The Emergence of Community Psychology Flashcards
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Roots of community psychology
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- Emergence of a preventative perspective adopted from public health (e.g., disease prevention - polio, small box)
- Emergence of community mental health movement (deinstitutionalization)
- Emergence of action research
- Social movements (e.g., civil rights, feminist)
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Conceptual/Empirical Contributions to community psychology
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- Development of ecological theories
- Identification of significance of social support
- Recognition of behavioural, environmental, structural, contributions to health
- Growth of interdisciplinary study: we want to work with all fields
- Appreciation for human diversity
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Political factors contributing to community psychology
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- Political Activism: civil rights movement , feminist movement
- Funding of macro-level/Demonstration programs, (head start, participaction, better beginnings better futures, etc.): Doing things at a large scale to make change
- Funding of community relationship
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Professional factors contributing to community psychology
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- Challenges to effectiveness of psychotherapy: We can’t hire and afford enough therapists to deal with the amount of mental illness out there
- There is more need than we have services available and things like covid make it much worse
- Geographical inequity of services
- A lot of irrelevant services
- Universities and community outreach
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How did Canada gain the majority of their community psychologists
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- We got them from the US to start building our programs and create more community psychologist
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Head Start Programs
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- Like what redacted taught
- US based program for school
- Helped adapt kids to the classroom, with literacy, and with hunger, etc.
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Participaction
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- From the Canadian government
- Help people get healthy and active
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Better beginnings, better futures
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- Community based health programs in Ontario that actually got good outcomes
