Definitions and Background Issues; Psychosocial Integration: The Theoretical Framework; The Current Situation: Psychologists' Approaches to Community Change; The Prosocial Effect of Changing One Aspect of a Community; The Prosocial Effect of Coordinating Change in Two Aspects of a Community; A Guide for Establishing Prosocial Communities; Questscope: A Comprehensive Prosocial Community Program.
Summary
Communities are vital social units that provide the contexts in which people learn to live together to their mutual benefit. This book presents a definition of a prosocial community. It shows why a prosocial community is essential to the accomplishment of the goals of community psychology and its related fields and how to create such communities.