the study of human behavior in its multiple ecological, historical, cultural, and sociopolitical context. Emphasizes the connection btwn individuals and environments. Transactions btwn individuals and society to facilitate empowerment and social justice and promote wellness. Multiple Levels of Analysis

context: the whole environments; school, work, gender roles, religion

CME: psychological theories and research that are flawed or that hold true only in limited circumstances. leads to therapy interventions or social programs that fail b/c they attempt to reform individuals w/o understanding or altering the contexts w/in which those individuals live

alters, rearranges, or replaces the individual members of a group.

- problem oftern re-emerges.

Example:

changing relationships, expecially changing shared goals, roles, rules and power relationships.

oxford house; AA

- can address root causes of a problem

Example:

actively involved in community processes while also attempting to understand and explain them

the role of a community psychologist

closest to the individual and involving the most face-to-face contact, are closer to the center of the diagram

individual

microsystems

organization

locality

macrosystems

"i make others love me"

Individual LOA

the individual person & their relationships to the enviornments in their lives. ananlysis on how these relationships r expressed in individual behaviors,values, life transitions, stress, coping

Examples: personal beliefs, childhood, graduation, loss of a loved one, depression, marriage, history, teen preg

Example: @ 18 i was in charged of my house when we had a car accident

Set of individauls

environments in which the person repeatedly engages in direct, personal interaction w/ others (proximal face 2 face)

Example: family, friends classroom club, team, staff

i have great support from my parents

enduring set of relationships among individuals that may be associated w/ one or several places

applied to micro systems and larger organizations

Example: a classroom is a setting even though if the its

meeting place changes

Set of microsystems

consist of sets of smaller microsystems and have a formal structure: a title, a mission, by-laws or policies, meeting or work times, supervisory relationships...

Example: university AAP, church, corporation, hospital, school

Set of Organizations

geographic localities. usually have governments, local eonomies, media, systems of social, eduactional and health services, & other institutions that influence individaul quality of life.

Example: neighborhood, small town, rual area, city

Sets of communites and/or organizations

forming broad and diverse bodies of influence.

important level of analysis: population- shared characteristic, such as gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, icnome, religion, sexual orintation, having a physical or mental disability.

Example: nations, governmental and economic institions, socioeconomic status SES, religion, "isms" 

Seven Core Values of CP

no field of study is value-free. those values, explicit or implicit, guide the priorites, emphases, research, questions, hypotheses, and interventions

individual wellness; sense of community; social justice; citizen participation; collaboration and community strengths; respect for human diversity; empirical grounding

Emory Cohen

values the attainment of optimum health and wellness, not just the absence of disease and distress

focuses on: development of competencies and coping skills; social support and self-help groups; interventions outside of health care settings; prevention of maladaptive behaivor

Example: AA, DARE

Seymour Sarson, David Chavis

values the significance of connections w/ others, sense of belongingness and interdependence as essential to mental health

Focuses on: helping ppl connect w/ communities; building and stregthing communities; building connections w/in and btwn communites

social justice

MLK George Albee, William Ryan

values the fair and equitable allocation of resources, opportunites, and power (opposed to isms)

Focuses on: social, political, and economic factors that impact individuals; avoiding exploitation; ethnic psychologies, feminist psychology, liberation psychology

concerns the allocation of resources among member of a population

Example: money, access to good-quality health services or education

the community mental health movement that arose in the US in 1960 was a distributive effort to provide mental health services to more citizens

concerns whether processes of collective decision making include a fair representation of citizens

how it is planned and implemented

brown v board of edu

Julian Rappaport

values self-determination and the ability of a community to define itself, its problems and issues, and to participate in solutions

Focuses on: peaceful, respectful, collaborative decision-making processes; empowering individuals and communites; organizing grassroots citezen groups, neighborhood groups, coalitions of groups

values the strengths and knowledge of community members as collaborators in research and action efforts

emphasizes HOW the CP does his/her work

Focuses on: identifying community resources and assets; recongnizing and respecting the wisdom, experience and expertise that exist in a community; nurturing the relationship btwn psychologist and the community; bringing humility to one's work

Roderick Watts, Ed Trickett

values the variations w/in and btwn communites as well as the diverse social identities and beliefs that exist in a society. values the acceptance of diverse groups as equals where difference does not suggest deviance or pathology

Focuses on: diversity as a strength; examining diverse cultures for traditions that promote health;seeking understanding of differences and ways to bridge them

values the interdependence and integration of systematic research and planful action

"knowledge w/out action is empty and action w/out knowledge is ignorant"

Focuses on: role as participant-conceptualizer; multiple research methods (qualitative/quantitative); research that meets and informs community needs;