Instructor’s Manual and Test Bank for
Community Psychology, 6th Edition
2026 exam questions and answers
pg. 1
, Instructor’s Manual and Test Bank for
Community Psychology, 6th Edition
2026 exam questions and answers
Resources in General
Introductory Concepts
1 Introduction to Community Psychology
What Is Community Psychology?
Definition
Case in Point 1.1 Two Perspectives on What Is Community Psychology
The Influence of the American Historical Context
Mental Health Social Movements
Swampscott
International Perspectives
Europe and Critical Community Psychology
Latin America and Liberation Psychology
Fifty Years after Swampscott
The Psychological World
The American Social Landscape
Fundamental Principles
Ecological Foundations
The Importance of Context and Environment
Figure 1.1 Setting Control
Table 1.1 Ecological Principles
Figure 1.2 Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological System Model
Case in Point 1.2 A Psychological Sense of Community
Multiple Levels of Intervention: Beyond the Person and a Focus on Systems Change
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, An Appreciation for Diversity and Culture
Table 1.2 The ADDRESSING Framework for Diversity
Table 1.3 Framework for Culturally Centered Interventions
Box 1.1 APA Multicultural Guidelines
Prevention and Promotion
Types of Prevention
Strengths and Competencies
Table 1.4 Jahoda’s Positive Mental Health Attributes Case in
Point 1.3 Does Primary Prevention Work?
Developmental and Longitudinal Perspectives
Social Justice and Empowerment
Social Justice
Empowerment
Social Change and Action
Case in Point 1.4 Clinical Psychology, Community Psychology: What’s the
Difference?
The Interdisciplinary Corollary
Case in Point 1.5 The Importance of Place—Anthropological Methods
Plan of the Book
Summary
After reading this chapter, one should be able to answer the following questions:
1. What is community psychology?
2. What historical and social situations have contributed to American, European,
Latin American, or Asian community psychology?
3. How do ecological perspectives provide a good framework for understanding
human behavior?
4. What role does prevention play in conceiving of community psychology?
5. What is the role of social justice in community psychology?
6. How do empowerment, community strengths, and community competencies help
to focus a community psychologist?
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, Study Questions
1. How might one think of a problem differently when taking an ecological perspective
to an issue or problem?
2. What does thinking preventively do to the consideration of mental health or mental
illness?
3. What do you think of when you think of diversity? How might diversity change your
perceptions of the world?
4. What issues of the day would you consider to be related to those of social justice?
Why?
SUGGESTED DISCUSSION TOPICS AND ACTIVITIES
1. Take a measure of psychological sense of community at the very beginning of the class.
Have students pair off and introduce themselves to each other, trying to find at least two
things that they have in common. Then have the students introduce each other to the class and
talk about the commonalities they found. Do this one or two more times. Then see if there are
any things that appear to be arising as areas of commonality among many in the class. You
might then try to find two or three things which the class as a whole has
in common with each other. At the end of class give the measure of psychological sense of
community again. This allows for discussion of what helps in developing this sense of
community within the class. Also, you can talk about what hinders the development. What do
we know from psychology that might help in this discussion? What of the Psychological
Sense of Community Factors? The old PSC or the new PSC factors?
2. Have students recall a time when they saw the power of a community coming together to
help each other. Where was this? When was this? Who was involved? What can this say
about the advantages of a community coming together for support or to solve a problem?
3. Invite a guest speaker from a community agency. Have the speaker describe the mission,
goals, and client population of the agency. Also have the same speaker discuss how public
policy, client payment schedules, volunteers, and other factors affect the daytoday
operations of the agency. If you can’t find a guest speaker, students could visit the
websites of wellknow
community organizations such as the Red Cross or National Alliance for the Mentally Ill
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Community Psychology, 6th Edition
2026 exam questions and answers
pg. 1
, Instructor’s Manual and Test Bank for
Community Psychology, 6th Edition
2026 exam questions and answers
Resources in General
Introductory Concepts
1 Introduction to Community Psychology
What Is Community Psychology?
Definition
Case in Point 1.1 Two Perspectives on What Is Community Psychology
The Influence of the American Historical Context
Mental Health Social Movements
Swampscott
International Perspectives
Europe and Critical Community Psychology
Latin America and Liberation Psychology
Fifty Years after Swampscott
The Psychological World
The American Social Landscape
Fundamental Principles
Ecological Foundations
The Importance of Context and Environment
Figure 1.1 Setting Control
Table 1.1 Ecological Principles
Figure 1.2 Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological System Model
Case in Point 1.2 A Psychological Sense of Community
Multiple Levels of Intervention: Beyond the Person and a Focus on Systems Change
pg. 2
, An Appreciation for Diversity and Culture
Table 1.2 The ADDRESSING Framework for Diversity
Table 1.3 Framework for Culturally Centered Interventions
Box 1.1 APA Multicultural Guidelines
Prevention and Promotion
Types of Prevention
Strengths and Competencies
Table 1.4 Jahoda’s Positive Mental Health Attributes Case in
Point 1.3 Does Primary Prevention Work?
Developmental and Longitudinal Perspectives
Social Justice and Empowerment
Social Justice
Empowerment
Social Change and Action
Case in Point 1.4 Clinical Psychology, Community Psychology: What’s the
Difference?
The Interdisciplinary Corollary
Case in Point 1.5 The Importance of Place—Anthropological Methods
Plan of the Book
Summary
After reading this chapter, one should be able to answer the following questions:
1. What is community psychology?
2. What historical and social situations have contributed to American, European,
Latin American, or Asian community psychology?
3. How do ecological perspectives provide a good framework for understanding
human behavior?
4. What role does prevention play in conceiving of community psychology?
5. What is the role of social justice in community psychology?
6. How do empowerment, community strengths, and community competencies help
to focus a community psychologist?
pg. 3
, Study Questions
1. How might one think of a problem differently when taking an ecological perspective
to an issue or problem?
2. What does thinking preventively do to the consideration of mental health or mental
illness?
3. What do you think of when you think of diversity? How might diversity change your
perceptions of the world?
4. What issues of the day would you consider to be related to those of social justice?
Why?
SUGGESTED DISCUSSION TOPICS AND ACTIVITIES
1. Take a measure of psychological sense of community at the very beginning of the class.
Have students pair off and introduce themselves to each other, trying to find at least two
things that they have in common. Then have the students introduce each other to the class and
talk about the commonalities they found. Do this one or two more times. Then see if there are
any things that appear to be arising as areas of commonality among many in the class. You
might then try to find two or three things which the class as a whole has
in common with each other. At the end of class give the measure of psychological sense of
community again. This allows for discussion of what helps in developing this sense of
community within the class. Also, you can talk about what hinders the development. What do
we know from psychology that might help in this discussion? What of the Psychological
Sense of Community Factors? The old PSC or the new PSC factors?
2. Have students recall a time when they saw the power of a community coming together to
help each other. Where was this? When was this? Who was involved? What can this say
about the advantages of a community coming together for support or to solve a problem?
3. Invite a guest speaker from a community agency. Have the speaker describe the mission,
goals, and client population of the agency. Also have the same speaker discuss how public
policy, client payment schedules, volunteers, and other factors affect the daytoday
operations of the agency. If you can’t find a guest speaker, students could visit the
websites of wellknow
community organizations such as the Red Cross or National Alliance for the Mentally Ill
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