Create a brochure for the Riverbend City Child Development Center that advertises a service for young children that incorporates theory and scholarly research.
Introduction
In your psychology career, you may find yourself working for an agency or organization that offers medical, counseling, or behavior analysis services, and you may be asked to design literature or marketing materials to promote these services in your community. Not only will you need to have strong communication skills, but you will need to understand human development, which will help you design effective services and meet the needs of children, families, and people of all ages.
For this assessment, you will practice these skills by designing a brochure for the Riverbend City Child Development Center that advertises a service of your choice.
Preparation
In your psychology career, you may find yourself working for an agency or organization that offers medical, counseling, or behavior analysis services, and you may be asked to design literature or marketing materials to promote these services in your community. Not only will you need to have strong communication skills, but you will need to understand human development, which will help you design effective services and meet the needs of children, families, and people of all ages.
For this assessment, you will practice these skills by designing a brochure for the Riverbend City Child Development Center that advertises a service of your choice.
You will need at least three resources to support your brochure: One to support theory, such as a textbook or other professional source, a scholarly article to support the effectiveness of the service, and a professional code of ethics.
Choose one service as the main focus of your brochure. Some ideas are:
Mental Health / Psychological Counseling.
Applied Behavior Analysis.
Play Therapy.
Psychological Testing.
Parenting Classes.
Speech Therapy
Support your service with at least one scholarly source (peer-reviewed journal article). The following resource can assist you with how to find sources in the Capella library:
Bachelor’s in Psychology Library Research Guide: Finding Articles.
If you need help on creating a brochure in Word, watch the following tutorial.
How to Make a Brochure in Microsoft Word [Video].
Using the Brochure Template [DOCX], complete the following:
Design the brochure for an audience of parents with young children.
Choose a service that you would like to advertise.
Describe the benefits of the service.
Support your description with scholarly research.
Connect your service to a psychological theory or perspective.
For example, how would an after-school program connect to cognitivism?
Apply information from the APA code of ethics:
APA Code of Ethics.
Be sure to include information from the confidentiality, advertising, and therapy sections.
Information from the confidentiality and therapy sections can be provided via a disclaimer or small print.
The information from the advertising section should be applied to the way you design the brochure and the information you chose to include.
Submit the completed brochure as your deliverable for the assessment.
Competencies Measured
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the course competencies through the following assessment scoring guide criteria:
Competency 1: Apply information literacy skills to topics in human lifespan development.
Support claims with scholarly sources.
Competency 2: Interpret human behaviors using theories of human lifespan development across developmental domains.
Differentiate the discipline of psychology from other disciplines.
Describe key characteristics of a cognitive, biological, or sociocultural service.
Competency 3: Explain research found in scholarly articles related to human lifespan development.
Describe the value and limitations of a psychological theory related to lifespan development.
Competency 4: Apply ethics to problems in human lifespan development.
Apply the APA code of ethics when designing and including information for a psychology-related service.
Competency 5: Communicate with clear purpose, organization, evidence, tone, and sentence structure.
Write for the specific audience of parents with young children.
Organize information to fit the purpose of advertising a service.
Include APA-style citations when including references.