Assignment 1: Discussion—Conduct Disorder

Assignment 1: Discussion—Conduct Disorder

The relationship between various Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) diagnoses and criminal behavior has long been examined and debated. One of the more controversial questions centers on the stigma of certain comorbid diagnoses.

Conduct disorder is a childhood disorder characterized by aggressive or destructive behavior that significantly disrupts the child or adolescent’s environment—school, home, and relationships. This disorder has long been classified as an early stage in the trajectory of ongoing criminal or antisocial behavior. However, some studies have found that not all individuals diagnosed with conduct disorder go on to commit crimes later in life. There has been concern about labeling youth with a diagnosis of conduct disorder, which is why this is an important topic to understand when working with court-involved youth.

Using the readings for this module, the Argosy University online library resources, and the Internet respond to the following:

  • Describe the diagnostic criteria for conduct disorder and other common comorbid diagnoses.
  • Explain the stigma attached to a diagnosis of conduct disorder.
  • Examine how a diagnosis of conduct disorder can impact treatment services provided to youth.
  • Examine whether youth diagnosed with conduct disorder are viewed or treated differently in the legal system.

Give reasons for your positions. Support your statements with scholarly references and appropriate examples.

Write your initial response in approximately 300 words. Apply APA standards to citation of sources.

By Saturday, September 26, 2015, post your response to the appropriate Discussion Area. Through Wednesday, September 30, 2015, review and comment on at least two peers’ responses. Do you agree or disagree with their positions? Give reasons for your responses.

Psychopathy, Crime, and Recidivism

Discussion—Psychopathy, Crime, and Recidivism

The empirical links between psychopathy, crime, and both violent and nonviolent recidivism have significantly influenced the applicability of this construct within the criminal and civil justice systems. The Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R) is known as the hallmark tool for use in the assessment of psychopathy. This instrument is broken down into various psychopathic traits. It is commonly used in the assessment battery for offenders—particularly when assessing risk for violence and general recidivism. Other abbreviated versions of this tool include the Psychopathy Checklist: Youth Version (PCL:YV) and Psychopathy Checklist: Screening Version (PCL:SV).

 

Using the readings for this module, the Argosy University online library resources, and the Internet, respond to the following:

 

  • Explain the relationship between psychopathy, criminal behavior, and recidivism. Can age, gender, or socioeconomic status influence the psychopathy or diagnosis of antisocial personality disorder?
  • Examine whether you believe that psychopathy is a mental illness.
  • Explain whether the scores on the PCL-R should be used to make sentencing and other decisions within the criminal justice system.
  • Examine the significance of labeling an offender as psychopathic.
  • Examine whether there is a difference for youth versus adults.

 

Give reasons for your responses. Support your statements with scholarly references and appropriate examples.

 

Write your initial response in approximately 300 words. Apply APA standards to citation of sources.

 

By Saturday, September 3, 2016, post your response to the appropriate Discussion Area. Through Wednesday, September 7, 2016, review and comment on at least two peers’ responses. Do you agree or disagree with their positions? Give reasons for your responses.

 

Grading Criteria and Rubric

 

Discussion Grading Criteria

Discussion Question

 Discussion Question

By Sunday, July 31, 2016 respond to the discussion question. Submit your response to the appropriate Discussion Area. Use the same Discussion Area to comment on at least two of your classmates’ submissions, and continue the discussion until Wednesday, August 3, 2016. All written assignments and responses should follow APA rules for attributing sources.

Access the online library and search for one of the following research articles:

 

 

Read the article you selected thoroughly and identify and critique the following:

  • research design
  • sampling technique
  • threats to validity
  • measurements
  • ethical issues

Week 4, discussion prompt option 2:

Week 4, discussion prompt option 2: Your Most Common Fallacy

We have all committed fallacies at one point or another in our lives, so for this discussion we ask you to reflect on the fallacy that you find that you commit the most frequently.

 

Prepare: Read Chapter 7 of the textbook, and take notes. Make a selection from the fallacies that are explained in that chapter (Make sure to choose a fallacy from the textbook for this course and not from any other source. Also, do not stop at the first fallacy that you recognize since your knowledge of all fallacies will not only enhance your overall knowledge, it will also come in handy for the second discussion).

 

Reflect: Reflect on the fallacies that you have read and find the one that you commit the most. Think about how frequently you have committed the fallacy and what kinds of things tend to lead to you committing it.

 

Write: Present an example of an argument (or arguments) that you have made that commits that particular fallacy. Present the reasoning in standard form. Evaluate your argument (or arguments) by indicating the name of the fallacy that you committed and explaining why this argument is fallacious. What might you do to avoid committing that type of fallacy in the future? How might learning to avoid this fallacy benefit your life?

two assignments

Two Assignments to Complete Due on Monday, July 11,2016

 

1.)  Ethical Standards Summary

 

Write a 500- to 750-word summary of the ethical issues that affect your selected research question and methodology, including the following:

 

Research Topic:  “Self Esteem with Younger Adults in a Negative Social Environment”

 

 

  • Write a brief statement of the research question.
  • List the possible ethical issues, such as consideration of characteristics of your sample, type of data collection, potential for bias, and so forth.
  • Identify and cite the APA ethical standard concerning the issue.
  • Respond to each issue, specifying how you, the researcher, will minimize or eliminate it.
  • Format your research proposal consistent with APA guidelines

·         Self Esteem with Younger Adults in a Negative Social Environment

 

_________________________________________________________________________________________

2.)  Research Proposal

 

Research Topic:  “Self Esteem with Younger Adults in a Negative Social Environment”

 

Write a 1,400- to 1,750-word research proposal including the following:

  • Introduction, including purpose and importance of your topic
  • Literature review based on the Annotated Bibliography assignment
  • Research questions and hypothesis
  • Methods: sample, procedure, and analysis
  • Ethical considerations
  • Discussion: expected results, conclusions, and limitations
  • References

Format your research proposal consistent with APA guidelines

Please use this Methodology for your research paper!! Please. Thank yoo 

Steps for Creating Methodology

  1. Is this the correct research for looking at group differences? = No
  2. Is this going to observe events from the past?= No
  3. Are the current events of today being covered and discussed?= No
  4. Are the variables being studied and examined in the relationships?=Yes

 

This is a =Correlational Research. 

To BMI or not to BMI—What the issues are

The calculation of Body Mass Index (BMI) is an important measurement tool for determining relative disease risk for preventable conditions like type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and heart disease. These conditions may be controlled and/or prevented by maintaining a healthy weight relative to height. For instance, the higher the BMI number above the normal range (18-25), the greater the degree of overweight.

National indicators for obesity, as determined by the BMI report that women are more likely to have higher BMI’s in comparison to men. In addition, minority women including African Americans, Hispanics, and Asian Americans are more likely to have a higher BMI in comparison to white women. However, recent research suggests that current standards for measuring BMI may not be accurate for African American women. Read the article “Ethnic-Specific BMI and Waist Circumference Thresholds” and create a 4- to 5-page report in Microsoft Word document that covers the following:

  • Explain why the current BMI scale may not be an accurate measure of obesity for African American women.
  • How can these findings impact the manner in which physicians communicate with their female patients about weight loss and disease prevention? In your explanation, be sure to describe at least one positive and one negative implication that these findings might have on how physicians counsel their female patients regarding weight-loss.
  • What influence might these findings have on societal perceptions of body image and weight loss?
  • Explain how an accurate perception of body image is associated with appropriate weight-control behavior.
  • What social and cultural factors influence African American women’s risk of becoming obese?
  • What role do the media play in promoting healthy eating behaviors in women and girls?
  • What can be the implications for healthcare policy as a result of the findings of the study?

Support your responses with examples.

Ethical Codes and Standards

Ethical Codes and Standards

By Saturday, August 6, 2016, respond to the discussion question. Submit your responses to the appropriate Discussion Area. Use the same Discussion Area to comment on your classmates’ submissions and continue the discussion untilWednesday, August 10, 2016.

After moving from a big city to a rural setting, Janice is suffering from anxiety and depression because of adjustments to the change. She wants to seek counseling services to help her adjust. Janice has always valued her privacy and is finding it difficult to commit to seeing a counselor in a rural setting. The community has only one mental health counselor. Janice fears that if she begins counseling sessions, people will learn that she is undergoing therapy. In addition, Janice is a devoted Catholic and is aware that the counselor is a devout Jehovah’s Witness, as is most of the community. Janice is apprehensive that the counselor might try to encourage her to convert. She is desperate to talk to someone and does not know where to turn.

  • Identify the ethical standards of the APA or ACA code specific to Janice’s concerns that the counselor should follow to provide professional and ethical services.
  • Identify specific sections of the ethical code, described in your own words, which may apply to Janice’s situation.
  • Describe, using the scenario, why ethical standards are important for client progress.

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After moving from a big city to a rural setting, Janice is suffering from anxiety and depression because of adjustments to the change. She wants to seek counseling services to help her adjust. Janice has always valued her privacy and is finding it difficult to commit to seeing a counselor in a rural setting. The community has only one mental health counselor. Janice fears that if she begins counseling sessions, people will learn that she is undergoing therapy. In addition, Janice is a devoted Catholic and is aware that the counselor is a devout Jehovah’s Witness, as is most of the community. Janice is apprehensive that the counselor might try to encourage her to convert. She is desperate to talk to someone and does not know where to turn.

  • Identify the ethical standards of the APA or ACA code specific to Janice’s concerns that the counselor should follow to provide professional and ethical services.
  • Identify specific sections of the ethical code, described in your own words, which may apply to Janice’s situation.
  • Describe, using the scenario, why ethical standards are important for client progress.

DS 4

By Wednesday of Week 4: 

Post:

  • Your definition of play and its relationship to healthy development and learning during early childhood
  • Why play can be elusive in terms of application and practice in early childhood education settings
  • Insights you have gleaned with regard to the different types of play and the different benefits of play

Resources to use for this assignment

  • Article: Almon, K. (2002). The vital role of play in early childhood education. Gateways43. Retrieved from http://www.waldorfresearchinstitute.org/pdf/BAPlayAlmon.pdf
  • Article: Kohn, A. (2008). Progressive education: Why it’s hard to beat, but also hard to find. Retrieved from http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/progressive.htm
    Copyright 2008 by Alfie Kohn. This article may be downloaded, reproduced, and distributed without permission as long as each copy includes this notice along with citation information (i.e., name of the periodical in which it originally appeared, date of publication, and author’s name). Permission must be obtained in order to reprint this article in a published work or in order to offer it for sale in any form. Please write to the address indicated on the Contact Us page.
  • Article: Feeney, S. (2006). Which way should we go from here? Some thoughts on the early childhood curriculum. Retrieved from http://journal.naeyc.org/btj/200609/FeeneyBTJ.pdf
  • Article: Rushton, S., & Juola-Rushton, A. (2008). Classroom learning environment, brain research, and the no child left behind initiative: 6 years later. Early Childhood Education Journal36(87), 8792.
    Retrieved from the Walden Library using the ProQuest Central database.

Assignement can be 3 paragraphs

statistics 1

For this assignment, you will submit a total of three files: two SPSS data files and one MS Word document.

Complete the following:

  1. Create a data file in SPSS and enter the data presented in the table located in section 3.5 of chapter 3 in your textbook. Save this SPSS data file.
  2. Create a mock research project. Respond to the following three questions.
    1. Considering your area of research interest, briefly state your area and a possible research project related to the area (150-500 words)
    2. Pose one or more null and alternative hypotheses that follow from the possible research project.
    3. List at least 10 variables that would be collected in your mock research project that would be used to answer the hypotheses. After each variable list the variable name you will use in SPSS (Section C), the level of measurement (binary, nominal, ordinal, interval, or ratio), and the possible range of scores. Feel free to be creative.
  3. Create a mock SPSS data set.
    1. Open a data file in SPSS and enter in a set of mock data for the research project you describe in Part B. (Note: It is important that you do not collect real data for this activity; you cannot collect data without IRB approval).
    2. You must enter 10 rows of data for each of the 10 variables (that is, create data for 10 mock participants). Each row represents the scores of each mock participant on the ten variables.
    3. Participant #1 must have missing data for Variable #3. Ensure this is coded correctly

 

Complete the following:

Part A
In Part A, you will be creating visual displays of data. You will copy and paste output you created while working in Chapter 4 into an MS Word document. Please read the instructions below to ensure you are pasting the correct material into your document (In this chapter, you create many charts but not all are required for this assignment).

  1. Using the data set: DownloadFestival.sav, create a boxplot for males and females for the variable Day1. It is important that you change the outlier identified to 2.02 prior to creating the boxplot. Be sure to save the data set with a new name, indicating it is the corrected data set (outlier identified and corrected). Save this boxplot, with an appropriate title in your document.
  2. Using the data set: ChickFlick.sav, create a simple bar chart for independent means. The variables you will use are: Arousal, Film, and Gender (grouping variable). Be sure to display error bars and save your chart with an appropriate title in your document.
  3. Using the data set: Hiccups.sav, create a clustered bar chart for related means. The variables you will use are: Baseline, Tongue Pulling, Carotid Artery Massage, Digital Rectal Massage. Be sure to display error bars, include labels for the X- and Y-axis, and save your chart with an appropriate title in your document.
  4. Using the data set: Text Messages.sav (note: you may see an additional data set with the same name: TextMessages.sav – either will create the correct output), create a clustered bar chart for mixed designs. The variables you will use are: Time1, Time2, and Group. Be sure to display error bars, include labels for the X- and Y-axis, and save your chart with an appropriate title in your document.
  5. Using the data set: Exam Anxiety.sav, create a scatterplot that includes a regression line. The variables you will use are: Exam Performance and Exam Anxiety. Be sure to include the regression line and save your chart with an appropriate title in your document.

Part B
Why Exploratory Data Analysis? Write a short paragraph that highlights your understanding of why exploratory data analysis is a critical part of any analytical strategy (500 Word limit). To receive full credit for this assignment, you must show a high level of understanding the importance of exploring data visually.

 

Research Topic is Effects of autism on the parent of affected individuals

Conduct Disorder

Conduct Disorder

The relationship between various Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) diagnoses and criminal behavior has long been examined and debated. One of the more controversial questions centers on the stigma of certain comorbid diagnoses.

 

Conduct disorder is a childhood disorder characterized by aggressive or destructive behavior that significantly disrupts the child or adolescent’s environment—school, home, and relationships. This disorder has long been classified as an early stage in the trajectory of ongoing criminal or antisocial behavior. However, some studies have found that not all individuals diagnosed with conduct disorder go on to commit crimes later in life. There has been concern about labeling youth with a diagnosis of conduct disorder, which is why this is an important topic to understand when working with court-involved youth.

 

Using the readings for this module, the Argosy University online library resources, and the Internet respond to the following:

 

  • Describe the diagnostic criteria for conduct disorder and other common comorbid diagnoses.
  • Explain the stigma attached to a diagnosis of conduct disorder.
  • Examine how a diagnosis of conduct disorder can impact treatment services provided to youth.
  • Examine whether youth diagnosed with conduct disorder are viewed or treated differently in the legal system.

 

Give reasons for your positions. Support your statements with scholarly references and appropriate examples.

 

Write your initial response in approximately 300 words. Apply APA standards to citation of sources.

 

By Saturday, August 27, 2016, post your response to the appropriate Discussion Area. Through Wednesday, August 31, 2016, review and comment on at least two peers’ responses. Do you agree or disagree with their positions? Give reasons for your responses.

 

Grading Criteria and Rubric

 

Discussion Grading Criteria