Generic Elective Community Psychology

Paper Code: 
24GPSY401
Credits: 
04
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

This course will enable students to understand the principles and practices of community psychology, including the impact of government programs on mental health and the analysis of community interventions.

 

 

Course Outcomes: 

COURSE

Course Outcomes

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

Course Code

Course Title

24GPSY401

Community Psychology

(Theory)

 

 

CO1: Identify the laws and programs implemented by the government to promote mental health and their impact on Indian society.

CO2: Use community psychology concepts and models to analyze and conduct community interventions.

CO3: Identify stressors in one’s life and how to manage them through different prevention and intervention strategies.

CO4: Developing insights with respect to mental health promotion programs in communities. Gain the applied knowledge about crisis management and intervention

CO5: Developing sensitivity towards individual and cultural diversity and understanding its implication in clinical work.

CO6: Contribute effectively in course-specific interaction.

Approach in teaching:

Interactive Lectures, Discussion,

Learning activities for the students:

Self-learning assignments, application based questions, Seminar presentation

Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Assignments, Presentation,

 

12.00
Unit I: 
Community Psychology:

Introduction; community psychology as a shift in perspective; persons, contexts and change

 

12.00
Unit II: 
Development and practice of community psychology:

The formative contexts of community psychology; The global contexts of community psychology

 

12.00
Unit III: 
Understanding Community and Human Diversity:

Communities-types and levels; sense of community; key dimensions of human diversity; attending to diversity in the practices of community psychology

 

12.00
Unit IV: 
Prevention and Promotion:

Concepts for understanding prevention and promotion; risk and resiliency; prevention equations

 

12.00
Unit V: 
Community Research:

Aims of community research; methods of community psychology research- qualitative, quantitative and integrated

Essential Readings: 
  • Dalton, J. H., Elias, M. J., & Wandersman, A. (2007). Community Psychology: Linking Individuals and Communities. Australia: Wadsworth Pub.
  • Levine, M. & Perkins, D.V. (1987). Principles of Community Psychology. Perspective and Applications. NY: Oxford University Press.
  • Mann, P.A. (1978). Community Psychology: Concepts and Applications. NY: The Free Press.
  • Nelson, G. B., & Prilleltensky, I. (2010). Community Psychology: In pursuit of Liberation and Well-being. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Rappaport, J. (1977). Community Psychology  Values , Research and Action. NY: Holt, Rinehart & Winston.
  • Rappaport, J., & Seidman, E. (2000). Handbook of Community Psychology. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum.
  • Shanmughum, T.E. (1988). Community Psychology. Madras: Utsav Shanmungan.

 

Suggested Readings

  • Bloom, B. (1973). Community Mental Health: A Critical Analysis, N. Jersey: General Learning Press.
  • Cohen, E.L. (1973). Social Community Interventions. Annual Review of Psychology, 423-472.
  • Gown, E.L. Chinsky, J.M. & Rappaport J. (1970). An Undergraduate Practicum in Community Mental Health. CMH Journal, 6, 91-100.
  • Glidewell. J.C. (1971). Frontiers for Psychologists in Community Mental Health. In G. Rosenbaum (Eds.). Issues in Community Psychology and Community Mental Health. New York: Bell Publication.
  • Glidewell, J.C. (1973). Preventive and Therapeutic Effects of two school Mental Health Programmes. American Journal of Community Psychology Vol. I, 295-329.

 

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Academic Year: 
2024-25
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