Intimate partner violence (IPV) against women is a serious problem throughout the world.
Each year a substantial number of women experience psychological, physical, and sexual …

We invite you to join us for this book's journey through the exciting field of community
psychology! As a team of authors, we each came to community psychology because it …

Batterer programs are at a critical juncture, with a handful of experimental program
evaluations showing little or no effect from the prevailing program approach. This finding has …

Objective: This systematic review identifies and describes the collaboration models used by
social workers and police officers and the social issues they address. We operationally …

While community collaboratives have emerged as a prominent vehicle for fostering a more
coordinated community response to complex issues, research to date suggests that the …

Objective: Sexual Assault Response Teams (SARTs) seek to improve the response to
sexual assault by coordinating the efforts of police, prosecutors, nurses/doctors, victim …

Mismatches are incongruencies between programmatic policies and working practices that
engender counter-productive dynamics or outcomes relative to aspirations. The present …

Described as a “holy hush,” past research has noted a general silence about and reluctance
to address intimate partner violence (IPV) in religious congregations. To explore this, we …

Coalition-based efforts that use a science-based approach to prevention can improve the
wellbeing of community youth. This study measured several coalition capacities that are …

Juvenile probation officers (JPOs; n= 71) in the United States were interviewed three and ten
months after the SAVRY or YLS/CMI was implemented in their office. Quantitative and …