People, Places, and Programs Promoting Justice and Well-Being
Abstract
<p>I bonded with community psychology in 1991. Prior to that I had read about the field, but it was in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in the dead of a Canadian winter, that I grew emotionally attached to the discipline. I had organized a conference on prevention in schools and invited George Albee, Emory Cowen, and Seymour Sarason to be keynote speakers. These founders of community psychology were as inspiring as they were magnetic. I had already met George Albee, who was the external examiner of my PhD dissertation in 1989 and who invited me to one of his famous Vermont conferences on primary prevention, but it was the first time that I met Seymour Sarason and Emory Cowen. I received great accolades for organizing a conference with these giants and went on to dedicate my career to community psychology.</p> <p>As a timid, recent PhD, I gave Emory Cowen a copy of my article Psychology and the Status Quo , which summarized my dissertation and was published in American Psychologist (Prilleltensky, 1989). Emory told me subsequently that my writings reminded him of Julian Rappaport, which was a great compliment, and which brings us to the topic of Empowering Settings and Voices