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Collaboration Networks in AJCP (now updated!)

Inspired by our recent deep dive into Implementation Science, I decided to dust off the code and turn it to another favorite journal, The American Journal of Community Psychology. Going all the way back to July 16, 1974, 5,397 authors have published in AJCP. The graph below shows who has published here most frequently. A […]

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Looking at research on Community Health Workers

The problem with being super busy is that I rarely get time to sit down in right. A problem no one can relate to, I’m sure. Our sister organization, The Dawn Chorus Group is going to be contributing to an evaluation of an initiative to increase the number of community health workers in a specific […]

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Community Psychology Topical Interest Group Business Meeting: Planning for the future

Cross-posting because a lot of people who come to this site also have an interest in applied research. It’s been a busy year for the American Evaluation Association’s Community Psychology Topical Interest Group. Over the past few years, we have grown from just a small group of disconnected professionals to an established organization with, who […]

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The land you live and work on.

Our sister company, The Dawn Chorus Group, is involved in many community-based research and evaluation projects. This work is part of our larger overall mission of getting good ideas into practice. More and more, our partner meetings are beginning with an indigenous peoples’ land acknowledgment. A land acknowledgment speaks to, and about, the original inhabitants […]

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Three Sources of Community Psychology Updates that didn’t work (and one that did)

The really important community work happens in the community, not the laboratory. To get a more robust picture of the state of community-based research and action, we’ve started looking more broadly at nontraditional sources for updates. And we’ve not been finding much! Twitter, Reddit, and news archives were all kind of a bust! This is […]

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C is for Champion

Whenever we go into a new setting, one of our first tasks is to find the people who to be our cheerleaders. These are your key opinion leaders, the person or persons who are your examples, your innovation-specific project leaders, and innovation advisors. These are the people who are going to, well, champion the change.  […]

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Monthly recap

Journals! Twitter! Newspapers! Oh my! The month in community psychology

For a recent post on Suicide Research, we broadened our data horizon considerably. In addition to pulling in the academic research, we also looked at the discussion on Twitter and Reddit (r/SuicideWatch, in particular). So, for this month’s recap let’s take a much wider dive into what’s going on in the community psychology world. First, […]

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The dog days of COVID – July in Community Psychology

The dog days of summer can be a blessing to many who straddle the academic world. Here — finally — is the spaciousness to read, write, unwind, upwind, do all the things that we wanted to do if only we had the time! If only. It’s not just the volume of articles coming out. COVID-related […]

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June in Community Psychology

Not once, but twice this week, we had the opportunity to share one of our favorite community psychology stories/parables: Lenny Jason’s classic work in Dog Litter. If you don’t know the story, check out the link or track down the original articles. The basic story is this: Dr. Jason wanted to work on a community […]

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Income Inequality and Educational COVID Response

Over a year out, how did schools do in responding to COVID? The truth is we don’t quite know yet; maybe it was good, maybe it was terrible? I based a large part of my failed candidacy for my local school board on the premise that we needed to find out the impact so we […]

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TLDR! Community Psychology and Article Summarization

How long is your reading list? Mine is obscene. This is a challenge because the written word is still the major way that we share and communicate ideas. For those of us who work in the space of ideas, being able to write and read is the coin of realm. Our good friend Julia Moore […]

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May 2021 in Community Psychology

Before we close the book on May 2021 and get charged up for the upcoming SCRA conference, let’s take a last minute to look backward! It was kind of a thin month for community psychology publications: only 35 total. Still, we can extract some interesting insights from what people are publishing on.

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