Abstract
Few theoretical perspectives have had as continuous a place in the history of community psychology as stress theory. There has, however, been considerable change in stress research over the past decade, which has added greater complexity to our understanding of the processes by which stress impacts on well-being. Concomitantly, our models of the change process have evolved over the past several decades to include multiple levels of conceptualizing interventions in social problems and assessing their effects. This chapter will take advantage of advances in both the stress theory and intervention domain by discussing the intervention implications of recent developments in our understanding of stress processes
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