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This edited volume combines a focus on understanding social settings as loci for empowering intervention with a focus on understanding and giving voice to citizens. It illuminates advances in theory and method relevant to changing a broad spectrum of social settings from a strengths-based perspective

Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- 1. Empowering Settings and Voices for Social Change: An Introduction -- Part I. Empowering Settings -- 2. Changing Social Settings: A Framework for Action -- 3. Empowering Community Settings: Theory, Research, and Action -- 4. Pursuing Paradox: The Role of Adults in Creating Empowering Settings for Youth -- 5. Settings and Empowerment -- Part II. Giving Voice -- 6. Voices from the Ground Up: The Use of Narrative in Understanding Recovery from Serious Mental Illness -- 7. "I Came to Tell You of My Life": Narrative Expositions of "Mental Health" in an American Indian Community -- 8. Tales of Terror from Juvenile Justice and Education -- 9. The Neglected Role of Community Narratives in Culturally Anchored Prevention and Public Policy -- 10. On Voice: Difference, Power, Change -- Part III. Retrospect and Prospect -- 11. Contradictions and Consistencies: Rappaport's Contributions to Community Psychology -- 12. Searching for OZ: Empowerment, Crossing Boundaries, and Telling Our Story -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.