Raymond P Lorion
Biographic Data
| ID | 1663340 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Raymond P Lorion |
| GIVEN NAMES | Raymond P |
| FAMILY NAME | Lorion |
| SIGNATURE | LORION R P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maryland, College Park |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4204-7109 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 52 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 137 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 52 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Preparing for 2070: Reflections from the Journal of Community Psychology 's initial decade: Pathways to community psychology's continuing maturation
This virtual monograph celebrates the 50 th anniversary of the Journal of Community Psychology (JoCP) by reprinting selected commentaries and peer‐reviewed papers from JoCP's initial decade. Selected articles focused on the originating goals and priorities of the discipline of community psychology. Each article is followed by reflections. The monograph final section challenges contemporary discipline leaders to identify goals for the coming decad…
Preparing for the 2070s: Reflections from the Journal of Community Psychology's initial decade: Pathways to Community Psychology's continuing maturation
This commentary introduces a virtual monograph that celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Journal of Community Psychology . The commentary focuses on originating goals of the discipline and pathways taken in their pursuit and change. The monograph challenges current leaders to define pathways for the next 50 years
Community psychology's origin and destination: Alternative pathways to the discipline's future
A review of the Journal's nearly five decades of publications revealed an early commentary entitled “Common sense Community Psychology” (Thorne, 1974) reflecting on early decisions about the discipline's professional identity and interactions with targeted communities of color and need stimulated this commentary. Considered are ways we distinguished ourselves from our parent, clinical psychology, and its focus on emotional and behavioral disorder…
Data management in the 21st century: Potholes and possibilities
The peer review history for this article is available at https://publons.com/publon/10.1002/jcop.22459
Sense of community, pathway to, or bridge from alienation
Psychological Sense of Community (PSOC) represents a formative conceptual offering of Community Psychology to the social sciences. Nearly five decades ago, PSOC offered a window into the influence of ecological factors to understanding the emotional and behavioral well‐being of members of disenfranchised and underserved segments of the population, especially members of minority and low‐income subgroups. Our discipline's founders viewed PSOC as on…
Introducing the 2017 Newbrough award for best graduate paper: Reflections on “A latent class exploration of adolescent recovery capital”
Reflections on community psychology's past and future: What if a stitch in time only saves six
This paper expands comments made upon receipt of the Distinguished Contributions to Theory and Research in Community Psychology, August 2015. Examination of the discipline's originating intent is reviewed as a foundation for considering its potential for distinguishing it from other social and behavioral sciences
Violence as a Public Health Problem
Editors’ Commentary on the Special Issue on African and Arab Enactments of Community Psychology: Repositioning as Antecedent to Reflection
Understanding Sarason's Concepts of School Cultures and Change: Joining a Community in School Improvement Efforts
This paper describes an evolving transformative partnership between a large comprehensive university, an urban school system and a predominantly African-American, low-income neighborhood. The partnership's originating intent was to apply an array of university, civic and local resources to improve the academic performance of a neighborhood's schools and the health, welfare and economic well-being of its residents. The extent to which that partner…
A commentary on Newbrough's Third Position
Newbrough's Third Position is discussed in terms of its utility as a framework within which to understand and resolve interpersonal differences, seemingly irresolvable diametric differences, and conflictual situations. The framework's essential elements and its application is illustrated through the presentation of a series of fictitious scenarios that open with conflict and close with a resolution in which the interested parties feel heard and s…
A challenge for community research and action: An introduction to the special issue
Does empowerment require disempowerment? Reflections on psychopolitical validity
In remembrance: Dr. Carol T. Mowbray, 1948–2005
Introduction to the special issue: Addressing mental health disparities through culturally competent research and community‐based practice
As we enter a new millennium in which rapid demographic changes in the United States are predicted to dramatically change the face of “mainstream” America, it is essential that researchers, practitioners, and policymakers come to grips with mental health disparities through culturally competent research and community‐based practice. This introduction to the special issue outlines the rationale for this volume and briefly describes the main underl…
A case report of a community‐based response to domestic violence in Chile
The conceptual and programmatic elements of a community‐based approach to the prevention and treatment of victims of domestic violence in Chile are presented. The program reflects the tenets of a psychosocial wellness model focusing on individual and community competencies and resources to solve human problems. The intervention incorporates elements of crisis intervention with strategies to identify and empower natural social support networks. As…
Broken trust: The dynamics of a world of violence
Remembering Emory L. Cowen
Remembering Emory L. Cowen
community psychology lost one of its most prolific contributors and guiding forces.After a stubbornly courageous and stoic battle with illness
In support of qualitative approaches to the study of community phenomena
Violence in our communities: Aiming one's focus
In support of qualitative approaches to the study of community phenomena
Adolescents' exposure to community violence: Sleep and psychophysiological functioning
The relationships among psychophysiological indices, sleep disturbance, and adolescents' exposure to community violence were examined in a pilot study of 64 community youth (ages 16–18; 84% African American), 25 of whom had their blood pressure and pulse rates assessed. Neither age nor gender differences were found in self-reported sleep disturbance or community violence exposure. Self-reported exposure to community violence and sleep deprivation…
Impact of home‐school liaisons on the reduction of risk factors for Atod use among preadolescents
This study examined the impact of the Home-School Empowerment Program (HSEP) on the reduction of risk factors for substance abuse among preadolescents enrolled in two elementary schools serving students from neighborhoods marked by high levels of violence, family dependence on public funding, and reported alcohol and other drug use by youth. The project was targeted to children enrolled in grades 4–6. For that reason, the project was not expected…
Impact of home-school liaisons on the reduction of risk factors for Atod use among preadolescents
This study examined the impact of the Home-School Empowerment Program (HSEP) on the reduction of risk factors for substance abuse among preadolescents enrolled in two elementary schools serving students from neighborhoods marked by high levels of violence, family dependence on public funding, and reported alcohol and other drug use by youth. The project was targeted to children enrolled in grades 4–6. For that reason, the project was not expected…
Socioeconomic status and traditional treatment approaches reconsidered
Patient and therapist variables in the treatment of low-income patients
Normative and parametric analyses of school maladjustment
Format and instructional revisions were made in the TRF, a previously reported school adjustment measure, to extend its diagnostic, prescriptive, and empirical utility. Factor analyses of school adjustment ratings on the revised CARS with a normative sample of "healthy" primary graders demonstrated that while the revisions maintained the scale's original three-factor structure, they increased specific item factor loadings and accounted scale vari…
Multivariate approaches to the identification of delinquency proneness in adolescent males
A sample of 337 adolescent male students were surveyed for demographic, individual, school, and familial functioning and delinquency status to investigate two questions relevant to prediction of adolescent delinquency proneness. First, three methods of scoring a delinquency self-report measure (frequency, variety, and seriousness) were compared to assess their differential relevance to the prediction of delinquency proneness. Second, a multivaria…
Comparison of two outcome groups in a school‐based mental health project
Two samples of school-maladjusted children responding most and least favorably to a helping program with nonprofessional child-aides were compared on demographic, referral, and program experience variables. Outcome measures other than teacher ratings used to select the samples validated the inferred improvement differences. Subjects with poor outcomes were significantly more likely to reside in the city, older, from lower socioeconomic background…
A challenge for community research and action: An introduction to the special issue
Does empowerment require disempowerment? Reflections on psychopolitical validity
Sense of community, pathway to, or bridge from alienation
Psychological Sense of Community (PSOC) represents a formative conceptual offering of Community Psychology to the social sciences. Nearly five decades ago, PSOC offered a window into the influence of ecological factors to understanding the emotional and behavioral well‐being of members of disenfranchised and underserved segments of the population, especially members of minority and low‐income subgroups. Our discipline's founders viewed PSOC as on…
Counting the stitches that count: Preventive intervention promises and public health
Continued public support for the design, implementation, and dissemination of preventive interventions depends on achievement of four major criteria: (a) Reductions in the incidence or prevalence rates of diagnosable emotional and behavioral disorders, (b) reductions in the need for mental health services through effective primary and secondary interventions, (c) enhancement of the effectiveness of obtained services as screening and early detecti…
Targeting preventive interventions: Enhancing risk estimates through theory
Incorporation of mediational screening procedures within targeted preventive interventions must be grounded in a substantial theoretical and epidemiological knowledge base. Essential information includes an etiological model of the disorder(s) to be prevented and epidemiological confirmation that risk factors used for the selection of intervention recipients have been prospectively confirmed. Targeting these recipients using a combination of indi…
Scale development, normative, and parametric analyses of a preschool screening measure
American Journal of Community PsychologyVolume 9, Issue 2 p. 193-208 Article Scale development, normative, and parametric analyses of a preschool screening measure Raymond P. Lorion, Corresponding Author Raymond P. Lorion Department of Psychology, University of Tennessee, 37916 Knoxville, TennesseeSearch for more papers by this authorWilliam F. Barker, William F. Barker Beaver College, Beaver, USASearch for more papers by this authorJanet Cahill,…
Referral to a school mental health project: A screening note
The screening efficiency of two measures of school-adjustment is considered by assessing the proportion of children referred to a school mental health program whose scores fall at or above the 85th centile on one or both measures. The study's findings demonstrate that 60-90% of referred children were identifiable by a screening cutoff score procedure. The implications for using a cutoff score approach in selecting children for the intervention ar…
A case report of a community‐based response to domestic violence in Chile
The conceptual and programmatic elements of a community‐based approach to the prevention and treatment of victims of domestic violence in Chile are presented. The program reflects the tenets of a psychosocial wellness model focusing on individual and community competencies and resources to solve human problems. The intervention incorporates elements of crisis intervention with strategies to identify and empower natural social support networks. As…
Training in community psychology: Promises kept and yet to keep
Preparing for 2070: Reflections from the Journal of Community Psychology 's initial decade: Pathways to community psychology's continuing maturation
This virtual monograph celebrates the 50 th anniversary of the Journal of Community Psychology (JoCP) by reprinting selected commentaries and peer‐reviewed papers from JoCP's initial decade. Selected articles focused on the originating goals and priorities of the discipline of community psychology. Each article is followed by reflections. The monograph final section challenges contemporary discipline leaders to identify goals for the coming decad…
Understanding Sarason's Concepts of School Cultures and Change: Joining a Community in School Improvement Efforts
This paper describes an evolving transformative partnership between a large comprehensive university, an urban school system and a predominantly African-American, low-income neighborhood. The partnership's originating intent was to apply an array of university, civic and local resources to improve the academic performance of a neighborhood's schools and the health, welfare and economic well-being of its residents. The extent to which that partner…
Introduction to the special issue: Addressing mental health disparities through culturally competent research and community‐based practice
As we enter a new millennium in which rapid demographic changes in the United States are predicted to dramatically change the face of “mainstream” America, it is essential that researchers, practitioners, and policymakers come to grips with mental health disparities through culturally competent research and community‐based practice. This introduction to the special issue outlines the rationale for this volume and briefly describes the main underl…
Broken trust: The dynamics of a world of violence
Psychological sense of community: The pursuit of a field's spirit
Socioeconomic status and traditional treatment approaches reconsidered
Affect knowledge, emotional style, and the educational environment in two school settings
Patient and therapist variables in the treatment of low-income patients
Normative and parametric analyses of school maladjustment
Format and instructional revisions were made in the TRF, a previously reported school adjustment measure, to extend its diagnostic, prescriptive, and empirical utility. Factor analyses of school adjustment ratings on the revised CARS with a normative sample of "healthy" primary graders demonstrated that while the revisions maintained the scale's original three-factor structure, they increased specific item factor loadings and accounted scale vari…
Multiple views of a school mental health project: A needed focus in community programs
Comparison of two outcome groups in a school‐based mental health project
Two samples of school-maladjusted children responding most and least favorably to a helping program with nonprofessional child-aides were compared on demographic, referral, and program experience variables. Outcome measures other than teacher ratings used to select the samples validated the inferred improvement differences. Subjects with poor outcomes were significantly more likely to reside in the city, older, from lower socioeconomic background…
Family background characteristics and school adjustment problems
Primary grade children identified by teachers as having selected family characteristics were compared on teacher ratings of school maladjustment. Children pressured to achieve academic success coped with school demands in a significantly more shy, anxious, and immature fashion than children from homes lacking educational stimulation. The latter group experienced greater difficulty in mastering basic academic skills. Children from rejecting parent…
Referral to a school mental health project: A screening note
The screening efficiency of two measures of school-adjustment is considered by assessing the proportion of children referred to a school mental health program whose scores fall at or above the 85th centile on one or both measures. The study's findings demonstrate that 60-90% of referred children were identifiable by a screening cutoff score procedure. The implications for using a cutoff score approach in selecting children for the intervention ar…
Scale development, normative, and parametric analyses of a preschool screening measure
American Journal of Community PsychologyVolume 9, Issue 2 p. 193-208 Article Scale development, normative, and parametric analyses of a preschool screening measure Raymond P. Lorion, Corresponding Author Raymond P. Lorion Department of Psychology, University of Tennessee, 37916 Knoxville, TennesseeSearch for more papers by this authorWilliam F. Barker, William F. Barker Beaver College, Beaver, USASearch for more papers by this authorJanet Cahill,…
Training in community psychology: Promises kept and yet to keep
The basic academic skills enhancement program: Translating prevention theory into action research
The Basic Academic Skills Enhancement (BASE) program is described as an example of one research team's approach to the design, conduct, and implementation of a multilevel (i.e., primary and secondary) prevention program. Following presentation of the conceptual rationale for the program, BASE's evolution is discussed with regard to its specific personnel and setting characteristics. In describing the program's screening, intepretation, and evalua…
Applied community psychology: Good news for the field from the field
This paper questions the accuracy of recent critical discussions of the discipline of community psychology and proposes that the field's activity is, unfortunately, all too invisible. The papers included within this special volume are discussed as evidence of the author's perception of the field's current status and its potential.
Multivariate approaches to the identification of delinquency proneness in adolescent males
A sample of 337 adolescent male students were surveyed for demographic, individual, school, and familial functioning and delinquency status to investigate two questions relevant to prediction of adolescent delinquency proneness. First, three methods of scoring a delinquency self-report measure (frequency, variety, and seriousness) were compared to assess their differential relevance to the prediction of delinquency proneness. Second, a multivaria…
Notes and comments
The search for effective prevention programs: What we learned along the way
Efforts by an American Psychological Association task force to identify model prevention programs for high-risk groups throughout the life span are summarized. Criteria for selection and program content are described, and implications for the construction, implementation, and evaluation of effective programs are discussed
Evaluating HIV risk-reduction efforts: Ten lessons from psychotherapy and prevention outcome strategies
This article reviews basic approaches to the scientific evaluation of outcome in psychotherapy and preventive intervention research and examines their applicability to HIV-outcome research. Specific consideration is given to the reciprocal expectations of the service provider and client concerning seropositivity and their impact on the course and outcome of the intervention. Ten basic principles for maximizing the measurement of effectiveness are…
Aids and the community: A special issue
Prevention and public health: Psychology's response to the nation's health care crisis
Psychology as a scientific and applied discipline has a unique responsibility to participate in the pursuit of strategies that reduce the nation's health care needs. As a social and behavioral science, psychology can contribute to unraveling the processes underlying conditions of health and disorder. As an applied discipline, psychology can work to design effective interventions to promote human health and to avoid disease and dysfunction. Insofa…
Prevention and public health: Psychology's response to the nation's health care crisis
Targeting preventive interventions: Enhancing risk estimates through theory
Incorporation of mediational screening procedures within targeted preventive interventions must be grounded in a substantial theoretical and epidemiological knowledge base. Essential information includes an etiological model of the disorder(s) to be prevented and epidemiological confirmation that risk factors used for the selection of intervention recipients have been prospectively confirmed. Targeting these recipients using a combination of indi…
A preventive approach to enhancing positive parenting: Preliminary steps in program development
A set of videotaped public service announcements was developed to illustrate ways in which parents affect a child's self-esteem. Each vignette showed two ways of dealing with a problem, a punitive method and a self-esteem-enhancing method. Study 1 included 20 parents and 20 school-age (6–10 years of age) children who were seen at a pediatric visit. Most parents perceived the messages correctly. By contrast, children saw the message in terms of th…
History and program experience: A reply to wing
Counting the stitches that count: Preventive intervention promises and public health
Continued public support for the design, implementation, and dissemination of preventive interventions depends on achievement of four major criteria: (a) Reductions in the incidence or prevalence rates of diagnosable emotional and behavioral disorders, (b) reductions in the need for mental health services through effective primary and secondary interventions, (c) enhancement of the effectiveness of obtained services as screening and early detecti…
Community psychology and health psychology: An opportunity awaits
Applying our medicine to the psychopharmacology debate
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