services Board
Feminist Activism and
Community Resarch:
Lessons Learned
in Dual Roles
SYMPOSIUM:
Co-chairs: Rebecca Campbell, U of Illinois at Chicago
& Karla Fischer, Duke University
Panelists:
Julia
Shirley M. Collado. Duke University
Kimberly K. Eby, George Mason University
Alicia Lucksted, University of Maryland
Tracy Seft, University of Illinois at Chicago
Cris M. Sullivan, Michigan State University
Rux, Feminist Women's Health Center and DeKalb College
International Perspectives on
Community Psychology in Context: I.
Views
From Australia
SYMPOSIUM:
Chair:
Brian Bishop, Curtin University
a)
The Historical Context of Australian Community
Psychology Brian Bishop, Curtin University
b) Mainstreaming Cuitura/lssues Pam D'Rozario.
Perth, Western Australia, Chris Sonn, Curtin University
3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
International Perspectives on
Community Psychology in Context: II.
Views
from Nashville Chair: J. R. Newbrough, Peabody
SYMPOSIUM:
College of Vanderbilt University
a)
Liberation Revisited: Reflective-Generative
Inquiry In Context Paul R. Dokecki, Peabody College of
Opportunitiesfor Social Change In Policy
Development Neil Drew, Moira O'Connor and Julie Ann
c)
Pooley, Edith Cowan University
b) Community and Spirituality: Third Position
Theory In Context J. R. Newbrough, Peabody College of
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3.
Assets And Needs of Youth Referredfor Services
Through the Project for School-Based Mental Health
Wendy Waithe and Patricia Stone Motes, University of
South Carolina and Institute for Families in Society
4.
Predictors of Service Provider Adoption of the FamilyCreated Model of Service Delivery Nicole E. Allen,
5.
Factors Influencing Service Delivery Reform: An
Ecological Analysis Pennie Foster-Fishman, Deborah
Salem, Nicole Allen, Juliette Mackin, Jonalie
Wosepka, and David Loveland, Michigan State
University
6.
Fitting In From The Outside: Developing a
Controversial Project in a Consel1!ative Community
Mary V. Ransom, K. Shannon Pulliam, and Melissa
Hatfield, PHASEc/s, Cindi J. Walker, East Central
Kansas. RPC
c) In the Heartland: Empowering Rural
Communities Donald E. Voth, University of Arkansas
7.
SYMPOSIUMIDISCUSSION:
Implementing
Programs in Schools:
Dilemmas and
Choice
Points
Final Analyses: Do CSAP Partnerships Matter?
Abraham Wandersman, Pam 1mm, Cindy Crusto, Jim
Laughlin, Bob Kennerly, and Bettine Friese, University
of South Carolina
8.
Barriers to and Facilitators of Partnership Between
Formal and Informal Caregivers of People Suffering
From Schizophrenic Disorders Myreille St-Onge,
Laval Uniersity, Celine Mercier, McGill University
9.
Communities That Care: Framework for Change
Holly Angelique, Whitney Arensdorf, and Kevin
Annshaw, Penn State Harrisburg
Spirituality and Action-Research: A PracticeTheory-Practice Intervention at St. Robert Robert T.
O'Gonnan, Loyola University of Chicago
c)
Discussant: Brian Bishop, Curtin University
SYMPOSIUM:
Empowering
Community
Members
for Action:
Bottom Up, Top Down, and Inside
Out Approaches
a) Asset Planning Groups: A Low Cost Start Up for
Mobilizing Communities George A. Wolford, Greenwich
University
Challenges in Sharing Power: Federal Mandates
and Local Service Providers' Efforts James R. Cook,
University of North Carolina Charlotte
b)
Model
a) Violence Prevention Based on Social Problem~
Solving Principles Maurice Elias, Rutgers University
b) The MicroSociety Program Cary Cherniss,
Rutgers Uni versity
Saturday,
May 3i - 3:30 - 5:00 pm .
POSTER
SESSION
INNOVATIVE
SERVICE
MODELS:
COMMUNITY
PARTNERSHiP,
MUTUAL
SUPPORT,
COMMUNITY
DEVELOPMENT
COMMUNITY
II. Communication in a Coalition of HIV-Related Mental
Health Providers Gary Uhl, Jim Emshoff and Anjie
Williams, EMSTAR Research, Atlanta, GA, Steve
McDaniel, Emory University School of Medicina,
Peter Campos and Gene Farber, Grady Health Systems
PARTNERSHIP_
I. Results from a Four Year Study of the Hampton
Family Resource Healthy Start Project Lee
Huntington, VA, DMHMRSAS, Joseph Galano,
College of William and Mary
2.
10. Communities That Care: The Process of Community
Mobilization Holly Angelique, Paula Bongiorno, and
Amu Chatterjee, Penn State Harrisburg
Building a Community Partnership Among Families,
Educators, and Health Care Practitioners to Address the
Needs of Children with Medical, Learning, and
Behavioural Difficulties Kari Krogh, The Ontario
Institute for Studies in Education, University of
Toronto, Tom Humphries, University of Toronto,
Rose Anne McKay, Lucy Lach, irene Elliot, and Jay
Rosenfiled, Hospital for Sick Children
12. Little Things Mean A Lot: The Perceived Fairness of
Local Government Roadside Tree Lopping N. Drew
and B. Bishop, Curtin University of Technology
13. The Constraints on Women's Participation in the
Social and Economic Development of Rural Western
Australia C. Day, C. Roberts, and L. Roberts, Curtin
14. Rural Communities and Schools Working Together to
Meet Social and Educational Needs: An Experience in
Costa Rica Alicia Diaz, Universidad Nacional, Costa
Rica
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SERVICE
INNOVATION
15. Community Action Project: An Altemative Program
for People With Serious Mental Illness Marcia Ward
and Catherine Stein, Bowling Green State University
16. Mental Illness and Violence Among Police-Referred
Psychiatric Patients Linda Lee Moran and Ann
D'Ercole, New York University
17. A Successful University-Community Partnership: The
Family Literacy Project Judy Primavera and Matthew
J. Cook, Fairfield University
18. The Child-Centered, Child Projection System: An
Entitlement to Protection From Maltreatment
Catherine A. Crosby-Currie, SI. Lawrence University,
N. Dickon Reppucci, University of Virginia
19. Global Effects of a School-Based Mental Health
Program Mary Ann Simpson, Jennifer L. Sanderson,
Patricia StoneMotes, Judith Fickling, and W. Babcock
Fitch, University of South Carolina, Institute for
Families in Society
20. The Impact of Volunteer Friends on People with
Mental Disabilities: An Evaluation of the Compeer
Program Nina Brown and James R. Cook, University
of North Carolina at Charlotte
21. Connecticut's Prevention Research and Demonstration
Initiative" A Results Mapping Application, AI SteinSeroussi, Barry Kibei, and David Currey, Pacific
Institute for Research and Evaluation
22. Community Association Dispute Resolution: A
Pacific Model, Cheryl Ramos, University of Hawaii
23. Not A Handout: Results of Two Government-Funded
Progra111S to Train Bilingual Teachers Ann Wichman,
University of La Verne, Maria Quezada, California
State University, Long Beach
24. An Examination of Youth Leadership William
McGrath and Kelly Hazel, University of Alaska
MUTUAL
SUPPORT/SOCIAL
SUPPORT
25. Listening to Families: Conceptual Framework and
Research Overview Catherine H. Stein, Bowling Green
State University
26. Beyond Stage Model Theories: Highlighting Diversity
in Parents' Accounts of Family Recovery Lisa
Lewandowski and Andrew L. Freeberg, Bowling Green
State University
28. Satisfaction With Mental Health Services: Views of
Mothers and Adult Children With Schizophrenia Mary
Goebel-Komala, Scott A. Craft, and Maria O'Connell,
Bowling Green State University
29. Dear God: The Role of Religion in Coping With
Caregiving Stress Jill L. Zerowin, Rebecca K.
Augusting, Sarah Funnell, and Kelly Wester, Bowling
Green State University
30. Holidays: Choices and Challenges for Families
Coping With Schizophrenia Virginia A. Wemmerus,
Columbus, Ohio, Catherine H. Stein, Bowling Green
State University
31. Effects of a Mutual-Help Group on Perceived Benefits
and Well-Being J. B. Kingree and Eden Avery,
Comprehensive Addiction Rehabilitation Programs
32. A Mutual Support Group for Young Fathers:
Examining the Development of Group Process Jimilee
Kalu and Melvin Wilson, University of Virginia
33. Needs and Sources of Received Social Support Among
Victims of Crime Linda M. Lesondak and Fran H.
Norris, Georgia State University
34. A Topography of Self-Help Groups: An Empirical
Analysis Scott Wituk, Loretta Klamik, Jon Colgate,
Kira Grubb, and Greg Meissen, Wichita State U
35. Peer Led Versus Professionally Led Self-Help Groups:
Important Similarities and Differences Matthew
Shepherd, Susan Siavich, Mike Schoenberg, Mary
Warren, and Greg Meissen, Wichita State University
36. Characteristics of Self-Help Group Leaders: The
Importance of Professional And Founder Status Louis
Medvene and Scott Wituk, Wichita State University,
Douglas Luke, SI. Louis University
37. Characteristics of an On-Line Mutual-Help Group
Deborah Salem and G. Anne Bogat, Michigan State
University
38. The Protective Roles of Social Support and Mental
Health: Parenting Behaviors Among Rural Welfare
Recipients Lorraine C. Taylor. University of Virginia
39. Interpersonal Support: A Key Predictor
Psychological Well-Being in First Year
Students from Overseas, Rural/Interstate
Settings R. M. Morrow and B. Bishop,
SENSE
27. Contemplating Future Caregiving: Family
Expectations About The Role of Well Siblings
Thomas C. Jewell and Jodi L.Lorenzo, Bowling Green
State University
OF
COMMUNITY
CLIMATE
AND
of
University
and Urban
Curtin
SOCIAL
40. Academic Groupings in an Ethnically and
Socioeconomically Diverse Middle School: A
descriptive Study of Multiple School Climates Sascha
Meinrath and Gabriel Kupenninc, Yale University
41. Young Adolescents' Developmental Concerns About
Self-Definition and Interpersonal Relatedness: The
Moderating Role of School Climate Perceptions on
Social Adjustment Gabriel P. Kupenninc, Sidney J.
Blatt, Amy Sack, and Bonnie J. Leadbeater, Yale
University
•
47. Sense of Community in a Remote Mining Town
Lynda Berends and Arthur Veno, Monash University
Gippsland, Australia
48. The Multidimensional Students' Life Satisfaction
Scale: A Potential Toolfor Community Research and
Evaluation James Laughlin, Chris Ash, Rich Gilman,
and Scott Huebner, University of South Carolina
42. The Relationship Between Organizational
Characteristics and Power Empowerment: An Analysis
of the Influence of Sense of Community Alison J.
Martin, University of Missouri-Kansas City
49. Different Strokes for Different Folks: A Discussion of
Differing Levels of Sense of Community S. J.
Coakes, B. Bishop, A. Wilson, Curtin University of
Technology
43. Sense of Community in a Local, Voluntary, Charitable
Organization: A Covariance Structural Modeling
Approach David A. Julian, United Way of Franklin
County, Ohio, Teresa W. Julian, Otterbein College
50. The Relationship Between Psychological Sense of
Community and Psychosocial Climate Factors in
Community Groups of Urban Elders G. Kelly, S.
Coakes, L. Steed, and B. Bishop, Curtin University of
Technology
44. Resilient Single Mothers in Risky Neighborhoods:
The Protective Nature of a Negative Psychological
Sense of Community Anne E. Brodsky, Johns
Hopkins School of Public Health
5 I. A Critique of the Group Environment Scale G. Kelly,
L. Steed and B. Bishop, Curtin U of Technology
45. The Relationship Between Work Environment and
Teacher Participation Samantha Suffoletta and Cindy
Crusto, University of South Carolina
46. Resolving the Applied Vs. Academic Research
Dilemma Using "Behavior Setting" Solutions
Christopher Corbett, Independent Researcher
6th Biennial Conference
Planning Committee
Manuel Barrera, Chair
Jean Ann Linney, Co-chair
Fabricio Balcazar
Darlene DeFour
Colleen Loomis
Kelly Naylor
Margaret Schneider
Andrea Solarz
Jacob Kraemer Tebes
52. Internet Relay Chat: Virtual Community or Virtual
Wasteland? L. Roberts, L. Smith, and C. Pollock,
Curtin University of Technology
53.
Indigenous--Non-Indigenous Relations in a
Country Town: Toward Social Justice and a
Greater Sense of Community N. Contos and B.
Bishop, Curtin University of Technology
Program Review Committee
Fabricio Balcazar
Manuel Barrera
Nancy G. Burgoyne
Darlene Defour
Kelly Hazel
Jean Hill
Diane Hughes
Krys Kaniasty
Joy Kaufman
Jean Ann Linney
Colleen Loomis
Robin Miller
Kelly Naylor
Geoff Nelson
Judy Primavera
Margaret Schneider
Robert Sellers
Irma Serrano-Garcia
Andrea Solarz
Jacob Kraemer Tebes
Nadia Ward
Rhona Weinstein
Kathy Wilcox
Special thanks to:
Sheila Pidgeon, Linda
Pickering, Marcia Gardner, Lisa
Slay, Carla Fallaw Karen
Bentley, Joseph Berryhill,
Christian Connell, Cindy Crusto,
Karlene Kilmer, Maury Nation,
Ron Prinz, Kristie Puster, Diana
Seybolt and the other graduate
students of the Department of
Psychology at USC who shared
their ideas, time, and skills
toward the success of this
conference
Lester A. Lefton, Dean of the
College of Liberal Arts,
University of South Carolina,
for financial support of the
conference.
jal
25
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recruiting column editors,
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A "National Conversation"
Racism & Psychology.
on
At the 1997 APA Convention, the APA Public Interest
Directorate and Office of Ethnic Minority Affairs
(OEMA) will sponsor a mini-convention on the topic of
"Psychoiogy and Racism". We are confronted daily
with the relevance and urgency of this topic in the
course of our work in communities, clinics and
classrooms. The organizers envision a series of
events throughout 1997, with the August
miniconvention as a culminating event. Bertha
Holliday, the Director of OEMA, has proposed three
preliminary "themes": 1) Racism in psychology, 2) the
psychology of racism, and 3) psychology as a tool for
eradicating racism.
Considering the current political climate in the U.S.,
marked by the burning of Black churches, racist
incidents on college campuses, and attacks on
affirmative action, many of us in the Committee on
Racial and Cultural Affairs would like for there to be a
special focus on this topic at the SCRA Biennial
Conference in South Carolina. Several of our
committee members are particularly interested in
giving more attention to how oppressed groups have
organized to fight against racism and work toward
social change. Other themes raised by members of
our committee include:
1) the inherent racism in some of the concepts and
constructs used in psychology,
2) a concern that a focus on interpersonal racism may
divert attention from institutionai racism -- and how
it relates to a capitalist economy, and
3) perspectives on race and racism in psychology
from outside the U.S. because the ways in which
these issues are constructed and dealt with vary
across countries.
(Particular thanks to Darlene DeFour, John Lawrence,
Rhonda Lewis, and Chris Sonn for their ideas on this
issue.)
Please share with us your ideas on how we in SCRA
may play an active role in the miniconvention on
Psychology and Racism, and how we may address this
topic at our Biennial Conference.
Randy Potts, Co-chair, SCRA Committee on Cultural and
Racial Affairs, can be contacted at
[email protected]
26
William S. Davidson
Named Editor of the
American Journal of Community
Psychology
Acting on the recommendation of the
Publications Committee, the SCRA Executive
Committee selected William S. Davidson II to be the
fifth editor of the American Journal of Community
Psychology at its February midwinter meeting at
Arizona State University. Bill will serve as _A_JC_P
editorelect in 1997; his five-year term as editor will begin in
January 1998 and end in December 2002.
Bill received his doctorate from the University
of Illinois in 1976 where among others he worked with
faculty members Julian Rappaport and Ed Seidman
and fellow graduate students Jean Ann Linney, Ron
Roesch and Melvin Wilson. In 1975 he joined the
faculty of Michigan State University and since 1981 he
has chaired the MSU Ecological Psychology Program,
a leading, freestanding, community psychology
doctoral program. Bill's intervention and research on
the diversion of adolescents from the juvenile justice
system have been widely recognized as exemplary.
He has received research awards and recognition from
the APA Task Force on Prevention, the Carnegie
Foundation, the APA Division of Consulting
Psychology, and the federal government. His recent
research with Cris Sullivan and others on domestic
violence against women is contributing significantly to
our understanding of the effect of such abuse, the
strategies women use to cope with abusive partners,
and the impact of advocacy interventions.
Bill has been an active mentor of community
psychologists in general and of women and people of
color in particular. Craig Brookins, Rebecca Campbell,
Jim Emshoff, Carolyn Feis, Emily Smith, Andrea
Solarz, and Cris Sullivan are some of the students
whom Bill has mentored and who now in turn are
making their own contributions to our field.
Bill has also provided leadership as an officer
in both the Council of Community Psychology
Program Directors and the Society for Community
Research and Action. In CCPPD he has been a strong
advocate for maintaining a spirit of innovation in
graduate training and avoiding the constraints
imposed by accreditation. As SCRA Treasurer and
Chair of Member Services, Bill has strengthened
SCRA member services and helped to improve those
provided by APA and Plenum Publishing. These
effects have noticeably improved delivery of _A_JC_P
to
members and reduced other member complaints.
Bill's vision for the future of &!QE. includes
both continuity and diversity. He will seek for &!QE. to
continue to publish the best of community
psychology. He also will work to promote diversity in
the theories, phenomena, research participants,
methods and settings reported in the pages of the
Journal. He would like to see more publications from
scholars who work in a variety of settings as well as
universities and from a variety of disciplines as well as
community psychology. Bill also wants to increase
submissions by working with the associate editors,
editorial board members and reviewers to shorten the
time for manuscript review and editorial decisions. He
will seek to expand &!QE.'s visibility in kindred areas
such as applied sociology, applied anthropology,
community organization in social work, public policy in
political science, the nonprofit sector in business, and
community-oriented areas of criminal justice and urban
planning. Bill plans to involve diverse constituencies
in the operation of _A_JC_P.
Bill was chosen as the culmination of a 6month effort by the SCRA Publications Committee.
The Committee used a variety of recruitment
strategies-nomination forms distributed by SCRA
leaders at the last APA convention, a SCRA listserv
announcement, a call in TCP in the President's
column, and a mailing to all SCRA varieties of
members-students, independent and APA. These
efforts yielded nearly 50 nominees. The Publications
Committee including the chair (Chris Keys) the past
president (Irwin Sandler), the president-elect (Meg
Bond), representatives of women (Karla Fischer), racial
and cultural (Randy Potts) and applied constituencies
(Bill Berkowitz), and the current AJCP editor (Ed
Trickett) then reviewed and refined the selection
criteria used in the last AJCP editorial search and
identified eight finalists. The finalists willing to be
considered were asked to submit a vision statement,
vita and references. After gathering and reviewing this
information, the Publications Committee made its
recommendation to the SCRA Executive Committee.
Thanks to all those who participated in this
process by making nominations, serving on the
Publication and Executive Committee, and most
importantly being willing to be considered for the role
of editor. SCRA is a volunteer organization and the
amount of time and effort members devote to SCRA
activities is indeed impressive. In this spirit, the
Publications Committee encourages SCRA members
to work with Bill to build on and continue to improve
&!QE.'s fine record as our flagship journal enters its
second quarter century.
Chris Keys
Chair, Publications Committee
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SCRA INTEREST
GROUP & COMMITTEE
Aging
The Aging interest group
focuses on the productive role of
aging in the community and the
prevention of mental health
problems in the elderly. For
information contact Margaret
Hastings at 708-256-4844 or
Ann Steffen at 314-516-5382,
Email: sasteff@admiraLumsLedu
Community
Action
The Community Action interest
group explores the roles and
contributions of people working
in applied community psychology
settings. For information contact
David Julian at 614-227-2700,
Email: [email protected]
Children
and Youth
This interest group facilitates the
interests of child and adolescent
development in high risk
contexts, especially the effect of
urban poverty and community
structures on child and family
development. For more
information contact Mark Aber at
217-333-6999,
Email:
[email protected].
Community
Health
This interest group focuses on
health promotion, disease
prevention, and health care
service delivery issues as they
relate to the community. For
more information contact Toshi
Sasao, 714-824-6567, Email:
tsasao@ucLedu
Committee
on
This committee is charged with
the task of advising the Executive
Committee on issues both
internal and external to the
Society that are relevant to
culture and race. The current
chair is Randy Potts, phone: 860520-1155, Email:
potts%uhavax.dnet
@ipgate.hartford.edu
BULLETIN
Disabilities
This interest group promotes
understanding of the depth and
diversity of disabilities issues in
the community that are ready for
research and action; and
influences community psychologists' involvement in policy and
practices that enhance selfdetermination, personal choice,
and full inclusion in the community for people with disabilities.
For information contact Glen
White at 913-864-4840, Email:
[email protected].
Committee
on International
Community
Psychology
A Standing Committee that
supports and promotes
communication and interaction
among community psychologists
and practitioners from all nations
and a mechanism for
dissemination of information
internationally. The current chair
is Michael Hough, Scotland.
Prevention
and Promotion
This interest group seeks to
enhance development of prevention and promotion research,
foster active dialogue about
critical conceptual and methodological action and implementation issues, and promote rapid
dissemination and discussion of
new developments and findings
in the field .. For information:
Jean Ann Linney (803-7777161, Email: [email protected]) or
Irwin Sandler (602-727-6121,
Email: [email protected]).
School
Intervention
This interest group addresses
theories, methods knowledge
base, and setting factors
pertaining to prevention and
health promotion in schools. For
more information contact Joseph
Zins (513-556-3341, Emailjoseph.zins @uc.edu) or Marsha
Kline (203-789-7645).
BOARD
Committee
on Women
Standing committee charged to
advise the Executive Committee
on issues relevant to women in
community psychology. Current
chair is Kelly Naylor, Children's
Hospital, Denver, CO
Self Help I Mutual Support
This interest group is an
international organization of
researchers, self-help leaders,
and policy makers that promotes
research and action related to
seif-help groups and organizations. For more information
contact Mellon Kennedy at 816822-7100 or Email:
mellen ken @aoLcom
Rural
The Rural interest group is
devoted to highlighting issues of
rural environment that are
important in psychological
research, service and teaching.
For information contact Michael
Blank at 804-979 -8372 or Email:
[email protected].
Stress and Coping
This interest group aims to
preserve the Society's ties to an
historically important area of
research and to facilitate communication among researchers in
this area and with other
community psychologists. For
information, contact Fran H.
Norris at 404-651-1610.
Undergraduate
Awareness
The aim of this interest group is to
promote awareness of community psychology among undergraduate students and to
increase student involvement in
community psychology. For
more information contact Kim
Kobus at 312-996-3036 or Email:
[email protected]
SCRA COMMITTEE ON WOMEN
ColUmn Editors:
Karfa Fischer
Deborah Salem
Tracey A. Revenson is Associate Professor of
Psychology and Director of the Health Psychology
Concentration at the Graduate School and University
Center, City University of New York. She is Editor-inChief of the joumal Womens Health: Research on "
Gender. Behavior and Polley. With it's focus on the
psychological, social, cultural and politiCal processes
that effect women's health, Women's Health is a
potential publication outlet for Division 27 members.
This column addresses the question: What do we
mean by women's health?
Research in Women's Health:
New Answers, New Questions
doing that we can argue that our goal is to describe
current theories and research on the health of a
particular biological/demographic group, females. We
can present information concerning all women, on
particular cultural or medical subgroups of women, on
health issues that are unique to women (e.g.,
childbirth, menopause), on diseases that are
experienced to a greater extent by women (e.g.,
breast cancer, osteoporosis, eating disorders), on risk
and protective factors that are unique to women (e.g.,
[failure to] obtain regular mammograms) or on those
that predispose women more than men to particular
illnesses.
Or, we could place the emphasis on the second word,
health. The Worfd Health Organization's (WHO)
definition of health includes not only physical health,
but mental, social, functional and spiritual health, as
well as the utilization of health care services and the
development of health policy. Thus, we need to
address the prevention of disease and promotion of
health as well as the treatment of illness, the
interaction between patients and providers, and
cultural definitions of health and illness. Both
emphases are broad and present opportunities for
community psychologists.
Tracey A. Revenson
I
am writing this column with my hat on as editor-inchief of a two-year old scientific peer-reviewed
journal, Women's Health: Research on Gender,
Behavior and Policy, published by Lawrence Erlbaum
Associates. The journal is dedicated to publishing
original research that advances our knowledge of the
psychological, social, cultural and political processes
that affect women's physical health, and how gender
influences health-behavior relations, illness and health
care. The journal has the potential to become a
publication outlet for community psychologists doing
research on women's health issues. (After all, it was
created by a community psychologist!) As written in
the mission statement,
the journal encourages submissions from a
diverse range of behavioral, social science and
medical disciplines ...• theoretical perspectives
(contextual. cross-cultural. feminist, life-span
development) and methodological approaches
(e.g., experimental and quasi-experimental
designs, intervention research, qualitative and
ethnographic methods, epidemiological
approaches, policy analysis). The quality and
appropriateness of conceptualization and
method are more important than any particular
perspective or methodology".
I begin with the most obvious yet most difficult
question: What do we mean by women's health? We
can place the emphasis on the first word, women. By
The study of women's health as its own "specialty" is a
recent development, although an awareness that
inequities existed in women's health care has been
growing for a long time. For many years, inattention to
women's issues could be found in the conduct of
research and the clinical practice of medicine: The
historical exclusion of women and members of
raciaVethnic minorities from clinical trials and major
studies of medical conditions affecting men and
women limits our ability to fully understand many
issues in women's health. It was a five-year study of
22,000 male physicians examining the benefits of
taking a daily aspirin to prevent heart attacks that
brought the issue to national attention. No women
were included in the study, but more importantly, the
conclusions based on a male sample were being
generalized to women. This was a galvanizing factor in
the creation of the Office on Women's Health within
the Department of Health and Human Services in
1990. Along with federal regulations requiring the
inclusion of women (and ethnic minorities) in
government-supported research, there is both a
growing interest in women's health and the scientific
legitimacy of studying it.
There are a number of overarching themes that are
important to the study of women's health. First is the
need to recognize the interdependence of physical
and mental health. Physical health affects mental
health, and at the same time, mental health affects
physical health. For example, the onset of a chronic
illness and its treatment regimen may result in
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increased depressive symptoms, and depression may
inhibit the use of effective coping strategies, including
adherence to treatment, which could cause greater
health declines. As will become apparent in the
exemplars presented later, it serves no purpose to
separate physical and mental health -- they are braided
together.
The second theme is the fact that women's health
must be studied within its social and cultural context.
There is an unstated assumption that women are a
homogenous group, particularly in studies where they
are compared with men. However, there is as much
variation among women as there is between women
and men. Sociodemographic factors such as age,
race/ethnicity, social class, and poverty influence
health status and health behaviors in their own right,
but also interact with gender. Despite the social,
economic, and cultural diversity among minority
women, they experience disease, disability and
premature death disproportionately.
For example,
although the incidence rate of breast cancer is lower
among Black women than White women, the death
rate for Black women suffering from breast cancer is
higher. Poverty appears to contribute to the greater
morbidity and mortality among minority women, in large
part due to their limited access to quality health care,
particularly preventive care, and their greater likelihood
of being uninsured (or underinsured).
... there is as much variation among women
as there is between women and men .
Sociodemographic factors such as age,
racelethnicity, social class, and poverty
influence health status and health behaviors
in their own right, but also interact with
gender.
The third theme is that the behavioral and
psychosocial aspects of women's health must be
studied within women's lived experience. This means
that there is a need for naturalistic studies, framed
within the geography of women's lives. Research
needs to consider women's roles as wives, mothers,
and caregivers of others as it considers how they cope
with their own or a family member's illness, adhere to
prescribed treatment, or find the time to seek and
practice preventive care, such as breast selfexamination. For example, in reporting the
occurrence of stressful life events, women tend to
include events that happen to family members and
friends as their own to a greater degree than men do.
It is also critical to include a life-span developmental
perspective. A women's age reflects not only her
reproductive cycle and the normative biological
changes occurring in her body, but also the social and
developmental tasks appropriate for her life stage. It is
also important to examine health and behavior
processes among women of different sexual
orientations, though this is a very recent focus. For
example, current research on HIV/AIDS has examined
behavioral transmission among women who have sex
with women and the "minority stress" that lesbians
experience. National surveys indicate underutilization
of routine preventive care by lesbians, perhaps
because of stigmatization by health professionals.
Broad-based support for research on women's health,
from both the scientific and policy-making
communities is fairly new. The Women's Health
Initiative, a national, 625 million dollar 15-year study of
medical, physiological and behavioral factors affecting
the three leading causes of death and disability among
women -- heart disease, cancer, and osteoporosis -. is
underway. The largest study of its kind in the U.S., it
will hopefully provide answers to questions that
haven't been studied until now.
Which brings me back to the journal... Women's
Health: Research on Gender, Behavior and Policy has
recently published two thematic issues of interest to
members of SCRA. Upcoming articles include an
exemplary study by SCRA's Rebecca Campbell,
University of Illinois at Chicago, on detecting cracks in
the delivery of emergency medical services for rape
victims .
Volume 2 (no.'s 1/2) is a double issue guest-edited by
Vickie M. Mays, University of California, Los Angeles,
on The Behavioral and Social Context of HIV Infection
Risks in Lesbians and Women Who Have Sex with
Women. This issue of empirically-based studies
examine data on the risk behaviors, context of risktaking and the necessary prevention and service
needs of these women in the United States. The
studies help broaden our perspective of risk to a
reflection on the social configuration of how
conditions of culture, economics, oppression,
violence, and social inequality/injustice contribute to
conditions of risks that facilitate transmission and
exposure in some particularly vulnerable groups of
women. It challenges those working in the field of
health and HIV to broaden their efforts to include the
health needs of these individuals in their prevention
agenda.
Volume 2 (no. 4) presents a critical analysis and
debate on an issue that Is central to the field of
women's health: the need, efficacy and costeffectiveness of mammography screening for women
in their 40's. This debate that has come to the public's
awareness with the recommendations of the NIH
Consensus Development Panel in January, 1997.
The issue presents an empirical target article and four
commentaries written by experts in medicine, public
health and behavioral psychology. The target article,
Mammography Screening: Prospects and Opportunity
Costs, authored by Robert D. Kaplan and Ana Navarro
presents a new meta-analysis of existing data to reach
conclusions about the benefits of mammography
screening for women under 50 and confronts the
issue of how health policymakers should interpret that
data to make hard choices in an era of limited health
care funds. Authors of commentaries include Renee
Royak-Schaler, Sherlye Gallant, and Leona Aiken.
If you would like further information on submitting
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SCRA COMMITTEE ON RACIAL
AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS
Chair. Shelly Harrell
Past chair: Randy Potts
What has SCRA's Committee on
(CCRA) been up to this year?
E
ach year the CCRA accepts nominations and
selects the recipient of the Society for Community
Research and Action's Ethnic Minority Mentorship
Award. The CCRA is strongly committed to
encouraging and recognizing SCRA members who
contribute to the development of ethnic minority
psychologists in community research and action, as
well as who contribute to the promotion of a climate
supportive of diversity within their institutions. This
year, we had only received _o_n_e
nomination before the
initial deadline of February 1sl! We extended the
deadline and received several more nominations
enabling us to proceed with the selection process.
The award will be presented at the Biennial. However,
the poor initial response was of great concern to us
and suggests a need to engage in a dialogue
regarding the status of training and mentoring ethnic
minority students, as well as the status of cultural
diversity issues within community psychology. We
look forward to exploring these issues at the
upcoming biennial and throughout the year.
One of our major activities during the fall was
preparation of programs for the Biennial and AP A
1997 meetings. The CCRA program at the Biennial is
entitled "Developing an agenda on racism for
community psychology". This format is a Critical Issues
Discussion and is intended to be part of APA's Office
of Ethnic Minority Affairs (OEMA) initiative to promote
National Conversations on racism during this year.
These conversations are intended to increase the
visibility of racism-related issues within psychology and
lead up to the mini-convention on "Racism and
Psychology" at the 1997 AP A Convention in Chicago.
Bertha Holliday at OEMA has raised the possibility of
publishing summaries of these National Conversations. Clearly, SCRA should be a visible presence in
APA's discussions on racism. The CCRA will also be
hosting the Ethnic Minority Mentorship Networking
Breakfast at the Biennial. It will be an opportunity for
us to network, support each other, and discuss
directions for the committee. We welcome current
members of the Committee, as well as SCRA members
who are interested in our activities. Student members
are particularly encouraged to attend.
We have recently been notified of the acceptance of
our program for the AP A Convention. It is a
symposium and will be part of the mini-convention on
"Racism and Psychology". Randy Potts will be
chairing "Racism and Psychology: Research,
resilience, and a call for action". Panelists include
John Moritsugu, Yolanda Suarez-Balcazar, Jeffrey
Ring, and Shelly Harrell. Rod Watts and Gail Wyatt will
be the discussants. We hope to see you there!
The major two initiatives we have been developing
during this year for SCRA involve publications and
training. We are exploring options for continuing to
increase the visibility of scholarly work on racial and
cultural issues relevant to community research and
action. A special series in the &!!:<.E is being
considered. OEMA has encouraged AP A journals to
consider developing special issues on the topic of
racism in upcoming volumes. We have also been
discussing the publication of a text on cultural
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competence in community research and action that
could facilitate integration of cultural issues in our
training programs.
The Committee strongly supports the
Statement on Cultural/Ethnic/Racial/Gender
Issues in
the 1996 Annual Report from the Executive Board of
the Council of Program Directors in Community
Research and Action (CPDCRA). The statement
strongly endorsed the integration of cultural diversity
materials in all community psychology training
programs. To facilitate this effort, the CCRA would like
to begin a collection of syllabi, reading lists, course
assignments, class exercises, etc. that meaningfully
incorporate issues of cultural diversity in the teaching
of community psychology. We invite you to send
relevant materials to Shelly Harrell at the address
below. Please also inform your colleagues who may
have materials to contribute. We plan to organize the
materials in a form that would be useful to those of us
involved in training. We hope that the availability of
this information will enhance the incorporation of
cultural diversity in a variety of our courses.
Finally, we invite you to affiliate with the CCRA. We are
interested in your comments and ideas to facilitate
networking and to enhance our work on racial and
cultural issues within SCRA.
For more information on SCRA's Committee on
Cultural and Racial Affairs please contact:
Shelly P. Harrell, Ph.D.
Coordinator, Multicultural Community-Clinical
Psychology, California School of Professional
Psychology, Los Angeles
1000 S. FremontAve.
Alhambra, CA 91803-1360
(818) 284-2777 ext. 3038
(818) 284-0550 (FAX)
[email protected]
BOOK REVIEWS
The first review below, by Allison Lerman and
Leonard Jason, focuses on Anthony Biglan's book,
Changing Cultural Practices. The second review, by
Carlos J. VQlez-Blasini and George W. Albee, is a
reprint of their recent review of David Glenwick and
Leonard Jason's 1993 edited volume, Promoting
Health and Mental Health In Children, Youth, and
Families.
.1am very Interested In your Ideas for books to
review in future Issues; pfease share with me the
books you have come across In the last year or so
which you feel others should be reading and thinking
about. You can contact me by phone (410) 455-2567,
or a-mail, [email protected].
I look
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Ken Maton
Changing the World:
One Step at a Time
Anthony Biglan
Changing Cultural Practices: A Contextual/st
Framework for Intervention Research.
Reno: Context Press, 1995. 465 pp.
ISBN: 1-8789-7822-5.
Review by
Allison Lerman and Leonard Jason
In Changing Cultural Practices, Anthony Biglan
argues that in addressing social problems there is a
need for a more scientific approach. Over the years
there has been much research through which many
effective interventions have been identified for
various problems of human behavior, but this
knowledge has not been applied to significantly
reduce the incidence or prevalence of societal
problems. Biglan presents his "Contextualist
Framework for Intervention Research" as the scientific
approach that should be used to effectively achieve
change.
This contextualist framework attempts to both
predict and influence behaviors and cultural practices
through the integration of both research and practice.
Biglan argues that a basic understanding of behavior
and how it is shaped is an essential aspect of this
approach. In order for significant changes to be
achieved one must use this basic knowledge of the
significant relationships between people and the
environment that shape behaviors, as well as any
existing empirical evidence of these correlations.
32 The Community Psycholo9ist. Volume 30, Number 2, April 1997
Some aspect of the environment must be
manipulated to effectively change behaviors. Thus,
direct intervention is necessary. There needs to be
reinforcement of desired behaviors, punishment for
opposing behaviors, training people what needs to be
done to achieve the desired behaviors, services
provided that support desired behaviors and creating
a community in which the desired behaviors are
assured. In addition, there must be some formal
organization that strives to achieve the desired
change, as well as media advocacy of the desired
behavior.
Biglan presents four examples of cultural
practices that are in need of change, and they include:
decreasing the prevalence of tobacco use, improving
child rearing practices, eliminating sexist practices and
changing environmentally harmful practices.
To reduce the prevalence of tobacco use,
especially to adolescents, Biglan suggests action at
the federal and state level, i.e., increasing taxes, and
direct intervention by communities. This intervention
used a "moduiar approach," a written description of
the steps to be taken to achieve change. Modules
included efforts to increase anti-tobacco
communication to youth, increase parents'
communication to their children, inform community
members of the costs and benefits of selling tobacco
to young people and to establish and enforce polices
for minors in possession of tobacco.
Communication, according to Biglan, is also key
in attempts to change childrearing practices in
American communities. Parents must be taught the
most effective ways of raising their children. Thus,
parent training should be provided by businesses,
government, schools and religious organizations.
Organizations and institutions must also communicate
with each other, i.e., laws regarding curfew and alcohol
and tobacco sales must be understood and
consequences for breaking such laws must be
enforced. Programs that provide supervised activities
for youth should also be provided.
Biglan also believes that in order to reduce sexist
practices in the United States efforts should be based
on reducing sexual coercion. Schools, government,
businesses, media, religious organizations and health
care providers should all clearly communicate to
community members that sexually coercive behaviors
are neither acceptable, nor will they be tolerated.
Disciplinary practices must be enforced for such
crimes, and prevention programs must be established
and clearly communicated.
Lastly, to change environmentally harmful
practices, Biglan again asserts that organizations must
be established to effectively communicate the
dangers to the environment and the causes of these
dangers. In so doing they should prompt changes in
environmentally relevant behaviors such as recycling
and use of public transportation, as well as eliciting
support for changes in public policy.
Anthony Biglan's Contextualist Framework is a
cleariy defined scientific approach to changing cultural
practices. While the rationale for selecting the target
issues are clearly presented, some readers might have
difficulty understanding exactly how to begin
implementing these types of interventions. There
might also be a need to provide more details about
how to secure funding for these types of social and
community interventions. Other questions that might
need to be thought through concern who should be
in charge of the training and implementing of
programs. The types of programs being advocated
might take a considerable period of time to complete.
How might citizens and activists remain committed to
the process so that their interventions can be more
successful? These are the types of questions that
could probably be asked of anybody who is trying to
develop large scale social projects. We commend
Biglan for offering a model that has not only had
numerous successes but provides a foundation for
more contextually rigorous and conceptually well
thought out interventions.
Allison Lerman is a graduate student in the Psychology
Department at DePaul University. She can be reached at
(312) 325-7000 ext. 2061, or via e-mail at
[email protected].
Leonard Jason is also in the Psychology Department at
DePaul University. He can be reached at (312) 325-7000
ext. 2018 or via e-mail at [email protected].
Helping People Help Themselves
David S. Glenwick and Leonard A. Jason (Eds.).
Promoting Health and Mental
Youth, and Families
NY: Springer, 1993.264
Health
in Children,
pp. ISBN 0-8261-7310-1.
Review by
Carlos J. VQlez-Blasini and George W. Albee
This is a stimulating, valuable, and useful sample
of programs designed to improve health and mental
health in a range of different groups in the United
States. In fewer than 250 pages of text, only a limited
number of programs are included. The focus is
somewhat narrow, emphasizing a few major health and
mental health problems (child abuse, childhood injury
and road safety, teenage pregnancy, substance
The Community Psychol09ist, Volume 3D, Number 2, April 1997
33
abuse, AIDS) and the promotion of social competence
and social support. An introductory chapter reviews
behavioral approaches to prevention in the
community, and a final chapter reviews communitywide approaches to promoting health.
The book is divided into two major parts. The first
seven chapters are dedicated to prevention strategies
related to specific health and mental health problems.
The majority of these programs are being implemented through school systems, although one of the
interventions takes place in a corporate setting and
another is designed to be implemented by parents in
the home environment. The second part deals with
more innovative strategies such as media-based
interventions, interventions that stress the importance
of social support networks, and community-based
interventions.
The editors have developed an excellent format
for each of the chapters written by different authors.
Each chapter is organized into four distinct parts,
starting with a clear description of the problem at hand
and containing abundant information on prevalence
rates, descriptions of at-risk populations, and useful
statistics. This section is then followed by a critical
review of the relevant literature, highlighting
achievements as well as problems and emphasizing
empirical studies that form the bases on which the
interventions are designed. This is a particularly
appealing aspect of the book because the authors
take the time to bring together the pure and applied
sides of the behavioral perspective. Each chapter also
provides one case example that gives concrete
information on the development, implementation, and
relative success of a specific primary prevention
program. Finally, each chapter discusses directions
for future research and intervention in each area. In
general, this uniformity of presentation across
chapters serves the purpose of highlighting the
similarities and differences among programs designed
to deal with very different problems, especially in terms
of the many obstacles confronted by preventionists.
It is interesting to muse about the differences
between efforts at improving health and at improving
mental health. Changes in the former are much easier
to measure than in the latter. Efforts at improving
mental health are more likely to elicit opposition
because often these efforts involve sexual behavior,
parenting behavior, and a range of school and family
values that resist change. The media do not censor or
restrict ads that encourage exercise or discourage
smoking but are timid or unwilling to appear to
encourage condom use or to condone planned
premarital sex. By and large, the biggest headache
described by most of these authors was related to the
difficulties in securing support from parents, school
boards, school principals, and teachers. This problem
is less likely to exist in interventions to improve health.
Most large-scale community health projects
involve both educational efforts at changing individual
behaviors and conditions that threaten health
(smoking and diet, obesity and high blood pressure)
and, less often it seems, community change aimed at
reducing pollution, especially of air and water, and
improved sanitation. Translating these strategies into
efforts at improving mental health we are informed of
educational efforts at improving parenting and
mentoring, at reducing sexual risk and premature
pregnancy. Again, only infrequently do the
interventions involve social and community change.
There is heavy emphasis in these preventive
interventions on education for behavior change.
Such approaches are sometimes referred to as
microprograms, as contrasted with macroprograms that
involve major social-environmental change, often
involving legal and political action. Geller (p. 150)
contrasts engineering and legal changes (high tech)
with educational-behavioral approaches (low tech) in
efforts at reducing highway fatalities and injuries. His
analysis finds engineering changes much more
effective than educational approaches.
Rhodes and Englund make this issue clear for us.
They write,
To date our research, intervention, funding
priorities have concentrated on the individual,
largely ignoring the crucial contributing role of
contex1ual variables. The poverty-related nature
of many social and health problems, however,
makes it necessary to widen and even alter our
traditional approaches. There is a need to ...shift
the major interest to a predominantly structural
orientation (pp. 28-29).
We agree. The book's Index does not include
terms like sexism, racism, exploitation, ageism, or
homophobia. These are contex1ual variables we
regard as important. Most of the primary prevention
programs described in this book do not address the
issue of cultural differences. This is true even though
in almost every chapter the authors point out that
minorities are at more risk for developing any of these
problems than are nonminorities. Prevalence rates in
the United States for almost all of the problems
addressed in these chapters are significantly higher
for African Americans and Hispanics. It would make
sense to address the issue of how different cultures
perceive and respond to primary prevention,
interventions. Issues relating to sexuality (AIDS,
teenage pregnancy, sexual abuse) must be
addressed differently when dealing with Hispanics
than with non-Hispanics. For example, the finding of a
significant rate of HIV infection in young Hispanic
women who were "virgins" was inexplicable until it was
realized that anal intercourse was regarded as a
culturally acceptable way to preserve one's virginity
and prevent pregnancy.
Note. The above review was reprinted in full from,
Contemporary Psychology, 1996,41,243-244. Copyright
@ 1996 by the American Psychological Association.
Reprinted with permission.
On a positive note, a majority of the authors in the
book (over 70 percent) are women. (It is our
impression that more women than men are attracted to
primary prevention--a testable hypothesis.) The
program descriptions are clear and straightforward.
The book will be a useful supplementary reading for
courses in prevention and community psychology.
Carlos J. Vr;;/ez-Blasini Is in the Department
Middlebury College. He can be contacted at
5035. George W. Albee is in the Department
University of Vermont. He can be contacted
of Psychology,
(802) 443of Psychology,
at (802) 656-
2670.
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Services Providers of Color on
November 2-5, 1997 in
Houston, TX. The Center is
requesting for application
submissions. Representatives in
the fields of business, community
outreach/social work, existing
provider groups and managed
care organizations who primarily
serve, or intend to serve
youngsters of color, and their
families, are encouraged to apply.
Tuition for the Academy is
$495.00. Participants are
responsible for lodging, travel
and meals. To receive an
application form, contact Marva
Benjamin, A.C.SW. National
Technical Assistance Center for
Children's Mental Health
Georgetown University Child
Development Center 3370 M
Street, NW., Suite 401
Washington, DC 20007 or call
(202) 687-5000 or FAX (202)
687-8899.Applications
must be
received by June 30, 1997.
The program for the June1997
Hartman
Conference
to be
held in Connecticut is now
available. The conference theme
this year is "Healthy Children
2010: Strategies to Enhance
Social, Emotional, & Physical
Wellness. Roger Weissberg was
the lead editor for the two volume
set of books that are included in
the early registration fee of $135.
The titles of those books are:
Healthy Children 2010:
Enhancing Children's WeNness
and Healthy Children 2010:
Establishing Preventive
Services. Conferences dates
June 18, 19, & 20. For a copy of
the complete program and
registration information contact
Tom Gullotta at
<[email protected]>.
CALL FOR PAPERS:
International
Congress
For
Applied
Psychology.
The
Scientific Program Committee for
the 24th International Congress
of psychology, taking place
August 9-14, 1998 in San
Francisco, has issued the call for
papers. Hosted by the APA on
37
behalf of the International
Association of Applied
Psychology, the Congress will
feature an array of individual and
group presen-tations on:
organizational psychology,
psychological evaluation and
assessment; psychology and
national development;
educational, instructional and
school psychology; clinical and
community psychology; applied
gerontology; health psychology;
economic psychology;
psychology and law; political
psychology; sport psychology;
traffic and transportation
psychology; and other areas
such as applied social, applied
developmental, human factors
and ergonomics, and social
issues.
To request a copy of the call,
contact: Congress Secretariat,
APA Office of International
Affairs, 750 First Street, NE,
Washington, DC 20002-4242;
fax 202-336-5956, e-mail:
[email protected].
First Regional
Congress
of
Psychology
for
Professionals
in the
Americas,
Mexico City, July
27 to August 2, 1997.
Psychologists doing research in
organizational psychology,
evaluation, psychology and
national development,
environmental psychology,
educational and school
psychology, clinical and
community psychology, applied
gerontology, health psychology,
economic psychology,
psychology and law, psychology
and politics, traffic and transport
psychology, and sport
psychology are invited to submit
papers. The scientific program
will include workshops, state of
the art invited addresses,
symposia, and thematic sessions
and posters. Deadline for
submission October 30, 1996.
For further information contact
the Organizing committee at
tel/fax (525) 598.23.42 or
563.62.39 or by Email to
[email protected].
Visit our website at
http://miztlLcchadm.unam.
mxlimifap
National
Mental Health
Association
PREVENTION
ADVOCACY
NETWORK:
By
joining the Prevention Advocacy
Network you will playa role in
bringing prevention messages to
Congress, federal agencies, and
other key decision makers.
Membership in the Prevention
Advocacy Network includes an
annual subscription to the
Journal of Primary Prevention,
annual subscription to the NMHA
Prevention Update, periodic
updates on legislative issues and
policy changes, a listing in the
NMHA Prevention Clearinghouse
referral database linking you with
4000 professionals, researchers,
policy makers and students who
share an interest in prevention
advocacy, Send a check ($45 for
students, $85 for individuals,
$125 for organizations) to NMHA
Prevention Advocacy Network,
1021 Prince St., Alexandria, VA
22314-5971. Questions about
membership? Contact Sandy
McElhaney at 703-838-7506.
JOBS, JOBS, and more
JOBS
CLINICAL/COMMUNITY
PSYCHOLOGIST
• INDIANA
UNIVERSITY
OF
PENNSYLVANIA
invites
applications for a permanent,
tenure-track position (Associate
Professor); initial appointment is
for August 1997 although a
January 1998 appointment would
be acceptable. Applicants should
have a doctorate in psychology
and be license eligible in
Pennsylvania. Primary duty
(approximately half-time) is as
Director of the Center for Applied
Psychology (CAP), a department
sponsored training clinic for our
APA accredited PsyD in Clinical
Psychology. The CAP consists
of three clinics (individual, family,
and assessment) staffed by
faculty and advanced graduate
students. The CAP also provides
consultative services to a variety
of community groups through
local contracts. The Director is
responsible for budgetary
oversight, developing and
maintaining working relationships
with external groups (e.g.,
community agencies, schools),
obtaining local grants and service
contracts, and facilitating training
and research opportunities for
faculty and students. Specific
clinical interest is open, although
some preference will be given to
candidates with experience
working with children, schools,
and families. Teaching duties
may include graduate level
courses and/or direct clinical
supervision in one of the CAP
clinics; undergraduate teaching is
also available. A commitment to
excellence in education and
research is essential. Individual
initiatives in scholarly activity and
grant writing are strongly
encouraged. The current
department of 25 offers an APAaccredited PsyD in clinical
psychology which follows a
practitioner model of training with
a strong commitment to sciencebased education. Approximately
10-15 graduate students are
accepted annually. On the
undergraduate level, the
department offers an arts and
sciences degree with
approximately 500 undergraduate majors. IUP is the
largest university in
Pennsylvania's State System of
Higher Education, has about
14,000 students, and is located
50 miles northeast of Pittsburgh.
Applications should be received
by May 15, 1997 for full
consideration; review of
applications will continue until the
position is filled. Letters of
application detailing teaching and
research interests and
'~----'-~_
experience, vitae, transcripts,
three letters of reference (one of
which should be from current
employerl supervisor), and
supporting materials should be
sent to: Dr. Mary Lou Zanich,
Chair - Search Committee, 316
Clark Hall, Department of
Psychology, IUP, Indiana, PA
15705-1068. Additional
information about the department
and this position are available
from the department's Website
(http:\\www.iup.edu/pc/).
Women, people of color, and
members of other underrepresented groups are
especially encouraged to apply.
IUP is an Affirmative Action/Equal
Opportunity Employer.
ASSISTANT
PROFESSOR:
Indiana
University-Purdue
Un iversity-I nd ianapol i s
(IUPUI) Department of
Psychology is committed to
enhancing training in cultural
diversity and improving services
to ethnic minorities. We are
seeking a tenure-track faculty
member in any area of
psychology, with EXPERTISE IN
MULTICULTURAL ISSUES
(pending funding approval). Our
department houses three
graduate programs: Ph.D.
Clinical Rehabilitation Psychology
(APA accreditation expected
4/97), which focuses on chronic
health conditions (severe mental
illness, neurological conditions,
diabetes, etc.); Ph.D.
Psychobiology of Addictions,
which emphasizes experimental
methodology and neurobiological mechanisms in the
study of addictive behaviors;
M.S. Industrial-Organizational
Psychology, which prepares
individuals for positions in
industry or for entry into doctoral
training. Current graduate
psychology faculty hold
appointments at both IU and
Purdue. Multidisciplinary
research opportunities are
available and encouraged with
other departments in the School
of Science, the School of
Medicine, five teaching hospitals
located on campus, and major
corporate entities in central
Indiana. Responsibilities:
graduate and undergraduate
training, especially in multicultural
diversity; coordination of a 3-year
training grant improving
rehabilitation psychologists'
expertise with clients of diverse
backgrounds; and research.
Requirements: EXPERTISE IN
MULTICULTURAL ISSUES.
Ph.D. or ABD in any area of
psychology. SCHOLARS
FROM ETHNICALLY DIVERSE
BACKGROUNDS ARE
STRONGLY ENCOURAGED TO
APPLY. Application deadline is
May 1, but applications will be
accepted until the position is
filled. Salary is competitive, and
start-up funds are generous.
Send vita, recent publications,
and letters from three references
to: Philip S. Fastenau; Chair,
Muiticultural Search Committee;
Dept. of Psychology (LD 124);
402 N. Blackford Street;
Indianapolis, IN, 46202-3275.
IUPUI is an Affirmative
Acffon/EqualOpportunffy
Employer.
The Graduate
School of
Applied
and Professional
Psychology
at Rutgers-The
State University
of New
Jersey, announces an opening
for the position of Director of the
Psychological Clinic. The
Psychological Clinic provides
training for Psy.D.&
Ph.D.students in clinical and
applied psychology and low cost
service to the community. The
Clinic has been responsible for
providing clients for courses in
clinical, school and organizational
psychology that require a practice
component as well as opportunity
for cognitive, learning and
personality evaluations. With
substantial changes in the world
of professional psychology and
mental health services, we
anticipate opportunities for
expansion and restructuring of
the Clinic. Enhanced outreach to
underserved constituencies in
the community, development of
innovative services to underserved populations and
restructuring of the Clinic as a
model mental health care delivery
program will provide challenges
and opportunities to the new
Director. The Clinical Director
should be a licensed doctoral
level psychologist with significant
experience in the practice of
psychotherapy, the training of
psychologists, consultation, and
program development. The
Director should have documented management experience
and expertise and knowledge of
the most current, validated
methods of assessment,
treatment and service delivery.
The Director will be expected to
maintain an effective program of
supervision that fosters as
atmosphere of professional and
ethical practice, develop and
maintain a fiscally responsible
accounting system, oversee the
establishment of an updated
management information system,
and move the Clinic to being selfsupporting and income
generating. The ideal canadidate
will combine seasoned clinical
skills and judgment, a keen
appreciation for research, and an
entrepreneurial spirit. Interested
applicants should send a
curriculum vita and 3 letters of
recommendation to Lew
Gantwerk, Psy.D. Rutgers Center
for Applied Psychology 41
Gordon Rd.-Livingston campus
PO Box5062 New Brunswick,NJ
08903-5062
DE PAUL UNIVERSITY
TWO FACULTY
POSITIONS:
Department of
Psychology, DePaul University,
has two tenure-track positions in
AP A-approved clinical program
with specialty areas in community
and child. Areas that could
complement the community
specialty include prevention,
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social policy and advocacy,
community-based research and
.interventions, program
evaluation, and emphasis on
urban, minority populations. The
child specialty seeks someone
with interests in one or more
areas of earty childhood, parentchild relationships, family
dynamics, and developmental
disabilities, especially as related
to urban/minority populations.
Applicants will be expected to
contribute to one or both of
these specialty areas. Both
positions are junior level,
although a senior person will be
considered. Positions require
active research program,
teaching, and supervision of
student research (and perhaps
supervision of student clinical
work). One of these positions will
be expected to teach the
psychodiagnostics
sequence
offered to first year students. The
clinical psychology program at
DePaul emphasizes professional
training with diverse urban, ethnic
and socio-economic populations.
Competitive applicants will have
strong interests in applied
research and clinical work in
community settings. Applications
from people of color and others
with diverse populations
experience are encouraged.
September 1,1997 start date.
Send letter describing interests
and experience, curriculum vitae,
and three letters of recommendation to: Search
Committee, Department of
Psychology, DePaul University,
2219 North Kenmore, Chicago,
IL 60614. Deadline for
applications is December 15, but
later applications will be reviewed
if positions have not been filled.
DePaul is an Equal Opportunity
Employer.
The official advertisement:
The School of Public Heaith,
division of Community Health
Sciences, at the U of Illinois at
Chicago has an immediate
opening for a tenure track faculty
member at the rank of assistant
professor. Responsibilities
include graduate level teaching,
student advising and supervision
of student fieldwork practica,
carrying out health promotion
related research and interventions, publication of papers,
and participating in related
community service duties
expected of UIC faculty.
Minimum qualifications for this
position include a PhD, DrPH or
other related doctoral degree,
and experience with graduate
level teaching, particularly related
to health promotion/health
education. Expertise working
with Latino cultures is especially
welcome. Evidence of research
competence, and grant
procurement are helpful. Please
send a letter of application,
resume, and names of five
references, to:
Susan R. Levy, PhD, CHES
Professor, University of Illinois at
Chicago, School of Public Health
(m/c 275), 850 W. Jackson Blvd.
Chicago, IL 60607-3025
Fax # (312) 996-2703
The School
of Public
Health at the U of Illinois at
Chicago has an opening for
someone in health promotion
and health education who is
strong in theories and their
The School-Family
Partnership
Project
at the
University
of Illinois at
Chicago- Department of
Psychology seeks a Ph.D. levei
person who can start as soon as
possible. The successful
application in community-based
intervention research. Someone
trained in community psychology
with experience in public health
issues (e.g., substance abuse,
AIDS, physical activity, nutrition,
violence) would be ideal. The
successful candidate will
probably collaborate with other
HP/DP faculty, plus faculty from
psychology and other disciplines
who conduct prevention
research at the Prevention
Research Center.
4U The Community Psychologist, Volume 3D, Number 2, April 1997
applicant should have strong
writing and communication skills,
as well as experience working
with families and schools.
Responsibilities include coauthoring curriculum and other
intervention materials to promote
home-school communication and
parent involvement, supervising
students implementing the
project in the schools, and
making presentations to
disseminate the project's work at
a national level.
Send a letter of interest,
curriculum vitae, and namesof
three references to Roger
Weissberg, c/o Eva Patrikakou,
Department of Psychology (M/C
285), The University of Illinois at
Chicago, 1007 West Harrison
Street, Chicago, IL 60607-7137.
Hartford
Foundation
forPublic
Giving
Major foundation seeks
experienced professional with
demonstated experience in grant
making, policy analysis, and/or
public/nonprofit management.
Excellent communication,
analytical, and interpersonal skills
required. Advanced degree
preferred. Salary commensurate
with experience. Send letter of
interest and resume to: Shirely
Beyor, Hartford Foundation for
Public Giving, 85 Gillett Street,
Hartford, CT 06105. Equal
Opportunity/Affirmative
Action
Employer.
Prevention
Research
Center of the University
of
Illinois
at Chicago
We are looking for people to work
with us on analysis and
publication of data on the
etiology and prevention of
adolescent drug use and
violence. We are testing
theoretical models of the etiology
of substance abuse using seven
or more longitudinal data sets
with four or more waves of data
between grades 7 and 12. We
are also testing the efficacy of
several large-scale interventions
to reduce violence, unsafe sex
and drug use among grade 5-7
students in inner-city schools.
Funding is from NICHD, NIDA and
NIMA. The analytical and
publishing opportunities are
immense and we are looking for
energetic people who want to
work on substantive or
methodological publications. We
are a stimulating and collegial
group of investigators including
Carl Bell (Psychiatry), Dick
Campbell (Sociology), Julia
Cowell (Nursing), Brian Flay
(Public Health), Robert Jagers
(African American Studies),
Donald Hedeker (Biostatistics),
Robin Mermelstein (Clinical
Psychology), Roberta Paikoff
(Psychiatry), Roger Weissberg
(Community Psychology), and
several others from multiple
disciplines.
POSTDOCTORAL
RESEARCH
ASSOCIATE.
Several openings at the
Prevention Research Center of
the University of Illinois at
Chicago for Ph.D. level
behavioral or public health
scientists with STRONG
STATISTICAL TRAINING.
Opportunity to work with
investigators on ANALYZING
DATA AND WRITING PAPERS
regarding the etiology and
prevention of adolescent drug
use and violence. A strong
background in one (and
preferably many) of the following
is necessary: structural equation
modeling, multilevel analysis,
longitudinal data analysis, loglinear analysis. Familiarity with the
major statistical packages (SAS,
SPSS) is required. Excellent oral
communication and writing skills
in the social or public health
sciences (as demonstrated by
presentations and publications)
are required. Opportunity to work
in a stimulating and productive
research environment. Adjunct
faculty appointment and teaching
opportunities are also possible in
an appropriate department for
qualified candidates. For fullest
consideration, send CV, cover
letter, and have three letters of
reference sent as soon as
possible to: Brian R. Flay,
Prevention Research Center,
University of Illinois at Chicago,
850 West Jackson Boulevard,
Suite 400, Chicago, IL, 60607.
POST-DOCTORAL
FELLOWSHIPS
in Child
Mental
Health Services
Research
or Psychiatric
Epidemiology:
Ph.D. required.
$19,608-$32,300.
Publishing
scientific papers in peer-reviewed
journals is a top priority. Prior
experience in child clinical,
community, developmental
psychology, child psychiatry,
and/or quantitative analytic
techniques is an advantage.
Position available 8/96. Please email or fax your curriculum vitae to
Michele Cooley-Quille, Ph.D.,
Department of Mental Hygiene,
Johns Hopkins University,
School of Hygiene and Public
Health, 624 N. Broadway,
Baltimore, MD 21205, Fax:
410/955-9088; E-mail:
[email protected].
EDU.
Postdoctoral
Fellowship
Opportunity
- The Center
for Health Care Evaluation
(formerly the Social Ecology Lab)
is seeking applicants for a 1-2
year postdoctoral fellowship in
health services research/program
evaluation. The Center for Health
Care Evaluation is an interdisciplinary research group (Dr.
Rudolf Moos, Director) based at
the Palo Alto VA Health Care
System and Stanford University
School of Medicine. Fellows will
receive postdoctoral status at
Stanford and an annual stipend
of approximately $34,000. Initial
appointment will be for one year
starting around September 1997
(start date somewhat flexible),
with a second year contingent on
applicant interest and satisfactory
performance in the first year.
Substance abuse and
psychiatric disorders, stress and
coping processes, and selfhelp/mutual aid organizations are
among the many topics currently
being researched at the center.
Fellows will have the opportunity
to collaborate on ongoing
research projects as well as to
develop their own research
interests in the above or related
areas. Courses and seminars are
also offered to fellows through
Stanford University. Fellows
must be U.S. Citizens. The
Center is an equal opportunity
employer. Send curriculum vitae
and letter of interest to Keith
Humphreys, Center for Health
Care Evaluation, VA HCS (152MPD), 795 Willow Road, Menlo
Park, CA 94025.
Research
Fellowship
positions,
Victoria
University,
Melbourne,
Australia.
Up to 5 Research
Fellowship positions, looking for
people with two or more years
post-doctoral experience.
(Positions will be advertised in
the Chronicle of Higher Education and the Times Higher
Education Supplement.)
Fellowships are for 3 years each
with the normal conditions of an
academic appointment in an
Australian university. Starting
salary (12 mon) of $AUS43,000.
They also have a $10,000
research establishment grant,
plus relocation expenses.
Research related to the Major
Research Areas of the University's Research Management
Plan. Community Psychology can
fit under either Human Performance, Health and Development,
or Culture, Community and
Communications.
Full details of the positions
and applications procedures are
available at http://www.vut.
edu.au (choose the RESEARCH
button)
The Community Psychologist, Volume 30, Number 2, April 1997 41
Anyone interested in
discussing the position can
contact Adrian Fisher by Email:
Ad [email protected].
Senior
Researcher
And
Statistician.
The UNISA
Health Psychology
Unit and
World Health Organisation
Collaborating Centre for Injury
and Violence Prevention seeks
to employ a senior researcher
with good statistical skills and at
least a Master's degree in the
health, human or social sciences.
Using descriptive and
inferential statistical procedures,
the incumbent's main responsibilities Will be to manage and
analyse the Unit's epidemiological data bases on injury and
violence; design and implement
outcome evaluation methods;
assist in the development of
research designs and
questionnaires for new projects,
and participate in the interpretation and write-up of current
projects.
The incumbent should have
at least five years of appropriate
research experience in a
developing country setting, and a
strong command of DOS and
Windows, spreadsheets,
databases, statistical and
graphics packages, and word
processors. A good publications
record will be an advantage, and a
valid drive~s licence and own car
are highly recommended.
Remuneration is according
to University academic scales,
and is dependent on
qualifications and experience.
Subsidised medical aid and a
thirteenth cheque are provided.
This is a one-year contract post,
with the strong possibility of
renewal.
Applicants should submit a
curriculum vitae and the names of
three referees to:
Alex Butchart
Deputy Director
UNISA Health Psychology Unit
NCOH, PO Box 4788
Johannesburg 2000
Fax: 011-725-1320
Instructor/Assistant
Professor
in Statistics
and
Evaluation,
Center for Health
Behavior Research, Division of
General Medical Sciences,
Department of Medicine,
Washington University School of
Medicine
The Center for Health
Behavior Research at
Washington University
announces a job opening in
statistics and evaluation. The
position will be tenure track at the
assistant professor or instructor
level, contingent on experience
and qualifications.
ELIGIBILITY Individuals with
training in statistics, biostatistics,
psychological statistics and
evaluation, or educational
statistics and evaluation. Many of
the projects of the Center
address topics that are best
pursued by multivariate,
longitudinal analyses.
Experience with such statistics as
well as evaluation in both social
science and health would be
desirable.
DUTIES Approximately 50% of
the time of the person taking this
position will be protected for
development of his or her own
scholarly work. This should be in
areas that are related to the
statistical needs of projects of the
Center for Health Behavior
Research. The other half of
position entails coordinating
statistical evaluation and
consultation to the Center's
health education and health
promotion projects in both
community and clinical settings.
Responsibilities will include
statistical analyses of projects as
well as consultation to other
professional staff regarding
statistical analyses of their
projects. Responsibilities will also
include work with a Data
Management Core within the
Center.
42 The Community Psychologist, Volume 3D, Number 2, April 1997
JOB SETTING Current projects of
the Center include community,
clinical, and professional
education programs related to
diabetes, cardiovascular disease,
asthma, cancer, smoking
cessation, and other health
problems. Conceptual
perspectives guiding program
planning and evaluation include
the Precede-Proceed model,
health beliefs and related
models, social support,
community organization, general
social learning theory, and
proactive/stages-of -change
approaches.
Center staff and represent a
variety of disciplines, including
anthropology, clinical
psychology, data management,
dietetics, health education,
educational psychology, nursing,
public health, and social work
and, in medicine, colleagues in
asthma and immunology,
cardiology, clinical oncology,
general internal medicine,
metabolism and endocrinology,
pediatrics, and pulmonary
medicine.
The Center is part of the
Division of General Medical
Sciences within the Department
of Medicine. In addition to several
divisions within the Department
of Medicine, the Center has
ongoing collaboration with the
Departments of Pediatrics,
Psychiatry, Psychology,
Radiology, the School of Social
Work, and the health care system
associated with Washington
University Medical School.
Those interested in this position
should contact
Edwin Fisher, Jr., Ph.D.
Washington University
Center for Health Behavior
Research
4444 Forest Park Ave.,
SI. Louis, MO 63108
Phone: 314/286-1901: FAX:
286-1919
E-mail: [email protected]
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