Psychology

What are your thoughts on the current criminal justice system?  How does the criminal justice system currently treat offenders?  How does that relate to the recidivism rates?  Is there a more effective approach that might reduce recidivism?  Please explain.   Be sure that your paper is in APA format, is 3-5 pages (excluding title and cover page), and includes at least 3 outside sources.

Identify an example of a CSR initiative that failed. Then explain the factors that contributed to the failure. Explain how the failed CSR initiative influenced the reputation and profitability of the organization. Be specific. To Prepare for this Discussion: Read the article “Scrooge Posing as Mother Teresa: How Hypocritical Social Responsibility Strategies Hurt Employees and Firms.” Consider how an inconsistent distribution of CSR investment may undermine the success of a CSR initiative and negatively influence the reputation and profitability of organizations. Read the article “Implicit Promises: CSR Commitments, Organizational Failures and Perceptions of Hypocrisy.” Focus on how “corporate hypocrisy” erodes customers’ perceptions of CSR success and their trust, repurchase intent, and brand attitude.   Read the article “Corporate Social Responsibility Failures: How Do Consumers Respond to Corporate Violations of Implied Social Contracts.” Think about why the CSR initiatives implemented by Nike, Whole Foods, Xcel Energy, and Coca-Cola failed. Read the articles “Walking the Environmental Responsibility Talk in the Automobile industry: An Ethics Case Study of the Volkswagen Environmental Scandal” and “Talk Ain’t Cheap: Political CSR and the Challenges of Corporate Deliberation.” Consider the factors that led to Volkswagen’s and Starbucks’ CSR failures. Identify an example of a CSR initiative that failed and the factors that contributed to the failure. Think about how the failed initiative influenced the reputation and profitability of the organization.

Discussion #1: Personal Reflection Reflect on your personal reasons for entering into the human services profession. How might your own family system (childhood or current) influence your work as a helper with families? Please explain what your personal views are of families and of family therapy. Discussion #2: Ethical Dilemma You are a family therapist working with an immigrant family that includes the father, mother and two teen-aged children, one male and one female. The targeted client is the son. Your work so far has centered on his problems at school including poor academic performance and disciplinary issues. One day, in between therapy sessions, the mother calls you up on the telephone and discloses that the father regularly strikes the children with a switch – a common practice in the family’s culture of origin. After a lengthy discussion, she feels relieved that she was able to “Get that off my chest” but is adamant about not bringing the issue up in family sessions or, “Telling anyone else.” She begs you to keep this issue secret. Given what you have learned about confidentiality and ethics, how will you handle this situation? To address how you will handle this situation please apply each stage of Welfel’s Ethical Decision Making model found on pages 60—66 in: Jungers, C. M., & Gregoire, J. (2013). Counseling Ethics: Philosophical and Professional Foundations. Danvers, MA: Springer Publishing Company. Chapter 3 Frameworks and Models in Ethical Decision Making.pdf https://postu.idm.oclc.org/login?auth=prodbb&url=http://search.ebscohost.com.postu.idm.oclc.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=e000xna&AN=485653&site=eds-live&scope=site&ebv=EB&ppid=pp_60 Discussion #3: Determination of Services Anticipate you are working at a human services agency as an intake assessment specialist. Your primary task is to evaluate individuals coming into your agency seeking some form of counseling. After you complete your assessment, it is your job to refer the client to one of the many counseling services your agency offers (e.g., individual counseling, group therapy, family therapy, or alcohol and drug abuse services). Given what you now know about family therapy (e.g., what it has to offer, how it approaches targeted problems and the theories) what are some of the more important factors you will consider when referring this individual for family therapy versus the other treatment approaches your agency offers ? Please base your response upon the theory-based foundations of family therapy (e.g. Bowen family systems, REBT, CBT, Solution focused brief therapy, etc.) we are reviewing this week.

Read and then briefly summarize the popular press link/article. Read and then briefly summarize the empirical journal article. Write a synthesis that compares the media report to the original research article. This should be at least 50% of the paper. This synthesis should address: o How similar are both accounts? o Did the media report clearly and accurately describe the research? Were there any distortions in generalizing the results? Do you believe the popular press article accurately portrayed the topic? If not what did they misunderstand or fail to mention? o Was the media report summarized objectively without bias? This main body of this paper will be 3-4 pages in length, double spaced Times New Roman 12 pt font should be used everywhere. THIS PAPER SHOULD BE WRITTEN IN APA STYLE- Abstract (150 – 250 words) Main body (3-4 pages) Link to the popular press article https://www.cbsnews.com/news/taking-selfies-may-be-good-for-you-study-finds/

topic:  observational learning Reflect on observational learning.  In a 700 word paper, summarize what learning by observation means in 2-3 sentences.  Describe a time in your life where you learned a valuable lesson just by watching someone else.  Do you believe that this type of learning is more or less powerful in shaping human behavior?  Defend this answer- why do you think that?  What other contributions could impact the power of observational learning?  Explain a situation where observational learning has impacted your faith.  Write out a conclusion that ties these thoughts, experiences together.

– GROUP ASSESSMENT AND REFLECTION PAPER.This assignment is worth 26 points.Assignment three will be based on a written analysis (ie: Group Assessment and Reflective Paper) completed by each student individually. As the dates for presentation vary, the due dates for submission of the paper will be based on the date of the presentation. The students in each group will be required to submit their papers no later than Day 7 of the week following their presentation discussion during Live Classroom.

Think back to the start of this course. How have you changed as a result of learning about diversity and the mechanisms of power, privilege, and discrimination? What privileges do you have? Because of intersectional identities, you may hold privilege with one identity (e.g., gender), but lack privilege with another identity (e.g., class). Consider each identify separately and try to parcel out the effect of each identity on your experience. How can you use your power to advocate for other groups? For this Assignment, you integrate concepts that you have learned throughout the past 10 weeks. In addition to engaging in self-reflection, you apply concepts from the course resources and seek out additional literature in order to inform your continued development of cultural competence. Use the following identity categories when responding to the assignment points: Age Ability Religion/spirituality Ethnic/racial identity Socioeconomic status National origin Sex Gender identity and expression Sexual orientation Identity two ways in which you either hold privilege or lack privilege for each identity category. Identify two strengths associated with the identity you hold in each category. First, discuss each identity separately and then briefly discuss the intersectional nature of your identity. Support your analysis with citations to class resources. Explain how your values, biases, and judgments toward diverse groups have been challenged or confirmed during this course. Describe what you learned through your self-reflective Video Journals. Identify any areas that may need continued growth. Provide two strategies for continuing to develop your multicultural competence and support ideas with at least 2–3 peer-reviewed scholarly articles.

Unit 8.1   Similarities and Differences of Funerals Briefly describe the film clips identified for this discussion in the readings and resources section of Unit 8. The clips show an African-American funeral and thoughts on preparing for death. As you watch the clips, think about the particular aspects of the death rituals that are most striking to you, whether it is clothing, people’s particular emotions, attitudes of death, etc. What stands out to you? Describe similarities and differences from your own experiences with funerals and perceptions toward death and dying. Homegoings  https://www.pbs.org/video/pov-homegoings-going-home/  Homegoings: Preparing for Death Park 1   http://www.pbs.org/pov/homegoings/video-homegoings-classroom-clip-preparing-for-death-part-1/      Unit 8.2   Reflection on the Bereaved   Please reflect on (Working with Bereaved Individuals). How will this help you in working with others in our profession (which is HUMAN SERVICES?)   Please give examples to support your statements.   Unit 8.3   Stages of Grief and Loss   Define the Stages of Dying Model as outlined by Kubler-Ross (denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. and explain it in detail. How might this theory differ or be the same amongst cultures? Provide detailed examples.

Please read these two articles: https://psychcentral.com/lib/what-is-emotional-intelligence-eq/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/travisbradberry/2014/01/09/emotional-intelligence/#1ab63cc31ac0 2) Then, write up a 300 word essay discussing these questions: What is emotional intelligence in your own words and why is it important? Explain from the Forbes article why people with average IQs outperform those with the highest IQs 70% of the time. What does the Forbes article state are the skills for success? After reading about the Five Categories of Emotional Intelligence, under each category, “Self-awareness”, “Self-regulation, “Motivation” “Empathy” and “Social skills” there are bullet points identifying skills under each category. Discuss which of these skills you think are your strengths and which skills are maybe skills you can work on more. You don’t have to reference or cite the articles, unless you add direct information, then you will need to properly cite the quotes. But if you just refer to the articles and use your own words, then you don’t have to reference or cite the articles.

1)  What have you learned so far about statistics that you find interesting? 2)  The book states the following:  “The smaller our sample size and the more extreme the outlier score is, the more these extreme scores will affect the mean in a skewed distribution” Explain how this occurs. I.e. How does a small sample size increase the effect of an outlier on the mean in a skewed distribution?  How do more extreme scores affect the mean in a skewed distribution? This new introductory statistics text from Dawn M. McBride, best-selling author of The Process of Research in Psychology,