Cardiovascular disease risk factors

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A study examined lower life satisfaction, active coping, and cardiovascular disease risk factors (diastolic and systolic blood pressure, body mass index, and circumferences) in older African Americans over the phases of an 18-month church-based intervention, using a quasi-experimental design. Participants (n = 89) were 45 years of age and older from six churches (three treatments, three comparisons) in North Florida. Lower life satisfaction had a persistent unfavorable effect on weight variables.

Active coping showed a direct beneficial effect on selected weight variables. However, active coping was adversely associated with blood pressure and did not moderate the association between lower life satisfaction and cardiovascular risk factors. The intervention had a beneficial moderating influence on the association between lower life satisfaction and weight variables and on the association between active coping and these variables. Yet, this pattern did not hold for the association between active coping and blood pressure. The relationship of lower life satisfaction and selected cardiovascular risk factors and the positive effect of active coping were established, but findings regarding blood pressure suggest further study is needed.

Examine and discuss the psychotherapeutic modalities

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Robert Johnson, a 55-year-old man, is married with two adult children and five grandchildren. He is the assistant president of a large bank. In the first session, he tells you that it is becoming more difficult for him to hide his homosexuality. He has kept his homosexuality a secret his entire life. He knew he preferred men when he married his wife thirty years ago, but he thought he needed to get married to hide the fact that he was gay. During his marriage, he has had affairs with many men. Because he has been very discrete, his wife and family do not suspect that he is homosexual and that he has had several affairs.

Now he is having a relationship with a man he loves and with whom he wants to grow old.  Mr. Johnson’s lover threatens to leave him if Mr. Johnson does not get a divorce and makes their relationship public. Mr. Johnson is afraid because if he makes his homosexuality public, he may lose his job and the respect of his children.

He tells you that he is worrying so much about his over leaving that he is unable to concentrate at work. Being the vice president of the bank means a lot to him. He has worked very hard and sacrificed a lot to obtain this position. He does not want to lose it.

 

1. Provide a provisional DSM 5/ICD 10 diagnosis

2. Examine and discuss the psychotherapeutic modalities you would choose to use to treat this client. Choose between Psychoanalytic, Adlerian, existential, person-centered, gestalt, behavior, cognitive behavior, choice/reality, feminist, and postmodern therapy. You may combine therapies (integrative approach), but you must justify the combination. Be sure to include a list of the specific techniques (therapeutic processes and content), not just the theory you would use for this client. Be specific in how you would treat each client.

 

The function of the prefrontal cortex

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How do excessive dopamine receptors play a role in the function of the prefrontal cortex in adult schizophrenia patients affecting their working memory and executive function?

Give evidence to support studies done on rats or humans using each working memory and executive function with reference.

Why replication is essential to science

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Explain why replication is essential to science. Compare and contrast two of the following types of replication that scientists use to determine whether a study is replicable: direct replication, conceptual replication, or replication-plus-extension.

Explain why replication is essential to science. Compare and contrast two of the following types of replication that scientists use to determine whether a study is replicable: direct replication, conceptual replication, or replication-plus-extension.

Therapy approaches’ theory of personality

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Compare and contrast Existential Therapy, Person-Centered Therapy, and Gestalt Therapy. Address the similarities and differences in these therapy approaches’ theory of personality, theory of psychopathology, theory of therapeutic process, and therapeutic content, and discuss how all three can be combined for treatment.

 

Reference: Corey, G. (2017). Theory and practice of counseling and psychotherapy (10th Ed). U.S:

Thompson Brooks/Cole.  (ISBN- 978-1337199810) with code to access The Case of Stan. Published by Cengage.

Strategies for addressing career development

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1.a. Super’s theory is very complex. Explain the basics of the theory as if you were educating a 15-year-old seeking career advice.

1. b. What are some Ethical and culturally relevant strategies for addressing career development with clients who live in poverty? How could you help advocate for change regarding equal opportunity for those who live in poverty?

Endowment for International Peace webpage

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Idealist thought in foreign policy stresses the importance of issues beyond military security ones. Using the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace webpage, select a current issue not directly dealing with military-security issues (such as climate change, political reform, etc.) on how the US should integrate it into its foreign policy.

Approach to representing climate change

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During the first term, we watched two documentary films: Chasing Ice (2012) and Thule Tuvalu (2014). Each of these films takes a distinct approach to represent climate change. Which of these films is the most effective at raising public awareness of climate change and its impacts? By contrast, which film is most likely to motivate climate action? In your answer, make sure to compare and contrast the two films. The answer must develop a coherent essay structure, which includes supporting evidence from at least four references to course material covered in the first and second module

Functional behavior assessment

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Find an evidence-based intervention for this scenario would DRO be appropriate? or extinction? Consider this scenario: A family has contacted you about the care of their grandfather, Juan, who has Alzheimer’s disease. The nursing home staff report that Juan engages in frequent elopement from the nursing home facility when unattended, and verbal aggression that has caused disruptions to the other nursing home residents. A review of the files shows that the nursing home contracted with a BCaBA who did not conduct a functional behavior assessment but advised setting limits, being consistent with rules, and blocking Juan from engaging in problem behavior. The nursing home staff decided to incorporate these strategies by restricting Juan from accessing the courtyard or roaming the halls, leaving him to stay all day in his room with only accompanied walks to therapies and the dining hall. Juan’s behaviors escalated and they have stated they will be ordering the use of chemical restraints to block occurrences of the problem behavior.

 

Prepare a formal letter to the family with your recommendations.

Analyze, within the letter, at least five BACB ethical code elements that are relevant to your discussed behavior analytic procedure and this scenario.

Psychiatric and mental health advanced practice

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The parents of an autistic child consult a psychiatric and mental health advanced practice PMHNP about their failure to relate to their child. The PMHNP decides that some education would be helpful to this family in dealing with the problem. What could the family NOT expect to receive as a result of the PMHNP’s teaching intervention?

Question 11 options:

 

a) An objective perspective

 

 
 

b) Decreased blame and guilt

 

 
 

c) Clarification of expectations

 

 
 

d) A solution to their problems

 

 

Question 12 (1 point)

 

According to Freudian theory, thoughts, feelings, and desires that are not in immediate awareness, but can be recalled to consciousness, are considered:

Question 12 options:

 

a) Conscious

 

 
 

b) Preconscious

 

 
 

c) Subconscious

 

 
 

d) Unconscious

 

 

Question 13 (1 point)

 

The goal of Art therapy and Music therapy is:

Question 13 options:

 

a) To assist clients in passing time in the hospital productively.

 

 
 

b) To teach clients a new skill or hobby.

 

 
 

c) To evaluate clients for possible job training.

 

 
 

d) To stimulate the expression of feelings

 

 

Question 14 (1 point)

 

The focus of Strategic Family Therapy is to:

Question 14 options:

 

a) Emphasize symptoms

 

 
 

b) Change analogies and metaphors in the family

 

 
 

c) Help the family to be more democratic

 

 
 

d) Identify and solve all family problems

 

 

Question 15 (1 point)

 

According to Glasser, the cause of all psychiatric problems is:

Question 15 options:

 

a) Neurosis

 

 
 

b) Irresponsibility

 

 
 

c) Childhood training

 

 
 

d) Irrational beliefs

 

 

Question 16 (1 point)

 

A mother brings her adolescent son in to be seen by a psychiatric and mental health advanced practice PMHNP. The mother wishes to hospitalize the boy. She indicates that she can no longer control his behavior and that he is dating girls of whom she does not approve and staying out past his curfew. Based on the boy’s right to treatment in the least restrictive setting, what is the psychiatric and mental health advanced practice PMHNP’s best response?

Question 16 options:

 

a) Determine the most secure facility to hospitalize the child because he is probably a “run risk.”

 

 
 

b) Seek a Day Treatment Program since the child’s behavior is not dangerous.

 

 
 

c) Offer to work with the mother and son in regard to appropriate expectations and discipline.

 

 
 

d) Tell the mother that all adolescents act that way and that she is wrong to be upset about this normal behavior.