Discuss the usefulness of pretesting, pilot testing, or field-testing a survey.

Discuss the usefulness of pretesting, pilot testing, or field-testing a survey.

Post your initial response to the discussion question. You will not be able to see any of your classmates’ posts until you have posted your initial response.

How might the client’s age affect diagnosis and treatment recommendations?

Case Study Assignment Instructions
Overview
This Case Study Assignment is designed to help you apply the course content to a counseling situation. In this Case Study Assignment you will have the opportunity to think through a clinical case, identify and prioritize key issues involved, consider and clarify relevant diagnostic issues, provide one assessment to clarify the case, and formulate treatment recommendations that are most likely to be helpful to the client. This Case Study Assignment will directly apply to your work in COUC 667 and with clients when you begin practicum.

Instructions
For this assignment you will read the case study then generate a report that uses the following outline. Each section should be separated by the appropriate APA headings (Level 1, Level 2…)
Client Concerns
Symptoms Behaviors Stressors
(Examples) Sadness Trouble sleeping Parents’ divorce
Fatigue
No appetite
Hopelessness

Client Concerns: Using a table as in the example above, identify and list the client’s symptoms and any other key issues/concerns noted. (Modify the chart size as needed.) For example, these may include biological, psychological, social, and/or spiritual problems. If symptoms/behaviors overlap, you only need to list them once.
Assessment
Provide one assessment that will be used to clarify the diagnosis — a valid assessment that a counselor can use. Give a short (3-5 sentences) overview of the assessment, what it would help you learn about the client, and why you chose it over other assessments (for example: Beck Depression Inventory: identifies clinical depression, strong research base, short, easy to administer and score). Provide one peer-reviewed journal article reference to support the use of this assessment.
Diagnostic Impression
Provide the primary diagnostic impression based upon the DSM-5-TR. Include the ICD-10 code and full name of each diagnosis. Be sure to consider secondary disorders in addition to the primary disorder. Is there more than one diagnosis? Provide the following for all diagnoses.
Signs and Symptoms
List the signs (client’s report) and link them directly to the symptoms (criteria you find in the DSM-5-TR) in table form (example below) to make sure you have linked every client sign to every DSM-5-TR symptom you will use to support the diagnosis. Be sure to adjust the size of the table accordingly. If there are client reported signs that do not fall into the DSM-5-TR diagnosis, make note that you considered them, but they did not align with the DSM-5-TR.
DSM-5-TR Diagnostic Criteria: disorder name and code number Client’s Signs/Reported Symptoms:
Criterion A:

Criterion B:

Criterion C:

Criterion D:

Criterion E:

Criterion F:

Other DSM-5-TR Conditions Considered
List other DSM-5-TR conditions you considered and the process you went through to decide they were not the correct diagnosis. For example: “The client reported three symptoms of Major Depressive Disorder, but five symptoms are needed for this diagnosis, so the disorder was ruled out.”
Developmental Theories and/or Systemic Factors
Discuss theories of normal and abnormal development and/or systemic and environmental factors that affect human development, functioning, and behavior. For example, consider questions such as “What Erikson stage is the client in?” or “What is occurring within the client’s family system that may be influencing the client’s current functioning or behavior?”
Multicultural and/or Social Justice Considerations
Discuss multicultural or social justice considerations that went into your diagnostic thought process. For example, what would the client say about their symptoms/situation from their cultural point of view? Is/Could the client be experiencing concerns related to discrimination, marginalization, oppression, etc.?
Treatment Recommendations
Key Issues for Treatment
In bullet point form, identify the top 2-3 symptoms/issues you believe are involved in the case study, in order of importance.
The goal here is to clearly delineate what you believe will be of the most help to your client.

Recommendations for Individual Counseling
Identify two treatment recommendations for individual counseling based on the 2-3 key issues you identified. You will need to cite these recommendations using peer-reviewed journal articles, focusing on the treatments a counselor would provide. Medication or referral to another type of therapy may be a recommendation, but since these are case management, they do not count towards the two required recommendations and should not be the primary recommendations listed. Consider recommendations that will be motivating to your client and reflect a collaborative approach. Be mindful of multicultural, ethical, and social justice considerations. Approach this part of the assignment as your exploration of what you would do with this type of client in individual counseling.
Specific Considerations
For each case study you will have one specific consideration. You will need to provide one paragraph responding to the questions that correspond with each case study. In your response to these questions, address how these considerations affected your diagnostic impression and your treatment recommendations.
Anna – Case Study 1: How important of a role does cultural background play in this case? What additional information would you need about her culture? What kinds of values conflicts might you experience due to the client’s culture? How would you manage your personal values while working with this client?
Sam – Case Study 2: How does a client being in crisis change the focus of your assessment and treatment planning? How might a client being in crisis affect a diagnosis?
Jeff – Case Study 3: How do multiple diagnoses affect the decision-making process for diagnostic impressions and treatment planning? How do you decide what disorder you might address first, or do you address both simultaneously? How does a substance use disorder affect the process of diagnostic impressions and the order you make treatment recommendations?
Jane – Case Study 4: How does a triggering event affect how you prioritize treatment interventions? How important is it to collaborate with the client when treatment planning? What are some barriers you might encounter treatment planning with this client and how might you address those barriers?
Phil – Case Study 5: How might the client’s age affect diagnosis and treatment recommendations? What kind of consideration must be made for the family system?
Each Case Study Assignment is to be 3 – 5 pages in length. This excludes the title page and reference page. Use current APA format. The Case Study Assignment does not require an abstract. The Case Study Assignment requires a minimum of 3 resources from peer-reviewed journals. This can include the maximum of one textbook reference. All resources need to be less than 10 years old.
Be sure to review the Case Study Grading Rubric before beginning this Case Study Assignment.
Note: Your assignment will be checked for originality via the Turnitin plagiarism tool.

Discuss how Christian faith impacts marketing management decisions in the selected organization, including how faith was the source of its marketing management decisions, and how many company founders have demonstrated such faith.

Integration of Faith and Learning: Responsibility Assignment Instructions
Overview
MBA programs around the country are starting to require their students to become more effective writers. This is in response to industry’s urging for grad schools to improve the writing skills of graduate students. Writing at the MBA level should be informative, colorful, and nuanced, and the writing should include simple words vs. complicated (especially if used out of context). This assignment requires the integration of directly quoted Bible verse directly with the selected marketing management topic. Be sure this applies specifically to marketing management, not management or business in general.
Instructions
To ourselves and to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ
The Scripture verse from the Old Testament (Joshua 1:9) says, “Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go.”
In a 500-word (12 point, double-spaced) document that is in current APA format, discuss this Scripture verse within the context of marketing management. Relate this to a specific for-profit brand or business organization of your choosing. Use two scholarly sources as references. Submit the assignment as a Microsoft Word document.

Discuss how Christian faith impacts marketing management decisions in the selected organization, including how faith was the source of its marketing management decisions, and how many company founders have demonstrated such faith.
Note: Your assignment will be checked for originality via the Turnitin plagiarism tool.

What are the “red flags” in this case?

Martha Hernandez

22 years old female, 5 7 tall, 118lb 53.6kg
Chief complaint: bad throbbing deep headache since yesterday and hasn’t gotten any better and also feel a bit nauseated, she unable to do anything. Rating 8/10, start when she was working on term paper
What she thinks might be cause headache: I’ve been pretty stressed out lately
Pt has history of headache for long at interval of 4 to 6 week they are getting more worst and painful headache start from temple and radiate to the whole head
Headache: one that is relieve with Tylenol and other that is relieve with lying down in bed in the Dark
Headache: she tried coffee but it makes it worst, her headache can induce by red wine
She feels nauseous at the same time and loud noise bother her
Start when am awake and never keep me from sleeping
How long it last: it happens more often
No patterns to the headache, start gradually and get progressively worst
Sister has frequent headache and mother sometimes want to lie down alone in the dark
2 Tylenol tablets every 4 hours since the headache start
It doesn’t come and go once it started it last usually last more than a day.
Nausea: stomach unsettled and doesn’t feel like eating or drinking

PLEASE CONSIDER EVERTHING UNDER DIAGONOSIS FOR HEADACHE AND NAUSEOUS

Management Plan: Use the expert diagnosis provided to create a pertinent comprehensive evidence-based management plan. If a specific component of the management plan is not warranted (i.e., no referrals are appropriate for the virtual patient) document that no intervention is warranted. Include the following components:
diagnostic tests
medications: write a specific prescription for each medication, including over-the-counter medications
suggested consults/referrals
client education
follow-up, including time interval and specific symptomatology to prompt a sooner return
cite at least one relevant scholarly source as defined by program expectationsLinks to an external site.
Click ”Submit” once the case is complete. Use this guide to download the Performance Overview Report Links to an external site..
Reflection: One rule is to always include “the worst-case scenario” in your differential diagnosis and make sure you have ruled out this possibility based on your findings and patient assessment. Your goal is to minimize the risk of missing unusual or infrequent conditions such as meningococcal meningitis, bacterial endocarditis, pulmonary embolus, or subdural hematoma that are particularly ominous. 
Address the following question:  What are the “red flags” in this case? Based on your pertinent key findings, what is “the worst-case scenario”? What lessons did you learn from this case that you can apply to your future professional practice? Include the following components:
write 150-300 words in a Microsoft Word document
demonstrate clinical judgment appropriate to the virtual patient scenario
cite at least one relevant scholarly source as defined by program expectations
communicate with minimal errors in English grammar, spelling, syntax, and punctuation

What role does technology play in communications for this organization?

Directions: Visit the website Apple and Amazon and obtain a copy of the annual report. Locate two resources that provide data and information about the organization. You will use this research to determine potential areas for organizational change and to address this question related to planning and managing change within the company. Use the ADKAR model when answering the questions in 175-200 words and provide the citation source

                    Apple

Criteria Research Findings (include in text citations) Citation of Sources
Provide APA citations for the company’s annual report.
What role does technology play in communications for this organization? How has it evolved over time?

Amazon
Criteria Research Findings (include in text citations) Citation of Sources
Provide APA citations for the company’s annual report.
What role does technology play in communications for this organization? How has it evolved over time?

What are your thoughts on Prohibition? Was it a noble experiment or an effort to shape morality?

Prohibition Article Analysis
Directions: Using the article on the Google Classroom, The American 1920s Prohibition, complete chart.

3 Details/Facts from the article Relevant Vocabulary-list and define

Article Summary What changes occurred in the US because of Prohibition?

Why does this matter in US History? What are your thoughts on Prohibition? Was it a noble experiment or an effort to shape morality?

For whom or for what purpose do you think Shuffle Along created?

2. Through Shuffle Along was progressive for it’s time, it also relied on racist tropes, particularly minstrelsy and Blacks in Black face. To grapple with this tension, read an excerpt from the article, “Shuffle Along and the Lost History of Performance in Black America,” on Google Classroom.
   What frustration does George Walker express in his quote at the end of the article?

How might you reconcile (come to terms with) Walker and Williams performing in blackface for white audience? Why do you think they were willing, even as they grew tired, to perform in blackface?

3. Walker is quoted in the article saying, “there is no reason why we should be forced to do these old-time n*gger acts. It’s all rot, this slap-stick bandanna handkerchief-bladder in the face act, with which Negro acting is associated.” What images or performances of Blackness get to be seen on television, in movies or magazines or books-today?
4. One reason Shuffle Along was considered a success was because many white people came to see the musical. Let’s think about audience! Who do you think has the power to determine what is successful or popular, both then and now?
5. As Black American attempted to (re)imagine their culture after slavery, we must ask who that (re)imagination was for. For whom or for what purpose do you think Shuffle Along created?

For whom or for what purpose do you think other artists and writers (Langston Hughes, Jessie Fauset) that we’ve looked at were writing and producing? Why?
For whom or for what purpose will you write/draw/act/perform/create art for in your own community?

What federal agencies are responsible for each type of intelligence collection?

In Unit III, you selected a topic and created the annotated bibliography. Using that research, for this assignment, you will submit your second mini research paper on your chosen topic area of research of the five types of intelligence collection activities: human intelligence (HUMNIT), signals intelligence (SIGNIT), measures and signatures intelligence (MASINT), imagery intelligence (IMINT), and open-source intelligence (OSINT).For your research, you will want to consider the following questions.

• What federal agencies are responsible for each type of intelligence collection?
• How are these types of intelligence collection activities used to counter domestic and global terrorist threats in today’s era?
• Further explain how each intelligence collection activity could have been used to prevent a recent terrorist attack. Your submission should outline at least one recent domestic or international terrorist incident.
• What challenges exist in utilizing each of the intelligence collection methods?

The research paper must be written using the following outline structure:

• Title page: This must be included.
• Introduction: This section should be at least one page in length.
• Body of paper: This section should be one–two pages in length. This should include a review and discussion of the literature.
• Summary and conclusions: This section should be at least one page in length.
• References: Adhere to APA Style when creating citations and references for this assignment. APA formatting, however, is not necessary.

While the level of detail in each section of the research paper will vary, the final paper must be a minimum of three pages in length, not counting the title and references pages. An abstract is not required. You must use a minimum of five sources. 

suggest how the personalized plan of care might change if the age of the patient were different and/or if the patient had a comorbid condition, such as renal failure, heart failure, or liver failure. 

Respond to two of your colleagues  by suggesting additional patient factors that might have interfered with the pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic processes of the patients they described. In addition, suggest how the personalized plan of care might change if the age of the patient were different and/or if the patient had a comorbid condition, such as renal failure, heart failure, or liver failure. 

APA Format 

Min 2 resources 

What additional steps can be taken to better secure radiological material?

One of the biggest radiological threats that exists today is the dirty bomb also known as a radiological dispersal device (RDD). Radiological materials are available at thousands of sites across the globe. What additional steps can be taken to better secure radiological material? Why is it important to work with our allies to counter the actions of illegal access to this type of material?

Your response must be at least 200 words in length.