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Homework: Research Activity- Riverbend City Child Development Center Brochure

For your homework, you will create a brochure advertising a service that a child development center offers. If you have not done so yet, review the homework instructions. Then, take a look at the following resources which will help you with your homework.

You will need at least three resources to support your brochure: one to support theory, such as our textbook or other professional source; a scholarly article to support the effectiveness of the service; and a professional code of ethics.

Types of Services: Applied Behavior, Child Psychology, or Counseling Services

There are different types of services you can include in your brochure. Choose one service as the main focus of your brochure. Some ideas are:

1) Mental Health/Psychological Counseling.
2) Applied Behavior Analysis.
3) Play Therapy.
4) Parenting Classes.
5) Psychological Testing.
6) Speech Therapy.
7) Occupational 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.

Details

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 homework, you will practice these skills by designing a brochure for the Riverbend City Child Development Center that advertises a service of your choice. If you need help on creating a brochure in Word, watch the following tutorial.

How to Make a Brochure in Microsoft Word [Video].

Task

Using the Brochure Template [DOCX] Download Brochure Template [DOCX], complete the following:

I. Design the brochure for an audience of parents with young children.

II. Choose a service that you would like to advertise.

III. Describe the benefits of the service.

1. Support your description with scholarly research.

IV. Connect your service to a psychological theory or perspective.

1. For example, how would an after-school program connect to cognitivism?

V. Apply the APA Code of Ethics.

1. Be sure to include information from the confidentiality, advertising, and therapy sections.

a. Information from the confidentiality and therapy sections can be provided via a disclaimer or small print.

b. The information from the advertising section should be applied to the way you design the brochure and the information you chose to include.