ArticleAmerican journal of community psychology2015
Community psychology and the capabilities approach.
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- A Conceptual Model for Strengthening Family Capabilities Through a Process of Care.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- The politicizing clinic: insights on 'the social' for mental health policy and practice.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2024Article
- Psychometric properties of the measure of achieved capabilities in homeless services.BMC public health · 2023Article
- The Achieved Capabilities Questionnaire for Community Mental Health (ACQ-CMH): A consumer-based measure for the evaluation of community mental health interventions.American journal of community psychology · 2022Article
- Between wellness and fairness: The mediating role of autonomous human choice and social capital in OECD countries.Journal of community psychology · 2022Article
- Older Public Housing Tenants' Capabilities for Physical Activity Described Using Walk-Along Interviews in Montreal, Canada.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- A Multilevel Intervention Framework for Supporting People Experiencing Homelessness with Pets.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2020Article
- Comparison of Housing First and Traditional Homeless Service Users in Eight European Countries: Protocol for a Mixed Methods, Multi-Site Study.JMIR research protocols · 2020Article
- Championing Equity, Empowerment, and Transformational Leadership in (Mental Health) Research Partnerships: Aligning Collaborative Work With the Global Development Agenda.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2019Article
- "We Always Think You're Here Permanently": The Paradox of "Permanent" Housing and Other Barriers to Recovery-Oriented Practice in Supportive Housing Services.Administration and policy in mental health · 2017Article
- Complex Recovery: Understanding the Lives of Formerly Homeless Adults with Complex Needs.Journal of social distress and the homeless · 2016Article
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Abstract
What makes for a good life? The capabilities approach to this question has much to offer community psychology, particularly with respect to marginalized groups. Capabilities are freedoms to engage in valued social activities and roles-what people can do and be given both their capacities, and environmental opportunities and constraints. Economist Amartya Sen's focus on freedoms and agency resonates with psychological calls for empowerment, and philosopher Martha Nussbaum's specification of requirements for a life that is fully human provides an important guide for social programs. Community psychology's focus on mediating structures has much to offer the capabilities approach. Parallels between capabilities, as enumerated by Nussbaum, and settings that foster positive youth development, as described in a National Research Council Report (Eccles and Gootman (Eds) in Community programs to promote youth development. National Academy Press, Washington, 2002) suggest extensions of the approach to children. Community psychologists can contribute to theory about ways to create and modify settings to enhance capabilities as well as empowerment and positive youth development. Finally, capabilities are difficult to measure, because they involve freedoms to choose but only choices actually made or enacted can be observed. The variation in activities or goals across members of a setting provides a measure of the capabilities that the setting fosters.
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