Social Psychological Approach to Community Policy

Abstract

The first chapter described useful concepts and constructs such as prevention, crisis intervention, competence, empowerment, social support, and sense of community when we approached to the community policy from social psychological perspective. The second chapter introduced a case study which measured sense of community with the Photo Projective Method. Two participants in Amakusa Shimojima Island were provided with a disposable camera and requested to take pictures of favorite places and things. Pictures represented that resident's living conditions have been influenced by natural environment. New method for analysis of Photo Projective Method was developed.