Quiz 2 Flashcards
(28 cards)
In the glossary of terms for Community Psychology: Building Foundations, we define a vulnerability as …
the inability to anticipate imminent disaster and to cope with it.
What is the difference between the two concepts, “coping strategies” and “coping styles”?
Coping strategies are ways of adapting when faced with stressful situations while coping styles are chosen patterns of managing stressful situations.
Community resilience and strengths are signified by …
using community resources to prevent psychosocial problems and harm
Ideological factors that expose community members to violence and crime include the following:
Hatred among groups and victimisation of individuals.
The first step in the public health model is concerned with …
determining the extent of psychosocial problems in communities
The concept of community strengths plays a pivotal role in the prevention of harm in the contexts of health and wellbeing, as well as violence and crime. This concept refers to:
Factors in a community that prevent psychosocial problems.
What are the three main goals of using intervention approaches in community psychology?
Psychosocial problem resolution–community resilience–social change
The 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence campaign is an example of which intervention approaches?
Consciousness raising and social action.
What are the personal empowerment capacities proposed by Forbes-Genade and Van Niekerk (2019) for ensuring the inclusive involvement of vulnerable populations like girls in building girlled community resilience
Creating the capacity to manage girl-led processes and involving girls in risk reduction measures.
What does the seventh-generation question in community psychology focus on?
Long-term impacts
What distinguishes super-complex or “wicked” problems in community psychology
Complexity and interconnectedness
How does technical rationality in community psychology impact relational aspects
Ignores relational aspects
Which of the following best describes the intergenerational transmission of unresolved historical trauma?
(a) A one-time event with no lasting impact.
(b) Continual passing down of traumatic experiences.
(c) A process unrelated to historical events. (d) Positive transmission of cultural values.
Continual passing down of traumatic experiences.
Messy or “wicked” problems such as endemic poverty, depression, or crime .
are systemic problems that are characterised by multiple stakeholders involved in complex and unpredictable interactions
According to community psychology, community wellbeing does NOT involve … (a) the following important questions: What do people want? What does genuine progress look like? How can government make people’s lives better?
(b) a constantly changing state driven by achieving a particular goal, which is to experience happiness and a good quality of life at community level.
(c) an individual-oriented approach to quality of life.
(d) monitoring the availability, quantity, and quality of relevant assets for a community to achieve happiness and a good quality of life.
an individual-oriented approach to quality of life.
Community resilience and strengths are signified by …
using community resources to prevent psychosocial problems and harm.
Which of the following statements relates to the prevention of crime and violence according to Bronfenbrenner’s ecological framework for human development?
Although two individuals can be exposed to similar violent contexts, the dynamics of that context will determine outcomes of their individual development and behaviour.
Educational challenges identified by Blignaut (2021), Mogale and Modipane (2021), and The Conversation Africa (2017), which affect our black communities in the current era in South Africa include the following:
Lack of parental support in schooling and not recognising different languages of students
What are factors found by Gumani (2022), which hampered a rural community’s wellbeing in incidents of intimate partner violence
Traditional beliefs about domestic violence and victims choosing not to be taken to places of safety.
Community capacity building does NOT require consideration of the following aspect …
(a) social and community organisation.
(b) social capital.
(c) collective efficacy.
(d) community social control by primarily the state.
community social control by primarily the state.
What is the difference between the two concepts, “coping strategies” and “coping styles”?
Coping strategies are ways of adapting when faced with stressful situations while coping styles are chosen patterns of managing stressful situations
What are the personal empowerment capacities proposed by Forbes-Genade and Van Niekerk (2019) for ensuring the inclusive involvement of vulnerable populations like girls in building girlled community resilience?
Creating the capacity to manage girl-led processes and involving girls in risk reduction measures
Gathering information on how well policies address psychosocial problems such as low levels of wellbeing, poor education, as well as violence and crime in communities and encouraging the revision of such policies is an example of the intervention approach of
policy research and advocacy.
Messy or “wicked” problems such as endemic poverty, depression, or crime …
(a) can be solved by the instrumental rational problem-solving approach that is maladaptive in conditions of increasing complexity, uncertainty, volatility, and enmeshment.
are systemic problems that are characterised by multiple stakeholders involved in complex and unpredictable interactions.
