Summary : This assignment will require you to integrate theories,…

Question Answered step-by-step Summary : This assignment will require you to integrate theories,… Summary: This assignment will require you to integrate theories, concepts and approaches from across the entire course. To succeed, you must carefully describe a proposed process for collaboratively and respectfully understanding the challenges facing a community of your choosing and propose a structural/community intervention that will address these challenges.  Rubric – Positionality statement and brief reflection on how the identities and communities that have shaped you as an individual may impact your (hypothetical) proposal to work in the community you have chosen – Briefly identifies and describes the selected hypothetical community. – Clear but concise “research proposal” that draws on theories and concepts from the course and outlines how you will respectfully enter the community in a collaborative way, working together to understand a challenge facing the community. – Clear but concise “intervention proposal” that draws on theories and concepts from the course and outlines how you will work collaboratively within the community to propose, implement and evaluate a structural/community intervention to address the challenge you have identified. – Clearly and concisely written overall (paragraph structure, grammar, free of typos) Selecting an Appropriate Community Make sure your community is: • Specific community: This assignment will be much more clear and easier to write if you select a specific community, ideally a geographic community and ideally on the smaller side. Great examples include a specific neighborhood, a small town, a specific Indigenous community, an informal encampment, an assisted living facility/retirement home, an ethnic enclave, etc. • An outgroup: Select a community that you are NOT a part of (e.g. you do not live there, you did not grow up there, not your personal group of friends etc.). This will help you approach the assignment as a community psychologist in an “outsider” role and offers an opportunity to think through the cultural humility and participatory approaches we have discussed in this course so far.  Selecting an Appropriate “Challenge” In order to complete the assignment you must identify one “challenge” facing the community you have chosen. While in true community-directed work this would be a collaborative or even entirely community-led process of identifying a challenge to work towards addressing, for the purpose of this assignment you need to be the one to choose what challenge you will focus on. A few considerations to keep in mind here: • Try to make this a “real” challenge a real community is facing. You can identify these by reviewing online media articles about a given community including ways the community itself has spoken about its challenges. Whenever possible, follow the lead of the community and try to use their language to describe the challenge. • Please ensure that you select a community challenge to address in a thoughtful, respectful and “community psychology-esque” manner. This means you should avoid “blaming the victim” and include a structural and “upstream” analysis of the roots or source of the challenges facing a community. • Ensure the challenge the community is facing is appropriately “psychological”. That is, make sure you can usefully apply theories and concepts from community psychology to describe the challenge you have selected in terms of psychological outcomes for individuals within a community setting (e.g. well-being, substance use, educational achievement, mental health, stress and coping, etc.)  Detailed Assignment Instructions: • Brief “positionality statement”. These are fairly common in qualitative and community-based research. Yours does not need to be complicated and should be very concise. It should include a brief statement acknowledging any relevant identities, communities or experiences that have shaped you and how this may affect your proposed work in the hypothetical community. For more in-depth information on the practice of reflexivity and positionality statements you may review this academic article or this more accessible article from Medium. Once again, this is NOT meant to be an in-depth or comprehensive statement. You just need to demonstrate that you are thinking critically about who you are and what biases and experiences you bring to community-based work. This is a great skill to practice before entering any community or research project for the first time. Keep it short and concise! • Paper must begin with a concise description of your selected community. You may approach this in different ways, but key components will likely include the community’s name, location, (brief) history, boundaries and perhaps some description of what makes this place a “community”. Feel free to draw on definitions of “community” from lecture or readings here. Cite the sources of your information on the community and keep this concise• The bulk of your paper is comprised of the following two sections:  • “Research proposal” – Using concepts, theories, and approaches from community psychology (ideally ones we have covered in lectures and readings from the course), outline a brief proposal for how you would initiate, plan, and conduct collaborative research (i.e. research that actively includes and involves community members) in your chosen community to understand one challenge the community is facing. The purpose of this section is to demonstrate your understanding of material from the course that has reviewed some of the approaches, pitfalls, and critical issues in conducting collaborative, community-based research in a community setting. This could include considerations of the some of the following points in this non-exhaustive list: ? How has this community experienced research in the past? ? How do you plan to initiate contact with the community? ? What approach to community-based research would you adopt? ? Who from the community would you involve in the research project and how? ? What are ethical considerations for this project and how would you assess these? ? What methods would your research use? ? How would you analyze the data and what would you do with the results? Note: While a truly community-directed research project might be more open-ended with a research focus not determined in advance, for the purposes of this assignment you should explicitly identify what the “challenge” facing the community is that you will be researching. The goal of your research proposal needs to be to conduct community based research that will help to better understand this challenge in order to inform the development of an intervention to address the challenge.  • “Structural/community intervention proposal” – In the final section, you will use concepts, theories and approaches from community psychology (ideally ones we have covered in lectures and readings from the course) to outline a brief proposal for a structural/community intervention to address the challenge identified in the previous section. o The purpose of this section is to demonstrate your understanding of the material from the course that has reviewed different approaches, critical issues, and methods for planning, implementing, and evaluating structural/community interventions. This could include considerations of the some of the following points in this non-exhaustive list: ? What is the proposed connection between the “structure” you are targeting for intervention and the challenge you plan to address in the community? ? What is the theory of change that underlies your proposed intervention? (i.e. how is it supposed to work?) ? What tangible actions would be required to address the structural or community roots of the challenge? ? How would you support professional or grassroots community organizing efforts to initiate the intervention? ? How would you involve the community?? What would the “implementation” of your proposed intervention require? ? How, and why, would you evaluate the intervention? Social Science Psychology PSYC 2P90 Share QuestionEmailCopy link Comments (0)