SLU Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Due to A Traumatic Experience Case Study

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In this assessment, I’ll be asking you to apply what you’ve learned to several brief case studies. I’d like you to identify the most likely diagnosis for each case, along with a rationale to support

For each of the following cases, answer these questions:

What is the most probable diagnosis?

Why? Which symptoms of this disorder are present? Which are absent?

What further information would help you ascertain if this were the correct diagnosis? Name at least two, and how they would help.

Would you add any specifiers? If so, which would you choose and why?

Which conditions that the DSM-5 recommends for a differential diagnosis list would you need to consider? And why?

1. Lawrence, age 43, was a native of a large urban area who was on his way home from work via the subway one evening when “the event”, as he calls it, occurred. While waiting for his train on a crowded platform, two people started arguing and pushing each other about five feet away from him. The fight escalated with punches being thrown and bystanders being pushed out of the way. One of those bystanders fell into Lawrence, knocking him to the ground and twisting his knee in the process. He was near the edge of the platform at the time, and his head and shoulders were hanging over the edge right as the train pulled into the station. Fortunately, the woman who fell into him was able to pull him back onto the platform, but for a brief moment he was staring at a train barreling towards him.

Lawrence’s knee suffered torn ligaments and required surgery. He had to take sick leave from his job to accommodate the surgery and immediate rehabilitation, and so he was at home by himself for a while. His mood deteriorated during this time alone, as he is a social person and missed seeing his friends and coworkers. Some came to visit him, which he welcomed at first but he found himself becoming irritable with them, so much so that they stopped coming. He also found his thoughts turning increasingly to the event, and the things he should have done to prevent his injury.

Lawrence reported difficulty sleeping – his pain medication helped with his knee pain, but the discomfort was always there. His fatigue seemed to darken his mood further, and the thoughts about the event became more and more intrusive. Soon his sleep was further impaired by frequent dreams of the train that had nearly killed him. These dreams were so upsetting that he would wake up in a sweat and have difficulty getting back to sleep.

When he was cleared to return to work three weeks later he found himself unable to take the train – he “wanted nothing to do with that” platform where he nearly died. Just thinking about the train causes his immense distress. He does not have a car, so he tried taking cabs to and from work, but the expense of doing so led him to abandon that strategy. He’s currently using all of his accrued vacation time so he can stay away from the train, though he knows that is soon to come to an end. Now, six weeks removed from the event, he doesn’t know what to do and is contemplating quitting his job.

2. Roberta is a female high school student in her late teens. Upon arriving at a new high school, she appears to be fairly normal in behavior. However, it is apparent from early on that she has almost no social relationships, or even more, a desire to have any. Aside from a relationship with her parents, who appear supportive and loving, she only has one other relationship which she cares about: her boyfriend Carl. Her parents say there is no past mental health history in their families, though they note that Roberta has had some periods of seeming down and withdrawn. No major drug or alcohol use is apparent. There are no outward health problems visible. She is a very intelligent girl and is described as having a “very strong-willed personality.” Unfortunately, she does not seem to care too much about asserting that intelligence towards any goals. School is in no way important to her.

Although Roberta is generally able to living and function normally, she has a past history of suicidal behavior (no attempts, but some ideation has been reported). She appears to be a fairly friendly person, but is occasionally irritable with others. At times she seems to think that she should do and be able to do whatever she wants whenever she pleases. For example, she became quite frustrated when she wanted to get ice cream at midnight one weekend, and insisted that she and Carl go to the local ice cream shop. He assured her it would be closed, but she insisted on going anyway. Once they got there it was indeed closed, and her frustration bubbled over into banging on the doors and windows, yelling to be let in. Carl was able to calm her down, but was troubled by what he saw. This went far beyond the “strong-willed” irritability he had previously seen.

Roberta stayed home from school over the next few days, calling herself in as sick without her parents’ knowledge. During this time she worked furiously in her bedroom, rarely coming out even for meals. In the few interactions her parents had with her, she seemed to be both quite happy with whatever she was doing (she kept it a secret) and annoyed at questions or efforts to draw her out. A few days later Roberta stole her parents’ credit card and ordered a dozen

refrigerators from a local appliance store. When her parents discovered this they confronted her and demanded an explanation. She excitedly told them about her own plan to develop a 24-hour ice cream shop which she would operate out of their garage, speaking in such a rapid-fire manner that she sometimes struggled to catch her breath. Throughout the conversation she was extremely animated and dismissive of the reservations and objections her parents raised, eventually becoming angered by their lack of support. When her parents informed her they were cancelling the order, she stormed off, drove to Carl’s house, and asked tomove in with him. Carl, who had only been dating Roberta for two months and was also living at home with his parents, was taken aback. This seemed like a different Roberta than the one he had been dating.

Roberta’s parents brought her home and arranged for her to see a physician, as they were now convinced something was wrong. They couldn’t get her in right away, but felt they could manage her until the next available appointment (three days later). By that time, Roberta’s mood had changed and she seemed a bit more “like her old self.” The doctor ordered some routine bloodwork and made a referral to a psychiatrist for further evaluation.

The psychiatrist was unable to see her for a month, during which time her stability wavered again. She once again withdrew into her room, but refused to come out at all. She mostly slept, and would not talk to her parents despite their best efforts to find out what was wrong. She barely ate, and would not shower or bathe. Her parents could occasionally hear her sobbing, but when asked she denied being sad. During this time she felt a constant emptiness, and this purposelessness frequently led her thoughts to ending it all.

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Saudi Electronic University Business Case Study

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Module 12: Critical Thinking Assignment

For this assignment, you will apply decision-making to the process of international human resource management as you determine which of the four final applicants to hire into a global executive position.

You are a member of the management committee of a MNE that conducts business in 23 countries. While your company’s headquarters is located in the Netherlands, your regional offices are located fairly evenly throughout the four hemispheres. Primary markets have been in the European Union and North America; the strongest emerging market is the Pacific Rim. Company executives would like to develop what they see as a powerful potential market in the Middle East. Sales in all areas except the Pacific Rim have shown slow growth over the past two years.

At present, your company is seeking to restructure and revitalize its worldwide marketing efforts. To accomplish this, you have determined that you need to hire a key marketing person to introduce fresh ideas and a new perspective. There is no one currently in your company who is qualified to do this, and so you have decided to look outside.

The job title is “Vice President for Global Marketing”; an annual salary of $250,000-$300,000, plus elaborate benefits, an unlimited expense account, a car, and the use of the corporate jet. The person you hire will be based at the company’s headquarters in the Netherlands and will travel frequently.

A lengthy search has turned up four people with good potential. It is now up to you to decide whom to hire. Although all the applicants have expressed a sincere interest in the position, it is possible that they may change their minds once the job is offered. Therefore, you must rank them in order of preference so that if your first choice declines the position, you can go on to the second, and so on.

First, read the biographies of each applicant. As you are doing this, rank each of them from 1 to 4, with 1 being your first choice, and explain your reasons for their ranking.

For your essay, this week, respond to the following questions using the decisions you have made with your rankings.

  1. The first section of your paper should be an overview of your rankings and the reasons for your decisions.
  2. Did your decision include any culturally based biases you may have—for example, feelings, personality traits, or politics in your rankings?
  3. Did you make any observations that you feel would have been fully accepted in your own culture, but were not accepted in other cultures? If so, explain in detail.
  4. What implications do you believe any of the applicant’s cultural differences would have in business dealings? In what countries or cultures? (two-part for this question )
  5. What expatriate adjustments for the candidate need to be considered? How will the company handle these? (two-part for this question)
  6. Explain the decision-making process you used to make your decisions.

Park L.

Park L. is currently senior vice president for marketing at a major South Korean high-technology firm. You have been told by the head of your Seoul office that his reputation as an expert in international marketing is outstanding. The market share of his company’s products has consistently increased since he joined the company just over 15 years ago. His company’s market share is now well ahead of that of competing producers in the Pacific Rim.

Park graduated from the University of Seoul and has worked his way up through the ranks. He does not have a graduate degree. In addition to his native tongue, Park is able to carry on a reasonably fluent conversation in English and has a minimal working knowledge of German and French.

Saya K.

Saya K. is a woman living in Malaysia. She began her teaching career while finishing her DBA (Doctorate in Business Administration) at the Harvard Business School and published her first book on international marketing ten months after graduation. Her doctoral dissertation was based on the international marketing of pharmaceuticals, but she has also done the research and published on other areas of international marketing.

Two months after the publication of her book, Saya went to work in the international marketing department of a Fortune 500 company, where she stayed for the next ten years. She returned to teaching when Maura University offered her a full professorship with tenure, and she has been there since that time. In addition, she has an active consulting practice throughout Southeast Asia. In addition to fluency in Malay, English, and Japanese, Saya speaks and writes German and Spanish and can converse in Mandarin.

Peter V.

Peter had worked in a key position in the international marketing division of a US Fortune 100 company until the company pulled out of his country South Africa eight months ago. Peter has a long list of accomplishments and is widely recognized as outstanding in his field.

Peter has a Ph.D. in computer science from a leading South African university and an MBA from Purdue’s Krannert School of Business. Peter speaks and reads English, Dutch, Afrikaans, and Swahili and can converse in German.

Joe P.

Joe is currently job hunting. His former job as head of marketing for a single-product, high-technology firm—highly specialized workstations for sophisticated artificial intelligence applications—ended when the company was bought out by Texas Instruments.

Joe has both his undergraduate and MBA degrees from Stanford University. In addition, he was a Rhodes Scholar and won a Fulbright scholarship, which he used to support himself while he undertook a two-year research project on the marketing of high-technology equipment to Third World countries. In addition to his native English, Joe has a minimal command of French—which he admits he hasn’t used since his college days.

Important rules:

Use a standard essay format for responses to all questions (i.e., an introduction, middle paragraphs, headline, and conclusion.

  • Make sure to include all the key points within the conclusion section, which is discussed in the assignment. Your way of the conclusion should be logical, flows from the body of the paper, and reviews the major points
  • Be 7 pages in length, which does not include the title page, abstract, or required reference page, which is never a part of the content minimum requirements.
  • Use APA (7th ed) style guidelines (Using a standard font (i.e. Times New Roman) and 12-point type size. You can use the below website for the APA7 format https://www.scribbr.com/apa-citation-generator/
  • Support your submission with course material concepts, principles, and theories from the textbook and at least seven scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles.
  • I would like to see more depth in the question

Required:

Chapter 14 in International Management: Culture, Strategy, and Behavior

Chapter 14 PowerPoint slides Module 12 PowerPoint slides – Alternative Formats in International Management: Culture, Strategy, and Behavior

“Personal Skills Building Exercises: Whom to Hire” (p. 594) in International Management: Culture, Strategy, and Behavior

Oppong, N. (2018). Human resource management transfer challenges within multinational firms. Management Research Review, 41(7), 860-877.

Rizwan, T. (2018). Expanding horizons and expatriate adjustment. Cross Cultural & Strategic Management, 25(3), 401-424.

Recommended:

Kokt, D., & Dreyer, T. (2018). Expatriate mentoring: The case of a multinational corporation in Abu Dhabi. South African Journal of Human Resource Management, 16(2).

Weisheit, J. (2018). Should I stay or should I go? A systematic literature review about the conceptualization and measurement of international relocation mobility readiness. Journal of Global Mobility, 6(2), 129-157.

Kenyatta University Asthma Attack Discussion

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I need comments about this Q&A.

What treatment should this patient receive to relieve symptoms during an asthma attack?

In this scenario, the given patient has mild asthma and notes that the patient has Exercise-Induced Bronchospasm (EIB) or other known as Exercise-Induced Asthma. It happens mostly to people with asthma. Thus, exercise causes bronchospasm, wherein the airways in the lungs narrow when a person exercises, making it harder to breathe (Rosenthal & Burchum, 2021). For adults and adolescents like this patient, it is recommended to use low-dose Inhaled Corticosteroid (ICS)- formoterol, commonly used budesonide-formoterol in a single inhalation of 200/6 mcg (delivered dose 160/4.5). Thus, it relieves the bronchospasm by using a bronchodilator with corticosteroids to prevent any reoccurring and severe exacerbation attacks(Rosenthal & Burchum, 2021). However, suppose this medication is not available. In that case, a patient could still use Short-acting Beta-agonists, but a patient needs to inhale a low dose of ICS (Global Initiative for Asthma, 2021). Furthermore, one must be cautious, as past recommendations of inhaling only Short-acting Beta-agonists (SABA) that had been found to increase asthma attack death due to exacerbation of asthma. That is why corticosteroids were added in low doses for the attack to lessen the inflammation and decrease the aggravation.

Q2. If the patient’s asthma attacks occur more frequently, what changes in therapy might be appropriate?

In starting asthma medication therapy, a patient needs to be reexamined 2-3 months after or whenever there is a frequent attack. Suppose these attacks occur more frequently than exercise; to provide the best quality care, Healthcare professionals need to assess the patient’s medication adherence, inhalation techniques, or any environmental stimuli that can cause aggravation or asthma attacks. If identified any problems, the patient needs a proper education or reinforcement before stepping up with the medications (Global Initiative for Asthma, 2021).

If identified, with assessment and evaluation, depending on how frequent asthmatic episodes are without any problem with techniques or adherence, the patient might consider taking low doses of budesonide-formoterol or daily low dose of ICS with SABA pre-exercise. Thus, this will consider a maintenance and reliever treatment (MART). If the patient is taking SABA, consider adding ICS-Long-acting Beta Agonist (LABA) with as-needed SABA. Moreover, consider checking within 2-3months. If this does not reduce asthma attacks and episodes more frequently, consider increasing medication, adding moderate ICS, adding long-acting muscarinic antagonists, adding sublingual allergen immunotherapy, and refer for phenotyping (Global Initiative for Asthma, 2021).

Q3. What will you assess to determine if this patient is a good candidate for contraceptives, and what will you prescribe? (Include brand and generic name, route, frequency, and dose). What is the mechanism of action of the contraceptive you prescribed and the adverse effects?

Healthcare providers need to assess the patient physically, mentally, emotionally, socially, and financially. Healthcare professionals need to identify physical needs, determining patients’ age, body, weight, vital signs, and any past and present medical conditions that are contraindicated for specific contraceptives to evaluate patients for any pregnancy or any Sexually transmitted disease that might be advantageous or disadvantageous on choosing a contraceptive method. Additionally, healthcare professionals need to explain the side effects of diverse kinds of contraception. Another area is the patient’s emotional needs, readiness, and goals, whether the patient’s plan for future pregnancy or not, whether the patient is willing to do it daily, or wants it for a more extended period if she has any problems with needles or any okay with inserting IUD. Socially, whether the patient is considering any protection for STD or whether being sensitive to others seeing it. And financially, the cost and availability of various kinds of contraceptives.

Given the patient’s age and being a college student, I would consider her to use Intrauterine Device (IUD), the most reliable birth control. I would prescribe a hormone-free copper (Paragard). With this age and busy with college, a hormonal IUD might benefit her since it does not carry any risk of side effects of hormonal birth control medications. The primary mechanism of action of this IUD is that it causes a foreign body reaction and chemical changes that are toxic to sperm. The good thing about this IUD is that it can last for 10years (Rosenthal & Burchum, 2021). A non-surgical procedure is done during a routine visit to be inserted from the cervical canal to the uterine cavity.

Moreover, if a patient decides to get pregnant, the patient can be pregnant right away once the IUD is taken away. Additionally, the ParaGard can be used as emergency contraception if inserted five days after unprotected sex. However, there are some side effects of this method. It includes Bleeding between periods, Cramps, Severe menstrual pain, and heavy bleeding (Mayo Clinic, 2022). Another essential thing to understand is that IUDs cannot protect patients from STDs—Healthcare professional needs to discuss this and provide another secondary contraceptive against STDs like a condom to protect against STDs.

Q4. The patient states she heard a pill can help her acne. What would you prescribe and your rationale? (Include brand and generic name, dose, route, and frequency).

To guide the patient more clearly, I would like to assess further and evaluate the patient’s condition and concerns. I am torn between two medications for acne. I am caught between Isotretinoin and hormonal agent. However, as a young woman like her, I prefer to give her a hormonal agent. That means it could function as an oral contraceptive and help with her acne. I would recommend combinations of Oral contraceptives (OCs)- drospirenone/Ethinyl estradiol (generic), YAZ (brand name), 28-day pack 3mg/20mcg tab x24, then inert tab x4. Patient to start on day one of the menstrual cycle or 1st Sunday after the onset of menses. The patient using the copper IUD does not have any hormones, so it would be fine if she chose to take OCs for acne and still wanted to get a copper IUD (Planned Parenthood, 2014).

Q5. The patient is concerned because her mother and sister developed fractures in their legs and vertebra after menopause. She wants to know what medication and other advice will prevent osteoporosis. You discuss bisphosphonates. How are they used in the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis?

Bisphosphonates work in target areas of higher bone turnover by slowing down the cells which break down bone (osteoclasts). Therefore, they slow down bone loss, allowing the bone-building cells (osteoblasts) to work more effectively. Thus, it can help strengthen the bone and help to prevent it from getting any weaker. Be mindful of taking this medication with a full glass of water and remain upright for 30 minutes (Cancer Research UK, 2019). To prevent osteoporosis after menopause, the patient needs to be mindful of recommended Vitamin D and Calcium. Vitamin D is for absorption. The patient needs to adjust needs for calcium increases to 1200 mg/day. At the same time, a patient needs to increase his lifestyle on promoting bone health, including walking, weight-bearing exercise, avoiding excessive alcohol, and smoking (Rosenthal & Burchum, 2021).

Q6. How would you treat this patient’s acute gouty attack? Please list the trade and generic name and the dose of therapy. What is the mechanism of action of your choice of prescription?

In acute gout attacks, the main priority is to reduce inflammation and pain. Thus, the patient needs Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs (NSAIDs). It is considered the first choice and much tolerable. I will use Indomethacin (generic name) and Indocin (brand name). The mechanism of action of this medication inhibits cyclooxygenase, reducing prostaglandin and thromboxane synthesis. For acute gout, the patient could start with 50 mg three times a day until the pain is tolerable, then reduce dosage and continue dosing for 3-5 days (Rosenthal & Burchum, 2021).

References:

Cancer Research UK. (2019, November 27). How bisphosphonates work. How bisphosphonates work | Cancer Research UK. Retrieved April 13, 2022, from https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/cancer-in-general/treatment/bisphosphonates/how-bisphosphonates-work

Global Initiative for Asthma. (2021, June 17). 2021 Gina Main Report – Global Initiative for Asthma. GINA. Retrieved April 13, 2022, from https://ginasthma.org/gina-reports/

PCC Scientific Racism Discussion

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Using the film, our textbook, and the article, make an argument against racial categorization on the basis of biological science (including genetics, population genetics, inheritance, or medical science). Your answer should discuss at least three distinct problems with the race concept and correct the problems based on our current understandings of biological science. Your post should include at least one specific example from each of the three sources (the film, the article, and the textbook).

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The topic of human variation has interested scholars since the very earliest days of science. Carolus Linnaeus, who you may remember from Module 1 was the first to scientifically classify living species. In his famous Systema Naturae, published in 1758, he also classified human beings into races, a synonym for subspecies used at the time. After Anthropology developed as a formal discipline a little over a century later, human diversity was studied mainly through anthropometry, the measurement and proportions of the human body. This emphasis on human physical traits is how Physical Anthropology got its name. Sources of data included the osteological study of skeletal features, especially craniometry, the measurement and study of features of human skulls. Early physical anthropologists also studied non-skeletal physical characteristics, including body types, facial features, hair texture, and others. During this time they were most interested in traits related to believed racial differences. The image below shows hair samples and glass eyes used for studying racial classification in the early 20th century:

Racial classification schemes figured prominently in early physical anthropology. The map below shows a 19th century map of human races from Meyers Konversationslexikon (a German encyclopedia), published 1885-90. The map shows what was believed to be the racial classification of humans from that period, based on the study of human traits in physical anthropology, now sometimes referred to as race science.

Map of what were believed to be human races from a German encyclopedia, c. 1885-1890.

Among the groups listed on the map are the “Caucasian” races (divided into sub-groups Aryans, Hamites, Semites) in blue, the “Mongolian” races (northern Mongolian, Chinese and Indo-Chinese, Japanese and Korean, Tibetan, Malayan, Polynesian, Maori, Micronesian, Eskimo, American Indian) in yellow, and the so-called “Negroid” races (African, Hottentots, Melanesians/Papua, “Negrito”, Australian Aborigine, Dravidians, Sinhalese). The three major racial categories portrayed on the map all have their origins in 18th century European science of racial classification. “Caucasian” was a term originated in the 1780s by German anatomist Johann Blumenbach who was part of a group of scholars at the Göttingen School of History in central Germany. He proposed after a trip to the Caucasus mountains (between the Black and Caspian seas in modern Russia) that the people living there must have been God’s ideal creation of humanity. Blumenbach named other categories of human races at the time and his typology then evolved: “Mongolian” and “Negroid” were added by Blumenbach and other scholars associated with the Göttingen School of History shortly after.

Categorizations of early philosophers and naturalists were virtually always tainted by racist ideas about European superiority. For example, Linnaeus divided humans into four major groups: European, Asian, African, and Native American. He based his categories on physical traits such as facial features, but also on”personality,” “temperament” and what each group was “ruled by.” In his classification, Europeans come out looking very good: they are of “vigorous” temperament, “smart and sensitive” in personality and ruled by “law.” All other groups are described much less positively: Asians are by nature “strict,” “contemptuous” and “greedy,” while Africans are “sluggish” and “lazy,” according to Linnaeus. Thinking critically about his classification system, we now understand that Linnaeus was guilty of the fallacy of essentialism: instead of objectively describing these categorizing them, he was idealizing them on the basis of a reduced number of handpicked traits. Today it is also obvious such observations are both ethnocentric (falsely viewing one’s own culture as superior to others) and racist (discriminating against others on the basis of racial categorization). Thus, we now view the classifications of Linnaeus, Blumenbach, and others as examples of scientific racism.

Following Linnaeus’ first attempt at a scientific classification of the human species, scholars have continued debating the nature and validity of racial categories for over 250 years. As you read in our Explorations textbook, late as the 1960s, Carleton Coon, a physical anthropologist considered credible at the time, was still arguing for the validity of these racial categories. Even more recently very small number of contemporary researchers, now regarded by the scientific community with disdain, have continued to do problematic work. The best known of them was psychologist J. Phillipe Rushton (1943-2012), who until his death spent a career trying to prove a correlation between race and intelligence. Rushton and a small number of other researchers are outliers. The data shows the rejection of racial classification by American scientists happened gradually over time but at different rates in different fields. A survey taken in 1985 for example, asked scientists whether they agreed with the statement “There are biological races in the species Homo sapiens.” At the time only 16% of biologists and 36% of developmental psychologists disagreed with the statement, while 41% of biological anthropologists and 53% of cultural anthropologists disagreed with it at that time. When the same question was posed in 1999, 69% of biological anthropologists and 80% of cultural anthropologists disagreed. The numbers have continued to increase since then and at this point, particularly among those who conduct research on topics related to this issue, the idea of biological based races has been rejected.

The scientific community may have rejected racial classification, but unfortunately, the designation of these racial groups by early scientists was adopted into the popular vocabulary and continues to this day. In spite of being scientifically discredited, Blumenbach’s typology and ideas based on it continue to be used today, as discussed in anthropologist Yolanda Moses’ article “Why Do We Keep Using the Word “Caucasian?” (Links to an external site.) Even more important than such continued use of problematic terms, racism based on these early categories continues to plague the United States and other societies around the world. Recently, some have falsely explained the higher fatality rates for COVID-19 among African Americans as resulting from race-based genetic differences. As discussed in Sonia Zakrzewski’s article “No, ‘Racial Genetics’ aren’t Effecting COVID-19 Deaths,” (Links to an external site.) scientists have had to repeatedly point out that there is no evidence for this kind of explanation. As medical anthropologists and public health researchers will attest, the higher fatality rates among African Americans result not from genetics but from lower income, poorer access to quality health care, and other dimensions of structural racism.

Problematic assumptions about race can also be found in some contemporary scientific research. We saw some issues with how race and ancestry are problematically constructed in the direct-to-consumer personal genomics discussion in Module 2. Anthropologists and other scientists of color are often burdened with pointing out such bias in scientific research. At the end of your Explorations textbook you read the personal story of Michael Rivera, the chapter’s author. As he discussed, being a person of color in today’s academic world entails many burdens and difficulties. As Rivera’s testimonial shows, human races may lack a strong genetic basis but that doesn’t mean that racism doesn’t impact people of color harmfully. Racism remains far too real and is based on categories that are assumed by many to have a biological basis. It is not that “race doesn’t exist”– it is all too real for many of us and you yourself have either suffered from racism or witnessed it happening firsthand. Race exists because we treat it as real and it plays a powerful and damaging role in our societies and lives. Thus, anthropologists generally argue that race does not have a biological basis, but it is socially constructed.

Online Sports Gambling Industry Essay

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  • The overall goal for this post is that I need my rough draft (attached below) edited and refined to meet all the requirements below. You are using this rough draft that I have attached as a base/foundation for the final draft. Feel free to remove and add anything to your liking to make the paper more compelling.
  • My topic: The Online Sports Gambling Industry
  • My position: The Online Sport Gambling Industry and increased legalization in more and more states in recent times is overall hurting society. There needs to be more regulations and awareness surrounding this industry (use court cases and show the process of regulations to help develop this argument). Arguments should include dangers of developing gambling addiction; marketing techniques that are essentially ‘trying to suck you in’ (the overall purpose of the industry is for them to try to take your money). There will need more arguments that support this stance (please explore this).
  • This paper builds off from two previous assignments from class that I’ve attached below (Inquiry Presentation) and (Literature Review). Please review these past assignments thoroughly. Feel free to use as many or as little sources, statistics, and information from these past assignments that will help you support this position.

Key Notes to Consider for Position Paper/Feedback from Rough Draft

  • Improve counter-arguments throughout the paper. There should not be a paragraph that is dedicated to just your counter-argument. The best way to incorporate counter-argument statements is to include them gradually (when relevant) in the argumentative paragraphs. Also, do not claim that these counter arguments to be incorrect, rather the purpose is to convey that another perspective exists within the topic (this needs to be addressed from rough draft)
  • Including subheadings before paragraphs would be a good addition; add 1-3 pages so the final product meets the 8-10 page requirement
  • Argument: The paper makes a sophisticated argument that engages an exigent community issue. It provides thorough background information and asserts a well-defined action or proposal.
  • Arrangement: The paper opens by establishing strong exigence and clearly describing background information for the topic. It puts forth a very clear thesis and plan, and follows with a logically-sequenced set of claims. The paper considers and counters refutations very effectively, and the conclusion successfully addresses the bigger issues or questions presented by the topic.
  • Research/Evidence-based arguments: All generalizations are effectively supported with specific evidence. The paper uses a mix of scholarly and popular resources to effectively present and defend a well-researched set of claims. All quotations, data, and paraphrases are introduced clearly and contextualized thoroughly. The sources used are all credible (or clearly explained).
  • Formatting and mechanics: There are no proofreading errors, or only minor errors. It correctly follows MLA formatting for citations. The style and tone are very appropriate to the audience.

Final Paper Guidelines:

Assignment: You will compose an 8-10-page position paper plus a Works Consulted page featuring at least 20 sources.

Purpose: You have been working towards this essay all semester (Inquiry Presentation and Literature Review), gathering research throughout the term and considering (and re-considering) your position as well as others’ in order to determine the strongest argument or best course of action. Your work in this essay is to take a position within the debate that you’ve investigated and meditated on for a good deal of this semester. Your position should thus build on your work in the Annotated Bibliography, Inquiry Presentation, and the Digital Forum.

Keeping in mind this course’s central interest in academic writing as a skill that enables civic engagement and communal participation, the goal of the position paper is to build on what you’ve learned so that you can now (finally!) take a position within the conversation and make a new claim within your issue. This argumentative essay will be the place where you can share the fruits of your research and argue for the ideas you have developed through your writing and research process, keeping in mind what is at stake and for whom.

Audience: You will identify an audience for this project. When you do, remember the genre of the essay: you are making an academic argument. However, this genre should not be seen as limiting. Academics are not the only people who read academic arguments, and academic arguments are often found in widely read publications. Thus, you should think of your audience as an interested group who expects to encounter a thoughtful, informed, and persuasive essay.

Writing the Position Paper

  1. You may feel as if you’ve said all there is to say on your topic, but our work during these last weeks of the semester turns your attention to rhetorical strategies that take up concerns of definition, cause and consequence, evaluation, and proposals for new action. Thus, you might work in this final paper to pinpoint the cause and the consequences of the problem you have been exploring and then propose a solution. Such a focus on proposals and solutions is indeed welcome, for we can all identify problems. The challenge is to create solutions with maximum benefit to the community.
  2. For this project, you are required to have a bibliography of at least twenty sources. At least 10 of these need to be academic, scholarly sources (books, articles, government and scholarly reports, etc.) (ex. Google Scholar Search Engine); the others might include blogs, interviews, magazine or newspaper articles, YouTube videos, or graphs from government or think tank websites. All sources must be reputable, credible, and useful for your case. Of course, you should draw on your Annotated Bibliography assignment and your “Further Reading” list from the Digital Forum. You’ll also, though, need to conduct more research. A great part of your success in this assignment will be determined by how well you employ your research.
  3. One of the trickiest parts of a long argument is organization. You need to give an overview, stake your claim, offer evidence, refute evidence—how will you put it all together? There are two rhetorical tools to help you here.
  • The first is the stases. You can use the hierarchy of the stases, the way that an issue in one stasis depends on or interacts with an issue in another stasis, to help shape the paper. If you are making an argument about action, for example, you might introduce your thesis, but then bring in issues from fact/definition to establish background, issues from cause/effect to show exigence, issues from value to further develop a sense of importance and urgency, and then come to more extensive support for your claim about action.
  • The second piece of rhetorical theory are the arrangement strategies found in Fearless Writing. These strategies offer guidelines about how to begin and offer background and how to lay out a map for the paper.

*I’ve also attached below a powerpoint presentation that helps show how the professor will like the paper structured. Regarding formatting, you can leave in same format as I currently have it in the position paper document*

Here is a link to a successful position paper for reference: https://english.umd.edu/research-innovation/journa…

Grossmont College Caravaggio and Rembrandt Paintings Discussion

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Watch each of the excellent videos, at the bottom of this page, to gain a solid understanding about the life and work of Baroque artists Rembrandt and Caravaggio. Watch enough of the videos so that you understand the primary personal and social forces that drove each of these artists to create. As you watch each video, do the following:

Take notes about the key ideas and concepts that directly relate to what you will need to write about in each paragraph of your essay, explained in Step Two. Include your own ideas and insights.

Identify and list a few works by each artist that you find to be the most powerful and/or moving.

  • Based on what you have learned, select your favorite artist.
  • Step Two: Post in the Class Discussion
  • Your post is worth 80 possible points

Write a 550-750 word analysis in which you will examine, compare, and evaluate the work of Caravaggio and Rembrandt. Organize your analysis into four paragraphs, listed below, and follow the instructions. It may be helpful to use headings. 

At the beginning of each paragraph, write a concise topic sentence that clearly states what the paragraph is about. This topic sentence will help frame the controlling argument for each paragraph and will help your reader follow your key ideas.

Paragraph One: Subject and Overall Style

This paragraph should be between  100-150 words.

Post an image of a painting by both Rembrandt and Caravaggio.

Briefly state and describe the subject of each painting, then summarize and explain how each is a good example of the artist’s overall style and approach to painting. 

Paragraph Two: Personal and Social Context

This paragraph should be between 150-200 words.

Summarize and explain the primary personal and social forces that motivated each artist to approach their work in such a unique and powerful way. 

What was happening in each of the artists’ personal lives?

What was happening in the society around them?

Who were their patrons? Who commissioned their work and why?

How do these factors impact the meaning conveyed in the paintings you posted?

Refer to the notes that you took while watching each video. Focus on the key ideas and concepts from the videos. You will not need to refer to other sources from the internet. 

Paragraph Three: Stylistic Similarities and Differences

This paragraph should be between 150-200 words.

The religious and/or social developments that occurred during the Baroque period are reflected in the formal style (visual and formal characteristics) of each artist’s work.

In this paragraph, summarize and explain the most important similarities and differences between Rembrandt’s style (Holland) and Caravaggio’s style (Italy). The reading and study guides for pages 294-298 of Artforms will help reinforce what you learn from the videos.

Support your key points with descriptive references to the visual and formal characteristics in each of the works of art you posted. Again, refer to the notes that you took while watching each video. Focus on the key ideas and concepts from the videos and not on other sources from the internet. 

  • Paragraph Four: Preference and Evaluation
  • This paragraph should be between 150-200 words.
  • State your preference. Then, evaluate and thoroughly explain why you prefer the work of the artist you selected over that of the other artist. Support your reasoning with direct references to the artist and painting you selected.
  • You may wish to consider the following:

What initial ideas or feelings come to mind after experiencing the work of art?

Do you identify with the work? Based on your life experiences, is it personally relevant to you?

What is it about the work of art that you like the most? The message? The way it was made or composed? 

Are you engaged by the formal characteristics, such as the way the artist used light, color, texture, space, scale, etc?

Do you think your experience of the work is the same as what the artist intended?

Step Three: Respond to Two Classmates

Each post is worth 10 possible points (20 points total)

Next, review the posts of your classmates. Post a thorough and cogent response to a post by two different classmates (at least 100 words each). Add a new insight to the discussion that helps the reader better understand the work of Rembrandt and Caravaggio. Consider the following:

Do you agree with your classmate’s analysis and interpretation? Why or why not?

Did they leave out something important? If you think so, introduce this to the discussion.

Did you find something interesting in the post, but you don’t fully understand? Politely ask them to clarify for you.

Grading

This Discussion topic is broadly framed and there is no right or wrong answer. Instead, you will be graded on how well you demonstrate your ability to think clearly about this topic and to logically support your ideas with concepts from the readings and videos, as well as your own observations, ideas and insights.

Before you submit your posts, take a little more time to proofread and revise your work to make sure that what you write actually conveys what you intend to say. Your posts must be clearly-written, well-supported, grammatically correct, and free of spelling and punctuation errors. This is a college level assignment!

Please review the Grading Rubric before you begin. You can view the Grading Rubric by clicking the three dots in the upper right of this page, then click “Show Rubric.” Here are more instructions for viewing the Grading Rubric (Links to an external site.).

 

Earn a High Grade

  • Before you begin, read all of the instructions, as well as the rubric.
  • Focus on the key ideas contained in the reading and videos listed on this page.
  • Start with an outline and organize your main points into separate topical paragraphs.
  • Write concise and complete sentences that clearly convey what you intend to say.
  • Write in third person, present tense, as much as possible.

Support your statements with careful observations about each work of art.

Include your own insights that support your main points.

Assignment Feedback

I care very much about the quality of the work you submit and I will carefully read, evaluate, and provide feedback on your post within approximately one week after you submit responses to your classmates. I appreciate your patience while I assess your work.

Click this link for instructions on how to view assignment comments from your instructor. (Links to an external site.)

Rembrandt

Please watch this four-part video series about the life and art of Rembrandt. This is part one.

As you watch the video, pay close attention to both the form and context of Rembrandt’s life and work. Take note of the formal stylistic characteristics as well as the personal and/or social forces that drove Rembrant to approach his work in such a unique and powerful way.

Caravaggio

Please watch this four-part video series about the life and art of Caravaggio. This is part one.

As you watch the video, pay close attention to both the form and context of Caravaggio’s life and work. Take note of the formal stylistic characteristics as well as the personal and/or social forces that drove Caravaggio to approach his work in such a unique and powerful way.

SU Public Vs. Private Schools Essay

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ASSIGNMENT PROMPT

For this assignment, you will be writing a compare/contrast essay–an exploratory piece of writing in which you attempt to show readers how two topics are similar, different, or a combination of the two: both similar and different. Whether you focus exclusively on comparing, exclusively on contrasting, or a mix of both, is totally up to you. However, regardless of which approach you decide to take, you will want to include a strong thesis/claim statement, at least three effective supporting points, and a streamlined point-by-point organizational strategy. 

ASSIGNMENT-SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS:

Thesis: Underline your thesis statement or the main claim of your essay.

Page Formatting: See Appendix C – Formatting and Submitting Your Work

MLA Requirements: See Formatting your Essay: MLA 8th Edition

RHETORICAL MODE

Compare/contrast essays are both creative and analytical in nature. They are typically more formal than a personal narrative in the sense that they are written from a third-person perspective, where a writer is not injecting their own opinion directly using “I” or “me” language. 

To prove points–compare/contrast essays rely on researched evidence, and not personal opinion or experience, per se. When you choose two topics, you will have numerous options for comparing and contrasting them–much more than you can actually use in a single paper. Therefore, you will need to decide what elements are worth comparing and contrasting, and why. This is the seek and discover part of the essay, but also the creative part. For example, another writer may choose the same two topics as you, but their essay may rest entirely on thesis and supporting points. When you limit your supporting points to those points you think you can prove most effectively, you are maximizing your creative and analyticalwriting abilities. 

Rhetorical Considerations
Purpose:

Remember that this is an exploratory paper: The piece of writing should show readers, through the inclusion of careful detail and specifics, and strong supporting points, how your two topics are similar, different, or a combination of the two: similar and different. 

Audience:

The compare/contrast essay is written for someone else–either a single reader or a community of readers. When choosing the points you want to use to show readers that your topics are similar, different, or a combination of the two, you should keep this audience in mind, making sure that you are choosing the most effective points possible to show how your two topics are similar or different. 

In this instance, you are writing to show readers that your two topics are similar, different, or a combination of the two (similar and different). Keep this audience in mind by emphasizing the compare/contrast claims throughout the essay.

Form:

This is a formal writing project, written in third-person, relying on strong organizational strategies, integrating researched evidence, and following MLA formatting guidelines. 

SIX FEATURES OF A COMPARE AND CONTRAST ESSAY

1.Compare/Contrast Thesis: Contains a strong and succinct thesis/claim statement that outlines whether the two topics are similar, different, or a combination of the two, and at least three supporting points that can boost that claim. A sample compare/contrast thesis might look like this:

Although curriculum A and curriculum B are similar in their student success goals, they are very different when it comes to their structure, topics, and scoring. 

2.Transitions:Utilizes transitional words and phrases that help the audience (or reader) move more easily from idea to idea, sentence to sentence, and paragraph to paragraph. 

1.*Note–transitions do not only occur in topic sentences but throughout the essay. When you are moving from one idea to the next, whether between two sentences or between two paragraphs, you will want to include language that can help bridge your ideas (and sentences/paragraphs). Some examples might be “in addition to,” “next.” 

3.Compare/Contrast Signals:In addition to more typical transitional words and phrases, this essay should also include compare/contrastspecific signals, emphasizing for readers how and why your topics are alike or different. Here are some example: 

1.similar: in addition, by comparison, similarly

2.different: however, in contrast, differing from

4.Point-by-Point Organizational Strategy: The essay should follow the point-by-point approach to showcase the use of transitions, synthesizeyour own supporting points with researched evidence, and build a fully developed essay with an introduction, several body paragraphs, and a conclusion. For this kind of organization, you will create a topic sentence for each body paragraph that outlines a compare/contrastpoint regarding both topics and use the body paragraph to show readers how your two topics are similar, different, or similar and different. 

5.Reliable and Credible Sources: The essay should integrate at least two reliable and credible sources (also known as “scholarly sources”) to help prove the compare/contrast claims to readers and to boost or substantiate the supporting points that you have created for your two topics. 

Proofreading and Revising: As with any writing project, the final draft of this essay should be carefully reviewed for clarity and correctness. This includes checking word choice, sentence structure, organization, transitions/coherence, and MLA formatting.

ALL WRITTEN STUDENT WORK IS EVALUATED AGAINST INDUSTRY-LEADING PLAGIARISM DETECTION SOFTWARE; BY TAKING A COURSE THROUGH STRAIGHTERLINE, STUDENTS AGREE THAT ALL REQUIRED PAPERS, ESSAYS, AND WRITTEN WORK MAY BE SUBJECT TO SUBMISSION TO PLAGIARISM SOFTWARE FOR TEXTUAL SIMILARITY REVIEW AND DETECTION OF PLAGIARISM. PLAGIARISM SOFTWARE COMPARES STUDENT WORK TO SEVERAL SOURCES INCLUDING OTHER STUDENT WORK, PUBLIC WEBSITES, VARIOUS INSTITUTIONAL ARCHIVES, THE INTERNET, AND THE GLOBAL REFERENCE DATABASE. 

The SWOT Analysis of a Fish Boat Making Company Discussion

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I’m working on a creative writing project and need a sample draft to help me learn.

INTRODUCTION

Today’s business environment requires competency in managing risk and in selecting a business strategy based on a company’s internal and external analyses. In this task, after reviewing the scenario, you will discuss the market entry risk/reward ratio; analyze the company’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT); and recommend a business strategy. As you complete the task, think about past projects you may have worked on that required evaluating risks and conducting risk analyses.

SCENARIO

A U.S. fishing boat manufacturer is known throughout the United States for its innovative approach to product design, lean manufacturing, and responsive customer service since its start three years ago. The mission statement of the company is “We will provide the most innovative customer-driven design and growth in the industry.” The founders’ ideals for the company are described in the vision statement: “We will be the most sustainable company in the industry.” The company’s ethical statement that guides all conduct and decision-making is “We will make decisions that are sustainable for customers and the environment.”

The company’s founders have created an organizational culture of innovation. They have provided incentives for employees’ creative ideas and created testing laboratories where customers use the products and provide design feedback. The founders have also invited innovators in other industries, such as gaming and information technology, to improve on the designs. The founders have cultivated a company culture in which employees and founders are considered equal partners. The company structure is decentralized, and all employees can access the founders at any time for collaboration, shared decision-making, or relationship building. All company decisions are evaluated by all employees to ensure that everyone is committed to the decisions.

The company has identified an emerging global market opportunity in India for its products. Successful sales in India could represent a critical moment for the company if the company establishes strategic partnerships that will increase the likelihood of product success. The founders hope to capture profits and market share and expand into other parts of Asia within the first year of selling products in India.

Research indicates market potential for the company’s sales in India because of the importance of the fishing industry in the country. Fishing and aquaculture are primary industries in the coastal regions of India. Economic zones have been established to support the over 14 million people who are an important part of the fishing industry. This industry makes up 1% of the nation’s gross domestic product and 7% of global fish exports (Hanko Hackberry Group, n.d.).

The company’s goal of the market expansion into India is to be the first foldable fishing boat manufacturer reaching the country. An origami-inspired foldable fishing boat is the company’s most popular product. This boat comes designed as a plastic carrying case that unfolds into the water like an origami paper boat. This boat is suitable for uses in calm water, and the boat can be recycled. The product retails for U.S.$200.

Traditional fishers use nonmechanized boats, which would be ideal for the foldable boat’s entry into the market. Laws and regulations surrounding the use of nonmechanized boats favor importing foldable boats, which would be easy for fishers to carry from home to the water. The business climate in India is open to new partnerships to improve the fishing experience for those who preserve the natural ecosystem with nonmotorized boats. The National Fisheries Development Board (NFDB) promotes the use of natural fishing equipment to reduce disruption to the fishing ecosystem in India (National Fisheries Development Board, n.d.).

The U.S. boat manufacturer’s founders met with the NFDB to request an endorsement for their foldable boats because of the product’s sustainable design and net-zero environmental impact. The founders discovered that the NFDB would only endorse the boat if it was made of plastics used in India, in order to reduce the waste products in the nation’s landfills.

This endeavor would require the U.S. company to make a significant investment in India. The company would need to purchase or build a manufacturing facility, or it would need to contract with a facility owner to secure a manufacturing location. It would need to employ Indian workers. Lastly, the company would have to manufacture a new foldable boat made from used plastics in India with an environmentally friendly waterproof coating.

The new foldable boat could be designed in several ways, and the company would need to test a series of paper products and waterproof coatings to determine which would be suitable for fishers in India. The fishers range in age from 13 to 70, so the design would need to be comfortable and portable enough for all fishers in this target group.

The company decides to hire Indian fishers to help design the product to reach this market. These fishers will provide qualitative, open-ended conversations and data that will be valuable in communicating the product’s features and benefits to other fishers. The product will be tested by a variety of fishers that represent different sectors of the fishing industry, different regions, and different cultural segments. Testing will provide generalizable, qualitative data about the product use and effectiveness.

REQUIREMENTS

Your submission must be your original work. No more than a combined total of 30% of the submission and no more than a 10% match to any one individual source can be directly quoted or closely paraphrased from sources, even if cited correctly. The originality report that is provided when you submit your task can be used as a guide.

You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides detailed criteria that will be used to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by more than one rubric aspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevant portions of the course.

A. Reflect on at least two potential risks the company in the given scenario encounters in entering the new market, including a detailed description of the impact to the company.

B. Conduct a SWOT analysis of the company in the given scenario by doing the following:

1. Identify two internal strengths of the company.

2. Identify two internal weaknesses of the company.

3. Identify two external opportunities for the company.

4. Identify two external threats to the company.

C. Identify two strategic recommendations for the company in the given scenario that are based upon the SWOT analysis results in parts B1 through B4.

1. Justify a strategic recommendation from part C by explaining in detail the benefits of the recommendation to the company.

D. Acknowledge sources, using in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.

E. Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.

File Restrictions

File name may contain only letters, numbers, spaces, and these symbols: ! – _ . * ‘ ( )
File size limit: 200 MB
File types allowed: doc, docx, rtf, xls, xlsx, ppt, pptx, odt, pdf, txt, qt, mov, mpg, avi, mp3, wav, mp4, wma, flv, asf, mpeg, wmv, m4v, svg, tif, tiff, jpeg, jpg, gif, png, zip, rar, tar, 7z

PSYC 100 Addressing Depression Suicide and Unhappiness Among Working Youths Essay

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Project Overview

Prepare a 1,800 word (not including title page or references) academic paper in APA format that presents evidence for and application strategies around creating a program in the setting of your choice to dramatically increase life satisfaction, fulfillment, and mental health in the community you serve.

Introduction

This portfolio work project will allow you to present your findings academically and showcase your ability to design and implement a strategy that will benefit individuals and, hopefully, society in general.

Scenario

You are working in a setting where individuals could benefit from a program or resource that would increase their life satisfaction, fulfillment, and mental health.

Your Role

In your role at the organization of your choice, you have been charged with understanding why society, in general, feels less fulfilled, less satisfied and why mental health concerns are at an all-time high, even though survival has never been easier for our species in general. You must develop a protocol, resource, or training that will lead to a genuine change in how individuals feel about their lives, their place in society, their purpose, and leads people to their strongest mental health possible.

Remember, there are many variations of fulfillment and success, and that mental health is a subjective measure of our self-consciousness. You can choose to focus on any group or subgroup you wish, so long as the program you develop aims at accomplishing a generally higher level of life satisfaction, fulfillment, and mental health.

Requirements

Use information from the material presented in this class, the Foothill College library, any additional credible resources like journal articles, university studies, non-profit organizations, and government resources to create an analysis and program design that includes the following:

  • Set the stage for your project at the societal level. Explain the macro or broader perspective of what the issues are in achieving life satisfaction, fulfillment, and mental health within the community you serve. In other words, what is the background of your population as it relates to this objective? Where is your group today versus generations prior regarding these principles? What is the setting for people today, and what are individuals up against at the societal level? What has been the emotional and personal cost been of this dynamic? How might society benefit if true life satisfaction, fulfillment, and mental health were achieved within the community you serve? Is it merely that certain costs would be avoided, or would this unleash new potentials for life and society?
  • Bring your topic to the individual level. Explain the micro or personal perspective of your topic. How does this impact the individual? What are some ways that society can help or hurt the individual concerning your topic? How do individuals today perceive themselves with these objectives? What are the potential struggles and limitations of individuals managing this process? What are the potential benefits to the individual if this objective was achieved? What is the long-term outlook for the individual concerning should a program like this works?
  • Detail the science behind life satisfaction, fulfillment, and mental health. What can neuroscience and physiology tell us about this? Where are its psychological routes, and how does it impact an individual’s mind, psychology, and personality? What are some of the main physiological limiters? What does science suggest regarding achieving these goals for the individual?
  • Detail the proven techniques from the academic literature behind people better understand their psychology concerning your chosen focus. Do you need to educate and inform, or would you aim to attempt change through guided activities and practice?
  • Find a program that has implemented these findings or other strategies to impact people’s lives, attitudes, and behaviors. What have the challenges been for this program or group? What have the unforeseen impacts been of a program like this? What further research needs to be done within these areas for your program to be maximized?
  • Explain the program you wish to develop, and how would it be unique to the population you hope to serve? For example, maybe there is a great program to model yours after for people in midlife, but you want to focus on children or adolescents. What things would you do to customize it to the population you serve? What hurdles are unique to your demographic, and how will you best address these concerns?
  • Conclusion: end your paper with a compelling conclusion paragraph

These requirements serve as a form of rubric in the sense that if you address in detail, with credible sources, these concepts, you will receive full points. If you do not, you will receive partial or no credit for that section of the paper.

Deliverable Format

  • This is an academic paper. It should not be written in the first person.
  • APA format should be utilized. Pay particular attention to:
    • APA formatted title page, but this is not included in the total word count. (a running head and an abstract are not required)
    • Headings and subheadings should be utilized starting on page two.
    • References should be in APA style, including undoing hyperlinks for web addresses. At least five sources should be cited. References are not included in the word count.
    • 12 point, Times New Roman, Double-Spacing required
  • Word count (not including title page or references) is 1,500 at minimum.
  • Points will be removed for
    • writing in the first person
    • writing in anything other than APA format
    • missing the word count
    • not addressing the bulleted requirements above
    • Grammatical errors and poor transitions
  • Primary sources (i.e., academic journal articles and university papers) should be very well represented in your references, but other sources like websites and books can be used to support primary sources (.gov and .org or generally more reputable than .com sites).
  • TurnItIn.com will be utilized to review your paper for plagiarism and matches across the web. A certain amount of your paper will match other resources as you will likely cite or quote a resource. No more than 25% of a paper can match other work online, including your own previous work for other classes. In general, a highly scored paper with proper citations and quotations will have no more than 10% matches. A zero score will be given to papers with more than 50% match, and a 25%-50% matched paper will likely require a rewrite or reorganization to avoid receiving a zero.

Resources to help you get started

Creditable Sources

Academic papers and peer-reviewed journal articles are the “gold standard,” but sometimes you need to venture beyond those works to get a current and more anecdotal account of phenomena. It is not uncommon for an individual to think that one political party represents their views about economic and governmental involvement levels, but then feels alienated by that same party’s views on other important topics.

The following chart is an excellent tool to understand our media’s biases and credibility. It is very common these days to “live in an echo” chamber and only listen to voices that support our beliefs. Maybe, a more worthwhile exercise would be to use this chart to get multiple viewpoints, from credible resources to help us make better-informed decisions. Use this tool as you set out on finding credible sources outside the academic literature.

APA Style

Watch this video I recorded for more insights on your paper

https://youtu.be/MLUZx-lFdUg

Saint Leo University probable diagnosis Case Study

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Description

For each of the following cases, answer these questions:

What is the most probable diagnosis?

Why? Which symptoms of this disorder are present? Which are absent?

What further information would help you ascertain if this were the correct diagnosis? Name at least two, and how they would help.

Would you add any specifiers? If so, which would you choose and why?

Which conditions that the DSM-5 recommends for a differential diagnosis list would you need to consider? And why?

1. Mark is a 31-year-old single male with no children. He shows no signs of physical ailments or other health problems, and has no history of drug or alcohol abuse. He presently works for a large, national insurance company as a homeowner’s claim adjuster, but has been on a leave of absence for the last month. He took the leave because he has been experiencing considerable difficulty completing his work to his usual high standards, although his supervisor never complained or hinted at dissatisfaction with his efforts. Mark’s high, and some would say “exacting” standards, have been a feature of his since childhood, and have gradually intensified over the years.

According to Mark, his parents were very strict and over-protective when he was a child. Mark’s mother passed away two years ago, and they were quite close. She strongly encouraged – and even strictly demanded at times – that he study hard and do well in school. His father abandoned the family when he was in kindergarten, and the mental health history of both parents are not known. Mark’s brother, Jason, is a “clean freak” and has a tic, but has never sought help. They get along alright, but Jason moved several states away and they no longer see each other very often. Mark thinks he has an uncle with a history of depression, but that’s all he knows. He has few friends, and he has not seen them much over the last few months as work has consumed more and more of his time.

Recently, Mark has been persistently down on his work, and finds his thoughts often turning to the failures he sees in it. He finds the prospect of others seeing those failures, and the possibility of those errors being quite costly to either the policy holders or to his employer, to be intensely embarrassing. These thoughts often just pop into his head, even when he isn’t currently focused on his work. He has always been a careful proofreader, and in recent years he has found himself proofreading the same document over and over to check for mistakes. This seems to make him feel better, and gets

those thoughts out of his head for a while. This comes with a cost though: reports that should take him 30 minutes to complete sometimes take as long as two hours as he hunts through them for the tiniest of mistakes. This has, naturally, made it difficult to maintain the kind of productivity his manager has come to expect from him, and so he has begun working 12-14 hour days and on weekends to compensate.

This heavy workload has left Mark feeling burnt out and irritable. Because of the amount of time he spends at work, he has little time or energy to keep his house neat and tidy as he prefers. Part of the reason for his leave request was to take care of the disorder in his home, which was becoming unbearable. His appetite has remained steady throughout this stressful time, though he thinks he may be losing weight. He fears he may be getting depressed, but hasn’t yet decided whether he should talk to someone about it.

2. Mary is a 55-year-old Caucasian woman. She has an undergraduate degree in fashion design from a prestigious institution. During the course of her professional career, she has acted, appeared in television and print commercials, and owned and operated upscale art boutiques. Eleven years ago she was married for the first time to John, who is 12 years older. John had been married previously and had four children from his first marriage. He retired shortly after they married, and they moved from a large West Coast city to a rural Central Plains area where he grew up and still owned a 1,200-acre farm.

Mary had never lived in the country before. She used her creative talents to decorate and furnish a beautiful new home, but she never quite got over leaving the city and her career. She and John had a good relationship, but she never was able to establish connections with his adult children. Living out in the country, she had few opportunities to meet new people and her social circle consisted only of John’s old childhood friends. She never attempted to resume working or start a new business, given the distance of their home to the nearest large town.

Mary once had had a lot of energy and was engaged in many artistic and creative activities, including painting, refurbishing furniture, and decorating. She longed for the days when she ran her trendy boutiques and went on buying trips to San Francisco. She once or twice floated the idea that they leave the country and move to a small city, where she might open a shop or even work in one, or find other outlets for her creativity. The financial drain and constant work on the farm caused her to feel some resentment. After all, the farm was John’s dream, not hers.

Mary was at the neurologist’s office which was her fourth medical specialist to visit this year. In addition to medical doctors, she had been to a chiropractor, a massage

therapist, and an acupuncturist. Though these practitioners gave her some relief for a short time, she never felt better for long. In fact, she was getting worse. John was worried about her, of course, but he was getting tired of going from doctor to doctor, as Mary searched for a diagnosis and treatment for her persistent problems.

Mary had several physical complaints. She felt extremely tired all the time and she had no energy. Sometimes she spent the entire day in bed. She suffered from muscle aches in various parts of her body, including her shoulders, arms, and legs. Lately, she had developed a pain in one hip and she complained that her hip occasionally “went out”. She felt like it was buckling under her. However, the orthopedic physicians sheconsulted couldn’t find anything wrong with her hip.

Mary spent hours on the Internet researching her symptoms. She had found all kinds of possible causes for her problems, but each time she went to a specialist, he or she ruled out her theories. For example, she had read that the estrogen she had been taking since a hysterectomy a few years earlier might be affecting her hip muscle. Her gynecologist told her that this was a rare phenomenon and certainly not her problem. A chiropractor manipulated her hip and she felt fine for a day or so, but then she was so sore she could not move. Lately, she often ends her day in tears, wondering why no one can figure out what’s wrong with her body.