The US has witnessed significant growth among urban American Indian (AI) populations in recent decades, and concerns have been raised that these populations face equal or greater degrees of disadvantage than their reservation counterparts. Surprisingly little urban AI research or community work has been documented in the literature, and even less has been written about the influences of urban s...

The goals of youth mentoring have broadened from redressing youth problems to promoting positive youth development. Yet, many of the principles associated with contemporary conceptualizations of development found in the positive youth development (PYD) and community psychology (CP) literature have yet to be fully integrated into mentoring research and practice. These approaches place greater em...

Authors Note Michael P. Wilmot and Colin G. DeYoung, Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota; David Stillwell and Michal Kosinski, The Psychometrics Centre, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Portions of this article were presented at the 28 th annual conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, April 2013, Houston, Texas. We thank Mark Snyd...

This special section focuses on service-learning in community action research, with an emphasis on Theory, Research, and Practice. This Introduction is organized into three sections. In the first section, a brief description of service-learning is provided, and the general goals of the special issue are delineated. The second section provides a rationale for the special section, including a bri...

Four decades ago, A. Reza Arasteh combined Westernized psychology with Sufism to emerge as an important voice in the integration of psychology and religion. Arasteh’s writings have remained largely unnoticed by the psychological community; however, we believe that it is time to reconsider his ideas. This article presents Arasteh’s main ideas about the relationship between human development and ...

The authors explore the implications of recent proposals for a focus on power and social change in community psychology research and add needed contextual and methodological specificity. An expanded model of psychopolitical validity is presented that merges Isaac Prilleltensky’s (this issue, pp. 116–136) domains, or stages of empowerment (oppression, liberation, wellness), with four ecological ...

In recent years the mainstream framework for human-computer interaction research—information processing cognitive psychology—has come under increasing criticism because of serious problems in applying it in both research and practical design. In a debate within the HCI research community, the capability of information processing psychology has been questioned and new theoretical frameworks cons...

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the risk of suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts, especially when aggravated, pain persists despite repeated visits and various medical treatments, and the patient learns that the pain is different from other pains. finally, there are only two solutions: first, surrendering to the pain and learned helplessness, and second, ending the life with no pleasure and painful. the significance of suic...