{"id":26186,"date":"2023-08-06T22:54:15","date_gmt":"2023-08-06T22:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/an-ecological-approach-to-resilience-empowering-a-rural-community-through-community-psychology\/"},"modified":"2023-08-06T22:54:15","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T22:54:15","slug":"an-ecological-approach-to-resilience-empowering-a-rural-community-through-community-psychology","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/an-ecological-approach-to-resilience-empowering-a-rural-community-through-community-psychology\/","title":{"rendered":"An Ecological Approach to Resilience: Empowering A Rural Community Through Community Psychology."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This assignment will allow you to demonstrate your understanding of the Chapters 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13 from the textbook: Community Psychology; Foundations for Practice, 2015, by Victoria C. Scott &amp; Susan<br \/>\nM. Wolfe., Published by Sage. And another Ch 10 file reading info needed attached, . The<br \/>\ncontent should include reflection on the assigned readings.<br \/>\nThe better you bring together all the various topics and types of information, the better you<br \/>\nwill do. However, I am not looking for you to simply list and describe all the relevant topics.<br \/>\nI want you to show that you understand it enough to integrate it and discuss it in a more<br \/>\ncomprehensive way, while keeping it concise. Being able to talk about a concept briefly but<br \/>\nclearly is a sign of understanding. Being able to discuss several related topics in a<br \/>\nconnected way, instead of just as separate topics, is a sign of understanding. Being able to<br \/>\ngenerate examples or apply information to examples is a sign of understanding. I\u2019m looking<br \/>\nfor some of those kinds of things.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>1. In Assignments 1 &amp; 2, you applied your learnings from the earlier chapters to<br \/>\nthe scenario below. Please use the same scenario again, except this time you will apply<br \/>\nyour learning from all the chapters in the whole course. Some aspects of your<br \/>\napproach may be similar or very different from the plans you already wrote. That is up to<br \/>\nyou based on what you think the best approach is now that you\u2019ve learned more from<br \/>\nthe course. You can reuse pieces of assignment 1 and 2 or not, but if you do, remember<br \/>\nthat you now have a lot more content to build in, which may not fit well with what you<br \/>\npreviously wrote, or which may end up being too long without rewriting and condensing<br \/>\nthose earlier pieces. <\/p>\n<p>You may find that you will do a better job if you use your previous<br \/>\nassignment to review but write this assignment from scratch. I have found that this<br \/>\napproach by students produces a better document and better grades. What you CANNOT do is mention or make reference to your earlier assignment(s). For example, you can\u2019t<br \/>\nwrite things like \u201cas I described in assignment 1 or 2, _____ is important, so I won\u2019t describe<br \/>\nit again here\u201d. When I am reading and grading this current assignment, your previous<br \/>\nassignments do not exist. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>This assignment is a stand-alone comprehensive plan that<br \/>\nthe Mayor and Town Council will be reading, not a second part to attach to an earlier<br \/>\none. In case it\u2019s not clear, this is a task that requires you to be a critic of your previous<br \/>\nwork, because now you know more about how to work with communities and are able to<br \/>\nmake a more effective plan.<\/p>\n<p>2. Consider this scenario.<\/p>\n<p>A small rural community asks you to help them with a problem. This is a remote<br \/>\ncommunity of only 1500 people, and it is four hours away from the nearest town. The<br \/>\nfamilies who live there have been there for generations, so they have all lived there for<br \/>\ntheir whole lives, and many have never been outside of the community at all. In terms of<br \/>\n2<br \/>\nservices, they have only the basics of a small combination food store, gas station, and<br \/>\nrestaurant, as well as a couple other very small businesses. They have one school, with<br \/>\nthree teachers, that serves the 75 kids from grades primary to 12. The community has<br \/>\nno high-speed internet access, no cell phone service (only regular wired landlines in<br \/>\nmost houses), no recreation facilities, and the only health service they have is a clinic<br \/>\nwith one Nurse. In the last year, they have seen 8 overdose deaths among their young<br \/>\npeople from either alcohol or sniffing gas, or both combined. In 5 of those cases, there<br \/>\nwas evidence that it was suicide, and for the others it appeared unintentional.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>3. Write a paper that tells me how you, as the contracted community psychologist, would<br \/>\nproceed to help the community with this situation, in terms of an approach and a plan.<br \/>\nFor example, in your plan, what would be your most important considerations in terms<br \/>\nof what you can and can\u2019t do? What kinds of skills and abilities would be most essential<br \/>\nto apply? What kinds of solutions or approaches might your plan include? With<br \/>\neverything you write, try your best to give me a sense of why, because I need to see<br \/>\nwhat you would do, but I also need to understand something about your reasons for it.<br \/>\nAlso remember that Community Psychology is not just about WHAT should be done to address<br \/>\na community problem but is heavily focused on HOW. Finally, this is NOT an opinion<br \/>\npaper. It must be based on the learning from the Chapters required. It is completely about you<br \/>\napplying that information to the situation, as if you are a community psychologist.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>4. This should not be written like a scientific paper (i.e., no APA format). It should be<br \/>\nwritten in more of a narrative format because it\u2019s not a research paper. It is a description<br \/>\nof a plan to deal with a non-academic, real-life situation, and what should or shouldn\u2019t<br \/>\nbe said and done in this situation. So, start with what are the main questions you need<br \/>\nto figure out, and what is all the course content that applies. Get organized before you<br \/>\nwrite, so it flows and makes sense when you do the writing.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>5. Follow these formatting rules:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>a. 12 pt. font size&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>b. Arial font&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>c. Single-spaced&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>d. Margins 2.54 cm on all 4 sides&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>e. Maximum 4 pages and Minimum 3 pages full of work given ( not 2.5 or 2.75 pages and not counting title page)<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: var(--color-6); color: var(--color-1); font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;\">f. Do not include any references, footnotes, citation or bibliography&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: var(--color-6); color: var(--color-1); font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;\">g. Must be in Word (.doc)<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: var(--color-6); color: var(--color-1); font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;\">If you have any questions or concerns please message me ASAP. I do not have access to the book myself as I just used the lecturers recordedvideos of himself talking for each chapter.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This assignment will allow you to demonstrate your understanding of the Chapters 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13 from the textbook: Community Psychology; Foundations for Practice, 2015, by Victoria C. Scott &amp; Susan M. Wolfe., Published by Sage. And another Ch 10 file reading info needed attached, . 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