社区心理学方法论扩展性探索

An Inquiry into the Extension of Community Psychology Methodology

本文主张社区心理学实现跨越式的前提是其方法论边界的扩展。社区心理学方法论的转向其实是对人与社区环境之间互动的关注,在研究方式上,由个体主义研究转向生态学研究,由注重治疗转向关注预防,在研究方法上,注重多元方法的并重。同时,自上而下转到自下而上的研究方法的转向更是其在研究方法层面上可喜的变革趋势。社区心理学方法论扩展性思考,既是对社区心理学研究视野的拓展,同时也是研究思维的根本性转换。

This paper explores that the development of community psychology is based on the expansion and transformation of its methodology. The shift of the methodology of community psychology is concerned with the interaction between people and the community environment. The way of research of community psychology have changed from individualistic research to ecology and from the treatment to the prevention, by emphasizing, the multifaceted method in research. The shift from the top-down to the bottom-up approach to research methods, which is the change in the research method as a tendency. The expansion of methodology is not only an expansion of the field of community psychology research, but also a fundamental transformation of research thinking.