This article provides a new perspective on the special lecture at the 24th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Community Psychology. The COVID-19 pandemic has enormous effects on different aspects of daily life beyond medicine. These effects include discrimination against infected people, the increasing number of the unemployed, young suicide victims, child abuse, and so on. What are the roles and the mission of community psychologists in an era when “coexisting” with the coronavirus has become the “new normal”? This article discusses the above issue by returning to the basics. Yamamoto (1986) stated that community psychology should “explore new theories by inspecting basic ideas and changing these ideas to solve practical problems, develop new technical and strategic theories, make a commitment to reality, evaluate the results, and examine the results.” This article introduces the author’s recent research on COVID-19 and reviews academic values, attitudes, theories, and strategies of community psychology since its inception, and discusses future issues.

COVID-19 significantly impacted and changed communities, including homes, schools, workplaces, and university education, among other fields. This paper, based on a symposium at the 24th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Community Psychology, examines how community psychology could contribute to university education. Firstly, the impact of the environment on university students, student counseling, and future support for students are discussed. Then, peer support activities using the Internet and their educational effects are reported. Next, university students’ educational practice of using photography with primary school children during COVID-19 is reported. Finally, based on these reports, university education during COVID-19 is discussed from a community psychology perspective.

This paper reports on the discussions at the 24th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Community Psychology Pre-Congress Workshop (Basic) entitled, “Workshop on a case study from a Community Psychological Perspective.” The Education and Training Committee sponsored the workshop, which was held online. The attendees included the chairperson, a presenter, a commentator, and 14 participants. The participants used a community psychology perspective for discussing a published case report related to multicultural counseling and therapy. These discussions resulted in deeper awareness and increased skills and knowledge related to community psychology in the workshop’s participants. This report discusses the efficacy and the significance of this educational and training method.

The purpose of our research is to specify the effectiveness of stress-buffering effects that SATOCHI-SATOYAMA provides for improving office workers’ motivation. We assume an occupational stress model based on the theory of cognitive appraisal and clarify the relationship between stress and productivity. Results of questionnaire surveys show that two factors have stress buffering-effects: the images of the green of SATOCHI-SATOYAMA and living in a place filled in nature.