Opportunities for future growth

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Please choose only one

 

For this assignment, you will be writing a reflection paper on one of the following TED talks. In the Self Reflection assignment, examine the effect of course material on your assumptions and knowledge about the role of culture or your everyday interactions with others from a different culture, religion, or socio-economic group. While the reflection is subjective, the paper should be an integration of your experience and the course readings.

Ariely, D. (2015, March). Dan Ariely: How equal do we want the world to be? You’d be surprised [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_ariely_how_equal_do_we_want_the_world_to_be_you_d_be_surprised

Kimmel, M. (2015, May). Michael Kimmel: Why gender equality is good for everyone- men included [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.ted.com/talks/michael_kimmel_why_gender_equality_is_good_for_everyone_men_included

Lynch, M. (2017, April). Michael Patrick Lynch: How to see past your own perspective and find truth [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.ted.com/talks/michael_patrick_lynch_how_to_see_past_your_own_perspective_and_find_truth

What does the speaker’s experience mean to you?

What 5 theories or course concepts help you to understand your experience?

What you have learned from the experience?

How might you move forward from this point?

How might the experience affect your thinking and practice?

How can you apply these new ideas in the future?

Identify 3 opportunities for future growth or engagement.

Aftermath of Domestic Violence

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1 Devakumar, D., Palfreyman, A., Uthayakumar-Cumarasamy, A., Ullah, N., Ranasinghe, C., Minckas, N., Nadkarni, A., Oram, S., Osrin, D., & Mannell, J. (2021). Mental health of women and children experiencing family violence in conflict settings: a mixed methods systematic review. Conflict & Health, 15(1), 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13031-021-00410-4

2 Anderson, K. M., Renner, L. M., & Danis, F. S. (2012). Recovery: Resilience and Growth in the Aftermath of Domestic Violence. Violence Against Women, 18(11), 1279–1299. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077801212470543

3 Flasch, P., Murray, C. E., & Crowe, A. (2017). Overcoming Abuse: A Phenomenological Investigation of the Journey to Recovery From Past Intimate Partner Violence. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 32(22), 3373–3401. https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260515599161

4 Nicky Stanley, Pam Miller, Helen Richardson Foster, Gill Thomson, A Stop–Start Response: Social Services’ Interventions with Children and Families Notified following Domestic Violence Incidents, The British Journal of Social Work, Volume 41, Issue 2, March 2011, Pages 296–313, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcq071

5 Rachel Robbins, Kate Cook, ‘Don’t Even Get Us Started on Social Workers’: Domestic Violence, Social Work and Trust—An Anecdote from Research, The British Journal of Social Work, Volume 48, Issue 6, September 2018, Pages 1664–1681, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcx125

Empathy-bias regarding hate crime

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Discussion: Does Hate Crime Legislation Reduce Hate Crimes and Contribute to Social Change?

Consider a crime like murder that might have different legal consequences based on whether it is considered to be a hate crime. When someone murders another person, the offender can be prosecuted and sentenced for this offense, given sufficient evidence to prove that the individual committed this act. Let’s say that the offender left placards around the dead body that stated: “All Muslims must leave the country or die.” In this case, the prosecutor might be able to prove that the murder was a hate crime. What would be the advantages and disadvantages of prosecuting murder as a hate crime?

For this Discussion, you will research and analyze hate crime legislation. In your post, you will discuss whether hate crime legislation affects the occurrence of certain types of criminal acts, victim impact, or social change.

https://www.justice.gov/crt/matthew-shepard-and-james-byrd-jr-hate-crimes-prevention-act-2009-0

Review the Learning Resources.

  • Consider your empathy-bias regarding hate crime legislation.
  • Set your empathy-bias aside and consider the effects of having hate crime legislation and prosecution on the occurrence of hate crimes, victim impact, and social change.
  • Consider the differences in sentencing for hate crimes.
  • Gather scholarly literature, which may include Learning Resources to support the points you plan to make in your discussion post.

Dangers of using alcohol and drugs

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As an addiction professional, you may contribute to social change in a variety of ways. For example, you may educate clients and families, engage in local community and political agendas to help those in need, and connect with other professionals in the field across the city, state, or nation. In addition, you might work to limit social agendas that may potentially hurt clients, families, and communities at large.

Individuals, groups, governments, school systems and communities aim to advocate for people in need through the use of social programs. For example, the Drug Abuse Awareness and Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) program designed by Nancy Reagan in the 1980s was a social program with the goal of keeping kids away from alcohol and drugs. This program was used in nearly 80% of school districts in the United States where police officers were tasked with educating school-aged children about the dangers of using alcohol and drugs. Unfortunately, despite the best of intentions, some social change programs are ineffective and fail to accomplish what they set out to do. D.A.R.E. has reportedly been ineffective and was sometimes shown to be counterproductive (Hanson, n. d.).

Stress and Cognitive Functions

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Discussion 1: Stress and Cognitive Functions

Consider the work of an air traffic controller or an emergency room physician. Both jobs require alertness, quick thinking, and sound judgment in the making of a constant stream of life-or-death decisions. This process occurs with every worker’s shift, day after day. Imagine the impact of such an ongoing responsibility on cognitive functioning.

Stress has profound effects on cognitive functions, such as decision making, occasionally altering the brain in surprising ways. Stress symptoms may lead to prominent clinical characteristics, which often go beyond anxiety and fear. Stress hormones can affect neurotransmitter systems in the brain, causing physical changes in some cases. The hippocampus, for example, can atrophy as a result of chronic stress.

For this Discussion, consider effects of stress on cognitive functions. Then think about a time when stress affected your cognitive functions.

With these thoughts in mind:

By Day 3

Post a brief explanation of how stress affects cognitive functions, including the roles of the amygdala and the prefrontal cortex. Then provide examples of situations when stress affected your attention, memory, problem solving, or decision making. Finally, explain how you might mitigate the effects of stress on cognitive functions.

Be sure to support your postings and responses with specific references to the Learning Resources.

The occurrence of hate crimes

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Consider a crime like murder that might have different legal consequences based on whether it is considered to be a hate crime. When someone murders another person, the offender can be prosecuted and sentenced for this offense, given sufficient evidence to prove that the individual committed this act. Let’s say that the offender left placards around the dead body that stated: “All Muslims must leave the country or die.” In this case, the prosecutor might be able to prove that the murder was a hate crime. What would be the advantages and disadvantages of prosecuting the murder as a hate crime?

For this Discussion, you will research and analyze hate crime legislation. In your post, you will discuss whether hate crime legislation affects the occurrence of certain types of criminal acts, victim impact, or social change.

  • Explain what effects, if any, hate crime legislation, prosecution, and punishment have on:
    • The occurrence of hate crimes
    • Victim impact
    • Social change
  • Compare sentencing for hate crimes to sentencing for the same crime that has not been labeled a hate crime.
  • Justify your opinion based on scholarly resources

Victim impact on social change

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As a consultant or researcher, you might be hired to conduct a literature review to inform the court or other legal personnel about a topic that is relevant to a legal case. This literature review might include the following features:

  • An historical summary of case law, legislation, and policies pertaining to a specific legal decision or sequence of decisions
  • A summary of research findings that are relevant to the specific legal decision(s)
  • An analysis of how the research findings have either affected legal decisions or could affect legal decisions
  • An analysis of how a proposed legal decision could impact social change

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You could contribute to this project by a literature review that includes the following:

  • A summary of relevant case law and legislation at the national level and in relevant jurisdictions, e.g., other states and counties that have passed laws similar to the one to be drafted
  • A summary of research findings about recidivism rates for minors who have not been transferred and those who have been transferred to an adult court, developmental psychology research findings that have addressed adjudicative competency of minors to face charges in adult court, research findings about mental health problems presented by minors and whether these will be addressed if the minor is transferred to adult court, etc.
  • An analysis of how research findings have impacted or could impact legislation that proposes to transfer minors to adult court to face charges
  • An analysis of how legislation to transfer minors to adult court could impact social change

In a 12- to 16-page  (excluding title page, abstract, and references), explore the evolution of a forensic psychology topic based on legal cases.

Required elements of the Final Project:

  • Identify a current or controversial issue that forensic psychology professionals face that has been recently influenced by legislation, case law, or national policies. (Refer to the next list for possible issues.)
  • Explain the legal and policy decisions that have contributed to the evolution of the current legal status of the selected issue.
  • Summarize relevant research in psychology that has informed the manner in which the forensic psychology professional conducts research or consultation related to the selected issue.
  • Describe ethical dilemmas likely encountered by the forensic psychology professional while conducting research or consultation related to the selected issue.
  • Integrate research about legal laws and policies with scholarly research findings in order to propose recommended best practice standards related to the selected issue.
  • Explain how the recommended best-practice standards will contribute to social change.

Possible issues to focus on in the Final Project:

  • Evolution of legal definitions for criminal responsibility
  • Civil commitment for mental health evaluation or treatment
  • Civil commitment of sex offenders
  • Death penalty evaluations or investigations
  • Transfer of juveniles to adult court and competency to stand trial
  • Police use of force and public perceptions, victim impact, officer impact, police departmental/agency policies
  • Role of the forensic psychology professional in terrorism investigations
  • Hate crimes and punishment (special provisions for hate crimes versus prosecuting with existing laws)
  • Victim impact, impact on social change

Qualitative Data Collection Method

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This week is only about the qualitative scenario. Repost, or build on or refine as needed, your qualitative scenario using the following headings and according to the italicized instructions given for each element:

Program of Study: Identify your specific program of study and, if applicable, your concentration area.

Social Problem: Briefly describe the social problem or phenomenon of interest. Typically, this can be done in 3 or fewer sentences.

Qualitative Research Problem: Complete the following sentence: The scholarly community does not know…

Qualitative Research Purpose: Typically, this is a 1-sentence statement addressed by completing the following sentence: The purpose of this qualitative study is…

Qualitative Research Question: Typically, this is a 1-sentence question unless you have more than one research question.

Theory or Conceptual Framework: Identify a specific psychological or sociological theory or specific aspects of a conceptual framework that guides the scenario. Briefly describe how the specific theory or conceptual framework guides your research question and will aid in interpretation of results.

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.

Qualitative Sampling Strategy: Be specific.

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

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.

Qualitative Data Collection Method: Be specific.

Cognitive bias in system thinking

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Introduction
Remember – these journal questions require more thinking than writing. Think about exactly what you are asked to do, and then write as economically as possible.

Instructions
For this journal assignment, briefly answer each of the following prompts. For all instances where you are required to provide a definition, do not copy definitions from the text. Use your own words.

  • Self-Regulation
    • The textbook mentions the skill of self-regulation. How do you define this term? You may want to review Chapter 2 (to review critical thinking skills) before your write out your definition.
  • Sytem-1 and System-2
    • Define System-1 and System-2 thinking in your own words.
      • Give an example from your personal or work life where you would use each of them, explaining why each is appropriate to the situation in which you use it.
  • Heuristics
    • Define “heuristic” in your own words.
      • Give an example of a heuristic might be used in your personal or professional life and briefly show how it could have a positive or negative effect.
      • Do not use examples found in the text.
  • Dominance Structuring
    • Explain the term “dominance structuring” in your own words.
    • Is dominance structuring a positive or negative attribute of critical thinking? Explain.
      • Use examples if that is helpful to your explanation.
  • Cognitive Bias
    • Briefly examine what part you think mastery of facts and understanding of data have in avoiding cognitive bias in System-1 thinking.

Descriptive and inferential statistics

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Descriptive Statistics

Descriptive statistics is used for helping to describe the highlights (features) of a particular informational collection by providing short outlines about the sample and proportions of the information (Pallant, 2020). The most perceived kinds of descriptive statistics are proportions of focus: the mean, middle, and mode, which are utilized at practically all degrees of measurements (Loether et al., 1993).

 

Descriptive Statistics
  N Minimum Maximum Mean Std. Deviation
How old are you today? 301 18 76 43.34 13.272
Valid N (listwise) 301        

 

 

The average age of the participant is 43.34 years.

 

What is your gender?
  Frequency Percent Valid Percent Cumulative Percent
Valid Male 90 29.9 29.9 29.9
  Female 205 68.1 68.1 98.0
  Prefer not to answer 6 2.0 2.0 100.0
  Total 301 100.0 100.0  

 

 

The data shows that the 68.1% of the participant are female and 29.9% are male.

 

 

What is your highest educational degree?
  Frequency Percent Valid Percent Cumulative Percent
Valid Other (please specify) 2 .7 .7 .7
  High School/ GED 23 7.6 7.6 8.3
  Some college/ Associates 60 19.9 19.9 28.2
  Bachelors 66 21.9 21.9 50.2
  Masters 130 43.2 43.2 93.4
  Doctorate/Professional degree 20 6.6 6.6 100.0
  Total 301 100.0 100.0  

 

 

The data shows that the most of the participant have master degree followed by bachelor,

 

 

What is your marital status?
  Frequency Percent Valid Percent Cumulative Percent
Valid Married/ Partner 179 59.5 59.5 59.5
  Single 86 28.6 28.6 88.0
  Divorced 28 9.3 9.3 97.3
  Widowed 3 1.0 1.0 98.3
  Prefer not to answer 5 1.7 1.7 100.0
  Total 301 100.0 100.0  

 

 

 

Most of the participant are married or having partner and followed by single.

 

Statistics
I would be contributing to the betterment of the community.
N Valid 261
  Missing 40
Mean 6.0192
Median 6.0000
Mode 7.00

 

 

 

I would be contributing to the betterment of the community.
  Frequency Percent Valid Percent Cumulative Percent
Valid Extremely unlikely 7 2.3 2.7 2.7
  Quite unlikely 3 1.0 1.1 3.8
  Slightly unlikely 7 2.3 2.7 6.5
  Neither likely or unlikely 8 2.7 3.1 9.6
  Slightly likely 24 8.0 9.2 18.8
  Quite likely 99 32.9 37.9 56.7
  Extremely likely 113 37.5 43.3 100.0
  Total 261 86.7 100.0  
Missing System 40 13.3    
Total 301 100.0    

 

 

 

References

Loether, H. J., & McTavish, D. G. (1993). Descriptive and inferential statistics: An introduction (4th ed.). Boston: Allyn and Bacon.

Pallant, J. (2020). SPSS survival manual: A step by step guide to data analysis using IBN SPSS (7th ed.). McGraw-Hill.