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Call for Papers: Systems Change through School-Community Partnerships Special Section in TCP, School Intervention Interest Group For an upcoming special issue of TCP, we seek articles exploring or illuminating efforts to promote systems change in integrating supports for health, mental health and education in schools. There are several important distinctions to make for this special section on schools.
Four to six brief papers (1500 - 2500 words) will be selected by section editors. Final manuscripts are due to section editors by January 15, 2008. These papers will be published in the spring (2008) issue of The Community Psychologist.
The SIIG addresses theories, methods, knowledge base, and setting factors pertaining to prevention and health promotion in school. We invite submissions for upcoming columns. Abstracts of 400 words should be submitted electronically to the SIIG chairs. Authors of abstracts selected will be invited to submit a 4-6 page article. Contact Susana Helm column editor/SIIG co-chair |
The School Intervention Interest Group (SIIG) organized a roundtable discussion this past summer 2006 at the First International Conference on Community Psychology: Shared Agendas in Diversity held at the Universidad de Puerto Rico. Mahalo y gracias to our participants and discussants for a thought provoking conversation. We agreed to audio record the discussion to aid in creating this summary, and my apologies for any inaccuracies. Our roundtable group hailed from Puerto Rico, Florida, Maryland, New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, Ohio, Arizona, Hawai`i, Ontario, Quebec, Mexico, Australia, and the U.K.; and represented a diversity of ethnocultural groups... To view the article as a Word document, click here
Are you looking for an audience for your latest school intervention paper? The School Intervention Interest Group is currently soliciting article submissions for the 2007 SIIG column in The Community Psychologist. Graduate students, applied & academic community psychologists, and school-based professionals collaborating with community psychologists are encouraged to submit a 500-word abstract (send as word attachment to: susana.helm@hawaii.edu) on school intervention topics, such as:... To view the article as a Word document, click here
Community psychologists contribute to school interventions in many ways. For the International Conference of Community Psychology to be held in Puerto Rico next summer, as the co-chairs of the SCRA School Intervention Interest Group, Jane Shepard and I have organized a SIIG presentation on the variety of ways in which community psychologists work with schools in multicultural, cross-cultural, and international contexts... To view the article as a Word document, click here
High school failure (HSF) is a serious problem affecting students, family members, the schools, communities, and society as a whole. Defining "school failure" narrowly compounds the problem: an individual problem that occurs at school, i.e. poor grades, low test scores, or truancy. Part of the solution is to construct a more comprehensive definition, based on the ecology of high school as experienced by the people directly involved: students & their families, and school personnel. The Ecology of High School Failure Study (Helm, 2002) explored these stakeholder perceptions of the problem by using a theoretical framework familiar to community psychologists and readers of TCP:... To view the article as a Word document, click here
The prevalence of internalising problems such as depression and anxiety is high in Australian children and adolescents. Prior, Sanson, Smart & Oberklaid (1999) found that 18% of pre-adolescents in Australia reported clinically significant levels of these problems, making them the most common of childhood and adolescent mental health problems. In a study of the health wellbeing of Australian children and adolescents...To view the article in PDF format, click here
This special collaboration culminated with the publication of the Final Report and Findings of the Safe School Initiative: Implications for the Prevention of School Attacks in the United States. While the investigation yielded no accurate or useful profile of school attackers, it did reveal the key finding that many of the attackers felt bullied, persecuted or injured by others prior to the attack ... To view the entire article in PDF format, click here
This was a question I was asking myself when the September 2003 edition of the American Journal of Community Psychology arrived at my home down under. There in the middle of that volume was a North American critique of psychology and schools, by none other than Seymour Sarason, himself (Sarason, 2003)... To view the entire article in PDF format, click here
Over the past seven years, I've had the opportunity to consult to several middle and high schools located in the New Haven area. Whether it was to plan and implement programs in peer mediation or social competency, train teachers in team-building, or to attend committees to improve school climate, I have found that both youth and adults respond enthusiastically when projects were put in the context of Positive Youth Development... To view the entire article in PDF format, click here
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