In her latest book, Dr. Clark applies a holistic, wellness perspective to community health, focusing on community strengths and resilience - such as positive nutrition, healthy environment, fitness, and self care skills - rather than risks and disease. Practitioners and students will find this book a practical and comprehensive resource for creating community health programs and promoting wellness among individuals and groups. Special features include:

• A step-by-step guide to planning, implementing, and marketing community health programs;
• Strategies for wellness nutrition, fitness, stress management, and smoking cessation;
• Strategies for preventing violence in the schools and larger community;
• Tips on sharpening communication skills with individuals and groups; and
• Models of culturally sensitive health promotion programs.

Part I: Theory and Concepts

1. A Model for Health and Wellness Promotion in Communities, Carolyn Chambers Clark
2. Health Promotion with Changing and Vulnerable Populations, Grace Erickson

Part II: Developing Programs in the Community

3. Community Self-Assessment, Carolyn Chambers Clark
4. Principles of Planning Effective Community Health Programs, Elizabeth Erkel
5. Community Mobilization, Carl Helvie
6. Marketing Community Health Promotion Programs, Carolyn Chambers Clark
7. Evaluating Community Health Program, Sandra MacDonald
8. Health Promotion in Rural Settings, Julia W. Aucoin and Sheilda G. Rodgers
9. Health Promotion on the Internet, Judy L. Sheehan

Part III: Strategies for Wellness

10. Wellness Nutrition, Carolyn Chambers Clark
11. Fitness and Flexible Movement, Barbara Resnicks
12. Communicable Disease: Promoting Community Resiliency, Margo Drohan
13. Stress Management, Carolyn Chambers Clark
14. Smoking Cessation, Charlene Long
15. Violence Prevention Skills, Carolyn Chambers Clark
16. Environmental Wellness, Carolyn Chambers Clark
17. Complementary Health Care Practices, Nancy Oliver

Part IV: Interaction Skills

18. Advanced Communication Skills with Individuals and Groups, Carolyn Chambers Clark
19. Working with Groups, Cynthia Johnson and Beth Keely
20. Working with Families, Janice Unruh Davidson

Part V: Health Promotion in Cultural Context

21. Health Promotion with African American Women, Marva Mizell Price
22. Establishing a Lay Health Promotion Program in a Hispanic Community, Sandra Hopper
23. Working with Elderly Diabetics in a Hawaiian Community, Chen-Yen Wang
24. Parish Nursing, Susan MacLeod Dyess

Part VI: Lessons from Sample Health Promotion Programs

25. Conducting a Survey: The Example of a Youth Service Organization, Robert Strack
26. Violence Prevention in Schools: A Model Violence Prevention Center, Pamela P. DiNapoli
27. Evaluating Small Community-Based Health Promotion Programs: Lessons Learned from Colorado Health Promotion Initiatives, Kathryn A. Judge, Deborah S. Main, Carolyn Tressler, Douglas Fernald, Jill Parker, Kitty Corbett, Jennifer Horton
28. Health Promotion in a Homeless Center, Carl Helviei>