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Community PsychologyFall 2010
Nellie Tran, Ph.D.
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Contact Info
• Email: [email protected]
• Office: Mahoney Hall 6
• Office Hours: Tuesday/Thursday 2-3pm and by appointment
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Introductions
• Name
• Major
• Interesting fact about you
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Syllabus
• Semester Long Project
• Missed Exam Policy Update
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Devise a way to draw 4 straight lines that pass through all 9 dots, without lifting your pencil from the paper and without retracing a line.
Solution
• Check page 6 of textbook
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List as many uses for a paperclip as you can.
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What is Community Psychology?
• Concerns relationship of individuals with communities & societies
• Through research & action, community
psychologists seek to enhance quality of life for individuals, communities & society.
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Example
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Example
Community Psychology• Guided by 7 core values
1) Individual & family wellness2) Sense of community3) Respect for human diversity4) Social justice5) Collaboration 6) Community strengths7) Empirical grounding
• Participant/Conceptualizer role
• Goal: to enhance both individual & community life
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Community Psychology: Addressing Social Forces in People’s
Lives1) Research to understand how social
forces affect individuals & groups.– Poverty– Oppression– Inadequate schools– Increasing individuals skills/resources– Altering aspects of the social context
2) Action to improve how context/environment affects individuals
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Example: Oxford House
• “Self Run, Self Supported, Addiction Recovery Houses”
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What Do CommunityPsychologists Do?
1)Research– Basic research– Applied research (Prevention/Promotion)– Participatory action research – Program evaluation– Policy research
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What Do Community Psychologists Do?
2)Action– Community consultation– Creating alternative settings– Community organizing and coalition
building– Advocacy
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Delineating the Field
• Different from– Clinical psychology– Social psychology– Social work– Environmental psychology– Sociology
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Values & Psychology
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Drop Out Rate Example
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Next Time
• History of Community Psychology
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