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.

• 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.

• 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 plan-for 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 program-length, 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.

• References: Include a minimum of five peer-reviewed references. Resources and in-text citations should be formatted according to current APA style and formatting.

IT MUST BE ORIGINAL AND INCLUDE:

Evaluate the role of the social context (relationships, groups, and culture) in influencing the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of individuals.

• Evaluate how aggressive behavior may be influenced by the relationships, groups, and culture in a setting.
Competency 3: Synthesize social psychological theory and research to generate new understandings of social phenomena in contemporary society.

• Apply social psychological theory, research, and methods to design interventions to minimize aggression in a specific setting.

• Apply principles of social psychological and methods to design interventions that promote self-esteem and self-efficacy for clients and staff.

• Recommend future training to complement and enhance the Aggression Intervention Training.
Competency 4: Communicate in a manner that is professional and consistent with expectations for members of the psychological profession.

• Support positions with references from scholarly and professional literature.

• Write clearly and logically, with correct use of spelling, grammar, punctuation, mechanics, and APA format and style.