Describe the problem/issue/challenge that the client reports they want help with.
In this assignment, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following course outcomes:
Evaluate various types of counseling assessment principles for their influence on client care
Apply assessment principles to client cases for informing custom case conceptualization decision making
Analyze counseling assessment data for informing and supporting case conceptualization decision making
Determine appropriate ethical and cultural considerations in administering counseling assessments
Prompt
In preparation for completing this final project, you will need to review the Final Project Case File folder and the related files. You will also need the APA DSM5
Level 1 Symptom Measure–Adult to select one issue from those that are indicated as needing further assessment. Then, you will select one Level 2 measure and the assigned severity measure from the list below. You will use the case summary and all of the required assessments to formulate your case conceptualization.
You will be required to integrate the information from the following assessment into you case conceptualization:
Intake Assessment
APA DSM5 WHODAS 2.0
APA DSM5 Cultural Formulation Interview
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APA The Personality Inventory for DSM-5–Brief Form–Adult
Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale
APA DSM5 Self-Rated Level 1 Cross-Cutting Symptom Measure–Adult
APA DSM5 Level-2-Measure-Adult (Select One)
1. APA DSM5 Level–2–Anger–Adult (plus APA DSM5 Severity of Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms–Adult)
2. APA DSM5 Level–2–Anxiety–Adult (plus APA DSM5 Severity Measure for Panic Disorder–Adult)
3. APA DSM5 Level–2–Depression–Adult (plus APA DSM5 Severity Measure for Depression–Adult)
4. APA DSM5 Level–2–Sleep Disturbance–Adult (plus APA DSM5 Severity of Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms–Adult)
There are additional assessments included in the Final Project Case File folder that you can use to support your final project, but they are not all required to
include.
Be sure to use industry-specific language when addressing the critical elements below.
Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:
I. Presenting Concerns: Identify the presenting concerns within the assessments. Synthesize the results of the qualitative and quantitative assessments.
A. Describe the problem/issue/challenge that the client reports they want help with.
B. Explain the problem/issue/challenge affecting the client.
1. What are the behavioral symptoms?
2. What are the cognitive symptoms?
3. What are the emotional symptoms?
4. What are the physiological symptoms?
C. What does the client typically experience and demonstrate when the presenting problem/issue/challenge is activated?
D. What are the results of the quantitative assessments?
E. What is the relationship between the data from the quantitative and qualitative assessments?
F. Discuss the following considerations related to the assessments used.
1. Justify why the assessments used are appropriate and applicable to this client.
2. What are the reliability and validity considerations in using each assessment with this client?
3. What are the limitation associated with using each assessment with this client?
4. What are the ethical considerations necessary when using these assessments with this client?
G. Make sure to answer the following questions with appropriate citation of which assessment was used.
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II. Current Triggers: Using the data gathered from the assessments, describe the client’s current triggers.
A. Describe the triggers (people, places, things, and sensory experiences) that activate the behavioral, cognitive, emotional, and physiological
patterns that result in the client’s presenting problem/issue/challenge.
B. Discuss the following considerations related to the assessments used:
1. In relation to current triggers, what are the reliability and validity considerations in using each assessment with this client?
2. In relation to current triggers, what are the limitation associated with using each assessment with this client?
III. Maladaptive Patterns: Identify the maladaptive patterns the client is presenting. Compare the data you gathered from assessments and your
observations of the client with empirical literature on factors that relate to the client’s issue and presenting problem. Then, answer the following
questions.
A. Explain the inflexible and/or ineffective manner the client is feeling (emotions), the current triggers, and the presenting concerns.
B. Explain the inflexible and/or ineffective manner the client is thinking (cognitions), the current triggers, and the presenting concerns.
C. Explain the inflexible and/or ineffective manner the client is behaving (actions) in reaction to the current triggers and the presenting concerns.
D. Explain the inflexible and/or ineffective manner in which the client is experiencing (physiology) the current triggers and the presenting concerns.
E. Discuss the following considerations related to the assessments used.
1. In relation to maladaptive patterns, what are the reliability and validity considerations in using each assessment with this client?
2. In relation to maladaptive patterns, what are the limitations associated with using each assessment with this client?
3. How does the literature selected impact your understanding of the client’s experience?
IV. Developmental Influences: Identify developmental influences that are presented in the collected information. Using the empirically supported
information from scholarly resources related to the pressing problem and the data from the assessments, answer the following:
A. What are the experiences from the client’s development (birth to the present) that influence the development of the presenting concerns?
B. What are the developmental factors that promote the client’s maladaptive functioning patterns?
C. What are the developmental factors that promote the client’s adaptive functioning patterns?
V. Promoters: Identify promoters that are presented in the information collected. Using the empirically supported information from scholarly resources
related to the pressing problem and the data from the assessments, answer the following:
A. What are the present experiences (onset to present) that influence the maintenance of the presenting concerns?
B. What are the present factors that promote the client’s maladaptive functioning patterns?
C. What are the present factors that promote the client’s adaptive functioning patterns?
VI. Cultural Identity: Discuss how the client’s cultural characteristics influence the client’s identity. Use the data from the cultural formulation interview
(CFI) and answer the following:
A. How does the client identify with the following cultural characteristics?
1. Age
2. Disability
3. Religion
4. Ethnicity
5. Social class
6. Sexual orientation
7. Indigenous background
8. National origin
9. Gender identity
B. Which of the cultural characteristics from above does the client use to define a sense of belonging and use to define an identity?
C. Summarize how cultural identity has influenced the client’s development (birth to present).
D. What are the ethical considerations necessary when using these assessments with this client?
VII. Cultural Stressors: Determine how the client’s cultural identity impacts the client’s stressors.
A. Summarize the dominate culture for your geographic area using all cultural characteristics listed above.
B. Consider the culture identity of the client and identify the similarities and differences between the dominant culture and the client’s cultural
identity.
C. Explain how the similarities between culture identities has impacted the client’s psychosocial experiences.
D. Explain how the differences between culture identities has impacted the client’s psychosocial stress.
E. How do these factor impact the presenting concerns and current triggers
F. What are the ethical considerations necessary when using these assessments with this client?
VIII. Cultural Influencers: Determine how the client’s cultural identity impacts the client’s influencers. Using the data from the CFI, answer the following:
A. What are the beliefs the client holds regarding the cause of the client’s distress, condition, or impairment?
B. What are the beliefs the client’s close relationships regarding the cause of the client’s distress, condition, or impairment?
C. How will these beliefs impact your conceptualization of the presenting concerns and the goals of treatment?
D. What are the ethical considerations necessary when using these assessments with this client?
IX. Personality Patterns Summary: Using the information provided, create a personality patterns summary for the client based on all assessments and your
observations.
A. Summarize the general personality characteristics of the client’s:
1. Openness to experience (level of creativity and curiosity)
2. Conscientiousness (level of organization and work ethic)
3. Extraversion (level of sociability and enthusiasm)
4. Agreeableness (level of friendliness and kindness)
5. Emotional stability (level of calmness and tranquility)
B. Describe how the client’s general personality characteristics and the client’s cultural identity interact to promote adaptive functional patterns
and resilience.
C. Describe how the client’s general personality characteristics and the client’s cultural identity interact to promote the maladaptive functioning
patterns described above.
Synthesize the relationship between the external context of an organization and its internal context and their impact on its strategies.
Module Learning Outcomes
(from module syllabus)
• Synthesise the relationship between the external context of an organisation and its internal context and their impact on its strategies.
• Critically evaluate competitive and development strategies in the context of contemporary strategic management issues.
• Assess the factors that must be considered in strategy implementation.
TASK DESCRIPTION
1. Students are required to explore the strategic management position of their own organisation, or an organisation with which they are familiar, and to conduct and in-depth strategic analysis. The analysis will culminate in appropriate recommendations for a new strategic approach, underpinned by relevant academic literature and theory.
2. At the start of the strategic analysis, you will provide a brief description of the company, its objectives and current approach to reach them and its future goals.
3. In undertaking the strategic analysis, you will begin by identifying the main strategic issues facing your chosen organisation in maintaining its competitive position.
4. You should summarise the key external and internal issues identified in your situational analysis using a SWOT or similar framework.
5. You will then be required to evaluate potential corporate level strategic directions that have been taken by the chosen organisation to date in order to develop and sustain its competitive position. This will give you an opportunity to demonstrate your ability to evaluate the strategic options you have identified in relation to the development of global competitive positioning as well as offering an understanding of the requirements of building competitive capabilities for leveraging across global markets.
6. Frameworks and models of strategic management should be considered when considering specific strategies for developing and sustaining a global competitive strategy.
7. Following on from the analysis you will then be expected to fully discuss the implications of the options taken for strategic management decision-making. In so doing you will demonstrate an appreciation of the wider implications for strategic management decisions and the incorporation of a new strategy on certain areas within the organisation.
Finally, you will be expected to provide appropriate recommendations largely based on your findings.
Explain how the test that you chose fits in with the goals and responsibilities of Christian professionals who might utilize the test.
OVERVIEW
The purpose of the Test Evaluation Paper Assignment is to evaluate the psychometric properties of a psychological assessment of your choice. For this Test Evaluation Paper Assignment, you will select ONE psychological test that is NOT covered in the textbook or in any class presentations. You will use the Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY) database available through Liberty University’s Jerry Falwell Library website to find resources to aid in evaluating the test.
INSTRUCTIONS
Evaluation of the Psychometric Properties of the Test
Your evaluation of the test should include the following areas of consideration:
1. Purpose of Test: What is the purpose of the test (personality, screening, diagnosis, marriage counseling, placement for children, etc.)? Who developed it and why? How is it used?
2. Type of Test/Scoring: What kind of items does the test utilize (T/F, likert, etc)? How is the test scored? What kind of score(s) do respondents receive (percentile rank, z score, T score, total and /or subscale scores?)
3. Normative Sample: Describe the normative sample (including the number of participants and their known demographic characteristics). Indicate whether or not the normative sample is adequately representative of the intended test-takers.
4. Administration: How is the test administered? Paper and pencil? Computer based? Who can purchase/administer the test (i.e., minimum qualifications)?
5. Reliability: Correctly use terms from the textbook/course materials to define the types of evidence for reliability reported in the review articles, and provide the specific numerical values of the reliability statistics. If no reliability data are provided, then explain what type of evidence for reliability you would need in order to fully evaluate the test.
6. Validity: Correctly use terms from the textbook/course materials to define the types of evidence for validity reported in the review articles, and provide the specific numerical values of the validity coefficients. If no validity data are provided, then explain what type of evidence for validity you would need in order to fully evaluate the test.
Justification for Selecting the Test
Your justification for selecting the test should include the following areas of consideration:
1. Explain why you selected this test for review. Specifically, explain how the test is relevant to what you are doing now and/or your future career plans.
2. Explain how the test that you chose fits in with the goals and responsibilities of Christian professionals who might utilize the test. Choose at least one scriptural citation to support your argument.
Test Evaluation Paper Assignment Parameters
1. Use of current APA formatting guidelines is expected throughout your paper.
2. Your assignment should include a current APA-formatted Title Page.
3. You will choose one (1) psychological test to evaluate, and you will find two (2) articles from the Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY) database that assess the psychometric properties of the test that you chose.
4. In your evaluation of the test, you will use information gathered from both review articles to write a comprehensive evaluation of the test.
● The written evaluation of the test itself (the body of your paper) should be 2-3 pages in length.
● Your paper should be written in a scholarly writing style with a formal, college-level tone that utilizes appropriate grammar, diction, spelling, and punctuation.
● Your paper should appropriately utilize in-text citations of all sources (2 review articles and 1 scriptural citation), and citations should be presented in accurate current APA format.
5. Your paper will include an current APA-formatted References Page.
Evaluate the presentation requirements Kenyon plc must follow in relation to the transactions in the financial statements
Kenyon plc, is a global organisation with business interests and sites all over the world. Those business interests are in numerous business sectors. Kenyon plc has a year-end of 30th June.
On 21st December 2020 Kenyon plc announced it was putting its electronics division up for sale. The sale was completed on 31st March 2021.
The board of directors made the decision to close down and terminate its alloy metal manufacturing division on 15th June 2021 and was confident this would be completed within 12 months.
Both divisions had been separately reportable under IFRS 8 & IFRS 5 in previous financial
statements.
Evaluate the presentation requirements Kenyon plc must follow in relation to the above transactions in the financial statements for the year ended 30th June 2021. Specific with this example
Prepare a brief report for the managing director to help explain what has happened to Penguin Ltd
PRINCIPLES OF MACROECONOMICS – Fall 2021
Research Project
Project Goals
The main goal of this project is to help students to build skills in data analysis by applying the methods learned to measure the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and identify business cycles, and by drafting a two-page report on this analysis.
Learning objectives
Upon completing this research project, the student will be able to:
– Describe the GDP and its components;
– Collect data on the GDP components and use them as well as the GDP equation to measure GDP;
– Graph GDP;
– Describe the relationship between the GDP and each of its components.
– Identifying business cycle and its primary phases.
Components of the project
This project includes two components:
– Creation/construction of a graph on the key macroeconomic indicators using FRED data;
and
– Drafting of a two-page analysis of the components of the Gross Domestic Product.
– You may also complete a Big Data cognitive course (Big Data 101) before going onto the project. This would earn you extra credit towards the project.
1. Completion and certification of the cognitive class on Big Data 101 (Due by November 10, 2021)
Your assignment here is to complete successfully the three-hour cognitive course Big Data 101.
To complete the course, open the link below and follow the instructions
https://cognitiveclass.ai/courses/what-is-big-data
– At the top right-hand corner of the screen click Sign-Up and create an account. Be sure to use your First and Last name.
– After signing up, log in to the Cognitive Class System.
– After logging in, at the top right side of the screen, search the term “Big Data 101.”
– Click the course labeled “Big Data 101.” (Red Image not the archived class)
– Next click the blue button labeled “Enroll” to enroll in the course.
2. Fred Graph With the attached excel file, use the data components of GDP to evaluate the equation of GDP,
that is:
𝑮𝑫𝑷 = 𝑪 + 𝑰 + 𝑮 + (𝑴 − 𝑿)
Next, show a graphical representation of these variables and check that 𝑮𝑫𝑷 = 𝑪 + 𝑰 + 𝑮 + (𝑴 − 𝑿)
3. Written Report on the GDP
Draft a two-page report on the GDP behavior over the period 2001-01 to 2020/21 (latest date with available data). This report should include a description of the steps taken to construct the graphs, and an analysis of the business cycle over this time period. Make sure you describe the different phases of business cycle present in the GDP data, that is, describe recession period (decrease in GDP of more than 6 month), expansion (increase in GDP), peak (the highest GDP during the expansion), and trough (lowest GDP during the recession).
Use the GDP equation and data on GDP components to evaluate the equation. Is the [𝑪 + 𝑰 + 𝑮 + (𝑴 − 𝑿)] for each year really equal to the GDP values for those years provided in the
FRED data?
Create different visualizations using each of the variables over the time period with data to show
the relationship between GDP and each of its components. Which components seems to
determine the behavior of the GDP? How can you identify unemployment or inflation from the
GDP graph?
Next, determine the proportion (share) of GDP made up of consumption ©, investment (I), government spending (G), and net exports (M-X, that is Xn). What GDP component has the largest share?
What have you learned about measuring GDP from this assignment? Be sure to cite, using APA, any findings to back your argument and provide a bibliography.
COVID’s impact on youth
You are to select ONE of the following public health issues that impact children or adolescents. You are to use the format subheadings below to write your paper, making sure to handle your references appropriately.
Identity, appearance, or social media COVID’s impact on youth Violence
Children and climate change
You MUST use the following subheads when you write your paper or face losing points.
Reference your work with the APA format – here is a link that may help you to do it correctly:
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/ (Links to an external site.)
Title
Why did you pick this topic?
Why Is This a Public Health Problem?
Literature Review
Statistics on it
Facts about it
Why does it occur? (theory, causal explanations)
How does it impact young people?
Is the way it is addressed working well?
In what ways is the way it is addressed not working well?
Recommendations for better ways
Discuss how social media is used as a tool by political parties to attack each other and for propaganda.
The title of the dissertation is (fake news and disinformation on social media causing polarization in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq)
– Please give proper definitions to polarization, social media, fake news, and disinformation.
– Discuss how social media is used as a tool by political parties to attack each other and for propaganda.
– Discuss why people would disinform and how disinformation is used.
– Also mention how disinformation is spread through unofficial pages with a large number of followers.
– Discuss how this paper is important as no similar research as been done based on the kurdistan region.
– For the methodology, discuss types surveys and interviews that will be conducted (choose the best suited) and an analyzation method of that data.
– For literature review, try to find similar topics in general and read about it then look for anything you might find on the Kurdistan region . (I’ll provide some links here below) (Please check all of them and include them)
-Do your own research and include more references as well.
– https://www.researchgate.net/publication/354939261_Fake_News_in_Social_Kurdish_Media_in_Kurdistan_Region
– https://hakeemdawd.com/?p=410
https://www.al‑monitor.com/originals/2020/06/facebook‑closes‑accounts‑kurdish‑intelligence‑iraq.html
– https://www.iraq‑businessnews.com/2020/06/07/facebook‑closes‑accounts‑linked‑to‑puk/
-https://inventory.adt.ac/wiki/Iraq_Disinformation_Profile
– https://www.jmir.org/2020/5/e19556
– https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/S2050‑206020210000022006/full/html
What was the dynamics of the relationship between the European nations and the north African Arab nations?
A short summary of the purpose of this paper and the method used to explore the main questions of the paper.
2- Colonization of north Africa: Al Girya and Libya an example.
What was the dynamics of the relationship between the European nations and the north African Arab nations? The relationship between the French and the Italians and north Africa. what are the underlying forces that drove these European nations to seek control on the respective Arab north African nations? in what way the French and the Italian differ in the style of control. What was the counterpart perspectives of Arabs?
3- Third cinema perspectives: changing the narratives of the powerful invader:
Third cinema was a movement in film production that followed the political Non-Aligned Movement (NAM). NAM was concerned with the national independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity, and security of non-aligned countries. NAM was a movement of the so-called third world countries to distant themselves from the tow imperial powers in the after math of the second world war. Third cinema was an art form that was initiated to change the narratives of the “powerful” and represent the perspective of the “weak”. Third cinema was more than the reproduction of the weak reality which can be captured by plain photography and film documentaries. Third cinema does more than plain representations of the oppressed realty it became a part of the healing journey from long term oppression and silencing. it has an emotional dimension to bring back the original identity of the colonized, since the growth of these identities through time were disturbed and historically interrupted by forced cultural reformation and direct military aggression.
4- The history of cinema in Algeria and Libya:
Before indulgencing in an exploration of the existence of third cinema experience in the tow African nations, we need to see if there was any cinema at all? to explore the existence of prerequisites of cinematic art, the form of art, the technology and the local interest compared to other forms of art and culture. Did cinema exist as a form of art? was it part of local culture at that specific point in time?
5- Two North African films: short summary.
The Battle of Algiers and the Lion of the Desert two films that represented the voice of the Algerian and the Libyan after a long-term aggression of France and Italy. the first was produced around few years of independence, the second was produced thirty years after independence. summary of the two films will reveal differences and similarities.
6- The application of third cinema criteria on the selected films: a comparison:
An analytic approach of the application of third cinema criteria on both films. Exploring the dimensions of national identity, the underlying economic variables, gender dimension, the echoes of both films on national Arab and third world audiences. The impact of both films on creating trends of same type of film philosophy.
Does Australia’s liberal democratic system enhance the well-being (rights and freedoms) of its citizens?
Briefly outline your understanding of the Australian liberal democratic system (with reference to what is meant by democracy and what is meant by liberal)
•Discuss how this system enhances and or limits the well-being of its citizens.
• Especially useful for this question are topics 2, 3 and 4.
•Please note: to discuss something is to: “Investigate and examine by argument giving the reasons for and against. Present a point of view – this will require both description and interpretation” (Learning Skills, n.d, p.5).
Describe the conditions of your experiment to test the hypothesized function(s) or contingencies influencing the behaviors of concern.
EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS
Overview
The highest level of scientific investigation demonstrated in the FBA is the experimental analysis. The experimental analysis exemplifies the rigor of control as the practitioner manipulates environmental variables to evoke and abate the problem behavior. The consistent control of evoking and abating the target behavior demonstrates the functional relationship between environmental variable(s) and the target behavior(s).
For this assignment, select an experimental analysis of problem behaviors such as the Iwata’s full functional analysis (FA), brief FA, latency-based FA, trial-based FA, precursor FA, or the IISCA. Provide the benefits and limitations of the selected experimental analysis. Describe the conditions of your experiment to test the hypothesized function(s) or contingencies influencing the behaviors of concern. Provide hypothetical data and a visual display (graph). Be sure to incorporate values of compassion and cultural humility when selecting and conducting the experimental analysis. You can refer to the Capella Compassion Code [DOCX] for more details.
Part 1: Select the Experimental Analysis
Select the experimental analysis to be conducted for your functional behavior assessment. Provide the benefits and limitations of the selected experimental analysis. Provide a rationale for why you have chosen this method for the person or character you chose in your first assignment. Please include in your rationale how you considered compassionate approaches when selecting your experimental analysis.
Part 2: Describe the Experimental Analysis
Describe the conditions and procedures of your experimental analysis. Be sure to program for the appropriate establishing operations as suspected from the descriptive assessment. Please include in your rationale how you considered compassionate approaches when conducting your experimental analysis.
Part 3: Display Hypothetical Data and Interpret Results
For ethical reasons, DO NOT conduct an actual experimental analysis of behavior for this assignment. Instead, generate hypothetical data to show outcomes you might expect if you were to conduct the experimental analysis. Present the hypothetical data and result of the experimental analysis in a visual display. Be sure to use an appropriate graph to display the data, demonstrating experimental control. Interpret the results.
Part 4: Conclude the Experimental Analysis
Conclude the results of the experimental analysis by providing a confirmation of the functional control between environmental variables and problem behaviors. In other words, confirm the function(s) influencing problem behaviors. For the IISCA, confirm the functional control between the synthesized contingencies and problem behaviors.
