Community psychology is a field that focuses on understanding the individual within the context of their environment, including their connection to the community and society. By understanding complex individual and community relationships and understanding the functioning of individuals in a community, community psychologists seek to improve the quality of life for individuals in a community. Through prevention, ecological understanding, encouragement of social change, and promotion of social justice, community psychology aims to create positive change and increase the wellbeing of communities and individuals.

Considering what you have learned about sense of community and the four elements of community, address the following:

• Describe what community means.
• When thinking of the four elements of community, what is observed in a community?
• How does what have observed of the four elements in a community help with a sense of community?