Marjorie Benton

Future Professional Development in Multicultural Psychology

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Multiculturalism in the field of psychology continues to evolve as it has since the Civil Rights era. Your view of multiculturalism has likely changed over the course of time, especially over the last several weeks. What experiences, both online and in residence, have had the greatest impact on your professional and personal development thus far? Have the topics you explored in this course sparked a shift in the focus of your professional and personal intensions? Whether you make multicultural psychology your area of specialty or continue to develop multicultural competence, your experience in this course should reveal how these topics influence your practice and the communities in which you work.

Post by Day 4 a synthesis of your experience in this course. Then explain what aspects of this course, both online and in-residence, were the most valuable for you both personally and professionally. Be sure to include any insights gained from the Learning Resources and the Faculty Panels presented during the in-residence component of this course. Finally, explain what professional development steps you will take to continue building on what you learned and experienced online and during the in-residence component.

Be sure to support your post with specific references to the Learning Resources.

Readings

Optional Resources

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To continue building on the things that I have learned in this course, I will take the following professional development steps. First, I will learn about myself to gain a better understanding of my values, historical roots, and beliefs. According to Vera and Speight (2003), learning about oneself forms the basis of understanding and appreciating other people’s beliefs. The next step will be to learn about other cultures to get a cultural insight into different cultures. For instance, I will interact with different groups of people to understand their beliefs better and become culturally competent. I will look for other ways that will help to understand other groups of people, which will expand my diversity know-how. The other step I will take is attending conferences that are diversity-focused to get formal training on practice issues related to diversity.

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Future Professional Development in Multicultural Psychology

Marjorie Benton

Abnormal Psychology

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Paper 1:

The Assignment: (1.5–2 pages)

EVELYN C.: Evelyn C., a 36-year-old homemaker and mother of two school-age children (from a previous marriage), began to drink to excess following intense disagreements with her husband, John, a manager of a retail business. For several months, she had been drinking during the day when her children were at school and on two occasions was inebriated when they came home. On one recent occasion, Evelyn failed to pick up her older daughter after an after-school event. Her daughter called John’s cell phone (he was out of town on a business trip), and he had an assistant pick her up. When they arrived home, Evelyn (apparently unaware of the problem she had caused) created a scene and was verbally abusive toward the assistant. Her out-of-control drinking increased when her husband of 3 years began staying out all night. These emotionally charged encounters resulted in John’s physically abusing her one morning when he came back home after a night away. John moved out of the house and filed for divorce.

Hooley, Jill M. Abnormal Psychology (p. 383). Pearson Education. Kindle Edition.

Paper 2:

The Assignment: (1.5–2 pages)

  • Explain how you can determine whether or not a client is suicidal.
  • Explain how you would treat a suicidal client, produce ongoing assessments, and follow up with the client.
  • Explain any challenges that might occur and how you might address them.

APA format. 2-3 citations for each paper

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The most suitable intervention for Evelyn, in this case, would be engaging in the Alcoholics Anonymous program. It is useful in helping victims of alcohol abuse control their substance dependency. I would recommend this approach in assisting Evelyn since the team in the program would collaborate with her n the recovery process. It is challenging and frustrating to overcome addiction fully. Also, a Cognitive Behavioral Therapy program would be appropriate to help change her attitude due to alcohol consumption (Kranzler and Soyka, 2018). It is supposed to work as a coping mechanism that enables her to recognize the issues created through alcoholism and address it.

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Abnormal psychology

Marjorie Benton

Psychology Theory

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Select two different cultures examined in the articles or in literature you have located.

  • Think about how views on attachment are similar and different in these two cultures. Consider whether the differences in attachment have any bearing on an infant’s well-being in either culture.
  • Describe the two cultures you selected. Then, explain the similarities and differences in attachment in these two cultures. Include whether the differences might impact infants’ well-being in the two cultures and why or why not. Be specific.

United States and India

Discussion 2

  • Think about how social psychology and, specifically, Bandura’s social cognitive theory, explains how modeling affects cognitive development and behavior.
  • Consider your childhood and select a same-sex adult who influenced your personal development. The same-sex adult could include a primary caregiver, extended member of the family, or family friend with whom you were close as a child.

Explain some of the behaviors of the same-sex adult that you learned as a child and now demonstrate. Based on social cognitive theory, explain how you might have acquired the behaviors. Be specific.

Female. Same sex adult: Mother

Discussion 3:

  • Pay particular attention to the meaning of the terms in each type of conditioning. Classical conditioning terms include: UCS (unconditioned stimulus), UCR (unconditioned response), NS (neutral stimulus), CS (conditioned stimulus), CR (conditioned response). Operant conditioning terms include positive reinforcers, and negative reinforcers, and punishers.
  • Select one conditioning approach and use it to propose a strategy to mitigate bullying.
  • Operationalize the characteristics of your strategy. For example, if you selected the classical approach, identify which aspects of your strategy represent the UCS, UCR, NS, CS, and CR. If you selected the operant approach, identify which aspects (or operants) of your strategy represent positive reinforcers, negative reinforcers, and/or punishers.

Describe the conditioning approach you selected. Explain how you used this approach to identify a strategy to mitigate bullying. Following your mitigation strategy, operationalize the characteristics of your strategy according to the conditioning method you chose, such as UCS, UCR, NS, CS, CR for classical conditioning; and positive reinforcers, negative reinforcers, punishers for operant conditioning.

Please provide 2-3 citations for each post. APA format

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Parents will take time to embed themselves into the lives of their children. They worry when their children are not close to them, which might be why Indian parents prefer their kids to live with them or close by (Roopnarine et al., 2010). Indians are primarily patrilineal, and this influences how attached they are to their kids. Male children are valued within the community, which means that parents will devote more attention and time to their male children at the expense of their female children. The fact that Indian mothers are controlling means that they are less likely to be anxious about their children’s activities (Roopnarine et al., 2010).

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Psychology Theory

Marjorie Benton

Styles of Leadership

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Students will submit a 5 to 6 page research paper and create a PowerPoint presentation with no more than 10 slides.

Research Paper-Styles of Leadership

Paper will follow APA formatting which consist of the following:

  • Arial or Times Roman
  • 12-font
  • Cover and Reference page
  • 5 -6 Double-spaced pages; not including the cover and reference pages

Presentation

the abstract and the intro attached can be modified but that is the angle i wanted to take. Feel free to adjust as needed.
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transformational leadership has high popularity in theory and practice, provoking different stakeholders (Bass & Riggio, 2006). The difference between the job centered leaders and the employee-centered leader is a fundamental aspect of the ideal leadership traits. An effective leader must find a harmonious balance between the team’s goals and the interest of those they lead. One of the key interests of employees is career success, which, in return, a major driver of organizational success (Hitt et al., 2018). This is achieved through the level of commitment.  There are three types of commitment: affective, normative, and continuance. Affective commitment measures the employee’s perception of attachment to the organization. Normative commitment explains how much an employee would perceive they must stay in the organization. The continuation commitment is related to employee believe that leaving the organization would be costly. The use of relationship-oriented leadership causes a significant positive value in normative and affective commitment but no difference in continuance commitment
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Styles of Leadership

Marjorie Benton

Elder abuse

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What characteristics would lead a provider to suspect domestic violence, child abuse, or elder abuse is taking place within a family? Discuss your facility’s procedure for reporting these types of abuse.

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The features indicating elderly abuse that a nurse should monitor include drug overdose or under medication by their family care provides. Also, signs of poor hygiene, malnutrition, or withdrawal when questioned about abuse should signal domestic violence. The older adults can be abused financially, whereby multiple or sudden transfers of money to a family member’s account should be questioned. However, in children, it is easy for caregivers to identify underlying elements of abuse such as burns, fractures, or injuries to other parts of the body accompanied by inconsistent explanations (Richardson et al., 2014). Sexual abuse can also be detected based on Sexually transmitted Diseases for children who are yet to reach puberty. Bruises on the genitalia, anus or thighs, and self-mutilation should suggest physical, sexual violence. However, other aspects of sexual or emotional abuse that a nurse should examine include guilt, shame, and withdrawal, or reduced self-esteem.

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Elder Abuse

Marjorie Benton

Client Termination Summary

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Question Description: Assignment 1: Practicum – Client Termination Summary (Due in Week 11)
Although termination is an inevitable part of the therapeutic process, it is often difficult for clients. However, by discussing termination throughout therapy, you can better prepare your clients for life without you. Once a client has achieved his or her therapeutic goals, termination sessions should be held and documented in a client termination summary. For this Assignment, you have the opportunity to practice writing a termination summary for a client with whom you have worked during your practicum experience.

Learning Objectives
Students will:
Develop client termination summaries
To prepare:
For guidance on writing a client termination summary, review pages 693–712 of Wheeler (2014) in this week’s Learning Resources.
Identify a client who may be ready to terminate therapy.
Assignment
With the client you selected in mind, address in a client termination summary (without violating HIPAA regulations) the following:

Identifying information of client (e.g., hypothetical name and age)
Date the client initially contacted therapist, date therapy began, duration of therapy, and date therapy will end
Total number of sessions, including number of missed sessions
Whether termination was planned or unplanned
Presenting problem
Major psychosocial issues
Types of services rendered (e.g., individual, couple/family therapy, group therapy)
Overview of treatment process
Goal status (goals met, partially met, unmet)
Treatment limitations (if any)
Remaining difficulties and/or concerns
Recommendations
Follow-up plan (if indicated)
Instructions for future contact
Signatures

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Additionally, Chavez’s advocacy efforts influence a citizen to make strategic choices and embracing behaviors that do not focus on personal gains. Making personal sacrifices should be a step that an engaged citizen should consider achieving the necessary change in society (Oldenquist, 1980). They become good examples to others since the positive outcomes achieved after the advocacy efforts become a motivator factor to more positive engagement in promoting morality in the community.

Like Chavez, ordinary citizens can become extraordinary moral agents of change once they realize that their loyalty to the community is the beginning of being activists of change. However, they need to be courageous to overcome hostility from influential people who do not embrace equality. Kluger et al. (2007) demonstrate that moral dilemmas arise when promoting good, but regardless, irrational thinking should not be an option. Instead, this should motivate ordinary citizens to identify more rational ways of promoting change.

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Client Termination Summary

Marjorie Benton

Concept of psychological survival

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One of the broad themes of the Soul Beliefs course has been psychological survival.

Several different lectures and the associated readings have dealt with our social survival. Analyze the concept of psychological survival and address adaptations that have led to successful psychological survival. Be sure to include (a) the importance of psychological survival and (b) the adaptive significance of the traits involved.

In a 3-page double-spaced paper, write a well-documented (cite readings and lectures) essay that demonstrates in-depth knowledge that you have gained from the course. Develop this theme in a logical and cohesive essay with your conclusions indicated at the end of the essay. List the citations of the lectures and readings that you used in crafting your essay.

Be sure to include information from the following lectures: The evolution of religious behavior, the brain and our emotional future, thinking and feeling, evolution of the brain, evolutionary psychology, and the human spark.

If I cannot open your essay, you will receive a 0.

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Psychological survival was also essential in protecting the relationship between Darwin and the Captain of the ship. Darwin, a person from a noble family, went on the voyage because the Captain of the ship wanted a companion of a noble family like himself. Even though their views on various aspects differed, their differences did not kill their companionship because they did not focus on their differences. As Captain, Fitzroy was a secluded person since he rarely interacted with other men on the ship. Interactions were limited to technical matters that affected the ship, which kept the Captain a lonely man. As a nobleman, the Captain could not eat with other men on the ship because of their low social class. Fitzroy wanted someone to keep him company to avoid the loneliness that killed past captains and have relatives who captained ships and later died because of the stress that emanated from the isolation.

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Concept of psychological survival

Marjorie Benton

Signal detection theory

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Using the University Online Library; find two peer-reviewed journal articles on signal detection theory. In your synopsis, you will include:

Submission Details:

  • Name your document: SU_PSY3002_W2_A1_LastName_FirstInitial.doc.
  • Support your responses with examples.
  • Cite any sources in APA format.

From your course textbook, Cognitive Psychology: Connecting Mind, Research and Everyday Experience, (4th ed.), read the following chapter:

  • Chapter 3: Perceptions
  • Chapter 10: Visual Imagery

From your course textbook, CogLab on a CD, read the following experiment:

  • Signal detection

I think it should be ok as long as it covers the topic in questions, like

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This study compares the signal detection to exponential race model useful in explaining various aspects of visual attention. Both models explain multielement displays that affect the entry of items in the visual short-term memory (VSTM) (Larsen, Markussen, & Bundesen, 2020). Specifically, bias set size of display, pertinence, and duration of exposure all affect the item and the number that enters the VSTM. The exponential race model is based on the theory of visual attention (TVA) and explains the entry of items in VSTM involves competition at processing race and in an exponentially distributed processing time (Larsen et al., 2020). It is also based on the power-law generalization of the sample size model (SSPL) that explains that the target’s sensitivity is affected by the duration of exposure and the power function of the set size (Larsen et al., 2020). The study to compare the two models is based on a new experiment that used the Gabor patches and letters and by use of data from previously published

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Signal detection theory

Marjorie Benton

Management of Diabetes and Hypertension

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The psychosocial aspect of female health is just as important as the management of Diabetes and Hypertension. The World Health Organization (WHO, n.d.) addresses women’s mental health facts as follows:

  • Depressive disorders account for close to 41.9% of the disability from neuropsychiatric disorders among women compared to 29.3% among men.
  • Leading mental health problems of the older adults are depression, organic brain syndromes and dementias. A majority are women.
  • An estimated 80% of 50 million people affected by violent conflicts, civil wars, disasters, and displacement are women and children.
    Lifetime prevalence rate of violence against women ranges from 16% to 50%.
  • At least one in five women suffer rape or attempted rape in their lifetime. Select a mental health illness as a diagnosis for a female patient, perhaps one you have encountered in the clinical setting. Describe the illness, how is it treated? What is your follow-up? Discuss how the WHO’s comprehensive mental health action plan 2013 – 2020 addresses a strategy for change in the mental health illness you selected.

Apa style with 1.5 to 2 pages and 3 references within 5 years

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The world health organization (WHO) comprehensive mental health action plan provides recommendations useful in helping patients suffering from depression. One proposition is integrating mental health and social services in the health sector to increase accessibility to mental health services. A proposed approach to achieving this is through education, training, and capacity building of stakeholders, including the patients, health practitioners, and community members. Saxena (2017) states the WHO is passionate about developing effective leadership and governance for mental health. To achieve this, the organization has recommended changes in policy and legislation. In conclusion, depression is a pressing mental health issue suffered by many women. However, with the right treatment and follow-up and the assimilation of the WHO recommendations, it is possible to manage depression cases worldwide effectively.

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Management of Diabetes and Hypertension

Marjorie Benton

Leadership and organization

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Describe the evolution of the leadership and organization of the al Qaeda terrorist organization after the September 2001 terrorist attacks, including the rise of ISIS. Make sure to address psychological and behavioral factors within al Qaeda leadership and affiliate groups.

Citing requirements are the same for this post. Everything can be found above. Thanks!

Citing source: Authors name. (date). Title. Retrieved from Website.

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Some of the strategies that I will incorporate in the geriatric care are as follows.  I will advocate for the installation of bed alarms to reduce number falls, especially in hospitals or nursing homes.  Bed alarms will alert the nurses if an elderly patient attempts to leave from their beds without professional assistance (Gavaller, Gavaller,& Oh,  2019).  They improve the nursing staff response rate and reduce the number of falls or fall-related injuries in the facility.  However, bed alarms may be ineffective if nurses fail to respond in time.  The second strategy is the implementation of hourly rounds.  In this strategy, nurses are encouraged to move around geriatric wards or rooms regularly.  It allows nurses to reduce the number of falls in the hospitals as nurses will inspect the safety of elderly patients and take corrective measures if some of them are in danger.  The last strategy is educating nurses. According to Cuttler Barr-Walker, & Cuttler (2017), nurse education critical in reducing geriatric falls. It equips nurses with the knowledge and skills needed to provide quality and safe care to elderly patients.

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Leadership and organization