This assignment looks long but it's alot of information that pertains to this assignment! Last section is similar to what the poster should look like! One to one half page single spaced! Really as lon

This assignment looks long but it's alot of information that pertains to this assignment! Last section is similar to what the poster should look like! One to one half page single spaced! Really as long as it needs to be to fully answer all questions!

Assignment:  Virtual Conference: Call for Posters

Effective clinical innovations and the dissemination of research findings are key elements in the growth and development of the psychology profession. There are numerous avenues that enable authors to publish and present their work. Poster presentations at conferences are effective methods for communicating research findings and providing opportunities to meet with other researchers and clinicians to discuss the research being presented. Thus, these types of conference presentations play a key role in the proliferation of research.

In this week’s discussion, you will be submitting your proposal for the Week Five Virtual Conference. You may utilize relevant assignments from previous courses in this program or suitable projects from your professional life. See the PSY699 Call for Student Poster (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. Presentations document for specific parameters and instructions on how to create your proposal. Following the guidelines presented in the document, create your proposal and attach it to your initial post in the discussion forum. Evaluate the impact participating in conference presentations may have on potential work settings and/or doctoral programs and comment on the following questions in your initial post.

• How are conference presentations professionally relevant?
• What elements of the proposal process were most difficult for you, and why?
• What positive outcomes do you anticipate will come from this process, which may be applied to potential work settings and/or doctoral programs?

 Call for Student Poster Presentations  We invite you to submit a proposal for the Virtual Conference that will occur in Week Five of this course.  The Virtual Conference is designed to bring the class together to review and evaluate poster presentations of technical, professional, and/or scientific interest to psychology professionals.    To submit your poster proposal, include the following information in a document attached to your initial post. • Poster Title • Author Information • Abstract (300 to 500 words maximum) • List of References  The abstract should concisely explain the purpose and content of the poster.  Abstracts for empirical studies, literature reviews, and meta-analyses should include the following sections: Objectives, Method, Results, Conclusions, and Implications.  Abstracts for case studies, theoretical and methodological studies, and other projects should include the following sections: Purpose, Description, Assessment, and Conclusions.  The poster proposal must represent your original work.  Work already published in another conference or journal will not be accepted.  Please see the instructions for the Week Five Virtual Poster Conference Discussion for the Poster Submission Guidelines in order to prepare your poster for presentation.  Example: 

• Protecting and Serving the Black Community Program Proposal Poster

• Justin Clark

• Abstract

            The purpose of this poster is to propose a program that psychologists, citizens, and government alike, can support.  No matter how uncomfortable of a reality it may be, systemic racism in policing is both factually supported and dreadfully experienced by the African-American community. Between the years of 2006 and 2012, a six year time line, local police departments submitted voluntary reports of justifiable homicides to the FBI that noted on average, there were ninety-six incidents where a white police officer killed a black person a year (Marable, 2015).  What's more, Milner,George, and Allison (2016) noted that black men were 21 times more likely than their white counterpart to be shot and killed at the hands of police, and in New York, alone, half of the precincts showed that 90% of the people stopped and searched were African-American or Hispanic. Though this problem is very complex, the program P.S.B.C. or Protecting and Serving the Black Community was designed to address police brutality and discrimination that victimizes young black men across the country. Of course, one might argue that there are many groups of people that experience discrimination and/or police brutality. Though that may be true, Lowery (2016) notes that the developmental/racial group that experiences this the most is young African-American men between the ages of 18 and 29.

            Police brutality and discrimination against young adult African-American men has been and continues to be a serious problem nationwide. That is why it is vital for this program to not be limited to a specific region, for no part of the country is untouched by these tragic, recurring acts. Not only has this created a horrific social injustice, police brutality experienced by young African-American men, as Chaney and Robertson (2013) pointed out, causes physical, emotional, and psychological stress, which in turn effects individual development, and that is assuming the life is not ended, all together. With every news report becoming more difficult to watch than the last, there is no doubt the there is a broken relationship between the police and the African-American community.   There are, however, steps the P.S.B.C program has proposed to help reduce the repetition of these events.

             One solution the program offers is classes for police officers that provide counseling and education on implicit and explicit bias in policing. Classes can also be provided for civilians that teach them how to identify police misconduct and what to do while interacting with a police officer.  Body cameras worn by police officers can also build transparency and trust, so the community can know exactly what happened in such an encounter, thus promoting honesty and accountability. Additionally, non-lethal weapons could reduce the amount of fatalities in said encounters. Together, these facets of the Protecting and Serving the Black Community program should bring about positive results that will lead to a better relationship between the police and the African-American community, as young adult, African-American men are treated justly and humanely by police and are allowed to healthily develop physically, cognitively, emotionally, and psychosocially.

• References

Chaney, C., & Robertson, R. V. (2013). Racism and police brutality in America. Journal of African American Studies, 17(4), 480-505.

Lowery, W. (2016, July 11). Aren't more white people than black people killed by police? Yes,but no. Retrieved October 12, 2016, from https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/postnation/wp/2016/07/11/arent-more-white-people-than-black-people-killed-by-police-yesbut-no/?utm_term=.97e64ecb8426

Lowery, W. (2016, August 02). Korryn Gaines, cradling child and shotgun, is fatally shot by police. Retrieved November 04, 2016, from https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/08/02/korryn-gaines-is-the-ninth-black-woman-shot-and-killed-by-police-this-year/

Marable, M. (2015). How capitalism underdeveloped black America: Problems in race, political economy, and society. Haymarket Books.

Milner, A. N., George, B. J., & Allison, D. B. (2016). Black and Hispanic Men Perceived to Be Large Are at Increased Risk for Police Frisk, Search, and Force. PloS one, 11(1), e0147158.