Social Work Practice With Groups

/in /by

Social Work Practice with Groups

You have been running a group for sexual assault survivors for the last nine weeks. Despite your best efforts to provide a safe environment, validate the women’s experiences, and create a sense of hope, the group members often ask, “Will I ever get over this?” This is an important question, but one that is not easily answered. As the social worker, you discuss the impact of trauma and the benefits of using group and individual therapy to process what occurred in order to reduce its impact on their daily lives. Yet, your response does not alleviate the group’s anxiety about the future. As a result, you invite a previous client who has completed group work and individual therapy to come and speak to the group. As she talks about her new feelings of empowerment and growth since participating in group work, the rest of the group members begin to smile and nod their heads. After the guest speaker has left, the members all talk about how amazing it was to hear this woman’s story and to see someone with the same experience thrive and move past the assault. They all expressed a sense of hope and relief. Group work offers many benefits that cannot be achieved through individual therapy alone. The most obvious benefit is group member validation. The knowledge that you are not alone and are not the only person who has experienced that particular issue can foster a strong sense of hope.

For this Discussion, review this week’s Resources including the Johnson Video case. Then consider the potential benefits Talia Johnson might experience through her participation in group work as depicted in the video.

Post an explanation of the potential benefits Talia might experience through her participation in group work as depicted in the video.

Support your posts and responses with specific references to the Resources. Be sure to provide full APA citations for your references

Principles Of Persuasion

/in /by

n environmental organization would like to film a pro-recycling public service announcement and have brought you on as a consultant to help them better understand the principles of persuasion and how they should be applied in this PSA. As part of your presentation to the organization you will need to educate them on the principles of persuasion (using what has been learned through previous research) that will need to be applied to their PSA.

 

Create a PowerPoint presentation.

 

In the first 4 to 6 slides of your presentation you will need to:

    • Summarize at least two previous research studies on persuasion.

 

    • How were the principles of persuasion studied?

 

    • Was the research valid? Why or why not?

 

  • What was learned through these studies that can be applied to the creation of the above PSA?

In your next 6 to 10 slides you will incorporate all you have learned about the art of persuasion to create your own PSA PowerPoint presentation to present to this organization that they will use to guide the filming of their video.

In this presentation you will need to:

 

    • Present a creative argument that will persuade the viewers of the need to recycle, which the video will be based on.

 

    • Use at least two primary principles of persuasion within this presentation.

 

  • In the final slide outline which two or more principles were used and why they were a good fit for this PSA.

Your total presentation should be a minimum of 10 to 16 slides (not including your title and reference slides). For your project you will need to be creative in the use of your graphics and fonts in addition to discussing and applying the principles of persuasion.

For this assignment, please use your text book along with additional resources from the Argosy Library.

Suggested additional resources:

 

    • Wood, W. (2000). Attitude change: Persuasion and social influence. Annual Review of Psychology, 51, 539-570.

 

    • Cialdini, R.B. & Goldstein, N.J. (2004). Social influence: Compliance and conformity. Annual Review of Psychology, 55, 591-621.

 

    • Schwarz, N. (1998). Warmer and more social: Recent developments in cognitive social psychology. Annual Review of Sociology, 24, 239-264.

 

  • Cialdini, R.B. (2003). Crafting normative messages to protect the environment. Current Directions in Psychological Science. 105-109.

Advanced General Psychology

/in /by

With so many individuals using the Internet today, the psychology of the individual, the family, the community, and the society has changed. Some might argue that the traditional psychological theories cannot be applied and therefore psychology as an entire field needs to be revamped to incorporate the impact and the application of internet technology. As a student completing a bachelor’s degree in psychology, your future career will undoubtedly incorporate the use of the Internet in very new ways. Read the following article from the AUO Library:

Ritterband, L. M., Gonder-Frederick, L., Cox, D. J., Clifton, A. D., West,
R. W., & Borowitz, S. M. (2003). Internet interventions: In review,
in use, and into the future. Professional Psychology: Research and
        Practice, 34(5), 527-534.

Identify a problem area or psychological issue that could benefit from the use of an internet intervention. Now, using what you learned from the article, propose an internet intervention using the following guidelines:

  1. What problem area would the internet intervention address?
  2. Provide a general description of the proposed internet intervention.
  3. How would the effectiveness of the proposed intervention be tested?
  4. What are any legal and ethical issues related to the proposed intervention? Include the specific APA ethical standard(s) in your response.

Learning Style Assesment Week 1

/in /by

Our textbook begins by highlighting the SQ4R Method, one technique behind the psychology of studying.  This technique can help you read and learn the material in textbooks more effectively.  It also helps you when taking tests!  We all learn differently, though.  It is very important to know how you learn best.  If you use strategies that work best with your learning style, you will decrease the time you spend and increase the results!

 

1.  Take the learning style self-assessment. <<(Click on the highlighted words to take the assessment!)

2.  Review the results of your assessment using the explanation below.

3.  Write at least 100 words describing the results, how you learn best, and how you will modify your study techniques to fit your learning style.

4.  Submit your assignment using the Learning Style Assignment link above to open the textbox.

5.  This assignment is due by midnight Sunday.

 

 

What do the results mean?  Barbara Soloman, Coordinator of Advising, First Year College, North Carolina State University explains:

 

Active Learners: tend to retain and understand information best by doing something active with it like discussing or explaining it to others.  They enjoy group work.

 

Reflective Learners: prefer to think about it quietly first.  They prefer to work alone.

 

Sensing Learners: tend to like learning facts.  They are patient with details and good at memorizing things.  They are practical and careful.

 

Intuitive Learners: prefer discovering possibilities and relationships.  They are good at grasping new concepts and are comfortable with abstractions and mathematical formulations.  They are innovative and creative.

 

Visual Learners: remember best what they see–pictures, diagrams, flow charts, time lines, films, and demonstrations.

 

Verbal Learners: get more out of words–written and spoken explanations. Everyone learns more when information is presented both visually and verbally.

 

Sequential Learners: tend to gain understanding in linear steps, with each step following logically from the previous one.  They follow logical steps when finding solutions.

 

Global Learners: Global learners tend to learn in large jumps, absorbing material almost randomly without seeing connections, and then suddenly “getting it.”  They may be able to solve complex problems quickly or put things together in novel ways once they have grasped the big picture, but they may have difficulty explaining how they did it.

 

 

**Follow this link to learn the most effective strategies of how to learn based on your learning style self-assessment: Click here>> Learning Style Strategies