URBN 1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Community Psychology
17 Apr 2018
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Community: a readily available, mutually supportive network of relationships on which one could depend. Community psychology: the relationships of individuals with communities and societies. By integrating research with action, it seeks to understand and enhance the quality of life for individuals, communities, and societies: focus on. Must change perspectives: individual perspective to structural/ ecological perspective. Individual issues might exist, but they are not the underlying problem: first order change vs. second order change: changing the individual or changing something larger, looking at it from a macro level. Ecological levels of analysis: individuals, microsystems: families, friends, organizations: schools, teams, clubs, localities: geographical areas, towns, macrosystems: cultures, governments, societies. Seven core values in community psychology: individual and family wellness, physical and psychological health; the individuals personal well-being and how they attain their personal goals. Giving people the power: citizen participation: exercising the power. When members of a community are involved in the decision making: grassroots citizen groups, neighborhood organizations.
