Edison Trickett, PhD
Community & Prevention Division Chairperson.
Professor,
Department of Psychology
1007 West Harrison St.
Chicago, Illinois 60607-7137
Office 1054C BSB
Phone 312-996-2144
Email: trickett@uic.edu
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When at UAF
224 AHRB
Phone: 907-474-6186
Dr. Trickett’s research has focused on the development of an ecological perspective within his field of community psychology for conducting community research and intervention. Central to this perspective are the importance of understanding the history and dynamics of community life and the importance of conducting community research in the spirit of collaborative inquiry. His empirical work has focused most generally on how to assess the social environments of public schools and their effects on adolescent development. In the past 15 years, the emphasis has been on the role of the schools in the acculturation and adaptation of immigrant and refugee adolescents and families.
Currently, his conceptual work involves ecological theorizing about community intervention as a culturally-embedded, transactional process, with the intervention goal being one of community development or the increase in local community resources. He is doing this as part of the International Collaboration on Complex Interventions, an interdisciplinary international collaboration headed by Penny Hawe in Calgary. Empirically, he is currently focusing on how public schools deal with immigrant and refugee adolescents, including work on the burnout-related aspects of the teaching role and the social integration of refugee and immigrant adolescents into the structure of the school. |
