社区心理学致力于解决与人和环境的适配性相关的那些心理问题。主流的科学心理学所坚持的实证主义由于相对缺乏社会实践效度,受到很多批评,在一定程度上已经成为心理学发展的障碍。社区心理学的诞生在某种意义上就是为了解决主流心理学存在的社会实践效度危机问题,生态取向因此构成社区心理学学科气质的一部分,真正意义上的社区心理学研究都具有生态取向。社区心理学的生态取向有很多具体表现,包括引进生态学的视角和原理,在人与周围环境构成的生态系统中谋求多样化的问题解决方案,以及以生态学原则指导社区心理学实践。社区心理学的生态取向一方面有利于心理学研究的视野由个体内部心理扩大到更大的单元,将人与环境联合起来进行综合分析,提高研究的生态效度;另一方面也能够促使心理学走出实验室,走向社区生活和社会实践,直接面对和解决现实存在的心理问题,提高社会实践效度。
<<Community psychology is committed to deal with the problems which relates the applicability between human and environment.Because of the lack of social practice validity,the mainstream of science psychology which believes in positivism has come in for a lot of criticism.It has become the obstacle of psychology development in part.To solve this problem,in a sense,community psychology was born.Therefore,the ecological orientation constitutes a part of ethos of community psychology.And a real sense of community psychology is ecological approach.The ecological orientation of community psychology has many performance,including introducing the perspective and principle of ecology,seeking a variety of problem solving solutions in an ecosystem consisting of people and their surroundings,and guiding the practice of community psychology with the principle of ecology.The ecological orientation of community psychology helps broaden the scope of psychological research from within the individual to a larger unit.Furthermore,it drives psychology out of the laboratory and enters to the community life and society practice,which helps to improve social practice validity and confront and solve the psychological problems of reality directly.
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