Pathological gambling. Chinese community in Southern Italy

If the global, demographic and economic change we are witnessing is requiring a new perception of civil society, the role of CP is to initiate and maintain dialogue and mutual support with all actors interested in social change and social innovation.Therefore, CP, among others should start to be a real "linking science" by Discovering empowerment patterns between individuals, groups and social structures not only in the neighborhood, but in all kind of settings where people work and life together (companies, virtual communities, social policy), Learning not only from the past, but sense emerging futures by learning across generations, cultures and institutions Establishing new intersectoral alliances and test new forms of collaboration between different actors in society Enabling mutual risk taking through experimental settings and program evaluation.This requires to add to "incremental", step-by-step social innovations forms of profound, more "radical" social innovations for which collaboration with other disciplines and actors are needed (see the works of C. Otto Scharmer (2007) or the concept of "design thinking" (Brown 2009). Perspectives for Community Psychology in EuropeTraditional values of CP like social change and transformation and current challenges today require more than working in a local community and/or improving the social situation of specific groups.While this work will remain an important core part of CP, the field should empower itself use its competencies to develop social innovations and look at emerging futures by developing shared goals (and take shared risks) by collaborating with other disciplines, companies or other actors in society.CP as a field in Europe should focus on macro-and micro-issues of community building together with various partners: this is why it is important to develop close ties not only with national community psychology groups in Europe and other parts of the world, but also with other psychological and social science/social action networks and associations.The European Union and the European Commission will be one of the most important partners to foster community building and a sense of community in our society.To support this movement and to strengthen the capabilities of each community psychologist in Europe, we should form Community Interest Groups (professional, student and practitioner groups) which will be able to maintain, and promote the rich body of knowledge on community building and develop future questions which may be important for our society.We should invest in a joint education and practice in community psychology and CP special topics in order to develop the idea of community psychology for young professionals.For this we can use and institutionalize a rich body of experience of community psychology programs in universities and schools all over Europe.The time of an interdisciplinary community building and social innovation master program should come within the next years.These kind of programs could enhance the skills for the future of community psychology in Europe:In Social Skills students and practitioners will experience the art of community building as a collaborative and empowering background, leading to social responsiveness and inclusion Community Psychology: Common Values, Diverse Practices 13 Design Skills will develop both strategic-innovative and creative abilities in order to nurture mutual knowing, awareness and playfulness, and Action Skills will focus on how to co-create, implement and evaluate new concepts and social innovations to build communities in different settings.

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