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Community psychology in Italy: introduction and prospects
Massimo Santinello1, Elvio Raffaello Martini, Douglas D Perkins
1Department of Developmental and Social Psychology, University of Padova, 35131 Padova, Italy. massimo.santinello@unipd.it
Abstract:
The history of community psychology in Italy is briefly reviewed. The field has developed extensively in universities and applied settings over the past 30 years. This issue presents 5 recent examples from different regions of Italy of preventive and other community psychological intervention studies. They include an evaluation of a program to increase the independent mobility of children walking to and from school, the ecological evaluation of child and adolescent residential care communities, participatory action-research with adolescents in schools and neighborhoods, evaluation of a participatory local health intervention planning process, and the description and evaluation of a collaborative, Internet-based community planning training program.
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