Julian Rappaport
Biographic Data
| ID | 3884541 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julian Rappaport |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julian |
| FAMILY NAME | Rappaport |
| SIGNATURE | RAPPAPORT J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 51 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1284 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 50 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Introduction of Kenneth I. Maton on His Reciept of the 2006 SCRA Award for Distinguished Contributions to Theory and Research
Community-Based Interdisciplinary Research: Introduction to the Special Issue
This special issue on community-based interdisciplinary research grew out of the work of the SCRA Interdisciplinary Task Force and an Interdisciplinary Working Conference held at Vanderbilt University in May, 2004. In this introduction to the special issue, the historical context for interdisciplinary underpinnings for community psychology theory, research, action and training is first depicted. This is followed by a brief description of the miss…
Community Psychology Is (Thank God) More Than Science
Thinking about Community Psychology primarily as a science may make it harder, rather than easier, to embrace certain aspects of the field to which we are deeply committed, but usually fall outside the conventional meaning of "doing science." While community psychologists use (and expand) the tools of science, this is different than saying that Community Psychology is only, or even primarily, a science. The field is just as much social criticism …
Research methods and the empowerment social agenda.
Integrating Community Into the Classroom: Community Gardening, Community Involvement, and Project-Based Learning
This article is about the tensions faced in facilitating the relationship between teachers and community members while working toward a community garden project. The authors adopt an ecological model for effective classroom-community collaboration and discuss how this process unfolded in the current setting. Two classroom projects serve as exemplars of culturally relevant classroom-community collaboration. The garden project is evaluated through …
Obituary: Emory L. Cowen (1926-2000)
Obituary: Emory L. Cowen (1926–2000)
Mental health professionals' support of self‐help groups
Objective . Self‐help groups and other consumer‐led services are viewed as valuable additions to mental health services. This study describes professional support for self‐help groups and examines the hypothesis that professional support of self‐help is influenced by the degree to which professionally‐led groups are viewed as more helpful than self‐help groups. Method . Survey data were obtained from a representative sample of over 900 mental hea…
Mental health professionals' support of self‐help groups
Handbook of Community Psychology
Commentaries on Prilleltensky and Nelson
Commentaries on Prilleltensky and Nelson
Community Narratives: Tales of Terror and Joy
Inspired by a literary‐feminist reading of biblical texts, it is suggested that the mission of community psychology/social science can be understood as a calling to use our tools (research methods, critical analysis and observation, scholarship, social influence) to assist others in the job of turning tales of terror into tales of joy. Such work is the essence of personal and social change. These are not things we can do alone; they require colla…
Narrative concepts and analysis in Spiritually- based communities
Researchers from a wide variety of disciplines have found narratives to be useful explaining cross-level psychological phenomena. Narratives with different sources and functions occur at group (dominant cultural and community narratives) and individual levels of analysis (stories). A variety of methods can be used to identify, record, and analyze narratives and stories. Research on narratives may be particularly useful for understanding the relat…
Narrative concepts and analysis in Spiritually‐ based communities
Researchers from a wide variety of disciplines have found narratives to be useful explaining cross-level psychological phenomena. Narratives with different sources and functions occur at group (dominant cultural and community narratives) and individual levels of analysis (stories). A variety of methods can be used to identify, record, and analyze narratives and stories. Research on narratives may be particularly useful for understanding the relat…
Giving and Receiving Help: Interpersonal Transactions in Mutual‐Help Meetings and Psychosocial Adjustment of Members
The helping transactions that occur in group meetings have been theorized to be important therapeutic mechanisms within mutual‐help (or self‐help) groups. Hypothesized links between giving and receiving help and psychosocial adjustment were examined in a mutual‐help group for individuals with serious mental illness (GROW). Participants' adjustment was assessed at two time points and helping behaviors were measured with observational coding of wee…
Professional appraisal of professionally led and self-help groups
A survey of almost 1,100 mental health professionals found they routinely viewed professionally led groups more positively than they did self-help groups on a number of dimensions. Analyses suggested that the curative factor associated with professionally led groups was valued over factors associated with self-help groups. The implications of the findings are discussed, and an alternative framework for professionals' evaluation of consumer-initia…
Conceptual Self as Normatively Oriented: The Suitability of Past Personal Narrative for the Study of Cultural Identity
A distinct conceptualization of cultural identity that is theoretically motivated by the classic taxonomies of the self developed by cultural anthropologist Irving Hallowell (1955) and cognitive psychologist Ulric Neisser (1988) is proposed. It is argued that Neisser's Conceptual Self, situated within Hallowell's Normative Orientation, affords a unique confluence of theoretical tradition that successfully transcends the problematic dualism betwee…
Empowerment meets narrative: Listening to stories and creating settings
Comments on and summarizes some of the themes of a special issue on empowerment. Extends empowerment theory with the suggestion that both research and practice would benefit from a narrative approach that links process to practice and attends to the voices of the people of interest. Narrative theory and method tends to open the field to a more inclusive attitude as to what counts as data and to cross‐disciplinary insights as well as citizen colla…
Assessing the social networks of people with psychiatric disability from multiple perspectives
Community psychology and politics’ by David Smail
Demystification, eschewing roles that disempower others and enhancing accessibility to the tools of knowledge, are consistent with the aims of community and applied social psychology. Although a focus on psychological empowerment can be a distraction from the need for actual power, it can also enhance it. Psychologists who avoid victim blaming and individual causal attribution biases can contribute to the discourse about social change. This requi…
Narrative Studies, Personal Stories, and Identity Transformation in the Mutual Help Context
A common way for researchers to think about mutual help organizations is as alternative treatments for people with problems in living. This approach, illustrated here in the context of a series of empirical studies conducted by the author, views people as service seekers. Although much can be gained from research in which there is collaboration between professionals and the self-help community, there remains a need for work that uses theories and…
From the community mental health movement to the war on drugs: A study in the definition of social problems
From the community mental health movement to the war on drugs: A study in the definition of social problems
In the 1980s, the Reagan and Bush administrations reduced funding for community mental health programs and began instead to support substance abuse treatment agencies. One reason for this shift in policy was that the social problem of mental illness had been captured by progressives in the community mental health movement. Conservatives, therefore, needed a new problem to redefine and use to enact new social control policies. The conservatives' c…
The dilemma of primary prevention in mental health services: Rationalize the status quo or bite the hand that feeds you
That primary prevention has been ‘inappropriately marginalised’ is seen to be an inevitable outcome of reliance on government support. Policy makers and service providers can never be expected to give prevention a higher priority than direct service. Preventionists have developed two strategies for doing their work. One, based on the logical positivist ideal, seeks specific causal models for specific disorders. This sort of prevention research, w…
In praise of paradox: A social policy of empowerment over prevention
Terms of empowerment/exemplars of prevention: Toward a theory for community psychology
In order to develop theory any community of scientists must agree as to what constitutes its phenomena of interest. A distinction is made between phenomena of interest and exemplars. The concept "prevention" is viewed as an exemplar, whereas the concept "empowerment" is suggested as a leading candidate for the title "phenomena of interest" to Community Psychology. The ecological nature of empowerment theory is described, and some of the terms of …
Citizen participation, perceived control, and psychological empowerment
The research integrates the citizen participation literature with research on perceived control in an effort to further our understanding of psychological empowerment. Eleven indices of empowerment representing personality, cognitive, and motivational measures were identified to represent the construct. Three studies examined the relationship between empowerment and participation. The first study examined differences among groups identified by a …
Empowerment meets narrative: Listening to stories and creating settings
Comments on and summarizes some of the themes of a special issue on empowerment. Extends empowerment theory with the suggestion that both research and practice would benefit from a narrative approach that links process to practice and attends to the voices of the people of interest. Narrative theory and method tends to open the field to a more inclusive attitude as to what counts as data and to cross‐disciplinary insights as well as citizen colla…
Community Narratives: Tales of Terror and Joy
Inspired by a literary‐feminist reading of biblical texts, it is suggested that the mission of community psychology/social science can be understood as a calling to use our tools (research methods, critical analysis and observation, scholarship, social influence) to assist others in the job of turning tales of terror into tales of joy. Such work is the essence of personal and social change. These are not things we can do alone; they require colla…
Conceptual Self as Normatively Oriented: The Suitability of Past Personal Narrative for the Study of Cultural Identity
A distinct conceptualization of cultural identity that is theoretically motivated by the classic taxonomies of the self developed by cultural anthropologist Irving Hallowell (1955) and cognitive psychologist Ulric Neisser (1988) is proposed. It is argued that Neisser's Conceptual Self, situated within Hallowell's Normative Orientation, affords a unique confluence of theoretical tradition that successfully transcends the problematic dualism betwee…
Community Psychology Is (Thank God) More Than Science
Thinking about Community Psychology primarily as a science may make it harder, rather than easier, to embrace certain aspects of the field to which we are deeply committed, but usually fall outside the conventional meaning of "doing science." While community psychologists use (and expand) the tools of science, this is different than saying that Community Psychology is only, or even primarily, a science. The field is just as much social criticism …
Setting phenotypes in a mutual help organization: Expanding behavior setting theory
Expands Barker's theory of behavior settings by proposing an additional method of classifying settings based on their functional/behavioral aspects--the setting phenotype. Although behavior setting theory has been widely hailed as a revolutionary contribution to behavioral science, it has had limited impact on general psychology. This may be due in part to a reliance on a purely structural method of classifying behavior settings--the setting geno…
Community-Based Interdisciplinary Research: Introduction to the Special Issue
This special issue on community-based interdisciplinary research grew out of the work of the SCRA Interdisciplinary Task Force and an Interdisciplinary Working Conference held at Vanderbilt University in May, 2004. In this introduction to the special issue, the historical context for interdisciplinary underpinnings for community psychology theory, research, action and training is first depicted. This is followed by a brief description of the miss…
Community Treatment of the Mentally III: The Promise of Mutual-Help Organizations
Expansion strategies of a mutual help organization
Described a study of the expansion strategies of a successful self- and mutual help organization for persons with mental illness. Resource mobilization and behavior-setting theories were used as conceptual frameworks to guide the investigation. Collaborative methods and a grounded theory approach were used. Archives, reports of contacts outside of the organization, and naturalistic observations were data sources. Of particular interest are the pr…
The educational pyramid: A paradigm for training, research, and manpower utilization in community psychology
Brief critique of the meaning and reliability of "accurate empathy" ratings
Giving and Receiving Help: Interpersonal Transactions in Mutual‐Help Meetings and Psychosocial Adjustment of Members
The helping transactions that occur in group meetings have been theorized to be important therapeutic mechanisms within mutual‐help (or self‐help) groups. Hypothesized links between giving and receiving help and psychosocial adjustment were examined in a mutual‐help group for individuals with serious mental illness (GROW). Participants' adjustment was assessed at two time points and helping behaviors were measured with observational coding of wee…
Assessing the social networks of people with psychiatric disability from multiple perspectives
Accurate empathy: Confusion of a construct
Charting uncharted terrain: A behavioral observation system for mutual help groups
Describes the development of a behavioral observation system for mutual help meetings and presents evidence supporting its reliability, validity, and utility. The MHOS-BIC (Mutual Help Observation System-Behavioral Interaction Codes) was used by 10 observers to record the sequential flow of group interaction in 527 meetings. Psychometric analyses indicate that the system performed consistently with measurement objectives. Mean kappas for each of …
College students as interventionists for primary‐grade children: A comparison of structured academic and companionship programs for children from low‐income families
Mental health professionals' support of self‐help groups
Objective . Self‐help groups and other consumer‐led services are viewed as valuable additions to mental health services. This study describes professional support for self‐help groups and examines the hypothesis that professional support of self‐help is influenced by the degree to which professionally‐led groups are viewed as more helpful than self‐help groups. Method . Survey data were obtained from a representative sample of over 900 mental hea…
Gender and Work History in the Placement and Perceptions of Elder Community Volunteers
This study explored factors that determine the types of volunteer jobs older adults are placed in, as well as factors that define the meaning of their roles. With a sample of 169 elder community volunteers (mean age, 73 years), we investigated the patterns of job perceptions of women and men in two types of volunteer positions: jobs that involved leadership and jobs that did not. A two-way MANOVA with gender and leadership as independent variable…
Economic predictors of mental health service utilization: A time‐series analysis
This research was designed to understand the relationships between economic indicators and mental health service utilization. Six monthly and three quarterly time-series analyses were done to assess the time-dependent association between three state-level economic indices and two measures of mental health service utilization. Consistent with the existing literature, increases in manufacturing employment were inversely related to both first admiss…
An undergraduate practicum in community mental health
Preschool and primary locus of control scale: Is it ready for use
The dilemma of primary prevention in mental health services: Rationalize the status quo or bite the hand that feeds you
That primary prevention has been ‘inappropriately marginalised’ is seen to be an inevitable outcome of reliance on government support. Policy makers and service providers can never be expected to give prevention a higher priority than direct service. Preventionists have developed two strategies for doing their work. One, based on the logical positivist ideal, seeks specific causal models for specific disorders. This sort of prevention research, w…
Application of social learning principles to the training of ghetto blacks
Nonprofessionals, BAs, and manpower
An undergraduate practicum in community mental health
Application of social learning principles to the training of ghetto blacks
Brief critique of the meaning and reliability of "accurate empathy" ratings
Accurate empathy: Confusion of a construct
You have got to have a dream, but it's not enough
You have got to have a dream, but it's not enough
The educational pyramid: A paradigm for training, research, and manpower utilization in community psychology
Alternatives to Blaming the Victim or the Environment: Our Places to Stand Have Not Moved the Earth
College students as interventionists for primary‐grade children: A comparison of structured academic and companionship programs for children from low‐income families
Role played self-disclosure as a function of liking and knowing
Preschool and primary locus of control scale: Is it ready for use
The 1979 division 27 award for distinguished contributions to community psychology and community mental health: Emory L. Cowen
The metaphor of the paper's title offers a framework for a brief summary. Effective wooing of primary prevention requires that we take seriously, and adhere to, its clear, sensible defining guidelines; systematize, and further develop, its generative base; use that base to guide the formulation of new primary prevention programs; further develop frameworks to promote informed choices of programs derecions from among many attractive possibilities;…
In praise of paradox: A social policy of empowerment over prevention
Studies in Empowerment: Introduction to the Issue
As it turns out, my sense of this need seems to have been felt by others as well. Recent papers by Chavis, Stucky, and Wandersman (1983), Gottlieb (1983) and by Tyler, Pargament, and Gatz (1983) have addressed similar themes.
Seeking justice in the real world: A further explication of value contexts
Following a brief clarification of the value assumptions of community mental health and community psychology, the error of assuming that behaviorism is less value based than other theories of man or strategies for doing science is demonstrated. First epistemological and then historical-sociological arguments are presented to show that the contribution of behavioral community psychology to the explication of values is more a function of its associ…
Terms of empowerment/exemplars of prevention: Toward a theory for community psychology
In order to develop theory any community of scientists must agree as to what constitutes its phenomena of interest. A distinction is made between phenomena of interest and exemplars. The concept "prevention" is viewed as an exemplar, whereas the concept "empowerment" is suggested as a leading candidate for the title "phenomena of interest" to Community Psychology. The ecological nature of empowerment theory is described, and some of the terms of …
Citizen participation, perceived control, and psychological empowerment
The research integrates the citizen participation literature with research on perceived control in an effort to further our understanding of psychological empowerment. Eleven indices of empowerment representing personality, cognitive, and motivational measures were identified to represent the construct. Three studies examined the relationship between empowerment and participation. The first study examined differences among groups identified by a …
Community Treatment of the Mentally III: The Promise of Mutual-Help Organizations
Economic predictors of mental health service utilization: A time‐series analysis
This research was designed to understand the relationships between economic indicators and mental health service utilization. Six monthly and three quarterly time-series analyses were done to assess the time-dependent association between three state-level economic indices and two measures of mental health service utilization. Consistent with the existing literature, increases in manufacturing employment were inversely related to both first admiss…
Seymour B. Sarason: A celebration of the man and his ideas
The 1989 Division 27 award for distinguished practice in community psychology: Frank Riessman
Gender and Work History in the Placement and Perceptions of Elder Community Volunteers
This study explored factors that determine the types of volunteer jobs older adults are placed in, as well as factors that define the meaning of their roles. With a sample of 169 elder community volunteers (mean age, 73 years), we investigated the patterns of job perceptions of women and men in two types of volunteer positions: jobs that involved leadership and jobs that did not. A two-way MANOVA with gender and leadership as independent variable…
Charting uncharted terrain: A behavioral observation system for mutual help groups
Describes the development of a behavioral observation system for mutual help meetings and presents evidence supporting its reliability, validity, and utility. The MHOS-BIC (Mutual Help Observation System-Behavioral Interaction Codes) was used by 10 observers to record the sequential flow of group interaction in 527 meetings. Psychometric analyses indicate that the system performed consistently with measurement objectives. Mean kappas for each of …
Expansion strategies of a mutual help organization
Described a study of the expansion strategies of a successful self- and mutual help organization for persons with mental illness. Resource mobilization and behavior-setting theories were used as conceptual frameworks to guide the investigation. Collaborative methods and a grounded theory approach were used. Archives, reports of contacts outside of the organization, and naturalistic observations were data sources. Of particular interest are the pr…
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