Pick two (2) ways School Counselors are important advocates
smates posts, applying the RISE Model for Meaningful Feedback
I will also show an example below of how the response needs to be addressed.
Here’s an example of how the response should look. Please don’t copy it.
The response to the classmate need to be just like this.
Example Response (Response Needs to be writen just like the response below No copying)
RISE Feedback:
REFLECT: I concur with “Action plans should reflect the type of services that are needed and have an idea of the expected outcome of the services” because it is in line with Hatch and Hartline’s intentional school counseling guidelines in regards to determining students needs.
INQUIRE: Can you further explain what “closing-the-gap action plans” are?
SUGGEST: I encourage you to revisit Hatch and Hartline’s MTMDSS tier interventions in order to add a citation that would illustrate your example on bullying prevention efforts.
ELEVATE: What if you re-purposed “For example, after a needs assessment, the school is having problems with bullying” as “Following Trish Hatch’s MTMDSS tier based interventions, if the school is having problems with bullying, after a needs assessment, we could… citation…” for a more weighted argument?
ReferencesHatch, T., & Hartline, J. (2022). The use of data in school counseling: Hatching results (and so much more) for students, programs and the profession (2nd Ed.). Corwin.
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Classmate Response 1- Alejandra
What program funding is available? Financial Aid?
While reading the provided resource for this week, I learned about the following financial aid options for students with disabilities: “Federal Pell Grants, Supplemental Education Opportunity Grants and the Federal Work-Study program” (Patton, 2019). There are also additional funds for students participating in Transition Postsecondary Education Programs for Students with Intellectual Disabilities (TPSID) that allow these students to be provided with additional resources that can help them be successful.
Pick two (2) ways School Counselors are important advocates and how you see yourself in the role using a similar approach.
As stated in the provided resource, school counselors can connect students with resources that will allow them to receive accommodations in college. School counselors can also encourage students to research their post-secondary options such as financial aid available specifically for students with disabilities.
When I am a school counselor, I would love to create a college planning Google website for students on my caseload. This website can be a one-stop shop for students who need to connect with resources for post-secondary planning. I would have a section specifically for students with disabilities to learn more information about funding that is available for them, and so that they can know that they can still receive accommodations in college. I remember at my mom’s former district, a school counselor incorrectly told her class of IEP students that they will not be able to receive accommodations in college. This simply is not the truth! Due to my own disability, I was able to receive several accommodations in college that helped me be successful when I was completing my BA. However, I had no idea that I could receive accommodations until I was in my sophomore year of college. I wish that my high school counselor had helped me advocate for myself so that I could have received these accommodations even earlier. Luckily, my college counselor was able to connect me with the right resources. I hope to be this connection for my students.
References
Patton, D. (2019, January). Postsecondary options for students with disabilities. Postsecondary Options for Students with Disabilities – American School Counselor Association (ASCA). https://www.schoolcounselor.org/Newsletters/February-2019/Postsecondary-Options-for-Students-with-Disabiliti?st=ND#:~:text=Types%20of%20Programs&text=TPSID%20programs%20are%20designed%20to,program%20or%20non%2Ddegree%20program
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Classmate Response 2- Cynthia
Pick two (2) ways School Counselors are important advocates
The North Dakota School Counselor article was very informative. Although this information counselors ought to know. This is a clear set of resources one can always have handy when counseling students with Disabilities that may think they are not suitable to pursue higher education due to their disabilities.
Since 2008, The Transition Postsecondary Education Programs for Students with Intellectual Disabilities (TPSID) has supported 48 colleges and universities that serve 1,500 students with disabilities. The program helps students that want to continue their education, have independent living instructions, that prepares them for employment. Programs can be degree-granted or certificate, or even not certificate programs . The do require4d the student with disabilities to be enrolled in regular classes (with non-disabled students) for half of the program The think program (a national coordinating center for TPSID programs, provides support, coordination, and evaluation services for 270 colleges programs for students with disabilities. It is accessible for students and parents to learn about the programs available for students with autism, intellectual disabilities, and other disabilities (Postsecondary Options for Students with Disabilities – American School Counselor Association (ASCA) 2019). .
The types of financial aid offered to students with disabilities that opt to participate in TPSID programs are Federal Pel Grants, Supplemental Education Opportunity Grants and the Federal Work-Study program. Tuition waver though vocational rehabilitation agencies and community colleges. Students in TPSID programs can be eligible for individual training account funds set aside by the One-/stop Career Centers, Plans for Achieving Self Sufficient from Social Security and Medicaid (Postsecondary Options for Students with Disabilities – American School Counselor Association (ASCA) 2019). .
Students with other disabilities such as students with IEP are eligible to receive same accommodation as they received in high school. All colleges that receive federal funding must have department of disability services that have access to instructional technology, tutoring, and social support, and testing accommodations (Postsecondary Options for Students with Disabilities – American School Counselor Association (ASCA) 2019). .
Pick two (2) ways School Counselors are important advocates and how you see yourself in the role using a similar approach.
Based on this article, in spite of the availability of resources these programs are not exploited enough for lack of information about the existence of these programs.
Based on the above, I believe that the best way to advocate is to invite universities with TPSID programs and a representative from the disability services department from colleges to talk about options and supports they provide. And, do a districtwide transition for specially for student with disabilities. But, most importantly I believe is to educate students and parents about their rights and protections.
Reference:
Postsecondary Options for Students with Disabilities – American School Counselor Association (ASCA). (n.d.). https://www.schoolcounselor.org/Newsletters/February-2019/Postsecondary-Options-for-Students-with-Disabiliti?st=ND#:~:text=Types%20of%20Programs&text=TPSID%20programs%20are%20designed%20to,program%20or%20non%2Ddegree%20programLinks to an external site.
Review the seven processes of project integration management and identify which processes are needed to begin planning the project from an agile perspective. Briefly explain your reasoning for including and excluding processes
ADDITIONAL RUNNING CASE: THIRD AVENUE SOFTWARE HEALTHCARE
This case is new for the ninth edition of
Information Technology Project Management. The case provides an opportunity to apply agile and Scrum principles to project management.
Each part of the case contains several task assignments to help you explore the use of agile and Scrum principles. If you have difficulty understanding a task assignment, please ask your instructor for assistance. Your instructor might be willing to look at the task solution and provide a hint to help you proceed.
Part 1: Project Integration Management
Third Avenue Software is a relatively young company that develops mobile applications for phones. The company is still trying to find its corporate identity and permanent footing; it has released several moderately successful products but is still looking for a best-seller. Likewise, the company is still trying to determine which internal systems work best for its employees. Project management is among these systems. The company has used a few agile principles in previous projects with some success; its new project will use agile and Scrum whenever possible.
Many of Third Avenues products thus far have been designed to serve niche markets, so the companys cofounders instructed their marketing staff and programmers to identify markets that have more universal customer appeal. A couple of programmers quickly turned their focus to the field of health care, which affects everyone directly or indirectly. The programmers drafted an idea for an app that could serve as a one-stop shop for customers healthcare information and needs. The apps name is to be determined, but it will contain the following features and information. Because Third Avenue knows from experience with agile projects that software complexity ratings can be useful for later time and cost estimates, management asked the programmers to include initial complexity estimates for each major feature set. These numbers are shown in parentheses and use a scale of 1 to 8:
· A fitness tracker that allows customers to record and track their blood pressure readings, cholesterol levels, exercise regimen, calorie intake, and other related information (3).
· A medication tracker in which customers can enter their medications and schedules for taking those meds. This electronic pillbox will contain a calendar that displays the customers medication schedule and an alarm that sounds whenever its time to take one of the medications (3).
· A physicians list that is essentially an electronic address book for the customers healthcare company, doctors, nurses, and physicians assistants. The list will include controls that allow customers to quickly incorporate existing entries from other contact lists in their phones (2).
· An emergencies list for storing vital phone numbers and addresses. This list will provide quick access to local in-network hospitals, urgent care clinics, and children or friends who can be relied upon to provide transportation in an emergency. As soon as the customer enters and saves an address, an interactive GPS map becomes available in a new window, with voice and text directions (6).
· An emergency information list in which customers store important information about themselves, such as medical conditions (e.g., the customer is diabetic), allergies, adverse reactions to drugs, and other personal information that a physician, nurse, or other concerned party might find useful in an emergency (2).
· A resources feature that lists links to other popular online health sites, such as WebMD. The customer will have the option to add links to the list (1).
· A payment feature that tracks the customers medical expenses and allows customers to make medical payments through their phones (4).
The budget for the project is $350,000, and Third Avenue management would like to see a finished application available in four months.
Scrum will be the preferred approach to managing the projects development because Third Avenue wants a working version of the application quickly but does not yet know the full scope of the project. This working version will be released for review and testing well before the planned official release in four months. Remember that agile projects involve numerous iterations and software versions before the final release. These versions should be responsive to the concerns expressed by all stakeholders.
For example, programmers assigned to the apps development might be needed to provide support for other company projects, and more functionality might be added to the app after various stakeholders have had an opportunity to evaluate the first working version.
Usability
Usability will be extremely important, as customers will tend to be older than those who download and buy the majority of mobile apps. For example, the app will require a
prominent control for increasing the text display size. Such controls are available in a phones Settings feature, but many older users tend not to explore such hidden settings.
The features mentioned above need to be immediately available and easily accessible when the app is launched.
Another usability issue is crucial: How does the app balance customer privacy against the need to share some of the customers information in an emergency? For example, the emergency information list might be of no use in a medical emergency if the customers phone access is blocked by a password that only she knows.
Taken as a whole, programmers give usability issues a complexity rating of 4 on a scale of 1 to 8.
Monetizing the App
Another unknown is the question of how to monetize the app most effectivelyfor example, the app will use ads, but how? Pop-up ads are an annoyance to many people; will they be tolerated by users or will they be immediately rejected? Will the app offer premium services, and if so, what are they? Will a subscription paywall be viable after an initial period of free use?
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1. Review the seven processes of project integration management and identify which processes are needed to begin planning the project from an agile perspective. Briefly explain your reasoning for including and excluding processes. The processes are listed below and explained in more detail in the Module 4 Reading.
Seven processes of project integration management
1. Develop the project charter
2. Develop the project management plan
3. Direct and manage project work
4. Manage project knowledge
5. Monitor and control project work
6. Perform integrated change control
7. Close the project or phase
2. Begin developing a project charter for the healthcare app project. Assume that the project will take four months to finish and have a budget of $350,000. Use the project charter template provided in this text and the sample project charter in Table 4-1 if you need assistance. Project personnel have not been determined yet, so do not be concerned for now with this area of the charter.
3. Third Avenue first needs to identify a good project manager. Remembering your study of agile concepts in the text, by what title is the project manager known when using a Scrum approach? What skills and qualities must this person possess in order to lead the project effectively? How do these skills and qualities differ in a Scrum approach versus that of a more traditional project management style?
4. Next, the person identified in Task 3 must form a team and establish a project framework within which the team will create a successful app. Describe at a high level how the team and framework will function, using as many relevant terms and concepts from Scrum as possible.
5. After identifying a manager, team members, and project framework, Third Avenue needs to research the market to determine what competing apps might exist and how they operate. Your task here is to locate a similar mobile app or online program and then get a feel for its content and users. Use a targeted Web search to find the app or program and then spend a half-hour or so reading about it to get an idea of what the Third Avenue application should be able to do. Describe your findings in a bulleted list. Is something important missing from the preceding list of features for the healthcare app?
6. Once the team has studied the app or program in Task 5, an initial meeting is necessary to discuss the features and content needed for the softwares first software iteration and to assign tasks to team members. The team also needs to establish schedules for project milestones and subsequent meetings. List your ideas for conducting the initial meeting and for creating an initial high-level schedule, using as many relevant terms and concepts from Scrum as possible.
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What was it that allowed Carson to capture the public imagination and to forge Americas environmental consciousness?
By Eliza Griswold
Sept. 21, 2012
On June 4, 1963, less than a year after the controversial environmental classic Silent Spring was published, its author, Rachel
Carson, testified before a Senate subcommittee on pesticides. She was 56 and dying of breast cancer. She told almost no one. Shed
already survived a radical mastectomy. Her pelvis was so riddled with fractures that it was nearly impossible for her to walk to her
seat at the wooden table before the Congressional panel. To hide her baldness, she wore a dark brown wig.
Every once in a while in the history of mankind, a book has appeared which has substantially altered the course of history, Senator
Ernest Gruen ing, a Democrat from Alaska, told Carson at the time.
Silent Spring was published 50 years ago this month. Though she did not set out to do so, Carson influenced the environmental
movement as no one had since the 19th centurys most celebrated hermit, Henry David Thoreau, wrote about Walden Pond. Silent
Spring presents a view of nature compromised by synthetic pesticides, especially DDT. Once these pesticides entered the
biosphere, Carson argued, they not only killed bugs but also made their way up the food chain to threaten bird and fish populations
and could eventually sicken children. Much of the data and case studies that Carson drew from werent new; the scientific
community had known of these findings for some time, but Carson was the first to put them all together for the general public and to
draw stark and far-reaching conclusions. In doing so, Carson, the citizen-scientist, spawned a revolution.
Silent Spring, which has sold more than two million copies, made a powerful case for the idea that if humankind poisoned nature,
nature would in turn poison humankind. Our heedless and destructive acts enter into the vast cycles of the earth and in time return
to bring hazard to ourselves, she told the subcommittee. We still see the effects of unfettered human intervention through Carsons
eyes: she popularized modern ecology.
If anything, environmental issues have grown larger and more urgent since Carsons day. Yet no single work has had the
impact of Silent Spring. It is not that we lack eloquent and impassioned environmental advocates with the capacity to reach a
broad audience on issues like climate change. Bill McKibben was the first to make a compelling case, in 1989, for the crisis of global
How Silent Spring Ignited the Environmental Movement
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/23/magazine/how-silent-spring-ignited-the-environmental-
movement.html
warming in The End of Nature. Elizabeth Kolbert followed with Field Notes From a Catastrophe. Al Gore sounded the alarm
with An Inconvenient Truth, and was awarded the Nobel Prize. They are widely considered responsible for shaping our view of
global warming, but none was able to galvanize a nation into demanding concrete change in quite the way that Carson did.
What was it that allowed Carson to capture the public imagination and to forge Americas environmental consciousness?
Saint Rachel, the nun of nature, as she is called, is frequently invoked in the name of one environmental cause or another, but few
know much about her life and work. People think she came out of nowhere to deliver this Jeremiad of Silent Spring, but she had
three massive best sellers about the sea before that, McKibben says. She was Jacques Cousteau before there was Jacques
Cousteau.
The sea held an immense appeal to a woman who grew up landlocked and poor as Carson did. She was born in 1907 in the boom of
the Industrial Age about 18 miles up the Allegheny River from Pittsburgh, in the town of Springdale. From her bedroom window, she
could see smoke billow from the stacks of the American Glue Factory, which slaughtered horses. The factory, the junkyard of its
time, was located less than a mile away, down the gently sloping riverbank from the Carsons four-room log cabin. Passers-by could
watch old horses file up a covered wooden ramp to their death. The smell of tankage, fertilizer made from horse parts, was so rank
that, along with the mosquitoes that bred in the swampland near the riverbank called the Bottoms, it prevented Springdales 1,200
residents from sitting on their porches in the evening.
Her father, Robert Carson, was a neer-do-well whose ventures inevitably failed; Carsons elder sister, Marian, did shift work in the
towns coal-fired power plant. Carsons mother, Maria, the ambitious and embittered daughter of a Presbyterian minister, had great
hopes that her youngest daughter, Rachel, could be educated and would escape Springdale. Rachel won a scholarship to
Pennsylvania College for Women, now known as Chatham University, in Pittsburgh. After graduation, she moved to Baltimore,
where she attended graduate school for zoology at Johns Hopkins University and completed a masters degree before dropping out
to help support her family. The Carsons fared even worse during the Depression, and they fled Springdale, leaving heavy debts
behind.
Carson became a science editor for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, an agency founded under the New Deal. Eager to be a writer,
she freelanced for The Atlantic and Readers Digest, among other publications. Driven by her love of the sea, she wrote on
everything from where to go for summer vacation to what to do with the catch of the day to the life cycles of sea creatures. Carson
believed that people would protect only what they loved, so she worked to establish a sense of wonder about nature. In her best-
selling sea books The Sea Around Us, The Edge of the Sea and Under the Sea-Wind she used simple and sometimes
sentimental narratives about the oceans to articulate sophisticated ideas about the inner workings of largely unseen things.
Carson was initially ambivalent about taking on what she referred to as the poison book. She didnt see herself as an investigative
reporter. By this time, shed received the National Book Award for The Sea Around Us and established herself as the naturalist of
her day. This was a much folksier and less controversial role than the one the poison book would put her in. Taking on some of the
largest and most powerful industrial forces in the world would have been a daunting proposition for anyone, let alone a single
woman of her generation. She tried to enlist other writers to tackle the dangers of pesticides. E.B. White, who was at The New
Yorker, which serialized Carsons major books, gently suggested that she investigate pesticides for The New Yorker herself. So she
did.
Illustration by Valero Doval
Silent Spring begins with a myth, A Fable for Tomorrow, in which Carson describes a town in the heart of America where all life
seemed to live in harmony with its surroundings. Cognizant of connecting her ideal world to one that readers knew, Carson
presents not a pristine wilderness but a town where people, roads and gutters coexist with nature until a mysterious blight befalls
this perfect place. No witchcraft, Carson writes, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. The
people had done it themselves.
Carson knew that her target audience of popular readers included scores of housewives. She relied upon this ready army of
concerned citizens both as sources who discovered robins and squirrels poisoned by pesticides outside their back doors and as
readers to whom she had to appeal. Consider this indelible image of a squirrel: The head and neck were outstretched, and the
mouth often contained dirt, suggesting that the dying animal had been biting at the ground. Carson then asks her readers, By
acquiescing in an act that causes such suffering to a living creature, who among us is not diminished as a human being?
Her willingness to pose the moral question led Silent Spring to be compared with Harriet Beecher Stowes Uncle Toms Cabin,
written nearly a century earlier. Both books reflected the mainstream Protestant thinking of their time, which demanded personal
action to right the wrongs of society. Yet Carson, who was baptized in the Presbyterian Church, was not religious. One tenet of
Christianity in particular struck her as false: the idea that nature existed to serve man. She wanted us to understand that we were
just a blip, says Linda Lear, author of Carsons definitive biography, Witness for Nature. The control of nature was an arrogant
idea, and Carson was against human arrogance.
Silent Spring was more than a study of the effects of synthetic pesticides; it was an indictment of the late 1950s. Humans, Carson
argued, should not seek to dominate nature through chemistry, in the name of progress. In Carsons view, technological innovation
could easily and irrevocably disrupt the natural system. She was the very first person to knock some of the shine off modernity,
McKibben says. She was the first to tap into an idea that other people were starting to feel.
Carsons was one of several moral calls to arms published at the start of the 60s. Jane Jacobss Death and Life of American Cities,
Michael Harringtons Other America, Ralph Naders Unsafe at Any Speed and Betty Friedans Feminine Mystique all captured
a growing disillusionment with the status quo and exposed a system they believed disenfranchised people. But Silent Spring, more
than the others, is stitched through with personal rage. In 1960, according to Carsons assistant, after she found out that her breast
cancer had metastasized, her tone sharpened toward the apocalyptic. She was more hostile about what arrogant technology and
blind science could do, notes Lear, her biographer.
Rachel Carson, 1951. Brooks Studio, from the Rachel Carson Council.
No one, says Carl Safina, an oceanographer and MacArthur fellow who has published several books on marine life, had ever
thought that humans could create something that could create harm all over the globe and come back and get in our bodies. Safina
took me out in his sea kayak around Lazy Point, an eastern spoke of Long Island, to see three kinds of terns, which zipped around us
over the bay. We then crossed the point in his red Prius to visit thriving osprey, one species of bird that was beginning to die out
when Silent Spring made public that DDT weakened their eggshells. As we peered through binoculars at a 40-foot-high nest
woven from sticks, old mops and fishnets, a glossy black osprey returned to his mate and her chicks with a thrashing fish in his
talons. Safina told me that he began to read Silent Spring when he was 14 years old, in the back seat of his parents sedan.
I almost threw up, he said. I got physically ill when I learned that ospreys and peregrine falcons werent raising chicks because of
what people were spraying on bugs at their farms and lawns. This was the first time I learned that humans could impact the
environment with chemicals. That a corporation would create a product that didnt operate as advertised this was shocking in a
way we werent inured to, Safina said.
Though Carson talked about other pesticides, it was DDT sprayed aerially over large areas of the United States to control
mosquitoes and fire ants that stood in for this excess. DDT was first synthesized in 1874 and discovered to kill insects in 1939 by
Paul Hermann Müller, who won the Nobel Prize in 1948 for this work. During World War II, DDT applied to the skin in powder form
proved an effective means to control lice in soldiers. But it wasnt just DDTs effectiveness that led to its promotion, Carson
maintained; it was a surfeit of product and labor. In her speeches, Carson claimed that after the war, out-of-work pilots and a glut of
the product led the United States government and industry to seek new markets for DDT among American consumers.
By the time Carson began to be interested in pesticides, in the mid-1940s, concerns related to DDT were mounting among wildlife
biologists at the Patuxent Research Refuge in Laurel, Md., which was administered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and
elsewhere. Controversy over pesticides harmful effects on birds and plants led to high-profile lawsuits on the part of affected
residents who wanted to stop the aerial spraying.
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Carson used the eras hysteria about radiation to snap her readers to attention, drawing a parallel between nuclear fallout and a
new, invisible chemical threat of pesticides throughout Silent Spring. We are rightly appalled by the genetic effects of radiation,
she wrote. How then, can we be indifferent to the same effect in chemicals that we disseminate widely in our environment?
Carson and her publisher, Houghton Mifflin, knew that such comparisons would be explosive. They tried to control the response to
the book by seeking support before publication. They sent galleys to the National Audubon Society for public endorsement.
The galleys landed on the desk of Audubons biologist, Roland Clement, for review. Clement, who will turn 100 in November,
currently lives in a studio on the 17th floor of a retirement community in New Haven, about a mile from Yale Universitys Beinecke
Rare Book and Manuscript Library, where Carsons papers are kept. I knew of everything she wrote about, he told me over lunch
at his home this summer. She had it right.
The book, which was published on Sept. 27, 1962, flew off the shelves, owing largely to its three-part serialization in The New Yorker
that summer. Silent Spring was also selected for the Book-of-the-Month Club, which delighted Carson. But nothing established
Carson more effectively than her appearance on CBS Reports, an hourlong television news program hosted by a former war
correspondent, Eric Sevareid. On camera, Carsons careful way of speaking dispelled any notions that she was a shrew or some kind
of zealot. Carson was so sick during filming at home in suburban Maryland that in the course of the interview, she propped her head
on her hands. According to Lear as well as William Souder, author of a new biography of Carson, On a Farther Shore, Sevareid
later said that he was afraid Carson wouldnt survive to see the show broadcast.
The industrys response to Silent Spring proved more aggressive than anyone anticipated. As Lear notes, Velsicol, a manufacturer
of DDT, threatened to sue both Houghton Mifflin and The New Yorker. And it also tried to stop Audubon from excerpting the book in
its magazine. Audubon went ahead and even included an editorial about the chemical industrys reaction to the book. But after
Silent Spring came out, the society declined to give it an official endorsement.
The personal attacks against Carson were stunning. She was accused of being a communist sympathizer and dismissed as a
spinster with an affinity for cats. In one threatening letter to Houghton Mifflin, Velsicols general counsel insinuated that there were
sinister influences in Carsons work: she was some kind of agricultural propagandist in the employ of the Soviet Union, he implied,
and her intention was to reduce Western countries ability to produce food, to achieve east-curtain parity.
But Carson also had powerful advocates, among them President John F. Kennedy, who established a presidential committee to
investigate pesticides. Then, in June 1963, Carson made her appearance before the Senate subcommittee. In her testimony, Carson
didnt just highlight the problems that she identified in Silent Spring; she presented the policy recommendations shed been
working on for the past five years. When faced with a chance to do so, Carson didnt call for a ban on pesticides. I think chemicals
do have a place, she testified.
She argued vehemently against aerial spraying, which allowed the government to dump pesticides on peoples property without
their permission. She cited dairy farmers in upstate New York, whose milk was banned from the market after their land was
sprayed to eradicate gypsy moths. As Carson saw it, the federal government, when in industrys thrall, was part of the problem.
Thats one reason that she didnt call for sweeping federal regulation. Instead, she argued that citizens had the right to know how
pesticides were being used on their private property. She was reiterating a central tenet of Silent Spring: If the Bill of Rights
contains no guarantee that a citizen shall be secure against lethal poisons distributed either by private individuals or by public
Carson as a child, reading to her dog Candy. Carson family photograph, from the Rachel Carson
Council.
officials, it is surely only because our forefathers, despite their considerable wisdom and foresight, could conceive of no such
problem. She advocated for the birth of a grass-roots movement led by concerned citizens who would form nongovernmental
groups that she called citizens brigades.
The results of her efforts were mixed, and even her allies have different opinions of what Carsons legacy actually means. Carson is
widely credited with banning DDT, by both her supporters and her detractors. The truth is a little more complicated. When Silent
Spring was published, DDT production was nearing its peak; in 1963, U.S. companies manufactured about 90,000 tons. But by the
following year, DDT production in America was already on the wane. Despite the pesticide manufacturers aggression toward
Carson and her book, there was mounting evidence that some insects were increasingly resistant to DDT, as Carson claimed. After
Roland Clement testified before the Senate subcommittee, he says, Senator Abraham Ribicoff, the Democrat from Connecticut who
was chairman of the committee, pulled him aside. He told me that the chemical companies were willing to stop domestic use of
DDT, Clement says, but only if they could strike a bargain: as long as Carson and Clement would accept the companies continued
export of DDT to foreign countries, the companies would consider the end of domestic use. Their message was clear, Clement says:
Dont mess with the boys and their business.
Though Clement was a supporter of Carsons, he believes that she got both too much credit and too much blame after Silent Spring
came out. Its a fabrication to say that shes the founder of the environmental movement, Clement says. She stirred the pot. Thats
all. It wasnt until 1972, eight years after Carsons death, that the United States banned the domestic sale of DDT, except where
public health concerns warranted its use. American companies continued to export the pesticide until the mid-1980s. (China stopped
manufacturing DDT in 2007. In 2009, India, the only country to produce the pesticide at the time, made 3,653 tons.)
The early activists of the new environmental movement had several successes attributed to Carson from the Clean Air and Water
Acts to the establishment of Earth Day to President Nixons founding of the Environmental Protection Agency, in 1970. But if Silent
Spring can be credited with launching a movement, it also sowed the seeds of its own destruction.
The well-financed counterreaction to Carsons book was a prototype for the brand of attack now regularly made by super-PACs in
everything from debates about carbon emissions to new energy sources. As soon as Silent Spring is serialized, the chemical
companies circle the wagons and build up a war chest, Souder says. This is how the environment became such a bitter partisan
battle.
In a move worthy of Citizens United, the chemical industry undertook an expensive negative P.R. campaign, which included
circulating The Desolate Year, a parody of A Fable for Tomorrow that mocked its woeful tone. The parody, which was sent out to
newspapers around the country along with a five-page fact sheet, argued that without pesticides, America would be overrun by
insects and Americans would not be able to grow enough food to survive.
One reason that today no single book on, say, climate change could have the influence that Silent Spring did, Souder argues, is the
five decades of political fracturing that followed its publication. The politicized and partisan reaction created by Silent Spring has
hardened over the past 50 years, Souder says. Carson may have regarded Silent Spring and stewardship of the environment as a
Carson testifying before a Senate subcommittee on pesticides in 1963. Associated Press
unifying issue for humankind, but a result has been an increasingly factionalized arena.
Carson was among the first environmentalists of the modern era to be charged with using soft science and with cherry-picking
studies to suit her ideology. Fifty years later, the attacks on Carson continue. Her opponents hold her responsible for the death of
millions of African children from malaria; in Michael Crichtons novel State of Fear, one character says that banning DDT killed
more people than Hitler, a sentiment Crichton publicly agreed with. The Web site rachelwaswrong.org, which is run by the
Competitive Enterprise Institute, a free-market advocacy group based in Washington, makes a similar charge: Today, millions of
people around the world suffer the painful and often deadly effects of malaria because one person sounded a false alarm.
But much of Carsons science was accurate and forward-looking. Dr. Theo Colborn, an environmental health analyst and co-author of
a 1996 book, Our Stolen Future, about endocrine disrupters the chemicals that can interfere with the bodys hormone system
points out that Carson was on the cutting edge of the science of her day. If Rachel had lived, she said, we might have actually
found out about endocrine disruption two generations ago.
Today, from Rachel Carsons old bedroom window in Springdale, you can see the smokestacks of the Cheswick coal-fired power plant
less than a mile away: an older red-and-white, candy-striped stack and a newer one, called a scrubber, installed in 2010 to remove
sulfur dioxide. It later needed repairs, but with the approval of the Allegheny County Health Department, it stayed open, and the
plant operated for three months without full emission controls. The plants says it is in compliance with current E.P.A. emissions
standards for coal-fired plants, though new ones will take full effect in 2016.
Springdales board of supervisors supports the plants business. As David Finley, president of Springdale Borough put it, the noise
from the plant used to bother a handful of residents, but it sounds like money to many others. The plant buys fresh water from an
underground river that runs through the borough and has paid for things like Little League uniforms and repairs to the municipal
swimming pool. Springdale has been nicknamed Power City since the days Carson lived there. The high-school sports teams are
called the Dynamos; their mascot is Reddy Kilowatt, the cartoon character of the electricity lobby.
A few months ago, two citizens in Springdale volunteered to be representatives in a class-action suit, which charges that the coal-
fired plant installed limited technology to control emissions that they claim are damaging 1,500 households. One of the plaintiffs,
Kristie Bell, is a 33-year-old health care employee who lives in a two-story yellow-brick house with a broad front porch, a few blocks
from Carsons childhood home. Bell said it was Silent Spring that encouraged her to step forward. Rachel Carson is a huge
influence, Bell said, sitting at her kitchen table after work on a sultry evening last summer. Shes a motivator. For Bell, Carsons
message is a call to mothers to stand up against industry to protect the health of their families.
Detractors have argued that the lawsuit is the creation of personal-injury attorneys. (Because of the difficulty of making a clear
health case, the plaintiffs are claiming property damage caused by corrosive ash.) But Bell said that its not about money. I never
sit outside on my front porch because I dont know whats coming out of that smokestack, she said. One hundred years ago, when
Carson was a child, residents of Springdale had the same concern one that informed Carsons worldview. When we start messing
around with Mother Nature, Bell said, bad things happen.
Describe an ethical issue that has occurred in the workplace and the impact on patient/families and healthcare workers.
Describes an ethical issue that has occurred in the workplace and the impact on patient/families and healthcare workers
Analyzes ethical issue using ethical principles.
Discusses Provisions of the Code of Ethics for Nurses, 2015 that were not upheld for this issue.
Does not identify an ethical issue that has occurred in the workplace.
Does not relate/minimally relates ethical principles to the ethical issue.
AND/OR
No discussion of Code of Ethics for Nurses.
0-20 points
Describes an ethical issue that has occurred in the workplace.
Minimal analysis /minimal discussion of ethical principles.
No discussion of Code of Ethics for Nurses.
21-23 points
Describes an ethical issue that has occurred in the workplace.
Analyzes of ethical issue using 2 ethical principles.
States a specific area of Code of Ethics for Nurses, 2015 that was not upheld for this issue.
24-27 points
Thoroughly describes an ethical issue that has occurred in the workplace.
Analyzes ethical issue using 3
or more ethical principles.
Discusses Provisions of the Code of Ethics for Nurses, 2015 that were not upheld for this issue.
28-30 points
Applies the Ethical Decision-making Model (30%) Use an ethical decision-making model to analyze the issue. Makes recommendations of how this issue can best be addressed in the future.
Does not use the Integrated ethical-decision making tool to analyze the issue.
Provides an incomplete analysis of the issue.
Recommendation is brief, unclear, or does not represent an appropriate way to address the issue,
OR
no recommendation is present.
0-20 points
Refers to the Integrated Ethical
Decision-making model to analyze the issue.
Misses analysis of some steps of the ethical decision-making model. No discussion provided.
Makes 2 recommendations of how this issue can best be addressed in the future.
21-23 points
Uses each step of the Integrated Ethical Decision-making model to analyze the issue with limited discussion of application to the issue.
Provides 2 substantive recommendations of how this issue can best be addressed in the future.
24-27 points
Writes each step and explicitly
uses each step of the Integrated Ethical decision-making model to thoroughly analyze the issue.
Makes 3 substantive recommendations of how this issue can best be addressed and resolved in the future with rationale.
28-30 points
Varying Points of View of Issue and Personal View (20%)
Discusses varying viewpoints about ethical issues in the workplace. Include their values,
beliefs and culture that affect their views.
Discusses personal view of the issue and relates it to your
Personal Ethical lens.
Does not identify or minimally
identifies
varying viewpoints about the issue.
OR
Minimal/no description of the impact of
ethical issue on patient/families, and healthcare workers.
Does not discuss personal view or relate issue to the Personal Ethical Lens.
0-13 points
Identifies varying viewpoints about the issue, and the impact on patient/families and healthcare workers.
AND
Identifies personal view of the issue but does not relate to the Personal Ethical Lens.
14-15 points
Discusses varying viewpoints about the issue, and the impact on patient/families and healthcare workers
AND
Discusses personal view of the issue and how it relates to the Personal Ethical Lens.
When do we behave in moral ways, and when do we take action that is immoral? Describe a moral dilemma that youve been faced with in the past.
PLEASE REVIEW LINKS and create multimedia presentation with transcript.
When do we behave in moral ways, and when do we take action that is immoral? Describe a moral dilemma that youve been faced with in the past. Morality refers to the way?in which we determine what is right or wrong. Kohlberg says there are three levels of moral reasoning: pre-conventional morality, conventional morality, and post conventional morality. Your moral compass may be altered depending how your overall decision will impact you, friends, family and/or society. Read about the Heinz Dilemma in?Module 9.9 in your webtext?for more information about this topic; remember that this refers to Kohlbergs experiment, asking people what they would do in hypothetical scenarios.
Successful completion of this activity involves the creation of a multimedia presentation (audio or video) to demonstrate your ability to describe how Kohlbergs theory of moral reasoning could be used to explain how youve resolved a moral dilemma in the past. Here are some questions to answer within your presentation. But first, please watch the following video:
Describe a moral dilemma that youve been faced with in the past.
Which level and stage(s) of Kohlberg’s theory do you believe you were working from to resolve the dilemma? Explain how you reached this conclusion (be sure to include your resolution).
Describe how you might have resolved the dilemma if you had been operating from other levels and stages of moral reasoning.
Make sure to support your presentation with key references related to the module.
Successful completion of this activity involves the creation of a multimedia presentation (audio or video) to demonstrate your ability to describe how Kohlbergs theory of moral reasoning could be used to explain how youve resolved a moral dilemma in the past. Review the provided questions to answer within your presentation.
Why is it important that every teacher be a teacher of vocabulary Development? what are some other techniques that might be used to teach and/or reinforce words? List as many as you can. Then choose three techniques and give an example of how each would be used in your classroom.
Chapter 7 explains the importance of vocabulary, presents stages of vocabulary knowledge, discusses basic principles for teaching vocabulary, and describes a variety of techniques for teaching and reinforcing vocabulary. Also included are techniques to help students remember words and a description of special features of words: homophones, homographs, and figurative language. In addition, techniques for learning how to learn new words are presented: morphemic and contextual analysis and dictionary skills. Vocabulary is presented as one means for developing higher-level literacy.
Learner Objectives: Students will be able to:
Select appropriate words for vocabulary instruction and apply the basic principles of teaching vocabulary.
Use a variety of techniques to teach and reinforce vocabulary.
Instruct students in the use and meaning of special word features, such as homophones, homographs, figurative language, multiple meanings, and connotations.
Teach students how to use morphemic and contextual analysis and dictionary skills to learn words.
Establish a program to develop vocabulary.
In this discussion, based on your reading of the chapter ,indicate your understanding of building vocabulary by responding to the questions below. Reflect upon and discuss ALL Two of the following questions
1.Why is it important that every teacher be a teacher of vocabulary Development? what are some other techniques that might be used to teach and/or reinforce words? List as many as you can. Then choose three techniques and give an example of how each would be used in your classroom.
2. Should teachers bother about morphemic analysis? What are some effective ways do you think they should use to develop morphemic analysis?
STEP 1: First, write a response with at least EIGHT substantial sentences, integrating concepts you learned from the reading and other materials (include links with necessary). Show that you can think critically on the topic by integrating your own thoughts, analysis, or experiences.
Case study: A 24-year-old female presents to your office stating that she is troubled by headaches and fatigue. She says that she always feels tired and cant sleep well, often waking up early if she gets to sleep at all.What diagnosis do you believe may apply to this individual?What classifications of medications can be used to treat this disorder? Which medication do you recommend and why?
A 24-year-old female presents to your office stating that she is troubled by headaches and fatigue. She says that she always feels tired and cant sleep well, often waking up early if she gets to sleep at all.She describes her headaches as dull, aching, and generalized. These symptoms began about three weeks ago and have been getting worse. She reports a lack of interest in her usual activities, even the ones that she used to enjoy. She also reports that she is missing work due to fatigue and inability to concentrate. Although both her children are in school, she is concerned that she is losing them. She is worried that she might have something bad because she has difficulty concentrating and is having frequent crying spells. She reports a loss of appetite, with a weight loss of 10 pounds in the last month.
The patient has no significant past medical or psychiatric history and takes no regular medications. However, she takes ibuprofen for headaches. She denies using alcohol or drugs. The patient is married, with two elementary school-age children.
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1. What diagnosis do you believe may apply to this individual?
2. What classifications of medications can be used to treat this disorder? Which medication do you recommend and why?
Responses need to address all components of the question, demonstrate critical thinking and analysis and include peer-reviewed journal evidence to support the students position.
Discuss the positive impacts of using online counseling services.
In response to your peers, discuss the positive impacts of using online counseling services.
1# Teletherapy has been around for many years. I started becoming more popular once the COVID-19 pandemic hit. I think that counseling via the Internet has its pros and cons. In the other course I am currently taking, we discussed how teletherapy has become popular, the advantages and disadvantages, and how we think it will help us in our practice. I see how teletherapy can be effective and how it can be ineffective. Some specific ethical questions that need to be raised are privacy, confidentiality, security issues/data breaches, and being able to observe the clients’ body language. There are many more ethical questions that should be raised with teletherapy. “Privacy, Confidentiality, and Security Issues Among concerns about privacy, confidentiality, security, and safety in online psychotherapy, one relates to using unsecured websites or unencrypted communication tools, like commercially available software that is easily hacked. Data security may also be compromised when technology fails, with potential breaches of confidentiality that might extend beyond the therapist’s control (Stoll et al., 2020).” ” Ethical issues such as informed consent, confidentiality, privacy, self-disclosure, boundaries, and multiple relationships can have special significance when Internet technologies are involved. A significant ethical concern pertains to who is actually on the other end when providing distance counseling (Corey, 2019).” I would be comfortable with using this form of technology in my counseling practice. I think that teletherapy can be very effective and beneficial as office-based therapy.
Question: What are some drawbacks to online therapy?
2# Counseling via the Internet is a form of online therapy that can benefit people who need mental health support. There are many advantages available with this option of treatment. First, online therapy can be more accessible, convenient, and affordable than in-person therapy, providing a greater choice of therapists to suit different needs and preferences. It can also help reduce stigma and barriers associated with seeking help for mental health issues (Cherry, 2022).
However, online therapy also poses some challenges and ethical issues that may need to be addressed. Some disadvantages and concerns of online therapy include that it may not provide the same level of rapport, intimacy, and nonverbal communication as in-person therapy (Cherry, 2022). Because of the lack of familiarity, online treatment may not be suitable for people with severe or complex mental health problems or needing medication or crisis intervention. There may be confidentiality, security, and privacy issues, especially if the online platform is not encrypted or secure (Stringer, n.d.).
How would you handle a patients mental health crisis, thorough online counseling?
Case study: J.T. is a 20 year-old who reports to you that he feels depressed and is experiencing a significant amount of stress about school, noting that hell probably flunk out. He spends much of his day in his dorm room playing video games and has a hard time identifying what, if anything, is enjoyable in a typical day. He rarely attends class and has avoided reaching out to his professors to try to salvage his grades this semester. Generate a primary and differential diagnosis using the DSM-5 criteria. Develop a biopsychosocial plan of care for this client. Compare and contrast fear, worry, anxiety, and panic.
Analyze and apply critical thinking skills in the psychopathology of mental health patients and provide treatment and health promotion while applying evidence-based research.Scenario:
J.T. is a 20 year-old who reports to you that he feels depressed and is experiencing a significant amount of stress about school, noting that hell probably flunk out. He spends much of his day in his dorm room playing video games and has a hard time identifying what, if anything, is enjoyable in a typical day. He rarely attends class and has avoided reaching out to his professors to try to salvage his grades this semester.
J.T. has always been a self-described shy person and has had a very small and cohesive group of friends from elementary through high school. Notably, his level of stress significantly amplified when he began college.
You learn that when meeting new people, he has a hard time concentrating on the interaction because he is busy worrying about what they will think of him he assumes they will find him dumb, boring, or a loser. When he loses his concentration, he stutters, is at a loss for words, and starts to sweat, which only serves to make him feel more uneasy. After the interaction, he replays the conversation over and over again, focusing on the stupid things he said. Similarly, he has a long-standing history of being uncomfortable with authority figures and has had a hard time raising his hand in class and approaching teachers. Since starting college, he has been isolating more, turning down invitations from his roommate to go eat or hang out, ignoring his cell phone when it rings, and habitually skipping class. His concerns about how others view him are what drive him to engage in these avoidance behaviors.
Questions:
Remember to answer these questions from your textbooks and NP guidelines. At all times, explain your answers.
Generate a primary and differential diagnosis using the DSM-5 criteria.
Develop a biopsychosocial plan of care for this client.
Compare and contrast fear, worry, anxiety, and panic.
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What is corrosion?Why does corrosion occur?List at least five types of corrosion?
Corrosion is a big challenge in various fields, especially where metallic components are involved.
answer the following and cite your references:
What is corrosion?
Why does corrosion occur?
List at least five types of corrosion?
Pick one type of corrosion you listed and do the following:
Explain its mechanism
Say where this type of corrosion is more likely to occur
Say what measures should be taken to prevent it
List your references
