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Factors Affecting Vulnerability And Assessment Of Needs

 

 

Factors Affecting Vulnerability And Assessment Of Needs

 

This week’s second discussion forum will focus on two selected groups:

 

Vulnerable mothers and children
People affected by alcohol and substance abuse
Review the video segments titled “Premature Babies: Risks and Costs” (Vulnerable Mothers and Children group) –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ43yursYB8

*Leak, C., & Appleby, D. (Producer & Director). (2008). Babyland: Infant mortality in Memphis, TN [News documentary]. United States: ABC News. *

and “Social Cost of Alcohol Abuse” (People Affected by Alcohol and Substance Abuse group)- https://vimeo.com/180192793

*Information Television Network, Inc., (2014). Hope for the Alcoholic: Scientific Breakthroughs. http://www.itvisus.com/programs/hbhm/episode_1702_hope_for_the_alcoholic.asp

 

For each segment, select three specific factors from Chapter 2 (e.g., age, gender, culture, ethnicity, education, and income) that are present.
Discuss how these factors relate to the group’s vulnerability.
Based on the selected factors, assess the health care needs that can be inferred for each group. Discuss which approach(es) to care from Chapter 4, Section 4.1 (i.e., preventive, treatment, or long term), might help address them.
Your initial contribution should be 250 to 300 words in length. Your research and claims must be supported by your course text and at least one other scholarly source. Use proper APA formatting for in-text citations and references as outlined.

 

Week 6 Discussion/Characteristics of Effective Prevention Programs:”An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”–Benjamin Franklin.

 

Week 6 Discussion/Characteristics of Effective Prevention Programs:”An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”–Benjamin Franklin.

 

Mental health services can target families and couples already experiencing severe problems, those couples and families experiencing common life stage transitions, and even couples and families that have not yet shown any signs of difficulty at all. Primary prevention seeks to intervene with the latter group on a mass scale with the goal of impacting the greatest number of couples and families as possible. As attractive as primary prevention sounds, and equally common-sensical and time-honored, the development and implementation of primary preventative interventions and programs proves difficult. For instance, it is difficult to measure the impact of an intervention or program that seeks to forestall some future outcome that may be one or more years away. Fortunately, much research has been conducted on what constitutes an effective, or good, preventative intervention or program. The dilemma for mental health professionals as a whole, and for you as a future marriage, couple, and family counselor, is how to carve out space in your professional work for the creation and development of prevention programming. This is challenging because in clinical practice, the majority of time and money may be spent on tertiary prevention or remedial counseling.
To prepare for this Discussion, use the Internet to find a prevention program for an area of professional interest. Consider how this program is effective or ineffective using the characteristics of effective programs outlined in the Learning Resources.
With these thoughts in mind:
Post by Day 4 the title for the prevention program you selected. Describe three characteristics that make this program effective and explain why. Then, describe at least one characteristic that the program is lacking. Finally, explain how you would redesign the program to effectively incorporate the missing characteristic.
Be sure to support your postings and responses with specific references to the Learning Resources.
Required Resources

Readings

Article: Bond, L. A., & Carmola-Hauf, A. M. (2004). Taking stock and putting stock in primary prevention: Characteristics of effective programs. The Journal of Primary Prevention, 24(3), 199–221.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
Article: Kumpfer, K. L., Alvarado, R., Smith, P., & Bellamy, N. (2002). Cultural sensitivity and adaptation in family-based prevention interventions. Prevention Science, 3(3), 241–246.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
Article: Larson, J. (2007). Couple enrichment approaches. Journal of Couple & Relationship Therapy, 6(1/2), 197–206.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
Article: Stith, S., Pruitt, I., Dees, J., Fronce, M., Green, N. Som, A., & Linkh, D. (2006). Implementing community-based prevention programming: A review of the literature. The Journal of Primary Prevention, 27(6), 599–617.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
Optional Resources

Articles

Sanders, M. R., Ralph, A., Sofronoff, K., Gardiner, P., Thompson, R., Dwyer, S., & Bidwell, K. (2008). Every family: A population approach to reducing behavioral and emotional problems in children making the transition to school. The Journal of Primary Prevention, 29(3), 197–222.

Wilson, K., Gonzalez, P., Romero, T., Henry, K., & Cerbana, C. (2010). The effectiveness of parent education for incarcerated parents: An evaluation of parenting from prison. Journal of Correctional Education, 61(2), 114–132.

 

Stress documentary/research

 

Stress documentary/research

Please watch the following documentary on stress research and write at least two paragraphs on what you learned about stress from the research presented in the film.

2. One inexpensive way to lower your stress levels is to meditate, as discussed in your chapter. Please click on the link to guided meditation. BEFORE you begin:

Write a few sentences to include if you feel stressed, tensed, etc.
Go to a quiet place in your home, lay down (headphones help to maximize the experience), and follow the guided meditation in this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o94tvFUttco
AFTER you have completed the meditation, write a few sentences to include how stressed you feel now, do you feel a change, are you more relaxed, was the meditation helpful (if not, what may be helpful), would you continue to meditate?
SUBMISSION:

Please turn in one document with subtitles dividing each section:

Stress Documentary Response and Guided Mediation Experience

Advantages and disadvantages of social networking

Scenario: Imagine that you have been hired as a consultant for a university that wants to leverage social media and networking technologies to encourage the collaboration of students, and improve their overall sense of community.

Analyze how the university might integrate at least two social media and networking technologies to accomplish their goals. Your analysis must cover the advantages and disadvantages of social networking. The president of the university also needs to know what the system development life cycle is, and how you intend on bringing social networking tools to life within this cycle.

Translate the critical details of your proposal into a 10- to 15-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint®presentation that you will present to the university president.

Include the process of acquiring the correct information systems and applications needed to effectively run these new pursuits.

Include the following in your presentation using the features of Microsoft® PowerPoint®:

A slide template
Slide layouts
Themes
At least one example of animation
At least one example of a media object

Prepare design for private line network private line

How to create a “rough design” to this network “Create a rough design for a private line network that would bring a 256 kbps private line to each of the bank’s fifty branch offices. Be economical, but ensure that there is redundancy in interisland connections. Assume that connections within an island do not need redundancy because of the high traditional reliability of private lines.

Discuss about the network architecture

Explain tcp-ip address maintenance process plan for system

Computer Science

The Network Improvement Plan must consider many aspects of network configuration and design. One of the important areas of network configuration is transmission control protocol/Internet protocol (TCP/IP) addressing and management. Proper configuration and management processes are required to operate the network efficiently and avoid excess work in the reconfiguration of the system as the network requirements change and the system grows.

For this assignment, you will modify the Network Improvement Plan document to include the optimum configuration of the TCP/IP addressing scheme for the system, and you will also document the maintenance process for this aspect of the network.

The project deliverables for this Week are as follows:

• Update the Network Improvement Plan document title page with the new date.
• Update the previously completed sections based on the instructor’s feedback.
• TCP/IP Addressing and Management

o Document an addressing scheme for the TCP/IP addresses used for the network.
o Include categories of network resources, users, and the address ranges to be used for the current and potential future resources and users.
o Provide justification for the addressing scheme.
o Describe the TCP/IP address maintenance process planned for the system. Maintenance should include assignment of new addresses and a periodic review of currently assigned addresses.

• Network Pro Prep Toolkit

o Take or review the following Network Pro lab lessons:

5.1: IP Addressing
5.5: Name Resolution

o For each completed lesson, include a screenshot of the completed lab and exam as applicable.

How network design support dial-up or vpn remote access

Write down a 1,400- to 1,750-word paper about network design. – Explain whether or not network design will support dial-up or VPN remote access by using descriptions of following aspects: benefits and disadvantages of remote access solution; network protocols which will be used on network; and office applications and location of servers to support business applications. – Write down the disadvantages to solution. – Format your paper according to APA standards. – Write a minimum of two references

Analysis for network reconfiguration

Using Power Flow Analysis for Network Reconfiguration

Electricity distribution networks connect the high-voltage transmission system to users. Conventional distribution networks have been developed over the last 50 years to accept bulk power from the transmission system and distribute it to customers; generally they have unidirectional power flows. Distribution systems are extensive and complex and so they are difficult to monitor, control, analyse and manage.

Distribution networks are normally constructed as a meshed network but operated in a radial manner with normally open points. The network configuration can be varied through changing the open/close status of switchgear, manually or automatically. The main objectives of network reconfiguration are:

1) Supply restoration: This optimally restores electricity to customers using alternative sources. The Application is part of the fault location, isolation and supply restoration function.

2) Active power loss minimisation at a given time or energy loss minimisation over a period of time.

3) Load balancing between different feeders or transformers and equalising voltages.

The methods used for network reconfiguration include those based on practical experience, mathematical methods, computational intelligence based methods (e.g. artificial neural networks, genetic algorithm, fuzzy logic), and hybrid methods which combine two or more methods. Power flow analysis is a basis for any advanced analysis.

The IEEE 33-node network information is provided (please see “IEEE_33_bus_network_data.xlsx”). The students are asked tochoose and learn any power flow analysis tool (e.g. IPSA, Neplan, PowerFactory, OpenDSS, MatPower), andanalyse the 33-node networkto provide the best network configuration you could obtain with minimum power losses (in kW). You may also want to look at the impact of distributed generation on distribution network reconfiguration.

A report of your findings is to be prepared in IEEE paper format (please see “pg4-sample-word-template for assignment.doc”) and should contain the following sections:

– Introduction and literature review on distribution network reconfiguration (max 1 page)
– Introduction to the power flow tool you used (max 1 page)
– Methodology (an explanation of how you found the best network reconfiguration) (max 1 page)
– Results (max 2 pages)
– Conclusions and references (max 1 page)

The length of the final report should between (4 pages to 6 pages) and this report takes 10% of your final marks.

Report Marking Criteria:
– Format and Structure: 10%
– Knowledge and Understanding: 40%
– Creativity (Viewpoints, creativity and illustration) 50%

The submission deadline is: 15:00 30th Nov 2015
Please submit the report to the Teaching Office
The return date is 7th Dec 2015

Sources of information (not exclusive)

[1] Mesut E. Baran, Wu F F, Network reconfiguration in distribution systems for loss reduction and load balancing, IEEE Trans. Power Delivery, 1989, 4(2): 1401-1407

[2] Rubin Taleski, DragoslavRajicic, Distribution network reconfiguration for energy loss reduction, IEEE Trans. Power Systems, 1997, 12(1): 398-406

[3] M A Kashem, G B Jasmon, A Mohamed, et al, Artificial neural network approach to network reconfiguration for loss minimization in distribution network, Electrical Power & Energy Systems, 1998, 20(4): 247-258

Describe execution of protocol where given phenomenon occurs

In the timer-based protocol the sender may report a word as possibly lost, when in fact the word was delivered correctly by the receiver.

(1) Describe an execution of the protocol where this phenomenon occurs.

(2) Is it possible to design a protocol in which the sender generates an error report within a bounded time, if and only if the word is not delivered by the receiver?