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Community psychology values and the culture of graduate training: A self‐study
Author(s) -
Alcalde Judit,
Walsh-Bowers Richard
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
american journal of community psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.113
H-Index - 112
eISSN - 1573-2770
pISSN - 0091-0562
DOI - 10.1007/bf02512028
Subject(s) - community psychology , psychology , health psychology , construct (python library) , empowerment , applied psychology , diversity (politics) , stakeholder , sense of community , medical education , training (meteorology) , social psychology , pedagogy , public relations , public health , sociology , nursing , medicine , physics , meteorology , computer science , political science , anthropology , law , programming language
In this self‐study of an M.A. program in community psychology, the authors focused on evaluation of training goals related to the values of collaboration, empowerment, and diversity. Employing quantitative and qualitative methods, the evaluator, a thesis student in the program, cooperated with a stakeholder committee and other student, staff, and faculty members of the program to construct the methods and interpret the findings. Although the converging sources of data showed that the program was meeting its process goals to some extent, several key issues in the culture of training, such as the status of women, the psychological sense of community, and a supportive learning environment, needed improvement. The authors interpret the findings in terms of the impact of the university system and patriarchal norms on training in community psychology.