The Spirit of Ecological Inquiry and Intervention Research Reports
A Heuristic Elaboration
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11054097 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Susan Ryerson Espino (0000-0001-9468-0745, Chicago Public Schools, corresponding author), Susan L Ryerson Espino (Chicago Public Schools), Edison J Trickett (0000-0002-5757-2259, Division of Community and Prevention Research, Department of Psychology University of Illinois at Chicago Chicago USA) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 60-78 |
| Publication date | 2008-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Community Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0091-0562 • E-ISSN: 1573-2770 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s10464-008-9179-7 |
| PMID | 18642073 |
| OpenAlex | W2023049884 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 88 |
One distinctive approach to community psychology intervention research involves finding ways to contribute to the development of communities. Ecological inquiry is a primary theoretical framework for this work. The purpose of this paper is to explore how the spirit of ecological inquiry may be expressed in the descriptions of how we design, conduct, and evaluate community interventions. We first elaborate a set of criteria as a heuristic framework for carrying out and documenting community intervention writing, theory, and action. We then pilot the application of these criteria to explore the presence of an ecological emphasis within intervention studies published in the AJCP between 1994 and 2002. This exercise helped illuminate the extent to which an ecological perspective is reflected in intervention accounts, and select intervention accounts that reflect a substantial ecological emphasis are described. Further, this review highlights the areas of our written work which contain fewer makers of ecological inquiry, as with the relevant exclusion of citizens in formative intervention roles. We conclude with a series of reflections about constraints on published intervention accounts and recommendations for those interested in furthering the spirit of ecological inquiry through their research and action commitments to community development
Action (physics) · Ecological psychology · Ecological systems theory · Formative assessment · Intervention (counseling) · Pedagogy · Psychological intervention · Set (abstract data type) · Sociology · Community Health and Development · Computer Science · Ecology · Evaluation and Performance Assessment · Health Policy Implementation Science · Psychology · Social Psychology
Is Community Psychology “Too Insular”? A Network Analysis of Journal Citations
Ecological Models Revisited
Comparing urban sociology’s human ecology and community psychology’s ecological metaphor
Social Ecological Approaches to Individuals and Their Contexts
A Review and Synthesis of Current Research on Cross-Cultural Evaluation
Using Ecological Theory to Evaluate the Effectiveness of an Indigenous Community Intervention
Transforming Social Regularities in a Multicomponent Community‐Based Intervention
Multi‐Level Intervention to Prevent Influenza Infections in Older Low Income and Minority Adults
Network Analysis in Community Psychology
Introduction to Ecological Description of a Community Intervention
With a Spirit that Understands
Linking the Levels
How are community interventions conceptualized and conducted? An analysis of published accounts
Clarifying the Philosophy Behind the Community Mental Health Act and Community‐based Interventions
Evidence suggests a need to rethink social capital and social capital interventions
Evaluating treatment environments
Evaluating correctional and community settings
The professional stranger
Becoming EcologicalAn Expedition Into Community Psychology
Statistical Methods for Rates and Proportions
Handbook of Community Psychology
New opportunities for nurses as patient advocates
Capturing the meaning of ‘community’ in community intervention evaluation
Principles and strategies of effective community participation
Coda
The Ecology of Human Development
Returning basic research to the community
Community psychology concepts and research base
Sociopolitical Development as an Antidote for Oppression—Theory and Action
Women of Color
Introduction to the Special Issue on the Process of Community Research and Action
The long‐term outcome of a personal network‐oriented HIV prevention intervention for injection drug users
Protective factors and young adolescent tendency to abstain from alcohol use
The Obligations of the Moral–Scientific Stance
Experimental evaluation of a modular approach to mobilizing antitobacco influences of peers and parents
A longitudinal study of school adjustment in urban, minority adolescents
An advocacy intervention program for women with abusive partners
Proximal Impact of Two First‐Grade Preventive Interventions on the Early Risk Behaviors for Later Substance Abuse, Depression, and Antisocial Behavior
Helping homeless mentally Ill people
Toward a distinctive community psychology
Prevention of depression with primary care patients
Opening the Black Box
Minority Issues in Prevention
Impact of the Jobs intervention on unemployed workers varying in risk for depression
Mood Management Mail Intervention Increases Abstinence Rates for Spanish‐Speaking Latino Smokers
HIV Prevention with Male Prostitutes and Patrons of Hustler Bars
The evolution of the research relationship in community psychology
Paradigms and the research report
The Listening Partners Program
Community‐Based Interventions to Reduce Low Income, African American Women's Risk of Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Diversity Challenges in Community Research and Action
Mobilizing positive reinforcement in communities to reduce youth access to tobacco
A preventive, psychoeducational approach to increase perceived social support
Adolescent Aids Prevention in Context
Expectations and high school change
The effects of a community‐based literacy program on young children's language and conceptual development
Empowering the silent ranks
The Quest for a Liberating Community Psychology
Examining the Effectiveness of a Community‐Based Self‐Help Program to Increase Women's Readiness for Smoking Cessation
If It's Offered, Will They Come? Influences on Parents' Participation in a Community‐Based Conduct Problems Prevention Program
Collaboration and Social Inquiry
Description and Immediate Impacts of a Preventive Intervention for Conduct Problems
Ecology and Primary Prevention
Oppression and Discrimination among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered People and Communities
A future for community psychology
Reducing HIV risk‐associated sexual behavior among african american adolescents
A Cost Analysis of Self‐Management Programs for People with Chronic Illness
Context and process
Ethical dilemmas in community intervention
Evaluation of a preventive intervention for a self‐selected subpopulation of children
Effectiveness of a consultation intervention to promote tobacco control policies in Northwest Indian tribes
A follow‐up of a media‐based, worksite smoking cessation program
The 1978 division 27 award for distinguished contributions to community psychology and community mental health
Short versus longer term effectiveness of an outreach program for the homeless mentally Ill
The Process Through Which an Advocacy Intervention Resulted in Positive Change for Battered Women Over Time
Implementing a Comprehensive Program for the Prevention of Conduct Problems in Rural Communities
Timing of HIV Interventions on Reductions in Sexual Risk Among Adolescents
Creating classrooms that students experience as communities
Do Internet‐Based Support Interventions Change Perceptions of Social Support
Computer‐Mediated Social Support
Science and Community Psychology
Ethnicity and cultural diversity
Qualities for the community psychologist
Ecological constraints on mental health services
Antidotes for arrogance
Community psychology
Naturalistic inquiry
The Community as Informant or Collaborator
| Unique citing works | 15 |
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| Citations per year | 0,88 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2020 (12) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |