Evolutionary Psychology

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Question description

Select a topic from one of the following (unless you have been approved to use another):

1. Industry/ Organizational Psychology 2. Sport Psychology

3. Consumer Psychology 4. Forensic Psychology

5. Human Engineering Psychology 6. Positive Psychotherapy

7. Play Therapy 8. Neuropsychology 9. Holistic Psychology

10. School Psychology 11. Political Psychology 12. Evolutionary Psychology

13. Cultural Psychology 14. Psychophysiology

15. Community Clinical Psychology

16. Health Psychology

Write a three to five (3-5) page paper in APA format discussing the topic you have chosen. This paper must be uploaded and submitted as an attachment on the link(click on “Browse” to locate your file and then click “Upload” to upload your file) provided within the instructions below. Include the following:

1. In your paper you must discuss the topic chosen by explaining how it is important to not only society but to your own life.

2. Furthermore, tell me about the topic as if you were the instructor teaching someone about the material for the first time.

3. You must have at least three references including at least book in the paper. Wikipedia is not a scholarly reference and will result in a zero on the paper.

4. The entire document must be doubled spaced.

4. References must be written in APA format. Don’t include an abstract section or tables, I just want you to use the format. In APA style, the alphabetical list of works cited, which appears at the end of the paper, is titled “References.”

What strategies can the organization take to survive, improve its performance, and compete with other hospitals over the next 5 years?

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REFERENCE
Textbook: Carroll, R. L. (Ed.). (2009). Risk management handbook for health care organizations (Student ed.). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
Please write up 150 to 200 word count for Question 1 to 8; try and relate the material to real-life applications and also to the textbook and health care risk management. Cite and Reference all work!

1. Review the scenario below.

ABC Hospital is a small, privately owned community hospital. It has been struggling to survive financially, as reimbursement rates have declined and consumers are being drawn to the larger state-of-the-art hospital facilities in urban areas that are perceived to have better quality. ABC Hospital was built in 1960 and has been operating in the same manner for decades. The hospital meets legal and regulatory requirements but has not kept pace with some of the newer technologies and patient conveniences becoming more prevalent in the health care industry.

Write a 50-100 word response to each of the following questions:
Mandatory Question: What strategies can the organization take to survive, improve its performance, and compete with other hospitals over the next 5 years?
Mandatory Question: What are some advantages or disadvantages of these strategies? Provide specific examples to support your answers.

2. XYZ Health Department provides services to county residents. Budget cuts have forced the department to cut back on some services and lay off staff, increasing the workload of the remaining staff. Morale among staff has declined, and county residents have complained that they are not treated with dignity and respect and are not receiving high quality care and service.
Write a 50-100 word response to each of the following questions:
Mandatory Question: What strategies can XYZ Health Department implement to provide high quality care and services to the county residents and to help increase customer satisfaction?
Mandatory Question: How can these strategies help minimize risk and improve quality? Provide specific examples to support your answers.

3. RMF: What approach and tactics may organizations use to stay abreast of the rapid changes occurring in the health care industry?

4. SUMMARY

This week, you focused on strategies organizations may use for ongoing performance improvement in the changing health care industry and current and future trends in risk and quality management in health care. By implementing a strong performance-management system that incorporates risk management and quality management, organizations will be better equipped to comply with regulatory and accreditation requirements and better positioned to address the many challenges that lie ahead: improving patient safety, delivery of care and services, health outcomes, communication, employee morale, customer satisfaction and decreasing errors, negative events, and litigation. With the attention of the health care reform movement and the millions of people who receive health care services, these challenges require extraordinary focus and commitment from all stakeholders.

What are some of the challenges organizations encounter in determining and agreeing on which strategies to use to improve performance?
How can organizations communicate, educate, and train staff on the changes that have a direct effect on their daily operations?

5 . Chap 11- CONCLUSIONS- Read the conclusion below and share your thoughts on what you think about Classifications and Reduction of medical errors.
Given the complexity of health care situations and how they produce
medical errors, it is important to have a conceptual schema for their classification and analysis. We have outlined one schema, drawing heavily on
the work of James Reason. It is offered because it is practical and draws on
the extensive work done on the psychology of human error and human
factors in health and other fields, as well as organizational antecedents
of errors and more recent studies involving the introduction of checklists.
It is applicable to a wide array of situations and leads to the use of
some, if not all, the techniques of continuous quality improvement, but
overcomes some of the biases exhibited by both those who espouse such
techniques and those who avoid them. The next step is a continuing dialogue to improve our ability to identify and further codify both individual and organizational responses associated with each category of error, keeping in mind that any system must be capable of handling the multiple individual and systemic causations behind medical errors and enhance access to relevant arrays of responses and tactics.
Past Improvement and Future Expectations
On the 10th anniversary of the publication of To Err Is Human, Wachter
(2010) evaluated the success of the patient safety movement. Although
his overall grade was a moderate B–, he noted a few areas of more significant
improvement. His highest assessment of A– was in the category
of national and international interventions, particularly the efforts of the
Institute of Healthcare Improvement (IHI), the state of Michigan’s intensive
care units (ICUs), and the WHO. Notably, all these efforts involved
the use of checklists, mentioned earlier as an effective approach.

What does it mean to be a LGBTQIA?

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Argutive paper on Challenges Experienced by LGBTQIA Youth of Color

Your research paper should be a 10-page document, not including the title and reference pages.  Format your paper according to APA 6th edition standards.  Use Times New Roman, 12-point font, double spacing, and one inch margins.

Challenges Experienced by LGBTQIA Youth of Color

Central Idea/Thesis: School systems across America should have a zero tolerance policy to prevent the challenges that LGBTQIA youth of color face because it can have a lasting psychological affects on the youth.
INTRODUCTION
I. Attention Material
A. What does it mean to be a LGBTQIA?
1. To be different than your traditional Heterosexual person. Could be either the person that is different or a person that accepts those that are different.
2. L- Lesbian, G- Gay, B- Bisexual, T- Transgender, Q- Questioning or Queer, I- Intersex, and A- Ally/Asexual. (Schulman, 2013)
B. What does it mean to be a LGBTIQIA youth of color?
1. To be a LGBTIQA person that is of different race, ethnicity, or national origin (Burdge et al, 2014).
2. “Youth of color are bullied based on race, sexual orientation, gender identity, or all of the above at once” (Burdge et al, 2014).
3. More than half of all LGBT youth of color felt unsafe at school because of their sexual orientation (Diaz & Kosciw, 2009).
I. Orienting Material
A. “81.9{0e601fc7fe3603dc36f9ca2f49ef4cd268b5950ef1bbcf1f795cc00e94cdd119} were verbally harassed because of their sexual orientation, and 63.9{0e601fc7fe3603dc36f9ca2f49ef4cd268b5950ef1bbcf1f795cc00e94cdd119} because of their gender expression” (Burdge et al, 2014).
B. “38.3{0e601fc7fe3603dc36f9ca2f49ef4cd268b5950ef1bbcf1f795cc00e94cdd119} were physically harassed because of their sexual orientation, and 27.1{0e601fc7fe3603dc36f9ca2f49ef4cd268b5950ef1bbcf1f795cc00e94cdd119} because of their gender expression” (Burdge et al, 2014).
C. “8.3{0e601fc7fe3603dc36f9ca2f49ef4cd268b5950ef1bbcf1f795cc00e94cdd119} were physically assaulted because of their sexual orientation, and 12.4{0e601fc7fe3603dc36f9ca2f49ef4cd268b5950ef1bbcf1f795cc00e94cdd119} because of their gender expression” (Burdge et al, 2014).
D. “Despite significant advances for gay and transgender persons in the United States, the public school environment remains daunting, even frightening, as evidenced by numerous high-profile incidents of discrimination, bullying, violence, and suicide” (Biegel, 2010)
BODYI. The challenges that LGBTQIA youth of color experience in life.
A. They are harassed on a daily bases according to a nationwide study of homophobia in schools. The study found found that the majority of GLBTQIA youth of color had experienced victimization in school because of either race or sexual identity, while half reported being victimized because of both race and sexual identity. (Bridges, 2007)
B. More than a third of GLBTQIA youth of color experience physical violence because of their orientation.
1. One study found that African American same-sex attracted youth were more likely to have low self esteem and experience suicidal thoughts than their counterparts of other ethnicities. (Bridges, 2007)
2. African American same-sex attracted young men were also more likely to be depressed. (Bridges, 2007)
3. “The school-to-prison pipeline, or STPP, refers to a set of school policies and practices that push students away from education and onto a pathway toward juvenile detention and the prison industrial complex” (Burdge et al, 2014).
II. Psychological affect on LGBTQIA youth of color because of the challenges they face.
A. Due to the discrimination that they face they drop out of school and make up 42{0e601fc7fe3603dc36f9ca2f49ef4cd268b5950ef1bbcf1f795cc00e94cdd119} of them homeless youth. (Bridges, 2007)
B. “Homelessness puts youth at risk for gaps in education, health problems, mental health problems, and sex exploration” (MPIPP, 2013).
C. Homophobic victimization led to greater depression and suicidal feelings, but for LGBT white youth and not for LGBTQIA youth of color (Poteat, et al., 2011).
D. LGGTQIA youth of color that face challenges throughout their younger life and in school grow up to have a greater chance to depend on alcohol. This more seen in the individuals that have these challenges and do not have family support (Newcomb et al., 2012)
E. Exposure to discrimination and other forms of oppression, do. For example, in a study that examined racial- and sexuality-based aggression of young sexual minority men, both types of victimization predicted greater depressive symptoms  (Hightow‐Weidman et al., 2011).
III. How to change the psychological affect on LGBTQIA youth of color that face challenges in school.
⦁ Change School polices “zero tolerance” policies.
⦁ Increase police presence, suspension and expulsion, and harsh and disparate disciplinary practices for violation of school policies.
B. Develop support groups for those that do not have one and offer counseling for students that need it.

How can mass hysteria be prevented within the population?

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You are a research analyst for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The department has received credible intelligence from the NSA, FBI, and Department of Defense that Al Qaeda is planning a biological attack using smallpox against Los Angeles, CA. Although the dispersal method is unknown, it is believed the most likely method will be airborne, through a populated shopping mall’s ventilation system. The lax security at these locations, coupled with a wide social and economic population sampling, will make identifying victims and stopping the spread of the disease difficult. The intelligence indicates that the attack is scheduled to occur within 7–10 days.

Your department has been tasked with reviewing historical incidents of smallpox, including academic assessments of its use as a biological agent for terrorism. Use the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s smallpox Web site as a guide to available resources and current planning (CDC Smallpox Information). With these tools, develop a communication plan that addresses the following:

Assignment Guidelines

  • Revise and amend your Week 4 Key Assignment by adding what you learned in the Discussion Board posts following the task, as well as taking into consideration your instructor’s comments.
  • Address the following with regard to the above information, and add your responses to your Key Assignment final draft:
    • Provide an overview of the threat (disease characteristics).
    • How can mass hysteria be prevented within the population?
    • What should the federal government share with the state, and can this information be controlled?
    • What should the federal government share with the city, and how can this information be controlled?
    • What should the federal government share with the nation?
    • When should information be disseminated to each recipient (state, city, and nation)?
    • What should be the characteristics of this information’s release to the public (consider medium, frequency, and timeliness)?