Could the digital divide change the way people think about themselves in relation to the rest of the world? What barriers exist that make it difficult to close the digital divide in economies like India and China? What barriers exist in a developed country such as America?

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The Digital Divide – Week 6

More than just a tool for information transfer, the Internet has become a conduit for a globalized workforce. However, as the Internet has become integrated into daily business life, a digital divide has emerged. Some derive the benefits of Internet access, but many others do not.

Declining Majority of Online Adults Say the Internet Has Been Good for Society

Questions:

Could the digital divide change the way people think about themselves in relation to the rest of the world? Provide experiences, observations, or references to Week 6’s readings that helped shaped your opinion.
What barriers exist that make it difficult to close the digital divide in economies like India and China? What barriers exist in a developed country such as America?

Topic 2: Digital Natives Digital Immigrants

This week you read Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants by Mark Prensky.
https://marcprensky.com/writing/Prensky%20-%20Digital%20Natives,%20Digital%20Immigrants%20-%20Part1.pdf

Discussion:
According to Prensky, today’s students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach. Prensky also pointed out that there needs to be a switch in the way in which educators teach because students are losing out due to the “old fashioned” methods of teaching which are still being used today.

Question #1:
Do you agree that educators have to keep abreast of the technological changes and adjust the curriculum accordingly? (justify and support your answer).

Provide evidence for the hypothesis that positive reinforcement produces better outcome, while maintaining a null hypothesis.

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Modifying aggressive behaviors: Does positive reinforcement predict a better outcome than punishment?

Research Paper:

Your research paper should provide evidence for the hypothesis that positive reinforcement produces better outcome, while maintaining a null hypothesis.

Components of your Research paper:

  • Abstract of paper (half page max)
  • Final paper (Approximately 10-12 pages)
  • Appendix A – All figures, diagrams, tables, etc., unless embedded intext
  • Appendix B – Works cited (Final list)
  • Appendix C – List of other works consulted (Bibliography)

Your initial list of cited works should contain at least twelve (12) sources, at least seven (7) of which are primary or seminal. Your final list of cited works should include at least seven total references.

 

Present the relevant background information for the research project. Present the research question/and or hypothesis you will investigate and answer in order to fill the gap in research. Provide relevant past research studies that you found in your review of the literature.

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Question- Explore the attitudes, predictors and/or outcomes related to wearing face masks/COVID-19

Research proposal is for gap in research on the above topic

Title Page (not included in word count) – Criterion 1
Title Page should be in APA format and include an informative title that makes sense and includes relevant information about the variables/topic.

Introduction (suggested word count: 200) – Criterion 2
Present the relevant background information for the research project. Introduce the general field of research, definitions of key terms, then narrow to the specific area of your research project. This section should lead logically to either a gap in the existing research or the research problem that you believe needs to be addressed.

Aims (suggested word count: 100) – Criterion 3
Present the research question/and or hypothesis you will investigate and answer in order to fill the gap in research. Hypothesis must reflect the gap identified in the introduction/literature review.

Literature review (suggested word count: 400) – Criterion 4
Provide relevant past research studies that you found in your review of the literature. Highlight the major issues, gaps in the research and the need for your particular research (i.e., ‘Here is what we can infer, and here is what we cannot yet infer—or cannot yet infer with confidence—and why’). You will also need to highlight where your research overlaps and differs from existing research.

Significance of the research (suggested word count: 200) – Criterion 5
Outline how your research will make a change to an area of research or respond to a particular problem. In particular, highlight the:

  • theoretical contributions, and
  • practical outcomes.

Proposed research methodology (suggested word count: 400) – Criterion 6
Describe and justify the research methodology. (Use the future tense to describe what you will do.) Address the following:

  • participants
  • sampling method (e.g. random, non-random)
  • methodology (e.g. quantitative, qualitative, mixed methods)
  • design framework (e.g. experimental, non-experimental)
  • data collection method(s) (e.g. tests, questionnaires, interviews, focus groups, observations, existing data), and ethical considerations.

Scope and problems (suggested word count: 200) – Criterion 7
Define the breadth of the research topic. In this section, you will also identify any limitations or potential problems that may occur throughout the project.

Writing Style – Criterion 8
Consider general spelling, grammar and paragraph structure. Must include relevant sub headings and use appropriate topic/linking sentences. All headings and formatting must conform to APA format.

Referencing (not included in word count) – Criterion 9
Include a reference list in APA style. It should be presented on its own page with a separate heading.

Identify why arguments based on faulty premises fail to be convincing. Explain why the following five arguments are problematic. For each of the five items, restate the listed argument and clearly and specifically explain how each argument fails.

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Arguments

In this assignment, you will identify why arguments based on faulty premises fail to be convincing.

All of the given arguments below (found on pages 46-47 of your book: #2, #6, #14, #18, and #20) fail somehow. Your task is to describe how they fail.

Explain why the following five arguments are problematic. For example, maybe the premises and the conclusion are discussing two different issues, or maybe there aren’t enough premises to support the conclusion.

For each of the five items, restate the listed argument and clearly and specifically explain how each argument fails (in 3-5 sentences each). Be sure to use complete sentences in your explanations and reference your text.

NOTE: You do NOT need to state whether the given argument is deductive/non-deductive or valid/invalid (unless you want to). You simply need to describe what’s wrong with each argument.

#2: There are times when any of us may need to protect ourselves from intruders. Thus, we should all keep hand grenades on our bedside tables.

#6: Jameson is strong and quick and tall. We should recruit her for our basketball team.

#14: Most undergraduate students never take organic chemistry. So, the chances are that Claude, a graduating premed student, did not take it.

#18: The days when natural disasters such as earthquakes, hurricanes, or volcanoes had the power to bring death to thousands are fortunately behind us. Unlike the times of such catastrophes as the 1906 San Francisco earthquake or the hurricane of 1900 in Galveston, these days modern construction methods for buildings, sophisticated advanced warning systems, mass communication, and modern healthcare developments mean that we are able to keep the toll from even the worst natural events to tens or at most one or two hundred.

#20: Widespread logging in the rainforests of the Amazon basin is not the natural disaster that many ecologists claim. After all, the logging companies bring jobs, housing, and healthcare to an impoverished and backwachord part of the world.

 

Compose an essay of 750-1,000 words, delineating the importance of the continuum of care in relapse prevention.

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Continuum of care in relapse prevention

Compose an essay of 750-1,000 words, delineating the importance of the continuum of care in relapse prevention. Be sure to include the following in your essay

Important components of any relapse prevention plan.
Relapse education: Include strategies for teaching clients self-regulation skills.
Incorporate the social contexts affecting addiction treatment (e.g., gender, ethnicity, environment/culture, family history).
A discussion of the models used in relapse prevention.

Using the ecological-systems approach, discuss the impact of poverty on a child’s cognitive development. Give an example of an influence within each of the following four contexts: family, school/peers, neighborhood/community, and cultural values/economic policies. What are the implications of a child growing up in poverty?

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Class discussion

Using the ecological-systems approach, discuss the impact of poverty on a child’s cognitive development. Give an example of an influence within each of the following four contexts: family, school/peers, neighborhood/community, and cultural values/economic policies. What are the implications of a child growing up in poverty?

Discuss the results of the assessments and in what ways you see your results reflecting your current life. Develop a Wellness Plan as a result of your assessments. Include reflections of the following question: What areas of your life need more or less attention? What changes do you need to make? What steps are you willing to take to reach your goal of implementing needed changes?

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Counseling

BENCHMARK COUNSELOR IMPAIRMENT AND WELLNESS PAPER ASSIGNMENT

In more recent years, the American Counseling Association (ACA) has recognized that professional counselors, like all helping professions, are at a higher risk for burnout, vicarious trauma, and impairment.

For this assignment, you will: Write a 6 page paper in current APA format with professional guidelines including a running head, title page, abstract, and reference page.

The abstract must provide a brief, but detailed, overview of the paper in 150–250 words. The title page, abstract, and reference page do not contribute toward the page requirement.

Your paper should address the following:

  • Define Impairment: This section should include a discussion of how and why counselors become impaired, what that impairment looks like, and how it can impact the practice of counseling.      It should be 2 pages long.
  • Implications of Impairment: This should include a discussion of ethical misconduct, specifically noting the most frequently occurring ethical violations in your state.  The article below will give some guidance, but you are also strongly encouraged to research this on your state’s counseling board website. It should be 1 page long.
  • Impairment Prevention: This section should include a discussion of what counselors can do to protect against impairment. It should be 1 page long.
  • Wellness Plan and Reflection: You will assess your own risks and develop a personal wellness plan.

This section should be 2 pages long. Begin by taking the assessments listed under the Benchmark Counselor Impairment and Wellness Paper Resources on the Benchmark Counselor Impairment and Wellness Paper Assignment page.

  1. Discuss the results of the assessments and in what ways you see your results reflecting your current life.
  2. Develop a Wellness Plan as a result of your assessments. Include reflections of the following question:
  3. What areas of your life need more or less attention?
  4. What changes do you need to make?
  5. What steps are you willing to take to reach your goal of implementing needed changes?

In addition to the textbook reading and chapter video, complete the other Learn items assigned for this Module: Week.

 

Discuss the commonly held understanding of captivity in war experienced by POWs. Include a discussion outlining the common forms of treatment experienced and reported by POWs. Discuss the conditions in which POWs were held during captivity. Examine the psychological and physiological stresses that POWs experienced during captivity.

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Week 5 Assignment POW Review Paper

Instructions
The experience of captivity carries stresses that are unique in the broad discussion combat and combat related trauma. Examining the conditions endured and methods used to survive such conditions is necessary to gain context of the POW experience.

In a your paper, examine the psychological and physiological stresses endured by POWs and the resulting long-term physical and mental health implications based upon the course materials and other available scholarly publications, including each of the following areas.

Discuss the commonly held understanding of captivity in war experienced by POWs.
Include a discussion outlining the common forms of treatment experienced and reported by POWs.
Discuss the conditions in which POWs were held during captivity.
Examine the psychological and physiological stresses that POWs experienced during captivity.
Discuss the coping mechanisms used in captivity.
Provide details discussing the reasons these reactions are more or less adaptive in captivity.
Additionally, discuss the long-term physical and mental health implications of captivity.

Work should be submitted in a Word document (doc. or docx.) or other compatible word processing document (.rtf), and be 5 to 6 pages in length, excluding the required title and reference page.

Scholarly sources should be cited both in-text and on the reference page of the submission. A minimum of five academic, scholarly sources are required to be cited in the work, four of which must be peer-reviewed journal articles. Course materials may not be used to meet the scholarly source requirement.

Submissions should be formatted per APA standards. Headers are required throughout the submission. For assistance and resources on APA formatting style, contact the APUS library and/or the APUS writing center.

The basic parts of a paper should also be included; these are the introduction section, with a precise thesis statement, the body of the paper with clear, discernable headings formatted to APA style levels of heading where appropriate, and a conclusion that restates the thesis and summarizes the major points of the entire paper.

Be sure to review the rubric and the announcements before beginning and submitting your assignment. The school Late Policy applies to all course assignments and can be found in the course syllabus

Identify all the people or groups of people who may or will be affected by your decision and discuss how or why they are affected. Identify the approach to decision-making you have chosen and explain why that one is most appropriate.

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Case Study – Decision Making

The Situation

The citizens of your town have recently voted to raise property taxes to support the local Parks and Recreation Department in a major construction project. The project involves building a new recreation center, a swimming pool, and 8 tennis courts at a cost of over $50,000,000. The first step in the process is to secure the services of a qualified architect to assist with the planning and design of these new facilities. In your capacity as a manager, the Parks Board has asked you to make a recommendation as to which firm should be hired.

Since you know this decision is extremely important, for both the community and your job, you reach out to your network of colleagues to get help. Based on what you have learned the three top firms in the state are Brown & Son, Olympic, Inc. and Walker Architectural. You decide to do a survey of recreation departments throughout the state to find out the strengths and weaknesses of each firm. The results of the survey are shown on the next page.

To make things even more interesting, one of your Park Board members, John Snyder, has given you some ‘off the record’ advice. He indicates that Brown & Son have done amazing work for other park and recreation facilities and that they are well-qualified for this project. He also mentioned that the owner is a close personal friend, and that Brown & Son is prepared to give a substantial gift to the department should they be awarded the contract. Mr. Snyder has put a great deal of pressure on you to recommend Brown & Son.

Questions

Part 1 – Identification of keys issues involved in making the decision. (10 points)

5pts: Identify all the people or groups of people who may or will be affected by your decision and discuss how or why they are affected (1 point for each group you list and discuss)

2.5pts: Identify the approach to decision-making you have chosen and explain why that one is most appropriate (You MUST USE one of the four discussed in class, Failure to discuss/explain lose 1 point).

2.5pts Upon what survey criteria are you basing your hiring decision (hint- do not use all 10 items from the survey, pick 3 or 4). Why did you choose them? How do they relate to your decision-making approach? (Failure to explain why lose 1 point)

Part 2 – Using the decision-making approach you have chosen as well as the criteria you think is most important, discuss each of the three firms (25 Points)

  1. 5 pts per firm: Discuss the actual ratings for each firm in the survey items which you identified as most important (failure to discuss each previously identified survey item lose 1pt for each missed, OR for discussing additional items) Note – There should be a short paragraph for each of the three firms
  2. 10 pts: Discuss how each firm measures up in relation to your decision-making approach – are they good or bad? Additionally, you may also discuss how each firm measures up based on your personal code of ethics or based upon ethics you think a public agency should follow. There should be a 3-4 sentence paragraph for each firm.

Part 3 – Make a recommendation. What firm do you think should be hired? Justify why you have made that decision. (15 Points)

  1. 5pts: Make a recommendation as to how you believe the situation should be handled – who do you think should be hired?
  2. 5pts: Justify that decision using at least two of the following: your decision-making approach, the selected survey items, your own personal code of ethics, or the ethics you think a public agency should follow (each justification worth 2.5 pts)
  3. 5pts: Name two other pieces of information that would have helped you make a better decision and how would you have learned it (2.5 pts per type information, failure to include how you would have learned it minus 1)

 

Provide your own analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of Family Systems Therapy, how well it integrates into your personal and professional identity as a counselor, and whether or not you think it is a theory that resonates with you for future clinical practice.

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Family Systems Therapy

Provide your own analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of Family Systems Therapy, how well it integrates into your personal and professional identity as a counselor, and whether or not you think it is a theory that resonates with you for future clinical practice.

Provide a brief review of the theory as part of your reaction/analysis.

Include information such as:

  • Nature of the person, including innate capacities or capabilities, and motivational constructs according to the theory (if applicable).
  • Nature of psychological distress or maladjustment (how do people develop mental illness) according to the theory.
  • Goals of counseling/psychotherapy according to the theory.
  • Role and activity of the therapist, including:

– Major techniques utilized

– Diagnosis and appraisal techniques

– Evaluation of client progress in therapy

 

Use the following references:

Corey, G. (2017). Theory and practice of counseling and psychotherapy (10th edition). Boston: Cengage    Learning.   Chapter 14

Falicov, C. J. (1995). Training to think culturally: A multidimensional comparative

framework. Family Process, 34(4), 373–388. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1545-5300.1995.00373.x