Sportography
Think back to your early experiences of playing physical games and sports and describe them in terms of when they occurred, the context in which they occurred, and what was going on in your life as they occurred.
How were those early experiences related to your age, social class, race or ethnicity, family, and neighborhood or community?
When children first play sports (or do not play sports through childhood), they do so in connection with ideas about themselves, about their bodies, and about the meaning of their experiences. Where did these ideas come from in your childhood (ages 4–12)?
How did they influence the patterns of your experiences and the emotions that accompanied them? Have they changed in your life since age 12?
How have they influenced your experiences since childhood up to the present time?
Opportunities to play sports and the character of sport experiences often are different for boys and girls and for children from different racial or ethnic groups and social class backgrounds.
Write about how gender, race/ethnicity, and social class influenced the sports you did or did not play as a child. Have factors related to gender, race/ethnicity, and social class influenced your experiences through your life to the present?
Explain as best as you can. Many young adults say that without their parents, they never would have had the opportunity to play sports as a child or adolescent.
Explain the ways that your parents encouraged/facilitated or discouraged/interfered with your sport participation. Were there differences between the support provided by your mother and the support provided by your father? Write about this issue.
Think about how your experiences related to sports have influenced (or not influenced) your life. Write about this. Your concluding paragraph should describe what you anticipate in the future with respect to sports in your life, and how that future is connected with your past experiences and what may be occurring in your life in the future.
Communicate with an individual who comes from a different background than your background. Ask the individual about his/her experiences and how those experiences were and continue to be related to who he/she is, how he/she is connected with others, where he/she comes from, his/her opportunities, etc.
Topic: HEALTH, STRESS, AND COPING
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, present professional information about the stress and how it impacts physical or mental health. 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.
Use the Brochure Template [DOCX] or, if you prefer, this Alternate Format Template [DOCX] for this assignment. Keep in mind that whichever format you use, 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 popular blogs or other sources such as WebMD or Wikipedia.
Recommend ways to reduce the effects of the stressor.
Look at interventions that have been tested and proven effective in mitigating the problem.
Support your ideas for reducing the stress with information from scholarly research or professional sources that provide evidence that the recommended interventions have been shown to reduce stress.
Be sure that you organize the information to attract an audience and fit a brochure format.
