Abstract
The history of community psychology in Italy is briefly reviewed. The field has developed extensively in universities and applied settings over the past 30 years. This issue presents 5 recent examples from different regions of Italy of preventive and other community psychological intervention studies. They include an evaluation of a program to increase the independent mobility of children walking to and from school, the ecological evaluation of child and adolescent residential care communities, participatory action-research with adolescents in schools and neighborhoods, evaluation of a participatory local health intervention planning process, and the description and evaluation of a collaborative, Internet-based community planning training program.
Acknowledgments
We thank Maury Nation, Benjamin Siankam, and the anonymous Italian and North American reviewers for their help in editing this issue.
Notes
For a more detailed history of the development of community psychology in Italy, see Francescato, Arcidiacono, Albanesi, and Mannarini (Citation2007).
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