Category: Psychology

What is self-efficacy? How would you advise a supervisor to help her/his subordinates to increase their self-efficacy? Would this impact their performance?

Self-Efficacy

What is self-efficacy? How would you advise a supervisor to help her/his subordinates to increase their self-efficacy? Would this impact their performance?

Why or why not? Work to have a balanced response that includes both proper review of factual material to establish a foundation along with your own discussion, examples, and integration of the material.

Support your point of view, examples, and assertions with cited references.

A minimum of two scholarly references are required, one of which must be a peer-reviewed journal article. Additional references must be scholarly sources.

Cite and list the sources in APA format.

Suggested length is at least 450 words.

Describe and defend a specific statistical procedure you would use to answer the research question. Identify specific eligibility criteria for your sample, and briefly defend the need for the eligibility criteria.

1. Statistical Analysis: (Describe and defend a specific statistical procedure you would use to answer the research question).

2.  Social Change: Briefly describe positive social change implications of potential findings.

3. Qualitative Research Design: Identify a specific qualitative research design. Do not use broad terms, such as descriptive design, exploratory design, hermeneutics, lived experience, and so on. Briefly describe how the selected design fits your scenario.

4. Qualitative Sampling Strategy: Be specific.

5. Sampling Criteria: Identify specific eligibility criteria for your sample, and briefly defend the need for the eligibility criteria.

6.Qualitative Data Collection Method: Be specific.

7. Add Sources of Data: Identify specific sources of data needed to answer your research question, briefly describe how you would access the sources (e.g., recruitment of participants, artifact availability, and access), and briefly discuss potential access issues.

8.  Qualitative Data Collection Method: Be specific.

9.  Data Analysis Plan: Being as specific as you can, explain how you will analyze the data, and briefly discuss any concerns or issues with your analysis plan.

10. Trustworthiness: Explain how you will ensure trustworthiness in your qualitative study.

Describe ways you might have worked with Claudia to address her fears and anxiety related to the mugging she witnessed.

Play Therapy/Transference and Countertransference

***Post an explanation of ways play therapy might be beneficial for Claudia.

Using the insights gained from the articles, describe ways you might have worked with Claudia to address her fears and anxiety related to the mugging she witnessed.

Required Readings

Plummer, S.-B., Makris, S., & Brocksen, S. M. (Eds.). (2014b). Social work case studies: Concentration year. Baltimore, MD: Laureate International Universities Publishing. [Vital Source e-reader].

Working with Children and Adolescents: The Case of Claudia (pp. 15–17)

Chiesa, C. (2012). Scripts in the sand: Sandplay in transactional analysis psychotherapy with children. Transactional Analysis Journal, 42(4), 285–293.

***Post your explanation why transference and countertransference are so common when working with children. Then, identify some strategies you might use to address both transference and countertransference in your work with children

Explain in a concise professional manner how you would conduct your first meeting with Jennifer. Identify specific steps you would take to understand her circumstance and needs.

Somatic Symptom Disorders

Resource:

TED Conferences, LLC (Producer). (2016). What happens when you have a disease doctors can’t diagnose [Video file]. Retrieved from

Explain in a concise professional manner how you would conduct your first meeting with Jennifer. Identify specific steps you would take to understand her circumstance and needs.

Explain how you would proceed with her medical team in terms of advocacy for her as a client believed to have this condition.

Explain why you would need to take a biopsychosocial approach to her ongoing care.

Explain what social, family, vocational, Internet, and medical supports you would explore to help with her longer-term stabilization.

Analyze the controversy in diagnosing a mental disorder based on unexplained physical symptoms. Within your analysis, consider how power and privilege influence who provides the diagnoses and which groups are more likely to be diagnosed with certain disorders. Explain your thoughts on this debate.

How has the growth of cognitive psychology changed the way Tolman’s theories are viewed today?

Learning Theories

The essay must be about the following topic:

How has the growth of cognitive psychology changed the way Tolman’s theories are viewed today?

Also will appreciate if you are able to get information for paper from Stephen B. Klein book “Learning” that will be helpful.

Discuss the contribution that your study will make to the literature if your hypotheses are supported. What does your study add to the literature that you already reviewed? What unique contribution does it make?

Paper detalis:

*** Will provide Sources in PDF files uploaded***
**Topic will be related to Sex Offender Recidivism**

In this paper, you propose a research project that utilizes one of the designs covered in the course. Specifically, you may propose either:

Experimental
Quasi-experimental
Non-experimental
Descriptive
Correlational

No matter which strategy you choose, your paper will contain all the sections of a research report put forth in the APA guide except for the analysis and results. (You are only proposing a study, not carrying one out.) Thus, you should have an APA-style cover sheet, abstract, introduction—including a literature review—hypotheses, method, discussion, and references as well as any tables or figures you might find useful.

Your paper should be structured as follows:

Title page
Abstract
Literature review

Introduce and summarize research (include discussion of at least 10 peer-reviewed, empirical psychology articles) that has already been done
Set up your hypotheses (final statement in this section should be your formal hypothesis)

Proposed method
Discuss
Proposed sample
Measures (including how these will be reliable and valid)
Research strategy
Research design

Discussion of threats to validity and how they will be managed

Discussion

Because you will not have results to discuss, you should discussThe contribution that your study will make to the literature if your hypotheses are supported. (What does your study add to the literature that you already reviewed? What unique contribution does it make?)

The strengths and weaknesses of your methodology (based on what you learned about that methodology in the course)What kinds of conclusions can be drawn?

Which conclusions cannot be drawn?

Will you be able to show causation, given the design you chose?

References
APA-style reference list. Tables and figures are also okay, but not required. If you do include them, they must be in APA format
Parameters
3,000 words, excluding title page, references, and tables and figures
APA format, 12 pt, Times New Roman font

What do you think the Black Lives Matter movements, Immigrant Rights Movements and related protests will do to American politics or policy in the long term (5 years or more in the future)?

How will social movements shape politics?

What do you think the Black Lives Matter movements, Immigrant Rights Movements and related protests will do to American politics or policy in the long term (5 years or more in the future)? Will the movements accomplish their goals, or have unexpected side effects?

Draw on theories discussed in the readings and real-world examples as applicable to make your argument.

Explain who will react to the movements, what they will do, and why we should expect this outcome. Feel free to talk about changes in things like the following:

Political party membership, legislation around criminal justice and civil rights, public opinion on issues of race or policing, or other outcomes you think are likely to respond to the movements.

What were some of the reasons given in this chapter for updating our prevailing model of the human body? What benefits do a biopychosocial view of the connection between thoughts, emotions and the digestive system offer?

For this assignment, read the following chapter of The Mind-Gut Connection by Emeran Mayer. **

In this introductory chapter, Dr. Mayer discusses how the traditional biological model approached gastro intestinal problems/complaints with patients.

Briefly:

What was this model’s approach and what were the pitfalls? Give at least one example of a disorder or illness that wasn’t properly treated by the biomedical approach.

What were some of the reasons given in this chapter for updating our prevailing model of the human body? What benefits do a biopychosocial view of the connection between thoughts, emotions and the digestive system offer?

Why is the gut called our “second brain”?

What is one question you have about the reading? Or, what is something you found particularly interesting or surprising about the reading?

Explains several common concerns about vaccinations and gives some scientific explanations about how vaccines work in response to those concerns. 

Read the following blog post article.

Vaccines 101:

Too Much Too Soon? by Dr. Alison Shuman on TheScientificParent.org

Then,  post a response to the following questions:

The author explains several common concerns about vaccinations and gives some scientific explanations about how vaccines work in response to those concerns.

briefly summarize the author’s answer to the common question, “There are so many more vaccines than when  a kid, and now they combined some of them into one shot…doesn’t that increase the risk of bad reactions? Can’t that overwhelm my baby’s system? Isn’t this too much too soon?”.

At the minimum, you should explain what antigens and antibodies are and what they do.
Are there other concerns you think people might have about vaccines that are not addressed by this article?

If so, what is the concern?
In conclusion, do some brief research either on the internet or through your library’s resources to find evidence that supports or refutes either the concern you brought up in point #2 or any of the other concerns discussed in the blog/article.

This need not be extensive but should include a couple sentences mentioning what you found with either a link to the web page or an attachment of the article you found.

Your response should be 500 words and include APA style reference to the book; podcasts or other material.

What is naturalistic observation? How does a researcher collect data when conducting naturalistic observation research?

Review Questions
1. What is the difference between qualitative and quantitative approaches to studying behavior?
2. What is naturalistic observation? How does a researcher collect data when conducting naturalistic observation research?
3. Why are the data in naturalistic observation research primarily qualitative?
4. Distinguish between participant and nonparticipant observation; between concealed and nonconcealed observation.
5. What is systematic observation? Why are the data from systematic observation primarily quantitative?
6. What is a coding system? What are some important considerations when developing a coding system?
7. What is a case study? When are case studies used? What is a psychobiography?
8. What is archival research? What are the major sources of archival data?
9. What is content analysis?