Research Catalog

Title

Psychology and public policy : balancing public service and professional need / edited by Raymond P. Lorion [and others].

Publication

Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, [1996], ©1996.

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Additional Authors

Lorion, Raymond P.

Description

xviii, 417 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Summary

• This collection of chapters, some new and most previously published in the American Psychologist, conveys the reciprocal importance of public policy formation and psychology. Many of psychology's leading researchers, clinicians, and policymakers - including psychologists active in the development of public policy and the coordination of advocacy efforts for the discipline's betterment - are brought together in this volume.
• These selections will provide readers with a greater understanding of policy evolution and deeper insights into the ways in which the discipline's involvement in public policy formation can enhance psychology's public standing and promote public support of the field.

Subjects

• Political psychology
• Psychologists in government
• Policy scientists

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• Foreword: Psychology, Public Policy, and the Congressional Fellowship Program / Raymond D. Fowler -- Preface: Psychology and Public Policy - A Profession's Response to Public Need -- Introduction: Reshaping Our Views of Our Field / Raymond P. Lorion and Ira Iscoe -- I. Coevolution of Psychology and Policy -- Introduction: Public Policy - A Process With a Purpose / Robert G. Frank and Joanne E. Callan. Ch. 1. Toward a Psychology of Change and Innovation / Seymour B. Sarason. Ch. 2. Public Policy and Public Service: Our Professional Duty / Patrick H. DeLeon. Ch. 3. Psychology and Public Policy in the "Health Care Revolution" / Charles A. Kiesler and Teru L. Morton. Ch. 4. Legal Policy Analysis and Evaluation / Michael J. Saks. Ch. 5. Psychology in the Public Interest: What Have We Done? What Can We Do? / M. Brewster Smith -- II. Psychological Science as a Policy Resource --
• Introduction: A Renewed Need for Research on the Science of Public Policy / Pamela Ebert Flattau and William Howell. Ch. 6. On Being Useful: The Nature and Consequences of Psychological Research on Social Problems / Nathan Caplan and Stephen D. Nelson. Ch. 7. On Getting in Bed With a Lion / William Bevan. Ch. 8. Social Scientists and Decision Makers Look at the Usefulness of Mental Health Research / Janet A. Weiss and Carol H. Weiss. Ch. 9. The Role of Psychological Research in the Formation of Policies Affecting Children / Eleanor E. Maccoby, Alfred J. Kahn and Barbara A. Everett. Ch. 10. Making Research Apply: High Stakes Public Policy in a Regulatory Environment / Dane Archer, Thomas F. Pettigrew and Elliot Aronson -- III. Public Health and Public Priorities -- Introduction: Balancing Expertise With Practical Realities / Russ Newman and Trudy Vincent. Ch. 11. Organized Psychology's Efforts to Influence Judicial Policy Making / Charles R. Tremper.
• Ch. 12. When Psychology Informs Public Policy: The Case of Early Childhood Intervention / Martin Woodhead. Ch. 13. Psychology and Public Policy: Tool or Toolmaker? / Baruch Fischhoff. Ch. 14. How to Influence Public Policy: A Blueprint for Activism / Patrick H. DeLeon, Anne Marie O'Keefe, Gary R. VandenBos and Alan G. Kraut. Ch. 15. Health Psychology in the 21st Century: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome as a Harbinger of Things to Come / Margaret A. Chesney. Ch. 16. U.S. Mental Health Policy: Proactive Evolution in the Midst of Health Care Reform / Gary R. VandenBos -- IV. Policymakers: Their View -- Introduction: Psychologists' Contributions to the Policy Process / Henry Tomes and Annette U. Rickel. Ch. 17. Children and the Congress: A Time to Speak Out / George Miller. Ch. 18. Disability and Rehabilitation Research From Policy to Program: A Personal Perspective / David Bertsch Gray. Ch. 19. Psychology Research and NIMH: Opportunities and Challenges / Alan I. Leshner.
• Ch. 20. Violence Against Women: The Congressional Response / Joseph R. Biden, Jr. -- V. Thoughts from the Public Policy Front Line. Ch. 21. Moving Psychology Toward (Self) Recognition as a Public Resource: The Views of a Congressman Psychologist / Ted Strickland -- Appendix: APA Congressional Fellows, 1974-1995.

ISBN

155798347X (alk. paper)

LCCN

95026810

OCLC

• 34120506
• ocm34120506

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries