Assignment task:
As a clinical social psychological principal or a legal social psychological principal, you will want to make decisions about how you offer services to your justice-involved clients. Reflect on what type of service you would like to offer and which social psychology principles you want to promote in your work.
Imagine your future as a human service worker and design a proposal. Be sure to make your proposal clear, remember your audience; you are talking to other human service worker, or perhaps the agency you work for. This proposal is explaining to others What you will do, the REASONS for doing this (this is where you weave in social psychology principles as they are the support for what you're proposing to do) and HOW you will do it (this is the application, the how to do it of what you're proposing)
Write a proposal for a service plan based on social psychology principles and methods. Begin by choosing a target population of offenders.
Include the following in your proposal:
- Introduction (who is your target population? What problem are you addressing?)
- Proposal (What is your solution to the problem? Use the questions listed below.)
- Address the following questions:
- What type of rehabilitation would you offer?
- What aspects of social influence do you want your plan to address?
- How do you want to intervene in an individual's relationship with society to rehabilitate?