About Community Psychology
Community psychology studies human behavior in context. Taking the context into account in studying human behavior is central to community psychology. Human behavior is so dynamic and complex. It influences and is influenced by the context in which it occurs. Hence, it is essential to give adequate emphasis to contexts to understand human behavior in an effective and efficient manner. This course is mainly designed to deal with the basic principles and roles of community psychology, identifying basic indicators of community problems, promoting social change, and development of community intervention projects, situation of social problems such as children in crisis, violence, unemployment, and delinquency, and enhancing competencies of communities. Hence, the course is basically designed to equip learners with multi-dimensional community help skills and experiences that suit present and future societal settings while dealing with basic social issues, relevance, and directions of community psychology. Moreover, it presents basic understanding demand-driven community based treatment of social problems, and choosing and applying appropriate intervention strategies to solve the community problems.