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Two questions that embrarrass community psychologists are: “What do community psychologists do?” “What’s the difference between community psychology and clinical psychology?” A conceptual model is proposed to help to find answers to these questions. The model describes a process whereby psychosocial stress leads to psychopathology. The argument is developed that the apparently disparate activities of community psychologists are uniformly directed at undermining the stress process but, given the complexity of this process, vary because they tackle it at different points.
Presidential address, Division 27, 85th Annual American Psychological Association Convention, San Francisco, August 27,1977. Originally published in the American Journal of Community Psychology, 6(1) (1978): 1-14.
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Dohrenwend, B.S. (2002). Social Stress and Community Psychology. In: Revenson, T.A., et al. A Quarter Century of Community Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8646-7_7
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