Ethical and Professional Issues in Psychology Testing

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Week 1 – Assignment

Ethical and Professional Issues in Psychology Testing

Prior to beginning work on this assignment, please read the required textbook chapters and articles for this week.

Create a PowerPoint presentation with 16 to 20 slides (not including the title and reference slides) entitled Ethical and Professional Issues in Psychological Testing. Your presentation must provide 2 to 3 slides for each of the required topics and include appropriate citations of your referenced sources. Separate reference slides, which follow APA formatting guidelines for a References page, must be included at the end of the presentation. You must create your own template and organize your presentation in the sequence provided. Do not use a font smaller than 20 pt. You are encouraged to insert relevant figures and graphics. Make sure to appropriately cite any images you use. If you include a table or figure from a journal article, cite it according to APA guidelines. The notes section of each slide must include the text for oral comments you would make while presentating the materials to a live audience.

References must be cited according to APA guidelines as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. For assistance with creating a visually engaging and readable presentation, you may review Garr Reynolds’s tips for creating presentations (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site..

The presentation must cover each of the following topics in the order presented below.

The Ethical and Social Implications of Testing

  • Provide an overview and brief evaluation of the ethical and social implications of psychological assessment.

Professional Responsibilities

  • Describe the responsibilities of both test publishers and test users.

Testing Individuals Representing Cultural and Linguistic Diversity

  • Analyze and describe issues related to the testing of cultural and linguistic minorities.

Reliability

  • Explain the common sources of measurement error and how measurement error can impact reliability.

Validity 

  • Create a diagram or figure to compare the types of validity discussed in the textbook.
  • Describe the extravalidity concerns related to testing.
  • Review the articles by Fergus (2013), Kosson, et al. (2013) and Mathieu, Hare, Jones, Babiak, & Neumann (2013). Analyze the information presented in these articles on factor analysis and describe how it is used to validate the constructs of the instruments.

Clinical Versus Statistical Prediction

  • Compare clinical and statistical prediction of mental health decisions based on the work of Ægisdóttir, et al. (2006) and Grove & Lloyd (2006).

Application One: An Ethical and Professional Quandry

Application Two: Evidence-Based Medicine

  • Summarize Youngstrom’s (2013) recommendations for linking assessment directly to clinical decision making in evidence-based medicine.
  • Elaborate on each of Youngstrom’s recommendations by providing practical examples that illustrate the relevance of the recommendations in a clinical setting.

Application Three: Selecting Valid Instruments

  • Create a research hypothesis or brief clinical case scenario in which you must select an instrument to measure intolerance for uncertainty.
  • Use the information in the Fergus (2013) article to support which measure to use.

The presentation

  • Must consist of 16 to 20 slides (not including title and reference slides) that are formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site..
  • Must include a separate title slide with the following:
    • Title of presentation
    • Student’s name
    • Course name and number
    • Instructor’s name
    • Date submitted
  • Must use the assigned chapters in the course text, Standard 9 from the American Psychological Association’s Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct, and the 3 required peer-reviewed articles assigned for Week One.
  • Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
  • Must include separate reference slides formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

Carefully review the Grading Rubric (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.

Assignment: Planning A Needs Assessment II

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One of the many reasons social workers conduct needs assessment is to provide support for new programs. Social workers have many methods available to collect necessary data for a needs assessment.

Social workers can use existing data from a wide range of sources, including local and national reports by government and nonprofit agencies, as well as computerized mapping resources. Social workers can gather new data through interviews and surveys with individuals and focus groups. This data can provide the evidence that supports the need for the program.

 

To prepare for this Assignment, review the needs assessment plans that you and your classmates generated for this week’s Discussion. Also, review the logic models that you created in Week 7 and any literature on needs of caregivers that you used to generate them. Consider the following to stimulate your thinking:

Getting information about the needs of the target population:

Who would informants be?

What is your purpose for interacting with them?

What questions would you ask?

What method would you use (interview, focus group, questionnaire)?

Finding potential clients:

  • Who would informants be?

What is your purpose for interacting with them?

  • What questions would you ask?
    • What method would you use?
    • What method would you use?
  •  Interacting with the target population:
  • Who would informants be?
  •  What is your purpose for interacting with them?

What questions would you ask?

What method would you use?

 

Submit a 2- to 3-page paper outlining a hypothetical needs assessment related to the support group program for caregivers. Include the following:

  • The resources needed to operate this service
  • The program activities
  • The desired outcomes
  •  A plan for gathering information about the population served
  • Justifications for your plans and decisions
  • A one-paragraph conclusion describing how you might conduct a follow-up to the needs assessment at the implementation stage of the program evaluation

Pharmacological And Physiological Antagonism

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Prior to beginning work on this discussion, read the required chapters from the text and review the required articles for this week. Alcohol and caffeine have nearly opposite effects on behavior and the nervous system, yet these substances are not used to treat overdose or addiction to the other. Why not use caffeine to treat alcohol addiction? Analyze the issues of pharmacological and physiological antagonism. Explain the receptor systems involved and the central nervous system structures effects with regard to this question. Frame your analysis in terms of drug action first and other consequences second.

Case Studies Final

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For your Final Project, you will select three case studies from the given set. Each case scenario represents a different type of offender  (e.g., mentally disordered offender, sex offender, violent offender, family violence  offender, female offender, white-collar criminal, cybercriminal, or terrorist).
For each case, you will:

  1. Apply a specific theoretical approach to the criminal       behaviors displayed in each case.
  2. Determine if the crime or crimes presented would be categorized       as expressive or instrumental. Explain your rationale.
  3. Evaluate whether developmental risk factors and       correlates of criminal behavior influence criminal behavior. Evaluate       whether the offender in each case scenario is a criminal.
    Note: Although assessment is an       integral step in the tasks you complete in this Final Project, for the       purposes of this course and Final Project, you will not assess the       offenders in the case scenarios you select.

Your Final Project may be presented via one of the following  options:

  • A 10- to 12-page (not       including references, title page, or abstract), double-spaced,       APA-formatted paper.
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Review the Historical Timeline: Regulated Substances media piece.

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Review the Historical Timeline: Regulated Substances media piece. Read the list of major historical events listed below and select one to examine for this assignment.

  1. The Pure Food and Drug Act
  2. The Harrison Act
  3. Prohibition
  4. End of Prohibition
  5. The Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act
  6. The implementation of substance use prevention programs (D.A.R.E., Just Say No, etc.)

Write a 750-1,050-word paper about the selected historical event. Include the following in your presentation:

  1. A description of the event
  2. The history of the law(s) related to the drug
  3. The impact of the drug on society to include how the legal status of the drug has impacted society
  4. A description of how an understanding of the history and legality of the drug from the event has impacted the counseling profession
  5. A minimum of two scholarly references

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

Ethical And Professional Issues

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Your response to each scenario must be 1  page

Your total assignment must be 10 pages total plus a title and reference page

For each of the scenarios below:

A.  Respond by exploring your countertransference issue(s).

B.  State what you decide to do.

C.  Justify your decision by citing the text, ethics code or other sources you use (remember to reference all work in APA format)

1. An attorney refers many clients to you for psychological evaluations. A close friend of yours has retained this attorney, who refers your friend to you for a very important psychological evaluation.  The attorney tells your friend that you are the “best” and the “best” is needed in this case.  You are strongly encouraged by both the attorney and your friend to do the evaluation.
2. You have an Asian-American client who has adjusted a very busy schedule in order to be able to attend therapy sessions. You cancel a session to attend a funeral for a family member.  The client becomes irate and demands to be told the reason why you cancelled.

3. The partner of a client who you have been treating for severe depression and suicidal ideation sends a letter to you. Should you open and read it?

4. You have worked for several years with an African-American man who has a history of rejection by women.  He has worked through many issues and finally has a suitable and loving relationship. He is very grateful to you and strongly encourages you to attend the wedding.

a. If you decide not to attend, how would you address this with your client?

b. If you decide to attend, how would you address this with your client and at the wedding?

5. A gay client has a terminal disease and he has decided to stop treatment and all “heroic” measures. While not mentioning suicide, he has disclosed looking into “options” to alleviate his suffering.

6. You treated a Native American male for alcohol use and abuse several years ago. When you and some friends go to a casino for a weekend, you encounter this person who tells you and your friends that he now has a good job at the casino thanks to the work he has done with you.  When you go to check out, you are told that your room and dining expenses have been “comp’d.”

7. A Latino female client reports sexual abuse by another therapist.  When you encourage her to report this, she indicates that she wants you to do this, as she does not want to get the other therapist in trouble.

8. A fragile female client who believes that she has made great progress would like to enter a training program to become a mental health professional. The client wants you to write a letter supporting her entrance into a training program. You are not sure she is sufficiently mentally healthy to work as a professional.

9. You have a private practice and teach graduate students who are studying to become mental health professionals. You are approached by a student in the last class in the program with a request to begin individual therapy with you.

10. You have worked with a client who is a fellow professional. You both agree that you have much in common.  The client has made excellent progress, and has terminated therapy. What should you do when, shortly after treatment has terminated, the client calls and suggests that you purchase season tickets for a series of theatrical performances?

Socw 6510 Week 7 Assignment 2 Practice Problem

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Evidence based practice is essential to effective social work practice. For this assignment, you are required to (a) identify a current practice problem relevant in your current agency (i.e., engaging clients when they don’t talk much, having negative perceptions about your client, counter), (b) after identifying your practice problem, conduct an extensive literature search as it relates to your practice problem that provides you with a complete understanding of the practice problem.

Based on your findings in the literature, what did you discover that will help you address your practice problem? How might your research guide your work in your field agency?  After reviewing the literature/research and comparing it to the practice problem, the student is expected to do the following:

By Day 7

Submit a 1-2 page reflection paper that:

  1. Briefly discusses the literature
  2. Briefly identifies the practice problem
  3. Briefly explains how the literature will be used to address the practice problem while engaging in the agency.

NOTE: The goal is for you and the Field Instructor to have an open discussion regarding your identified problem while discussing evidenced based solutions to address them. Your field instructor will be evaluating your ability to demonstrate your competency in their field evaluation. In addition, you will submit this assignment for classroom credit. The Field Liaison will grade the assignment “PASS/FAIL,” see rubric for passing criteria.

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SOCW -6111 Week 1, Discussion 2

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Discussion 2: Integrating Theory and Practice

As a social work student, it is important to understand the need for theory-informed practice. As you assess, intervene, and evaluate in your practice, theory is an essential foundation for clinical social work. The use of theory to inform and guide your practice is what establishes you as a professional. In working with clients, you should always be aware of the underlying theory of your clinical approach. Through this course, you will develop the ability to better articulate the theoretical base by which you choose your interventions. You will use theory in every decision you make as it guides you through your practice. Additionally, identifying the theories in assessing and creating change will make you a more confident and skilled social work practitioner.

By Day 4

Post  an analysis and description of the importance of the use of theory in clinical practice. Then describe how the use of theory relates to the social issue you presented in your Introductory Video for this week’s Assignment.

** Social Issue On HOMELESS VETERANS

Psych Paper And 2 DQs By Tomorrow

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  1. When is frustration more likely to lead to aggression? When is it more likely to produce stronger reactions (e.g., violence)? Discuss possible solutions to this problem, including anger management programs.
  2. How do people’s attributions regarding the causes of another person’s plight influence their willingness to help that person? Is this “typical response” justified within a Christian framework? Why or why not?

Choose a recent national or international news report of an aggressive act performed by an individual or group. Research available background details on the individual or group and supporting details. In 750-1,000 words, do the following:

  1. Analyze one of the four theoretical models (biological, drive, social learning, or general aggression model) to explain factors that could have contributed to the aggressive behavior described in the news report.
  2. Discuss preventative measures that could have been employed.

Use two to three scholarly sources to support your thinking, your textbook can be used as one of the resources.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guid

HS2200 SOCIAL WELFARE

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This assignment helps you apply your knowledge from this week’s presentations and readings.

As a HHS   professional, you will be expected to be familiar with social work, poverty,   and mental health issues affecting social welfare.

Helping Professions
Use chapter 2 of your textbook to answer the following questions.

1. Social work’s primary mission and the focus of the human services field is to:
☐ treat people with prejudice
☐ focus on unhealthiness
☐ fight against justice
☐ enhance human well-being

2. It is important to practice demonstrate a high level of _____ and integrity while working in the human services or social work professions
☐ injustice
☐ impulsiveness
☐ change
☐ ethics

3. Respecting a client’s _____ and ______ is a competency within the human service field and social work practice.
☐ diversity, culture
☐ preference, impulse
☐ training, coping
☐ education, tolerance

4. Many mental health therapists or family law attorneys provide some services pro bono, it means “for the public good: and _____.
☐ with high fees
☐ out of a client’s reach
☐ for free
☐ too costly

5. It is important for human service workers to respect a client’s ______.
☐ wants
☐ confidentiality
☐ fantasy
☐ anger

 

 

Poverty, Income Assistance, and Homelessness
Use chapter 7 of your textbook to answer the following questions.

6. Many people who need social welfare services live below the federal _____.
☐ poverty line
☐ umbrella blanket
☐ destination location
☐ geography code

7. Human Service professionals (including social workers) must treat all clients, including those living in poverty, with _____ and _______, and work to empower them to be in charge of their own lives.

☐ ease, tolerance
☐ indifference, remorse
☐ tolerance, difference
☐ dignity, respect

8. It is important for human service workers and social workers to become an ____on behalf of and fight for the rights of homeless individuals who are in need of help.
☐ advocate
☐ boss
☐ enforcer
☐ reinforcer

9. More people who experience _____ are more likely to be homeless; with families comprising the fastest growing segment of homeless populations.
☐ poverty
☐ wealth
☐ growth
☐ fear

10. ____________ is considered to be one of the root causes of homeless.
☐ too much work
☐ lack of affordable housing
☐ being stressed out
☐ living in fear

 

 

Critical Thinking Questions
Answer the following questions accurately in your own words. Use course resources from your readings and the internet to answer the question. Use correct spelling, grammar and punctuation.

11. Clients often experience challenges in many areas of their lives. One’s culture, how they socialize and environmental factors can contribute to issues and challenges that clients can face. Identify and list one challenge you have faced in the past, and in one paragraph describe how you have overcome it.
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12. Practicing self-care is very important if you work in the human services field. HHS workers often experience clients who are in crisis. Self-care supports the HHS worker as a preventative measure and helps them cope in the field. Self-care includes but is not limited to stress-management, maintaining good nutrition, exercise, sleep and having a proper work/life balance. Explain two (2) ways that you care for yourself by practicing self-care strategies.

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13. Many clients who receive social welfare services experience poverty. Poverty means the household income is not adequate compared to a certain standard. The federal government established the Federal Poverty Income Limit (FPIL) every year; which determines the amount of income required for individuals and families to satisfy their minimum living needs. In order to qualify for many social services resources, people have to meet the federal poverty guidelines by having income limits within the FPIL. The FPIL for 48 states was $11,670 annually per person and $23,850 for a family of four in 2014. Identify whether you feel the federal poverty guidelines are accurate or fair. Explain whether or not you agree with them.

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14.  People with mental health issues often are stigmatized and stereotyped which causes them sometimes to not seek the mental health services they need. Describe two (2) ways you can help clients with mental health issues to feel comfortable and empower them to seek out services?

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15. It’s important to consider rights of clients who have mental health disorders. Sometimes clients with severe mental health disorders are placed or committed in mental health institutions against their will; especially if they are a threat to themselves or others. Explain, in one paragraph, whether you believe clients who are violent with severe mental health disorders should be forced to undergo mandatory drug treatment or electric shock treatment?

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Reflection
Reflect on what you have learned this week to help you respond to the question below. You may choose to respond in writing or by recording a video!

16. Individuals living at or below the Federal poverty level have reduced access and availability of resources to help them be successful. Identify three (3) challenges that people living in poverty might face while trying to improve their situation. Then explain two (2) strategies or social welfare service agencies that can help overcome these individuals’ situations.

 

Challenges

 

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Success Strategy or Social   Welfare Service Agency

 

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