how do the symptoms change your life?

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TOPIC – ( PLEASE USE COLLEGE DEATAILED SENTENCES AND PSYCHOLOGY TERMS.) PLEASE WRITE AS IF YOU ARE THE PERSON WITH THIS DISORDER AND DESCRIBE AS IF YOU WERE TALKING with a psychologist.

TOPIC –Major Depressive Disorder

Objectives: The purpose of this exercise is to acquaint you with the specifics of a certain psychological disorder in order to help you understand the disorder better. Your task will be to explore and then write a creative essay about the disorder you choose to research.

Find additional material on the Web about the disorder. Some possible sites are listed below. If you find other sites, be sure to cite it properly.

These are some helpful websites you may use. You may also go online and find other sources.

https://mental-health-matters.com/psychological-disorders/

Psychological Disorders

http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/psychology/faces/

Homepage

https://www.nami.org/

TASK

Write an essay (4-5 pages, NOT including your Works Cited Page) in which you pretend you are a person with the psychological disorder you have selected, and you are at your appointment with a psychologist. Your essay should be creative! The point is NOT to simply explain a list of symptoms, it is to apply it. You should demonstrate that you understand what the world is like to someone with this specific disorder. Address the following points:

  • Describe your typical day, thoughts, habits, behaviors, etc., that have brought you to seek treatment.
  • Discuss how at least three distinct symptoms of this disorder affect you. In other words, how do the symptoms change your life?
  • Explain how this disorder affects your relationships family, marital, work, etc.
  • Given the many different schools of psychological thought and practice and treatment options, which do you think is best suited for your disorder? Justify your answer and describe the therapy your psychologist has identified as a treatment.

You MUST provide citations and references throughout your paper when discussing your disorder, symptoms, and treatments. Your citations must come from a Peer-Reviewed Journal Article (a minimum of 1 journal), your textbook, and the websites provided above.

Explain how different kinds of questions are used for different purposes in interviews

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I need someone to conduct onduct two separate role-played interviews. Have your volunteer think of any two problems they might be facing in their life (preferably not real but imagined). They can be as wild and crazy as they would like, such as, “My llama ate my dining room table, so now I won’t get my deposit back on the apartment” and, “My roommate is a werewolf.”

For Scenario 1, you must play “20 Questions” to determine what your interviewee’s imaginary Problem #1 is. You only get 20 questions, and only “Yes-No” answers are allowed.

For Scenario 2, you must determine what your interviewee’s Problem #2 is, but you are allowed to ask open-ended questions.

Based on your two mock interviews, imagine you have been asked to speak to an undergraduate Counseling Skills course. Create a PowerPoint presentation to compare the results of the two mock interviews. Include the following in your presentation:

Explain how different kinds of questions are used for different purposes in interviews.Compare your experiences with both types of questions in this exercise. Which method of questioning felt more natural to you, and which felt like more work? Explain how your interviewee’s responses differed across the two sessions.Recommend questioning strategies to obtain needed information from clients, and then relate them to your future work as a helper.

Support your presentation with at least five scholarly resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources may be included.

Length: 1 slides (with a separate reference slide)
Notes Length: 200-350 words for each slide

Describe the cognitive-behavioral model of the maintenance of bulimia nervosa.

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Week 3 – Assignment

Case Analysis – Collaborating with Outside Providers

Prior to beginning work on this assignment, read the PSY650 Week Three Treatment Plan  and Case 9: Bulimia Nervosa in Gorenstein and Comer (2014). Please also read the Waller, Gray, Hinrichsen, Mounford, Lawson, and Patient (2014) “Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Bulimia Nervosa and Atypical Bulimic Nervosa: Effectiveness in Clinical Settings,”Halmi (2013) “Perplexities of Treatment Resistance in Eating Disorders,” and DeJesse and Zelman (2013) “Promoting Optimal Collaboration Between Mental Health Providers and Nutritionists in the Treatment of Eating Disorders” articles.

Assess the evidence-based practices implemented in this case study. In your paper, please include the following.

  • Explain the connection between each theoretical orientation used by Dr. Heston and the treatment intervention plans utilized in the case.
  • Describe the cognitive-behavioral model of the maintenance of bulimia nervosa.
  • Explain why Rita was reluctant to participate in Dr. Heston’s request for her to keep a record of her eating behaviors. Use information from the Halmi (2013) article “Perplexities of Treatment Resistance in Eating Disorders” to help support your statements.
  • Recommend outside providers (psychiatrists, medical doctors, nutritionists, social workers, holistic practitioners, etc.) to the assist Rita in achieving her treatment goals. Use information from the DeJesse and Zelman (2013) “Promoting Optimal Collaboration between Mental Health Providers and Nutritionists in the Treatment of Eating Disorders” article to help support your recommendations.
  • Describe some of the challenges and ethical issues that Dr. Heston may encounter when working collaboratively with the professionals that you recommended.  Apply ethical principles and standards of psychology relevant to your description of Dr. Heston’s potential collaboration with outside providers.
  • Evaluate the effectiveness of the treatment interventions implemented by Dr. Heston, supporting your statements with information from the case and two to three peer-reviewed articles from the Ashford University Library.
  • Recommend three additional treatment interventions that would be appropriate in this case. The recommended articles for this week may be useful in generating your response to this criterion. Justify your selections with information from the case.

The Case Analysis – Collaborating with Outside Providers

  • Must be 4 to 5 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
    • Student’s name
    • Course name and number
    • Instructor’s name
    • Date submitted
  • Must use at least two peer-reviewed sources from in the Ashford University Library.
  • Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
  • Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

Carefully review the Grading Rubric (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.

What are some of the similarities or differences between your interviewee's view of psychopathology and your own?

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Assignment 3: Professional Interview

For this assignment, you will interview a sport psychologist who currently works with an athlete or a sport organization.

This assignment gives you the opportunity to explore the practical side of practice within the sport psychology realm, as well as the opportunity to investigate the impact of the therapist’s diagnostic experience as it informs the practice of sport psychology.

While the sport psychologist whom you interview should be a licensed professional with a minimum of two years experience with this population, the individual may be from private practice, community clinic, hospital, or social service agency facility. While conducting the interview, focus on the following things:

  • Obtain information regarding the sport psychologist’s theoretical approach to counseling, education history, postgraduate training, credentials, and previous employment history.
  • Ask about the sport psychologist’s familiarity with diagnosis and in what ways the sports psychologist’s work has altered his or her beliefs about psychopathology and the change process.
  • Ask the sport psychologist to describe both the most difficult and the most rewarding part of working with athletes and sport organizations.
  • Provide the sport psychologist with an opportunity to offer any appropriate advice or suggestions to you.

Write a two-page reaction paper in Microsoft Word document format describing your interview. Be sure to specifically address the following questions:

  • How did this interview affect your perception of sport psychology practice?
  • What information regarding diagnosis in sport psychology was most surprising to you?
  • What are some of the similarities or differences between your interviewee’s view of psychopathology and your own?

Create your two- to three-page reaction paper in Microsoft Word document format.

Explain how and why psychometric studies are used to study cognitive psychology.

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Create a 10- to 15-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation lecture for your class in which you address the following:

  • Describe the history of cognitive psychology.
  • Explain how and why psychometric studies are used to study cognitive psychology.
  • Discuss the benefits of research in psychometrics.

Include at least two scholarly articles.

Include speaker notes with your presentation.

Format your presentation consistent with APA guidelines.

Submit your assignment.

What physiological changes occur in the brain due to the stress response?

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Assignment 1: LASA 2: Effects of Stress

Provide a 1-page description of a stressful event currently occurring in your life. Then, referring to information you learned throughout this course, address the following:

  • What physiological changes occur in the brain due to the stress response?
  • What emotional and cognitive effects might occur due to this stressful situation?
  • Would the above changes (physiological, cognitive, or emotional) be any different if the same stress were being experienced by a person of the opposite sex or someone much older or younger than you?
  • If the situation continues, how might your physical health be affected?
  • What three behavioral strategies would you implement to reduce the effects of this stressor? Describe each strategy. Explain how each behavior could cause changes in brain physiology (e.g., exercise can raise serotonin levels).
  • If you were encouraging an adult client to make the above changes, what ethical considerations would you have to keep in mind? How would you address those ethical considerations?

In addition to citing the online course and the text, you are also required to cite a minimum of two scholarly sources. Please use the Argosy University online library to find appropriate scholarly sources. For reputable web sources, look for .gov or .edu sites as opposed to .com sites. Please do not use Wikipedia.

Your paper should be double-spaced, in 12-point Times New Roman font, and with normal 1-inch margins; written in APA style; and free of typographical and grammatical errors. It should include a title page with a running head, an abstract, and a reference page. The body of the paper should be at least 6 pages in length.

Save the response as AU_PSY350_M5_A1_LastName_FirstInitial.doc. Submit your response to the Submissions Area by the due date assigned.

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explain the development and manifestation of psychological disorders

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Assignment 2: Comparison of Theories on Anxiety Disorders

There are numerous theories that attempt to explain the development and manifestation of psychological disorders. Some researchers hold that certain disorders result from learned behaviors (behavioral theory), while other researchers believe that there is a genetic or biological basis to psychological disorders (medical model), while still others hold that psychological disorders stem from unresolved unconscious conflict (psychoanalytic theory). How would each of these theoretical viewpoints explain anxiety disorders? Does one explain the development and manifestation of anxiety disorders better than the others?

What demographic processes produce population aging?

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In this module, we focused on the fundamental and wide-ranging consequences of population aging.

 This writing assignment will give you an opportunity to demonstrate your understanding of population aging its impact on other aspects of society. Compose a two-part essay that addresses the following:

Part 1. Population aging: What is population aging and how does it affect the age structure of a population?What demographic processes produce population aging?Summarized the evidence for population aging in the U.S.

Part 2. Select a country other than the U.S. Use the Census International Data Base to generate population pyramids for your country for the years 2017 and 2047. Describe the current and future age structures and discuss the social implications:Describe the current age structure of the country you selected. Would you consider the population of this country to be young or old? Explain your answer.How is the age structure of this country expected to change over the next three decades? How will the changing age structure affect this society? (select one or two important consequences and discuss.)

To generate population pyramids:Follow this link to the https://www.census.gov/data-tools/demo/idb/informationGateway.php

For “Select Report”, select “Population Pyramid Graph”Select “2017” as the year

Select your country

Click on “Submit”Repeat the above steps for the year 2047.

Please include figures of the population pyramids for 2017 and 2047 in your essay. To do this, right click on the population pyramid. Select “save image as” and save to your desktop. In Word, go to “insert”, select picture, and select saved image of population pyramid. Note: copying and pasting the population -pyramid may not work.

For full credit: Your essay must be 3-4 pages long (including population pyramids)Text should be double-spaced

Font must be Times New Roman, 12 pt All margins must be 1 inch

You may include external sources

All external sources must be cited correctly using APA style citations

Did you find that some people are stressed in a situation that others are not stressed in?

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For each of the following life events, rate yourself on the following scale: Very Stressed; A Little Stressed; Not Stressed:

1. You just remembered that you have a big projec

2. You are driving to work or school and you are running a bit late.  The car in front of you is driving 5 mph under the speed limit and you are having trouble getting around him.

3. You just found out that you are going to be a parent.

4. You accidently dropped your cell phone in the toilet, and it is out of commission for at least a day or two, maybe longer.

Now, get with 4 other people and have them participate in the same activity while you log the results.

In the Discussion, tell about your findings.  Did you find that some people are stressed in a situation that others are not stressed in?  Did you discover that some people are more stressed than others in general, or that some are stressed in some situations but not in others?  What do you think the purpose of this activity is?  How do your findings relate to what you learned about in this module?  What is the most valuable lesson you learned in this module?

What is difficult about diagnosing   AODA?

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Counselor has to be in Wisconsin( Google one) Think like a student who has knowledge of counseling when doing this paper. Be excited on getting to know  what addiction counseling is.

Description:  Interview an AODA counselor   (SAC-T, or SAC, or CSAC; a counselor who works specifically with addicted/alcoholic people and their families) and complete a 3-4-page paper  in a summarized format, complete with introduction, your reaction to the interview, and conclusions. Include the answers to the following questions: 

Ø How would this counselor define   his/her role?

Ø What population does he/she work   with (i.e. age group, race, gender)?

Ø In what setting does the counselor   work? (intake, assessment, outpatient,   group therapy, inpatient, etc.)

Ø What does this counselor feel is   the most important part of the assessment process?

Ø What are the assessment tools   used?

Ø What is difficult about diagnosing   AODA?

Ø Does this counselor address   non-substance addictions? If so, how is this different from AODA?

Ø What is this counselor’s (or   agency’s) view of addressing mental health issues in the AODA treatment setting? How do they deal with medication and dual   diagnosis?

Ø What rewards does this counselor   experience in his/her job?

Ø How does he/she address the   client’s denial?

Ø At what point is family   involved? At what level?

Ø What is the counselor’s favorite   part about his/her position as an AODA counselor?

Ø How does this counselor avoid burnout?

Ø What trends has this counselor seen in the field of addiction counseling, (changes) and how does he/she feel   about these?

Ø Identify at least two additional questions you choose to ask, identify what you ask, why you chose these questions, and the answers.