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Placing Community Psychology in the Context of the Social, Health and Educational Sciences: Directions for Interdisciplinary Research and Action
Author(s) -
Yoshikawa Hirokazu
Publication year - 2006
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/s10464-006-9068-x
Subject(s) - community psychology , health psychology , context (archaeology) , action (physics) , discipline , behavioural sciences , sociology , public health , consulting psychology , critical psychology , social science , psychology , applied psychology , engineering ethics , social psychology , medicine , nursing , paleontology , physics , quantum mechanics , engineering , biology
Building on Maton, Perkins and Saegert's framework on inter‐disciplinary work related to community psychology, this article addresses two questions about community psychology in the context of the social, health and educational sciences: (1) What can community psychology learn from other disciplines? and (2) What can community psychology uniquely contribute to other disciplines?