Day: December 23, 2019

After reading Chapter 16, choose one or more of the questions below that resonates with you, using your own words to share with the class.

• Who seeks therapy and what are the goals of therapy?
•  How is the success of psychotherapy measured?
•  What are some of the factors that must be considered to provide optimal treatment?
•  What psychological approaches are used to treat abnormal behavior?
•  What roles do social values and culture play in psychotherapy?
•  What biological approaches to treating abnormal behavior are available?

Post a total of 3 substantive responses over 2 separate days for full participation. This includes your initial post and 2 replies to other students. 

In order for you to be an informed voter, you must be familiar with the candidates who you are going to vote for, and the issues that will appear on the ballot. This requires a little bit of research. For this project you’ll be researching and preparing a presentation about your local representative in Congress.

Follow these steps:

• Choose a senator from your state (Texas), or your district’s (District 9 or 22) representative to the House of Representatives. Remember, we are examining the national level Congress, not your state representatives.
• Research and find information about this individual. You’ll want information about his/her biographical background, level of education, previous career, other political offices held, political party, voting record, stance of major issues, Congressional committees he/she is part of, etc.
• Create a PowerPoint presentation or a website with this information. Be sure to include graphics and color to make the presentation visually appealing as well as informative.

  https://multimedia.phoenix.edu/cms/brochure-builder 

Create an educational brochure to be displayed at a correctional institution’s library to help educate inmates or offenders on the importance of medication compliance when used as treatment. Include the following:

• Describe the issues related to using medication as treatment in the criminal justice system.
• Explain how medication works as treatment.
• Describe the issues related to medication compliance in the criminal justice system. Not only failures to follow medical instructions, dosage schedule, but consequences of failure to follow medical instructions.

HINT: The brochure should be written for the inmate reader, not clinical professionals.

Prior to beginning work on this assignment, review the Example Research Proposal provided in the course materials. Note that all instructor feedback from your previous activities should be applied in preparing your proposal.

Your Research Proposal is a six- to seven-page plan for a new study on your research topic. Incorporate at least four scholarly/peer-reviewed journal articles in addition to the course text to support your proposed study.

Include the following sections and content in your paper:

• Introduction – Introduce the research topic, explain why it is important, and present your research question and/or hypothesis.
• Literature Review – Summarize the current state of knowledge on your topic by citing the methods and findings of at least two previous research studies. State whether your proposed study is a replication of a previous study or a new approach using methods that have not been used before.
• Methods
  • Design – Indicate whether your proposed study is qualitative or quantitative in approach. Select one of the research designs you have studied in the course, and indicate whether it is experimental or non-experimental. Evaluate why this design is appropriate for your research topic. Cite the textbook and one other source on research methodology to support your choice.
  • Participants – Identify the sampling strategy you would use to recruit participants for your study. Estimate the number of participants you would need and explain why your sampling method is appropriate for your research approach.
  • Procedure/Measures – Apply the scientific method by describing the steps you would use in carrying out your study. Indicate whether you will use any kind of test, questionnaire, or measurement instrument. Cite the source of any instruments to be used.
  • Data Analysis – Describe the statistical techniques (if quantitative) or the analysis procedure (if qualitative) you plan to use to analyze the data. Cite at least one source on the chosen analysis technique.
  • Ethical Issues – Analyze the impact of ethical concerns on your proposed study, such as confidentiality, deception, informed consent, potential harm to participants, conflict of interest, IRB approval, etc. Explain how you would address these concerns.
• Conclusion – Briefly summarize the major points of your research plan and reiterate why your proposed study is needed.

The Research Proposal

• Must be six- to seven- double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center (Links to an external site.)’s APA Style (Links to an external site.)
• Must include a separate title page with the following:
  • Title of proposal
  • Student’s name
  • Course name and number
  • Instructor’s name
  • Date submitted

For further assistance with the formatting and the title page, refer to APA Formatting for Word 2013 (Links to an external site.).

• Must utilize academic voice. See the Academic Voice (Links to an external site.) resource for additional guidance.
• Must use at least four scholarly/peer-reviewed journal articles in addition to the course text.
  • The Scholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources (Links to an external site.) table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment.
• Must document any information used from sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center’s Citing Within Your Paper (Links to an external site.)
• Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. See the Formatting Your References List (Links to an external site.) resource in the Ashford Writing Center for specifications.

If you are a BS in Health Care Administration student, this assignment will be your portfolio assignment for HLT-305.

Physician Aid-in-Dying is a practice that is legal in a number of states within the United States due to the passing of the Death With Dignity Act. Additional reading is present on this legislation in the topic readings. Please make sure to research this topic prior to beginning this assignment, as you will need to apply this research to your paper.

Case Study: Physician Aid-in-Dying in Portland, Oregon
A 35-year-old male named Zachary Davis has lived in and been a legal resident of Portland for almost 20 years. In the fall of 2018 he began having terrible headaches. After months of suffering with these, Zachary made the decision to see his primary care provider. His provider decided that scans should be done to rule out anything serious before beginning treatment for what he thought was probably migraine headaches. Zachary had the routine scans and at 5:00 p.m. he received a call from his doctor with the results. Zachary was diagnosed with advanced stage glioblastoma multiforme brain cancer, one of the deadliest brain tumors with a very low survival rate. Zachary immediately began aggressive treatment. After 12 weeks of treatment, they saw no improvement in his condition. At that time, his doctors sat down with him to discuss options. He was given approximately 6 months to live, giving him the dreaded diagnosis of being terminally ill. They discussed hospice care and other end-of-life options. After surveying the options, Zachary expressed the wish to participate in Physician Aid-In-Dying.

Considering all aspects of the Death With Dignity legislation that has been passed into law in Oregon, consider the following in a paper of 1,000-1,250 words: 

1. Does Zachary meet the requirements to take part in this practice? Why? Be detailed and specific in your evaluation of this practice. 
2. Considering Death With Dignity legislation, is mental health a component that is evaluated and considered? Do you support this aspect of the legislation? 
3. As we near end of life it is often that a surrogate is put in place for our medical decisions. How does this work with the practice of Physician Aid-in-dying? 
4. What do you anticipate seeing in the future with this controversial practice in health care?

Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

What are the three most important themes in Plato’s account of the interior of the Cave?  Please identify and describe with quotations from the text.  Finally, show how each of these themes is relevant to life today.

10 slide power point presentation on career development for sales manager

 

Your submission will be checked for originality, plagiarism is not permitted and a full refund will be requested for work that is more than a 25% match to published work. Please cite all references per APA guidelines.

 

  

Create a PowerPoint presentation outlining a career development program for the salesman who needs manager training to be promoted to sales manager. In your PowerPoint, please include the elements below.

 

§ Describe skills needed to be successful in the desired role.

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§ Discuss three to four training and developmental interventions needed to gain the skills to be successful in the desired role, and provide a timeframe of completion for each intervention. For example, a job rotation program should be completed in 60 to 90 days, and an apprenticeship should be completed in 2 years.

 

§ (the field has expanded to include various modalities such as e-Learning, video blogs, online communities, and mobile learning to help employees learn on-the-job.  In addition, one sees a plethora of new job roles such as learning experience designer, learning technologist, and content curator emerging in the field every day.)

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§ Explain the outcomes of each developmental intervention. For example, “Through this job rotation exercise, you will be able to effectively manage a virtual team.”

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Your presentation must be at least 10 slides in length, not counting the title and reference slides. You are required to use at least one outside source and to utilize the notes section within PowerPoint.  

 

Watch the video “The Real Eve” on youtube and answer this question thoroughly:

 

  Students should be able to explain how mitochondrial DNA has revolutionized our understanding of human evolution and the Out of Africa hypothesis.

The budget is a crucial piece in the logical progression of developing your proposal. Look back at the other key components—needs statement, objectives, goals, methodology, and evaluation—and consider how these pieces must be represented in and supported by the budget. One can see why a funding reviewer might begin by looking at a budget. It should fully, clearly, and succinctly depict the story of the project. The budget narrative expands upon the line items of a budget, offering further explanation of costs and needs, as appropriate.

A sustainability plan explains to funders how you will continue a project after funding has been exhausted. Not only does this plan demonstrate a proactive stance toward your project, but it also provides a funder assurance that its interests will be served beyond the project timeframe.

In preparation for this Discussion, consider the components of your project that you have determined to this point. Review this module’s Learning Resources that focus on the budget, budget narrative, and sustainability plan. Note: You may select one of the two budget formats for your Discussion post: the budget example on pp. 162–163 or use the Sample Budget Worksheet on p. 328 as a guide to develop your budget. 

By Day 3 of Week 5

Post the following to the Discussion board:

• Your Budget, Budget Narrative, and Sustainability Plan.      Include a brief description of your project to provide context to your      colleagues. 

Note: To be respectful of your peers in providing feedback that will be useful to their finalizing their Budget, Budget Justification/Narrative, & Sustainability Plan for Assignment 4, you are encouraged to post your responses to your colleagues by Day 5.

Be sure to support your analysis and conclusions with citations and references in APA format from the Learning Resources and your own research.

References

Gitlin, L. N., & Lyons, K. J. (2014). Successful grant writing: Strategies for health and human service professionals (4th ed.). New York, NY: Springer.

· Chapter 10, “Developing a Budget,” pp. 149–165

· Chapter 11, “Putting It All Together to Create a Budget,” pp. 167–177

· Chapter 12, “Technical Considerations in Budget Development,” pp. 179–181 

· Appendix D, Sample Timeline, Budget Sheets, and Flow Charts, p. 328

Community Tool Box. (n.d.). Writing a grant application for funding. Retrieved December 17, 2017, from http://ctb.ku.edu/en/writing-grant-application

Grant Central Station. (n.d.). Writing a budget narrative. Retrieved June 28, 2017, from http://grant-central-station.com/articles/33

Hansen, M. (2014, January 29). The five key elements of an effective sustainability plan for grants [Blog post]. The Grant Helpers.com. Retrieved from http://www.thegranthelpers.com/blog/bid/204687/The-Five-Key-Elements-of-an-Effective-Sustainability-Plan-for-Grants

Illinois Department of Human Services. (N.D.) Grant writing tips: Creating a proposal budget. Retrieved from http://www.dhs.state.il.us/page.aspx?item=22085