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The second and expanded edition of this award-winning book provides the most up-to-date and important efforts for improving the quality of life in communities around the world. It focuses on community improvements in relation to the interdisciplinary field of clinical sociology. The first part of the book includes updated analyses of important concepts and tools for community intervention. It discusses the importance of centrally involving community members in all phases of community development activities. Part II includes several completely new chapters and focuses on projects in a number of countries -- the United States, Brazil, South Africa, Canada, the Philippines and France. It covers topics such as establishing human rights cities; involving and empowering local communities; research in communities; the healthy cities movement; and climate change. This edition includes several new gender-focused chapters, addressing local level initiatives based on the recommendations of theCommittee on the Elimination and Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), women in prison, and gender factors in climate risk. The appendices include profiles of outstanding practitioners and scholar-practitioners over the last 100 years. This edition includes contributions from well-known scholars and practitioners in clinical sociology and is of interest to sociologists, social policy makers, social workers, and sustainability researchers. The first edition of this book received the Distinguished Scholarly Book Award from the Clinical Sociology Division of the International Sociological Association.

This new edition presents an updated version of the art and science of clinical sociologists around the world. Presenting basic clinical sociology diagrams and models, as well as detailed histories of clinical sociology in various countries, it also discusses a wide range of interventions in light of a country's economic, social, political and disciplinary history. This book includes new chapters on South African clinical sociology, climate resilience in the Philippines, children's human rights, gender integration in the military and substance abuse intervention. This book will be of great interest to upper level undergraduate and graduate students in sociology as well as social science practitioners and academics.