Provide an analysis of the articles from a critical thinking perspective.

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Reading both popular and professional literature is an activity fraught with risk. In this age of electronic communication, wikis, sound bites, and rapid dissemination of news and other information, there is an increased risk that information you access may not be accurate. The likelihood of being exposed to “urban myths” or false information that appears to be based on scientific information is much greater than it ever has been. As will be emphasized next week, it is important even in professional articles and reputable journals to be able to distinguish good research from bad, valid arguments from invalid ones, and fact from fiction.
As a scholar practitioner, then, it is essential for you to be a critical thinker when reading, listening to, searching for, and reviewing information. Critical thinking involves learning what the potential pitfalls are in written or broadcasted materials, analyzing the material you encounter for the presence of these pitfalls, as well as other errors in thinking and reasoning, and using your analysis to determine the weight you should give the information obtained from any source. Using critical thinking to sort out the facts from suppositions or hypotheses that are not actually true or clearly tested is one of the most important basic skills you can master. Critical thinking is a tool you will need and use throughout your professional education, training, and practice.

For this Application Assignment, review the articles provided in this week’s resources, “Urinalysis: The Supreme Court’s Justification Of High-School Urine Tests” and “Vaccines May Fuel Autism Epidemic.

 

The assignment: (3–4 pages)

Provide an analysis of the articles from a critical thinking perspective.
Identify at least three errors in each of the two articles.
Explain the implications of the errors you identified for your professional psychology practice.
Be specific, provide examples, and justify your response with the Learning Resources/literature.

Vaccines may fuel autism epidemic

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2002/07/supreme-court-urinalysis.html

For this assignment, you will detail which outside influence you believe has a significant impact on middle childhood development outside of the home. You should include the following aspects:

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Assignment Week 4

As children move through middle childhood, parental influence is accompanied by a number of outside influences that can shape and impact development during this stage. These outside influences include peers, schools, television/video games and stress.

For this assignment, you will detail which outside influence you believe has a significant impact on middle childhood development outside of the home. You should include the following aspects:

• Introduction to your chosen influence and why you chose it.

• Research: Find two current (within the past 5-7 years) research articles that support your belief or refute your belief regarding your chosen influence on development. Summarize each article individually to include purpose of the research, brief description of the methodology of the research (do not include specific statistics) and the findings of the research.

• Conclusion: Write a concluding paragraph discussing how your opinion may or may not have changed on the topic based on your research. Also, include in your conclusion, two or three strategies for managing this influence.

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Dr. Arnold is a clinical psychologist who specializes in child and adolescent issues. From time to time, she provides consultation on high lethality cases within the juvenile court system. Recently, she was referred a case involving a 15-year-old male who has a history of aggression, angry outburst, destructive behavior, and cyberstalking.  Concerned for her safety and well-being,

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Prior to beginning work on this week’s discussion, please review Standard 3: Human Relations (Links to an external site.) in the APA’s Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct. Please also read the Asay and Lal (2014) “Who’s Googled Whom? Trainees’ Internet and Online Social Networking Experiences, Behaviors, and Attitudes with Clients and Supervisors,” Harris and Robinson Kurpius (2014) “Social Networking and Professional Ethics: Client Searches, Informed Consent, and Disclosure,” and Taylor, McMinn, Bufford, and Chang (2010) “Psychologists’ Attitudes and Ethical Concerns Regarding the Use of Social Networking Web Sites” articles.

For this discussion, you will examine ethical issues encountered by clinical and counseling psychologists in the digital age. Begin by reviewing the cases of Dr. Arnold and Dr. Washington listed below and selecting one of these ethical dilemmas for analysis.

Case 1
Dr. Arnold is a clinical psychologist who specializes in child and adolescent issues. From time to time, she provides consultation on high lethality cases within the juvenile court system. Recently, she was referred a case involving a 15-year-old male who has a history of aggression, angry outburst, destructive behavior, and cyberstalking.  Concerned for her safety and well-being, Dr. Arnold input the client’s name into a search engine, which yielded the client’s social network page. Dr. Arnold is uncertain whether or not to look at the client’s social network page.

Case 2
Dr. Washington is a counseling psychologist who specializes in trauma and self-harming behavior. Recently, he received a “friend request” from a former client who he provided individual therapy to six months ago. Dr. Washington opted not to accept the “friend request,” but considered sending a private message to the client with the social networking policy from his informed consent.  Dr. Washington is uncertain whether or not to send the private message to the client.

In your initial post, assume the role of a colleague to the doctor named and analyze the ethical issues encountered in your chosen case. Given the situation described in the case study, recommend how your colleague should proceed. Provide support for your response by citing the required articles for this discussion. Consider the current and potential actions of your colleague and explain whether or not he or she is currently, or potentially will be, in violation of the APA’s Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct. Provide support for your explanation by citing Standard 3: Human Relations (Links to an external site.) in the APA’s Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct. Explain how your colleague might avoid this type of ethical dilemma in the future. Describe what policy or policies you might put in place if you were your colleague.

PSY650 Week Three Treatment Plan

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Case Analysis – Collaborating with Outside Providers

Prior to beginning work on this assignment, read the PSY650 Week Three Treatment Plan 

Download PSY650 Week Three Treatment Plan

and Case 9: Bulimia Nervosa in Gorenstein and Comer (2014). Please also read the Waller, Gray, Hinrichsen, Mounford, Lawson, and Patient (2014) “Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Bulimia Nervosa and Atypical Bulimic Nervosa: Effectiveness in Clinical Settings,”Halmi (2013) “Perplexities of Treatment Resistance in Eating Disorders,” and DeJesse and Zelman (2013) “Promoting Optimal Collaboration Between Mental Health Providers and Nutritionists in the Treatment of Eating Disorders” articles.

Assess the evidence-based practices implemented in this case study. In your paper, please include the following.

· Explain the connection between each theoretical orientation used by Dr. Heston and the treatment intervention plans utilized in the case.

· Describe the cognitive-behavioral model of the maintenance of bulimia nervosa.

· Explain why Rita was reluctant to participate in Dr. Heston’s request for her to keep a record of her eating behaviors. Use information from the Halmi (2013) article “Perplexities of Treatment Resistance in Eating Disorders” to help support your statements.

· Recommend outside providers (psychiatrists, medical doctors, nutritionists, social workers, holistic practitioners, etc.) to the assist Rita in achieving her treatment goals. Use information from the DeJesse and Zelman (2013) “Promoting Optimal Collaboration between Mental Health Providers and Nutritionists in the Treatment of Eating Disorders” article to help support your recommendations.

· Describe some of the challenges and ethical issues that Dr. Heston may encounter when working collaboratively with the professionals that you recommended. Apply ethical principles and standards of psychology relevant to your description of Dr. Heston’s potential collaboration with outside providers.

· Evaluate the effectiveness of the treatment interventions implemented by Dr. Heston, supporting your statements with information from the case and two to three peer-reviewed articles from the Ashford University Library.

· Recommend three additional treatment interventions that would be appropriate in this case. The recommended articles for this week may be useful in generating your response to this criterion. Justify your selections with information from the case.

The Case Analysis – Collaborating with Outside Providers

· Must be 4 to 5 double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center

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· Must include a separate title page with the following:

· Title of paper

· Student’s name

· Course name and number

· Instructor’s name

· Date submitted

· Must use at least two peer-reviewed sources from in the Ashford University Library.

· Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

· Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

Select a psychological disorder of interest covered in the textbook.  Develop a seven slide (minimum) PowerPoint presentation, Prezi, Google Slides that:

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Select a psychological disorder of interest covered in the textbook.  Develop a seven slide (minimum) PowerPoint presentation, Prezi, Google Slides that:

Slide 1 – Introduction slide with your name and the psychological disorder you selected

Slide 2 – Define the psychological disorder and what type of disorder it is (anxiety, depressive, schizophrenia, dissociative, personality, or eating)

Slide 3 – Identify the population that the disorder occurs most frequently (could be age and/or biological sex).

Slides 4 -5 – Define three symptoms of the disorder and how each symptom impairs a person’s functioning.

Slide 6 – Discuss the most widely used therapy or therapies (psychological, pharmacological, or other) used to treat this disorder.

Slide 7 – Reference slide (cite the textbook and one other source you researched).

Citations on the slides and a references slide are required.  All citations and references should be in APA format.

Personality Disorders Program Transcript

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Personality Disorders Program Transcript

MALE SPEAKER: Tell you the truth, I don’t even want to be here. My mother, she nags. She pushed me to come. Of course she’s 86. She nags and complains about everything. I came just to keep her quiet.

FEMALE SPEAKER: You mentioned that she’s concerned about your not having very many friends.

MALE SPEAKER: I don’t have a girlfriend. That’s what bothers her. She comes over to my apartment, starts talking how I don’t take care of myself, How I need to meet someone, get married.

FEMALE SPEAKER: Sounds like you’re dealing with some frustration, some annoyance. What do you think about it when she’s talking about these things?

MALE SPEAKER: She’s my mom. I know she cares, but a woman. I’ve been alone too long to change now. I don’t want a relationship. I never have. It’s not a big deal.

FEMALE SPEAKER: What about your other friends? How would you characterize your social life?

MALE SPEAKER: I mean, I know people. They’re friends.

FEMALE SPEAKER: But what do you like to you when you guys get together?

MALE SPEAKER: I don’t need other people to do things. I can be my own best friend. I like my privacy.

FEMALE SPEAKER: What about the rest of your family? Do you spend a lot of time with them? Are you close with them?

MALE SPEAKER: My mom’s my family. I don’t care about my father or my sister.

FEMALE SPEAKER: How about when you were in school and college? How would you describe your social life back then? Students often have opportunities to socialize, activities, making friends.

MALE SPEAKER: I didn’t have much use for all that. I was busy studying. You don’t get on the dean’s list by playing around.

FEMALE SPEAKER: No, you don’t. And what was your major?

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MALE SPEAKER: Electrical engineering. I didn’t finish, though. I went three semesters. That was it for me. Trust me, I learned a lot more when I stopped going to classes. The other students, they were completed idiots. I’m not kidding. I taught myself everything I do now at my job– math, statistics, computers, data analysis.

You want to know how long my commute is? 10 steps. 10 steps, my bedroom to my desk. I do all my job right there at home. It’s perfect.

FEMALE SPEAKER: So besides work, what do you like to do in your free time?

MALE SPEAKER: World of Warcraft, an online role playing game. 20 levels, incredibly complex. It has the most incredible special effects. I’ve been playing it for years, and I still get shivers every time I turn it on and hear that theme music.

FEMALE SPEAKER: What do you like about it so much?

MALE SPEAKER: It’s hard to explain if you’ve never played it. Basically you go exploring and you get to create your own fantasy world, whatever it is. Sky’s the limit.

FEMALE SPEAKER: And how do you feel as you’re playing it?

MALE SPEAKER: You know how they say there’s nothing left, nothing more left to explore or discover on earth except maybe at the bottom of the ocean? But I’ve always imagined myself making some great new discovery. You know, like– I don’t know. Something great. This game lets me do that.

FEMALE SPEAKER: It sounds like you spend a lot of time playing it.

MALE SPEAKER: It’s time well spent as far as I’m concerned.

FEMALE SPEAKER: Let’s go back to your family a little bit. You had mentioned some strong feelings about your father, your sister.

MALE SPEAKER: My father. You want to know why I didn’t have any friends when I was young? My old man. I’d be hanging out in the yard with some kids in the neighborhood, throwing the ball around, goofing off, and he’d come out and start yelling at me for no reason. He’s just make up an excuse. His voice. It was like having razor blades thrown at you. And after that, nobody would be hanging out in the yard anymore. Just me. And at night, sometimes I was afraid just to come out of my room because I didn’t know how he was going to be. Was I going to get a smile or the back of his hand?

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1. After reading the book Deep Work, by Cal Newport, answer all questions in the file Deep Work.

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1. After reading the book Deep Work, by Cal Newport, answer all questions in the file Deep Work.

2. Taken together, the lessons of the Deep Work book can be applied to life under COVID.  For your thinking challenge, come up with a deep work plan for the Spring semester of 2021.  Be as specific as possible, and remember that it is better to do less things but well, than many things poorly.

Our boy Cal Newport came up with a time-block planner here:    https://www.timeblockplanner.com

The above two questions need to be completed by January 5

 

3. After reading Thinking Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman, answer all questions in the document “Thinking Fast and Slow”.

4. After listening to the two podcasts, develop a personal philosophy on how to change your mind:

Put it together in a list of bullet points to remind yourself go how to think about the world in the next year.  For full credit, you need to incorporate the information from both podcasts and both books.

https://freakonomics.com/podcast/change-your-mind/

https://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-is-my-life-so-hard/

Thoroughly discuss regions of the world that have been more/less heavily impacted by eating disorders.

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Thoroughly discuss regions of the world that have been more/less heavily impacted by eating disorders.

Please use two or three suorces and APA format.

Recommend one of these evidenced-based family interventions to treat this family: (Family Systems Approach and the Parent Effectiveness Training (PET) .

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Recommendations for treatment: 

  • Recommend one of these evidenced-based family interventions to treat this family: (Family Systems Approach and the Parent Effectiveness Training (PET) .
  • Discuss the theoretical orientation of the theory behind the intervention, the major tenets of the intervention and the strategy/techniques used.
  • Explain why you recommend this treatment.

Engagement and assessment: 

  • Describe techniques of how a social worker would engage with this family and assess the presenting issue.
  • Explain any cultural factors that should be taken into account during engagement and assessment.
  • Provide scholarly evidence to support techniques.

Explain the result. Explain why leadership is an important characteristic for a human services practitioner.

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Post a description of a time when you were asked to help someone else and you responded constructively to help solve the problem. Explain the result. Explain why leadership is an important characteristic for a human services practitioner. Provide an example of a successful human services practitioner to support your response. Finally, describe two additional characteristics you consider vital to the role of a human services practitioner, and explain why they are vital.