Category: Psychology homework help

Continue to work on your Literature Review (what you started in Milestone #6). 
If you have finished the body sections of your review, this draft should include a sample of your Introduction and Purpose and Conclusion sections. 
If you are not yet done with the body, this milestone should build on the body before you can move onto the Introduction and Purpose and Conclusion sections. 
Again, this is considered a draft of your literature review. Therefore, it does not need to be complete. It does, however, need to show growth since Milestone #6. 

 
Students will:
Analyze neurodevelopmental disorders
Analyze neurodevelopmental disorders’ contribution to criminal behavior
Analyze forensic psychology implications of neurodevelopmental disorders
Apply concepts of forensic psychology decision-making to professional practice 

 If you were a professional providing information on an area of Prenatal development, antepartum, the birth process, newborns, or postpartum (pick one), what information would you share with your client? 
Remember to INFORM with detail. 
at least 3 academic sources (APA format)
At least 300 words

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 “Does the end justify the means?” Do the advancements in medical science outweigh the atrocities that resulted in these discoveries? Two books are more obvious as they address actions from World War-2 with German and Japanese medical experiment units. The third may be more difficult to draw this line as it is a case from our own US History.  I look forward to hearing your opinions! 

 
One trend in neuropsychology is the use of computerized neuropsychological tests. Find a peer-reviewed journal article with the topic of computerized neuropsychological tests. 
 Provide a brief synopsis of the article.   
If you wanted to use a neuropsychological test for dissertation, what considerations should you take into account?

 
Review this week’s Learning Resources and consider the insights they provide about assessing and diagnosing anxiety, obsessive-compulsive, and trauma- and stressor-related disorders.
Download the Comprehensive Psychiatric Evaluation Template, which you will use to complete this Assignment. Also review the Comprehensive Psychiatric Evaluation Exemplar to see an example of a completed evaluation document. 
By Day 1 of this week, select a specific video case study to use for this Assignment from the Video Case Selections choices in the Learning Resources. View your assigned video case and review the additional data for the case in the “Case History Reports” document, keeping the requirements of the evaluation template in mind.
Consider what history would be necessary to collect from this patient.
Consider what interview questions you would need to ask this patient.
Identify at least three possible differential diagnoses for the patient.
BY DAY 7 OF WEEK 4
Complete and submit your Comprehensive Psychiatric Evaluation, including your differential diagnosis and critical-thinking process to formulate primary diagnosis.
Incorporate the following into your responses in the template:
Subjective: What details did the patient provide regarding their chief complaint and symptomology to derive your differential diagnosis? What is the duration and severity of their symptoms? How are their symptoms impacting their functioning in life? 
Objective: What observations did you make during the psychiatric assessment?  
Assessment: Discuss the patient’s mental status examination results. What were your differential diagnoses? Provide a minimum of three possible diagnoses with supporting evidence, listed in order from highest priority to lowest priority. Compare the DSM-5-TR diagnostic criteria for each differential diagnosis and explain what DSM-5-TR criteria rules out the differential diagnosis to find an accurate diagnosis. Explain the critical-thinking process that led you to the primary diagnosis you selected. Include pertinent positives and pertinent negatives for the specific patient case.
Reflection notes: What would you do differently with this client if you could conduct the session over? Also include in your reflection a discussion related to legal/ethical considerations (demonstrate critical thinking beyond confidentiality and consent for treatment!), health promotion and disease prevention taking into consideration patient factors (such as age, ethnic group, etc.), PMH, and other risk factors (e.g., socioeconomic, cultural background, etc.).

 
Please use this forum to discuss the following videos Why Does It Take So Long to Grow Up in Today’s World? (11:18), Refusing to Settle: The Quarter-Life Crisis (16:13), and How To Choose a Partner Wisely (5:06)
Your post should be a minimum of 100 words and include: 1) your overall reaction to each video (do you agree? disagree? why?) and 2) at least one thing that stood out to you from each of the videos (why did this stand out to you?).

To prepare for this Assignment:
Finalize your Parts 1, 2, and the Annotated Bibliography of your Major Assignment 1.
Then 
Submit Parts 1, 2, and your Annotated Bibliography section of your Major Assignment 1. 

To prepare for this Discussion:
Review the Guest, Bunce, and Johnson article; the Yob and Brewer article; and the Learning Resources related to sampling and saturation for this week.
Prepare a critique of the sampling strategy used by Yob and Brewer (n.d.). Include the following your critique:
The purpose of the study
Research questions
Site selection
The type of purposeful sampling strategy the researchers applied. 
An alternative sampling strategy that the researchers could have considered. Explain your choice in terms of how the strategy is consistent with their research purpose and criteria for selecting cases.
Provide a data saturation definition and evaluate the work of the researchers in this article regarding their efforts to achieve data saturation. Note what the researchers could have done differently to convince you that the relevant and important themes emerged.
Be sure to support your main post and response post with reference to the week’s Learning Resources and other scholarly evidence in APA style.

 Evaluate the properties of psychometric assessments  
 
What are some statistical concepts you found to be relevant to psychological assessments? Why are they important to consider? How are they used to interpret psychological assessment data? 
What is a major benefit of standardized scores? Are standardized scores appropriate for all types of scores? Why or why not? 
Why is it important to evaluate the reliability and validity of a psychological test? 
What methods do you find to be most effective in establishing reliability and validity?