Describe a common stressor and how it can impact physical or mental health.
Describe a common stressor and how it can impact physical or mental health.
Describe a common stressor and how it can impact physical or mental health.
Assignment Instructions
HEALTH, STRESS, AND COPING
In your career, you may find yourself working for an agency or organization that offers certain services, and you may be asked to design literature or marketing materials to promote these services in your community. For this assignment, you will create a brochure that addresses an area of stress. In the brochure, you will present professional information about the stress and how it impacts physical or mental health. You will look at ways that people can reduce the problems associated with the stress and recommend interventions and support your ideas with information from theory, concepts, or research in psychology.
Below are some ideas. You may choose one of these, but you are not required to select from this list if you have another area you would like to explore.
Psychotropic medication and well-being.
Lack of self-care.
Poor nutrition on developmental or mental health.
Effects of insomnia.
Physical effects of drug abuse.
Assignment Instructions
Use the Brochure Template [DOCX] or, if you prefer, this Alternate Format Template [DOCX] for this assignment. Keep in mind that whichever format you use, the information portion of the brochure should be succinct and fit the one-page format. In your brochure, include the following:
Describe a common stressor and how it can impact physical or mental health.
Use credible sources such as scholarly research articles or professional websites, such as Harvard Health, to support your description. Do not use popular blogs or other sources such as WebMD or Wikipedia.
Recommend ways to reduce the effects of the stressor.
Look at interventions that have been tested and proven effective in mitigating the problem.
Support your ideas for reducing the stress with information from scholarly research or professional sources that provide evidence that the recommended interventions have been shown to reduce stress.
For example, if you recommend an intervention such as yoga to address self-care, provide scholarly research that shows that yoga can reduce stress.
Be sure that you organize the information to attract an audience and fit a brochure format.
Submission Requirements
Submit the completed brochure as your deliverable for the assignment.
Do the results of the different assessments support each other or were there contradictory results?
Assignment Instructions
INDIVIDUAL CAREER PLAN
While counseling clients or students regarding career decisions, you will use a variety of information to help them create career plans. For this assignment, continue to work with the Riverbend City Career Counseling Center client that you selected for the Week 5 and Week 7 discussion.
Use the Riverbend City: Career Counseling media piece to gather and interpret the client’s data and information. Your completed Career Exploration Workbook can be utilized as a reference to create a comprehensive career plan with actionable steps for your fictitious client, but do not submit the workbook with this assignment.
You are expected to utilize the Individual Career Plan Template [DOCX] when completing this assignment.
Client Profile
Conceptualize your client based on identifying information and presenting issues.
Identifying information includes age, gender, race, ethnicity, family, work status, educational background, and current educational status.
Describe the presenting issue(s) of your chosen Riverbend City Counseling Center client. This should be a full paragraph, similar to how you would summarize a real student’s or client’s issues in their case file to describe the main issues you will be addressing.
Apply an appropriate career counseling theory to your work with this client.
Assessment Results
Based on assessment results and information obtained during sessions with your client, write a brief paragraph about each of the following:
Interests.
Personality.
Values.
Skills.
Knowledge and experience.
Discuss what themes emerged from the assessment data.
Career Options
Identify three of your client’s career options including current labor market information.
Career Plan of Action
Develop three long-term goals that your client would achieve within 3–5 years. These goals should be drawn from the client’s counseling sessions as well as the results of their completed assessments.
List three short-term goals that your client could achieve in the next 3–6 months. These goals should be directly related to the skills your client needs to develop and the resources they will need to use to reach the long-term goals you listed above.
Describe 2–3 counseling strategies and interventions that you will be doing in sessions with your client to help them develop the skills needed to move forward. Include one qualitative assessment to utilize based on your client’s presenting issue(s).
Assignment Requirements
Your paper should meet the following requirements:
Written communication: Written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message.
Length: 6–7 pages of content plus a title page and reference pages.
Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point. Use Microsoft Word.
Competencies Measured
By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:
Competency 2: Describe the use of assessment in evidence-based career counseling interventions.
Analyzes a client’s interests, personality, values, skills, knowledge, and experience.
Competency 3: Analyze legal, ethical, and multicultural issues related to the career development process.
Discuss a client profile including identifying information and presenting issues.
Competency 4: Develop career plans for diverse clients that align with your professional counseling specialization.
Analyzes a client’s career options using current labor market information, including education or training needed, employment trends, and expected salary.
Creates an individual career plan of action including long-term goals, short-term goals, and counseling interventions and strategies.
Competency 5: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, respectful of the diversity, dignity, and integrity of others and consistent with the codes of ethics guiding members of the counseling profession.
Conveys purpose, in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly writing standards.
What You Need to Know
Readings
Use your Career Development and Counseling: Theory and Practice in a Multicultural World text to read about the history of career development and factors that impact work:
Chapter 12, “Career Development Intervention in Postsecondary Education Institutions,” pages 306–334.
Chapter 13, “Career Counseling in Community Settings,” pages 335–349.
Read about the relationship between work and wellbeing:
Redekopp, D. E., & Huston, M. (2019). The broader aims of career development: Mental health, wellbeing and work. British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 47(2), 246–257.
Riverbend City Counseling Center
Learn how the story concludes for each of the clients at Riverbend City Counseling Center (RCCC) by reviewing the “Week 9 – Conclusion” tab.
Riverbend City: Career Counseling.
WEEK 5 DISC
Continue examining the client you selected to use for your Week 9 assignment, Individual Career Plan. Based on the information you have learned about your client thus far as well as the information obtained from the assessments the client completed, respond to the following questions:
What themes and patterns do you notice emerging?
Do the results of the different assessments support each other or were there contradictory results?
Are there any other areas that you want to assess?
What are some common reasons people reject novel pizza dishes
Pizza Challenge Objectives
Create and pitch a unique pizza dish for the new SSU pub at the HMC campus. The pizza should:
· Exemplify Sheridan’s commitment to creativity by being unique and original in comparison to other pizza options around campus and, more broadly, Mississauga
· Affordable so that it appeals to Sheridan students and their budgets
· Appeal to Sheridan faculty and staff
· Be prototype table in Brandon’s kitchen
And it’d be nice if the pizza could:
· Reflect Sheridan’s and Mississauga’s cultural diversity
· Attract non-Sheridan customers from Square One
Clarification: The Reception of Pizza Novelty (9 November 2022)
Step 1: Determining Pizza Novelty
We begin the clarification process by establishing what constitutes pizza novelty in the marketplace. To do this, we’re going to analyze a couple of case studies.
Attributes of the Classic Pizza
Briefly outline the key attributes and characteristics of the ‘classic’ pizza. Add additional bullets for each major point.
⦁ Classic dough (simple dough)
⦁ Mozzarella cheese
⦁ Pizza sauce
Attributes of Novel Pizza
What are the attributes and characteristics of highly novel pizzas currently in the marketplace? Add more bullet points as appropriate.
⦁ Paneer
⦁ Coriander
⦁ Pickled ginger
⦁ Avocado
⦁ Squid pizza
Resistance to Novelty
What are some common reasons people reject novel pizza dishes (such as pineapple on pizza)? Add more bullet points as appropriate.
⦁ People who do not like pineapple on pizza usually say that it’s because it goes against pizza tradition, since most people think that fruit ( tomatoes excluded) does not belong on a pizza over the years, a lot of different meals have gotten a bad rap. Some examples include kale caesar salads, cake pops, and avocado toast.
⦁ Some people tend to oppose changes generally including changes meant to improve quality on the basis that the new product does not meet the traditional standards
⦁ Novelty for some individuals in corrupting the culture that shaped the preparation of the pizza dish. A good example is the Italian pizza where novel pizza that do not have the initial components is highly opposed
Step 2: Vision of Success
The second step in the clarification phase is to create a vision of success. To do this, you’ll imagine visiting the pub at the HMC campus and ordering a pizza dish with your friends. The goal, here, is to imagine the entire customer journey and what role the pizza can play in that journey. For each of the prompts in this section, try to list as many responses as possible.
You are visiting the new pub at the HMC campus with three other classmates. Why might you or other students be excited to share a really novel pizza with friends?
⦁ To determine the effect of customer preferences on the product
⦁ To collect feedback from each individual on the pizza offered
⦁ Sharing a novel pizza offers an opportunity to evaluate individual’s perception on creativity used in enhancing novelty of products
⦁ Friends tend to be more open at giving opinions towards a common product making it easier to determine customer feedback on the products.
What might an ideal pizza experience look like? Provide tangible details that describe the entire journey from traveling to the pub to talking about the experience afterwards.
Before visiting the pub:
⦁ A discussion was raised on the expectations in a novel pizza
⦁ A brief research is conducted by the group to determine what trends in the market on novel pizza
⦁ A discussion was made on the expectation in terms of how the pizza should be prepared and the ingredients to be included in a novel pizza
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At the pub:
⦁ looking at the different options of a novel pizza that the pub has to offer
⦁ Giving opinions and discussing about the pizza flavors and choices
⦁ Enjoying the pizza and sharing each others opinion on how it tasted
⦁ A comparison is made on the actual pizza compared to the expectation each person had before.
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After leaving the pub:
⦁ Reviewing the pizza and share opinions on how it tasted
⦁ The group members convene to reflect on the pizza
⦁ Each individual is given an opportunity to provide recommendations on improving pizza based on the variations identified
⦁ An evaluation is made on the recommendations to determine the most viable alternatives and course of action in improving quality of the pizza
Step 3: Clarify Design Attributes
Based upon the research you conducted in steps 1 and 2, what are the key attributes or characteristics of a novel pizza experience? Add more bullet points as relevant.
⦁ Should be stareable
⦁ Should have a taste of flavor that is completely unexpected together
⦁ A novel pizza experience should meet the needs of the target consumer
⦁ A novel pizza should be prepared in simplicity but with great taste for customers appeal
⦁ A novel pizza should be easy to identify the ingredients by ensuring the ingredients are well-balanced to maintain the taste
Briefly define the competency that the badge celebrates.
Introduction
We conclude Creativity & Innovation in Business with a creative challenge that will facilitate reflection upon what we learned and accomplished this semester. You’ll design two merit-badges that celebrate the advancement of creative competencies: one for a classmate, and a second for yourself.
Process
Select the two creativity or innovation competencies that will be celebrated via the merit badges. We began the semester by introducing several competencies through the personal creativity assessment—e.g. fluency, flexibility, novelty, playfulness, openness, etc. — and fostered several more through the Pizza Challenge—pitching, divergent & convergent thinking, brainstorming, minimalism, etc. We also developed self-coaching skills through the reflections and debriefs across the semester. Choose one competency for yourself, and another for a classmate.
Design 2 digital merit badges that expresses the skill and might bring joy to someone’s life.
Use 1080 x 1080 pixels (i.e. an Instagram square)
Consider using Express or Illustrator via your free Creative Cloud subscription. Canva is another free option but watch out for micro-transactions.
Export the design as a .jpeg file.
Crafters: do feel free to make hand-made badges. If you do so, simply take a picture of the badges.
Remember to diverge to generate many options (fluency) from diverse perspectives (flexibility) before committing to a design.
Contextualize the design to make your intentions explicit. Use grammatically complete sentences to provide the following information:
What? Briefly define the competency that the badge celebrates.
How? Briefly explain how the design expresses the competency.
Why? Why did you award yourself this merit badge? Why are you are awarding a classmate the merit badge?
Brag share the merit badge you created for yourself to the discussion forum on SLATE. Include the What? How? and Why?
Give one merit badge to a classmate using the online discussion forum on SLATE. Include the What? How? and Why?
Celebrate your classmates’ accomplishments and learnings. Read your classmates posts to see what badges they designed and whose accomplishments they celebrated. You can also give a merit badge designed by a classmate to someone else. In fact, you can award as many badges as you see appropriate.
Evaluation
The Formative Reflection is worth 20% of the final grade. The two merit badges will be evaluated separately and are worth 10% each.
A Likert scale ranging from ‘strongly agree’ to ‘strongly disagree’ will be applied to evaluate the merit badges via following criteria below.
Completion
The author created a merit badge that was 1080 x 1080 pixels. 2 points.
Reflection
The author explained what the merit competency the badge celebrates. 2 points.
The author explained how the merit badge expresses the competency. 2 points.
The author explained why they awarded the merit badge. 2 points.
Creativity
The design of the merit badge expressed the competency in a novel or original way. 2 points.
Calculate using Excel formulas, the NPV of each of the 3 projects.
Excel Project Assignment Instructions
Overview
Assume ABC Company has asked you to not only prepare their 2017 year-end Balance Sheet but to also provide pro-forma financial statements for 2018. In addition, they have asked you to evaluate their company based on the pro-forma statements with regard to ratios. They also want you to evaluate 3 projects they are considering. Their information is as follows:
End of the year information:
Account 12/31/17
Ending Balance
Cash 50,000
Accounts Receivable 175,000
Inventory 126,000
Equipment 480,000
Accumulated Depreciation 90,000
Accounts Payable 156,000
Short-term Notes Payable 12,000
Long-term Notes Payable 200,000
Common Stock 235,000
Retained Earnings solve
Additional Information:
Sales for December total 10,000 units. Each month’s sales are expected to exceed the prior month’s results by 5%. The product’s selling price is $25 per unit.
Company policy calls for a given month’s ending inventory to equal 80% of the next month’s expected unit sales. The December 31 2017 inventory is 8,400 units, which complies with the policy. The purchase price is $15 per unit.
Sales representatives’ commissions are 12.5% of sales and are paid in the month of the sales. The sales manager’s monthly salary will be $3,500 in January and $4,000 per month thereafter.
Monthly general and administrative expenses include $8,000 administrative salaries, $5,000 depreciation, and 0.9% monthly interest on the long-term note payable.
The company expects 30% of sales to be for cash and the remaining 70% on credit. Receivables are collected in full in the month following the sale (none is collected in the month of sale).
All merchandise purchases are on credit, and no payables arise from any other transactions. One month’s purchases are fully paid in the next month.
The minimum ending cash balance for all months is $50,000. If necessary, the company borrows enough cash using a short-term note to reach the minimum. Short-term notes require an interest payment of 1% at each month-end (before any repayment). If the ending cash balance exceeds the minimum, the excess will be applied to repaying the short-term notes payable balance.
Dividends of $100,000 are to be declared and paid in February.
No cash payments for income taxes are to be made during the first calendar quarter. Income taxes will be assessed at 35% in the quarter.
Equipment purchases of $55,000 are scheduled for March.
ABC Company’s management is also considering 3 new projects consisting of the purchase of new equipment. The company has limited resources, and may not be able to complete make all 3 purchases. The information is as follows for the purchases below:
Project 1 Project 2 Project 3Purchase Price $80,000 $175,000 $22,700
Required Rate of Return 6% 8% 12%
Time Period 3 years 5 years 2 years
Cash Flows – Year 1 $48,000 $85,000 $13,000
Cash Flows – Year 2 $36,000 $74,000 $13,000
Cash Flows – Year 3 $22,000 $38,000 N/A
Cash Flows – Year 4 N/A $26,800 N/A
Cash Flows – Year 5 N/A $19,000 N/A
Instructions
Part A:
Prepare the year-end balance sheet for 2017. Be sure to use proper headings.
Prepare budgets such that the pro-forma financial statements for the first quarter of 2018 may be prepared.
Sales budget, including budgeted sales for April.
Purchases budget, the budgeted cost of goods sold for each month and quarter, and the cost of the March 31 budgeted inventory.
Selling expense budget.
General and administrative expense budget.
Expected cash receipts from customers and the expected March 31 balance of accounts receivable.
Expected cash payments for purchases and the expected March 31 balance of accounts payable.
Cash budget.
Budgeted income statement.
Budgeted statement of retained earnings.
Budgeted balance sheet.
Part B:
Calculate using Excel formulas, the NPV of each of the 3 projects.
It is possible that ABC Company may not be able to complete all 3 projects. Therefore, advise ABC Company as to the order in which they should pursue the projects (i.e., which project should ABC Company attempt to do first, second, and last).
Provide justification and analysis as to why you chose the order you did. The analysis must also be done in Excel, not in a separate document.
This assignment must be submitted as one Excel document.
Note: Your assignment will be checked for originality via the Turnitin plagiarism tool.
Briefly describe the limitations of your assessment. What did you assume that might turn out differently?
Country Project
Bosnia Herzegovina, South Korea and Uzbekistan
The title should be in all caps and centered on the page.
Overview. This should introduce your countries and their roles in global supply chains. This should be ½ page, double-spaced.
Key Factors and Measures This section should include a table of the key measures related to global logistics and supply chains for your countries. The table should include data from the CIA World Fact Book and the World Economic Forum’s Logistics Performance Index (LPI). You may find other indices like the Legatum Prosperity Index useful in this discussion. The text should explain briefly what the data in the table mean. This should be 1 page long, double-spaced.
Key Concerns, Issues, and Conditions. This section can include bulleted lists but should identify the most important supply chain issues for each of your three countries. Focus on infrastructure, equipment, people, and technology. Also, put your three countries in the context of current geopolitical issues. How will their roles in global supply chains be affected by recent events? This should be 1 page long, double-spaced.
Assessment Assess the prospects of each of your countries as participants in global supply chains. What does their future look like? How well are they likely to do in the next five years or ten years? What needs to change to improve their prospects, if anything? This should be ½ page-1 page.
Summary, Cautions, and Limits. Briefly describe the limitations of your assessment. What did you assume that might turn out differently? ½ page.
4-pages
Times New Roman
Font 12
Was Washoe’s behavior typical for a young chimpanzee?
Humans, especially children, have an amazing capability to learn language. Within the first year of life, children will have learned many of the necessary concepts to have functional language, although it will still take years to develop fully. But are humans unique in their ability to acquire language?
As you know, as a graduate student I was chosen to work with Dr. Roger Fouts at the Chimpanzee and Human Communication Institute (CHCI), a sanctuary for chimpanzees used in ape language research and home to world renowned Washoe, the first nonhuman to acquire a human language. Four of the chimpanzees, Washoe, Moja, Tatu and Dar were immersed in American Sign Language (ASL), and they learned to communicate by using signs in their daily interactions. Loulis, Washoe’s adopted son was not cross-fostered. He acquired his signs from Washoe and the three other chimpanzees. He was the first non-human to learn a human language from other non-humans. Thus, Loulis observed the other chimpanzees using the signs of ASL around him, like CHASE and TICKLE during play interactions. Washoe would even mold his hand into signs like MORE for new food.
By observing and researching how Washoe and her family learn and use the signs of ASL, we have gained a better understanding of the patterns of language development that bridge species barriers. In addition to our use of language, we have also seen that our emotions and social bonds are very similar to chimpanzees.
Read the attached excerpt from “Next of Kin” by Dr. Roger Fouts & Stephen Tukel Mills and answer the following questions:
1. When Fouts started working with Washoe, how many signs did she already know?
2. How was Washoe’s language developing?
3. What FUNNY prank did Washoe pull on Fouts?
4. How often did Washoe play pranks on Fouts?
5. Fouts was panicked that Washoe was going to die. Why was this?
6. Was Washoe’s behavior typical for a young chimpanzee?
Attachments
excerpt 1 Next of Kin.pdf
(2.53 MB)
Why should this problem be examined?
THIS IS WEEK 5’S INSTRUCTIONS
This week we will continue the work you did in the week 2 discussion, zeroing in on the topic for your final paper.
Describe a problem you might want to explore in your final paper. Then try to persuade your classmates to share your view that this problem needs to be looked at. Your initial post will have two parts:
What is the problem? Describe it in terms of who, what, where, when, how, and why.
Why should this problem be examined? Persuade your peers that money/time should be committed to this problem. Use the appeals of ethos, logos, and pathos (described here in Types of Persuasive Appeals) as appropriate to convince them that this is an important issue to be studied and/or solved.
(Death Penalty in US) Describe at least two moral positions on the matter.
- Revised the Ethics Timeline from the file uploaded to include the philosophers David Hume, Friedrich Nietzsche, Philippa Foot, Immanuel Kant, Thomas Hobbes, John Stuart Mill, and Mary Wollstonecraft.
Potential Software or Tools to Make Your Timeline:
Miro: This is typically used to collaborate on a whiteboard-type space, but you can use it, too, to create a detailed whiteboard artifact (like a timeline).
Canva: This is a free graphic making tool that allows you to create a custom graphic. There are many templates, so you may find a timeline template you can modify. It also comes loaded with a variety of free graphics, shapes, and elements you can use for the timeline graphic details.
Google Drawing: As part of your University of Maine System account, you have access to a free Google Docs or Google Drive account where you can find Google Drawing. This is a free graphic-creation or “paint” software you can use to create your timeline. (Note: you can also use Google Slides to make your timeline).
Creately: This is typically used for project management, but you can also use it to create a timeline for this class.
Venngage: This software will help you create a classic, simple timeline.
Lucidchart: Another tool often used for projects and collaborations that can also help you generate a timeline.
Prezi: This presentation tool has templates for timelines you can use to create yours. If you choose, you could share a link to your interactive Timeline with this software (just make sure it’s open and shared to the public).
- (Death Penalty in US) Describe at least two moral positions on the matter. Establish an ethical framework to approach the subject. Cite at least two philosophers to validate each moral position you’ve established. (300-500 words)
