Cultures, Communities, Competence, and Change provides a transcultural psychosocial conception of the nature of individual and social activity. The author presents an integrated view of how people develop a psychosocially-based awareness of themselves and their milieus to shape what he refers to as their `internested' social systems. In so doing he challenges current deficit/prevention emphases in the helping disciplines and promotes a constructive, prosocial model of individual and social approaches to change.

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Cultures, Communities, Competence, and Change provides a transcultural psychosocial conception of the nature of individual and social activity. The author presents an integrated view of how people develop a psychosocially-based awareness of themselves and their milieus to shape what he refers to as their `internested' social systems. In so doing he challenges current deficit/prevention emphases in the helping disciplines and promotes a constructive, prosocial model of individual and social approaches to change.

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1 Background.- 2 The Structure of a Nested Framework.- 3 Psychology's Nested Frameworks.- 4 The Ethnic Validity of People's Lives.- 5 Individual Psychosocial Competence.- 6 Psychosocial Leaps and Spirals.- 7 Autonomy and Relatedness.- 8 Resource Generation and Interchange.- 9 Belief Systems.- 10 Pathology and Competence.- 11 Elitism, Racism, and Professionalism.- 12 Violence.- 13 Interventions: An Evaluative Matrix.- 14 Choosing and Evaluating Approaches to Change.- 15 Prospects and Challenges.- References.