What family issues or support systems may have influenced this person’s learning style and behaviors?

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  1. Select an adult to study (someone who is a prominent person, singer/actor, politician, athlete, or someone in the news)
  2. Prepare a 700-1000 word paper in which assess the following issues:
    1. What family issues or support systems may have influenced this person’s learning style and behaviors?
    2. Select two theories of learning and apply them to the person you selected to study
      1. How does each theory explain their behavior, ideas, and achievements?
      2. Why?
      3. Include in paragraph citations and references

Which do you think is better emotional intelligences or academic intelligence?

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Assignment 1

https://my.tccd.edu/bbcswebdav/pid-6869236-dt-content-rid-33783591_1/xid-33783591_1

  1. Which do you think is better emotional intelligences or academic intelligence?
  2. Why?
  3. Can  you identify which areas of emotional intelligence you are strong in and which areas you need to work on? Please describe.
  4. What approach would you use to work on areas in which you scored lower?

Assignment 2

1. Access this link https://www.psychologytoday.com/

2. Search the site for any topic listed in the text book chapter on Gender and Human Sexuality

3. Select 2 articles to review

4. Provide a summary of what you read (1 paragraph per article)

What aspects of social psychology discussed in your textbook might help explain why someone might become attracted to a harmful cult or terrorist group?

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  • What aspects of social psychology discussed in your textbook might help explain why someone might become attracted to a harmful cult or terrorist group?
  • After watching the video, pretend you have been given a job with the United Nations and you have been asked to work on addressing the conditions conducive to the rise of harmful cults and spread of terrorism.  Given what you now know about the relevant social psychological mechanisms at play, what might be some of the steps you would want to take?

Describe how you would do a needs assessment to determine the need for such a program. Would you use quantitative or qualitative tools? Why?

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Imagine that you are working at an agency that serves victims of domestic violence. You have been asked by the agency’s clinical director to create a trauma-informed care therapy program for victims of domestic violence.

Write a 700-1,050-word essay describing the program you would want to create. Address the following in your essay:

  1. Describe how you would do a needs assessment to determine the need for such a program. Would you use quantitative or qualitative tools? Why?
  2. What tool would you use to measure the outcome of the program? Would you use a quantitative or a qualitative tool? Why?
  3. Research one trauma-informed care intervention you would recommend to the clinical director and evaluate its effectiveness. Discuss its validity and reliability as an intervention. Was the research conducted based on quantitative or qualitative measures?

Include a minimum of three scholarly resources in your essay.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

what would be the most important information to share with your colleagues about that step

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About 15 years ago, before evidence-based practice became a standard to which to aspire, a professor found an article describing a treatment program for substance-abusing African-American women that incorporated their children and aimed to preserve their families. The program was built around principles of African-centered theory. The professor thought the program appeared well designed and heartily urged students to study the article and possibly find ways to imitate the program ideas, if not the program itself. A few years later, the professor, having continued her education, especially in the area of research, searched for a follow-up on the program, perhaps reporting outcomes and evidence of effectiveness. No research evidence on the program appears in the scholarly journals. In fact, no evidence that the program continues to exist at this time has been found. The fact that what appeared to be a promising practice approach did not endure or have the opportunity to benefit from evaluation is unfortunate.

Note: This week you will work as a class to create a plan for evaluating the rite of passage program described in the assigned article. Each member of the class will be assigned one step of the research process:
Research problems and questions
Finding and using existing knowledge
Focused research questions and research hypothesis
Research methods
Sampling issues and options
Measurement
Data acquisition
Data collection instruments
Analyzing data
Disseminating research findings

To prepare for this Discussion, read the Poitier et al. study and then revisit what you have learned about your assigned step of the research process. Consider what would be the most important information to share with your colleagues about that step. Together the class will create a research plan for evaluating the rite of passage program described in the assigned article.

Post an explanation of your assigned step of the research process and how you would complete that step.

Describe the meeting and the major recovery program components you observed during the meeting.

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To gain an understanding of the recovery community, it is important to attend an open meeting of a 12-step group or other group focused on recovery from an identified addiction.

Locate an open recovery meeting in your community (Dallas Texas) or an online recovery meeting that you can attend. It must be an open meeting, meaning not a closed group: outside people are welcome to attend. Just like the experience of a person seeking recovery, it is your responsibility to find a list of meetings and explore to find a meeting or group.

Attend at least one recovery/meeting

Write a 3 page paper that addresses the following questions about your experience:

· Describe the meeting and the major recovery program components you observed during the meeting.

· What was it like for you to engage in this experience? What did you notice about yourself in the process? How does your spirituality influence your experience of the group?

· What do you believe to be the most important take-home message from the experience? What, specifically, from this experiential exercise will inform your work as a therapist?

· What, if anything, was the most surprising part of the experience?

· What would you want to tell someone, who may minimally understand addiction and recovery, about your experience? Consider what you may share with a future client.

· Include any additional personal or professional reflections. Tie your experience to what you have been reading about and learning in class.

Format your paper according to APA guidelines.

Consider the events from the past week of your life. How does the ability to read, write, and communicate effectively affect our behaviors, actions, and knowledge development?

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Prior to beginning this discussion, select a peer-reviewed, scholarly article from the Ashford University Library on a particular aspect of language acquisition studied from a psychological perspective.

  • Part 1: As you were reading this week, what vocabulary was used that was unfamiliar to you or might be to your peers? Identify three to five words from this week’s content and research each word in the context of learning and cognition. Explain, in your own words, what each word means and how it is used in the context of learning and cognition.
  • Part 2: Based on the week’s discourse and content, you will access the Ashford University Library and research one scholarly article pertaining to language acquisition published within the last ten years. Provide a summary explanation of the findings in the context of your article. What implications should scholars consider based on this information? Support your explanation utilizing your course sources and your researched article.
  • Part 3: Consider the events from the past week of your life. How does the ability to read, write, and communicate effectively affect our behaviors, actions, and knowledge development? Describe one personal real-life example of an occurrence that indicates the possible consequences when language acquisition is not well-developed or when language development creates boundaries, such as educational or employment opportunities. As you share this information, consider and apply the professional standards found in the APA Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct.

Your initial post should be at least 500 words in length and should establish your understanding of the content, apply appropriate methods of ethical practices, and exhibit appropriate scaffolding of personal experience to the week’s content.

review and respond to a therapy session conducted by a professional counselor using one of the following theoretical frameworks: existential, Gestalt, or person-centered.

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Review the following course materials:

  1. Gestalt Therapy
  2. Person-Centered Therapy
  3. Existential Therapy

In this assignment, you will review and respond to a therapy session conducted by a professional counselor using one of the following theoretical frameworks: existential, Gestalt, or person-centered.

Select one therapy session (Gestalt, person-centered, or existential).

Utilize the course material, in addition to the textbook, for the theoretical framework selected. Think about the techniques being used in the therapy session for your selected theoretical framework.

Create a 7-10-slide presentation about the selected session.  Include or address the following in your presentation:

  1. A title slide
  2. The therapeutic techniques used by the counselor
  3. Was the approach successful and why?
  4. A reference slide with a minimum of two scholarly resources

Include speaker notes below each content-related slide that represent what would be said if giving the presentation in person. Expand upon the information included in the slide and do not simply restate it. Please ensure the speaker notes include a minimum of 50 words.

While GCU style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and in-text citations and references should be presented using GCU documentation guidelines, which can be found in the GCU Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin. Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.

Explain how your plan could be adapted to fit the needs of different socioeconomic or ethnic groups.

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During early adulthood, people begin make important life decisions in three areas: career, family, and health. Young adults establish patterns of nutrition and physical activity that can have either positive or negative effects on their physical development in later stages of adulthood. They also begin to make decisions about what career path to follow. At some point during early adulthood, individuals also choose either to marry or remain single, and decide whether or not to start a family. Consider the following example:

Jeff is 23 years old. He recently graduated from college with a business degree and took a managerial position with a midsize company. He likes his coworkers, but often finds himself bored with his work. Although he was active in college, recently he has gained about 10 pounds due to his sedentary job and lack of time to exercise. Jeff broke up with his college girlfriend after graduation, and since then he has dated a few different women, but hasn’t had another serious relationship. Jeff wonders what the remainder of his 20’s and his 30’s will bring.

Based on your reading, prepare a PowerPoint presentation that would help individuals like Jeff set goals related to career, health, and family. The presentations should discuss the relationship between lifestyle choices and health risks. In addition, it should address how factors like personality and attachment may influence both career- and family-related goals. Finally, address diversity in the presentation. Explain how your plan could be adapted to fit the needs of different socioeconomic or ethnic groups.

Your PowerPoint presentation should include an introduction, a conclusion, and detailed speaker’s notes. Include your references on one slide.

Develop a 6-slide presentation in PowerPoint format with speaker’s notes. Apply APA standards to citation of sources.

In order for this assignment to be compatible with TurnItIn, you will need to save your PowerPoint presentation as an Adobe PDF file. To do this, open your presentation in Microsoft PowerPoint. Choose “Save As” from the File menu, then choose “Adobe PDF”. Before saving your file, click on the Options button and check the box next to “Convert Speaker Notes.” Now choose to save your file. Your speaker notes will be included in your PDF file that you will submit for this assignment.

Note: If your version of Microsoft PowerPoint does not have the option to include speaker notes, you will need to submit a Microsoft Word document that contains all information from your presentation, including the speaker notes.

what you might do for yourself if you were your career counselor and why

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Personal Career Development Portfolio

Students will create a Career Development Portfolio for themselves.  The information that is presented in the portfolio must be discussed within the context of one of the theories we have learned throughout this class.  The portfolio will include the following sections

  • Demographic information
  • 350-700 words (or 1-2 pages) of your career development concerns and why they are concerns (resume development, life planning, education, etc.) and what strategies you have for skill development
  • 350-700 words (or 1-2 pages) of any cultural implications you need to consider and why (value of career, privileges, barriers, generational values
  • Select 2-3 types of assessments and discuss the results and implications (include a copy of these in an appendix)
  • Select two possible career paths.  Be sure to use the resources available to discuss the specifics about the course, including: salary, work schedule, daily work tasks, career path.  Cite any resources you used.
  • Write up a 700-1750 word (or 2-5 page) summary of the information and what it means to you.  Please include specifics about what you learned, what you see you need to do, and how you will use this information going forward.  Finally, include what you might do for yourself if you were your career counselor and why.  Bring in information from what you have learned this term.  Be sure to cite your resources.

Attach any assessments or activities you talk about or completed, as well as a cover letter and resume.

Point Value: 23 Points

—————————————————————————————————MY INTRODUCTION MIGHT HELP:     MY INTRO:Yvette Lunday 3/22/2016 6:01:04 PM

Hello!  My fellow Classmates! My name is Yvette Lunday and I am 62  years young, smile!. I have already raised 4 sons, and am an ex-military wife who has traveled around the world. I am currently residing in the Northern part of Alabama with my youngest son,  and the rest of my sons are all grown up, and living their own personal lives with their families.  I have a job history of over 25 years-plus, working with the mentally disable and helping others in need as a; Professional School Bus driver, Family Support Worker, Substance Abuse Counselor, Residential Counselor, Private Duty, Home Health Aide, Certified Nurses Aide, and a House Manager & Supervisor. So,I decided that at the ripe age of 56 years old, it was time for; me – to – do “ME”!  So, I went back to college and I received my Associate Degree in Business Management here at Ashford University 4 years ago in 2014 and received my Bachelors Degree in July, 2016—– in Health & Human Services. I am not quite sure the exact professional field I will be in at the moment, but I do know,  that it will be pertaining to “Trouble Young Teenage Girls” and “Me” directing them in the “Right-Direction” of Life! I will be a professional Counselor or Social Worker as I continue my education here at Ashford University, and aiming towards my future goal with my “Masters Degree”  in Psychology which I am currently working on now.I should have completed by Oct. 2018 at the age of 62 years old. My motto ” It-Is-Never-Too-Late”!——————————————————————————————————————————————– Hello! My fellow Classmates! My name is Yvette Lunday and it is a pleasure to meet you all!. I am now 61 years young and pursuing my dreams and goals that I had envisioned for myself during my younger years. I started to attend college when I was fresh out of High School at the ripe young age of 18 years old. Although, after 3 months in college, I decided to drop out and marry my military husband and travel the world with him. I did not regret this once and a lifetime opportunity to travel and see the world. I have visited several Countries such as France, Spain, Holland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia, Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Bahamas, Jamacia, Grand Cayman Islands just to mention a few, smile. ————————————————————————- Hello! My Fellow Classmates! Nice to meet you! My name is Yvette and I am 61 years young, smile. I am now residing in the northern part of Alabama but originally from Up-State New York. I am a mother of four sons, who are all now grown up and gone now. Furthermore, I am a ex-military wife and a daughter of soldier, which has enabled  me to travel to many different places around the world. I have also, been working in this field of Human Services  for over 25 years now. Since, I had already raised my family, one day I decided that, it was time for me, to do me! So, I decided to come back to college at the ripe young age of 56, and have already received my AA degree back in Aug.,2014 in “Business Management”  at Ashford University, and then my BA degree in “Human Services”, which was last Oct. 2016. I am now working on my MA Degree in “Psychology” which I intend on completing by Oct. 2018 by the Grace of God!  My motto is that, “It is never too late to accomplish your goals” 🙂 Good Luck and God Bless to all of you here at the University of the Rockies.