Instructions
Assume the role in the scenario for the professional setting you currently work in, or a setting from your past experience.
Scenario
Due to your training and expertise in social psychology, your agency (or company) director has asked you to design a training activity/intervention for staff to identify and manage potential aggression in your work environment, and to promote positive outcomes.
Deliverable
Design a research-based Aggression Intervention Training Program for staff to minimize aggression, within a setting from your professional experience. You may use the format of your choice for the deliverable, such as a report, proposal, et cetera.
Reflect on the prompts listed below each scoring guide criterion, as you develop this assessment.
- Evaluate how aggressive behavior may be influenced by the relationships, groups, and culture in a setting.
- What elements or conditions of the setting could contribute to potential aggressive behaviors?
- Are modifications in the environment needed?
- Are changes needed in the culture?
- Apply social psychological theory, research, and methods to design intervention training to minimize aggression in a specific setting.
- What does a staff person need to understand about their own reactions and triggers?
- How can staff quickly assess the aggressor’s own self-concept?
- What methods or techniques could staff use to minimize or de-escalate aggressive situations or behaviors?
- Use examples of aggressive behavior to illustrate interventions.
- How does social learning theory explain aggression?
- What is the evolutionary argument about aggression?
- How are gender, race, and culture related to self-esteem?
- Apply principles of social psychological and methods to design interventions that promote self-esteem and self-efficacy for clients and staff.
- Explain principles and methods that:
- Improve clients’ self-esteem.
- Support clients’ self-efficacy.
- Explain principles and methods that:
- Recommend future training to complement and enhance the Aggression Intervention Training.
- Support positions with references from scholarly and professional literature.
The Aggression Intervention Training must include the following:
- Setting.
- Describe the professional setting used as the basis for the assessment.
- Program Focus and Structure.
- Explain the focus of the aggression intervention planfor example, sexual harassment/aggression, physical, male-on-male, female-on-male, male-on-female, workplace violence, domestic violence, dealing with violent clients or patients, et cetera.
- Outline the structure of the programlength, format, et cetera.
- Goals and Objectives.
- Identify primary goals and objectives related to the particular focus of the plan for the identified setting.
- Interventions.
- Design interventions to minimize aggression.
- Design interventions that promote self-esteem and self-efficacy for clients and staff.
- Evaluation.
- Construct a Pre and Post-test on attitudes toward aggression.
- Recommendations for follow up training.
- Include an evaluation of Assertiveness Training as a complement to the Aggression Intervention Program.
Additional Requirements
- Length: Maximum length is 5 pages.
- Written communication: Write clearly and logically, with correct use of spelling, grammar, punctuation, mechanics, and APA format and style.
