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Assignment 1: Mood Disorders and Life Stages

Click to download transcriptReview the two cases. Based on the information you learned from your assigned weekly readings from your textbook, respond to the following:

• Which of the persons may be more prone to a mood disorder? Apply the most current DSM criteria.
• What else would you need to know to diagnose a mood disorder? Apply the most current DSM criteria.
• What are the primary causal factors of mood disorders?
• If either of the persons were to be treated for a disorder, what are some of the treatment strategy risks or consequences?
• Does the given life stage (childhood, adolescence, adulthood, old age) of the person impact your understanding of the causal factors or treatment strategy?

Write your initial response in 1–2 paragraphs. If you refer to research information, cite sources applying APA standards.

By Saturday, June 17, 2017, post your response to the appropriate Discussion Area. Through Wednesday, June 21, 2017, review and comment on at least two peers’ responses.

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Assignment 2: Mock Individual Assessment (Rough Draft)

Create a mock forensic assessment report based on a patient in a selected vignette. Provide your diagnostic impressions based on the DSM-5 criteria. 

For this assignment you are to:

• • Improve your interview and referral questions for the case vignette you selected in M1 Assignment 3.

Use the case vignette you selected in M1 Assignment 3 for this assignment.

Next, create and document a set of mock interview questions and potential referral questions to ask your client and yourself. You can determine the questions in relation to the case vignette that you choose.

You might also want to consider some of the example referral questions listed below.

Analyze all the information provided in the case vignette and begin to formulate a hypothesis as to why the individual needs referral.

Example Referral Questions:

• • • As a forensic mental health professional, what factors need to be considered in your psychological testing for the forensic assessment report?
    • What behavioral observations do you make about the client by reading the case vignette?
    • What are your assessment options in working with the client?
    • What standards and accepted psychological tests might you apply to your client in forensic settings? Select from the instruments you researched in M3 Assignment 2 RA.
    • How will you recognize and evaluate your client’s offender behaviors associated with malingering and deception?
    • What theoretical orientation do you want to use in this case for your treatment recommendations?
    • What is the case scenario you have selected?
    • What is the reason for referral?
    • What is the purpose of the forensic assessment and report?
    • What is the nature of the problem presented in your selected case vignette?
    • What is the context in which the forensic assessment report will be used?
    • What is the background of your client? What are the symptoms displayed by your client and the significance they have in this case?
    • What is the mental status of your client? Be sure to elaborate on every major component addressed in the mental status examination.
    • What interview type and approach did you use with your client?
    • What tests are appropriate to use in your forensic assessment report? Identify one intelligence test, one objective personality test, and one projective test.
    • What collateral information will you use in the process of the evaluation?
    • How will you present your impressions of the client?
  • Write a Forensic Mental Health Professional Individual Assessment Report.

Use the Forensic Mental Health Professional Individual Assessment Report template (you can download the template from this link).

Evaluate and interpret the information provided to you in the case vignette that you have selected in M1 Assignment 3. Synthesize the information you collected to create a Forensic Mental Health Professional Individual Assessment Report. Your findings should be in a report format.

In a 10- to 12-page report, include only the following components:

• • • Reason for Referral: Explain the objective of your case vignette analysis, clearly bringing out the aspects or reasons that motivated you to carry out the study.
    • Presentation: Create mock interview data and collateral information (you are to identify the questions to ask in the interview). Provide a synopsis of the interview. Provide data to support the mental status of your client, based on your forensic assessment report and the mental status components you have identified.
    • Current Life Situation and Background Information: Explain the problem provided in your selected case vignette using the interview and mental status data. How does the data relate to the background of your client and your behavioral observations?
    • Objective Testing: Identify the assessment instruments you would recommend to evaluate the client and explain the rationale for your recommendations. Describe the objective tests you have selected and their use. How did you apply these tests to your selected case vignette? Based on your study, what is your analysis of the symptoms displayed by your client? What ethical and multicultural issues do you need to address? You will apply what you have learned from M3 Assignment 2 RA into this section.
    • Provide your diagnostic impressions based on DSM-5 criteria. What is your principal diagnosis? What is your secondary diagnosis? Are there other conditions that may be the focus of clinical attention to consider?
    • Conclusion and Recommendations: What is your hypothesis based on the mental status examination, the interview, personality tests, and symptoms analysis? Explain your hypothesis and substantiate it, using instances from your case study. Discuss your results with conclusions and recommendations.

The final Forensic Mental Health Professional Individual Assessment Report should contain all the assigned components and the corresponding information.

Your final deliverables for this module are:

• Selected case vignette
• List of interview/referral questions
• Assessment template
• Final assessment report

Your report should be approximately of 12–15 pages.

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When do you use a one-tailed test? When do you use a two-tailed test? How is SPSS used to perform the calculations needed for each? Just need 125 words

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A six page essay for sleep talk, sleep walking, and insomnia. The paper will be dedicated to research and understanding of the topic

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“Innate” factors may be considered as the “raw material” of individual possibilities. Environmental factors can be enablers or detractors of the innate factors.

This is the “Nurture vs. Nature” debate that has been studied through various methods. It has evolved into an understanding of the interactions between our innate characteristics – the raw material, if you like – and the environment in which we are placed – social, economic, geographical. All of them influence our development, and none can really be considered a deterministic constraint.

That means we can use innate factors to overcome environmental constraints and use environment conditions to enhance desirable innate factors.

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Group Influence

This assignment will give you experience observing and interacting with people outside of the classroom. It has been designed to provide you with the opportunity to develop skills, synthesize knowledge, and integrate learning in a real-world setting. This goal is accomplished by challenging you to physically attend and observe a group.

Note: Social and family events, religious services, classes, court proceedings, lectures, and sporting events are not acceptableevents for the purpose of this assignment.

Purpose: To provide you with an opportunity to experience a group setting and analyze how the presence of others substantially influences the behaviors of its members through social facilitation.

Observe a group discussing a topic of interest, such as a focus group, a community public assembly, a department meeting at your workplace, or local support group.

Study how the group members interact and influence one another.

Analyze how the group behaviors and communication patterns influence social facilitation.

Integrate your findings with evidence-based literature from journal articles, the course text, and additional scholarly sources. The literature should be about group patterns, not about the content of the meeting.

Process: You will participate as a guest at an interest group meeting in your community to gather data for a qualitative research paper. Once you have located an interest group, contact stakeholders, and explain the purpose of your inquiry. After you receive permission to participate, you will schedule a date to attend the meeting; at which time you will observe the members and document the following for your analysis:  

·         How were the people arranged in the physical environment (layout of room and seating arrangement)?

·         What is the composition of the group, in terms of number of people, age, sex, ethnicity, and so on?

·         What are the group’s purpose, mission, and goals?

·         What is the duration of the group (short- or long-term)? Explain.

·         Did the group structure its discussion around an agenda, program, or rules of order?

·         Describe the structure of the group. How is the group organized?

·         Who are the primary facilitators of the group?

·         What subject or issues did the group members examine during the meeting?

·         What types of information did members exchange in their group?

·         What were the group’s norms, roles, status hierarchy, or communication patterns?

·         What communication patterns illustrated if the group was unified or fragmented? Explain.

·         Did the members share a sense of identity with one another (characteristics of the group, similarities, interests, philosophy, and so on)?

·         Was there any indication that members might be vulnerable to groupthink? Why or why not? 

·         In your opinion, how did the collective group behaviors influence individual attitudes and the group’s effectiveness? Provide your overall analysis.

Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper incorporating your analysis with evidence to substantiate your conclusion.

Explain how your observations relate to research studies on norm formation, group norms, conformity, and/or social influence.

Integrate your findings with literature from the text, peer-reviewed journal articles, and other scholarly sources.

Format your paper according to APA guidelines.

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A 28 yr. old young man was diagnosed with schizophrenia 10 yrs ago, at age 18, when away from home during his Freshman yr. at college. He has had his positive sx. alleviated with neuroleptic medication, but he only takes it sporadically because of unpleasant side effects. He is still significantly hampered by negative sx.  He has had several short hospitalizations, but has not experienced much overall improvement. He lives at home with his elderly parents, and does little but watch TV and occasionally play with his dog. He has one sister who was recently married. She is reluctant to have children since she fears they might inherit the disorder. She and her husband also worry about the responsibility they will have for her brother once her parents die.   Given the latest research on this disorder, what treatment modalities would you suggest in order to provide him and his family with a truly comprehensive and ideal treatment program.  (20 pts.)

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The United States of America (U.S.A) holistically considered being the world superpower as compared to other continental nations has soared to greater heights of developments and achieved various developments that it had originally set out to be. Economically and technologically, the USA has greatly set a distinction in major developments.

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As you reflect on your now completed course project, you likely realize that you need some additional education and training in order to be the most effective leader you can be (we all have room to grow and improve our skills). For this assignment, you will assess your skills gap and create an action plan to address those gaps. Address the following elements in your assignment:

• Analyze the skills you need to develop in advocacy and leadership and how each skill will make you a more effective leader.
• Identify the key professional organizations and resources that specifically serve the needs of leaders in the human service and public sectors.
• Describe the membership benefits of each organization that you identify, including any education or training opportunities.
• Describe any other opportunities for training that would benefit you in your continuing education.
• Outline your action plan for continuing education. It does not need to be complicated, but it should be realistic, and account for regular updates to your education over time that you believe can be accomplished.

Submission Requirements

• The paper must be 2–3 pages in length.
• Include a title page and a references page.
• Include an introductory paragraph and a concluding paragraph.
• Include a minimum of three resources.
• Follow APA guidelines for style and formatting.
• Submit your paper to Turnitin. Review the results and make adjustments if needed. Then submit your paper to the assignment area for grading.

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Assignment 2 (25%; due by 11:59pm on April 12):

Read the book Agnes’s Jacket: A Psychologist’s Search for the Meanings of Madness by Gail Hornstein.

In a 1,000

–

word essay, provide your reflections on the book. Your reflections, although written in essay style (short intro, proper sentences and paragraphs, conclusion), should address the

following questions/topics:

1)

Summarize/express Hornstein’s main points or arguments. Given this, what is the significance

of the title’s reference to Agnes’s jacket?

2)

How

did Hornstein research her book? What challenges did she face?

3) How have your views of madness been influenced by reading

Agnes’s Jacket

? That is, what

were your views before reading the book, and how did reading her account affect those views?

Be s

pecific and give examples.

4) What recommendations does Hornstein have (implicit or explicit) for how to respond to

people with emotional problems? Do you agree or disagree with these recommendations? Why

or why not?

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