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Building on Maton, Perkins and Saegert’s framework on inter-disciplinary work related to community psychology, this article addresses two questions about community psychology in the context of the social, health and educational sciences: (1) What can community psychology learn from other disciplines? and (2) What can community psychology uniquely contribute to other disciplines?
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I gratefully acknowledge a William T. Grant Foundation Scholars Award for support in the writing of this article.
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Yoshikawa, H. Placing Community Psychology in the Context of the Social, Health and Educational Sciences: Directions for Interdisciplinary Research and Action. Am J Community Psychol 38, 31–34 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10464-006-9068-x
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