ABSTRACT
Community psychology is a currently popular concept in the “mental health” field (e.g., Sarason et al., 1966). It implies the notion that the clinician should concentrate his therapeutic and prophylactic efforts on the patient’s immediate and not-so-immediate environment rather than on the patient per se. That is, instead of following the traditional dyadic treatment model, the clinician’s role should be that of an agent for change in his client’s com munity—community, meaning the client’s relatives, friends, and working associates as well as the more impersonal aspects of his social and physical surroundings. It is clear that the clinician is seen from this point of view as an expert in human ecology; a practitioner who assumes that man’s behavior is an important function of his current environment.
