CHN Part 1

Johari Window Model

A model that improves self-awareness and mutual understanding between individuals within a group, particularly helpful for leaders.

Self-Awareness

The understanding of one's own thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.

Mutual Understanding

The shared comprehension and agreement between individuals.

Joseph Luft and Harry Ingham

American psychologists who devised the Johari Window Model in 1995 while researching group dynamics at the University of California Los Angeles.

Proceedings of the Western Training Laboratory in Group Development

The publication where the Johari Window Model was first published in 1995.

Self-Perception

How an individual sees themselves.

Perception of Others

How others see an individual.

Open Area

The part of the Johari Window where how an individual sees themselves aligns with how others perceive them.

Blind Area

The part of the Johari Window where others see an individual in ways that the individual is not aware of.

Hidden Area

The part of the Johari Window where an individual has values or characteristics that others are unaware of.

Unknown Area

The part of the Johari Window where neither the individual nor others are aware of certain values or characteristics.

Community

A group of locality-based individuals who interact and share common interests, characteristics, values, and/or goals.

Community Organizing

A process of educating and mobilizing members of the community to enable them to resolve community problems and work for the common good.

Health

A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.

Geopolitical Communities

Communities defined or formed by natural and man-made boundaries, such as barangays, municipalities, cities, provinces, regions, and nations.

Phenomenological Communities

Relational, interactive groups where people share a group perspective or identity based on culture, values, history, interests, and goals.

Healthy Community

A community with a shared sense of unity, empowerment, existing structures for participation, ability to cope with change, open communication, equitable resource use, and a focus on health promotion.

Eight Sub-Systems of a Community

Physical Environment, Education, Safety and Transportation, Politics and Government, Health and Social Services, Communication, Economics, and Recreation.

Components of Community

The environment, people, economy, culture, health, and quality of life.

Determinants of Health and Disease

Factors that influence the health status of a community, including health care access, economic conditions, social factors, environmental issues, cultural practices, and more.

Role of the Nurse in Community Organizing

The nurse's responsibilities in community organizing include being a health care provider, health educator, program implementer, community organizer, manager/leader, researcher/epidemiologist, and client advocate.

Core Principles in Community Organizing

People-oriented, participative, democratic, developmental, and process-oriented.

Goals of Community Organizing

People's empowerment, building permanent structures and people's organizations, and improving the quality of life.

Community Organizing Participatory Research (COPAR)

An approach that encourages the participation of community members in research and community organizing.

Basic Values in Community Organizing

Human rights, social justice, and social responsibility.

Critical Activities in COPAR

Integration, conscientization, organization, and mobilization.

Social Investigation

The systematic process of collecting and analyzing data to understand the community.

Tentative Program Plan

The initial plan created by the community to address a specific issue through community organizing.

Groundwork

Going from place to place, motivating individuals to take action on the chosen issue.

Meetings

Jointly ratifying decisions made individually, providing collective action and confidence.

Role Play

Acting out meetings between community members and government representatives.

Mobilization or Action

The actual exercise of people power to bring about change.

Evaluation

Measuring the outcomes of activities in relation to the objectives.

Reflections

Addressing deeper concerns and positive values in the community organizing process.

Action-Reflection-Action-Session

A method used in COPAR involving conscious awareness and participatory, mass-based approaches.

Comparison of Traditional Research Approach & COPAR

Contrasting decision-making, emphasis, roles, methodology, and output between traditional research and COPAR.

Community Development

The end goal of community organizing, involving improving access to resources and uplifting the status of the poor and marginalized.

Assessment

The process of evaluating the current situation and identifying needs in the community.

Mobilization

Gathering and utilizing resources to address the identified needs.

Evaluation

The assessment of the effectiveness and impact of the community development efforts.

ALLENDER

“a collection of people who interact with one another and whose common interests or characteristics form the basis for a sense of unity or belonging.”

LUNDY AND JAMES

“a group of people who share something in common and interact with one another, who may exhibit a commitment with one another and may share geographic boundary.”

CLARK

“a group of people who share common interests, who interact with each other, and who function collectively within a defined social structure to address common concerns.”

SHUSTER AND GOEPPINGER

“a locality-based entity, composed of systems of formal organizations reflecting society’s institutions, informal groups and aggregates.”

WHO

“a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”

Murray

“a state of well-being in which the person is able to use purposeful, adaptive responses and processes physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and socially.”

Pender

“actualization of inherent and acquired human potential through goal directed behavior, competent self-care, and satisfying relationship with others.”

Orem

“a state of person that is characterized by soundness or wholeness of developed human structures and of bodily and mental functioning.”