Why has there been so much controversy with regard to the new DSM-5?
What are the implications of a diagnosis being eliminated?
What happens when a new diagnosis is added?
Research at least one of the current controversies and outline the arguments on both sides in a two-page report. Cite your sources.
Hostile Work Environments
In 1,250 words, describe a hostile work environment, by doing the following:
1. Research hostile work environments and how they affect employees.
2. Describe what makes up a hostile work environment.
3. Explain the various ways employees are affected by hostile work environments.
4. Provide at least three things that HR professionals can do to avoid having hostile work environments.
*Instructions*
*Use 4scholarly references
* References with Permalink a Most
*No Dot Com
*Prepare this assignment in the APA Style Guide. Solid academic writing is expected
*Plagiarism Free
* Use the Rubric This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion
3/16/2021
In this Discussion, you will consider a case of child sexual abuse. You will determine appropriate strategies to gather information, analyze the behaviors of the people involved, and consider challenges associated with the case.
Read the Week 3 Case Studies document. Choose one case to address in this Discussion.
Read the Learning Resources pertaining to family dynamics in cases of sexual abuse.
Post a response to two of the following:
· What information gathering strategies would you recommend for the scenario in the case study? What type of information is needed?
Within this case study, identify the warning signs or behavioral indicators that are present and could indicate sexual abuse is taking place.
· How would you determine if laws have been broken?
· What ethical considerations need to be addressed in this case study (e.g., developing loyalties, confirmation bias, transference, etc.)?
Explain and justify your answers with appropriate scholarly literature.
Wallace, H., & Roberson, C. (2016). Family violence: Legal, medical, and social perspectives (8th ed.). New York, NY: Routledge.
· Chapter 6, “Child Sexual Abuse” (pp. 197–221)
· Chapter 11, “Professionals and Their Response to Child Abuse” (pp. 319–358)
https://www.apa.org/ethics/code/
https://www.apa.org/practice/guidelines/forensic-psychology
https://journals-sagepub-com.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/doi/10.1177/1077559516650936
Discussion
Trait Characteristics Across Life-Span
Best friends are a staple in many lives. You probably have had different ones as you progressed through your life. “If you could ‘build a best friend’, what three trait characteristics would you want them to possess and how would that change across the life span at: age 5, age 15, age 25, age 40, and age 70?”
Write a 1-2 paragraph of how classism has factored into your life. Then, explain a strategy you might use as a social worker to address the impact of class and class differences on the lives of your clients.
Post 1-2 paragraph
provide 1 alternative recommendations for how social workers might advocate for change and address classist policies in their agencies and society at large.
Part C
provide 1 alternative recommendations for how social workers might advocate for change and address classist policies in their agencies and society at large.
3/23
The purposes of this week’s readings and court visit include learning about the roles of judge, juror, prosecutor, defense attorney, and witnesses; an overview of mental health treatment and finance issues; and regulation of mental health professions.
Objectives
· The student will be able to describe aspects of courtroom demeanor, the trial process, and observations made about the U.S. judicial system.
· The student will be able to discuss basic information about the treatment of mental illness.
· The student will be able to articulate basic tenets of regulation of the mental health professions in the U.S.
Post your proposed paper topic under “Discussion 1” in this week’s Discussion Topics.
Alternate Assignment: If you cannot make time during the work day to observe a trial, you may read an account of a trial, such as (1) A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr (1996), or (2) an account of the workings of a justice system, such as No Matter How Loud I Shout: A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court by E. Humes (1996).
Other written accounts (non-fiction) or televised trials (which can sometimes be found on Court TV may be substituted (check with Instructor!) Other possible choices include A Trial by Jury by D. G. Burnett (2001), Subway Gunman: A Juror’s Account of the Bernard Goetz Trial by Mark Lesley, et al. (1988).
Your assignment in Week 4 will be to post a 2-3 paragraph response to your trial (or alternate assignment). Don’t summarize! Just tell us what stood out for you, what surprised you, or something you learned. Please, use correct grammar, spelling, and punctuation, as well as correct APA format when you cite anything published.
THINKING & INTELLIGENCE: CHAPTER 7 ASSIGNMENT (20 points)
Instructions: Answer the following questions thoroughly in paragraph format (complete sentences).
2.Define the term heuristic. How does the availability heuristic lead people to believe that catastrophic events, such as plane crashes, occur more frequently than they actually do?
3. Alfred Binet’s insight regarding a method of measuring mental development had an international impact in the twentieth century. Explain how Binet’s went about calculating a child’s mental abilities. What scoring system did later researchers base on Binet’s method, and how was it originally calculated?
4. Compare and contrast the benefits of the Stanford-Binet IQ test and Wechsler’s IQ tests.
5. What are the cultural implications of IQ test? What is event schemata? Explain why event schemata have so much power over human behavior.
6. What is functional fixedness and how can overcoming it help you solve problems? Similarly, how does an algorithm save you time and energy when solving a problem?
7. Describe the relationship between learning disabilities and intellectual disabilities to intelligence.
LEARNING: CHAPTER 6 ASSIGNMENT (20 points)
(10 points) Instructions: Develop a “Key Terms” for the following Assignment by defining these terms:
(5 points) Instructions: For each situation below, indicate whether it is an example of :
a. classical conditioning
b. operant conditioning
c. observational learning
1. Susie is a four-year-old child. One day she watches her mother vacuum the living room. Her mother comments to Susie, “Doesn’t the living room look nice now that I’ve cleaned it?” The next day, her mother finds Susie “vacuuming” the living room with her toy vacuum.
Answer:
2. You are thinking of asking the teacher for an extension on your paper. Just as you are about to go up to the teacher, another student approaches the teacher with the same request. The teacher appears angry, and very loudly and rudely turns down the student’s request for an extension. You decide not to ask for an extension.
Answer:
3. Until she was eight, Barbara liked cats. When she was eight, she was bitten through the hand by a cat as she tried to get it out from under a bed. This was an upsetting experience. Since that time, Barbara experiences anxiety whenever she is near a cat.
Answer:
4. Alison, age four, needs to learn to speak up louder in class. Her parents and teacher agree that whenever Alison speaks up loudly in class, she will get a star on her chart. Whenever she accumulates 25 stars, she will get to go to Baskin-Robbins for ice cream. Alison starts speaking up in class more frequently.
Answer:
5. Tom is hammering nails into planks to build a fence. He experiments with holding the nail a different way and immediately hits his thumb with the hammer. OUCH! He continues his work, but he never holds the nail that way again.
Answer:
6. It is summer. Sarah and Jeremy are in love. They enjoy being together and are thoroughly relaxed and content in each other’s presence. The hit song that summer is “Buckets of Love” and they hear that song a lot when they are together. At the end of the summer, they have to return to their separate colleges, which are quite far apart. That fall, every time Sarah hears the tune “Buckets of Love,” she experiences the same feelings of relaxation and contentment that she felt when she was with Jeremy.
(5 points) Instructions: In the following examples, identify which element is being used to control behavior:
a. positive reinforcement
b. negative reinforcement
c. punishment
. The smoke detector in Jesse’s house is low on batteries. It emits an annoying chirp every few seconds. Jesse installs a new battery so it will stop making that noise.
Answer:
9. Dr. Smith, a Doe College instructor, is having difficulty getting students to turn in papers. Previously, he had not assigned credit for homework; rather, he had simply assumed that students would do it for the practice. Dr. Smith establishes a policy that all students who turn in papers will get full credit for their work. Students now turn in papers much more often.
Answer:
10. Jeff is playing with his food at the dinner table. His mother tells him to stop playing with his food. When he does not stop, she takes his food away, leaving Jeff hungry all night. Jeff never plays with his food again.
Answer:
11. Jeff is playing with his food at the dinner table while his parents are trying to carry on an adult conversation. When his mother notices what Jeff is doing, she stops talking with her husband and directs her attention to Jeff. She yells at him to stop playing with his food, and says that playing with his food is a horrible and disgusting habit. Jeff plays with his food again several times during that meal, and even more frequently the next night.
Answer:
12. Jeff is diligently working on an art project at school. His teacher notices how nicely he is working and praises him loudly for his efforts. Jeff immediately seems less interested working on his project. The teacher praises the little bits he completes as time goes on, and Jeff stops working on the art project entirely.
Answer:
STRESS, LIFESTYLE, & HEALTH: CHAPTER 14 ASSIGNMENT (20 points)
Instructions: Answer the following questions thoroughly in paragraph format (complete sentences).
would Selye’s general adaptation syndrome explain this occurrence?
how it might bring about distress and eustress.
dimensions of job burnout, explain how various job aspects unique to being a police officer might
lead to job burnout in that line of work.
its role in heart disease.
examine the relationship between stress and immune function (Cohen et al., 1998). How might this
finding explain how people seem to become sick during stressful times in their lives (e.g., final exam
week)?
stressors, do you think there are any kinds of stressful situations in which emotion focused coping
might be a better strategy?
In this capstone discussion, reflect on the thought process regarding the use of parametric and nonparametric statistics in psychological research. Articulate the challenges you might face in writing a Capella Research Plan for a quantitative dissertation. What is a research question you would study Clinical Psychology, and what statistical procedure(s) would you likely use to test your research question? How do you see this quantitative study contributing to psychological theory and in terms of practical applications?
Week 5 – Discussion 2
Final Paper Draft for Peer Review
. The final draft should include a cover page, an abstract, the body of the paper in final draft form, and a references page (with annotated summaries of each source removed).
Read Section 10.2: Commonly Confused Words, and review Section 6.3: Proper Attributions: Your Own Ideas Versus the Ideas of Others, and Section 11.2: Citations and References, from Sole’s and Landrum’s (2015) Academic Research and Writing: A Guide for the Social Sciences.
I have included the final paper topic and the annotated summaries of each source
Final Paper
For the final assignment of this course, you will write a term paper (7-10 pages) on a topic related to leadership within the human services setting. Examples include (but are by no means limited to):
Topic: abuses of leadership power and the impact on disenfranchised client groups.
NOTE: This is my Professor feedback on assignment 2 please take note on any correction: Great topic Comfort: There is much to consider for leaders when it comes to abuse of power. I think you will find interesting information! I encourage you to start thinking about influential leaders that you can use as examples. There are many to choose from, but you will want to be sure you can google sufficient material. Don’t forget you will need to incorporate at least 8 peer-reviewed journal articles into the final paper. The source you used for this assignment is appropriate for the final; however, it is not an academic, peer-reviewed source. Overall, you are off to a very good start & I look forward to reading your final paper! If you run into any challenges, please don’t hesitate to reach out.
You are required to integrate influential leaders and leadership theories in the presentation of your topic. You have the luxury of choosing a topic that is of interest to you; however, you are expected to integrate ideas from assigned class readings into your paper as well as add other scholarly sources more specifically related to your topic.
The research paper must:
· Be double-spaced, meet specified page length, and be formatted according to APA style as outlined in the approved APA style guide.
· Include an APA style cover page.
· Include an introductory paragraph with a succinct thesis statement.
· Address the topic of the paper with critical thought.
· Conclude with a restatement of the thesis and a conclusion paragraph.
· Use APA style as outlined in the approved APA style guide to document all sources.
· Cite and integrate no fewer than 8 scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles.
· Include a reference page that is completed according to APA style as outlined in the approved APA style guide.
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