Category: Essays

Dimensions of diversity and differentiation that influence relationships.

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Advance human rights and social, economic, and environmental justice.
Apply leadership skills and technology to engage in collaborative practice with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities to advocate for appropriate services, resources, and supports to achieve goals and foster positive change.
Related Assignment Criterion:
Apply a social media tool to develop, support, and sustain a local community initiative.
Promote community well-being through the use of the technology standards to address and advance social and economic justice issues.
Advocate for the identified issue.
Analyze how collaborative involvement promotes success.
Apply leadership behaviors by engaging in reflective and professional practices that address and advance social, economic, and environmental justice issues.
Related Assignment Criterion:
Describe how to apply professional use of self and leadership skills through the use of the technology standards to address and advance social and economic justice issues.
Analyze and respond to evolving leadership, technological, political, economic, social cultural, geographical, and environmental contexts to shape the specialization of advanced generalist practice.

2: Explain the rationale for using a social media tool to create an initiative to address an injustice and why it is important.

 

Mass Casualty Incident Specific Annex

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After reading the Comprehensive Preparedness Guide, write a Mass Casualty Incident Specific Annex describing the response to a high amount of casualties during a disaster in Bobsville.

Your annex should:

Identify the departments and agencies designated to perform response and recovery activities and specifies tasks they must accomplish
Outline the integration of assistance that is available to local jurisdictions during disaster situations that generate emergency response and recovery needs beyond what the local jurisdiction can satisfy
Specify the direction, control, and communications procedures and systems that will be relied upon to alert, notify, recall, and dispatch emergency response personnel; warn the public; protect residents and property; and request aid/support from other jurisdictions and/or the Federal Government (including the role of the Governor’s Authorized Representative)
Provide coordinating instructions and provisions for implementing Mutual Aid Agreements (MAAs)
Describes the logistical support for planned operations.
You may reference the Comprehensive Preparedness Guide and other agencies’ documents as reference but you must write your Annex for Bobsville specifically. You will use this document in future classes and execute this plan so help yourself by being thorough.

Person-Centered Therapy: A Client with Postpartum Depression

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1.Would you be able to be present with Rivka without being more directive or active in your techniques?

2.What do you mainly hear Rivka saying throughout the sessions?

3.Are you able to empathize with Rivka and enter her experiential world?

4.What are your personal reactions to Rivka?

5.Are you able to accept the decisions that Rivka has chosen for her son Zvi? Do you accept her decision of doing nothing to avoid pregnancy?

 

COURSE: PMHN Across the Lifespan. Individual/Family Therapy: Psychopathology/DSM V-HFN-HY01

 

 

SOCIAL COMPARISON

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People tend to compare themselves to others to gauge their intelligence, attractiveness, and success. Problematically, those who need a self-esteem and self-confidence boost may try to gain it through a downward comparison. In other words, in order improve their self-esteem and self-confidence, they might compare themselves to less intelligent, attractive, or successful individuals to make them feel better about their relative social standing. Consider the pervasive media images of female or male physical perfection. Western culture often overemphasizes a woman’s (and, to a lesser degree, a man’s) physical attractiveness as a measure of her (or his) cultural value. That is, western culture often conflates physical attractiveness with inherent goodness—a woman (or in some cases, a man) who is not physically attractive is somehow less good.

For this Discussion, you will analyze the development of self-concept from the perspective of downward comparisons and idealized images.

Review the Learning Resources for this week and consider how downward comparisons and idealized images of physical attractiveness impact the developing self-concept.
Also, consider whether this impact would be different across race and ethnicity.

Post how downward comparisons and idealized images of physical attractiveness impact the developing self-concept. Would this impact be the same across race and ethnicity? Support your post with references to social psychology theory and research.

There is now a well-recognized right of patients to refuse medical treatment

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Though it hasn’t always been the case, there is now a well-recognized right of patients to refuse medical treatment. This includes treatments that the patient thinks are too risky, but also treatments they oppose for any other reason they might have. It includes also the right to stop treatment, because patients must feel free to withdraw existing treatments or else they might refrain from starting a treatment in the first place for fear that they won’t be allowed to change their mind later.

A major issue for us, as we consider healthcare in end-of-life situations, is whether we should see euthanasia and assisted suicide as ethically comparable to respecting patient wishes to stop/refuse treatment even when doing so means they’lll die when they could have lived by continuing treatment.

So the question is: are passive euthanasia (letting a patient die when they request to stop treatment) and active euthanasia (taking steps to kill a patient when they request it) ethically the same? The conventional doctrine on this question is No, they are ethically different. But James Rachels and other ethicists challenge this. What do you think?

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reading questions—

answer questions based on articles below and attachments

What does James Rachels identify as conventional wisdom (or the standard view) of the ethics of passive and active euthanasia? Does Rachels himself agree with this?

2. What sort of moral lesson is Rachels trying to draw from his hypothetical Smith-Jones scenario?

3. Why might someone see withdrawing treatment as ethically different from withholding treatment? Why might someone see withdrawing and withholding treatment as ethically equivalent?

4. Which of the principles of bioethics would you say is most central to Dax Cowart’s position on the right to refuse treatment? Briefly explain.

5. Identify the eligibility requirements for physician assisted suicide under the Death with Dignity Act.

6. Do you have any ethical criticisms or concerns about the Death with Dignity Act? Would you vote to adopt it as the law in Illinois – why or why not?

 

articles ::

Frequently Asked Questions

https://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/1991/05/jack-kevorkian199105

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC300789/

The Role Of Policy In Healthcare Access And Equality

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write that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.

For this Discussion Board, please complete the following:

The healthcare world and the world overall is now a very different place since the COVID-19 global pandemic uprooted people’s daily lives. Healthcare policy had to change on a dime in many places. For example, hospitals fearing the worst limited the visitation of family members to those loved ones struck with illness (both COVID and non-COVID). New parents had to take turns seeing their newborns. Telehealth has taken on a new leading role in many healthcare organizations because face-to-face visits were no longer acceptable due to nationwide lockdowns. Many organizations did this to mitigate risk and follow strategic national policy. Your organization has decided to take a stand to implement the same strategy. Its policy is to not allow any visitors during a lockdown.

In this class debate, you are going to be placed on a side of the new visitation policy. Your task is to argue for or against the new policy based on your last name. Those with last names beginning in A–M will argue against, and those with last names beginning in N–Z will argue for. You are tasked with presenting your case to the class on why or why not the policy should stand. Cover the following:

Consider how this has changed the way that you view healthcare access and equality.
Consider the risk to the organization.
Consider the impact of the decision.
Should there be exceptions to the policy? Why or why not?
Use data and evidence from literature to support your argument.
Remember that in healthcare administration, you are often tasked with supporting unpopular policy; it is not your job to change this policy; rather, your job is to defend the side that you are on respectfully.

 

Liberation movements

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After reflecting upon liberation movements (e.g., the civil rights movement, women’s suffrage movement, etc.), select one of the following forms of government. And, discuss how that particular form of government (e.g., monarchy, oligarchy, dictatorship, and democracy could unjustly prevent those liberation movements from achieving their sought-after freedoms. Include textual evidence to support your view.

 

Counselors at your agency and report to your supervisor on different strategies

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Imagine you have been asked to observe one of the counselors at your agency and report to your supervisor on different strategies that the counselor used that you may implement as you work with justice-involved individuals.

Navigate to the University Library and watch the “Counseling with a Mother who has an Out-of-Control Teen: The Essential Counselor” video.

Observe how the counselor interacts and responds to the mother. Take notes about what occurred in the session, what problems arose, and what strategies the counselor used to promote positive behavioral change. Use what you learned from Chapters 4 and 5 to identify key traits that the counselor should be displaying and whether or not you feel the counselor displays those traits. Listen to the interaction between counselor and client. Examine and comment on any issues of countertransference (the feelings/reactions the counselor has toward the client) in the context of the therapeutic relationship.

Write a 525- to 700-word interview observation summary. Consider the following questions:
What is your assessment of the effectiveness of the counselor and the accuracy of her understanding of the client’s issues?
What comments or interventions do you think are therapeutically helpful or not helpful?
How might you have worked differently with the client?
How does this interview demonstrate skills that would be helpful for promoting positive behavioral change with clients within the justice system?