PS282 Lecture 3: PS282 - Lecture Notes - 01.12.16
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You wouldn"t see the difference in the community. What will be our ground rules for this class: participate, don"t judge, open to criticism. The formulation of a problem is far more often essential than its solution. We tend to find a solution to a problem that we see instead of thinking why is this happening. Community psychology looks at how to prevent something rather than how to fix it. Assumptions behind the process of problem definition may be largely unconscious: context minimization error. Context: encapsulating environments in which people live, structural forces that shape the lives of individuals. The vast majority of people with mental illness are not violent. The public is misinformed about the link between mental illness and violence: people with psychiatric disabilities are far more likely to be victims than perpetrators. Capital punishment: research against, research pro. Brought in research papers show that capital punishment works: i knew that all along research pro.
