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Describe how you might intervene as a community psychologist at the individual, small group, organizational, and community levels. Be sure to describe the interventions within an ecological framework.

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The expert describes how you might intervene as a community psychologist at the individual, small group, organizational, and community levels.

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The practice of community psychology works towards exploring psychological principles to apply them at the community level for the purpose of intervening, providing insight and improving the quality of life of communities and their members. It is primarily research-oriented and one of the disciplines in psychology that often finds relevance as a form of critical discipline for the purpose of social action and social change. Key issues are studied under the principles of psychology, including the ecological perspective. This particular perspective is utilized by community psychologists to study how the environment (social and physical) affects how human communities function (Trickett, 1984). Below, I have shown how I would intervene using this particular perspective in my role as a community ...

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  • MA, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
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