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Read the articles “Applications in Social Justice Counselor Training: Classroom Without Walls” and “The Multicultural Workplace: Interactive Acculturation and Intergroup Relations” and review the APA Guidelines for Providers of Psychological Services to Ethnic, Linguistic, and Culturally Diverse Populations prior to considering the following scenario.

You are a psychologist in an urban community that has seen a 200% growth in its immigrant population over the past 3 years. Eighty-seven percent of this population speaks a language other than English at home. You work for a community mental health center, which is seeing an increase in referral from this population primarily because of the children’s interactions with the school system. The children typically become bilingual quickly. The parents are typically less fluent in English than their children; however, approximately 30% of the adults in this immigrant population are fluent in English and hold advanced degrees and middle- to upper- middle class jobs. The remaining 70% primarily hold jobs that do not require higher education although many do have degrees from their country of origin. 

Based on the reading, evaluate research and practice aspects in this applied context and use elements from previous learning in your program to address the following:

• What types of staffing and training recommendations would you make for the community mental health center?
• How would you facilitate intergroup work relations among staff at the community mental health center?
• Would you support the use of the DSM-5 to diagnose clients with limited English proficiency?
• How would you evaluate whether or not your staff is competent to work with this population?
• Explain the rationales for your answers by providing evidence from the required readings.

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Read the “Numbers Can be Worth a Thousand Pictures: Individual Differences in Understanding Graphical and Numerical Representations of Health-Related Information” article prior to answering. Informed decision making in the mental health and medical professions requires the ability to understand and effectively communicate statistical information.  For this discussion, address the following in your post: 

• Select one mental health disorder of your choice based on a valid diagnostic category in the DSM-5.
• Research the disorder and locate relevant statistics obtained within the past 7 years regarding overall prevalence, gender and age differences, and treatment options.
• Present this information in the discussion forum in two formats: Format 1 for individuals with high graph literacy; Format 2: for individuals with low graphic literacy but high numerical literacy.  Information regarding each of these two formats is discussed in the assigned article.
• Be sure to include your references in your discussion post, that are formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

Recommended resources

1. American Psychiatric Association. (2013). The diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed.). 
      Washington, D.C.: American Psychiatric Publishing.

Articles

1. Bemak, F. & Chung, R.C-Y. (2011). Applications in social justice counselor training: Classroom without walls. The 
   Journal of Humanistic Counseling, 50(2), 204-219. Retrieved from the ProQuest database.
   • The authors of this article provide an overview of the “classroom without walls concept” to promote social justice in counseling and advocacy training in graduate counseling programs. The classroom without walls activities offer a means for counselor and psychology trainees to learn how to move from application to practice and apply the principles of equity, fairness, and access in their future work.
2. Gaissmaier, W., Wegwarth, O., Skopec, D., Müller, A.-S., Broschinski, S.,  & Politi, M. C. (2012). Numbers can be worth a thousand pictures: Individual differences in understanding graphical and numerical representations of health-related information. Health Psychology, 31(3), 286-296. doi:10.1037/a0024850. Retrieved from the EBSCOhost database.
   • This article investigates ways to improve the understanding of conveying health-related statistical information with graphical representations compared with numerical representations
3. Johnson, R. (2013). Forensic and Culturally Responsive Approach for the DSM-5: Just the FACTS. Journal of Theory Construction & Testing, 17(1), 18-22. Retrieved from the EBSCOhost database.
   • This article argues that the DSM-5 can be an effective assessment tool in clinical case conceptualization with diverse ethno-racial populations when used by culturally competent professionals as a part of a multi-method diagnostic assessment of individuals and families.
4. Oerlemans, W.G.M., & Peeters, M.C.W. (2010). The multicultural workplace: Interactive acculturation and intergroup relations. Journal of Managerial Psychology, 25(5), 460-478. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/02683941011048373. Retrieved from the ProQuest database. 
   • This study demonstrated that intergroup contact can facilitate intergroup work-relations. The relationships between cultural diversity in organizations and work-outcomes are complex and best understood when focusing on “deep-level” aspects of cultural diversity in addition to “surface level” aspects.

Websites

American Psychological Society. (2013). Guidelines for providers of psychological services to ethnic, linguistic, and culturally diverse populations. Retrieved from http://www.apa.org/pi/oema/resources/policy/provider-guidelines.aspx

• This website provides the American Psychological Association Guidelines for Providers of Psychological Services to Ethnic, Linguistic, and Culturally Diverse Populations.

Assignment Instructions

For this assignment, you are required to write a Leadership Research Essay.

Requirement: Using the terms, concepts, and theories learned in this course, write a 5 to 7 page (Times New Roman 12 font with double-spaced lines) leadership essay defining your leadership philosophy with one or more of the leadership theories we have studied. Each page should be approximately 350 words, so the total word count (not counting the reference page and the title page) should be at least 1750 words. Papers with fewer than 1750 words will have deductions for lack of content. Quotes should be limited and if necessary, cited appropriately. For this assignment, the use of first person is allowed.

No abstract is necessary. Include a clear and concise introductory and concluding paragraph.

Research: Additionally, using the APUS Online Library, conduct research and incorporate at least two (2) additional sources other than your textbook and course articles to support your essay. Use the APA Style to cite your “in-text” references and to list your references on a reference page.

Your essay will address these questions:

A. What leadership model, style, or theory best describes you as a leader? Why? Give examples using the terms and concepts in your textbook.

1) Skills Approach

2) Situational Approach

3) Behavioral Approach

4) Trait Approach

5) Path-Goal Approach

B. What are your most distinguishing leadership traits? What traits do you strive to learn to develop?

C. As a follower, what leadership approach do you prefer from your leader?

D. What leadership model or theory best describes how you influence others? Give examples.

E. Based on your self-assessments, your current leadership and motivational skills, and the knowledge you have gained from the course materials, what goals will you set and what plan of action will you implement to improve your (1) leadership and (2) motivation? Include the type of leadership theory or model you intend to implement to achieve your goals.

F. Explain the steps you need to take to complete each of these self-improvement goals?

Save your essay as Last Name_Leadership Research Essay_MGMT312.doc (e.g. Smith_Leadership Research Essay_MGMT312.doc).

When you are ready, upload your essay for grading.

Paper Format:

A. Title Page – Include a title page with your name, student number, title of your paper, course number, course name, and date.

B. Introductory Paragraph – Include an introductory paragraph that ends.

C. Font and Spacing – Use Times New Roman 12 font with double spaced lines.

D. Length – Write a 5 to 7 page essay not including the title page and citation page.

E. Reference Page – Include all sources including your textbook on a Reference page

1. Utilize the APA Style for documenting sources. Remember to include at least 2 sources other than your textbooks. Finally, remember Wikipedia is NOT a scholarly source. Quotes must be properly cited. Limit quotes to less than 10% of your paper if you must have any.

2. Punctuation, essay format (thesis, supporting paragraphs with transition and topic sentences, and summary) grammar and documentation count toward your grade.

3. Review this GRADING RUBRIC

Submission

• Describe the examples you observed that demonstrated 1) physical development, 2) cognitive/language development, and 3) social-emotional development.
• Describe at least one example of how development in domains overlaps (e.g., children cooperating in a learning experience, thus promoting social and cognitive development). Note: If you don’t observe any examples of this, describe an example appropriate to this age group.
• Describe differences between 3- to 5-year-old development and infant and toddler development in each of the domains: physical, cognitive/language, and social-emotional.
• Explain at least one example of how your perception of development has changed or grown based on what you have learned this week and/or the video segment you viewed.

Please take a moment to watch this Assignment Introduction, or read the presentation transcript.

Outcomes addressed in this Assignment:

MN585-04: Design age appropriate health maintenance and screening plans for the frail elderly patients across the lifespan.

Purpose

One of the greatest challenges for nurse practitioners is determining when a frail elderly patient is no longer capable of performing certain tasks with safety. For example, this is particularly relevant issue when a frail elderly patient is still driving and family members do not want to take their car keys away. Nurse practitioners have a legal and ethical obligation to meet standards of care and while many decisions like taking the driver’s license of a frail elderly patient may not be popular it is necessary to protect not only the patient but society as well. The purpose of this assignment is to help the student become familiar with the Clock Drawing Test (CDT) and determine its relevance and significance in making critical and important decisions in patient care when dealing with the frail elderly population.

Instructions

1. Administer the Clock Drawing Test (CDT) to an elderly patient > 75 years of age to test the patient’s executive level of functioning to determine whether or not this patient should be allowed to drive. Submit a copy of the CDT result.
2. Score the CDT.
3. Provide a summary report of the CDT Test including planning (circle size), organizing (placement of numbers) sequencing (inclusion of all numbers in the correct order) and abstraction (hands of the clock placement and length).
4. Should this patient be allowed to drive? Why/why not?
5. Describe your area of greatest learning from completing this assignment.

To view the Grading Rubric for this Assignment, please visit the Grading Rubrics section of the Course Resources.

Assignment Requirements

Before finalizing your work, you should:

• be sure to read the Assignment description carefully (as displayed above);
• consult the Grading Rubric (under the Course Resources) to make sure you have included everything necessary; and
• utilize spelling and grammar check to minimize errors.
• Your writing Assignment should:
• follow the conventions of Standard English (correct grammar, punctuation, etc.);
• be well ordered, logical, and unified, as well as original and insightful;
• display superior content, organization, style, and mechanics; and
• use APA 6th Edition format as outlined in the APA Progression Ladder.