Theme 4: What Is Working In My Community

Question 1

What is community resilience

Answer 1

Is a process linking a network of adaptive capacities to adaptation after a disturbance or adversity.

Community adaptation is manifest in population wellness defined as high and non disparate levels of mental and behavioural health

Question 2

From which 4 main adaptive capacities does community resilience emerge

Answer 2

Economic development

Social capital

Information and communication

Community competence

Question 3

Define resilience

Answer 3

Refers to the development and dynamic use of various coping styles and strategies in different environments to handle anything that threatens ones safety and security, wellbeing and a sense of control of one’s environment where the aim is to adapt cope and function optimally in the midst of such challenges.

Question 4

Provide examples of protective factors

Answer 4

Personal qualities

Past experience

Relationship that one has with others.

Available resources and opportunities in one’s environment and level of cohesion and support in the community.

Question 5

Give examples of community strengths

Answer 5

Collective vigilance: forming social networks through which community members work together to achieve particular goals.

Collective strategy: using protective strategies together which ease burden of individuals.

Collective enforcement: when a community acts collectively to reinforce norms of prevention of violence and crime providing positive guidance and role modelling on how it can be achieved.

Question 6

Provide community psychology intervention approach

Answer 6

Consciousness raising: refers to organising campaign to raise awareness of community regarding psychosocial factors that affect their lives. Such campaign are SAPS awareness campaign
16 days of activism.

Social action: basic premise is that in order for social change to happen oppressive relationships and structures should be addressed through implementation empowerment strategy which refer to enabling community members to have personal sense of control ove Thier lives

Community development: is about bringing development or change together with community members rather than doing things with them. This involves

• Social inclusion
• Citizen participation

Community capacity building: related to prevention of violence as it focuses on building resources of community to address psychosocial problem which requires use of prevention program contribution towards helping community use its own capacity to prevent violence.
+Community social control:refers to sharing resources and using strategies by community to control a problem.
Private control
Parochial control
State control

+Collective efficacy: refers to encouraging social interaction, communication, connectedness and collaboration to develop shared beliefs trust and willingness to organise ways of dealing with psychosocial problem

Community coalition: refers to forming partnership with community to deal with problematic psychosocial elements includes bringing together service provider researchers policy makers local authorities and community members to work together.

Organizational consultation: noting the strategies used by organisation in community to address psychosocial problem

Alternative settings: refers to exploring alternative locations and sites that can be used as places of safety for community members.

Policy research and advocacy:concerned with collecting info on shortcomings of policies that cause harm in community and use info to influence decision to fight problem.

Question 7

What is social capital

Answer 7

Refers to relying on ones community on basis of social relationships and in various contexts and having relations with the larger community.

Elements such as

• trust:
• collaboration
• finding common ground
• benchmarking
• sanctions
• communication
• identity formation
• community participation