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Understanding and Changing Social Systems

An Ecological View

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Handbook of Community Psychology

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A preventive orientation affirms how social systems can be organized to have a positive impact on the development of those individuals who make it up. Here, the authors affirm that an ecological approach to social systems is useful to build a community-based community psychology, a psychology that is attentive to the promotion of competent individuals in responsive social systems

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    James G. Kelly

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    Ann Marie Ryan

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    Julian Rappaport

  2. New York University, New York, New York, USA

    Edward Seidman

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Kelly, J.G., Ryan, A.M., Altman, B.E., Stelzner, S.P. (2000). Understanding and Changing Social Systems. In: Rappaport, J., Seidman, E. (eds) Handbook of Community Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4193-6_7

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