1. SECOND DOMAIN PROJECT:
COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY
Austin Pittsley
ANTH592

2. SOURCES
 Society for Community Research and Action
 BLS Occupational Outlook
Handbook

3. INFORMATIONAL INTERVIEW
 Dr. Georgia Michalopoulou
 Chief of Staff of Child Psychiatry and Psychology,
Children’s Hospital of Michigan
 Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral
Neurosciences, Wayne State University
 Clinical psychology in a hospital setting,
administration of a psychology clinic

4. HISTORY
 Birthplace: 1965 Swampscott Conference
 Psychologists affiliated with community mental
health
 Individual- to community- and prevention-based
practice
 Criticism of psychotherapy
 Political activists, agents of social change, and
participant-conceptualizers

5. WHAT IS IT?
 Integrates social, cultural, economic, political,
environmental, and international
 Promote positive change, health, empowerment,
transformative action, and social justice
 Community problems come from systemic
problems that come from structural problems
 Change possible when people have voice, power,
and access
 Critiques previous and mainstream psychology

6. WHERE DO THEY WORK?
 Common in academia
 Public services and healthcare
 Local & state governments, schools, social-service
and treatment centers, research centers
 Work to enact second-order changes, rather than
first-order focus of clinicians

7. REPRESENTATIVE OCCUPATIONS
 Social and Community Service Manager
 Mental Health Counselor
 Social Worker
 Community Health Worker
 Psychologist

8. EDUCATION & CERTIFICATION
 PhD, residency, and licensing required for
psychologists and mental health counselors
 BA required, but MA preferred* for social and
community service manager, and social and
community health workers
 Previous experience or work-training also usually
required

9. PAY & GROWTH
 Community Health Worker
 $35,000 – 42,000; 21-22% growth
 Mental Health Counselor
 $41,000; 22-29% growth
 Social Worker
 $40,000 – 55,000; 23-27% growth
 child, family, school, mental-health, and substance-abuse workers paid
lower
 Social and Community Service Manager
 $60,000-63,000; 15-21% growth
 Psychologists
 $68,000-90,000; 11-12% growth
 clinical, counseling, and school psychologists paid lower
 vast majority of job growth is in industrial-organizational psychologists
*Growth projections are for 2012-2022

10. TOP EMPLOYERS
 Community Health Worker: governments, hospitals,
ambulatory care services
 Mental Health Counselor: nursing and residential care,
ambulatory care services, family and individual services
 Social Worker: hospitals, ambulatory care services,
nursing and residential
 Social and Community Service Manager: individual and
family services, governments, rehabilitation centers
 Psychologists: educational services (academics),
healthcare and social assistance, self-employed

11. PSYCHOLOGY’S DEMOGRAPHICS
 Most recent from ACS 2005-2013
 Number of psychologists remained stable
 Gender gap changed significantly
 Racial/ethnic minority representation doubled, but
still lags behind overall and professional/doctoral
workforce
 Tend to be concentrated in coastal areas, especially
California, New York, Pennsylvania, and
Massachusetts

12. FINAL IMPRESSIONS
 Many similarities and compatibilities
 Addressing a perceived weakness in clinical psychology
 Lots of points of contact between the two
 Community psychology brings a history of application
and practice
 Anthropology brings a history of methods, perspectives,
and theories
 Both strive for community collaboration and “Doing
some good”