What is thepurpose or goal of the presentation? 2. What is themost effective way in which to reach your target audience

PowerPoint Project: Promoting and Maintaining Health

Purpose:The purpose of this project is for you to apply what you have learned to alife-like situation. In this project, you will create a PowerPoint presentationwith narration (voice recording) to achieve a specific goal with a specificpopulation. Your presentation must incorporate current theory as well as knownand effective methods of behavior change.

Please view the instructional video about this project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lP4bNDJHXY&feature=youtu.be

Topic:Health psychologists work in a variety of settings, but the goal is always thepromotion and maintenance of health using a biopsychosocial approach.Below are some examples of topics that would be appropriate for yourpresentation:

Ø HealthCare Policy – You have been hired by the U.S. Department of Health toDevelop a campaign aimed at reducing obesity in children. Your target audienceis elementary school children.

Ø ManagedHealth Care – You have been hired by an elder care health facility todevelop a program highlighting the importance of exercise in the elderly. Yourtarget audience is sedentary elderly with diverse mobility.

Ø GeneticTesting – You are working in a clinic that provides genetic testing forbreast cancer. You are asked to develop a program for working with clients andhow to help cope with their risk status and how to change risk-relevantbehaviors. Your target audience is women between the ages of 35 to 70 years.

Ø OrganizationalHealth – You are hired by a major company to help reduce absenteeism. Yourjob is to create a presentation that provides strategies about how to managestress in a high-stress occupation. Your target audience is company employeeswho frequently miss work due to complications of stress.

Ø CommunityHealth –You have been contracted by the State Department of Health care toimprove health care utilization to people of low SES and minority status. Yourtarget audience is individuals of low SES and minority status who underutilizeavailable health care options.

The Presentation: The main function of PowerPoint is to visually enhance oralpresentations. In your project, the PowerPoint will be a stand-alone slidepresentation with narration, so the slides should enhance the narration; do NOTread from your slides. As with all acts of communication, the way you design aPowerPoint presentation depends greatly on the context of its delivery. Whenpreparing your presentation, imagine that you are speaking directly to your targetaudience. This means that you should carefully consider your approach, thelanguage that you use, and the usefulness and meaning of visual images.

Design your slidepresentation with the following in mind:

After considering your topic and your audience, decide whatapproach would work best to achieve your goal, e.g. an attitudinal approach ora cognitive behavioral approach. You should be clear about what you goal is.Are you trying to modify a health-risk behavior that is already in place (e.g.,smoking), are you trying to prevent a health-risk behavior from occurring (druguse, obesity), are you trying to enhance coping skills (stress, terminalillness)?

Design: Yourpresentation should be structured around the following five components:

1. What is thepurpose or goal of the presentation?

2. What is themost effective way in which to reach your target audience?

3. What does youraudience need to know about the topic?

4. Whatintervention (based upon known research findings) is best suited to achieve yourgoal?

5. Is mypresentation based upon a biopsychosocial model?

Please viewmy presentation on how to use PowerPoint (in course content).

SpecificRequirements and Length of the

Your slide presentation should be completed in MicrosoftPowerPoint. For those of you who do not have this software program on yourcomputer, you can use another program such as googledoc.com, but you MUST thensave it in the ppt or pptx format prior to submission. No format other than ppt or pptx will be accepted.

Length: Yourpresentation should be 10-15 slides in length, and approximately 10 minutes induration. Remember that the excessive use of images, animations, and/or the usehigh-definition images will greatly increase the file size.

Narration: Eachslide should have a brief narration that augments, or adds to, the text andimages on your slide. Be mindful of your audience both with respect to thelanguage and the images that you use. You can assume that you are giving abrief introductory presentation to your target audience.

Content:

v Your first slide should include your name andthe topic of your presentation (e.g., stress management, healthy habits, etc.).

v Your second slide should clearly define theissue that you are going to be talking about.

v The next several slides should clearly cover theselected topic. Include reference citations.

v Your final slide should include full citationsfor at least five sources upon which your presentation is based. You may useyour text, peer-reviewed journal articles, and information from governmentwebsites, e.g. The National Institute of Health.

v Use images that clearly convey and reinforceyour message. Balance images and text in a way that best suits your audience.All images should be referenced from their primary source, e.g., notjust “Google images.”

v You should not attempt to put everything youwish to say into your slides. Remember that the slides are intended tosupplement your narrative, not to take the place of it.

v Avoid using textured or patterned backgroundsthat detract or obstruct the text/images in your slide.