Category: Psychology homework help

 
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? 

For this week’s assignment, review the Background on the Case of Gwenlocated on pp. 13–18 of your textbook and watch the following videos: Chapter 1: Intake SessionLinks to an external site., Chapter 2: Multicultural PerspectiveLinks to an external site., and Chapter 3: Informed ConsentLinks to an external site.. In an 8- to 10-slide, narrated PowerPoint presentation, provide details to the following bulleted items below:
Identify and describe the key presenting issues for this client.
Discuss some of the major themes as demonstrated by Gwen in the videos.
Describe the characteristics of the counselor as a therapeutic person.

  
THE JENNA HARRIS STORY
Jenna Harris is a 33-year-old Caucasian woman and a single mother of three children; a 16-year-old boy named Jimmy, a 10-year-old boy named Hector, and a 7-year-old girl name Kim. All of the children have different fathers, none of whom Jenna married. Jimmy’s father is Caucasian, Hector’s father is Mexican, and Kim’s father is Korean; Hector and Kim’s fathers are both immigrants. Jimmy loves his siblings, but they perceive that he is treated better than them because he is Caucasian.  Jimmy is popular in school, enjoys playing on the football team, and works part-time after school at the supermarket.  Jenna’s new boyfriend of six months, Sean, who is Caucasian, has recently moved in with her and the children into a two-bedroom house in a rural community in Sussex County. This has caused a conflict especially for Hector who is bright but has recently been demonstrating negative behaviors in school such as failing to follow directions, talking back to his teacher, and picking fights with his peers.  In addition, his grades are beginning to slip. Kim, a quiet child, does not want to go to school because she is often teased on the bus and in school for being “Chinese.” Sometimes Hector gets in trouble for defending and protecting his sister from the teasing and taunting. None of the children have a good relationship with their fathers or their fathers’ families. And, while Hector’s father provides financial support, Kim and Jimmy’s father do not. This has provided economic hardship for Jenna who has had to move the family often to find affordable housing. She sees Sean as a hope for some financial stability since he has a good job as a plumber with a local company. Jenna dropped out of high school when she was pregnant with Hector but completed her GED a few years ago. She works at Wal-Mart as an Associate. 
Directions: Be sure to appropriately integrate at least three social work underpinnings covered in this course and address all nine questions below:
I. Introduction (5 points)
a. Provide information that clearly communicates your understanding of the importance of difference in shaping life experiences and diversity while working with others. (competency 2)
II. Presenting Problem (20)
a. Apply the bio-psychosocial assessment to assess this client.
b. What tool would you use to assess this client? i.e. ecomap, genogram, standardized questionnaire.
c. What is the presenting problem?
III. Conceptual Frameworks (20)
a. Describe two theories you would use to explain the client’s presenting problem?
b. How would you apply this theory to the case?
IV. Cultural Factors (20)
a. What aspects (i.e., cultural structures and values) of this case demonstrate oppression, discrimination and marginalization or create or enhance power and privilege?
b. How do these cultural factors impact the children and adults in this case?
c. How does ethnicity impact the self-esteem and development of the children?
V. Treatment Plan (15)
a. Describe an intervention that would be appropriate for this case.
b. Address the aspects of social justice in this case.
c. What are the strengths of the family and how would you incorporate the family’s strengths in the treatment plan to empower them?
VI. Conclusion (10)
a. Summarize the overall case and intervention of this case in one paragraph.
b. How does your self-awareness help you to eliminate the influence of personal biases and values in working with diverse groups like the family outlined in the case study?
VII. Use of the APA including the demonstration of the mastery of good writing skills (10 points)

For this assignment, students will construct an Annotated Bibliography for ONE of your journal articles utilizing the outline from the Annotated bibliography lecture notes in the Week 5 folder entitled “Sample AB.docx” and “The Difference Between a Bibliography and an Annotated Bibliography”. Please ensure its done in a word document, double spaced, and completed using one page in Times Roman Font.

After viewing the video below, we will have a discussion based on the content of the stages of group counseling. Use the text or other researched material to discuss a counseling approach and techniques that could be used at the stage you decide to address in this discussion question. 

Chapter 5 discussed the ethical and political issues related to social work research. On page 111, there are review examples of ethical situations. Select two, discuss the issue, and at least one remedy to address or avoid an unethical situation.

Matt comes to the attention of the counselor through the employee assistance program at the factory where he works. He was referred because of absenteeism and what his supervisor considered “mood swings.” Matt says that he is having a lot of stress at the plant. He has worked there for 12 years and believes he is good at his job. He says that his boss, who was transferred there from another location two years ago, is giving him a great deal of trouble. The two have had so many conflicts that Matt thinks his job is in jeopardy. Matt says that every morning the boss gets on his back about something. Matt wants to fight back, but he knows that he has to avoid trouble. Recently, he has been spending each morning seething. By the time the lunch break comes, he wants to explode. What he does instead is go to a neighborhood bar with a group of coworkers who have been going to the same place for years. 
Lately, Matt has found that he is drinking more beer than usual at lunchtime. Twice the supervisor said he smelled beer on Matt’s breath in the afternoon. The second time, Matt was declared unfit for duty and sent to the medical office. Most of the time, Matt feels as stressed in the afternoon as he does in the morning. As he puts it, “I can’t wait to get home, put my feet up, smoke a couple of joints, and drink enough beer so I can go to sleep and start the whole thing again the next morning.” Matt is interested in making some changes, because both his job and his marriage are close to being over. He feels limited in what he can do, however, because of his belief that the supervisor is the problem. Given Matt’s situation, select one of the following behavioral interventions you believe to be useful?
a. Identifying high-risk situations and discovering better coping strategies for dealing with them
b. Relaxation training
c. Contingency contracting
d. Assertiveness training