Category: Psychology

Career Development Autobiography (Should be comprehensive but not more than 10 pages)
This paper builds on your Career Factors Checklist assignment and will make up a large chunk of your portfolio. It should convey who you are and how you got there. Because the best individual contributors, managers, and leaders truly know themselves, each student will write a paper including:
●      Career socialization autobiography – What factors, influences, and events have shaped your career development? What specific factors (See Career Factor Checklist), people, and events make your career development different from any other person? This portion of the paper should capture a personal and career analysis of your life from the values, attitudes, and behaviors that you have developed up to this point of your life.
●      A personal mission statement – what do you want to accomplish personally and professionally over the next 5 to 10 years
●      Core values – what are the principles, beliefs, and standards that guide your life (both work and non-work related)
●      Career aspirations – short-term (2-5 years) and long-term (10+ years)
●      Planned legacy – what do you want to be remembered for at the end of your professional career (i.e., how would you like to be described by colleagues at your retirement party)  and at the end of your life (i.e., how would you like your eulogy to read)
Your paper should specifically address all of the above listed. Your content is your own knowledge about yourself and about how you have been socialized. Personal reflection, discussions with others, and a conscious awareness of your past and present are prerequisites for completing this assignment. This is not a paper that can be written in a couple days or without considerable thought. Please use APA style of writing in essay form. Proofreading is a must. Papers are to be typed (double-spaced, 12 pt font) and should not exceed 10 pages.

Respond to a peer’s post. Here is the orginal topic: What are some of the pressures or issues children or adolescents with same-sex parents face as opposed to those whose parents are heterosexual?
THE PEER YOU ARE RESPONDING TO IS ATTACHED
PLEASE ENSURE THAT ALL GRAMMER AND CITATIONS ARE CORRECT NO ERRORS PLEASE

Overview
For behavior analysts, determining the function of problem behavior is necessary to develop effective intervention plans. This is common practice not only in clinical applications but within organizations as well. In this assignment, you will pinpoint a workplace performance problem, assess the reason why the problem exists, and identify strategies to improve performance.
Instructions
Identify a performance problem in your current workplace, a previous workplace, or a hypothetical problem in a fictional workplace. Then complete the following:
Provide a brief description (one paragraph) of the workplace.You might include the size of the organization, industry, management hierarchy, supports and resources, limitations, et cetera.
Pinpoint the performance problem.Precisely define the problem behavior so that it is clear, concise, and countable.
Conduct an assessment to determine the factors contributing to the performance problem.Use the PIC/NIC and PDC Template [DOCX] Download PIC/NIC and PDC Template [DOCX]to complete a PIC/NIC analysis and PDC.
Provide an analysis of the assessment results.
Review the scholarly literature, and identify strategies that would address the performance problem based on the results of the assessment.Your strategies should demonstrate compassionate supervisory practices.
Discuss your personal experience with this assignment. Examples of what you might choose to discuss include the following:Do you believe the organization (real, former, or hypothetical) would consider conducting an assessment and implementing strategies to improve the performance problem? Why or why not?
Were you surprised by the results of the assessment?
While the strategies are likely to be effective, do you think they are realistic?
Provide any other thoughts or considerations.
Submit both your performance problem analysis and your PIC/NIC and PDC Template to the assignment area.
Additional Requirements
Written Communication: Writing should be free of errors that detract from the overall message.
APA Formatting: References and citations are formatted according to APA style guidelines. Review Evidence and APA for more information.
Resources: At least three scholarly or professional resources.
Length: 4–6 double-spaced pages, excluding title page and list of references.
Refer to the Performance Problems Rubric to ensure you understand the grading criteria for this assignment.
Competencies Measured
By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and rubric criteria:
Competency 1: Apply the principles of behavior analysis to supervisory practices.Pinpoint a performance problem.
Conduct an assessment and provide a summary of the results.
Evaluate the process of assessing the performance problem.
Competency 3: Apply compassionate approaches to supervisory practices.Identify strategies to address the performance problem, using scholarly sources to support decisions.
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.

Discussion Assignment: Spider and Egg
You will notice the photograph of a spider and egg sac. Imagine that you are a psychotherapist working from a Freudian approach (psychodynamic). Your patient says to you, “I had a dream last night where I was in the store, and I saw this decoration. I felt anxious and ran out of the store. Then I work up.” The client draws a picture that looks just like the image. How would you explore the significance of the dream image? Allowing for some stereotyping of the psychodynamic/psychoanalytic approach, what is the meaning of this image? 
Please write a 4 to 5-sentence response due May 31st. 

Model: transgenerational family therapy- Bowen
Concepts to apply/ analyze, explain differentiation of the self, emotional triangles, nuclear family system, emotional cutoff, family projective process, multigenerational transmission progress. At least 3 concepts should be explained.
This assignment consists of the construction of a Genogram. Students will write a 6-page paper analyzing their families of origin from a transgenerational perspective. The paper should be written in accordance with the APA manual guidelines including 12 pt. font, standard margins, double-spaced, with references properly cited. The paper should include following:
a) An appendix with a three-generation genogram of your family of origin. The genogram should include all relevant information such as names, age, birth/death dates, relational patterns, and abuse history. You may want to communicate with your parent, grandparent, sibling, or other relative to gather information for the genogram.
b) Using the genogram:
● Identify at least three concepts from transgenerational family therapies (i.e. triangles, differentiation of self, fusion, emotional cutoff, etc.), which were significant for you.
● Briefly describe these concepts in your family.
● Discuss how the concept/experience might influence you and your couple and/or family relationships (at least one page).
● Reflection on your learning, insight, and overall experiences of doing this assignment.
Family information
Father side
Grandma ( Bennie)+ Grandpa ( Robus) my dad stepfather.
My dad Albert. My dad was the youngest boy. He had seven oldest siblings and one youngest sister. My dad was mainly raised by my grandma who was at home( they lived in a farm alone with my grandpa my dad’s stepdad. They moved to the city when my dad was and adolescent, there he met my mom. My dad relationship with my grandma was good she was very sweet and nurturing. He never got to know or share with his biological dad even they live in the same town (his father had another family). My dad respected and loved his mom and step dad very much. He was very close to his youngest siblings but not so much with his older siblings as they moved far away and started their own family.
Mother family of origin
Grandma Isabel was a single mom of eight children my mom was the youngest girl with five older siblings and two youngest brothers. My mom was mainly raised by her grandma as well as the others oldest ones. My youngest uncles were mainly raised by my grandma.
There was a feeling of resentment between siblings seeing the youngest boys got to be with with their mom my grandma while the others had to stay with my grandma’s mom at their house always working and cleaning and helping with different chores there. While my youngest uncles were more spoiled. They grew up being the favorite ones.
My mom did not have any relationship with her dad even she knew where he was and he did not try to get close to her as well.
My mom did not have a strong bond with my grandma even though they ended up living together when my sister and I were born. My parents had my sister and I and then they split soon after I was born. I don’t have memories of my mom and my dad being together. My dad has started a new family with hope a very good lady when he had three daughters with. They split many years later after one of my sisters died. She was 21 years old when she passed. My mom so started a new family and she had three children. I stayed with my grandma and my oldest sister. A few years later my stepfather left my mom when my youngest brother was only nine years old he’s now 23. My mom went back to live with grandma my sister and I bringing her youngest children with her.
I was raised up mostly by my grandma and my oldest sister. My mom had to work now 40 years stay with her new family. My dad did the same as well. They always check on me and my sister. My dad wood help very little with some money to pay our school fee but was no emotionally invested Which led to a very weak relationship.
My relationship with my oldest sister have been always great and we have always support each other and have sort of like alliance together since our parents left us. My relationship with my sister Daisy the oldest half sister was amazing I love her very much until she passed in an accident. My relationship with mother have sister was always difficult and she did not like me much as I come to visit my dad and to get financial support for groceries and school supplies she did not like that and was always and unkind. She got better as with you as we have always lived in different cities and now different countries have been very difficult to create a bond. I have sure very little with my youngest sister as she was born many more years after.
I can tell that I don’t have a strong emotional bond with neither my mom or my dad but with my dad is sadly almost nonexistent. However I honored, financially support and highly respect my parents. I think that we all had shared this symptom of emotional cutoff with our dads- my mom, my dad, and now me for the different life situations we have gone through.
However growing up in this broken family system I found unity and sort of like a triangle situation with my oldest sister and grandma and was able to thrive and become a hardworking responsible honest and sweet young lady who could differentiate herself from the negativity surrounded with her own personality thoughts and resilience.
After my mom moved back with us bringing with her three children my sister and I had to work extra hard not just to support ourselves and our grandma but to help my mom and our younger siblings. There was 2 triangles my granny my sister and I and my mom with my youngest siblings in our new family structure. After my granny passed away I moved to the United states. Here I met my husband. He comes from a totally different family system where unity support understanding was the core of the structure. Now my family is integrated by my husband my daughter and I. In our family I am a very sweet nurturing mom and wife. My husband is very sweet and protective. He is also very supportive and and is always there for me and for our family. We have a good relationship and are now going through this new stage of our life of being parent of her sweet girl.
Esperance of working on this assignment had made reflect on how from developing the same unhealthy pattern like emotional cutoff can of be a part of coping with challenging family structures and try to now incorporate all the knowledge of these concepts into my current family and the understanding of family therapy.
Discussing these concepts with my parents was really emotional as they reflect on how things were and how different they could have been with more empathy and love.

**PLEASE READ INSTRUCTIONS!**
Needs to be written by someone who can understand academic, bachelor’s level psychology. Please follow format exactly, with apa 7 referencing and proper captions for the 3 figures. The paper is supposed to discuss the results of an Eriksen Flanker Task done in the class, based on the 3 provided graphs and tables. Please follow the format exactly, including everything listed on the rubric on page 5 of the provided pdf. I’ve provided the raw results from the eriksen flanker task as an excel document, as well as the correct graphs to be used in the word document. Total wordcount is (+/-  10%) not including the personal reflection and reference, wwhich, and I’ve provided one you could use in the word document but you’re welcome to use something else if it would work better.

Overview
In this course, you have covered several of the ethical codes in the BACB Ethics Code for Behavior Analysts. You discussed many different ethical dilemmas that you may find yourself in as an assistant behavior analyst. In this assignment, you become even more familiar with the types of dilemmas you may face by interviewing an ABA professional.
Preparation
Identify an individual with a BCBA or BCaBA certification who is willing to speak with you regarding some ethical dilemmas they have encountered. You may identify this person through your place of work, by using the BCBA registry, or by searching for BCBAs or BCaBAs in your area.
Interview the behavior analyst and ask about ethical dilemmas that they have encountered as a professional. How did the behavior analyst handle the situations they faced? What recommendations does the professional have for managing similar ethical challenges?
As part of the interview, ask the professional about cross-cultural challenges they have faced. Keep in mind that culture can include differences in language, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age, ability, geographic locations, et cetera. What recommendations does the professional have for becoming culturally competent? In addition to the professional’s recommendations, you can include information from other professional and scholarly sources to support your thinking on cultural competence.
Instructions
Write a paper that addresses the following:
Introduction.
Describe who you interviewed and provide a summary of their experience.
Describe multiple ethical dilemmas encountered by the professional.
Be sure to apply specifics ethics codes to the situations encountered by the professional.
Describe cross-cultural challenges faced in practice by the professional.
Be sure to apply specific ethics codes to the situations encountered by the professional.
Recommend methods for managing ethical challenges and building cultural competency.
Conclusion.
Describe what you learned from the interview.
Additional Requirements
Your assignment should also meet the following requirements:
Written communication: Employ academic communication skills that are scholarly, professional, and respectful of the diversity, dignity, and integrity of others, in a manner consistent with members of the counseling profession. Use current APA guidelines for grammar, punctuation, and mechanics.
Length: 4–6 pages, excluding the cover page and references list. Include page numbers, headings, and running heads. No abstract is required.
References: Use scholarly research articles that are no more than five years old to support your work. Refer to the BS in Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) Library Research GuideLinks to an external site. for help finding resources.
Format: Use current APA style and formatting, paying particular attention to citations and references. Review the Evidence and APALinks to an external site. section of the Writing Center for guidance.
Competencies Measured
By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:
Competency 1: Describe professional competence in the practice of applied behavior analysis.
Summarize an interview with a professional BCaBA or BCBA.
Competency 2: Analyze ethical issues in the practice of applied behavior analysis.
Describe ethical dilemmas encountered by behavior analysts, including ethical codes that relate to those situations.
Competency 3: Apply ethical principles and standards to the practice of applied behavior analysis.
Recommend methods for managing ethical challenges and building cultural competency.
Competency 4: Apply multicultural competence to professional relationships and the practice of applied behavior analysis.
Describe cross-cultural challenges faced by behavior analysts, including ethical codes that relate to those challenges.
Competency 5: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly and consistent with expectations for professionals in the field of psychology.
Successfully implement APA style.
Write coherently to support a central idea, with correct grammar, usage, and mechanics as expected of a psychology professional.

Select a topic fromthe list below and construct an argument. Warning: Please make sure you work on one of the issues listed — no other arguments will be accepted!
Make sure you fully understand what COMPLETENESS means (pages 186-7) OK, let me highlight a fundamentally important part of it:
You must look at and CONSIDER the opposing arguments (as every inductive argument must). It means that listing the counterarguments is not good enough; you have to say which premises you find true or strong (and why) and which ones you find false or weak (and why) — otherwise your argument would be one-sided. Obviously, accepting certain premises against our argument will not make it weaker since every issue is complex. Strong feelings or even high passion are not elements of critical thinking; the only reason is, as well as factual information. Morality, religion, value judgments, desires, wishes, preferences, tastes, likes, and dislikes do not make good subjects for critical arguments! Why? Because others may have other dislikes and likes, tastes, preferences, wishes, desires, value judgments, religion, or morality, and the answer to the question regarding those, ‘why do they prefer what they prefer instead of what we prefer?’ the answer is, ‘just because’ — end of the story.
Issues to choose from:
Bullying is a problem in the USA, and people tend to bully bullies as ‘punishment.’ Should bullies be bullied?
Should school uniforms be mandated?
Plastic bags are an enormously huge environmental problem, and many countries (and cities) have banned them. Should they be banned in the US?
Music and art may seem like ‘useless’ subjects in school, but research shows that they are useful in the development of youth. Should they be mandated in school?
Should child beauty competitions be banned?
This short article may help: http://bigthink.com/in-their-own-words/how-to-have…
Part 2

Identify the Ethical Dilemma: Before a counselor can consider how state laws, statutes, or district policies may influence an approach, the counselor must first identify the issue and consider any relevant ethical concerns.
Describe all ethical dilemma(s) presented in the case.
Identify unavailable facts relative to the ethical dilemma(s).
State Laws and Regulations: Earlier in this course, you identified the state laws and regulations relating to the practice of counseling for your specialization.
Describe at least two state legal standards that help guide counselors to establish ethical relationships with clients or students through two specific requirements (for example, informed consent, managing boundaries, payment for services).
Include any additional state statutes or local district policies that guide counselors (you may include a link to the statutes or policies).
Reflect on the impact state laws have on the counseling relationship.
Diverse Populations: Ethical issues are an integral part of counseling diverse clients, as counselors must uphold ethical standards while being sensitive to cultural and individual differences. Here are some ethical issues that may arise when counseling diverse clients: Cultural competence, informed consent, confidentiality, dual relationships, boundaries, values, beliefs, and multicultural competence.
Describe the ethical responsibilities when counseling diverse populations.
For example, in the sessions the client discloses personal beliefs that are opposed to the personal beliefs and/or values you hold. Ethical counselors will recognize the need for additional supervision to ensure that they are not trying to push personal values and beliefs onto their clients.
Explain how ethical responsibilities affect the counseling relationship in a way that is well supported by the literature.
Ethical Codes and Standards: The purpose of ethical codes is to uphold the integrity of the counseling profession, advance the welfare of clients, and direct ethical decision-making in our practice.
Describe three specific ethical codes/standards that would guide you in managing the relationship in the ethical dilemma.
Explain how these codes/standards could be applied to mitigate the ethical dilemma.
Interdisciplinary Team: You want to consider the role that interdisciplinary teams may play in counseling relationships. The term “interdisciplinary team” is used to represent any internal/external stakeholders, educational system, legal system, or emergency management teams.
Articulate strategies for interfacing ethically with the interdisciplinary team involved in a case.
Explain the impact this interaction might have on the counseling relationship.
Submission Requirements
Your paper should meet the following requirements:
Template: Use the Assignment 2 Managing Counseling Relationships Template [DOCX] to complete this assignment.
Written communication: Develop accurate written communication and thoughts that convey the overall goals of the assignment and do not detract from the overall message. Your submission should demonstrate graduate-level writing skills.
References: You must use current APA style to list your references. Refer to Evidence and APALinks to an external site. for more information.
Formatting: Use third-person and current APA formatting in your submission. Refer to Evidence and APALinks to an external site. for more information.

One of the most famous psychological experiments of all time, was conducted by Dr. Philip Zimbardo and his colleagues at Stanford University. To read more of the details of this experiment, visit http://www.prisonexp.org. Take some time to watch the video on the Zimbardo Prison Experiment by clicking here. After reading about the experiment, exploring the website and watching the video, answer the following:
1. Was it ethical to do the prison study in the way that Zimbardo conducted it? Why or why not? Explain your position substantively.
2. What social psychological constructs did the study reveal? Would the same information have been learned if the study had been conducted differently? If yes, how might you adapt the study to address ethical concerns and still obtain results relevant to our understanding of behavior in social settings?
3. How do the social psychology concepts of conformity and the power of the social situation that we are studying this week relate to what happened during the brief period of time that the prison study ran. Where in the descriiption of how the study unfolded did we see evidence of these concepts?