ANNOUNCE CFP Social Ecological Research in Community Health (SD6848)

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CALL FOR PAPERS

"Social Ecological Approaches to Community Health Research and Action"

A Special Issue of the American Journal of Community Psychology and 
Presentations at the 2009 Biennial Conference of the Society for 
Community Research and Action (SCRA; Division 27 of the American 
Psychological Association)

Guest Editors:
David Lounsbury, PhD, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
Shannon Gwin Mitchell, PhD, Friends Research Institute, Inc., Baltimore, MD

There is a growing recognition in many of the social science disciplines that 
our research methods are ill-equipped to capture and make sense of the dynamic 
complexity and full contextual reality that characterizes our contemporary
circumstance. As a community of scientists, we must continue to test new ways 
of working together, new ways of fostering collaborative investigation. This 
need is self-evident to those who see that many of the problems we now face 
developed as unanticipated outcomes of our own past actions. We need research 
strategies that move us beyond our distinct disciplines or areas of 
specialization so that we can more clearly see “the big picture” and create and 
deliver systemic interventions. 

For research in community health, a social ecological approach can address this
need. A social ecological approach, by our definition, requires us to examine 
an issue from multiple disciplines (e.g., political, social, anthropological, 
historical, economic, etc.) and multiple levels (e.g., persons, families, 
communities, etc.). Studies that embrace multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary 
or transdisciplinary research efforts are often complementary of the social 
ecological approach. Health research that identifies underlying processes that 
can explain how to effectively promote health and wellbeing within diverse 
communities is of particular interest.

In a special issue of the American Journal of Community Psychology (AJCP), we seek 
to highlight the work of community health researchers and practitioners who have 
applied a social ecological framework. We invite community health researchers and 
practitioners to submit full articles for a special issue of the AJCP.  Those 
selected will also be invited to present their research at the 2009 Biennial 
Conference of the Society for Community Research and Action, to be held at Montclair 
State University in Montclair, New Jersey, USA, in June 2009.

Please send submissions via e-mail to Guest Editor Shannon Gwin Mitchell at 
sgwinmitchell at gmail.com no later than 7/01/2008.

All works must be original and previously unpublished. Manuscript preparation 
instructions for authors can be found on the AJCP website:
http://www.springer.com/psychology/community+&+environmental+psychology/journal/10464

 
Thank you,
 
David W. Lounsbury, PhD
Co-Chair, Psychology Chapter, System Dynamics Society
Asst. Attending Psychologist, Beh. Sci. Service
Community Outreach and Health Disparities
Dept. of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
641 Lexington Avenue, 7th Floor
New York, NY 10022
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