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Looking Backward and Moving Forward: Reflections on a Quarter Century of Community Psychology

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A Quarter Century of Community Psychology

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The turn of the century and the approach toward middle age mark a good time to take stock of accomplishments and achievements, to do a little soulsearching, and to make midcourse adjustments. Thirty-five years ago, “a pioneering band of [clinical] psychologists met at Swampscott, Massachusetts… named themselves for the first time as community psychologists, and… talked out the basic principles of the field” (Brody, 1986, p. 139). The times they were a-changin’, and the emergence of this new field was part and parcel of the sociopolitical context of the 1960’s, in particular the Community Mental Health Movement, the War on Poverty, and the Great Society (Bloom, 1978; Cowen, Gardner, & Zax, 1967; Merritt, Greene, Jopp, & Kelly, 1999; Yoshikawa & Shinn, Chapter 2, this volume).

If all of us in this room lived for a thousand years and did research every day, we would still not know enough. The question now as it always has been is not “do we know enough?” but “are we willing to help society solve its human problems with what we do know” Fairweather, 1986, p. 135

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