PSY 808 Lecture Notes - Community Psychology

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 808
• Professor: Kosha Bramesfeld

Document Summary

It is often difficult to come to a consensus within a group in terms of reaching an understanding of the vision, context, needs and action of the particular subject that is being talked about. Psychology is interested at working at the individual level of analysis but community psychology is more concerned with the relational and collective levels. Interventions: (ie) for the iss, the program itself is our intervention. Community psychologists are interested in identifying problems in a community, assessing the need for those interventions for that community. Ecological metaphor: micro: personal issues like family, neighbourhood, demographics. Cycling of resources: how do we gain resources for intervention and to help members of our community as well at what level are those resources being used. The implications have to be taken from a holistic approach as well as psychology bringing a strong scientific foundation so when we look at ecology from a holistic approach, we are driven by theory.