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How does the lens from which you view the world shape your approach to research inquiry? Why is it important as a scholar-practitioner engaged in research to acknowledge your worldview?
The Learning Resources in this first week will help you answer these questions, and they will provide you with a foundation in the philosophy of science that will help you appreciate various research designs and methods. With this foundation, you will be encouraged to reflect on how your assumptions about the acquisition of truth and the nature of the world influence your approach to the research process.
For this Discussion, you will identify an area of interest for a possible research topic. As you read about the different philosophical orientations in this week’s readings, consider if one of these orientations most closely aligns with your worldview and a particular approach to research.
Post a brief description of your topic of research interest. Next, state the philosophical orientation that reflects your worldview and explain the epistemological and ontological assumptions of this orientation. Then, explain how these assumptions lend themselves to one or more research approaches.
Be sure to support your Main Issue Post and Response Post with reference to the week’s Learning Resources and other scholarly evidence in APA Style.
LEARNING RESIURCES/REFERENCES

Babbie, E. (2017). Basics of social research (7th ed.). Boston, MA: Cengage Learning.
Chapter 1, “Human Inquiry and Science”
Burkholder, G. J., Cox, K. A., Crawford, L. M., & Hitchcock, J. H. (Eds.). (2020). Research designs and methods: An applied guide for the scholar-practitioner. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Chapter 1, “Introduction to Research”
Chapter 2, “Philosophical Foundations and the Role of Theory in Research”

Watch the following 1999 film:
O’Hara, R., Macaulay, S., Dewis, J., Marx, L. (Producers), & Whaley, F. (Director). (1999). Joe the King [Motion picture]. United States: 49th Parallel, Forensic/291 Films, Lower East Side Films.

Please note, this movie contains strong language and violence (rated R). Do not watch it with young children.
You will use this movie as the case study for your Integrating Theory Into Professional Practice course project.

You are the social worker for Joe’s family and are tasked with completing an assessment on the family.
What are all of the societal factors involved, for each family member?
How might these societal factors influence family dynamics?
How might these societal factors influence the psychological or biological systems with which they are involved?

Watch the videos listed below and answer the questions that follow:
Adolescents & Addiction:

Adolescent Drug Addiction

The Science of Relapse

Brain imaging on drugs

Please answer the following questions and indicate what videos helped you answer the question.
Discuss three things new to you or that stood out to you from watching the videos.
Identify at least two biases you may have regarding persons with a substance use disorder and how this may affect your work/treatment. (Note if your preferences changed after reviewing this week’s material).
How vital is substance/addiction education for your PMHNP/future career?
What is one specific thing that you can do to increase your knowledge of substance use disorders?
Find one online video that discusses the effects of drugs on the brain. Choose one type of drug (i.e. stimulants) and briefly describe how it affects the brain.
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Define Schizophrenia and what are the common symptoms that are present with this condition.
How are you going to prepare yourself as a nurse in dealing with patients who are presenting with these symptoms?

You will be working on a research work. You may focus on a specific rap style and the lifestyle that comes with it (such as trap music), you may focus on the excesses of wealth and the pervasive culture of “if you got it, you flaunt it,”. You may focus on women in hip-hop who are not as sexual as their popular counterparts in rap but still thrive in the industry.
Requirements:
-APA format 7th edition (bookmark this link as it will be helpful in your APA format journey)
Length: 5 – 10 pages of content (this does not include the cover page, abstract or references page)
Use a minimum of 5 sources. This can be in the form of a newspaper article, magazine article, credible website articles, documentaries, and scholarly articles/journals.

As you consider potential places of employment for the future, think about work settings that might require special ethical considerations.
Describe three work settings that present special ethical challenges or considerations. Explain why these settings would be challenging or additional considerations should be taken.
In response to your peers, give at least one example of a conflict outside of one of the work settings that could have potential repercussions at work. Discuss how these work settings could be affected by behaviors or personal choices outside of the work environment.
PLEASE USE ARTICLES AND TEXTBOOK AS REFERENCE AND APA IN TEXT CITATIONS
1. Therapy in Prison: Where Legal, Ethics, and Morals Collide | Psychology Today
Textbook: Ethics in Psychology and the Mental Health Professions: Standards and Cases, Chapter 15
Chapter 15 addresses challenging work settings and a professional’s responsibility to understand basic ethical considerations as well as the special characteristics and challenges entailed in certain environments where you may deliver services.

The XYZ Corporation has decided to make some changes to help with the work–life balance of its employees. Currently, the organization has 40 employees: 25 full-time employees and 15 part-time employees. Each part-time employee currently works 20 hours on the grounds of XYZ and spends 5 hours working from home. The full-time employees work 30 hours a week on the grounds of XYZ and travel 10 hours per week for sales. XYZ has rolled out a new product that will require more travel time for the employees to gain more customers. On top of travel, more online time will be required to meet with international customers via online video calls. The initial proposal is that all part-time employees will need to be on the grounds of XYZ for their full 25 hours a week, while the full-time employees will split their work week as follows:
20 hours on the grounds of XYZ
15 hours of travel
5 hours working from home
This arrangement has not been given a time line, but it is expected to last at least 6 months.
Use the scenario above when addressing the following questions- You will only need to answer the questions based on your concentration: OB (Organizational Behavior)
Part 1: Leadership as it Relates to your Concentration
OB: What leadership traits would aid you in explaining the change in routine to your employees?
Part 2: Analyze and Organizational Change
Find two articles about a business going through an organizational change and discuss the following.
OB: What was the impact of organizational change on the employees? What were the motivational factors that inhibited the change or aided the change?
Part 3: Psychology of Change
OB: Why do relationships matter between employees and leaders during change? Use psychological theories support your position.

Respond to at least one of your colleagues’ posts, and then search the Walden Library databases to locate another peer-reviewed article on the same topic as your colleague’s article. Describe the article you found and why it might be of interest to your colleague. Include the name of the database where you found it (i.e., APA PsycINFO, etc.) and further provide the citation to the article in APA format (author, publication, year, article title, journal title, and volume/issue/page numbers).
Although there is no specific word count required for responses to colleagues, a good follow-up response can typically be expressed in 100–200 words. Responses should enrich the initial post by supporting and/or adding a fresh viewpoint and be constructive, enhancing the learning for all students.

Based on interviews with Annie’s parents and direct observation in Annie’s home and school, the first behavior to target is skin picking. When Annie picks her skin, she uses the forefinger of one hand to scratch and dig at the skin of her arms and legs. She has only been observed to pick at the skin on her arms and legs. The behavior occurs mostly during down times: while waiting, while watching television, while in her bedroom alone. A brief functional analysis was conducted and revealed that skin picking never occurred during attention, escape, or tangible conditions. The behavior only occurred during alone conditions.
The second issue of concern identified by the parents and confirmed via observation is Annie’s lack of functional speech. After consulting with Annie’s speech pathologist, it was determined that Annie is capable of vocal speech. She echoes simple words spoken by others and has a strong echoic repertoire of one-syllable words. She does not currently use vocal speech to get her needs and wants met or to identify things in her environment. During the observation, there were multiple occurrences of Annie pulling her mother and father into the kitchen and pointing at the refrigerator. If her parents did not guess what she wanted in the first or second try, Annie would jump up and down and start screaming, getting louder and louder until her parents guessed correctly. This episode went on for as long as 10-15 minutes. The episodes ended only when her parents correctly guessed the item she wanted.
Her parents report that Annie’s favorite foods are pretzels, raisins, cheese crackers, apples, and grapes. They said that they can get her to “do almost anything” for some grapes. She also likes to drink chocolate milk and apple juice. For fun, she plays with toys and watches television. Her favorite toys are little animals and little dolls (she collects them), tiny furniture. Her parents report that Annie loves “tiny” things. When she watches television, she usually watches Teen Titans Go or Littlest Pet Shop. She has an iPad her parents control her access to. She sometimes watches YouTube videos on her iPad. She also enjoys swimming and swinging outside.
Referral
Parent/Guardian Name(s): Juan and Maria Rodriguez
Client name: Annabelle “Annie” Rodriguez
Client Age: 7 Gender: Female
Current diagnoses: Moderate Intellectual Disability, Autism Spectrum Disorder, GERD
Brief description of behaviors of concern: Annie’s most frequent and most worrisome behavior is skin picking. She picks at her skin using her fingers and creates open sores on her arms and legs. At any given time, she has several open sores on her body. This has led to skin infections in the past. She often does this when she is watching television or alone in her room.
The second concern is her lack of speech. She is able to repeat words she hears others say, but does not initiate communication on her own. If she gets frustrated, she will jump up and down and scream until someone figures out what it is she wants. She usually leads people around the house and points at things if she wants something. It is getting harder and harder to understand what she wants.
Assessment for the behaviors identified in the referral (See Referral Formhttps://kapextmediassl-a.akamaihd.net/artsSCi/PS365/PS365_1807D/PS365_ReferralForm.docx and Brief Summary of the Functional Behavior Assessment (https://kapextmediassl-a.akamaihd.net/artsSCi/PS365/PS365_1807D/PS365_BriefSummaryFBA.docx)
You are ready to begin your intervention plan, but you need to get the parents’ approval first. In a meeting with the parents, you describe your behavior intervention plan and provide a rationale for your intervention choices.
Question
Behavior Excess for Decrease: Skin Picking
Operationally Define the target behavior by writing a 1–2 sentence that meets all of the following criteria:
Observable
Passes the “Dead Man’s” test and the “stranger” test
Uses no labels or hypothetical constructs
Explain the difference between habit behaviors and behaviors controlled by social reinforcers. Include examples.
Explain how you plan to implement all four components of habit reversal with Annie. Include a specific competing response.
Explain why you expect this procedure to be effective, including a description of the applicable behavioral principles that explain why habit procedures work to reduce habit behaviors.
Including a description of the applicable behavioral principles that explain why habit procedures work to reduce habit behaviors.
Question
Behavior Deficits for Increase: The Mand and the Tact
Begin by explaining to the parents the difference between the behavioral view of language and the cognitive view of language.
Accurately represent the behavioral view of how language is learned.
Define the two verbal operants you plan to teach, i.e., the mand and the tact.
Clearly differentiate between the two by providing examples for the parents. Your definitions should include the controlling antecedents and consequences for each verbal operant.
Identify which verbal operant you will teach first and explain your rationale for this choice.
Explain your procedures for teaching each verbal operant. Include details of what a typical teaching session would look like.
In your description of how you will teach a mand, identify:
A specific mand to teach
How you will set up the relevant motivating operation
A description of how you will use shaping to teach the new verbal operant
Include how you will prompt and differentially reinforce the mand (identifying the reinforcement to be used).
How you will fade your prompts
In your description of how you will teach a tact, identify:
A specific tact to teach
How you will set up the relevant discriminative stimuli
A description of how you will use shaping to teach the new verbal operant
Include how you will prompt and differentially reinforce the tact (identifying the reinforcement to be used).
How you will fade your prompts
Reference
Cooper, J. O., Heron, T. E., & Heward, W. L. (2019). Applied Behavior Analysis (3rd ed.). Pearson Education (US). https://purdueuniversityglobal.vitalsource.com/books/9780134798769

Read the article, “Nine sloughs: profiling the climate history of the Yuan and Ming dynasties, 1260–1644” (nine-sloughs-profiling-the-climate-history-of-the-yuan-and-ming-dynasties-1260-1644.pdf Download nine-sloughs-profiling-the-climate-history-of-the-yuan-and-ming-dynasties-1260-1644.pdf Download nine-sloughs-profiling-the-climate-history-of-the-yuan-and-ming-dynasties-1260-1644.pdf), and first, answer ONE of the following questions, noting which question you’re answering. Second, comment on the posting of a classmate.
NOTE: The “Nine sloughs” article is a good work of scholarship and, as such, can seem a bit technical and dense in places: please don’t worry about retaining data–you can skim these areas. What is important is getting an idea of the author’s argument and general thesis.
“Environmental determinism” is a term that describes the causal influence that climate and geography have on the course of human history in a region. It is a concept that most historians treat cautiously.
[answer only one of the following, then comment on a classmate’s posting]
1. Does “Nine sloughs” seem to make a good case for environmental determinism, or not? Use specific examples and explain your argument one way or the other.
2. Consider environmental determinism more broadly. Using a specific event or span of history, describe how using this analytical framework can allow for greater insight or comprehension of history.
3. How can environmental determinism lead to a distortion or misuse of evidence and cause misinterpretation of history or even harm? Use a real or hypothetical example.
ANSWER
**Question 1: Does “Nine sloughs” seem to make a good case for environmental determinism, or not?**
The article “Nine sloughs: profiling the climate history of the Yuan and Ming dynasties, 1260–1644” does make a good case for environmental determinism, at least to some extent. The author, Jun-Yi Yu, argues that climate change had a significant impact on the course of Chinese history during the Yuan and Ming dynasties.
Yu provides a number of specific examples to support his argument. For example, he notes that the Little Ice Age, which began in the 14th century, led to colder winters and shorter growing seasons in China. This made it more difficult for farmers to produce enough food to feed the population, which led to famine and social unrest.
Yu also argues that climate change contributed to the decline of the Ming dynasty. The Ming government was unable to respond effectively to the challenges posed by climate change, such as droughts and floods. This led to a decline in the government’s legitimacy and authority, which ultimately contributed to the dynasty’s collapse in 1644.
While Yu’s argument is persuasive, it is important to note that environmental determinism is a complex concept. It is difficult to isolate the impact of climate change from other factors that influence human history, such as economic conditions, political instability, and cultural factors.
However, Yu’s article does provide strong evidence that climate change played a significant role in the course of Chinese history during the Yuan and Ming dynasties. This evidence suggests that environmental determinism can be a useful analytical framework for understanding human history.
**Comment on classmate’s post:**
Classmate’s post is well-written and informative. They provide a clear and concise explanation of environmental determinism and its potential pitfalls. I agree with their point that environmental determinism can be used to justify harmful policies and practices. For example, it has been used to justify colonialism and the exploitation of natural resources.
I would add that environmental determinism can also be used to deny the agency of human beings. By blaming climate change for all of the world’s problems, we absolve ourselves of responsibility for our own actions. This can lead to a fatalistic attitude and a sense of helplessness.
It is important to remember that humans are not passive victims of the environment. We have the ability to adapt to climate change and mitigate its effects. We also have the ability to make choices that reduce our impact on the environment.
By understanding the potential pitfalls of environmental determinism, we can use it as a tool to inform our decision-making and create a more sustainable future.