While you can use positive psychology concepts to enhance your personal well-being, you can also use them to promote social change. For example, you could design a program to help former prisoners integrate back into society using the traits of perseverance and creativity. You could also help at-risk youth by creating a program that integrates bravery, persistence, and integrity into its curriculum. In this assessment, you reflect on what you learned when completing one of the positive psychology activities related to justice, temperance, or transcendence and apply that knowledge to a social issue.
Preparation
For this assessment, choose the Heartland Forgiveness scale activities in the media piece (https://www.heartlandforgiveness.com/take-the-hfs ). These notes will help you complete the assessment.
Use the Heartland Forgiveness Scale where you can complete the 18 item questionnaire on your general tendency to be forgiving of yourself, others, and situations. When you complete your answers, hit the Submit button and your scores will be revealed on a new page. Print out or record your scores before leaving the Results page.
After reviewing the results of your Heartland Forgiveness Scale, consider the following questions. You may want to take detailed notes as it may help you complete your Justice, Temperance, and Transcendence Reflection Paper.
Do I feel the assessment adequately and accurately gave me input on my ability to forgive?
What one thing did I find most surprising?
How was this activity meaningful to me?
Was this activity uncomfortable or challenging for me to complete? Why or why not?
What did I learn (or relearn) about myself as a result of this activity?
How can I incorporate information from this activity into my personal or professional life or apply it to a social issue?
Use the Library to find scholarly articles. You are required to include a minimum of 2 properly cited professional resources (such as a textbook and peer-reviewed scholarly journal article).
Instructions
Organize your paper, using the following headings to ensure that you address each element of the assessment.
Activity Summary
Describe the activity you are focusing on for this assessment.
Summarize and explain your personal reflections and insights to demonstrate what you learned from this experiential learning activity. What did you learn about yourself or others?
Relationship to Positive Psychology
Explain how this experiential activity or the character strength it represents is related to optimal human functioning. How does this activity demonstrate the principles and concepts of positive psychology?
Application to Social Issues
Summarize how what you learned from this activity and the study of character strengths for this assessment may be applied to social issues such as aging, mental health versus mental illness, and happiness and well-being.
Analyze the strengths and limitations (advantages and disadvantages, pros and cons) of applying what you learned or the character strengths studied to social issues.
Include supportive research findings related to these topics (at least one scholarly peer-reviewed article in addition to supporting information from a textbook or a professional source). Be sure to cite all scholarly sources where appropriate.
Additional Requirements
Your paper should meet the following requirements:
Written communication: Written communication should be free of errors that detract from the overall message.
APA formatting: Your paper should be formatted according to current APA guidelines.
Number of References: Your paper should include a minimum of two properly cited professional resources (such as a textbook and a minimum of one peer-reviewed scholarly journal article from the library).
Length: 3– double-spaced pages of content in addition to the title page and reference page.
Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12-point.
Review the Justice, Temperance, and Transcendence Reflection Paper Scoring Guide for details on how your paper will be graded.
Competencies Measured
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:
Competency 1: Explain the relationship among positive experiences, positive traits, and optimal human functioning.
Explain how a particular activity demonstrates the relationship between experiential activities or character strengths and optimal human functioning.
Competency 2: Apply concepts of positive psychology to real world situations.
Explain reflections and insights related to experiential learning activities.
Apply concepts of positive psychology to social issues.
Competency 3: Apply research findings to topics in positive psychology.
Support analysis with research findings related to topics or issues.
Competency 4: Analyze the strengths and limitations of applied positive psychology.
Analyze the strengths and limitations of applying character strengths to social issues.
Competency 5: Write using a clear purpose, organization, tone, and sentence structure.
Address assessment purpose in a well-organized text with appropriate tone and grammatically sound sentences.
Use APA-style formatticixng in citations and references.
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