PS282 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Effect Size, Biopsychosocial Model, Program Evaluation
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Level of analysis: individual, micro, meso, macro. Students don"t venture out past a few blocks of campus: want to burst the bubble, can do so with practicum. Level of analysis: macrosystems: cultures, government, mass media, societies, localities: cities, neighborhoods, towns, organizations: schools, local businesses, religious congregation, microsystems: families, friends, classroom. First order change: the more things change the more things stay the same . Second order change: programs that include a focus on changes in setting and communities including changes in formal policies & specific practices and developing resources for positive development. Took a map of london and the plotted the location of homes in which 578 people had died from cholera. He went to those homes and spoke to the families of people who had died. He found that almost all the people who had died had gotten their drinking water from the broad street pump.
