Identifying Your Time Management Strategies

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Identifying Your Time Management Strategies

Time management is a broad, encompassing concept that can look different for each person. As you’re getting started, it’s important to consider all of your priorities and create a time management plan that includes specific time for your studies, in a way that makes sense for your life. Once you have a plan you feel good about and you think will work, keep an open mind that it may need to change, and that’s normal! When that occurs, take a moment to recalibrate, ask for support when needed, and move forward with a fresh plan.

For this discussion, reflect on the following questions, and then post a response. Your post should be two to three total paragraphs and address all of the questions.

· What time management strategies have worked well for you in the past?

· What is different in your life now than when you were previously in school? Do you have new obligations or priorities? How will you factor those differences into your time management plan?

· Now that you know more about how much time you may spend on your coursework, what do you need to consider for your time management plan that you hadn’t considered before?

· How might other people in your life help support your time management plan?

Somatic Symptom Disorders

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Somatic Symptom Disorders

Imagine that Jennifer Brea, whose TEDTalk (TED Conferences, LLC, 2016) you watched, is referred to you for ongoing supportive therapy when her psychiatry consultant decides that she does not have a conversion disorder. Despite the psychiatrist’s opinion, her primary care physician ignores that consult and labels Jennifer as having a somatic symptom disorder anyway.

Submit a 5-minute recorded PowerPoint (5–7 slides) in which you address the following:

  • Explain in a concise professional manner how you would conduct your first meeting with Jennifer. Identify specific steps you would take to understand her circumstance and needs.
  • Explain how you would proceed with her medical team in terms of advocacy for her as a client believed to have this condition.
  • Explain why you would need to take a biopsychosocial approach to her ongoing care.
  • Explain what social, family, vocational, Internet, and medical supports you would explore to help with her longer-term stabilization.
  • Analyze the controversy in diagnosing a mental disorder based on unexplained physical symptoms. Within your analysis, consider how power and privilege influence who provides the diagnoses and which groups are more likely to be diagnosed with certain disorders. Explain your thoughts on this debate.

Workplace stress can have long-term effects

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Workplace stress can have long-term effects. Our text identifies the following four areas which can increase this type of stress:

Role conflict: two or more incompatible demands at work or across work and non-work roles

Role ambiguity: vagueness or unclearness in role responsibilities and functions

Workload incompatibility: occurs when the amount of work to be accomplished exceeds the employee’s capabilities

Job insecurity: the feeling that the security of one’s job is unstable

In addition, happiness and positivity can lead to personal success and further indicates the following ideas to increase one’s happiness:

•Setting challenging and meaningful goals

•Disputing negative thinking and deliberately practicing positive self-talk

•Choosing to forgive others and let go of grudges and hard feelings

•Counting one’s blessings and intentionally expressing gratitude for them

•Visualizing future success

•Practicing healthy habits such as a balanced diet, adequate sleep, and regular exercise

Thus, hypothetically these suggestions and ideas can be applied to each of our lives. Whether you are working and going to school, or just going to school, they are applicable since school, too, is an organization.

After reading and viewing all of the required resources this week, consider all of the factors related to a person’s health and the workplace, how can you apply the concepts to your own life right now?

Identify at least three strategies that you can implement today to increase your level of success in the situation you most identify with.

Why do you think these strategies can work for you?

What strategies could you utilize to increase someone else’s happiness level and assist them in increased success based on our content?

Overall, consider the past five weeks of content. What do you think are two of the most important factors that will be applicable to you and your current goals? What about to your future goals? Why or How?

Your journal should be a minimum of four to five double-spaced pages, adequately discuss all questions posed, and demonstrate maturating self-awareness.

This is a reflection based on all of your required resources for the week and you will not be required to use additional sources.Use the rubric to check for thoroughness of your writing.If using additional sources, the Ashford Library should be used as your primary resource for this journal, but other credible sources will also be accepted. Cite all information from your sources according to APA guidelines as outlined in the In-Text Citation Helper: A Guide to Making APA In-Text Citation (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.s (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.  (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.List each of your sources at the end of your post according to APA style as shown in the sample page for Reference (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.s (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. 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.

Explain why it is important to keep the social context of the social problem in mind when analyzing the problem for a cause or correlation

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A minimum of 150 words each question and References (questions #1-4) KEEP QUESTION WITH ANSWER

1. What is a social problem? Explain why it is important to keep the social context of the social problem in mind when analyzing the problem for a cause or correlation. Explain how research is used to describe the social context of a social problem.

2. After completing the “Research Analysis Exercise”, explain how the article can be used to understand the social problems presented. Which part of the analysis did you struggle with the most? Why? Explain whether or not the journal article provided any contextual factors that have influenced the social problem the article was about.

3. Provide an example of institutional discrimination. Explain how this social problem became incorporated into social policies and practices. What are some possible solutions to alleviate or eliminate this social problem from policies and practices? Explain if you have seen the elimination of some institutional discrimination in your experience.

4. Explain whether the Civil Rights Act or Affirmative Action eliminated racism in America. Why or why not? Explain a theory you have regarding the source of prejudice or discrimination in America. Provide a possible solution to alleviate this social problem