PS374 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Logic Model, Unintended Consequences, Needs Assessment
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Personal intervenions: those that people carry out in the course of their daily lives; when they use their knowledge of social psychology to improve their own circumstances or those of people around them (e. g. waitpersons improving their ips) Programmaic intervenions: an organized collecion of aciviies designed to reach certain objecives; they are directed toward addressing a social or pracical problem with the objecive of prevening, reducing or eliminaing it"s negaive consequences. There are 4 overarching steps that relect the general problem-solving approach: 1. Needs assessment: the process of establishing whether or not there is a need or problem to suiciently warrant the development of a program (can be formal or informal: 2. Important to idenify the factors responsible for causing the problem. Ater idenifying causal factors, ind other intervenions that have efecively addressed the same needs (these intervenions can be used to guide the development of a soluion to the current problem)
