OPTION 1-CHANGE THE WORLD You receive a letter in the mail. The letter is from t
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OPTION 1-CHANGE THE WORLD
You receive a letter in the mail. The letter is from the American Psychological Association(APA), and it grants you unlimited funds to visit any country in the world you want, and set up a project there. It could be educational, health related(including awareness, etc).
Examples of previous projects by students have included such varied projects as a teen prevention program in two states, a midday meal program for schoolchildren in Africa, a counseling center for victims of a natural disaster in Asia, and more. Next, write up your project and post directly into this conference.
So please choose a country and a project. You may refer to the sample as an illustration of what is expected. The sample is not perfect, but meant to give an idea of what the project can look like.
Put the title in the main conference(Universal mental health support by 2020 in Country A, Model schools in the desert, No more homelessness for children in Country B, etc)
Instructions
Structure the project with the following sections:
Title: This should be short and to the point: identify the target population, the focus of the project, and the country/region.
Background of the project: This should be one paragraph.
Purpose of the project: This is the point of the study—why you are doing it (one paragraph).
Method: Here, you will describe the participants, the instruments/measurement methods/resources used, and the process: in other words, the target population, methods, and procedure (one paragraph each for participants, instruments/resources, and process).
Outcome and rationale: What do you hope to achieve in this project, and how, specifically, will the project make a difference in the living conditions of your target population? Take into account the socio-cultural context (one to two paragraphs).
Please note that this has to do with improving the lot of people with the focus on the psychology of human beings(so for eg. saving animals, though a good cause, does not necessarily mean what we are looking for here, and we are not in political science class, we are psychological scientists choosing to improve the state of the world's well-being) from any part of the globe. Also, the country you choose needs to be described in respectful terms-so although there are problems that need to be solved, this is not a reason to blame people, or berate cultures different or unfamiliar to our usual socio-cultural conditions. Some ideas of what psychologists are doing in different parts of the world are also provided(via a clickable link on humanitarian heroes from the APA) under Content>Dr H supplement>change the world(which also has the sample assignment).
At last, add at least two references in APA style.
Explanation / Answer
Title: The Swaccha Bharat Abhiyan being carried out in India.
Background of the project: in this project the Indian government is trying to reinforce cleanliness in the society by creating awareness about how important cleanliness is and how it should be implemented. There have been instances where the prime minister himself has come down with a bream, in order to change the mentality of some people who do not give importance to cleanliness. They have started ranking cities on the basis of their efforts and rewarding these cities by capital so that it would motivate the people. In order to make such drives successful, it is important that people would feeel the need to change, and constant motivations and rewards are trying to direct the people to maintain such such drives.
Purpose of the project: The point of study is to realise how a long time habit can be changed by reinforcing a behaviour. These reinforcements are in the form of both positive reinforcements, by motivation to exhibit a behaviour and negative reinforcements by trying to stop a behaviour. This is a major drive, carried out on large scale, and hence it is important to study how people feel and react about such projects and how much they would be willing to try and change.
Method: Here, qualitative methods are used for studying, in which randomly people are selected from various cities, preferably the top five cleanest and the last five cleanest cities, so as to identify the difference in the thought process of the people that are leading to such differences in the cleanliness drive.
Outcome and rationale: i would hope to achieve, what is the reason that is actually driving the successful cities to keep their place clean, such that if any of those changes could be implemented in the other cities, it would benefit and change the living conditions of the people.
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