Cultures, Communities, Competence, and Change provides a transcultural
psychosocial conception of the nature of individual and social activity.
The author presents an integrated view of how people develop a
psychosocially-based awareness of themselves and their milieus to shape
what he refers to as their `internested' social systems. In so doing he
challenges current deficit/prevention emphases in the helping
disciplines and promotes a constructive, prosocial model of individual
and social approaches to change.