Social action with youth
Interventions, evaluation, and psychopolitical validity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11044735 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Julie Morsillo, Julie Elizabeth Morsillo (Victoria School of Management, corresponding author), Isaac Prilleltensky (0000-0003-1805-2354, University of Miami) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 725-740 |
| Publication date | 2007-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Community Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-4392 • E-ISSN: 1520-6629 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/jcop.20175 |
| OpenAlex | W2154597137 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 44 |
| References cited | 24 |
We describe two interventions designed to encourage community action with youth in a school and a community service setting. The school intervention took place with a Year 10 class, while the community‐based intervention took place with a group of same‐sex attracted youth. Using a participatory action research framework, youth in both settings devised a series of community projects to promote personal, group, and community wellness. Projects included drama presentations addressing homophobia, designing an aboriginal public garden, children's activities in a cultural festival for refugees, a drug‐free underage dance party, a community theatre group, and a student battle of the bands. We evaluated the various community projects using self‐reports, videotapes, and ethnographic data. While goals of personal and group wellness were meaningfully met, wellness at the community level was harder to achieve. Introducing a tool for the evaluation of psychopolitical validity, we examined the degree of both epistemic and transformational validity present in the interventions. Our assessment indicates that (a) psychological changes are easier to achieve than political transformations, (b) epistemic validity is easier to accomplish than transformational validity, and (c) changes at the personal and group levels are easier to achieve than changes at the community level. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Comm Psychol 35: 725–740, 2007
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| Unique citing works | 44 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,2 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2025 (20) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 33 |