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 & Susan
M. Wolfe., Published by Sage. And another Ch 10 file reading info needed attached, . The
content should include reflection on the assigned readings.
The better you bring together all the various topics and types of information, the better you
will do. However, I am not looking for you to simply list and describe all the relevant topics.
I want you to show that you understand it enough to integrate it and discuss it in a more
comprehensive way, while keeping it concise. Being able to talk about a concept briefly but
clearly is a sign of understanding. Being able to discuss several related topics in a
connected way, instead of just as separate topics, is a sign of understanding. Being able to
generate examples or apply information to examples is a sign of understanding. I’m looking
for some of those kinds of things.
the scenario below. Please use the same scenario again, except this time you will apply
your learning from all the chapters in the whole course. Some aspects of your
approach may be similar or very different from the plans you already wrote. That is up to
you based on what you think the best approach is now that you’ve learned more from
the course. You can reuse pieces of assignment 1 and 2 or not, but if you do, remember
that you now have a lot more content to build in, which may not fit well with what you
previously wrote, or which may end up being too long without rewriting and condensing
those earlier pieces.
You may find that you will do a better job if you use your previous
assignment to review but write this assignment from scratch. I have found that this
approach 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’t
write things like “as I described in assignment 1 or 2, _____ is important, so I won’t describe
it again here”. When I am reading and grading this current assignment, your previous
assignments do not exist.
the Mayor and Town Council will be reading, not a second part to attach to an earlier
one. In case it’s not clear, this is a task that requires you to be a critic of your previous
work, because now you know more about how to work with communities and are able to
make a more effective plan.
2. Consider this scenario.
A small rural community asks you to help them with a problem. This is a remote
community of only 1500 people, and it is four hours away from the nearest town. The
families who live there have been there for generations, so they have all lived there for
their whole lives, and many have never been outside of the community at all. In terms of
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services, they have only the basics of a small combination food store, gas station, and
restaurant, as well as a couple other very small businesses. They have one school, with
three teachers, that serves the 75 kids from grades primary to 12. The community has
no high-speed internet access, no cell phone service (only regular wired landlines in
most houses), no recreation facilities, and the only health service they have is a clinic
with one Nurse. In the last year, they have seen 8 overdose deaths among their young
people from either alcohol or sniffing gas, or both combined. In 5 of those cases, there
was evidence that it was suicide, and for the others it appeared unintentional.
proceed to help the community with this situation, in terms of an approach and a plan.
For example, in your plan, what would be your most important considerations in terms
of what you can and can’t do? What kinds of skills and abilities would be most essential
to apply? What kinds of solutions or approaches might your plan include? With
everything you write, try your best to give me a sense of why, because I need to see
what you would do, but I also need to understand something about your reasons for it.
Also remember that Community Psychology is not just about WHAT should be done to address
a community problem but is heavily focused on HOW. Finally, this is NOT an opinion
paper. It must be based on the learning from the Chapters required. It is completely about you
applying that information to the situation, as if you are a community psychologist.
written in more of a narrative format because it’s not a research paper. It is a description
of a plan to deal with a non-academic, real-life situation, and what should or shouldn’t
be said and done in this situation. So, start with what are the main questions you need
to figure out, and what is all the course content that applies. Get organized before you
write, so it flows and makes sense when you do the writing.