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Author Tyler, Forrest B.

Title Developing prosocial communities across cultures / Forrest B. Tyler.

Publication Info. New York ; London : Springer, 2007.

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 160 pages)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Note Print version record.
GMD: electronic resource.
Subject Communities.
Social psychology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
Communities. (OCoLC)fst01430092
Social psychology. (OCoLC)fst01122816
Social psychology.
Community development -- Psychological aspects.
Communities.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Tyler, Forrest B. Developing prosocial communities across cultures. New York ; London : Springer, 2007 9780387714844 0387714847 (OCoLC)154711848
ISBN 9780387714851
0387714855
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