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.
• 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.