01:830:394 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Consciousness Raising, Community Psychology, Psy
21 May 2018
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Ch 12
● Consultation role
○ Limits to community psychologists
●Action research- by sarason
○ Wrote nature of problem solving in social action
○ Unlike prob solving in other fields, in social action u dont ever solve a prob n be
finish with it
○ U can’t ever eliminate disease
● Sympathy, empathy and compassion
● Things for social action letter
● PICO- institute for community organization
■ Approach for policy development
■ What is your audience ready for?
■ Modify ideas to make your audience listen to u
● Evidence
○ People not moved without emotion or statistics
● Mobilization/action
○ What do you want me to do next
● Reflection
○ Think about past actions
● Elements of effective community
○ Sense of community- help recipient
○ Coalition- networking, bring groups together
○ Consciousness raising
Lecture 13
Last class wrap up
● Happiness and positive psych- ultimately happiness is centered in the circle of
courage and lacks generosity---brendtro text
● Snowden- why aren't there more comm psychologist?
○ Force takes u away from comm psych- that force is context
○ Needs to immerse oneself in context to be a good comm psychologist
●Neigher- value added
○ Perspective that added to what you are already doing
○ Makes u diff from everyone tht does it in traditional ways
