Big Picture
What does practice competency mean?
What is a skill or piece of knowledge that community psychologists have mastered enough to implement in their work?
Name this foundational principle competency by its definition:
The ability to promote genuine representation and respect for all community members, and act to legitimize divergent perspectives on community and social issues.
What is Community Inclusion and Partnership?
Definition: An individual, organization, or community affected by a given social problem.
What is a stakeholder?
True or False: A community psychologist goes into a community and determines the strengths and weaknesses of the community and acts on their behalf.
What is False? Community Psychology practitioners work to strengthen communities so they can act on their own behalf.
True or False. Most of our social problems can be fixed by working to change individual people's behavior.
What is False? Many social problems cannot be fixed by working to change people's individual behavior, especially f they live or work in environments that won't support their behavior changes.
How many practice competencies are there?
What is 18?
Name this competency by its definition:
The ability to articulate and apply multiple ecological perspectives and levels of analysis in community practice.
What is Ecological Perspectives?
Definition: The focus on actions that stop problems before they happen by boosting individual skills as well as by engaging in environmental change.
What is to prevent or prevention?
Name the competency by its definition:
The ability to identify and integrate the use of human and material resources, including community assets and social capital.
What is Resource Development?
Name the competency by its definition:
The ability to build and sustain effective communication and working relationships with policymakers, elected officials, and community leaders.
What does SCRA stand for?
What is the Society for Community Research and Action?
This competency has 5 skills, with skill 5 reading:
Articulate and apply empowerment principles in relation to other competencies for practice.
What is Empowerment?
Name the competency by its definition:
The ability to partner with community stakeholders to plan, develop, implement, and sustain programs in community settings.
What is Program Development, Implementation, and Management?
Name the competency by its definition:
The ability to facilitate the growth of an organization's capacity to attain its goals.
Name the competency by its definition:
The ability to help groups with common interests and goals to do together what they cannot do apart.
What is Collaboration and Coalition Development?
What are the three levels of competence?
What is exposure, experience, and expertise?
Scenario: A community psychologist is working with an international community partner. Before diving in too deep into working with the international community partner, the community psychologists are reflecting on and defining their worldview, culture, and identity to further understand how those parts of them influence their work, specifically their work with this international community partner.
What competency is this community psychologist modeling?
Name the competency by its definition:
The ability to articulate and implement a prevention perspective, and to implement prevention and health promotion community programs.
What is Prevention and Health Promotion?
Scenario: A community psychologist, Taylor, is consulting with emerging local leaders in their planning and implementation of actions to address homelessness in their community.
What competency is Taylor modeling?
What is Community Leadership?
Scenario: A community psychologist, Andrew, is communicating the findings of his recent research with a community partner in a way that promotes community capacity to pursue community goals.
What competency is Andrew modeling?
What is Participatory Community Research?
Name one way you can further learn about and strengthen your understanding and skills related to competencies.
What is:
(1) Attend an undergraduate or graduate program related to Community Psychology
(2) Attend professional conferences related to Community Psychology (e.g., SCRA's Biennial Conference)
(3) Explore online training, examples include: The Evaluator's Insititute, Program Evaluation Certificates, The Community Tool Box
(4) Read The Community Psychologist
Scenario: A community psychologist named Trevor attends a weekly meeting with a network of other community psychologists to discuss their current community projects and provide each other with advice and resources. Trevor is currently working with a community partner that wants to collect research without obtaining consent from their participants; which Trevor knows is an unethical practice. Trevor talks to his network at this weekly meeting to ask for advice and support on how to approach this matter with the community partner.
What practice competency is Trevor modeling?
What is Ethical, Reflective Practice?
Scenario: A community psychologist, Kayleigh, is working with a community partner to assess their issues, needs, strengths, and resources.
What competency is Kayleigh modeling?
What is Program Development, Implementation, and Management?
Scenario: A community psychologist, Lidia, is facilitating a meeting between community stakeholders to build consensus on the revisions to local policy about food access.
What competency is Lidia modeling?
What is Small and Large Group Process?
Scenario: When working with community partners, a community psychologist, Becca, promotes sustainability, self-sufficiency, and empowerment of community-led organizations.
What competency is Becca modeling?
What is Community Development?