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How is community psych different from other psychology fields?
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1. it offers a different way of thinking about human behaviour
2. it offers an expansion of the definition of what are appropriate topics for psychological study and intervention |
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Fundamental attribution error
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Overestimate the important of the actors individual characteristics and underestimate the importance of situation factors
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Partcipant-conceptualizer
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Term used to describe psychologists role. activily involved in community processes while also attempting to understand and explain them
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Shaw & McKay
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Looked at official sources of juvinile delinquency rates. concluded it was structural factors in the neighbourhoods ex. poverty, overcrowding, that were causing the high crime rates not chatacteristics of the individuals who lived therre.
Theory was called Social Disorganization Theory. |
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First order change
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Alters rearanged or replaces the individual members of a group
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Second order change
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Changing relationships, shared goals, role rules and power relationships.
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Rhona Weinstein
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2002 book "reaching higher" demonstrated second order change to reading with eric who was part of the reading group "clowns".
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Oxford houses
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Houses for substance abuse where there is more spacious dwellings and lower crime areas and residents are required to pay rent, be emploted, do chores and remain sober. leaders chosen by residents. shared support, responsibility and decision making.
they represent second order change. because the usual role of patient and staff is altered. |
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Listening Partners Program
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Blended feminist and community pssych principals.
peer groups for young moms in vermont low income isolated rural communities meet weekly with local women leaders second order change becuase it addresses societal injustice and enables changes in role relationships. |
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Error of logical typing
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Action is taken at the wrong level of analysis.
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Why are values useful in community psychology?
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1. values help to clarify choices for research and action
2. helps to identify when actions and espoused values do not match 3. understanding a culture or community involves understanding its distinctive values 4. community psychology has a distinctive spirit |
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What are the seven core values of community psych
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Individual and family wellness
sence of community respect for human diversity social justice empowerment and citizen participation collaboration and community strenghts empirical grounding "IRS Seeking ECE" |
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Social justice
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The fair, equitable allocation of resources, opportunities, obligations, and power in society as a whole.
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Distributive justuce
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Concerns the allocation of resources mong members of a population
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Procedural justice
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Concerns wether processes of collective decision making include a fair representation of citizens
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