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This paper is based on a presentation titled “Terms of Empowerment: People, Programs, Policy and Professionals,” given at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, August 1986. Thanks is extended to Robert Felner, Arlene Rappaport, Thomas Reischl, Edward Seidman, and Marc Zimmerman for their helpful suggestions on earlier drafts of this manuscript. Preparation of this paper was facilitated by grant #37390 from the National Institute of Mental Health.

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Rappaport, J. Terms of empowerment/exemplars of prevention: Toward a theory for community psychology. Am J Commun Psychol 15, 121–148 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00919275

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