PSYC 3600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Division Of Property, Allyn & Bacon, Community Psychology

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3600
• Professor: Thanh Nguyen

Document Summary

William line: introduced the term community psychology: in 1951 in canada. Community psychology: the scientific study of community phenomena. Community psychologist: a psychologist who applies scientific discoveries and interventions the community. Respect for diversity (addressing: age, developmental and acquired disabilities, religion, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, indigenous heritage, national origin, gender. Context and environment: lewin (1936): behaviour is function of the interaction between person and environment, barker (1965): the importance of settings and of the people in them, jason & zolik (1980): discriminative stimuli guide (control) people"s behaviour. Empowerment: enhancing the possibility that people can more actively control their own lives. Ecological perspective/multiple levels of intervention: bronfenbrenner (1977): Microsystems: systems that have direct influence on the individual (ex: the home or family) Mesosystems: where microsystems interact (ex: where school and family come together) Interdependence: various elements of any ecosystem influence each other. Cycling of resources: requires the community to make choices due to a limited amount of resources.