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Social stress and community psychology
Author(s) -
Dohrenwend Barbara Snell
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
american journal of community psychology
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.113
H-Index - 112
eISSN - 1573-2770
pISSN - 0091-0562
DOI - 10.1007/bf00890095
Subject(s) - community psychology , law enforcement , sociology , library science , citation , health psychology , publishing , psychology , media studies , public health , law , social psychology , medicine , political science , nursing , computer science
Two questions that embarrass community psychologists are: "What do community psychologists do?" "What's the difference between community psychology and clinical psychology?" A conceptual model is proposed to help to find answers to these questions. The model describes a process whereby psychosocial stress leads to psychopathology. The argument is developed that the apparently disparate activities of community psychologists are uniformly directed at undermining the stress process but, given the complexity of this process, vary because they tackle it at different points.