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Community Psychology and Routes to Psychological Wellness

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The main purpose of this chapter is to develop and illustrate the concept of “routes to psychological wellness,” which, I believe, has much orienting value in framing fruitful questions for psychologists and others to pose and fruitful activities for psychologists and others to undertake. I use the term to identify what Rappaport (1987) called the phenomena of interest, i.e., “the entire class of phenomena that we want our research to undertake, predict, explain or describe; that we want our applications and interventions to stimulate, facilitate or create; and our social policies to encourage” (p. 129)

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Cowen, E.L. (2000). Community Psychology and Routes to Psychological Wellness. In: Rappaport, J., Seidman, E. (eds) Handbook of Community Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4193-6_4

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