Let’s talk about the pros and cons of assessment for this discussion. Find your name below as either needing to discuss the pros or the cons.
If you are assigned to discuss the pros, your job is to find evidence that supports your argument for the benefits of using assessment procedures in therapeutic work.
If you are assigned to discuss the cons, your job is to find evidence that supports your argument that addresses the drawbacks of using assessment procedures in therapeutic work.
Keep in mind that one side is not more right than the other; both are important to consider. When making decisions in this area, the conscientious practitioner fully examines both the advantages and disadvantages of using assessment in the counseling process (White & Whiston, 2017).
Category: pyschology
Journal Entry of Judith Van Winkle
Creative writing in response to literature is a way for students to respond to literature in a personal way. Creative writing provides a way for students to practice critical thinking and develop a stronger understanding of literary criticism while showing creativity and a bit of their own personalities. For this creative writing assignment, you will do a character analysis to allow you to get inside the mind of one of the characters.”Rip Van Winkle” and “Young Goodman Brown” are told as third-person narratives, not as first-person narratives. The difference is that a third-person narrative presents the characters to us in the words of a narrator rather than from the words of the characters themselves. The story contains descriptions such as Rip Van Winkle did this or Young Goodman Brown said that, but its not as if the characters themselves are telling everything from their perspective. Of course, sometimes they speak in the story, but they do not get to tell the story or what they thinking or feeling. It is up to the reader to determine what the characters might be thinking or feeling. For this assignment, choose one of the following options:(A) Imagine you are Rip Van Winkle’s daughter, Judith, writing a journal entry after her father reappears after 20 years. Try to get into the mind of Judith. Be imaginative and creative. Pretend you are Judith and have just seen your father after he has been missing for 20 years. You will not be retelling the plot of the story; you will be Judith reflecting on the events of the day. In this journal entry you can put down whatever thoughts she might have using absolute frankness and honesty. OR(B) Imagine you are Young Goodman Brown writing a journal entry the day after the events described in the story. Try to get into the mind of Goodman Brown. Be imaginative and creative. Pretend you are Goodman Brown and have just experienced the events described in the story. You will not be retelling the plot of the story; you will be Goodman Brown interpreting and reflecting on the events of the day. In this journal entry you can put down whatever thoughts Goodman Brown might have using absolute frankness and honesty. Criteria:
Write a minimum 400 words in paragraph form, using Times New Roman 12-point font (or similar) with double spacing. A title page is not required.
Submit as a Microsoft Word attachment on the submission page (click title above). Assignments not submitted in this way may be returned to you ungraded.
Initial Post: Option 1 – The Role of Social Media in Contemporary Presidential Campaigns
Read/review the following resources for this activity:
Textbook: Chapters 5, 6 and 10
Lesson: Read this Week’s Lesson which is located in the Modules tab
Initial Post: minimum of 2 scholarly sources (must include your textbook for one of the sources). Follow-Up Post: minimum of 1 scholarly source for your Follow-Up Post.
Initial Post Instructions
For the initial post, respond to one of the following options, and label the beginning of your post indicating either Option 1 or Option 2:
Option 1: List the ways in which contemporary presidential campaigns have used social media as a campaign tool. Do you consider social media as a successful tool? Explain your answer. Do you see social media as an unsuccessful tool? Explain your answer and provide examples.
Option 2: There are numerous discussions involving the Electoral College. There are some people that want to abolish the electoral college while others want to keep it. What do you think? Keep the electoral college or abolish it? Explain the reasons for your choice.
Be sure to make connections between your ideas and conclusions and the research, concepts, terms, and theory we are discussing this week.
Ethics in Participant Recruitment: Coercion and Informed Consent
Discuss the ethics involved in the study using the ethical framework presented in your reading.
A graduate research assistant strongly encourages a study participant to stay in an experiment by informing her that the professor gets very annoyed when students drop from his studies.
Challenges Faced by Therapists Treating Adult Patients with Borderline Personality Disorder
Challenges faced by therapists when treating adult patients with borderline personality disorder: The effects of countertransference on the therapeutic process
Analyzing “The Power of Vulnerability” by Brené Brown
Watch https://youtu.be/XBT7WRdDDx8?si=OoPXsmOFqnBwhnWz
Please answer the questions below in a narrative form. Each answer should be a complete paragraph.
1. What was the main point of the video/podcast?
2. Provide 2 major points discussed and describe those points.
3. What did you learn from the video/podcast?
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for Anxiety Disorders
Topic for this assignment:
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for anxiety disorders
Write a five- to seven-page paper in which you describe the methodology, design, and data management tools you plan to use in your research proposal. Define the process from the selection of participants (and stakeholders, as applicable) through data collection to data analysis, including any limitations and assumptions. Provide a detailed plan to collect and analyze data and disseminate findings. Include all ethical considerations. Your paper should give a complete description of the entire process used to conduct the study. If your proposal involves implementation of interventions, then include a program evaluation component that describes your research design.
In your submission, be sure to include the following critical elements:
State the chosen research method or methods used.
Are they qualitative, quantitative, or both?
Provide support of method selection. Discuss why the chosen method or methods are best for the research topic or evaluation of the intervention.
Justify your choice of method, design, sampling, data collection, analysis, and overall process with logic and evidence.
Assess the strengths and weaknesses of the research design. Explain why it is the best design for the proposed study or evaluation. Support your explanation with logic and specific evidence.
Select valid and reliable data-collection tools for the research questions (and research design). If you develop data-collection tools, explain how validity and reliability will be determined.
Support the selection of the population and sampling procedures.
Describe data collection. Describe the process used to collect data from recruitment to consent to data collection. Include ethical considerations and mitigation. Include how you will handle the following:
Recruiting and managing study participants
Eliminating or mitigating any chance of harm to participants
Data handling, storage, and access
Handling consent, management of data, and requests to withdraw
Protecting confidentiality for the entire life of the data
Explain the proposed data-analysis process, including the following:
Any transcription and transformation of data for analysis
Use of tools, including software, for analysis
Select and provide justification for use of statistical analysis and/or processes for qualitative analysis.
Discuss methods for ensuring reliability of qualitative analysis if applicable.
Explain the limitations and assumptions connected to the research.
Identify potential limitations and delimiters to be used.
Describe proposed dissemination of findings. Propose how findings will be disseminated to relevant stakeholders, users, and interested parties.
Include any plans for presentation and publication of material.
Fully explain the ethical considerations that apply to the proposal or intervention.
Identify the ethical considerations associated with the individuals, communities, and organizations most likely to be affected by the identified gap or problem.
Articulation of Response: Ensure the submission has no major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, or syntax.
The Influence of Social Psychology and Behavioral Ethics on Prosocial Behavior and Close Relationships
The Good, Bad, and Loving
Write a paper in which you apply theories and concepts from social psychology related to prosocial behavior, rejection, and close relationships. You will also be required to apply behavioral ethics and critical thinking concepts. Successful practitioners understand the dynamics of various relationships. Their understanding of what effects a successful relationship enables them to support positive and loving relationships for their clients.
The Impact of Employment and Unemployment: Leveraging Psychology for National Development
Discuss the advantage and disadvantage of employment and unemployment ,indicating how psychology can play a role in minimizing the negatives as a way of contributing to national development
The Impact of Operation Prevention Public Service Announcement
First, I want to preface this by saying that I found this when searching for ideas on public service announcements. The YouTube video used to draw people in and check out their site caught my attention. That pull led to my decision on the PSA used for this discussion post. The public service announcement that I will be focusing on is Operation Prevention. This is the website () centered on the public service announcement, but this is the video () that led me to check it out.
The two different routes to persuasion are the central route and the peripheral route. With the central route, we can be persuaded by systematically processing the information contained in the persuasive messages (Branscombe & Baron, 2017, p. 171). When using this route, the message can be changed based on the argument, whether by the evidence provided or research shown about a certain topic. There is also the peripheral route: attitude change depends on presence of persuasion cues, which trigger heuristic processing (Branscombe & Baron, 2017, p. 171). This route relies more on cues that bring about certain aspects within a person, such as emotions. For this PSA, both forms are being used. From the central route, the site has links to different resources for various audiences. They have resources for parents, schools, the workplace, and even culture-based. Depending on the resources, there are plenty of options for people to click through, searching for a way to prevent or stop someone from substance misuse. One section, the workplace link, has modules to complete to gain better insight into the opioid crisis. As seen with the video link that caught my attention, this is where the peripheral route comes in. On the site, there are videos, especially aimed at students, as they probably figured this might be a better route to connect with them than statistics. This PSA offers a variety of options, and it was interesting to look around to see some of the resources.
From what can be seen, the PSA tries to cover a vast range of variables, trying to meet the needs of people looking at the issue of substance misuse. This could be because they are suffering or might know someone dealing with it. I think the most important variable is age, and the PSA shows this by offering resources for different age groups. There are resources for parents and students, but they also have some for the workplace. By accommodating different age groups, a wider audience is being reached, especially since substance misuse can impact many individuals. Even from the communicator aspect, there are resources where parents could talk to their kids, or a job could talk to their employees about the issue. This shows that age is a huge factor in this PSA, trying to cover their bases with the resources offered so they can help more people. As for the least important, I would probably say gender and personality. For gender, the PSA is hitting both groups, and there is no real focus or favor towards a specific gender. The videos have people from all walks of life, showing how anyone could be impacted by substance misuse. This leaves me feeling that gender is not an important variable in this PSA. Just as there is no real focus on personality, proving this variable is not that important either.
Substance misuse is a global problem, which the site for this PSA should remember. While it can switch to Spanish, it should also offer other languages, making it possible to use worldwide. Even though there is a section for culture-based resources, a need to expand in multiple areas should happen, especially if you want to reach more people. While it has resources for elementary and middle school kids, there are other grade levels and even adults who might find resources on the subject useful. Under the culture-based section, there is a blurb talking about Native and non-Native students, which is great, especially on the Native aspect. However, the world is full of other cultures, ethnicities, and religions that could also be focused on. Once again, this circles back to reaching a wider audience, allowing more people to obtain the help they might need for themselves or someone they care about. The PSA is on the right track, but they do need to expand their culture-based section or create a new one to make it more welcoming to others. This is something they should keep in mind, especially if they want to be a success on a global scale. During my quick look at the PSA, there is potential and could prove useful for people searching for information about substance misuse. Question for the class: regarding the two different persuasion routes, do you think they fit more with a specific age range or that either route could work if done correctly? For example, do you feel the peripheral route might work better with teens than the central route?