Lecturer MCQs

Chapter 16: Health promotion

1. In the Community Development Approach, the psychologist ______.

a. formulates ideas for change

b. leads change within communities

c. provides the community with the necessary resources

d. serves as an agent of change

2. Over the past twenty years there has emerged increasing interest in developing a community health psychology. As in community psychology itself, there are different orientations. The more ______ focuses on processes within the community.

a. social approach

b. critical approach

c. accommodationist approach

d. descriptive approach

3. Which philosopher introduced the ‘banking’ model of education which later became influential in the critical approach to community development?

a. Karl Marx

b. Paulo Freire

c. Noam Chomsky

d. John Locke

4. Liberation psychology draws its inspiration from the liberation theology developed by the worker-priest movement in different countries in Latin America during the 1950s and 1960s. This movement was given wider currency within psychology by which priest who was murdered by the Salvadoran army for his campaigning work in defence of the poor?

a. Ignacio Martin-Baro

b. Samuel Ruiz

c. Jon Sobrino

d. Pedro Casaldáliga

5. Which of the following are key elements to liberation psychology?

a. Psychology need to focus more on the needs of the masses.

b. Psychology needs to consider what psychosocial processes look like from the perspective of the oppressed.

c. Psychology needs to consider itself as an agent of positive social change.

d. All of these.

6. Which of the following refers to the community’s ability to support empowerment through participation of local organizations and networks?

a. Environmental support

b. Social capital

c. Ecological empowerment

d. Social power

7. Which of the following is a criticism of the community development approach to health promotion?

a. The notion of what the ‘community’ means is problematic.

b. Health promotion initiatives using this approach have the potential to come into conflict with interests that lie with the status quo.

c. Projects using this approach have been scrutinized for limited measurable outcomes when evaluating impact.

d. All of these.

8. ______ is a type of evaluation which assesses the changes brought about by an intervention.

a. Outcome evaluation

b. Process evaluation

c. Staff evaluation

d. None of these

9. ______ is a type of evaluation which assesses how and why the intervention worked.

a. Outcome evaluation

b. Process evaluation

c. Staff evaluation

d. None of these

10. Which of the following is a term coined by Crawford (1980) to refer to the ideology that situates health and disease within the context of the individual which can potentially raise the risk of medicalizing everyday life?

a. Healthism

b. Individualism

c. Health promotion

d. Disease prevention