When did you first feel sick? What were your symptoms? Did you get a diagnosis and, if so, how did your diagnosis make you feel? Were you treated for your condition? Who treated you and what were the treatments?

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Narrative Essay Interview

Find someone who has been sick or still is sick and who is willing to talk about their illness experience. It is preferred that you do not interview someone close to you whose illness experience you lived through.

Explain to your interviewee that this is an assignment for the humanities course called “I Feel Your Pain: Illness and Empathy in the Arts” at Excelsior University.

Ask for an hour of the interviewee’s time for the assignment.

Clarify that the real name of the person you interview will not be used in the assignment.

Give yourself an hour to go through these questions in person.

Take notes to record each response.

Use the following interview questions:

When did you first feel sick? What were your symptoms?
Did you get a diagnosis and, if so, how did your diagnosis make you feel?
Were you treated for your condition?
Who treated you and what were the treatments?
Were the treatments outpatient or did you need to be hospitalized?
Are you cured and feeling better or is this a chronic condition that will need ongoing treatment?
Have you ever felt that the treatments were/are worse than the condition?
Do you know what caused your condition?
Are there lifestyle changes that you needed to make or need to make to feel better?
What have been the major impacts of this illness on your life?
Has your illness affected your relationships with others? If yes, how so?
Has your condition affected your ability to work? Go to school?
How do you feel you were treated by the practitioners involved in your care?
Do you feel that your concerns were addressed?
Have you learned anything about yourself that you might not have learned if you hadn’t been sick?
Would you say that being ill has made you more empathic toward others?
At any point did you think you were going to die, and if so, can you express how you felt?
Final wrap-up questions: Did your caregivers treat you with compassion and empathy? Who stands out to you as the kindest member of your medical care team, and why?

Propose TWO ways typically used in psychology to test the topic: the effects of marijuana on GPA (grade point average). clearly identify and discuss TWO ways this topic could be tested as well as identify the independent and dependent variables.

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DISCUSSION ESSAY

After reading sections 2.2, 2.3, and 2.4 in the textbook,
Propose TWO ways typically used in psychology to test the topic: the effects of marijuana on GPA (grade point average). Make sure to clearly identify and discuss TWO ways this topic could be tested as well as identify the independent and dependent variables. Finally, after discussing how to test this topic, detail two possible ethical concerns.

What is needed for a good assessment of an individual? Why should assessment procedures often be considered when working with students or clients?

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Coursework

What is needed for a good assessment of an individual?
Why should assessment procedures often be considered when working with students or clients?
Describe the importance of having an understanding of cross-cultural issues when using assessment procedures. What do these procedures look like, specifically?

What is the difference between counseling a survivor of a primary trauma and those who experience vicarious trauma? Are the needs the same or different? How would you know what intervention strategies to use?

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Spirituality and Cultural Competency

What is the difference between counseling a survivor of a primary trauma and those who experience vicarious trauma? Are the needs the same or different? How would you know what intervention strategies to use?

 

Identify two similarities and two differences between the symptoms of survivors of sexual abuse and natural disasters, and trauma-response helping professionals experiencing vicarious trauma working with these populations.

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DISCUSSION ESSAY

For this Assignment, you explore the similarities and differences in symptoms between and among trauma-response helping professionals, survivors of sexual abuse, and natural disasters.

The assignment: (2–3 pages)

  • Identify two similarities and two differences between the symptoms of survivors of sexual abuse and natural disasters, and trauma-response helping professionals experiencing vicarious trauma working with these populations.
  • Using the current research, describe an evidence-based intervention used to treat trauma-response helping professionals experiencing vicarious trauma while working with survivors of sexual abuse and natural disasters.
  • Explain the implications of your training and preparedness in counseling trauma-response helping professionals who work with survivors of sexual abuse and natural disasters. Be specific.
  • Identify one insight you had or conclusion you drew based upon the comparison. Be specific.

Support your Assignment with specific references to all resources used in its preparation. You are asked to provide a reference list only for those resources not included in the Learning Resources for this course.

Resources

Be sure to review the Learning Resources before completing this activity.

Click the weekly resources link to access the resources.

WEEKLY RESOURCES

submission information

Before submitting your final assignment, you can check your draft for authenticity. To check your draft, access the Turnitin Drafts from the Start Here area.

 

Write two brief paragraphs answering the questions below. Choose three (3) of the explanations for age differences in memory for the elderly. Give an example of each.

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Discussion 11

Write two brief paragraphs answering the questions below. It does not need to be an entire page. Please, only use the readings I uploaded to answer the questions. Examples are below so you can see how I would like it to be structured.

QUESTION
Choose three (3) of the explanations for age differences in memory for the elderly. Give an example of each.

EXAMPLE 1
Three of the explanations for age differences when it comes to memory for the elderly are. An example of difficulty paying attention is when you are talking to your grandparents and they can’t seem to focus on what you are saying, making it very difficult to communicate with them. Another explanation is cognitive slowing, in which elderly people often have slower rates of responding to a cognitive task. An example would be if you ask an elderly person to perform a concussion test. A concussion test would just be responding back to the words.

Lastly contextual cues hypothesis. They will recall fewer contextual cues. For example, they won’t pick up social cues a lot faster than someone else. Elderly people go through a lot of struggles because they are trying to remember certain things and stay young and keep up with young people. Sometimes they are stuck in the glory days but honestly, they should love themselves that much more because they lived in their glory days and they can say that they did a lot more than some of what the youth is doing right now. At the end of the day, they will be remembered through their families’ legacy and it’s just the circle of life.

 

EXAMPLE 2
Difficulty paying attention: As we get older our attention span varies with our age. We are not attentive to task or conversations as we used to be. The ironic part is that as kids we would pay attention to every little detail or sound that we came across. It would stick to us as teenagers as we were prepared to listen to what teachers or our parents had to command of us. As we get older that changes. For example, someone who is being taught a word math problem and had their neurons firing for answers years ago, now may have difficulty even staying up long enough for a lesson. They may not understand it, and not be interested either.

Cognitive Slowing: I think the reason why our prime 20s are the best age for us to hustle is because of all the energy and the capacity that we have to perform. Our brain is constantly fired up, our body is active, and we are able to do 100 task at once. When it comes to reaching that old age, we may not be able to do as good and especially as fast. It may take a while to understand what the person is even saying that needs to be answered. For example, if we are told to go to medical school at the age of 60 it may be very difficult to study so much material in such a short time span.

Less effective use of memory strategies: The elderly have fewer chunk of information that is stored as memory. This could also be due to the neurological damage that we have as we grow older. For example someone who has Alzheimer’s may have an extremely rough time remembering something that their family is telling them.

Choose three of the prominent developmental theories that have had a hand in shaping the discipline of Developmental Psychology from the list below. Using the “Theory Comparison Worksheet” Download “Theory Comparison Worksheet”(ATTACHED), address some aspects of each major dimension identified on the worksheet for the three theories you selected.

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W1 Assignment 1: Exploring Theoretical Foundations

PURPOSE: Understanding the theoretical and empirical origins of developmental psychology helps the student to comprehend how the discipline has changed over time and why certain key concepts and milestones are the focus of modern developmental theory and treatment.

INSTRUCTIONS: Choose three of the prominent developmental theories that have had a hand in shaping the discipline of Developmental Psychology from the list below. Using the “Theory Comparison Worksheet” Download “Theory Comparison Worksheet”(ATTACHED), address some aspects of each major dimension identified on the worksheet for the three theories you selected. Then, using the space at the bottom of the worksheet provided, comment in 2-3 sentences, on which of the three theories you feel most broadly meets the needs of a Lifespan Developmental Theory.

Choose from the following list of developmental theories:

**Freud’s Psychosexual Theory
**Vygotsky’s Sociocultural Theory
**Behaviorism and Social Learning Theory
**Piaget’s Cognitive-Developmental Theory
**Ethology and Evolutionary Developmental Psychology
**Erikson’s Psychosocial Theory

Do you agree or disagree, or can you relate to his or her opinion in the post? ADD any thoughts or additional information that you may have found concerning their topic?

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DB2

Read the Passage! Do you agree or disagree, or can you relate to his or her opinion in the post? ADD any thoughts or additional information that you may have found concerning their topic?

Develop a slide presentation or video that is designed to have a strong impact on the audience by revising the draft you shared in this week’s discussion.

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TOPIC: EARLY DRUG ABUSE

Develop a slide presentation or video that is designed to have a strong impact on the audience by revising the draft you shared in this week’s discussion. Your digital media presentation is not necessarily testing your design skills, though you should certainly try to practice the design suggestions provided in the Writing Center resources. More importantly, you are practicing your composition skills by applying persuasive strategies in a new context with visual media. You will demonstrate visual rhetoric skills by combining text and images to compel your audience to recognize the importance of your argument for change.

Your presentation will need to meet the following criteria:

A clear argument for change in your community
Designed with a specific audience in mind to motivate your viewers to take action or change how they think about the topic.
Slide presentation or video format
Contains at least 8–10 slides (slide presentation, not including the title and references slide) or lasts approximately 1–2 minutes (video).
Research from at least four reliable sources to support the main message, including graphics. These can be sources from previous units.
Minimally, two information-oriented visuals like a chart, diagram, or infographic (e.g., photo, table, diagram, chart, etc.) to represent key information in your argument.
Relevant clip art, stock photos, and design templates that are visually engaging and reinforce the overall theme of the presentation.
Research and visuals are cited in APA citation format, both in-text and on a references slide or in a separate Word document if you create a video. You need to quote material taken directly from a source. The same standards for documenting sources apply to a presentation that apply to an essay.

Note: Do not use the “Notes” section for citation or adding details to help the audience understand. The presentation needs to be clear based on what the audience can see and “Notes” are meant only for the speaker. Your instructor will not review the “Notes” section if you use PowerPoint.

Images that require attribution should have an APA formatted in-text citation and APA formatted reference entry. If using images from a Creative Commons site like Unsplash, please provide the website logo with images that are freely available so that your instructor knows they do not require an APA reference entry.

Noted below are the specific requirements for this unit’s assignment:

Title page/slide with the presentation title, your name, and course information.
PowerPoints must be submitted in .ppt or .pptx format. Turnitin cannot read .pptm files or Keynote files.
If you are submitting a video, Vimeo®, PowToon, Prezi, etc., please submit a separate Word document with the title page, references page, a link to the presentation, and the text for your presentation.
References to sources, including graphics, are cited in APA style, both in-text and on a separate references slide.

How the eight elements of a great decision help you in improving decision-making and problem-solving skills? Explain in relation with the text you learnt in the course. Use additional reference to support your argument.

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Critical Thinking Question

Part-I

Read the article titled as “How to Make Great Decisions, Quickly” by Martin G. Moore published in Harvard Business Review, and answer the following Questions:

  • Summarize the article and explain the main issues discussed in the article. (In 500-600 words) (Marks 5)
  • How the eight elements of a great decision help you in improving decision-making and problem-solving skills? Explain in relation with the text you learnt in the course. Use additional reference to support your argument. (In 400-500 words)(Marks 5)

Part-II

  • “A successful manager doesn’t just attack symptoms; he works to uncover the factors that cause these symptoms.” Explain the statement with example(Words 400-500)(Marks 5)