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Papers by Edward Seidman

Springer eBooks, 2002

Join me in my flux capacitor; it makes time travel possible. Let's go back just over two decades.... more Join me in my flux capacitor; it makes time travel possible. Let's go back just over two decades. Date: May 4-8, 1965; Place: Swampscott, Massachusetts; Event: the Conference on Education of Psychologists for Community Mental Health. What happened there? Quoting directly from the conference proceedings, A deep stirring and metamorphosis was seen as being in process. The conference participants, while holding diverse views on how to interpret these changes, decided to expand the conference mandate and move toward the conception of a new field tentatively labeled "Community Psychology." (Bennett et al., 1966, p. 4) The diverse views that were noted at the conference have continued throughout the short history of Community Psychology and serve as a sign of the discipline's ultimate vitality. For too many, the deep stirrings have become quiescent. But, 1 sense the reemergence of these stirrings on a larger ~Presidential address presented to the Division of Community Psychology at the annual convention of the American Psychological Association in New York, NY, August 30, 1987. I wish to express my appreciation to the many former graduate students and my friend and colleague, Julian Rappaport, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, who over the last 15 years, helped me develop the seeds of many of the ideas expressed in this address (see, for example, Seidman & Rappaport, 1979). During 1987, the students in my graduate seminar on Intervention and Social Change, both at New York University and the University of Hawaii, gave me substantial assistance in clarifying these evolving notions. Finally, I am indebted to Tracey A. Revenson who labored over multiple iterations of this manuscript enabling me to crystallize these ideas in a more compelling and understandable fashion.

American Psychological Association eBooks, Oct 27, 2004

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 1984

What choices face middle managers when corporations engage in illegal behaviour? How do they bala... more What choices face middle managers when corporations engage in illegal behaviour? How do they balance pressures from top management against moral concerns? What happens to them when they must decide whether or not to report illegal practices to the government? Clinard examines these important questions in a fascinating book based on detailed interviews with retired middle managers from a number of large (Fortune 500) corporations. 'The book is organized well and highly readable...should inspire considerable theory and research in the future.' -- Choice, January 1984 'Clinard's book is an important contribution to our understanding of corporate deviance and its control. It merits the attention of an interdisciplinary readership, not least of all those criminologists concerned with organizational deviance of any kind -- whether private or public sector.' -- The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology '...Clinard has made another unique contribution to the growing literature on coporate crime by examining, for the first time the views of middle management...' -- The Annals, July 1984

Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 1969

In previous research, therapists' A-B status has predicted differential therapist effectiveness w... more In previous research, therapists' A-B status has predicted differential therapist effectiveness with schizoid versus neurotic patients, but patients' A-B status has not been studied. This study related the A-B scores of 60 male college clinic patients (As, controls, and Bs) to therapist ratings of presenting symptoms and patients' own complaints and role expectancies. As exhibited turning against the self, intropunitive symptoms, whereas Bs showed extrapunitive tendencies. Role expectancy data suggested, surprisingly, that As enter therapy expecting to unburden themselves in an active, productive manner, whereas Bs appear to seek rational guidance and correctives. With respect to these adjustive modes and role expectancies, therapist-patient complementarity, rather than similarity, may partially mediate the effectiveness of therapy interactions. Recent research on therapist variables related to the outcome of psychotherapy points to the critical nature of the so-called A-B variable (see the review by Carson, 1967). On the basis of their scores on a small number of items taken from the Strong Vocational Interest Blank (the A-B scale), therapists categorized as "As" have been shown to achieve significantly better outcomes than "Bs" with schizophrenic patients (see reviews by Betz, 1962, 1967), whereas B therapists have performed better with neurotic outpatients (McNair, Callahan, & Lorr, 1962). Since the content of the A-B scale ostensibly involves varying degrees of interest in selected activities of a manual, technical, or mechanical nature (As dislike these activities, Bs like them), the A-B variable, despite its promise, it little understood. Therapists' A-B status was initially reported to denote differences in "clinical style" in the treatment of schizophrenic patients in the Whitehorn-Betz studies (reviewed by Betz, 1967), where the As ap

American Psychologist, 1989

Distinction is drawn between research on learning processes among children in schools and the imp... more Distinction is drawn between research on learning processes among children in schools and the impact of schooling on students' academic and socioemotional development. Schooling and the learning environment are considered within an ecological/transactional framework. The research on school effectiveness and teacher effects is summarized. Interventions directed at the social regularities of the schooling environment are proposed as strategies to improve the learning environment of the school and optimize student outcomes.

contemporary Psychology, 1989

Register as a Divison Two Member at Annual Meeting. Division Two's allocation of program hours ha... more Register as a Divison Two Member at Annual Meeting. Division Two's allocation of program hours has once again been cut for the 1986 convention. The determination of program hours is based partly on the number of people who identify themselves as Division Two members on their convention registrations. If you attend the convention in Washington, DC this year, please list Division Two as your primary division! Undergraduate Research Award Competition. The

American Journal of Community Psychology, 1993