Key Concepts of Community Psychology: Implications for Consulting in Educational and Human Service Settings

La pratique de la psychologie communautaire.

“…Ceci est d'autant plus important que les psychologues communautaires sont souvent appelés à réaliser ces analyses lors de situations où les diverses parties prenantes ont une lecture divergente du problème (Juras et al, 1997) ou encore lorsqu'un conflit porte sur le pouvoir, dont celui de nommer le problème ou d'identifier les conditions à améliorer (Julian, 2006). L'analyse d'un problème, d'une situation, d'un milieu ou des pratiques est un acte créatif et collaboratif de construction du sens.…”

“…La psychologie communautaire reconnaît l'importance de l'apport des gens de toute provenance et cherche à équilibrer les intérêts des multiples parties prenantes (Juras, Mackin, Curtis & Foster-Fishman, 1997). En même temps, elle donne la priorité aux populations marginalisées.…”

Social Networks of Intimate Partner Violence Perpetrators

“…Ties between individual actors vary as a function of larger structural unit in which they're embedded (Erickson, 1988), and the patterning of ties shape opportunities and constraints on social behavior (Wellman, 1982). Social networks encompass the simultaneous influence of an actor's ties to multiple others, as opposed to the influence of individual relationships in isolation, or the influence of factors at a much higher and more detached level of analysis; an individual's social network represents the entirety of their most immediate social environment (Borgatti, Mehra, Brass & Labianca, 2009;Juras et al, 1997;Luke, 2005;Shinn & Rapkin, 2000).…”

“…Social networks, broadly defined, have been identified as a critical point of intervention (Christens, 2011;Erickson, 1988;Juras et al, 1997;Luke, 2005;Valente, 1996). Networks may contribute to patterns of problematic behavior, particularly those involving drug and alcohol abuse, as discussed in a following section.…”

“…The first aim of the current study was to describe the social networks of BIP participants, to gain a deeper understanding of the social environments in which they are most immediately embedded (Borgatti, Mehra, Brass & Labianca, 2009;Juras et al, 1997;Luke, 2005;Shinn & Rapkin, 2000), in terms of their structure and content. Prior studies of networks' influence on the perpetration of violence against women have defined social networks as either those people who provide social support to participants (Raghavan et al, 2009) or as participants' friends (Abbey et al, 2001;DeKeseredy, 1988;DeKeseredy, 1990b;Gidycz, Orchowski & Berkowitz, 2011), excluding other relational ties that may be present in social networks.…”