1. Provide a brief overview of your current community and identify the factors that contribute to a sense of community cohesion and community well-being.
2. Reflect on how your understanding of community psychology has been shaped by colonial perspectives. In your reflection, describe the steps you can take to challenge and decolonize these perspectives to centre African knowledge and ways of knowing in your approach to community psychology. Use research/theory to support your reflection.
3. Consider the advantages of being a psychology student in your community and reflect on the role you could play to enhance your community's overall well-being. Be sure to draw on what you have learned so far.
4. Discuss the importance of considering contextual community factors when engaging with a diverse community. Explain how you can use this opportunity to educate the community while developing and enhancing community cohesion.
5. Provide an evidence-based explanation of why an ecological systems approach is better in understanding, unpacking, and responding to community-related issues and challenges.
6. Discuss the significance of critical psychology in a community context, with specific reference to the uniquely South African contextual challenges and issues we face.