APA Handbook of Community Psychology
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Irma Serrano-García Editor
Meg A. Bond, PhD, is a professor of psychology, director of the Center for Women & Work, and co-coordinator of the Graduate Program in Community Social Psychology at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. She is also a resident scholar at the Brandeis University Women's Studies Research Center.
Her publications have addressed sexual harassment, collaboration among diverse constituencies, and empowerment dynamics for underrepresented groups in community and organizational settings. Her book, entitled Workplace Chemistry: Promoting Diversity through Organizational Change (2007), chronicles a long-term organizational change project focused on issues of gender and race/ethnicity.
Her ongoing scholarship focuses on diversity-related workplace dynamics in community health centers and challenges faced by women in STEM fields. Her particular emphasis is on the subtle interpersonal dynamics and qualities of work settings that present barriers to the full integration and thriving of members of non-dominant groups.
Dr. Bond has served on the editorial boards of several psychology journals and is currently on the boards of the American Journal of Community Psychology and Advances in Community Psychology: The Book Series of the Society for Community Research and Action published by Oxford University Press.
In addition, Dr. Bond has been very involved in several professional associations. Over the years, she has been elected to several positions on the executive committee of the Society for Community Research and Action (SCRA), including serving as SCRA President in 1997–1998 and as the current chair of the SCRA Publications Committee. She has received two career awards from SCRA — a Special Contributions Award (2001) and the Ethnic Minority Mentoring Award (2009).
She has also played leadership roles within the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI), including as a member of the SPSSI Executive Committee and as a founding co-chair of the SPSSI Public Policy Committee. In terms of association-wide roles within APA, she has served as chair of the Committee on Women and as a member of the APA Board for the Advancement of Psychology in the Public Interest.
Dr. Bond is a fellow of APA, SCRA, SPSSI, and the Society for the Psychology of Women.
Irma Serrano-García, PhD, is a retired professor of the department of psychology at the University of Puerto Rico. She holds a post doctorate in public policy from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education, a PhD in social-community psychology from the University of Michigan, and a BA and MA in psychology from the University of Puerto Rico.
She was the first woman editor-in-chief of the Interamerican Journal of Psychology and has been on the editorial board of 12 peer reviewed journals both in the United States and abroad. She has more than 125 scholarly publications including journal articles, book chapters, and 13 books, of which the best known include Contribuciones Puertorriqueñas a la Psicología Social Comunitaria [Puerto Rican Contributions to Social Community Psychology] co-edited with Wayne Rosario and Historias de Psicología Comunitaria en América Latina [Histories of Community Psychology in Latin America], co-edited with Maritza Montero.
She has written about
- social change, colonialism and power relationships
- community development, organization and education
- participative research
- HIV/AIDS prevention
- public policy
- higher education teaching and learning processes
Dr. Serrano-García has also represented APA Divisions 9 (Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues) and 27 (Society for Community Research and Action: Division of Community Psychology) on the APA council.
She has coordinated many professional events among which the most notable are the Interamerican Congress of Psychology and the First International Conference of Community Psychology, both in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She has presented her work across five continents.
She has received various awards including the Distinguished Contributions to Education and Training in Psychology Award from APA, the Psychologist of the Year Award and the Life-Time Achievement Award from the Puerto Rican Psychology Association and the Interamerican Psychologist of the Year Award from the Interamerican Society of Psychology.
After her retirement, Dr. Serrano-García continues to publish about community psychology, social change, participatory research, public policy, program evaluation, university teaching and learning and is a consultant to non-profit organizations and universities.
Christopher B. Keys, PhD, is a professor emeritus and former chair of psychology departments at both the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) and DePaul University. He has also been a founder and chair of the Community Psychology Doctoral Program in the Psychology Department at UIC, and a professor and co-director of the Advocacy and Empowerment of Minorities Program in the Department of Disability and Human Development at UIC. He was the founding associate dean for research in the College of Science and Health at DePaul.
Dr. Keys's research has focused on organizational approaches to community psychology, organizational empowerment, community research issues, and the positive community psychology of disability. He coedited an issue of the American Journal of Community Psychology on organizational approaches to community psychology, and two issues of the Journal of Prevention and Intervention in the Community on community psychology and disability and on inclusion of students with disabilities in schools, all initial special issues on these topics in community psychology.
He was one of the principal organizers for the two Chicago conferences on research methods and issues in community psychology, each of which yielded an edited book on the topic. He has mentored many community psychology students and colleagues over time. Working with them has been a major delight of his professional life. He contributed to the development of the first doctoral program in disability studies in the world at UIC. He and his collaborators have received more than $10 million in external funding for their work.
He has co-authored and co-edited more than 125 articles, chapters and books on community psychology and disability-related topics.
Dr. Keys has lectured and conducted workshops in Asia, Australia, Europe, and Latin America. The World Bank selected him to lecture in China on organizational change in schools in 1991. The Australian Ministry on Human Services and Health invited him to be the international observer for the First Australian Conference on Disability Advocacy in 1994. For three decades he has consulted on organizational, management and staff issues for academic, not-for-profit and governmental organizations.Dr. Keys is a Fellow of the Society for Community Research and Action and APA and a Founding Fellow of the Midwestern Psychological Association. He has served as President of SCRA and as chair of the Council of Community Psychology Program Directors and of the Council of Training Directors.Dr. Keys has also been a member of the APA Committee on Accreditation. He was honored to receive the Distinguished Contribution to Theory and Research in Community Psychology Award from SCRA in 2008.