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JOURNAL OF URBAN AFFAIRS,Vol.42,Issue5,P.702-714

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英文

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Michigan State University

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Community psychology is an international subfield of psychology that focuses on encouraging well-being by examining transactions between individuals and larger social systems including organizations (e.g., schools, workplaces), local neighborhoods, and cities. Although the fields of community psychology and urban studies both address metropolitan problems, urban social change, and urban policy, it is unclear to what extent these fields inform each other. In this paper, I first trace the history and development of community psychology in three localities to urban issues such as access to community mental health services, unemployment, and urban poverty. Second, I describe how contemporary community psychologists have focused their research on a range of urban topics including urban education, homelessness and housing policy, and local politics. Third, using a network analysis of journal citations, I explore the extent to which community psychology and urban studies have informed each other over the past 10 years. Finally, I explore future directions for encouraging interdisciplinarity between community psychology and urban studies.AcknowledgmentsI would like to thank Zachary Neal for his helpful feedback and comments on earlier drafts of this manuscript.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.Prior disseminationContents of this manuscript are not under review at another publisher or journal. The author presented ideas from this manuscript at a Global Urban Studies Workshop held at Michigan State University on April 12, 2019.Additional informationFundingThis research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.Notes on contributorsJennifer Watling NealJennifer Watling Neal received her Ph.D. in Community Psychology from University of Illinois at Chicago and is currently an Associate Professor of Psychology at Michigan State University. Her research focuses on: (1) leveraging social networks to improve public school educators’ access to and implementation of evidence-based programs and practices, (2) the contextual influences of schools and classrooms on behavior in preschool and middle childhood, and (3) child and teacher perceptions of classroom networks. Jennifer often focuses her work on public schools and has collected social network data in a range of urban, suburban, and rural school settings in the United States and, more recently, in North East England. She is also interested in improving the social network methods used in community and developmental psychology. Jennifer is the recipient of the 2016 American Psychological Association Society for Community Research and Action (Division 27) Early Career Award.