Capturing excellence in applied settings: a participant conceptualizer and praxis explicator role for community psychologists.
Community psychology faces a crisis of personpower similar to that which Albee identified in the clinical field four decades ago. It is clear that there are not, and likely never will be, a sufficient number of community psychologists to be able to provide assessment, consultation, and planned chan...
| Published in: | American Journal of Community Psychology Vol. 22; pp. 293 - 319 |
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Springer Science & Business Media B.V.
June 1994
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