Making use of their literature review and content learned throughout the course, students will create an Intervention Recommendation paper that outlines a hypothetical research project. Students will not carry out the project, however, this paper will demonstrate the students’ ability to plan, intervene, and evaluate a research study.
Briefly re-orient the reader to the population of interest. Why is this population in need of a targeted intervention? In what ways are they vulnerable, or how could their lives be improved by an intervention? Relate your identification of a need for intervention to the literature that you reviewed. IVd.
Make a recommendation of a specific intervention (intervention should be related to the concept of grit and should respond to the need identified in section II). Describe how this intervention could be carried out. In other words, what should be done and how could it be done? The intervention can be in the form of an evidenced based clinical tool, the addition of a group or service, a staff training, or an agency policy. Students should use their internship setting as a frame of reference or utilize a macro lens.
Student should address how their proposal is culturally and ethically responsive to the needs of their population. Explain your rationale for selecting this intervention based on the literature that you reviewed. IVd.
Describe how you would evaluate the impact of the intervention you discussed in item III. How would you know if the intervention was successful? Describe briefly the type of research design you would use to evaluate the intervention, how you would select a sample to represent the population of interest (sampling strategy), and how you would select or develop one or more instruments that are reliable and valid (instrumentation). IVb.
