mine the physical changes associated with the selected developmental stage. Examine the cognitive changes associated with the selected developmental stage. Examine the emotional changes associated with the selected developmental stage.

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Integrating the Field of Developmental Psychology: A Review of the Literature

Prior to beginning work on this assignment, review the age group / developmental stage you selected in Week 2 of the course. Remember, you must use this age group / developmental stage.

The age group is Adolescence (13-18 years)

You will then review the Developmental Psychology literature examining findings for that age group / developmental stage in terms of the physical, emotional, cognitive, social dimensions, and how they impact development and can best be used to meet developmental needs. Additionally, create a summary of the developmental stage as viewed through the lens of one developmental theory we have studied across the course (Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development, Freud’s Psychosexual Theory, Erickson’s Psychosocial Theory, etc.).

In your paper,

Examine the physical changes associated with the selected developmental stage.
Examine the cognitive changes associated with the selected developmental stage.
Examine the emotional changes associated with the selected developmental stage.
Examine the social changes associated with the selected developmental stage.
Evaluate the developmental changes and appraise the effects of the physical, cognitive, emotional, and social environments.
Integrate developmental and environmental factors into an assessment of developmental needs.
Create a summary of the developmental stage as viewed through the lens of a selected developmental theory.
Propose solutions for areas not addressed by the theory.
Analyze the ethical considerations for research and practice with the selected developmental stage.
The Integrating the Field of Developmental Psychology: A Review of the Literature

Provide a transcript of what happened during your field education experience, including a dialogue of interaction with a client. Explain your interpretation of what occurred in the dialogue, including social work practice theories, and explain how it might relate to diversity or cultural competence covered this week.

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Process Recordings

2 Part Assignment

Part 1:

complete the process recording template attached to this order. There is an example also attached for guidance

Part 2:

The Assignment (2–4 pages):

Provide a transcript of what happened during your field education experience, including a dialogue of interaction with a client.

Explain your interpretation of what occurred in the dialogue, including social work practice theories, and explain how it might relate to diversity or cultural competence covered this week.

Describe your reactions and/or any issues related to your interaction with a client during your field education experience.

Explain how you applied social work practice skills when performing the activities during your process recording.

 

Describe how the MS Program is a good fit for you, addressing your personal background (e.g. any academic or professional training or experiences relevant to the program) and career plans.

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MS Program

Prompt: describe how the MS Program is a good fit for you, addressing your personal background (e.g. any academic or professional training or experiences relevant to the program) and career plans

Write a summary of the article listed in the course reading list. Comment on this article and provide a real-life example to illustrate your claim.

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Thought Paper

Objectives:
To encourage students to go beyond the lecture materials and raise their awareness in the current issues or debates in the field.

Task:
Write a thought paper on one of the articles listed in the reading list with support from one research work. Although it is called a “Thought Paper,” it is a piece of scientific writing, not an opinion paper.

Content requirement:
1) Write a summary of the article listed in the course reading list

2) Comment on this article and provide a real-life example to illustrate your claim.
For example, you can, discuss if you agree, disagree, or partially agree with the claims made by the researcher(s), suggest improvement of the research method, provide future direction for the research, etc.

3) Your comment/discussion/suggestion must be supported by one other research work not listed in the course reading list or the reference list of your selected paper.

 

Critically analyses developmental theory and research to explain and manage developmental challenges highlighted in a case study.

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 Lifespan and Atypical Development

There needs to be an explicit link throughout which is to critically analyses developmental theory and research to explain and manage developmental challenges highlighted in a case study (case study is given). However, the explicit link is not made between theory, research and the individual in the case study, which needs to be made throughout. There is also no research discussed that have tested different developmental theories and again relate them to the case study…this needs to be the critical cycle: developmental theory – developmental research – developmental challenges highlighted in the case study. There are also some areas that are irrelevant – paragraphs that are very short and don’t reach any point or critical analysis in relation to the case study. It is just somewhat disjointed.

Critically discuss the extent to which empirical evidence supports viewpoint-independent (also referred to as viewpoint-invariant) theories of object recognition, such as Biederman’s ‘Recognition by Components’ theory (1987).

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Empirical evidence supports

Critically discuss the extent to which empirical evidence supports viewpoint-independent (also referred to as viewpoint-invariant) theories of object recognition, such as Biederman’s ‘Recognition by Components’ theory (1987).

Identify a real-life organization you may analyze. Find a contact within the organization you have picked. This person cannot be yourself, and must be someone in a management or human resources position.

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The Psychological Healthy Work Place

The Psychologically Healthy Workplace Program, part of the American Psychological Association (APA), is a program that rewards employers for engaging in practices that promote a psychologically healthy workplace. Specifically, organizations are recognized for practices that promote: 1) employee involvement; 2) work–life balance; 3) employee growth & development; 4) health & safety; and 5) employee recognition.

The purpose of this paper is for you to apply your knowledge of I/O psychology to a real–life organization. More specifically, this project will give you the opportunity to examine the organizational practices of a specific company of your choice that makes it a “psychologically healthy workplace.”

Background Work
• Read the document Introduction: Building a Psychologically Healthy Workplace provided in this module to learn more about the determinants of a psychologically healthy workplace.

• Visit the below URLs to learn more about the PHWA and some companies that have won this award:
o https://www.apa.org/applied–psychology/phwa–2019–winners
o https://www.psychologists.bc.ca/content/psychologically–healthy–workplace–awards
o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2__qb0sOOac

• Identify a real–life organization you may analyze.

• Find a contact within the organization you have picked. This person cannot be yourself, and must be someone in a management or human resources position (i.e., someone who clearly knows about the organization’s policies and practices). If you have been or an employee of this organization, you may include your own personal experiences in the
paper, but this should not be the primary perspective (see bullet below).

• In addition to the management/HR contact, you must utilize at least one other source to gain information about the organization. This may include, but is not limited to: news articles, press releases, the organization’s employee handbook, an employee in the organization (this can be yourself), etc.

• Create a list of questions that you will ask your contact(s).

The Write–up
• Your paper should include five sections: 1) description of the organization; 2) discussion of organizational practices and policies as they pertain to each of the five psychologically healthy workplace criteria; 3) recommendations on how the organization may improve their practices and policies to be more psychologically healthy; 4) references; 5) appendix. Below are more details regarding each section:

1. Describe the organization you have chosen (e.g., name, location, approximate size, type of sector, etc.). Why did you choose this organization? Who was your contact and sources of information?

2. Analyze whether the organization meets any of the determinants of a psychologically healthy workplace. You must include all five criteria in your analysis. In describing the practices/policies of the organization, do not merely include verbatim the responses of your contact person. Discuss what they shared with you in your own words, by incorporating into this section to describe the organization. Discuss whether the organization meets each criterion for being a psychologically healthy workplace. Be very specific about any practices that you include. For example, do not merely state that the organization provides opportunities for employee growth; instead, describe what it is that the organization does (e.g., provides employees tuition reimbursement). Your analysis of the organization should be based upon research (see #4 below).

3. Provide recommendations on how to make the organization more psychologically healthy. Recommendations should be specific (i.e., a specific organizational practice or program) and based upon research (see #4 below).

4. You must back up your analysis and recommendations with research from peer– reviewed journal articles. Each “healthy workplace” criterion must include at least one reference; therefore, there must be a total minimum of five references included in your paper. The research articles must come from the research journals listed on p. 18 of the Aamodt textbook; those listed under Bridge Publications and Trade Magazines and the textbook may be used but will not
count toward the five required references. Failure to include references will result in deduction of points. Use APA style for your reference section.

5. Appendix should include the name, position, and phone number or email address of the person(s) whom you contacted for your paper. Remember, the primary contact must be someone in management or human resources. I may contact this individual to verify the information you have provided. Appendix should also include the questions you created and used to ask your management/HR contact about the organization. Failure to include this will result in zero points on this paper.

Other requirements:
• Final paper should be approximately 10–15 pages (not including appendix and references), double–spaced, Times Roman Numeral, 12–point font. Page length is provided more as a guideline; I will grade based upon quality, not quantity. Bear in mind that papers that fall short of this guideline will likely not have enough content, but do not “fluff” up your paper to make them longer. I will not deduct points for papers that fall shy of the page guideline.

• Completed work should be submitted as a Word (.doc) or PDF on the Canvas course site.

Create a distribution of data that consists of 10 scores. Then, create either a frequency table or histogram to present the data. What are the mean, median, and mode of the distribution? Is the distribution symmetrical, positively skewed, or negatively skewed? Why? Which measures of central tendency do you think are best for describing the data?  Explain.

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Distribution of data

Create a distribution of data that consists of 10 scores. Then, create either a frequency table or histogram to present the data. What are the mean, median, and mode of the distribution? Is the distribution symmetrical, positively skewed, or negatively skewed? Why? Which measures of central tendency do you think are best for describing the data?  Explain.

To what extent can it be said that the causes of Alzheimer’s disease are the same as those for ‘dementia’ more generally?

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Alzheimer’s disease

To what extent can it be said that the causes of Alzheimer’s disease are the same as those for ‘dementia’ more generally?

Reflect on the challenges of completing a successful unstructured interview. How would you determine what questions to ask? How would you control the topics covered?

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Discussion

Review the information in Chapter 2 in your course text, The Helping Process: Assessment to Termination. Focus on the section titled “Structured and Unstructured Interviews.”

Review the information in Chapter 4 in your course text, The Helping Process: Assessment to Termination. Focus on the section titled “Closed and Open Inquiries.”

Read the information in Chapter 6 in your course text, The Helping Process: Assessment to Termination. Focus on the section titled “Gathering Additional Information,” particularly the subsection titled “Interviewing.”

Read the article, “The Unstructured Clinical Interview.”

Reflect on the challenges of completing a successful unstructured interview. How would you determine what questions to ask? How would you control the topics covered?

Consider the following scenario:

You are a human services professional who works for an organization that offers parenting classes. A woman has been referred to the program because she has lost custody of her baby and must take the classes in order to regain custody. You are asked to interview her to determine her eligibility for the program and the type of parenting classes that would be the most helpful. She starts out answering your questions, but soon veers into a tirade against the food at the hospital where she gave birth and how badly the nurses treated her.

With these thoughts in mind:

By Day 4

Post by Day 4 a description of two strategies you might use to elicit the information you need from the woman in the scenario while still maintaining focus. Justify the strategies you selected using the Learning Resources.