Our Reflections on the Reactions to "Theories in the Field of Community Psychology"

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social psychology, masters' degrees in clinical psychology and statistics, and bachelors' degrees in philosophy and psychology. Steve is interested in the relationship between stable individual difference characteristics and emotional experiences, the application of quantitative and novel research methodologies to psychological problems, and the history and philosophy of science in general. Most recently, he has been involved in making taxometric methods more accessible to psychologists. For over five years, he has also been involved in collaborative research with individuals in community psychology where he has ensured methodological rigor and contributed to conceptual

Translating ecology: Similarities and differences in the ecological images of Bronfenbrenner and Kelly.

“…Further, one challenge to the contextualist thinking underlying the ecological metaphor involves the potential of devolving into ultimate relativism (Tebes, 2005); that there may be no generalizable principles because all knowledge is ultimately local. In general, ecological thinking has been viewed as overly complex and indeed too vague to be tested, particularly if, in simple systems terms, “everything is related to everything else” (e.g., Jason et al, 2016; Stokols, 1996).…”

“…Succession refers to the time dimension of communities, including both local history of social problem solving and hopes for the future. These processes are spelled out more extensively elsewhere (Kelly, 1968, 1986; Trickett et al, 1972; Trickett, 2019) and, as Jason et al (2016) point out, should be viewed as a heuristic framework rather than a more specified theory.…”