Domain of personality assessment

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In the domain of personality assessment, walk through the steps of how you would construct a measure based on content validity. Next, walk through the steps of explaining how to construct a measure based on empirical criterion keying.

How do you measure validity and reliability?
How are reliability and validity assessed? Reliability can be estimated by comparing different versions of the same measurement. Validity is harder to assess, but it can be estimated by comparing the results to other relevant data or theories.

Describe the development of emotional competence from infancy

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Describe the development of emotional competence from infancy through adolescence and discuss the role of attachment.

What is emotional development explains emotional development during infancy?
Emotional development involves learning what feelings and emotions are, understanding how and why they occur, recognizing your own feelings and those of others, and developing effective ways for managing those feelings.

How can you enhance your own EI or what tips would you give to a client that
needs to enhance theirs?

What emotional development occurs from infancy through childhood including attachment and the development of a self concept?
Psychosocial development occurs as children form relationships, interact with others, and understand and manage their feelings. In social and emotional development, forming healthy attachments is very important and is the major social milestone of infancy. Attachment is a long-standing connection or bond with others.

The prevalence of co-occurring disorders

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The purpose of this part of the assignment is to identify the prevalence of co-occurring disorders. Answer the following questions regarding the prevalence of co-occurring disorders.

What is an example of a co-occurring disorder?
Co-occurring disorders can include anxiety disorders, depression, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), bipolar disorder, personality disorders, and schizophrenia, among others.
What is the co occurrence of two or more psychological disorders?
Co-occurring disorders may include any combination of two or more substance use disorders and mental disorders identified in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5). They are also referred to as having a dual diagnosis.
  1. What is at least one statistical piece of information that you do not find surprising? Explain why.
  2. Conversely, what is at least one statistical piece of information that was interesting or surprising? Explain why. Include references.

Explaining the Consequence-Intentionality Fallacy

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Explaining the Consequence-Intentionality Fallacy with the use of an example. Would it be like I wanted to buy my husband a new watch but I didn’t have any money, so I gambled the house payment to buy the watch, and I lost?   would that be a good example?

What actions can be taken to avoid logical fallacies?
Do not: use false, fabricated, misrepresented, distorted or irrelevant evidence to support arguments or claims. intentionally use unsupported, misleading, or illogical reasoning. represent yourself as informed or an “expert” on a subject when you are not.
What are some real life examples of fallacies?
Example: “People have been trying for centuries to prove that God exists. But no one has yet been able to prove it. Therefore, God does not exist.” Here’s an opposing argument that commits the same fallacy: “People have been trying for years to prove that God does not exist.

Describe a psychological health disparity among different ethnic minority groups

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Describe a psychological health disparity among different ethnic minority groups. You can opt to examine a psychological disparity based on gender, sexuality, age, or nationality. Provide one example from the textbook here.

Don’t just say it is an example, tell the reader how your example illustrates a psychological health disparity by discussing how the prevalence of the disorder differs among groups, how the consequences of the disorder may differ among groups, or how access to treatment differs among groups.

 

B.  Provide a second example from any of supplementary sources listed above.

Again, don’t just say it is an example, tell the reader how your example illustrates a psychological health disparity by discussing how the prevalence of the disorder differs among groups, how the consequences of the disorder may differ among groups,  or how access to treatment differs among groups.

For example, children whose parents are seeking asylum are experiencing nationality/immigrant status as a system of inequality whereby they are automatically separated at the southern U.S. border.

What are the psychological consequences on children or entire families of this separation? From where do you derive your answers?

Maintaining confidentiality is critical in counseling

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Maintaining confidentiality is critical in counseling clients (Pomeroy, 2014). This can be a big challenge when providing telehealth services. As a counselor how can confidentiality be maintained when providing service via telehealth?

Confidentiality is an important aspect of counseling. This means that under normal circumstances no one outside the Counseling Center is given any information — even the fact that you have been here — without your expressed written consent.

How do you maintain confidentiality in Counselling?
To maintain confidentiality, it is the counselor’s responsibility to keep the client’s records safe and appropriately secured. Records should be locked away where only the counselor can reach them. Protect records at home. It is important that you lock away documents at home as well as at the office.

The importance of web-based social networking for Mezzo policy

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The purpose of this assignment is to better understand the importance of web-based social networking for Mezzo policy advocacy. It helps to acquire important skills to utilize different social media platforms for the purpose of policy advocacy.

Social networking focuses on building connections between people who have similar interests using a variety of networks that are most often Web-based, so that network members can interact over the Internet. Through social networking, ordinary people, experts, reporters, and so on can exchange ideas, debate issues, and motivate others to take action by sharing media links, videos, and other information.

  • List some popular social media platforms and discuss their advantages when using them to promote the work of an agency or organization.
  • Select an agency or organization, and design a sample Facebook post and tweet. What is important to consider in these two different mediums?
  • Visit the NAMI Facebook page. How has NAMI effectively used Facebook as a means for mezzo policy advocacy?

Importance of social bonds

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Hunter Moore made a rational choice to engage in the behavior of revenge porn.  Based on what you have learned on the importance of social bonds and their impact on one’s life, tell me why you think, he did what he did (motivations, rationale, think like an FBI profiler, what is your analysis of his personality profile)?

Factors that influence heroic action

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Which has a more powerful effect on behavior, personality or situation? Questions like these drive social psychologists to find out what’s happening when ordinary people take, for better or worse, extraordinary action.

When details of the Abu Ghraib Prison Scandal became publicized in 2004, many were struck by parallels to the Stanford Prison Study. Among them was Dr. Zimbardo, the Stanford psychologist who authored the study 30 years earlier.

These events brought renewed attention to the line between good and evil, showing once again that it’s easier to cross than one might expect. While much of Zimbardo’s early work focused on understanding the psychology of evil, he recently shifted his focus to the nature of heroism.

The following article discusses this work and the various factors that influence heroic action. This discussion will be a regular and video discussion. You will use your textbook, as well as the following videos:

Disadvantages of Distributive Justice Ethics

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List down the advantages and disadvantages of Distributive Justice Ethics. As well as its proponents
What are some of the arguments of proponents of distributive justice?

In politics

Distributive justice theory argues that societies have a duty to individuals in need and that all individuals have a duty to help others in need. Proponents of distributive justice link it to human rights.

What are the 4 types of distributive justice?
Four theories of justice are discussed: Rawlsian egalitarianism, or justice as fairness; Dworkinian egalitarianism, or equality of resources; Steiner-Vallentyne libertarianism, or common ownership; and Nozickian libertarianism, or entitlements.
What are the different principles used for distributive justice explain briefly with examples.
Distributive justice has been applied to a society when all members are assured of a basic level of goods, an equal opportunity to acquire more goods and receive the same amount of goods for the same amount of work. The major tenets of distributive justice are equality, proportionality and fairness.