Oppression and Power
This is unjust or cruel exercise of authority or power, especially by the imposition of burdens.
What is oppression?
Self-efficacy, developing a sense of power and strength that aids in increasing one's capacity to act, is part of this kind of empowerment.
What is individual empowerment?
It is necessary to consider these levels when thinking about oppression, empowerment, and while creating interventions.
What are the ecological levels?
Bringing volunteers together with people in need to develop and provide social support is this kind of intervention.
What is grassroots intervention?
What is primary prevention?
This is a framework that attempts to answer questions pertaining to knowledge, colonially, and globalization.
What is the colonial matrix of power?
A coalition of nurses at three local hospitals acting to obtain fair wages, better working conditions, and a shortened work week is an example of this kind of empowerment.
What is community empowerment?
A community psychologist who is hired to measure how many fewer cases of homelessness are occurring in a community as a result of an intervention is engaging in this activity.
What is program evaluation?
A local community has the money, staff, and educators to implement a new after school program. However, the community has not expressed a need or interest in this intervention. This example demonstrates a low degree of this concept.
What is readiness?
Facilitating large-scale implementation of a program is part of this cycle.
What is the Preventive Intervention Research cycle?
These are two potential psychological impacts of oppression.
What are low self-esteem, avoidance reactions, internalization, and assimilation.
Students becoming aware of the issue of bullying in their school and refusing to accept conditions as is, but rather participate in a peer mediation program to take action are demonstrating this concept.
What is critical consciousness?
Ignacio Martin-Baró said this is the dismantling of oppression and power, and striving to create social change that recognizes the humanity and dignity of all.
What is liberation?
A community intervention to increase the number of kids who know how to properly wear a bike helmet will take place two Saturdays in May. The number of days is this component of the design (implementation).
What is dose?
In the last 6 months, there have been 20 people who have become unhoused. Now, in that community, there are 270 people who are unhoused. These two concepts are being measured.
An employee who refuses to follow their boss's unfair policies is exercising this kind of power.
What is power from?
Gaining awareness of factors of oppression and empowerment through reading books, joining support groups, or watching videos is called this.
What is critical awareness?
This framework/lens states that social change needs to be addressed through multiple concerns and oppressions.
What is intersectionality?
In order to improve the effectiveness of an intervention, community psychologists need to continually repeat these three actions.
What are theory (going back to the literature), implementation (design of intervention), and evaluation (checking the effects)?
Low socioeconomic status, struggling in school, and experiencing racial injustice are all examples of this.
What are risk factors?
This frame/lens is used by a researcher to acknowledge their own experiences and biases and therefore recognizes how they may impact their research.
What is positionality?
These are two possible positive organization components that contribute towards organizational empowerment.
What are activities, beliefs, roles, leadership, and relationships?
Daily Double!!
(Brianna will read the clue after your team wagers.)
What is continuity?
An intervention developed and implemented through extensive research but uninformed by the local community is called this kind of intervention.
What is professionally-led?
A program for youth who have been identified as "at-risk" take part in a drunk driving educational experience at their high school. This is an example of which stage of the Institute of Medicine's prevention model.
What is indicated prevention?