Explain how understanding the health-illness continuum enables you, as a health care provider, to better promote the value and dignity of individuals or groups and to serve others in ways that promote human flourishing and are consistent with the Christian worldview.

Research the health-illness continuum and its relevance to patient care. In a 750-1,000-word paper, discuss the relevance of the continuum to patient care and present a perspective of prediabetics as my current state of health in relation to the wellness spectrum. Include the following:
Examine the health-illness continuum and discuss why this perspective is important to consider in relation to health and the human experience when caring for patients.
Explain how understanding the health-illness continuum enables you, as a health care provider, to better promote the value and dignity of individuals or groups and to serve others in ways that promote human flourishing and are consistent with the Christian worldview.
Reflect on your overall state of health. Discuss what behaviors support or detract from your health and well-being. Explain where you currently fall on the health-illness continuum.
Discuss the options and resources available to you to help you move toward wellness on the health-illness spectrum. Describe how these would assist in moving you toward wellness (managing a chronic disease, recovering from an illness, self-actualization, etc.).
You are required to cite a minimum of three peer-reviewed sources to complete this assignment. Sources must be published within the last 5 years, appropriate for the assignment criteria, and relevant to nursing practice.
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide

Identify an example of a time when you worked with someone and you had to communicate across cultures. Perhaps you collaborated with a colleague on a project, worked on a group assignment with a classmate, or volunteered in your community with your neighbors. What is the example you identified? What are some challenges you faced communicating across cultures in this situation?

Identify an example of a time when you worked with someone and you had to communicate across cultures. Perhaps you collaborated with a colleague on a project, worked on a group assignment with a classmate, or volunteered in your community with your neighbors.
What is the example you identified?
What are some challenges you faced communicating across cultures in this situation?
What benefits might you see in successfully communicating with the person in the example?
Which principles of cross-cultural communication did you need to consider then that you know now, given what you’re learning this week?
What might you do differently the next time you encounter a cross-cultural communication situation?

  Examine a national healthcare issue and consider how that issue may impact your work setting.

 
If you were to ask 10 people what they believe to be the most significant issue facing healthcare today, you might get 10 different answers. Escalating costs? Regulation? Technology disruption? Social Determinant such as environment/community, education, access/quality to healthcare?
These and many other topics are worthy of discussion. Not surprisingly, much has been said in the research, within the profession, and in the news about these topics. Whether they are issues of finance, quality, workload, or outcomes, there is no shortage of changes to be addressed.
In this Discussion, you examine a national healthcare issue and consider how that issue may impact your work setting. You also analyze how your organization has responded to this issue.
 
ead any TWO of the following (plus TWO additional readings on your selected issue):
Amalberti, R., Vincent, C., Nicklin, W., & Braithwaite, J. (2019). Coping with more people with more illness Part 1: The nature of the challenge and the implications for safety and quality.Links to an external site. International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 31(2), 154–158.
Bangani, R. G., Menon, V., & Jovanov, E. (2021). Personalized stress monitoring AI system for healthcare workersLinks to an external site.. 2021 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM), Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM), 2021 IEEE International Conference On, 2992–2997.
Carter, M. W., & Busby, C. R. (2023). How can operational research make a real difference in healthcare? Challenges of implementationLinks to an external site.. European Journal of Operational Research, 306(3), 1059–1068.
Dixon-Woods, M., McNicol, S., & Martin, G. (2012, October 1). Ten challenges in improving quality in healthcare: lessons from the Health Foundation’s programme evaluations and relevant literatureLinks to an external site.. BMJ Quality & Safety, 21(10), 876.
Gjellebæk, C., Svensson, A., Bjørkquist, C., Fladeby, N., & Grundén, K. (2020). Management challenges for future digitalization of healthcare servicesLinks to an external site.. Futures, 124.
Greco, E., Graziano, E. A., Stella, G. P., Mastrodascio, M., & Cedrone, F. (2022). The impact of leadership on perceived work-related stress in healthcare facilities organisationsLinks to an external site.. Journal of Organizational Change Management, 35(4/5), 734-748.
Hale, K. (2021). Benefits and challenges of social media in health careLinks to an external site.. Critical Care Nursing Quarterly, 44(3), 309–315.
Navaz, A. N., Serhani, M. A., El Kassabi, H. T., Al-Qirim, N., & Ismail, H. (2021). Trends, technologies, and key challenges in smart and connected healthcareLinks to an external site.. IEEE Access, Access, IEEE, 9, 74044–74067.
Slonim, A. (2023). Top challenges facing healthcare: Back to basicsLinks to an external site.. Physician Leadership Journal, 10(2), 12–14. https://doi.org/10.55834/plj.2064149664

Tale of Today, written in 1873 by American author Mark Twain. To gild gold is to put gold on top of gold, a very excessive and wasteful use of a precious resource. But it was exactly this apparent excess and waste that Twain was highlighting in his book. As a result, the term ‘Gilded Age’ has become synonymous with greed and corruption. How did these three men build empires in America? Give examples. Were they in the right place at the right time? In other words, could they have succeeded in a different moment in history? Why or why not?

HIS202 SLP 1
After reading the background materials and the short biographies of each of the three men listed below, respond to the three short-answer questions.
Note that all three questions contain multiple elements. So please make sure that you have addressed each one completely before moving to the next one. Also, in the readings below you’ll see the term, “Gilded Age” used to refer to the time in which these men lived. This term was taken from the book, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, written in 1873 by American author Mark Twain. To gild gold is to put gold on top of gold, a very excessive and wasteful use of a precious resource. But it was exactly this apparent excess and waste that Twain was highlighting in his book. As a result, the term ‘Gilded Age’ has become synonymous with greed and corruption.
How did these three men build empires in America? Give examples.
Were they in the right place at the right time? In other words, could they have succeeded in a different moment in history? Why or why not?
What foresights did these opportunists envision? What led to the “invention” of their products?
J. P. Morgan
John D. Rockefeller
Cornelius Vanderbilt
J. P. Morgan
One of the most powerful bankers of his era, J.P. (John Pierpont) Morgan (1837-1913) financed railroads and helped organize U.S. Steel, General Electric and other major corporations. The Connecticut native followed his wealthy father into the banking business in the late 1850s, and in 1871 formed a partnership with Philadelphia banker Anthony Drexel. In 1895, their firm was reorganized as J.P. Morgan & Company, a predecessor of the modern-day financial giant JPMorgan Chase.
Morgan used his influence to help stabilize American financial markets during several economic crises, including the panic of 1907. However, he faced criticism that he had too much power and was accused of manipulating the nation’s financial system for his own gain. The Gilded Age titan spent a significant portion of his wealth amassing a vast art collection.
During the late 19th century, a period when the U.S. railroad industry experienced rapid overexpansion and heated competition (the nation’s first transcontinental rail line was completed in 1869), Morgan was heavily involved in reorganizing and consolidating several financially troubled railroads. In the process, he gained control of significant portions of these railroads’ stock and eventually controlled an estimated one-sixth of America’s rail lines.
The great ship Titanic, owned by one of the IMM companies, White Star, sank on its maiden voyage after hitting an iceberg. Morgan, who attended the ship’s christening in 1911, was booked on the ill-fated April 1912 voyage but had to cancel.
During Morgan’s era, the United States had no central bank, so he used his influence to help save the nation from disaster during several economic crises. In 1895, Morgan assisted in rescuing America’s gold standard when he headed a banking syndicate that loaned the federal government more than $60 million. In another instance, the financial panic of 1907, Morgan held a meeting of the country’s top financiers at his New York City home and convinced them to bail out various faltering financial institutions to stabilize the markets.
Morgan initially was widely commended for leading Wall Street out of the 1907 financial crisis; however, in the ensuing years the portly banker with the handlebar mustache and gruff manner faced increasing criticism from muckraking journalists, progressive politicians and others that he had too much power and could manipulate the financial system for his own gain.
In 1912, Morgan was called to testify before a congressional committee chaired by U.S. Representative Arsene Pujo (1861-1939) of Louisiana that was investigating the existence of a “money trust,” a small cabal of elite Wall Street financiers, including Morgan, who allegedly colluded to control American banking and industry. The Pujo Committee hearings helped bring about the creation of the Federal Reserve System in December 1913 and spurred passage of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914.
The famous financier died at age 75 on March 31, 1913, in Rome, Italy.
(source: JP Morgan – https://www.history.com/topics/john-pierpont-morgan)
John D. Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937), founder of the Standard Oil Company, became one of the world’s wealthiest men and a major philanthropist. Born into modest circumstances in upstate New York, he entered the then-fledgling oil business in 1863 by investing in a Cleveland, Ohio, refinery. In 1870, he established Standard Oil, which by the early 1880s controlled some 90 percent of U.S. refineries and pipelines. Critics accused Rockefeller of engaging in unethical practices, such as predatory pricing and colluding with railroads to eliminate his competitors, to gain a monopoly in the industry. In 1911, the U.S. Supreme Court found Standard Oil in violation of anti-trust laws and ordered it to dissolve. During his life Rockefeller donated more than $500 million to various philanthropic causes.
John Davison Rockefeller, the son of a traveling salesman, was born on July 8, 1839, in Richford, New York. Industrious even as a boy, the future oil magnate earned money by raising turkeys, selling candy and doing jobs for neighbors. In 1853, the Rockefeller family moved to the Cleveland, Ohio, area, where John attended high school then briefly studied bookkeeping at a commercial college.
In 1855, at age 16, he found work as an office clerk at a Cleveland commission firm that bought, sold and shipped grain, coal and other commodities. (He considered September 26, the day he started the position and entered the business world, so significant that as an adult he commemorated this “job day” with an annual celebration.) In 1859, Rockefeller and a partner established their own commission firm. That same year, America’s first oil well was drilled in Titusville, Pennsylvania. In 1863, Rockefeller and several partners entered the booming new oil industry by investing in a Cleveland refinery.
In 1865, Rockefeller borrowed money to buy out some of his partners and take control of the refinery, which had become the largest in Cleveland. Over the next few years, he acquired new partners and expanded his business interests in the growing oil industry. At the time, kerosene, derived from petroleum and used in lamps, was becoming an economic staple. In 1870, Rockefeller formed the Standard Oil Company of Ohio, along with his younger brother William (1841-1922), Henry Flagler (1830-1913) and a group of other men. John Rockefeller was its president and largest shareholder.
Standard Oil gained a monopoly in the oil industry by buying rival refineries and developing companies for distributing and marketing its products around the globe. In 1882, these various companies were combined into the Standard Oil Trust, which would control some 90 percent of the nation’s refineries and pipelines. In order to exploit economies of scale, Standard Oil did everything from build its own oil barrels to employ scientists to figure out new uses for petroleum by-products.
Rockefeller’s enormous wealth and success made him a target of muckraking journalists, reform politicians and others who viewed him as a symbol of corporate greed and criticized the methods with which he’d built his empire. As The New York Times reported in 1937: “He was accused of crushing out competition, getting rich on rebates from railroads, bribing men to spy on competing companies, of making secret agreements, of coercing rivals to join the Standard Oil Company under threat of being forced out of business, building up enormous fortunes on the ruins of other men, and so on”.
In 1890, the U.S. Congress passed the Sherman Antitrust Act, the first federal legislation prohibiting trusts and combinations that restrained trade. Two years later, the Ohio Supreme Court dissolved the Standard Oil Trust; however, the businesses within the trust soon became part of Standard Oil of New Jersey, which functioned as a holding company. In 1911, after years of litigation, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Standard Oil of New Jersey was in violation of anti-trust laws and forced it to dismantle (it was broken up into more than 30 individual companies).
Rockefeller retired from day-to-day business operations of Standard Oil in the mid-1890s. Inspired in part by fellow Gilded Age tycoon Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919), who made a vast fortune in the steel industry then became a philanthropist and gave away the bulk of his money, Rockefeller donated more than half a billion dollars to various educational, religious and scientific causes. Among his activities, he funded the establishment of the University of Chicago and the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (now Rockefeller University).
Rockefeller died at 97 on May 23rd, 1937, at The Casements, his winter home in Ormond Beach Florida. He’s buried at Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland. His goal was to reach the age of 100.
(source: John D. Rockefeller – https://www.history.com/topics/john-d-rockefeller)
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Shipping and railroad tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794-1877) was a self-made multi-millionaire who became one of the wealthiest Americans of the 19th century. As a boy, he worked with his father, who operated a boat that ferried cargo between Staten Island, New York, where they lived, and Manhattan. After working as a steamship captain, Vanderbilt went into business for himself in the late 1820s, and eventually became one of the country’s largest steamship operators. In the process, the Commodore, as he was publicly nicknamed, gained a reputation for being fiercely competitive and ruthless. In the 1860s, he shifted his focus to the railroad industry, where he built another empire and helped make railroad transportation more efficient. When Vanderbilt died, he was worth more than $100 million.
A descendant of Dutch settlers who came to America in the mid-1600s, Cornelius Vanderbilt was born into humble circumstances on May 27, 1794, on Staten Island, New York. His parents were farmers and his father also made money by ferrying produce and merchandise between Staten Island and Manhattan in his two-masted sailing vessel, known as a periauger. As a boy, the younger Vanderbilt worked with his father on the water and attended school briefly. When Vanderbilt was a teen he transported cargo around the New York harbor in his own periauger. Eventually, he acquired a fleet of small boats and learned about ship design.
In 1817, Vanderbilt went to work as a ferry captain for a wealthy businessman who owned a commercial steamboat service that operated between New Jersey and New York. The job provided Vanderbilt the opportunity to learn about the burgeoning steamship industry. In the late 1820s, he went into business on his own, building steamships and operating ferry lines around the New York region. Shrewd and aggressive, he became a dominant force in the industry by engaging in fierce fare wars with his rivals. In some cases, his competitors paid him hefty sums not to compete with them. (Throughout his life, Vanderbilt’s ruthless approach to business would earn him numerous enemies.)
In the 1840s, Vanderbilt constructed a large brick home for his family at 10 Washington Place, in Manhattan’s present-day Greenwich Village neighborhood. Despite his growing wealth, the city’s elite residents were slow to accept Vanderbilt, considering him rough and uncultured.
In the early 1850s, during the California Gold Rush, a time before transcontinental railroads, Vanderbilt launched a steamship service that transported prospectors from New York to San Francisco via a route across Nicaragua. His route was faster than an established route across Panama, and much speedier than the other alternative, around Cape Horn at the southern tip of South America, which could take months. Vanderbilt’s new line was an instant success, earning more than $1 million (about $26 million in today’s money) a year.
In the 1860s, Vanderbilt shifted his focus from shipping to the railroad industry, which was entering a period of great expansion. He gained control of several railway lines operating between Chicago and New York and established an interregional railroad system. According to T.J. Styles, author of “The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt”: “This was a major transformation of the railroad network, which previously had been fragmented into numerous short railroads, each with its own procedures, timetables, and rolling stock. The creation of a coherent system spanning several states lowered costs, increased efficiency, and sped up travel and shipment times.”
Vanderbilt was the driving force behind the construction of Manhattan’s Grand Central Depot, which opened in 1871. The station eventually was torn down and replaced by present-day Grand Central Terminal, which opened in 1913.
Unlike the Gilded Age titans who followed him, such as steel magnate Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) and oil mogul John Rockefeller (1839-1937), Vanderbilt did not own grand homes or give away much of his vast wealth to charitable causes. In fact, the only substantial philanthropic donation he made was in 1873, toward the end of his life, when he gave $1 million to build and endow Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. (In a nod to its founder’s nickname, the school’s athletic teams are called the Commodores.)
The Vanderbilt mansions associated with the Gilded Age, including the Breakers in Newport, Rhode Island, and the Biltmore in Asheville, North Carolina, were built by Cornelius Vanderbilt’s descendants. (The 250-room Biltmore estate, constructed in the late 19th century by one of Vanderbilt’s grandsons, is the largest privately-owned home in the United States today.)
Vanderbilt died at age 82 on January 4, 1877, at his Manhattan home, and was buried in the Moravian Cemetery in New Dorp, Staten Island. He left the bulk of his fortune, estimated at more than $100 million, to his son William (1821-85).
(source: Cornelius Vanderbilt – https://www.history.com/topics/cornelius-vanderbilt)
SLP Assignment Expectations
Use concepts from the background readings as well as any academic resources you can find (Wikipedia-type sources are not acceptable). Please be sure to cite your sources within the text and provide a reference page at the end of the paper.
Length: 1–2 paragraphs per question, double-spaced, typed using 12 Point Times New Roman font.
The following items will be assessed in particular:
Your ability to apply the basic concepts to the questions.
Some in-text references to the background readings (APA formatting not required).
The essay should address each element of the assignment. Remember to support your answers with solid references including the background readings.
Upload your paper to the SLP 1 Dropbox when it is completed.

Describe what it means to be a data-driven organization. Consider the following: · How can data inform decision making? Consider providing an example that is relevant to your industry. · How does a CRM system play a role in organizational decision making? · What is data analysis? How do organizations use data analysis? What are its benefits?

DAT 205 Project Three Guidelines and Rubric
Competency
In this project, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following competency:
· Describe how data analysis impacts organizational decision making
Scenario

You recently started a new position as a data analyst for a large corporation. This past year, members of the organization’s leadership council have shared a new organization-wide strategic goal: Leverage data analytics and technology to become data-driven decision makers.
One way your organization is planning to become more data-driven is to adopt a new customer relationship management (CRM) system. This system would allow the organization to manage relationships with current customers, identify potential customers, increase profits, streamline processes, and facilitate business decisions. In addition, the CRM system will utilize data analysis, which is of high interest to your stakeholders.
A majority of the organization’s stakeholders are unfamiliar with your process for using data analysis to facilitate organizational decision making. The data analytics team has recently received several inquiries from a variety of stakeholders asking you how data analysis, and specifically the new CRM, can be used effectively to impact organizational decision making.
Quite often, professionals use elevator pitches to clearly and concisely convey important information to others. You will need to consider the interests of the organization’s stakeholders and determine what they need to know. To gain acceptance and “buy-in” from stakeholders, prepare an elevator pitch on how analysis using data from the CRM system can be instrumental in data-driven decision making.
Directions
First, select the industry you are most interested in:
·
Healthcare

Note: If you are interested in an industry that is not listed above, reach out to your instructor for approval prior to completing your project. You are not required to select the same industry that you explored in other projects in this course.

You conduct a quick search online to learn more about elevator pitches and find the Elevator Pitch Guide and an easy template to follow (see the What to Submit and Supporting Materials sections below). Create a clear and concise elevator pitch by first introducing yourself and then discussing the following:
·
Describe what it means to be a data-driven organization. Consider the following:

· How can data inform decision making? Consider providing an example that is relevant to your industry.
· How does a CRM system play a role in organizational decision making?
· What is data analysis? How do organizations use data analysis? What are its benefits?
· Upon purchasing a CRM system, the data analytics team will be responsible for managing the data using the data analytics lifecycle (DAL). 
Briefly explain each stage of the DAL and a data analyst’s role in each stage. Consider mentioning the relevant types of data that will be available from the CRM system and what questions that data can be used to address in your organization and the industry you selected.

· As part of the DAL, data analysts communicate their results to various audiences. A CRM system is a common tool used for data-driven decision making in organizations. In your elevator pitch, 
identify at least two types of tools or methods for sharing data and results from a CRM system. Consider the following:

· What methods or tools are available and are widely used by analysts to demonstrate conclusions to decision makers?
· How might data visualization play a role in communicating your results?
· Be sure to 
explain why these tools or methods are appropriate for communicating with stakeholders and other nontechnical audiences in your organization. Consider the following:

· What are the benefits of communicating information this way?
· Do these tools or methods accurately summarize the information you would like to convey?
· Will the tools or methods meet the stakeholders’ needs?
· Are there any considerations that need to be made in regard to cost or time for using these tools or methods?
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Explain how data influences and impacts organizational decision making. Consider the following:

· What are the potential improvements that data from a CRM system with data analysis capabilities can be used to facilitate in this type of organization and industry?
· How will adopting a CRM system impact an organization and its functions?
· What are the potential constraints when using a CRM system?
What to Submit
To complete this project, you must submit the following:

Elevator Pitch

An elevator pitch is a brief speech that is used to convey essential information to your audience. Use the supporting materials and the template linked above to guide the creation of an elevator pitch. Be sure to write out your elevator pitch in full sentences and in a conversational tone for use with stakeholders. To ensure your communication with stakeholders is clear and concise, your elevator pitch should not exceed two pages in length.

Supporting Materials
The following resource(s) may help support your work on the project:

Document: 

Elevator Pitch Guide

An elevator pitch is a brief speech that is used to convey essential information to your audience. An elevator pitch tells a story in a clear and concise manner to the appropriate audience. Review this guide on creating effective elevator pitches.

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What is the difference between disparate treatment and adverse impact? Why is the selection of a FTO such a critical factor in rookie training? What factors should be considered when selecting an FTO for new officers? What is the importance of the character investigation?

DO NOT USE AI PLEASE AND THANK YYOU
PART 1
Answer all of the following questions with a minimum of per question. Please submit by the due date.
What is the difference between disparate treatment and adverse impact?
Why is the selection of a FTO such a critical factor in rookie training? What factors should be considered when selecting an FTO for new officers?
What is the importance of the character investigation?
How does recruiting change with the new generations?
PART 2
Answer all of the following questions with a minimum of 1per question. Please submit by the due date.
Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of oral and written communication and electronic media.
Discuss some of the issues surrounding cross-cultural communication.
Discuss the differences and problems associated with upward and downward communication.
What are the major desirable and undesirable traits of the organizational grapevine?
What is the importance of non-verbal communication to law enforcement personnel? Explain.

Choose one of the theories (social systems theory, relationship theory, distributive leadership theory, facilitating leadership theory, open system theory and transformational theory. Which best represents your leadership approach from the theories.  Referring to specific aspects of the leadership theory in the literature, explain how you implement this leadership theory in your professional context (or how you would implement this theory if you were in a leadership role).

Edu 575 week 4 discussion | edu 575 | Strayer University – Washington, DC

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Choose one of the theories (social systems theory, relationship theory, distributive leadership theory, facilitating leadership theory, open system theory and transformational theory. Which best represents your leadership approach from the theories. 
Referring to specific aspects of the leadership theory in the literature, explain how you implement this leadership theory in your professional context (or how you would implement this theory if you were in a leadership role).

Why DO drug Dealers Still Live with their Moms?” Explain the economic impact of doing “business” in the illegal drug trafficking ‘industry”.Who makes the money?Where does it go? And, what is the impact on the basic “worker”.

Purpose: the purpose of this assignment is to develop your critical thinking skills in regard to economics and your communication skills.
Skills: You will critically analyze and evaluate issues, components, and implications of real-life economic problems and opportunities by applying economic concepts, principles, and theory.
Knowledge: This assignment will also help you to become familiar with the following important content knowledge in this discipline:
Positive and Negative Incentives
Asymmetric Information
Opportunity Cost
Demand and Supply Analysis
Please read the Introduction and Chapters One through Five of the Freakonomics book and answer the questions below.When answering the questions, be sure to be as detailed as possible.You are NOT being evaluated on what you can rephrase from the book, but your own analysis using ECONOMIC PRINCIPLES that we have learned thus far.Simply retyping or summarizing what happened is worth very little on this assignment.Questions should be answered in paragraph form, using proper grammar and sentence structure.When supporting your position, use examples from work, school or other areas of your life to illustrate your point. Remember, do not simply cut and paste from a website etc, as this can be construed as plagiarism.
This assignment should be considered a formal report. It MUST be submitted as a single Word document via D2L for credit.The writing assignment is in a “Question and Answer” format. Please answer each question in paragraph form. Please write questions and answers in APA format by following How do You Format A Question and Answer in APA.There are no standard answers to the questions asked. However, your answers should be based on the Freakonomics book.
Please remember these reports will be run through Turnitin.com looking for plagiarism.Please make sure you are aware of the University’s policies on plagiarism so that you avoid it at all costs. Instances of plagiarism will be reported to the University per the handbook.
Freakonomics Core Competencies Questions
Answer all sub-questions in Question 1 through Question 5.
Chapter 1
1. (REQUIRED) Explain how the imposition of a fine for tardy parents at a day care center may have altered the motivations of these parents.Given what was found, what would you do or have done to improve the situation?Would your solution solve the problem or would it create other motives for the parents?What is an incentive? How does it relate to the study of economics?
Chapter 2
2. (REQUIRED) The authors state that one of the biggest strength at the disposal of the Ku Klux Klan involved “information asymmetries.Explain what is meant by the term “information asymmetries” and give examples of information asymmetries we encounter in everyday life. Explain how such innovations as the Internet have affected the prevalence of information asymmetries.
Chapter 3
3. (REQUIRED) Sudhir Venkatesh – a PhD student – took his life in his hands by walking into a low income, traditionally violent neighborhood, to do a research project.He came out (alive) with much more.In the process of interacting with the inhabitants, he became involved with a drug-dealing gang.After many months he learned some valuable lessons in Economics (even if they were of a dubious nature).So, with that in mind, I’ll ask you the same question the authors asked.Why DO drug Dealers Still Live with their Moms?” Explain the economic impact of doing “business” in the illegal drug trafficking ‘industry”.Who makes the money?Where does it go? And, what is the impact on the basic “worker”.Use the Laws of Supply and Demand as well as the principles we’ve learned so far, including opportunity cost and price v. quantity.
Chapter 4
4. (REQUIRED).Provide at least three reasons why crime actually dropped when the experts were so certain it would do the opposite.In the process, provide your thoughts on which of those three potential reasons you feel had the biggest impact and why (remember to support your answer with strong economic principles).
Chapter 5
5. (REQUIRED) What is “fear mongering” and why are parents so susceptible to it?What market forces give rise to parenting books that appeal to a parent’s fears and inadequacies rather than books which present an objective and evenhanded articulation of the state-of-the science of good parenting? According to the data developed from the ECLS, what is more important regarding a child’s success on standardized tests: what a parent does for a child or what a parent is? In your opinion, what might be an explanation for such a strange conclusion?
You will be graded as follows: (100 points)
Criteria
Level 4
20 points
Level 3
17 points
Level 2
15 points
Level 1
11 points
Interpretation
Answers are mostly correct and demonstrate excellent comprehension. Opinions are always fully justified.
Answers are often correct and demonstrate good comprehension. Opinions are adequately justified.
Answers are occasionally correct and demonstrate an incomplete comprehension of the topic. Opinions are sometimes justified.
Answers do not reflect accurate comprehension of the topic(s). Opinions are unjustified.
Detail
Answers are mostly complete, extensive, and include many details.
Answers are usually complete and include several details.
Answers contain some details.
Answers lack the required detail or are incomplete.
Use of Information
Answers mostly include supporting evidence from the text/lesson when necessary. Quotations or paraphrases are often included in answers.
Answers usually include supporting evidence from the text/lesson when necessary. Quotations or paraphrases are sometimes included.
Answers include occasional supporting evidence from the text when necessary.
Answers do not include supporting evidence from the text when necessary.
Clarity
Answers are very easy to understand. They are clear and concise.
Answers are always easy to understand.
Answers are sometimes understandable but need to be more to the point.
Answers are difficult to understand.
Mechanics
Conventional spelling and grammar are mostly correct.
Conventional spelling and grammar are usually correct.
Work contained several spelling and grammar errors.
Work contains many spelling and grammar errors.

How does the use of technology impact the counseling relationship?What did you notice about the differences between the live and technology-based sessions?

• How does the use of technology impact the counseling relationship?What did you notice about the differences between the live and technology-based sessions?
• What did you notice about the differences between the live and technology-based sessions?
• Include references from professional literature regarding the impact of technology on the counseling profession and the counseling process.
• Cite specific ACA Code of Ethics sections related to the use of technology in counseling.
• How can you demonstrate cultural relevance and convey cultural humility verbally and non-verbally during counseling role play?
• Include references from professional literature regarding the impact of cultural competence on the therapeutic relationship.

After reading Chapter 11 and reviewing the Case of the Drew Family, thoroughly answer the questions posed below regarding the Case of the Drew Family. Provide headers for each section. BOOK LINK https://plus.pearson.com/home What is the difference between solution-focused therapy and providing solutions to clients’ problems? What solution-focused strategies did the consultant use to elicit the strengths in the Drew Family?

Chapter 11 provides information related to Solution-Focused Therapy and how to transition clients from feeling hopeless to hopeful. A big part of the process includes exception-finding questions, miracle questions, and scaling questions. These can be used to not only gather information but to create and identify goals. Goals must be specific and achievable.
For this assignment, we will review this therapeutic intervention from a family perspective using the Case of the Drew Family. While therapy appointments being with a problem(s) related to a specific individual, we do not exist in a vacuum. As we have learned from Family/Systems Theory, our environment and family systems play an important role in shaping who we are and how we conduct ourselves.
As you can see from the Case of the Drew Family, Donald might be the “reason” for the visit, but the entire family plays a role that is important to be examined. This assignment will require you to (1) answer questions about the Drew Family and (2) practice scaling questions skill sets with someone.
1) After reading Chapter 11 and reviewing the Case of the Drew Family, thoroughly answer the questions posed below regarding the Case of the Drew Family. Provide headers for each section. BOOK LINK https://plus.pearson.com/home
What is the difference between solution-focused therapy and providing solutions to clients’ problems?
What solution-focused strategies did the consultant use to elicit the strengths in the Drew Family?
What other ways could the consultant use the “do something different” task with Donald?
How has the consultant helped the family using the “externalizing the problem” strategy?
2) The Case of the Drew family shows the therapist using a scaling question within the session. I would like you to practice using the Scaling Questions Worksheet below using a friend, family member, coworker, etc. as if you were a clinician. FOR THIS SECTION, I HAVE COMPLETED THE FORM JUST ANSWER THE QUESTIONS. THE FORM WILL BE ATTACHED.
WRITE-UP: The only required response to this section is to identify (looking for honest reflections):How did it go? Did you feel prepared? Did it go smoothly? Did they understand your instructions? Did you/the client stumble on any questions?
What did you learn? (open question)
Anything you would change about the questions or your performance?
Do you think scaling questions are beneficial (how/why) to SFBT?