Capella PSYC1000 Physical Effects of Drug Abuse Brochure

PSYC 1000 Capella University Physical Effects of Drug Abuse Brochure

In your career, you may find yourself working for an agency or organization that offers certain services, and you may be asked to design literature or marketing materials to promote these services in your community. For this assignment, you will create a brochure that addresses an area of stress. In the brochure, you will present professional information about the stress and how it impacts physical or mental health. You will look at ways that people can reduce the problems associated with the stress and recommend interventions and support your ideas with information from theory, concepts, or research in psychology.

Below are some ideas. You may choose one of these, but you are not required to select from this list if you have another area you would like to explore.

• Psychotropic medication and well-being.
• Lack of self-care.
• Poor nutrition on developmental or mental health.
• Effects of insomnia.
• Physical effects of drug abuse.

ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS

Use the Brochure Template [DOCX] (or if you prefer, this Alternate Format Template [DOCX]) for this assessment. Keep in mind, whichever format you use, that the information portion of the brochure should be succinct and fit the one-page format. In your brochure, include the following:

• Describe a common stressor and how it can impact physical or mental health.
  • Use credible sources such as scholarly research articles or professional websites, such as Harvard Health, to support your description. Do not use blogs or other popular sources such as WebMD or Wikipedia.
• Recommend ways to reduce the effects of the stressor.
  • Look at interventions that have been tested and found to be effective in helping with the problem.
• Support your ideas for reducing the stress with information from professional sources or scholarly research that provide evidence that the recommendations have been shown to reduce stress.
  • For example, if you recommend an intervention such as yoga to address self-care, provide scholarly research that shows that yoga can reduce stress.
• Be sure that you organize the information to attract an audience and fit a brochure format.
• By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assignment criteria:
  • Competency 2: Apply research findings from scholarly literature to current issues in the field of psychology.
    • Apply professional or scholarly evidence to support the impact of a stressor on physical or mental health.
  • Competency 3: Apply psychology knowledge to promote mental health and well-being.
    • Explain the impact of a stressor on physical or mental health.
    • Recommend interventions to reduce the effects of an identified stressor, using scholarly or professional evidence to support recommendations.
  • Competency 4: Write using a clear purpose, organization, tone, and sentence structure.
    • Use in-text citations for your sources that include author and year.
    • Provide references that include author, year, and title.

Brochure Title Enter Your Name Here To get started, replace pictures with ones you chose that are appropriate to your topic, or you can delete them altogether and use narrative instead of images. Remember to cite your sources for images and only use those you have permission to use. Title for the Stressor (Put the name of the stressor here) can impact people in the following ways - (this is an example of format – please edit to fit your topic and preferences for format – include intext citations) 1) 2) 3) 4) Research shows that (please edit this to fit the research you found – include intext citations) 1) 2) 3) 4) Recommended Interventions (please edit for the number of interventions you are covering and for the style of format you prefer) 1) 2) 3) Research shows that (put your research here that supports the intervention or interventions you are covering – include intext citations) 1) 2) 3) References (provide the full references for the sources you cited – delete unneeded directions before submitting your work) 1) 2) 3) 4)