What are considered suicide risk factors? How might these factors be exacerbated in a correctional facility? What constructive measures can be taken by correctional facilities administrators to curb suicide?
Analyze if inmates should be able to refuse mental health treatment. Currently, when may an inmate be forced to be provided mental health treatment? How could you fashion a treatment plan for non-compliant suicidal inmate? Justify your answers with scholarly research.
Social Security and Social Welfare Programs
For years, many working individuals in the United States have counted on Social Security as their primary retirement income. With the deductions from every paycheck to fund this future benefit, Americans looked forward to a comfortable retirement based on the assumption that these funds were being invested wisely. Is this a factual assumption, or is it another myth of the U.S. social welfare system?
Relying on Social Security as a sole means of support in retirement is uncommon. As society?s work habits and life expectancies change, Social Security has come to mean different things to different people. For those who are unable to save and/or invest on their own, it functions like a forced retirement program that provides a financial safety net for the future. For those who become unable to work, social security often is viewed by others as a public assistance program. For others who are financially secure and prepared for retirement, it is an entitlement program where individuals draw Social Security at retirement in an effort to recoup what they paid into the program by deductions from their wages. How might these perceptions of Social Security relate to the perceptions of public assistance programs that were discussed in last week?s resources?
For this Discussion, review this week?s resources. Then, consider how Social Security is different from public assistance programs. Finally, think about how these differences are important in terms of the general perception of Social Security benefits.
Post by Day 3 an explanation of how Social Security is different from public assistance programs. Then, explain how these differences are important, in terms of the general perception of Social Security benefits.
The psychology of gender can be significantly influenced by interpersonal interactions and environment. You often learn to communicate emotionally from the people around you and the expected social norms in your community.
In this assignment, you will explore your own emotional development and how it has supported your gender expression. You will also learn how expression of emotions has an impact on relationships.
Using the module readings, the Argosy University online library resources, and the Internet, research emotional development and gender expression.
Respond to the following:
Explain how the expression of emotion has affected your ability to have successful personal and professional relationships.
Describe what or who has influenced your ability to express emotions successfully.
Describe in which areas of your life you have struggled to communicate emotion. Describe what or who has contributed to the development of these challenges.
Be sure to provide personal examples and experiences along with research in support of your responses.
Write your initial response in 300?400 words
Prepare an applied ethics presentation (12-15 slides, with speaker notes) on an ethical issue related your academic discipline, program, or area of study or interest. Select an ethical dilemma topic for analysis and evaluation from one of the Topic 8 articles, or the Issues & Controversies and Opposing Viewpoints databases. (You may select an alternative topic from a different database or website with instructor approval.) Be sure to address all of the following in your slide presentation.
Outline both sides of the debate. Address all relevant issues associated with your topic. Note both positive and negative arguments concerning each side of the issue.
State the topic in terms of an ethical debate/dilemma (within your academic discipline, program, or area of study or interest). Relate the issue to at least two ethical theories and/or thinkers discussed in the course (one of which must be Kant and the Categorical Imperative). Propose how each ethical theory and/or thinker presumably would response to the ethical dilemma.
Incorporate applicable biblical, theological, philosophical, and/or historical Christian ethical norms or principles that bear (or may well have a bearing) on the ethical dilemma.
Utilize an ethical decision-making model in helping to determine your ethical position vis-?-vis a step-by-step process. Review ?Making Ethical Decisions? located in the Topic 8 materials.
Give your own well-argued and reasonably supported conclusion regarding the ethical debate, including specific moral actions envisioned from your conclusion.
What might be three major perspectives that sociology takes toward the war on terrorism?
1) What might be three major perspectives that sociology takes toward the war on terrorism?
Course Objective One
Identify specific social problems and their cause-effect patterns.
Course Objective Five
Illustrate how the sociological process enables us to identify various social concerns.
Course Objective Seven
Apply sociological theories to explain the occurrence and scope of these problems.
1) What is the nature and scope of the alcohol and drug abuse problem in the United States today? For example, is this problem more significant today than it was in the past?
Course Objective One
Identify specific social problems and their cause-effect patterns.
Course Objective Four
Apply class concepts to support opinions about social problems.
Course Objective Five
Illustrate how the sociological process enables us to identify various social concerns.
Course Objective Seven
Apply sociological theories to explain the occurrence and scope of these problems.
Leon-Guerrero, A. (2015). Social Problems, 5th edition. Los Angeles: Sage
Publications, Inc.
Describe educational principals derived from Piaget?s and Vygotsky?s theories.
Describe educational principals derived from Piaget?s and Vygotsky?s theories. In your opinion, which would be more applicable in an educational setting and why?
Describe the impact of child-rearing styles on child development, note cultural variations in child-reading beliefs and practices.
Replication, Generalization, and External Validity
In the Discussion for this week, you addressed one of the threats to the internal validity of a study, that is, confounding variables. This Application Assignment will challenge you to consider possible threats to external validity. Generalization is the extent to which relations among variables in research studies can be demonstrated among a wide variety of people and across different settings. When the results of a research study are generalizable to additional populations and settings, the study demonstrates external validity. However, if a research study is only valid for the particular sample used in the study, then it is not very helpful to the study of psychology.
In the example provided in the Discussion introduction, two online student groups used different study strategies. Now imagine a human resource (HR) manager at a corporation, struggling with the concept of reading comprehension among employees in the workplace setting, wanted to try the new study strategy that the online course instructor had researched. Assume that the online college course instructor had resolved possible issues relating to internal validity and found that the new study strategy was effective at improving reading comprehension. The HR manager presumes that the results of the study with online college students will generalize to her training course at work. However, the replication of the study revealed that, although the new strategy was found to work well for online students, the results did not generalize to the training course in the work setting. Therefore, the original study lacks external validity.
Replications of studies, such as the one in this example, are essential to demonstrate generalization and external validity. This week, you will learn about four types of replication procedures, and you will develop original examples of each procedure with the goal of demonstrating generalization and external validity.
To prepare:
Review Chapter 13 from the course text.
The Assignment (1?2 pages):
Explain the four different types of replications and the purpose of each. Include for each type of replication a brief original psychological study example (i.e., make up your own) that is different for each type of replication (i.e., do not build on the same example). Plan to devote a short paragraph for each.
Briefly explain how replications relate to the concepts of generalization and external validity.
Note: Support the responses within your assignment with evidence from the assigned Learning Resources. Provide a reference list for resources you used for this Assignment.
1) how one of the five core topics is demonstrated in the movie and 2) the role that at least one type of relationship plays in the movie. This could include father/son, mother/son, friends, or romantic relationships.