PS282 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Community Psychology, Socioeconomic Status, Sexual Orientation
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The four concepts: respect for diversity, acknowledging context, collaboration and participation, change at multiple levels. Addressing: age, disabilities, religion, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, indigenous heritage, national origin, gender. Centring culture: critical to understanding differences between your culture and that of others, cultural sensitivity: two challenges, understanding others, understanding self. Fish don"t know they"re swimming in water (its their culture) Context: community psychology focuses on environmental impact (ex. Discrimination and economics: the behavioural setting is key to understanding peoples behaviour (more challenging in our individualistic culture) Community psychology: a shift in perspective: shifts from focusing only on individuals to considering how individuals, communities, and societies are intertwined, example: homelessness as musical chairs. People become homeless because of some individual-level factor (ex. Mental illness context is not important not the number of chairs available. Individual level variables may influence who gets a chair , but. Also referred to in community psychology as an ecological.
