Download Analyzing Song Lyrics' Impact on Criminal Emotions in Forensic Psychology and more Exercises Psychology in PDF only on Docsity! Forensic Psychology (PSY513) Spring 2012 Assignment No. 02 Total Marks: 20 ________________________________________________________________________ Sarmad, a 38 years old man is about to be released from Jail. He has been recently attending sessions with a very competitive narrative therapist. He was incarcerated to Jail fourteen years back, he was accused that he killed his best friend. But actually he was innocent and was trapped into this case by real murderer. During these fourteen years, many things have changed in outside world. His young siblings have become grown‐up middle aged folks. His parents have grown very old. His all sisters got married, and his elder brother passed away due to heart attack. He has mixture of feelings, he is happy that he is finally going to be released from the dark world of jail. But his heart pains when the thought crosses his mind that all those moments that he has lost can never come back. He has been terribly missing the evenings when he used to sit with his family sharing small happenings of that day. He is also fearful about his future. There are so many things, he has stigma of being a brutal and filthy criminal, who killed his own friend and has also fears that whether outside world will accept him or not. A song entitled “38929_ abhi mujh main kahin” is available in download section of LMS. Your task is to relate the lyrics of this song with the emotional feelings/ story and conversation taking place between Sarmad and the narrative therapist during a therapy session in which they are trying together to develop a new narrative. Instructions: You should suppose that this song reflects Sarmad’s point of view. Many questions are also sung. Identify what will be the suggestions/preferences/ options of the narrative therapist for Sarmad to include in his new life chronicle. Your task is actually to re‐authorize Sarmad’s story with the help of dialogues taking place between Sarmmad and his therapist. Objectives: 1. Main objective of this assignment is to help students think critically and creatively 2. This assignment will help students to understand that how actually narrative therapy works with criminals in real life settings. 3. The lyrics of song will help you understand the feelings and state of vacillation, mostly criminals experience while they are about to release from Jail after longer period of sentences. Good Luck! docsity.com Forensic Psychology (PSY513) Spring 2012 Assignment No. 02 Total Marks: 20 ________________________________________________________________________ Important Tips This Assignment can be best attempted from the knowledge acquired after watching Video lecture no. 25 to lecture no 33 and reading handouts as well as recommended text books. Schedule Opening Date and Time June 26, 2012 At 12:01 A.M. (Mid-Night) Due Date and Time June 29, 2012 At 11:59 P.M. (Mid-Night) Note: Only in the case of Assignment, 24 Hrs extra / grace period after the above mentioned due date is usually available to overcome uploading difficulties which may be faced by the students on last date. This extra time should only be used to meet the emergencies and above mentioned due dates should always be treated as final to avoid any inconvenience. Important Instructions: Please read the following instructions carefully before attempting the assignment solution. Deadline: Make sure that you upload the solution file before the due date. No assignment will be accepted through e-mail once the solution has been uploaded by the instructor. Formatting guidelines: Use the font style “Times New Roman” and font size “12”. It is advised to compose your document in MS-Word 2003. Use black and blue font colors only. docsity.com
