From disciplinary approaches toward transdisciplinary perspectives: Conceptual and political frameworks of Community Psychology in Europe

Community Psychology in this paper is analyzed as a system's view towards global and local challenges. Based on the rich body of disciplinary knowledge and skills, transdisciplinary potentials and perspectives of community psychology will be outlined. The paper follows a line of arguments that community psychology has the option to play an important role to help to design a civil society based on trust, mutual support and individual and collective empowerment. Community psychology beyond disciplinary approaches has the potential for a new transdisciplinary science desperately needed to build the civil society of the future.