As travel and communication across the globe become easier and more frequent, service professionals often join international human services organizations to provide services abroad. Additionally, many immigrants seek human services for issues related to events that occur in their home countries. In either case, providers abroad or in large cities in the United States often encounter clients who are victims of war, poverty, or political upheaval.
It is important that, as a student of psychology, you gain an understanding of the issues involved in serving international victims. This assignment highlights the importance of understanding the victims culture, strengths, and potential, so that as providers you can catalyze the victims ability to help themselves most effectively.
Imagine you are a news correspondent for a major national newspaper. Your editor has asked you to write a review of a brief film for this weekends edition of the newspaper. View both parts of the brief film below, Women of Liberia: Fighting for Peace:
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Use the Internet, your textbook, and the Argosy University online library resources to research international victims in this field.
Using at least one of the academic sources you find through your search to justify your ideas, address the following issues in your review:
Write your initial response in a minimum of 350 words. Apply APA standards to citation of sources.
By Week 5, Day 4, post your response to the appropriate Discussion Area. Through Week 5, Day 7, review and comment on at least two peers responses. Provide a statement of clarification, a point of view with rationale, challenge a point of discussion, or draw a relationship between one or more points of the discussion.