Bill Berkowitz, Ph.D.

Selected Recent Research Publications

 

 

Berkowitz, B. (in preparation).  Neighborhood life.  [Book manuscript, based on original

      research conducted in a metropolitan suburban neighborhood.]

 

Berkowitz, B.  (2007).  Some aspects of family dynamics in a suburban neighborhood.

     [Research paper presented at meetings of the Society for Community Research and Action,

     Pasadena, California.]

 

Berkowitz, B. (2003).  Neighborhood games as a community-building strategy.  Journal of

     Community Practice, 11 (3), 35-53.

   

Berkowitz, B.  (2001), Studying the outcomes of community-based coalitions. American

     Journal of Community Psychology, 29, 213-227.  [plus additional commentary in

     roundtable discussion following, on pp. 229-239]                

 

Berkowitz, B.  (2000). Community and neighborhood organization.  In J. Rappaport &

     E. Seidman (Eds.) Handbook of community psychology. New York: Kluwer Academic /

     Plenum Publishers, pp. 331-357.  [invited handbook chapter reviewing the scholarly

     literature in this field]

 

Berkowitz, B., & Wolff, T. (2000).  The spirit of the coalition. Washington, DC: American

     Public Health Association.

 

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Additional Recent Publications   (Since 2000)

 

 

Berkowitz, B.  (2006). The ties that bind us.  NUSA News [Neighborhoods USA], (Fall), 6.

 

Shull, C. C., & Berkowitz B.  (2005). Community building with technology:

     The development of collaborative community initiatives in a mid-size city. In S. Godin

     (Ed.), Technology applications in prevention. Binghamton, NY: Haworth  Press. 

     [Also published as a separate journal article in the Journal of Prevention &

     Intervention in the Community, 29(1-2), 29-41.]

 

Berkowitz, B.  (2002).  Students and community members as problem solving partners.

     The Community Psychologist, 35 (4), 22-2

 

Berkowitz, B.  (2002). The Concord Neighborhood Network: A distinctive organizing model.   

     The Community Psychologist, 35 (1), 24-26.

 

Berkowitz, B.  (2001). Comment on David Chavis’s article, “The Paradoxes and Promise of

     Community Coalitions.” American Journal of Community Psychology, 29, 325-326.

 

Berkowitz, B.  (2001). Neighborhood Innovations  Program. In N. Albery, R. Bowen, N.   

     Temple, & S. Wienrich (Eds.), The world’s greatest ideas:  An encyclopedia of social       

     inventions  (p. 167). Gabriola Island, British Columbia, Canada: New Society Publishers. 

     [brief article on neighborhood program]

 

Francisco, V. T., Fawcett, S. B., Schultz, J. A., Berkowitz, B., Wolff,  T. J., & Nagy, G.    

     (2001). Using Internet-based resources to build community capacity:  The Community

     Tool Box. American Journal of Community Psychology,  29, 293-300.

 

Berkowitz, B.  Suburban communities. (2000).  In A. E. Kazdin (Ed.)  Encyclopedia of

     psychology. Washington and New York: American Psychological Association and Oxford

     University Press, Vol. 7, pp. 505-509. [invited article in this eight-volume encyclopedia]

 

Berkowitz, B. (2000).  The community psychologist as citizen. In T. Wolff,  “Practitioner

     Perspectives,” in J. Rappaport & E. Seidman (Eds.),  Handbook of community

     psychology. New York: Kluwer Academic /   Plenum Publishers, pp. 764-767. [invited

     handbook essay on professional roles for community psychologists]

 

Fawcett, S. B., Francisco, V. T., Schultz, J. A., Berkowitz, B., Wolff, T. J., & Nagy, G.  

     (2000). The community tool box: A Web-based resource for building healthier

     communities. Public Health Reports, 115(2-3), 274-278. 

 

Schultz, J. A., Fawcett, S. B., Francisco, V. T., Wolff, T., Berkowitz, B. R., & Nagy, G.

     (2000). The community tool box: Using the Internet to support the work of community

     health and development. In J. Finn and G. Holden   (Eds.), Human services online: A new

     arena for service delivery. Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press. [Also published as a separate

     journal article in the Journal of Technology in Human Services, 2000, 17(2-3), 193-215.]   

 

 

Electronic Publications     (peer-reviewed Web site)

 

1995-present  The Community Tool Box. [Writer, lead editor, and also core collaborator

for this first-of-its-kind service, which provides peer-reviewed community development information over the Internet. This is a national project, in collaboration with the Work Group on Health Promotion and Community Development at the University of Kansas.

 

                        To date, over 7000 pages of text in over 250 different modules have been        

                        posted on our Web site (http://ctb.ku.edu). The Community Tool Box is

                       presently the largest single source for information  on community health and

                       development now in existence. I have written 17 modules (about 15-25 pages

                       per module) and provided detailed editing for about 100 others.]