psychology assignment

Assignment Two requires you to write an essay that explores how narrative work and notions of voice can help us, as community psychologists, work towards understanding power, promoting empowerment and social justice in our research and practice. You will need to choose a community of interest to you – whether professionally or personally – and reflect on how a narrative approach and notions of voice could be utilised in your chosen community of interest to advance well-being and social change. Examples of a community of interest might be the disabled community, immigrant populations, or those with severe mental illness etc. You are required to utilise ALL FIVE COMPULSORY assignment readings to explore how you could work with and for that community through a narrative approach. The COMPULSORY readings for Assignment 2 were chosen to give you an understanding of the breadth of issues involved with narrative research and notions of voice. They have also been chosen to address some of the complexities and diversities in practice using the insights and values that psychology can bring to issues of social justice and change, in institutions and communities and the people who are affected. You need to understand the issues each of these articles raise. ALL FIVE OF THE COMPULSORY READINGS NEED TO BE UTILISED IN YOUR ESSAY. You will need to:  Explain narrative approaches to research and practice and notions of voice, and their implications for us as psychologists and the communities we are working with/for;  Consider issues of both methodology (process) and outcome (impact);  Be able to argue the effects of narrative approaches and voice to social change and social justice;  Be able to engage with issues of power as they relate to issues of ethical activism and political practice for us as community psychologists (hint: Reading 4 will help you reflect on how psychology is implicated in relationships and practices of power, and how we might respond to these concerns);  Be able to give an example from a chosen community of interest.  Boonzaier, F.A., & van Schalkwyk, S. (2011). Narrative possibilities: Poor women of color and the complexities of intimate partner violence. Violence Against Women, 17(2), 267-286.  Campbell, C., Cornish, F., Gibbs, A., & Scott, K. (2010). Heeding the push from below. How do social movements persuade the rich to listen to the poor? Journal of Health Psychology, 15(7), 962-971.  Gibson, K., & Morgan, M. (2013). Growing up with child sexual abuse in an experimental commune: Making sense of narrative variation. Journal of Applied and Social Psychology, 23, 300-313.  Skools, A., & Murray, M. (2015). Promoting health and narrative practice. In M. Murray (Ed.), Critical health psychology (2nd ed.) (pp.235-253). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.  Sonn, C.C., Quayle, A.F., & Kasat, P. (2014). Picturing the wheatbelt: Exploring and expressing place identity through photography. American Journal of Community Psychology, 55(1- 2), 89-101.