What are the essential areas that encompass a thorough mental status examination?

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Assignment 1: Adjustment Disorder, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, and Acute Stress Disorder

Adjustment disorders are quite common and potentially very serious because they have been linked to suicide ideation, planned and completed suicide. Consider the important issues of mental status examination and differential diagnosis.

  • What are the differences and similarities among adjustment disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and acute stress disorder?
  • What are the essential areas that encompass a thorough mental status examination?
  • Explain the steps you would take in evaluating symptoms. How would you arrive at a differential diagnosis?

minimum of 300 words.

Compare codes of ethics and integrate the standards of FERPA into professional practice as an essential skill for an ethical school counselor.

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The codes of ethics that guide the school counseling profession provide counselors with the standards for ethical practice. However, it may be necessary for a counselor to have to apply a combination of the codes of ethics when delivering counseling services to their students, as well as being mindful of FERPA guidelines to which schools must adhere. Comparing codes of ethics and integrating the standards of FERPA into professional practice is an essential skill for an ethical school counselor.

For this Assignment, consider how the ASCA Codes of Ethics and the FERPA guidelines apply to your work as a school counselor.

The Assignment (2–3 pages):

  • Create a summary of the ASCA Codes of Ethics.
  • Explain similarities between the ASCA 2016 Code of Ethics and the FERPA, then explain how the two are different.
  • Explain how the ASCA Code of Ethics and FERPA guidelines might be applied to the work of a school counselor. Provide an example.
  • Review the ACA Codes of Ethics and explain why it is important for school counselors to understand these codes.

Per APA guidelines, support your Assignment with specific references to all resources used in its preparation, including those used as Learning Resources for this course.

These are the sources that should be used: 

Review: Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. (1974). 20 U.S.C.A. Section 1232g. [Buckley Amendment.] Retrieved from http://epic.org/privacy/education/ferpa.html

Review: American Counseling Association (ACA). (2014). ACA Code of Ethics. Retrieved from http://www.counseling.org/docs/ethics/2014-aca-code-of-ethics.pdf?sfvrsn=4

Do some research on the abortion debate, researching both sides and the arguments that are made to defend both sides

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Do some research on the abortion debate, researching both sides and the arguments that are made to defend both sides: research the pro-choice arguments and the pro-life arguments. After researching both sides of the abortion debate:

(i) take a position on the abortion debate (either pro-choice or pro-life) and develop a thesis

(ii) come up with three arguments in defense of your thesis

(iii) write a conclusion as a result of your arguments on the abortion debate

Should be 3-5 pages, 12 point font, double spaced, times new roman

Include a works cited page for any sources used

Evaluate potential ethical issues that should be considered or guarded against when developing treatment interventions for children or adolescents.

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Short Paper: Ethical Issues

Evaluate potential ethical issues that should be considered or guarded against when developing treatment interventions for children or adolescents. Describe steps that should be followed to ensure that potential ethical issues are addressed properly as treatment options are determined and applied.
While the topics vary, your papers, at a minimum, should do the following:

·Answer the question or address the issue(s) described in the instructions.

·Include your perspective, when applicable, and share your opinion or explain your rationale for your position.

·Be sure to support your responses with scholarly research, and include references and citations for material presented that I not your own original work. You can use first person to indicate your opinion (I, my, etc.) in lieu of listing yourself as a source.

Format: Short papers should follow these formatting guidelines: 2–4 pages, double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, one-inch margins, and citations in APA format.

Resources:

  • Article: NSW Health Frontline Procedures for the Protection of Children and Young People (Paper, Focus on Chapters 7-10)

https://web.archive.org/web/20110401010452/http://www0.health.nsw.gov.au/policy/hsp/child-protection/procedures/frontlineprocedures.pdf

Offer your own unique thinking about a philosophical topic

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(1) Pick any of the philosophers from the course that have been studied

(2) Select a small aspect of their philosophy that you found interesting (i.e. suffering in Buddhism, categorical imperative in Kant, love in Plato, etc.)

(3) Go to the library online database and find 5 sources: these must be from physical books or electronic journals, not  web sources. You are, however, permitted to use journal articles so long as they are in the library’s online database.

(4) Research your topic in more detail and then write a 5-7 page paper.

Guidelines

  • Quotations should be kept to a minimum. All quotations must be in MLA style
  • 5-7 Pages, Times New Roman, Double Spaced, 12 Point Font
  • Avoid long summaries
  • Offer your own unique thinking about a philosophical topic, and use the secondary sources to elaborate on it. I would suggest reading a few good essays about the philosopher that you’re writing about.

Discuss intervention techniques you would use when dealing with the child’s or adolescent’s disorder

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Discussion: Case Study Comparison

Compare and contrast the case study of Artie (appendix B in the text) to a case study previously covered in class. Discuss intervention techniques you would use when dealing with the child’s or adolescent’s disorder. Support your thinking with module material.

Resources:

  • Textbook: Appendix B (Discussion)
  • Article:  Child Physical and Sexual Abuse: Guidelines for Treatment (Discussion)

https://mainweb-v.musc.edu/vawprevention/general/saunders.pdf

  • Website: National Child Traumatic Stress Network Empirically Supported Treatments and Promising Practices (Discussion)

https://www.nctsn.org/treatments-and-practices/trauma-treatments

  • Website: Psychosocial Treatment for Children and Adolescents with ADHD (Discussion)

Psychosocial Treatment

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examine and discuss sport psychology research

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The purpose of this assignment is for you to examine and discuss sport psychology research. Students will be asked to write a 4-5 page Article Analysis/Critique from a peer-reviewed journal such as: The Sport Psychologist, Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology, etc. Papers must be written in APA format. The Analysis/Critique must include a brief description of the study, a description of the sport and exercise psychology topic used, study limitations, and a discussion for further exploration in the area. This will be discussed further later in the semester.

*Late work – Two points will be deducted per day for each day the assignment is turned in after the deadline. Papers turned in 5 school-days (1 week) after the deadline will not be graded.

Use the worksheet available in canvas to complete the assignment. Type your answers directly into the worksheet. Your submission should include the following:

– APA reference citation (see http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/)

– Summary (purpose, methods, results, conclusions)

– Implications (future research directions, application of research)

– Personal Evaluation (your thoughts about the research and implications)

– Include a pdf copy of the research article

Identify measures to assist or maintain the individual's effort to accomplish age-appropriate tasks.

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  • Choose a person you know well and complete a developmental summary across the life span for this person. (You can choose a person from any of the developmental stages.)
  • Brief overview of biographical data: ex. age, sex, family structure, living arrangements, occupation.
  • Determine the individual’s current stage of development: physically, cognitively, and psychosocial growth and development and compare your findings to the developmental norms from textbooks and data bases. (Theoretical description of individual’s stage of development.)
  • State which developmental tasks are met/unmet; providing evidence based on comparison of observations to theoretical description.
  • Identify measures to assist or maintain the individual’s effort to accomplish age-appropriate tasks.
  • Adheres to APA format, utilizes correct grammar, and has effective writing.
  • This critique needs to be a minimum of 6 pages, not including the citation page at the end with a minimum of 7 citations. 
  • Be sure that you utilize various theories and apply these to the growth and development of your chosen person.
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What might make you more or less likely to have a sense of integrity?

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Original work. Less than 20% plagiarism. Must be APA format.

n this module you will complete the virtual life portion of the project. You will begin with age 65 so that you may complete late adulthood. Please answer the questions below and be sure to include images.

1. Do you expect to have a sense of ego integrity or ego despair as you move into and through late adulthood? What might make you more or less likely to have a sense of integrity? Now that you have been through the exercises of later adulthood, what decisions might you have made either now or in your virtual past in order to cope differently with either negative or positive experiences you have had in your Virtual Life?

2. Write your own conclusion or obituary about your Virtual Life. What significant others in your life remain after you? What would you list as your meaningful moments or accomplishments, either those addressed within this Virtual Life course, or drawn from experiences not mentioned previously?

Are you going to time participants to see how long it takes to complete tasks?

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)A script or guide to help you identify which questions you will be asking participants. This typically involves the tasks you want them to complete

2) A way to record your observation. This is often called an observation log. I would like to see HOW you plan to collect your observations. Are you going to take notes during their session? Are you going to time participants to see how long it takes to complete tasks? How are you going to MEASURE their success/failure for completing the various tasks?

3) Show me the data! YOU ARE ACTUALLY GOING TO CONDUCT A USABILITY STUDY WITH 5-7 PEOPLE! Typically, a researcher would create an observation log and have some sort of an outline for how the data will be collected. Once you have that, go ahead and conduct your usability studies with the people.

Make sure you identify some main highlights of your study.  So please take detailed notes during your usability sessions 

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