explain why you think Martin Seligman believed that taking the time to lead a meaningful life can benefit our psychological well-being

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For this Discussion, please address each of the following:

Pleasant Life: Design a beautiful day for yourself. Think about activities that you would find highly enjoyable and those that are important to you. Describe what you would do, how you would do it, and your individual positive traits and strengths you have to carry out your plan.  Finally, explain why you think Martin Seligman believed that taking the time to lead a pleasant life can benefit our psychological well-being.

Good Life: Decide on some unpleasant or tedious task that you must do. Think about how you can accomplish it in a more invigorating way. Describe what you would do, how you would do it, and your individual positive traits and strengths you have to help you transform the unpleasant task into a pleasant one.  Finally, explain why you think Martin Seligman believed that taking the time to lead a good life can benefit our psychological well-being.

Meaningful Life: Plan the “perfect” surprise for someone who needs it.  Think about what is important to that person and how you can help them.  Describe what you would do, how you would do it, and your individual positive traits and strengths you have to carry out your plan. Finally, explain why you think Martin Seligman believed that taking the time to lead a meaningful life can benefit our psychological well-being

how would you help your company create a high performing team culture that would increase customer value.

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You have just graduated from your program at the University of the Rockies. You have been hired for a position in Organizational Development in the Training and Development Department at Pikes Peak Manufacturing Company (PPM). PPM is a $400 million company that is in the business of manufacturing plastic parts. Corporate headquarters is in Colorado Springs with three manufacturing plants; one in Dallas, Texas, one in Mexico City, Mexico, and one in Huntsville, Alabama. The CEO of PPM has been pleased with the overall performance of the company, even in these tough economic times. However, after reading numerous books, such as the Wisdom of Teams by Katzenbach and Smith and Group Dynamics for Teams by Levi, and attending a high level executive training program, she has decided that PPM can enhance customer value by creating a more team-oriented culture. Although there have been pockets of team success, especially in the manufacturing plants, the CEO still believes that the company functioning fully in a team culture will produce a higher level of customer satisfaction through creativity, higher level problem solving, and synergy. Some of PPM’s cultural highlights are:

  • Privately owned by one family
  • Strong entrepreneurial culture
  • High work ethic, with most managers working 50 to 60 hours a week
  • Strong individual players who get things done by persistence and their personalities
  • A top executive team that leads the company’s departments and functions like a group of high performing individuals
  • High performance teams that function in some manufacturing plants and the accounting division, while other groups function as teams only in name

One of the main reasons the position you accepted was created was to lead this organizational initiative and drive a team culture.

Using your reading and at least four other resources, write a 4,200 – 5,250 word paper analyzing how you would help your company create a high performing team culture that would increase customer value. Make sure that you address the following:

  • Instilling structures of successful teams and team process
  • Creating effective team communication channels
  • Selecting, developing, and training effective team members and leaders
  • Identifying issues surrounding diversity and multiculturalism
  • Embedding team culture in the organization
  • Creating and implementing team training
  • Ensuring lasting team culture by creating a strong team performance-management system and reward system.

Your paper must follow APA (6th ed.) guidelines for in-text citations and references. The total number of pages does not include a title page or reference page.

Discuss the principles for effectively implementing an action   plan.

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If counseling is all talk and no action it is not effective   counseling. The problem is that clients encounter many barriers in   carrying out actions they identify in the counseling process.

Write a 750-1,000-word paper discussing action planning and   overcoming barriers for client treatment. Please use headings and   include the following in your paper:

  1. Discuss the principles for effectively implementing an action   plan.
  2. Describe at least five barriers that might interfere     with client implementation of the action plans that are created.     Include a case example of each barrier.
  3. Outline a counselor     intervention that would help to overcome each barrier.
  4. A     list of your local community resources for different types of   needs.
  5. Outline an aftercare plan that utilized local     community resources.

Include at least three scholarly references in your paper.

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

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to   beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for   successful completion.

You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Please refer   to the directions in the Student Success Center.

This assignment meets the following CACREP Standards:

2.F.5.g. Essential interviewing, counseling, and case     conceptualization skills.

2.F.5.i. Development of measurable outcomes for clients.

2.F.5.k. Strategies to promote client understanding of and access     to a variety of community-based resources.

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What strategies can a     counselor utilize to help clients commit to change?

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Chapter 11 in the textbook emphasizes the importance of hope and   possibility in the counseling process. Clients come into counseling   having tried many different solutions that have failed. In many cases,   they are discouraged and hopeless about resolving their problems in a   way that creates a better life.

In some cases, clients face significant barriers of physical   disability or illness, histories of trauma, occupational   disadvantages, or addictions. Throughout the counseling process the   counselor attempts to create hope.

Write a 750-1,000-word paper discussing the following:

  1. How can the counselor create a sense of hope and possibility     for the client?
  2. How does establishing goals help clients to     develop hope?
  3. What steps can the counselor take to help     clients identify goals for change?
  4. What strategies can a     counselor utilize to help clients commit to change?

Include at least three scholarly references in your paper.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA   Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is required.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to   beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for   successful completion.

You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Please refer   to the directions in the Student Success Center.

MUST PASS TURN IT IN WITH LESS THAN 5%

Explain how your professional development implementation and evaluation can enhance cultural competence of yourself and the person(s) who exacted the microaggression(s).

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  1.   Cultural Autobiography Case Study and Training Intervention Virtual Roundtable Presentation: Students will develop a case study based on a time in their life where they experienced a microaggression(s) which he or she believe impacted their academic, career and/or social-emotional development.  The purpose of this assignment is to engage in understanding yourself as a counselor and cultural being. This is your story, therefore, may tell it as you see it. The Cultural Autobiography Case Study and Training Intervention will consist of:

    • Submitting the Training Intervention Presentation in both Padlet and Blackboard for the cross-racial/religious audience that exacted the microaggression(s) by integrating counseling ethical codes and American Counseling Association Multicultural Counseling Competencies into the training.  
    • Students will go to Padlet to review their peers presentations and bring a question to the synchronous session on Blackboard Collaborate Meeting #6.
    • Students may use other technology (i.e.  Powerpoint, Prezi, personal video, YouTube video clips, websites, resources, etc.) as well as create and demonstrate an aspect of their professional development intervention and/or workshop.  Students presentations minimum and maximum number of slides range from 7 – 10 slides; using a 24+ point font.  Video clips embedded within presentations must be between 2 – 5 minutes in duration. 
    • The APA 6th edition publication style must be used for citations of any research and/or resource presented in the slides – citations posted within slides must be present on the reference list.  The presentation should include the following:
    • One slide must consist of your Cultural Autobiographical case study, inclusive of: 
  • Personal demographics (Dimensions of Personal Identity) at the time of the microaggression(s) experienced.
  • Identified microaggression(s)
  • Type of microaggression(s) he or she believes was experienced (microassaults, microinsults and/or microinvalidations) and;
  • Perceived impact on academic, career and/or social-emotional development that students believe was affected.
  • Cite pertinent research finding(s) from the annotated bibliography to support your case study and training intervention.Discuss the training intervention’s goal and objectives, three counseling ethical codes, training outcomes, and type of counseling Intervention(s) (individual, group and/or group guidance/psychoeducational). 
  • Demonstrate an aspect of the training intervention training to the cultural autobiographical case study inclusive of how multicultural counseling competencies.
  • Explain how your professional development implementation and evaluation can enhance cultural competence of yourself and the person(s) who exacted the microaggression(s).
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How do we vary in sexual orientation? 

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Things to include(needs to be written deep )

1)How does biology make us male or female?

2)Why do we act masculine or feminine? (include intersexuality(transgender))

3) How do we vary in sexual orientation?

4) What motivates us to have sexual relations (or not to)?

5) Problem-   Gender Dysphoria

–At least 3 sources!; no more than one online source- No Kendra Cherry.

(One source could be the textbook attached (chapter 10), only one online and another from some other book)

– 2 pages, no line space, times new roman, size 12

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Outline common transition periods in childhood, adolescence, and adulthood (e.g., attachment, puberty, and other transitions of development at each period).

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You will develop a PowerPoint on life span development from infancy to late adulthood. You will address topics such as learning development theory and transitional periods of life. Create a minimum of 10 slides, not including title slide and references slide.

Use the following guidelines in constructing your PowerPoint:

  • Title slide

·  Identify and describe at least 3 theoretical approaches related to development across the life span.

·  Outline the basic tenets of your personal view of how learning is developed, based on developmental theories (e.g., Piaget, Erikson, Vygotsky, etc.).

  • Address the implications of considering diverse populations.
  • Outline common transition periods in childhood, adolescence, and adulthood (e.g., attachment, puberty, and other transitions of development at each period).
  • Cite your sources throughout your presentation using correct, current APA formatting.
  • References slide with correct, current APA formatting.Apply a biblical worldview to learning and transitions by integrating developmental theory and/or stages with specific, relevant Scripture.

Do you ignore the topic of religious beliefs altogether?

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Ethics and Cultural Diversity

Review the ACA’s Code of Ethics for all sections that apply to social and cultural diversity, particularly Sections A, B, and E. Review the following scenarios and determine how the ACA code of ethics would apply:

· Scenario 1: There are several members in your group whose religious views and practices are in stark contrast to yours. Do you discuss your beliefs or your group members’ beliefs? Do you ignore the topic of religious beliefs altogether? What does the code of ethics say about this?

· Scenario 2: Your religious beliefs do not approve of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) behavior. A new group member has recently come out about being gay and is now having trouble in his family. You live in a rural community and have no referral source. What does the code of ethics say about this?

Resources

Describe why you would use motivational interviewing in the correctional setting.

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Write a 1,050- to 1,225-word paper that includes the following:

  • Describe why you would use motivational interviewing in the correctional setting.
  • Describe the components of motivational interviewing.
  • How would you use this technique when working with difficult inmates and offenders?
  • What other techniques could you use when working with difficult inmates and offenders?

Include a minimum of two peer-reviewed sources.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

Explain behaviorism, cognitivism, constructivism, and humanism as applied to learning

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Applying Learning Theory to Life

Prior to beginning work on this activity read all of the required reading, review the content from weeks one through three, visit the website http://selfdeterminationtheory.org (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site., and review the Instructor Guidance. This week you will be discussing the multiple perspectives about how we learn, based on your developing knowledge about learning theory, and how it affects your own ability to perform at desired levels.

Required elements:

  • Explain behaviorism, cognitivism, constructivism, and humanism as applied to learning. Suggested template.
  • Summarizes at least two sub-theories/ideologies within each framework.
    • Examples include:
    • From behaviorism
      • associative learning, classical conditioning, operant Conditioning, conditioning, extinction, and ratio/interval schedules
    • From cognitivism
      • schema theory, memory development, elaboration theory (i.e. Bloom’s taxonomy), cognitive load theory, and social learning/cognitive theory.
    • From constructivism (conceptions of knowledge are derived from the process of constructing individual interpretations of one’s experiences)
      • cognitive constructivism, dialectical (social) constructivism, zone of proximal development, and discovery learning
    • From humanism
      • motivational theories of learning (i.e. self-determination theory, Maslow’s hierarchy of needs), experiential learning, and Steiner pedagogy or Waldorf education.
    • List and briefly explain a minimum of two theoretically supported strategies, that we have learned about during the past weeks, that you think would most help you to increase your own learning success.
    • List and briefly explain a minimum of two theoretically supported strategies, that we have learned about during the past weeks, that you think would most help someone in your personal or professional circle.
      • Apply basic methods of psychological research skills to this content by synthesizing supporting evidence from at least three scholarly sources from the Ashford University Library that defend the strategies you have chosen.

The Applying Learning Theory to Life paper

  • Must be seven to eight 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.)Links to an external site..
  • Must include a separate title page with the following:
    • Title of [paper, project, etc.]
    • Student’s name
    • Course name and number
    • Instructor’s name
    • Date submitted
  • Must use headings and sub-headings. See example. (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
  • Must use appropriate research methods (e.g. use of the Ashford library) and skeptical inquiry (http://www.criticalthinking.org/ (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.).to support the content inclusions.
  • Must begin with an introductory paragraph that introduces what you will be outlining in your paper.
  • Must end with a conclusion that reaffirms the learning perspectives/principles and strategies you chose.
  • Must use at least three scholarly sources, all of which must come from the Ashford University Library.
  • Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
  • Must include a separate reference page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.