Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, an

Why an issue devoted to international community psy-chology? In some ways, such a collection is unnecessary, even for an English language readership. Professional organizations, books, chapters and articles on community psychology appeared as early as the mid-to-late-1970s in Latin America (Montero 1996), the United Kingdom (Bender 1976), Italy (Francescato 1977), and Norway (Grinde 1977). There have been journals related to the field outside the United States at least since the late 1970s-earl