Title: NVAA Learning Activity: Chapter 20: Professionalizing the Discipline of Victim Services Series: Training Manual Author: Office for Victims of Crime and National Victim Assistance Academy Published: June 2002 Subject: organizational leadership 3 pages 3,257 bytes ---------------------------- NVAA Learning Activity Chapter 20: Professionalizing the Discipline of Victim Services INSTRUCTOR GUIDELINES Key Concepts/Objectives to Emphasize in Instruction and Learning Activities: 1. Characteristics of professions. (20-2 to 20-7) 2. Barriers to professionalization. (20-8) 3. Levels of professionalization among various disciplines involved in victim services. (Learning Activity) Objectives: 1. Discuss and rate the dimensions of professionalization as it applies to the field of victim services. 2. Encourage students to rate their field and respective disciplines as professions, and themselves as professionals. Description of Activity and Faculty Guidelines: The instructor provides students with a student worksheet that lists various disciplines/professions involved in victim services. Utilizing the attached chart entitled "The Continuum of Professionalization" (copied onto an overhead transparency), the instructor asks students, first as individuals and then as a group, to place the disciplines/occupations on either side of the chart (with the left side representing "lower level of professionalism," and the right side representing "higher level of professionalism." law enforcement attorneys nurses/medical professionals judges social service workers probation officers physicians teachers corrections professionals claims adjusters police dispatchers victim assistance professionals prosecutors volunteers * other occupations may be substituted or added Can Be Utilized As: __X__ Individual Activity _____ Small Group Activity __X__ Large Group Activity Anticipated Amount of Time Required: 15 Minutes o 03 minutes for individual ranking. o 06 minutes to list rankings on the overhead transparency. o 06 minutes for full group discussion of rationale for rankings. RESOURCES NEEDED (Please check all that apply:) _____ Tear sheets and felt pens _____ VCR/monitor __X__ Overhead projector and screen/LCD and laptop __X__ Blank overhead transparencies and overhead pens _____ Masking tape _____ Index cards __X__ Individual or group worksheets _____ Timer _____ Other (please describe): ---------------------------- STUDENT WORKSHEET Please place the following occupations/disciplines on the chart, with the left side representing a "lower level of professionalism," and the right side indicating a "higher level of professionalism." Lower Level of Professionalism--Higher Level of Professionalism law enforcement attorneys nurses/medical professionals judges social service workers probation officers physicians teachers corrections professionals claims adjusters police dispatchers victim assistance professionals prosecutors volunteers ---------------------------- OVERHEAD TRANSPARENCY THE CONTINUUM OF PROFESSIONALIZATION Lower Level of Professionalism--Higher Level of Professionalism