Mental Health Clinic Assignment

PSY 201G: Introduction to Psychology

Imagine you are tasked with designing a new mental health clinic to be established within your community.  While completing this assignment, you will reflect on all of the psychological principles, concepts, and theories learned in Introduction to Psychology. You may complete this assignment by either creating a PowerPoint (preferred) or writing a paper.

PowerPoint Option = at least 10 slides addressing the points. Include a reference slide. The reference slide must cite all sources using APA formatting.

Paper Option = at least 2 pages, double spaced. Use 12 point font. Also be sure to include a reference page citing all sources using APA format.

See the grading rubric for detailed expectations for each of the following requirements: 

Name of the mental health clinic – 5 points

Mission statement (i.e. purpose of the mental clinic) – 5 points

The mission statement should illustrate the purpose of the mental clinic by incorporating the overall goal of the clinic and the target population. Therefore, you should wait to draft this after you determine the target population and mental health issues to be addressed.  

Goals of the clinic (short term and long term) – 5 points

Short term goals are goals that you hope to accomplish within the next six months.

Your long term goals could list goals for after the first six months and/or a year or many years down the road.

Proper goals should be guided by the clinic’s mission statement, meaning the clinic’s purpose.

Target population (all ages, teens, adults, veterans, etc.) – 5 points

Are you serving everyone in the community or do you want to limit the target population to a specific group of people?

Justify the need for the clinic by analyzing specific mental health issues the clinic will address and why the need for the clinic is present – 20 points

For example, if you select the whole community as a target population, be sure to justify the need for the whole community. Alternatively, if you select to serve teens, justify the need for services for them.

This is a good section to bring in statistics from outside sources. You will analyze the statistics to help justify the need.

Describe the type or types of psychology that will serve as the foundation for the clinic (i.e. functionalism, behaviorism, positive, etc.) – 20 points

Selection of the type or types of psychology used by the clinic, will help guide the type or types of therapies the clinic will use. Remember, functionalism, behaviorism, positive psychology, and all the others are schools of thought that guide mental health practitioners.

List the type or types of therapies the clinic will use and explain how the therapies will help the target population and needs of the community – 15 points

Examine how the clinic will approach cultural diversity – 15 points

How will the clinic address the needs of a diverse population?

Any additional, relevant information

Conclusion – 5 points

Conclusions do not add new information. Conclusions summarize the key points in a comprehensive manner.

All references must be cited (APA formatting)/Grammar – 5 points