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| 313531592 | participant | they participate in community events | |
| 313531593 | conceptualizers | while their participating in events, they are try to understand | |
| 313531594 | community psychology | concerns the relationships of individuals with communities and societies. By intergrating research with actions, it seeks to understand and enhance quality of life for individuals, communities, and societies | |
| 313531595 | Seven Core Values | individual and family wellness, sense of community, respect for diversity, social justice, empowerment and citizens participation, colloboration and community, and empirical grounding (CRISEES) | |
| 313531596 | individual and family wellness | focuses on individual's psychological wellness, promotes strength wellness, the focus of clinical psychology. | |
| 313531597 | sense of community | perception of belongingness, interpendence and mutual commitment that links to individual in collective unity can ignore or attact diversity | |
| 313531598 | respect for diversity | notices the variety, understanings individuals in community requires understanding diversity, norms and traditions | |
| 313531599 | social justice | fair equal distributions in the community (distributive community and procedural justice) concerned with the changes in public attitude (advocacy) | |
| 313531600 | empowerment and citizen participation | aimed at enhancing the possiblities for people to control aspects in their own lives. Citizen participate in macro systems | |
| 313531601 | collaboration and community | strengths involves relationships between community psychologists and citizens, search for personal and community strengths that promotes change | |
| 313531602 | empirical grounding | uses research to make community action more effective and makes research more valid for understanding communities (qualitative and quantitative research methods are used) | |
| 313563918 | context | affect personal life, refers to the enclosed environments within which individuals lives family friendship, coworkers, neighbors) | |
| 313563919 | context minimization error | is not nothing the importance of context in everyones life for ex: why did the girl drop out of school? she was lazy, however I did not look at here household full of high school drop outs | |
| 313563920 | 1st order change | replaces members of a group, this type of change does not fix problems in schools, considering that they reoccur ex: attempting to solve homelessness by helping a homeless family | |
| 313563921 | 2nd order change | take accound structural problems, context and policies rather than just looking at relationships and individual problems | |
| 313563922 | 3 advantages of ecological perspective | helping in shifting perspectives, helps to create context for mediating structures, uncovers multiple factors to different issues in the community | |
| 313563923 | mediating structures | create to help individuals cope with stressors (hair salons, barbershops, YMCA's) | |
| 313615473 | prevention perspective on mental health services | public health concerned with preventing illness more than treatment. Population perspective focuses on control of disease within a community (second order change) | |
| 313615474 | reforms in mental health systems | began after world war II-1960's Veteran's needed medical attention. So programs were made such as the veterans administration that help the psychological needs of soliders (clinical psychology also emerged) As medicine use for psychiatric patients increased, the number of hospitals with more than 1,000 psychiatric beds reduced by 50% | |
| 313615475 | group dynamics and action research | these traditions began with Kurt Lewin-social action and research can be connected in ways that strenghtens both focus in the development of skill for working groups and communities. Involved prevailing individualism and laboratory focus of psychology and involved a collaborative partnership of professionals and citizens | |
| 313615476 | movement for social change and liberation | most direct influences were feminists and civil rights movement-several commodies consisted of challenging a hierachy, unequal role relationships between whites and people of color, men and women experts and citizens, persons of all orientations and the powerful and the oppressed. Values common to these movements were related to core values (citizen participation, social justice and respect for diversity) | |
| 313615477 | undercurrents of optimism | to solve social problems you have to build and create, optimism the ability to find solutions provided underlying support for all other forces | |
| 313615478 | Swampscott of 1965 | purpose was to discuss new roles in the GMHC systems. The new field would focus on "psychological processes that link social systems with individual behavior in complex interaction, participant- conceptualizer | |
| 313654279 | Erich Lindemann | leader of the Wellesley Humans Relations service stressed the importance of learning from citizens and enabling them to take responsibility for the mental health of their community | |
| 313654280 | George Fairweather | leader of the Community Lodge, began seeking to improve group therapy with their patients. The logde had become its own community | |
| 313654281 | Seymore Sarason | Yale Psycho-Educational Clinic, 3 aims- (1) understand the "culture of the school" and how that often inhibits productive learning to gain understanding experientally through performing services in schools and to model for university students the everyday practical involvement of their faculty in schools. The goals required wanting to step outside the usual research methods, to ask open-ended questions and learn for analysis of personal experience | |
| 313654282 | Emory Cowen | Primary Mental Health Project, broadened its focus over the years to include action research on such topics as social problem-solving skills training in schools, preventive services for children of divorce and child resilience | |
| 313654283 | Marie Johoda | Resilence and positive mental health, the research team focused on studying the community as well as individual and used documents, questionnaires, interviews, individuals and family histories and participant and nonparticipant observation. | |
| 313686195 | Tom Wolf | started as a clinical psychologist, shifted his focus and became a consultant on the coalition and building capacity-involves uniting individuals, groups, organizations, or institutions to achieve a common goal. | |
| 313686196 | Len Jason | combats teen tabacco use, in one county he worked to decrease the sale in tabacco, devoped policies that effect merchants and teens -reduced smoking in public areas | |
| 313686197 | Greg Meissen | professor and director of self help resource and research center. He and his students engage in community based research and the practice of community psychology through community organizing, collaboration and consultation with a variety of community organizations (evaluation and applied research) director of self help group clearinghouse and research center | |
| 313686198 | Fair Play | everyone starts on the same level. Since we are on the same level field we all have to play by the rules. If you don't you won't get what you need ex: running a race = competition to suceed | |
| 313686199 | Fair Shares | does not assume that everyone starts at the same place and tries to make sure that everyone has the resources that they need ex: family taking care of all its members despite that fact that everyone is not equal |
