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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY Vol. 19, No. 1 February 1991 CONTENTS Participating in Social Change: A Fundamental Value for Our Discipline Leonard A. Jason Community Intervention Trial for Smoking Cessation (COMMIT): Opportunities for Community Psychologists in Chronic Disease Prevention Edward Lichtenstein, Linda Nettekoven, and Judith K. Ockene Assertive Community Treatment: Correcting Some Misconceptions Gary R. Bond, Thomas F. Witheridge, Jerry Dincin, and Daniel Wasmer Peer Support Telephone Dyads for Elderly Women: Was This the Wrong Intervention? Kenneth Heller, Mark G. Thompson, Petri E. Trueba, John R. Hogg, and Irene Vlachos-Weber Comments on Heller, Thompson, Trueba, Hogg, and Vlachos-Weber, “Peer Support Telephone Dyads for Elderly Women” Thomas Ashby Wills Let’s Hang Up and Try Again: Lessons Learned from a Social Support Intervention Alan Vaux Peer Support Telephone Dyads for Elderly Women: The Wrong Intervention or the Wrong Research? Catherine H. Stein Fine-Tuning Theory to the Needs of the World: Responding to Heller et al. Kathleen M. Schiaffino Facilitating Friendship Formation in Late Life: Puzzles and Challenges Karen S. Rook Conservation of Resources in Community Intervention Stevan E. Hobfoll and Anita P. Jackson Peer Telephone Dyads: Putting Conclusions on Hold Benjamin H. Gottlieb Social Support Interventions and the Third Law of Ecology Manuel Barrera, Jr. Support interventions for Older Adults: Confidante Relationships, Perceived Family Support, and Meaningful Role Activity Kenneth Heller, Mark G. Thompson, Irene Vlachos-Weber, Ann M. Steffen, and Petri E. Trueba ENVIRONMENTAL/ECOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY Setting Phenotypes in a Mutual Help Organization: Expanding Behavior Setting Theory Douglas A. Luke, Julian Rappaport, and Edward Seidman AMERICAN JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY Vol. 19, No. 2 April 1991 CONTENTS The 1990 Society for Community Research and Action Award for Distinguished Contributions to Community Psychology and Community Mental Health: Edward Seidman Introduction Jean Ann Linney, Ronald Roesch, and Melvin Wilson Growing Up the Hard Way: Pathways of Urban Adolescents Edward Seidman Means-Ends Problem-Solving Skills, Life Stress, and Social Support as Mediators of Adjustment in the Normative Transition to High School Charles Barone, Ana I. Aguirre-Deandreis, and Edison J. Trickett A Reconceptualization of Life Events and Its Application to Parental Divorce Jennifer A. Kofkin and N. Dickon Reppucci Expansion Strategies of a Mutual Help Organization Marc A. Zimmerman, Thomas M. Reischl, Edward Seidman, Julian Rappaport, Paul A. Toro, and Deborah A. Salem BRIEF REPORT Psychological Frailness and Strength in an AIDS-Affected Community: A Study of Seropositive Gay Men and Voluntary Caregivers Linda L. Viney, Levinia Crooks, Beverly M. Walker, and Rachael Henry AMERICAN JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY Vol. 19, No. 3 June 1991 CONTENTS METHODOLOGY A Practitioner’s Guide to Meta-Analysis Joseph A. Durlak and Mark W. Lipsey ARTICLES Expectations and High School Change: Teacher-Researcher Collaboration to Prevent School Failure Rhona S. Weinstein, Charles R. Soulé, Florence Collins, Joan Cone, Michelle Mehlhorn, and Karen Simontacchi Paradigms and the Research Report: Making What Actually Happens a Heuristic for Theory Edison J. Trickett I Know I Can Do This, But Where’s My Motivation? Jere Brophy Ecological Interventions and the Process of Change for Prevention: Wedding Theory and Research to Implementation in Real World Settings Robert D. Felner, Ruby S. C. Phillips, David DuBois, and A. Michele Lease Confronting the Social Context of School Change Cary Cherniss Caught Between Paradigms: Obstacle or Opportunity—A Comment on the Commentaries Rhona S. Weinstein Developmental and Family Milieu Correlates of Resilience in Urban Children Who Have Experienced Major Life Stress Peter A. Wyman, Emory L. Cowen, William C. Work, and Gayle R. Parker An Assessment of the Needs of Mutual-Help Groups Gregory J. Meissen, David F. Gleason, and Melody G. Embree BRIEF REPORT Supportive and Unsupportive Responses of Others to Rape Victims: Effects on Concurrent Victim Adjustment Robert C. Davis, Ellen Brickman, and Timothy Baker AMERICAN JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY Vol. 19, No. 4 August 1991 CONTENTS SPECIAL ISSUE: Preventive Intervention Research Centers Prevention-Centered Science in Mental Health Doreen Spilton Koretz The Use of Structural Equation Modeling in Generative Research: Toward the Design of a Preventive Intervention for Bereaved Children Stephen G. West, Irwin Sandler, David R. Pillow, Louise Baca, and Joanne C. Gersten Epidemiology and Preventive Interventions: Parental Death in Childhood as a Case Example Joanne C. Gersten, Janette Beals, and Carl A. Kallgren Stability and Quality of Life Events and Psychological Symptomatology in Children of Divorce Irwin Sandler, Sharlene Wolchik, Sanford Braver, and Bruce Fogas Factors Facilitating Adjustment to Unemployment: Implications for Intervention J. Blake Turner, Ronald C. Kessler, and James S. House From Field Experiments to Program Implementation: Assessing the Potential Outcomes of an Experimental Interver.iion Program for Unemployed Persons Amiram D. Vinokur, Richard H. Price, and Robert D. Caplan Developmental Epidemiologically Based Preventive Trials: Baseline Modeling of Early Target Behaviors and Depressive Symptoms Sheppard G. Kellam, Lisa Werthamer-Larsson, Lawrence J. Dolan, C. Hendricks Brown, Lawrence S. Mayer, George W. Rebok, James C. Anthony, Jolene Laudolff, Gail Edelsohn, and Leonard Wheeler Effect of First-Grade Classroom Environment on Shy Behavior, Aggressive Behavior, and Concentration Problems Lisa Werthamer-Larsson, Sheppard Kellam, and Leonard Wheeler Who Enrolls in Prevention Trials? Discordance in Perception of Risk by Professionals and Participants Ruth E. K. Stein, Laurie J. Bauman, and Henry T. Ireys Reinventing Fidelity: The Transfer of Social Technology Among Settings Laurie J. Bauman, Ruth E. K. Stein, and Henry T. Ireys Reviewers for This Issue AMERICAN JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY Vol. 19, No. 5 October 1991 CONTENTS SPECIAL ISSUE: Self-Help Groups Introduction to the Special Issue Thomasina J. Borkman, Issue Editor EMPIRICAL RESEARCH A National Demographic Portrait of Mutual Aid Group Participants in Canada Benjamin H. Gottlieb and Larry Peters Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Self-Help Groups: Comparisons Between Participants and Nonparticipants in Isracl and the United States Benjamin Gidron, Mark A. Chesler, and Barbara K. Chesney An Exploration of Leadership in a Medical Mutual Help Organization Tracey A. Revenson and J. Brian Cassel Understanding the Attitudes and Intentions of Future Professionals Towards Sclf-Help Gregory J. Meissen, William C. Mason, and David F. Gleason METHODS Charting Uncharted Terrain: A Behavioral Observation System for Mutual Help Groups Linda J. Roberts, Douglas A. Luke, Julian Rappaport, Edward Seidman, Paul A. Toro, and Thomas M. Reischl Quantitative and Qualitative Knowing in Mutual Support Research: Some Lessons from the Recent History of Scientific Psychology Jack Kraemer Tebes and Deborah Tebes Kraemer Participatory Action Research with Self-Help Groups: An Alternative Paradigm for Inquiry and Action Mark A. Chesler THEORY AND POLICY An Organizational Typology for Self-Help Groups Marsha A. Schubert and Thomasina J. Borkman Research Workshop on Methodological Issues in Evaluating Preventive Interventions Using Mutual Support Dorothy S. Goldklang Self-Help Research and the Public Mental Health System Thomas J. Powell and Marcia J. Cameron Reviewers for This Issue AMERICAN JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY Vol. 19, No.6 December 1991 CONTENTS METHODOLOGY Theory Based Screening for Prevention: Focusing on Mediating Processes in Children of Divorce David R. Pillow, Irwin N. Sandler, Sanford L. Braver, Sharlene A. Wolchik, and Joanne C. Gersten Comparison of Mediational Selected Strategies and Sequential Designs for Preventive Trials: Comments on a Proposal by Pillow et al. C. Hendricks Brown Mediational Screening: Is the Benefit Worth the Cost? Robert A. Caldwell Mediational Screening in Theory and in Practice Robert E. Emery Targeting Preventive Interventions: Enhancing Risk Estimates Through Theory Raymond P. Lorion Mediational Screening as a Model for Prevention Research John B. Reid Small Theory and the Strategic Choices of Prevention Research Irwin N. Sandler, Sanford L. Braver, Sharlene A. Wolchik, David R. Pillow, and Joanne C. Gersten ENVIRONMENTAL/ECOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY Home Environment Consequences of Commute Travel Impedance Raymond W. Novaco, Wendy Kliewer, and Alexander Broquet SOCIAL POLICY Effects of an Intervention Program for Pregnant Adolescents: Educational Outcomes at Two years Postpartum Victoria Seitz, Nancy H. Apfel, and Laurie K. Rosenbaum ARTICLE Organizational and Family Systems Factors in Stress Among Ministers David Henry, Fern Chertok, Christopher Keys, and Jane Jegerski BRIEF REPORT The Provision of Advocacy Services to Women Leaving Abusive Partners: An Examination of Short-Term Effects Cris M. Sullivan and William S. Davidson II List of Reviewers Index to Volume 19