Category: Psychology

Based on the video, please put together a proposal (1/2-1 page) to a school board regarding what new interventions should be implemented in our school system to promote better mental health for high school students. Make reference to at least one example being used in the movie.

These are individual discussion forums to a class. Each discussion must be 200 words. Please separate each activity!

Prompt: 
The Research Paper assignment is designed to integrate your developing skills in self-reflection, scientific knowledge, awareness of research methods, and critical thinking, as they relate to the field of developmental psychology. You may find that your topic for the Research Paper is related to your focus in the Autobiographical Developmental Essay (e.g., you may choose to focus on the same or similar developmental stage) and/or the Theory Essay (e.g., you may choose to explore more of the theories you discussed). You may also wish to tackle a completely new developmental stage and/or topic, and that is just fine! The important part of selecting your focus for this assignment is that you follow your own natural curiosity about the human condition.
Your Research Paper should be at least 1000 words double-spaced (the last page will be your references page which does not count towards your word count)using 12-point font and 1-inch margins. You must incorporate at least 3 peer-reviewed journal articles as sources, in addition to your textbook.
Preparation: 
Ensure that you are up to date on your reading assignments for the course (through Chapters 15 and 16, Middle Adulthood).
Review key characteristics of each major developmental stage to help with your focus for the paper.
Reflect on the major area of development in which you are most interested (e.g., physical, cognitive, social, emotional).
To complete this assignment you will:
Step 1: Select one of the major developmental periods you have studied thus far in the course: infancy, early childhood, middle childhood, adolescence, early adulthood, or middle adulthood. 
Step 2: Select a phenomenon or construct that features prominently in your chosen developmental stage. The construct should reflect one or more of the major areas of human development (physical, cognitive, social, emotional). For instance, if you are focusing on adolescence, perhaps you select the construct of egocentrism, which includes both cognitive and social components.
Step 3: Review the section(s) of the Santrock text that are relevant to your developmental stage and construct.
Step 4: Prepare a research paper that addresses the following: 
Step 4.1: Describe, in detail, the developmental stage you are focusing on for this research paper. You should briefly review the major developmental tasks of this stage as they pertain to physical, cognitive, social, and emotional development. 
Step 4.2: Describe, in detail, your selected construct of interest. Be sure to define the construct and discuss its relevance during your selected stage of development. If the construct first appears earlier in development, or somehow changes with development across various stages, you will need to discuss how the construct changes over time. 
Step 4.3: Pick at least one theory that helps to explain the relevance of your construct to your chosen developmental stage. Explain the theory and its application to your construct and stage.
Step 4.4: From the available 12 peer-reviewed journal articles, select and read at least 3 peer-reviewed journal articles that have some relevance to your topic and/or proposed study. Some articles may contribute information about your topic of study, or they may contribute information about research methods that could be applied to your specific topic of study. You are not required to understand or discuss the statistics involved in these articles, but you should be able to glean some information from the articles with relevance to your topic or proposed methods.
Step 4.5: Now, consider yourself a scientist. Imagine you can conduct any study you like about this construct in your chosen developmental stage. Put forth at least 1 research question, and describe the method(s) you would use to collect the data (e.g., observational, survey/interview, standardized test, case study, physiological measures). Explain what type of study design you would use (e.g., descriptive, correlational, experimental). What is your hypothesis about what the results of the study will be? Why would this study be important to conduct, and how might it contribute to new knowledge in this area of developmental science? 
Step 4.6: Prepare a references page that lists each of your sources in APA style. Note that you will need to list your textbook as well as each of your 3 peer-reviewed journal articles. The References page will be the last page of your research paper.
References
(should include 3 articles and Santrock text)
Conrod, P. J., & Nikolaou, K. (2016). Annual Research Review: On the developmental neuropsychology of substance use disorders. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 57, 371-394. https://acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/jcpp.12516
Dirks, M. A., De Los Reyes, A., Briggs-Gowan, M., Cella, D., & Wakschlag, L. S. (2012). Annual Research Review: Embracing not erasing contextual variability in children’s behavior – theory and utility in the selection and use of methods and informants in developmental psychopathology. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 53, 558-574. https://psyc.umd.edu/sites/psyc.umd.edu/files/pubs/Dirks,%20De%20Los%20Reyes,%20Briggs-Gowan,%20Cella,%20&%20Wakschlag%20(2012).pdf
Glenn, C. R., Kleiman, E. M., Kellerman, J., Pollak, O., Cha, C. B., Esposito, E. C., Porter, A. C., Wyman, P. A., & Boatman, A. E. (2020). Annual Research Review: A meta-analytic review of worldwide suicide rates in adolescents. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 61, 294-308. https://kleimanlab.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Glenn_et_al-2019-Journal_of_Child_Psychology_and_Psychiatry.pdf
Koss, J. J., & Gunnar, M. R. (2018). Annual Research Review: Early adversity, the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical axis, and child psychopathology. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 59, 327-346. https://acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/jcpp.12784
Lau, J. Y. F., & Waters, A. M. (2017). Annual Research Review: An expanded account of information-processing mechanisms in risk for child and adolescent anxiety and depression. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 58, 387-407. https://acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/jcpp.12653
Mandy, W., & Lai, M-C. (2016). Annual Research Review: The role of the environment in the developmental psychopathology of autism spectrum condition.Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 57, 271-292. https://efisiopediatric.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/mandy2016.pdf
McAdams, T. A., Cheesman, R., & Ahmadzadeh, Y. I. (2023). Annual Research Review: Towards a deeper understanding of nature and nurture: combining family-based quasi-experimental methods with genomic data. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 64, 693-707. https://acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/jcpp.13720
Newlove-Delgado, T., Russell, A. E., Mathews, F., Cross, L., Bryant, E., Gudka, R., Ukoumunne, O. C., & Ford, T. J. (2023). Annual Research Review: The impact of Covid-19 on psychopathology in children and young people worldwide: Systematic review of studies with pre- and within-pandemic data. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 64, 611-640. https://acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/jcpp.13716
Odgers, C. L., & Jensen, M. R. (2020). Annual Research Review: Adolescent mental health in the digital age: facts, fears, and future directions. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 61, 336-348. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8221420/
Russell, M. A., & Gajos, J. M. (2020). Annual Research Review: Ecological momentary assessment studies in child psychology and psychiatry. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 61, 376-394. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8428969/
Santrock, J. W. (2023). Life-Span Development (19th ed.). McGraw-Hill Higher Education (US).
Thomas, M. S. C., Ansari, D., & Knowland, V. C. P. (2019). Annual Research Review: Educational neuroscience: progress and prospects.Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 57, 477-492. https://acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/jcpp.12973
Williams, N. J., & Beidas, R. S. (2019). Annual Research Review: The state of implementation science in child psychology and psychiatry: a review and suggestions to advance the field. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 60, 430-450. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6389440/pdf/nihms-983463.pdf

Directions:
You will suffer from addiction for this simulation’s 120 hours (5 full days).  Your drug of choice will be “EYSKUBE” (frozen water).  You used to dabble with the simpler forms of your drug (water), but now you NEED the “hard stuff.”  For 120 hours, I hope you will agree to live this addiction, doing everything you can to abide by the following rules:
The craving you have for EYSKUBE is powerful. The only way to satisfy this need is to put it (ice cubes) in EVERY SINGLE LIQUID SUBSTANCE YOU CONSUME during the 120 hours.  That is, whether you are drinking soda, milk, coffee, beer, cocoa, etc., you must have EYSKUBE in it to keep from going into withdrawal.  Even water from the drinking fountain or a drink when you wake up during the night must have an accompanying dose of EYSKUBE.  This will take a tremendous amount of advanced planning.  No drinking without EYSKUBE!  If you don’t have EYSKUBE, you can’t drink, and you will eventually start to experience withdrawal symptoms (1st symptom is usually dry mouth and thirst, but you may encounter others).
You will decide to use only tinted EYSKUBE (e.g.,  only red EYSKUBE or blue EYSKUBE can be used).  After all, with actual drug addiction, the drug would not be available in every restaurant, fast food place, or refrigerator – you would only be able to buy your drug at certain spots.  You would have to plan your life around finding your dealer regularly.  Being addicted to tinted EYSKUBE means you will have to plan how to access that particular red or blue “drug” every time you want to drink during the day.  Will you keep a “stash” in a cooler in your car or backpack?  Or will a friend be your “dealer,” and you’ll have to keep touching base with them to get your stuff?  In addition, addictive drugs like cocaine or heroin are not something you would usually want to be seen with at school or on the job – you would have to hide your drug.  Making EYSKUBE colored means you’ll have to hide it more – be more discrete – or folks will surely ask you why you have a blue cube in your beer.
The only people who know about your addiction are other EYSKUBE addicts or dealers.  Society condemns dependence on EYSKUBE – you could be expelled, fired, ostracized, or arrested if your addictive use of EYSKUBE is discovered.  If they notice your unusual behavior, do not tell them it is a simulation or class project.  Deception is part of the life of most addicts.  To put yourself in the role of the addict, you are going to have to deceive friends, family, and employers – come up with some excuse for your behavior other than the truth – just as an addict would probably lie about why they have a syringe, or needle tracks, or that glassine bag full of white powder.
You must be very discreet and secretive. No one should see you adding your drug (EYSKUBE) to your drinks.  Think of it as your way of “shooting up” – you wouldn’t do that in public. Sometimes you may have to slip into the bathroom to administer EYSKUBE to your beverage without being noticed.
You must wear an odd, non-jewelry “bracelet” – perhaps masking tape or oddly colored yarn – on your body for the exercise duration.  This is a sign of your EYSKUBE addiction (like needle tracks) that I, a disgrace and something else you should conceal.  You also might find it an annoyance (like the runny nose or infected injection sites other types of addicts might experience).  It would be best if you tried to keep those outside the EYSKUBE culture from noticing this sign – they might ask embarrassing questions, and then you would probably have to make up some story to hide your addiction.  
You must keep a log throughout the exercise (e.g., where you are, what you are doing), recording the following every 4 hours: 
Are you thirsty now?
When and where do you expect your next dose of EYSKUBE?
What is your plan to satisfy your cravings?
What are you feeling and thinking?
Submit your log as well as a 4-pg. Double-spaced, full APA formatted essay answering the following questions, and come to class prepared to discuss your experiences and reaction to the simulation.  Provide at least 2 peer-reviewed articles as references. 
The   introduction of the Eyskube essay should be broken up into two parts: what addiction is and the purpose of the Eyskube stimulation. For the introduction, you should address at least TWO of the following questions in your first paragraph (a minimum of five sentences) using at least ONE academic journal article:
What is addiction or substance use disorder?
Are there different types of addiction? Specify if there are.
Provide a statistic about addiction within a specific population. You are free to focus on the following: sex, gender, race, nationality, sexuality, and age. Let’s say you wanted to focus on gender differences regarding addiction. You would say the following: According to NIH (2020), “Men are more likely than women to use almost all types of illicit drugs” (p.1).
In your second paragraph, answer the following questions regarding the Eyskube stimulation objectively:
1. What is the Eyskube stimulation about?
2. Why is this stimulation performed?
3. Who is partaking in the stimulation?
4. How will the Eyskube stimulation be conducted?
In the   discussion portion of your paper, please answer the following discussion question, dedicating at least ONE paragraph (a minimum of 5-7 sentences) for EACH. APA style for the whole paper plus log.
Be able to describe the who, what, where, and when of the experience as objectively as possible.
In what ways, if any, do you think you felt like, had experiences like, or behaved like an addict?  
How did you feel about altering many of your daily activities to accommodate your addiction?  
What was the most challenging part of the simulation?
Choose one or two lessons you learned and describe how they will inform your work.
I have uploaded two sources that will need to be used in the discussion part. The paper should be 4 pages double spaces ALONG with the log. 

I need you to replay to this discussion thread.
As a counselor, my role in meeting the spiritual needs of clients involves creating a safe and open environment where individuals feel comfortable exploring their spiritual beliefs, values, and experiences. This may include actively listening to their spiritual concerns, providing nonjudgmental support, and helping them integrate their spirituality into their overall mental health treatment plan. The spiritual needs of individuals with disabilities are often neglected due to misconceptions or assumptions about their capabilities or priorities. 
Society may focus more on addressing physical or cognitive challenges, overlooking the essential aspect of spirituality in their well-being. There is a need for spiritual assessments among individuals with disabilities to ensure holistic care. Understanding their spiritual beliefs and practices can significantly impact their mental health outcomes, coping mechanisms, and overall quality of life. Exploring spiritual meanings in mental health assessments can be challenging due to cultural differences, communication barriers, and the subjective nature of spirituality. Clinicians must approach this aspect of assessment with sensitivity, respect, and a willingness to learn from the individual’s perspective, rather than imposing their own beliefs or assumptions. Building trust and rapport is crucial in navigating these complexities effectively.

Instructions in image below traditional paper
Focus on adolescent who immigrated and a US born adolescent
Migrant adolescents’ behavioral problems compared to host adolescents and adolescents in their region of origin: a longitudinal study
https://bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12888-020-02872-x
Id like to use this article for my peer review article. This article for focuses on the behavior in adolescence immigrants. This article involves statistics and facts.

Problem Statement: Describe the general topic you will address and its importance and relevance to real-world issues.
Literature Review: In this section, you will use existing research on your subject and draw conclusions for informing your research proposal.
Summarize existing, applicable research in the field around your topic, utilizing peer-reviewed sources.
Identify the different research designs that have been used to generate knowledge on this topic, and describe how they differ.
Differentiate between the research designs for their advantages and disadvantages in addressing the research questions, providing specific examples from the research.
Evaluate the appropriateness of the research designs to the research questions, providing justification for your assertions. Which design seems most appropriate in addressing the question and why?
Summarize what is unknown or uncertain about your topic, synthesizing applicable existing research.
Discuss the appropriateness of the data analysis procedures used in the literature as they relate to the American Psychological Association’s principles and standards. Consider the assumptions made and presentation of data.
Research Question and Hypothesis
Create a testable research question based on your research about the topic.
Create a testable hypothesis based on your research question and research about the topic, explaining the extent to which the research supports your hypothesis.
Describe the variables that will be measured and manipulated in your study, and explain the selection of variables. Specifically, what independent and dependent variables will be used to test your hypothesis?
Proposed Methodology
Outline whom you plan to use as participants and how many participants you will need, providing justification.
Describe the materials (such as surveys) that will be used in your study and why these materials are most appropriate for your proposal, justifying claims with resources.
Describe the procedures you will use to collect your data and how these will appropriately address your research question.
Discuss the ethical concerns involved in your study and the steps you will take to remedy them. Consider who will be studied, what risks they will be exposed to, and what steps will be taken to maintain their responses’ confidentiality and obtain informed consent.
Data Analysis Plan
Explain what procedures you will use to prepare your raw data for analysis. If you have open-ended questions, how will they be coded? If you collected responses to multiple survey questions, how will the data be aggregated for analysis?
Propose general analytical procedures that you will use to analyze your data, and explain how these procedures will help obtain valid and reliable research results.
Describe which descriiptive statistics that could be obtained from your data would be most informative in answering your research question and why.
Discuss how your proposed data analysis methods are ethical and aligned with the American Psychological Association’s principles and standards.
Anticipated Results: What do you expect the results of your study to be, and how do your expected results complement or contradict the results in previous literature?
ALL PREVIOUS WORK IS UPLOADED INTO THE FILES SECTION, THIS HAS TO ALL BE PUT TOGETHER TO CREATE A COMPLETE RESEARCH PROPOSAL

12 font
Times New Roman
Double Spaced
One inch margins
7 Pages including Title page and Reference Page
Any topic from Textbook Chapters 8 or 9 Developmental Profiles_ Pre-Birth Through Adolescence 9th Edition – PDF ebook
Minimum 3 references including Textbook

Write a 1000 word paper answering the following question:
“I, I, I, me, me, me. We are becoming a
nation of narcissists” (Psychology Today, 2021).
How does a diagnosis of
Narcissistic Personality Disorder differ from a healthy level of self-regard,
and what challenges does it pose for people whose lives are affected by it?

Findings 
Rewrite/edit the findings section of the attached paper. The themes have already been created, you will only need to add/remove/edit what is already list. I have 3 three themes in place. Use the attached references and the the combined reading response that I created to write one page on the findings of the combined reading assignment attachment. Nothing else of the page needs to be edited. Use the instructions below for reference:
(c) provide an informative and
explanatory definition for each theme (2-3 sentences),
And (d) weave multiple pieces of
data (i.e., quotes) into your discussion of each theme, which will serve to
justify the existence of the theme.