Category: Psychology

Assignment Instructions
Xavier is a three-year-old child who was just diagnosed with autism. He has never had functional language and exhibits frequent tantrums in the form of crying, hitting, and throwing items. Xavier recently began receiving ABA therapy and is your new client. Xavier’s grandmother is his guardian and wants his therapist to focus on teaching him the alphabet, shapes, colors, and numbers.
In this assignment, write a letter responding to Xavier’s grandmother and include the following:
An analysis of the importance of teaching manding skills to Xavier first.
The benefits of teaching mands.
An explanation of how teaching mands leads to developing skills in other areas of development.
An explanation of the relationship between manding and challenging behaviors.
Be sure to provide your responses in a way that is respectful and supportive of Xavier’s grandmother and also in a way to be clear to the grandmother.
Assignment Requirements
Your assignment should meet the following requirements:
Written communication: Should be free of errors that detract from the overall message.
APA formatting: References and citations are formatted according to current APA style guidelines.
Resources: 2–3 scholarly or professional resources.
Length: 2–3 double-spaced pages of content, in addition to the title page and references page.
SCORING GUIDE
Your work will be evaluated using this criteria.
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Competencies Measured
By successfully completing this assignment , you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:
Competency 3: Analyze the basic verbal operants and associated principles outlined in Skinner’s analysis of verbal behavior.
Analyze the importance of teaching manding skills first in a particular scenario.
Explain the relationship between manding and challenging behaviors.
Competency 4: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly and consistent with expectations for professionals in the field of psychology.
Demonstrate an academic writing style through well-organized prose that follows assignment guidelines.
Demonstrate compliance with APA style, citation, and referencing guidelines.

Hi,
Please do the discussion below:
At what age should parents begin discussing issues of sexuality with children? How should parents handle genital touching in young children? What message do you think it sends to a child when parents encourage their child to discover and play with toes, ears, and fingers but pull the child’s hands away when they discover their genitals?
Thank you

In this assignment, you will reflect on what you have learned about social and personality development in children.
Scenario: Imagine that you are a counselor who has conducted an assessment and spoken with Ian one-on-one.
Create an 8- to 10-slide Microsoft PowerPoint presentation in which you analyze the case study.
Use the Week 3 Case Study Presentation PowerPoint template to complete your assignment.
Write a response to each prompt in the template.
Support your responses with relevant details and/or examples.
Include speaker notes with your presentation.
Format your references according to APA guidelines.
Submit your presentation.

This is a Research Method Counseling Professionals course, and the scope of this assignment should stay within the field of counseling and mental health. I have attached a copy of the template below. Please allow the body of this assignment to be 5 pages you can provide me with the APA format sources you used and I can do the cover and reference pages myself. I really appreciate it. For the sources please allow 3 peer-reviewed empirical journal articles that are no more than five years old. Please ensure the material is aligned with the rubric as well this professor is very particular when it comes to grading. Instructions and Grading Criteria
Create a mini research proposal that addresses the problem you identified, using the Week 6 Assignment Template [DOCX]. Your proposal must include the elements listed below each numbered grading criterion, so be sure to address each point. You may also want to review the performance-level descriiptions for each criterion in the assignment rubric to see how your work will be assessed. Synthesize scholarly literature that supports the study of a research problem. Write a mini literature review of three recent empirical sources (required) and one non-empirical source (optional).
Create a quantitative research question that is aligned to a research problem. This specific question should be written in a way that it could be answered through quantitative data; this is the main question that will be answered by the proposed study. Identify any independent and dependent variables.
Describe a research design for a quantitative study.
Describe the research design for the proposed study.
Choose from correlational, experimental, quasi-experimental, time-series, and survey.
Provide a rationale as to why this particular design is a good fit for your study.
Describe an appropriate sampling strategy for a quantitative study.
Describe your proposed sampling strategy, including the population from which the sample would come and how many participants you would include.
Detail data collection strategies and measurement instruments that address a research question.
Identify data collection strategies that you would use in your study and describe any instruments that you would use.
Explain how you would collect the quantitative data that would answer your research question.
Explain a quantitative data analysis strategy that aligns to the research problem.
Explain how you would analyze the data that you collected based upon your research question and type of data that will be collected.
Describe ethical and cultural concerns in the proposed research study.
Describe at least one ethical and at least one cultural concern that may be present in the proposed study.
Describe how mixed methods might be applied to address the research problem.
Describe how the problem that you investigated might be addressed by using a mixed-methods approach.
Explain whether you believe that would be a stronger approach or not, in this particular situation.
Communicate effectively in appropriate form and style, using APA guidelines for grammar, punctuation, and mechanics

Eating Disorders and Gender Dysphoria: Assignment 3 will be a bit different, and look much more like your Discussion Board questions! Please read Chapter 9, review the supplementary materials in the Assignment 3 folder (under Course Materials), and then submit a word document with the responses to TWO of the below questions. You choose which two are most interesting to you! Each response will be 10 points each, for a total of 20 points.
Anorexia nervosa is the psychiatric disorder with the highest mortality rate. Would you have guessed that before you took this course, or even after the past 13 weeks of studying different disorders? Probably not. Eating disorders are often overlooked, though they are not uncommon. If you include people who have disordered patterns of eating (i.e., perhaps some restriction, or rigidity in dieting that causes subclinical levels of distress or impairment), it is even more common. What new information did you get from the readings and course materials? Was there anything that surprised you? What common myths did you believe before that were disproved by the information you learned?
Eating disorders, particularly anorexia and bulimia, are often related to societal and cultural factors. In truth, eating disorders are more commonly diagnosed in women, though they certainly do occur in all genders (see what I did there?). Talk about the causes of eating disorders — individual, interpersonal, environmental, and systemic. What factors do you think are at play here, based on the readings and Ted Talk? What factors do you think maintain these disorders, or in other words, what makes them so hard to recovery from?
Before 1973, “Homosexuality” was listed as a psychological disorder in the DSM-II. When the American Psychiatric Association eliminated it from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, it was replaced with “Sexual Orientation Disturbance,” which specified that one was distressed due to their sexual orientation (not that their sexual orientation was the disturbance itself). In the shift from DSM-IV to DSM-V, Gender Identity Disorder was replaced with Gender Dysphoria, which is the correct diagnosis when someone displays “a marked incongruence between one’s experienced/expressed gender and assigned gender.” This is a huge step towards inclusion, and reduces medical stigma — the term “Gender Identity Disorder” essentially labels all transgender individuals as mentally ill, which is not the case. However, in order to receive insurance coverage for various gender affirming procedures, some diagnosis must still exist — therefore, the distressed caused by the incongruence is what is targeted by the most recent diagnosis. The stigma associated with being transgender or gender non-conforming (GNC) is significant, and is evident in numerous stats. There were at least 57 murders of trans-identified people last year (many of whom were trans people of color). HRC has listed the names of these individuals here, if you’d like more information. We know that stigma arises from lack of knowledge, unsubstantiated fears, and the othering of human beings. What is one thing that you learned about gender dysphoria and trans identities from the readings and course materials that you did not know before? Is there anything that you wish other people knew, or understood?
After watching Emily Quinn’s Ted Talk on being intersex, what is something that surprised you or had you thinking about sex assigned at birth in a different way? Was there something you learned that you wish others knew?
Book access is on Vital Source called Abnormal Psychology


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I need you to fix my introduction and make it better. I need you to ALSO create a discussion and a conclusion based on the information I give you. I attached the paper in progress you will understand study from reading. I need you to analyze my results that I provided and Interpret the results of the study in the context of previous research. You can provide what ever research you feel will help in the intro or discussion. Discuss the implications of the study for parents, mental health professionals, and policy makers. Explain what the results mean based on the study. Include in text citations and a works cited page. create or include whatever charts you feel necessary.
rubric:
9. Show off your data, not chart junk. The purpose of graphs is not to create a box into which you cram information. The purpose is to communicate with the reader. The essential part of the message is the data. Not the rest of it: boxes, labels, ticks, legends, etc. The rest is necessary, but, compared to the data, it’s junk. Don’t shrink the data to make room for the junk. The junk should never compete with the data, either for space or for ink. It’s like the bride at a wedding. No one should dress so as to upstage her.
Caption. Every figure should have a caption explaining what’s in it. If possible, briefly state what one can conclude by looking at this figure.
Introduction. The main purpose of the intro is to motivate the question and the method, i.e. convince the reader that this question is not already answered and sufficiently interesting to be worth reading about, and that your method will provide a convincing answer. But this is also where you credit what’s already been done by others, especially by potential reviewers. Your review addresses what’s been done and the hole you’ll fill, or the new landscape you’ll create. The intro typically takes the form of a historical review, but that’s more a pretext than a purpose. The purpose is to motivate and give credit. If you are not yet well-known in this field it may be important to the reviewers that you show awareness of the key papers in the field. You can get this list by scanning the introductions of other papers. You needn’t praise; it’s enough to cite.
Results. Data. Graphs. The results text should have a very plain style. “Just the facts, ma’m.” Only minimal interpretation and comparison to other work. But do mention replication and inconsistencies (real or merely apparent) with past work. Sometimes the empirical result is more or less the conclusion of your paper. Sometimes that conclusion needs a reasoned argument, which may appear here or in Discussion. It helps the reader if each figure caption briefly states the conclusion that can be drawn from looking at the figure. Unless your effects are huge, it is essential that the Results section test for significance, i.e. you must convince the reader that your results are unlikely to be the results of mere chance, from a randomly varying source.
Discussion. Try to give the reader the big picture. Take a step back. Try to forget your stake in this and guide the reader through your garden, noting the various considerations, positive and negative, that seem relevant. Connect this work to that of others. Even distant connections help, as readers come from various places and it always helps to understand the connection, however distant, of what’s new to what’s familiar. However, the meandering connections, desirable as they are, are no substitute for a tight argument that forces the reasonable reader to accept your conclusions. Ultimately that’s the core of your contribution.
Conclusion. Most papers published in psychology do not have a final section labeled “Conclusions”. My own view is that it is rarely reasonable to publish a scientific paper without a conclusion, and that it is helpful to draw attention to its presence by setting it off in its own section. The conclusion should be short and as strong as you can make it. I consider the conclusion to be the reader’s reward. This is where you deliver on your initial promise: What do I believe after reading your paper that I didn’t know before reading it?
Format: page breaks. In manuscriipts, we typically begin each major section (Abstract, Intro, Methods, …) on a new page. Keep with following. You won’t want a page break between a heading and the following paragraph, or between a figure and its caption.
Citations. There are two popular conventions for citing publications in your text. Most academic journals use the name convention, e.g. Einstein (1913), listing the surnames of the authors and the year of publication. High impact journals tend to save space by using numbers, e.g. conservation of energy (1). In both cases, the full references are listed in a Reference section at the end of the paper. Do not use footnotes for citations.
h. et al. When referring to many authors, e.g. Pelli et al. 2006, the phrase “et al.” is an abbreviation of the Latin “et alli”, which means “and others”. There is no period after “et” and the alli or al. is never capitalized.

In order to participate in Library Workshop #1, you must send me the following, through Assignments in BB by Monday, 9/18, (called Getting Ready for Research in BB):
1) The thesis you will use to write your paper (select from Theses list)
2) A list of subtopics related to your thesis. Each subtopic is related to a specific main point or argument you will make in your paper.

1. Review the rubric to make sure you understand the criteria for earning your grade.
2. Based on the interview, prepare a 2-3 pages written report summarizing what you learned from your subject’s respo
3. Include your subject’s sex, age (but not name), and any other pertinent demographic information.
4. The main body of your report should focus on comparing and contrasting your subject’s experiences as an adolescen those of the “typical adolescent” today.
5. Consider the following questions in your report:
a. What was adolescence like then? How did it differ from adolescence today?
b. In what ways is the “adolescent experience” the same now as it was then?
6. Feel free to offer your own interpretation of your subject’s responses, including comments on how you might have ans the questions.
7. When you have completed your assignment, save a copy for yourself and submit a copy to your instructor using the lin below or the Activities button by the end of the workshop.

Discussion:
What are your individual views of delinquency, explain certain traits of delinquency, and speak of the life course of delinquency as explained by the author. Keep in mind at risk youth, suicide attempts or social media addictions if they have an impact to societal current issues. List in your explanation examples.

This is a course about human trafficking, we are supposed to be readng articles on the topic each week, so if you must mention anything about what you are reading on the reflection. Module 3 Discussion: Mindful
In this discussion, you will write a reflective journal of your experience with this week’s reading assignment as a mindfulness exercise.
Initial Post {250 words minimum}
Before reading, do 10 minutes of breath-focused mindful attention. Don’t think about the reading—try to stay fully attentive to the breath.
Allow this mindful attitude to remain as you read.
After the reading and another breath-focused practice of 10 minutes, write no more than 2-3 paragraphs describing how the reading relates to your personal experience. Be specific.
5.Describe anything you noticed about your experience during the reading.
Afterwards I will provide Peer discussions and will expect you to deliver two thoughtful responses of 100 words each. Post two peer comments that address the following points:
Describe any similarities or differences from your own reflective experience.
2.If you identify any striving or self-judgment in a peer post, offer a non-judgmental, non-striving alternative narrative of the experience. This is an opportunity to demonstrate non-judging observation, which is often difficult for people to do for themselves but easy to do for others. You might use a tone that would be appropriate for a close friend or child–not speaking down to your colleague, but rather a nurturing, supportive tone.
Share only what you are comfortable with. Remember to adhere to confidentiality guidelines.