Leading the Way on Diversity: Community Psychology's Evolution from Invisible to Individual to Contextual

Abstract

To take up the AJCP editor's call to think forward in this article, I offer up three challenges that revolve around further contextualizing our understandings of diversity, i.e., reconsidering the notion of "difference" between discrete categories; more fully emphasizing diversity as socially situated; and further delving into local, setting-specific practices that shape the meanings of diversity. Enhanced attention to these three challenges can transform theory, research, and action about diversity as we move into community psychology's next 50 years.

Toward an Ethical Reflective Practice of a Theory in the Flesh: Embodied Subjectivities in a Youth Participatory Action Research Mural Project

“…This paper contributes to the emerging literature on the values of engaging and processing heart work through an ethical reflective practice (Bond & Harrell, ; Gone, ; Langhout, ; Lykes & Crosby, ; Reyes Cruz & Sonn, ; Silva, ; Tebes, ; Trickett, , ). Moreover, it adds to the growing scholarship on community psychology competencies, the diversity of voices within the field, and the development of an ethical framework for our discipline – one that centers the researcher's embodied subjectivities (Allen & Mohatt, ; Bond, ; Campbell & Morris, ; Gone, ; Langhout, ; Silva, ), and the diversity of voices within the field.…”

Using Technology to Assess Bidirectionality between Daily Pain and Physical Activity: The Role of Marginalization during Emerging Adulthood

“…These identity characteristics should be studied in a more intersectional way, providing more accurate findings on the nuances of different identity characteristics of gender, race, ethnicity, and SES. In particular, it is essential to contextualize differences among groups with components of intersectionality [ 61 ]. Future studies should aim to include larger sample sizes with greater representation of participants in each demographic domain of these constructs to evaluate the relationships among pain and physical activity with an intersectional lens.…”

The Acculturation of Community Psychology: Is There a Best Way?

“…Community psychology has changed since the 1980s. Over the last 30 years the field has become more diverse demographically and more focused on diversity as a topic, as the country around us has become more diverse (e.g., Bond, ; Gone, ; Dutta, ). Today the field engages a number of cultural issues articulating frameworks for integrating cultural and community psychology (e.g., Kral et al., ; O'Donnell, ; Okazaki & Saw, ), research on immigrants (e.g., Na, Ryder & Kirmayer, ; Hernandez & Organista, ; Hurtado‐de‐Mendoza, Gonzales, Serrano & Kaltman, ) and refugees (e.g., Goodkind, ), as well as on acculturation experiences of culturally diverse groups (e.g., Leu, Walton & Takeuchi, ; Dinh & Bond, ; Rodriguez, Mira, Paez & Myers, ).…”