Analysis, context and action: an introduction to community psychology -- The international emergence and development of community psychology -- A history of "community" and community psychology in South Africa -- Assumptions and values of community psychology -- The mental health model: preventing "illness" or social inequality? -- The social ecological model as theoretical framework in community psychology -- A critical orientation to community psychology -- Intergenerational rites of passage -- Contextual issues: poverty -- Contextual issues: "race" and childhood health in South Africa -- Contextual issues: power, violence and community psychology -- Contextual enablers of the HIV pandemic in South Africa: a community psychology perspective -- Vulnerable communities: the different faces of homelessness -- Vulnerable communities: the elderly -- Vulnerable communities: former combatants in South Africa -- Community competence -- Learning in community psychology -- Indigenous knowledge and learning development -- Healing practices in communities -- Understanding community learning -- Teaching community psychology in South Africa -- Training psychology students and interns in non-urban areas -- Community-based coping: an HIV/Aids case study -- Ethics and community psychology -- Programme evaluation: approaches for supporting innovation and engaging communities -- Activating action: aims, methods and imperatives of research in community psychology.