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the aim of community psychology: building foundation is to -
Correct Answers ✅- introduce you to the sub-discipline of
psychology called community psychology
- understand and conceptualize community psychological
interventions, applications and initiatives
- conceptualize community practices and dynamics as well as
community psychological applications and interventions
I, unity and community is... - Correct Answers ✅- a
metaphor for your existence in the community
- signify the interwoven way in which you as an individual like
to others
- show how well all forma community as a collective
- reflect our interdependence on one another and on nature
bio-medical model - Correct Answers ✅- focus on the
individual as the unit of analysis
- emphasize the role of biological factors (esp. the brain) in
influencing and affecting human behavior
- assumes that treating the biological cause will produce the
desired effects or cure - usually by pharmaceutical treatment
- rely on the assumptions of cause and effect - and focuses
on the cure of individuals who are already ill
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the traditional african psychological worldview - Correct
Answers ✅- understand causality as linked to the
interaction of life forces
- makes little or no distinction between nature and culture
- define personhood relationally in terms of shared humanity
- extend parental responsibilities to include extended family
and community
the critical african perspective on psychology - Correct
Answers ✅- sees cultures and worldviews as meaning
systems and endeavors to accommodate different worldviews
- look into how cultural traditions and social practices
regulate, express and transform the human psyche
- focus on the indigenization of psychology and takes into
account differences in peoples languages, philosophies and
worldviews
Yen (2013) points to the position of liberatory community
psychology that - Correct Answers ✅that the ways in which
communities are conceptualize may vary from context to
context because of different cultures and worldviews
the word "community" in south africa stems from - Correct
Answers ✅- it is often interpreted in terms of race
differences in the SA context