Ethical and culturally relevant strategies for addressing career development

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 the equal opportunity for those who live in poverty?

Compare and contrast Existential Therapy, Person-Centered Therapy, and Gestalt Therapy

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.

Explain why replication is essential to science

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.

The function of the prefrontal cortex in adult schizophrenia patients

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.

Examine and discuss the psychotherapeutic modalities

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.

 

Beneficial moderating influence on the association

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.

Cardiovascular disease risk factors

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.

 

1. What are the implications of the study? Explain why this information is important. Who is it important to and why?

The patriarchal perspective on relationship violence

You have been asked to participate in a radio show about relationship violence. You know that one of the other guests is an ardent supporter of the patriarchal perspective on relationship violence.  In preparation for the show, you want to make sure you understand her perspective and the critique you will make about the patriarchal perspective.  What are two points that you will make as a critique of this model of violence?  That is, what will you say to explain why the patriarchal model is an inadequate explanation for relationship violence?

The importance of ethics in forensic psychology

Read the ethics complaint via the three module resource documents—an evaluation, the complaint, and the ethics board’s decision. Would you be able to identify the ethical problems? And more importantly, would you understand how to avoid committing them in the first place?

In a post to this discussion topic, answer these questions:

  • What does this case illustrate about the importance of ethics in forensic psychology?
  • What problems did this psychologist’s poor ethical thinking cause for the family involved?
  • Would you have been able to read the evaluation and spot the ethical problems? What did you catch? What did you miss? Explain.
  • What could the psychologist have done differently that would have made this an ethical evaluation?

Factors that affect intergenerational relationships between older adults and their adult children

Discuss factors that affect intergenerational relationships between older adults and their adult children. What factors support good intergenerational relationships?

(Think from the life-span perspective; briefly analyze at least six different factors)

200-300 wds

Short-Answer Question

The term “emerging adulthood” is fairly recent in the field of developmental psychology.

(1) Explain why researchers felt it necessary to add this stage of development.

(2) Describe at least two new characteristics of cognitive development during emerging adulthood compared to earlier life stages.

200-300 wds