Describe considerations in the group formation stage, including composition and size, frequency and duration, and open or closed membership.

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Group Structure and Management
Assignment Instructions
In your previous assignment, you examined professional literature to plan the structure and management of the group. With support from scholarly literature, present the following:

Group goal and objectives: Provide a general statement of the desired outcomes for group members. List three to five measurable group objectives aligned with the primary group goal.
Group format: Based on your selected group topic and population, discuss appropriate steps to recruit, screen, and select group members. Describe considerations in the group formation stage, including composition and size, frequency and duration, and open or closed membership. Will the group be led by a single leader or co-leaders?
Leadership and theoretical perspective: Identify your therapeutic and leadership style. A specific counseling theory is needed to guide how you will approach the group. Present specific considerations of group leadership style explored in Unit 2 that will be relevant to the topic and population for the proposed group.

Compare and contrast the applicability of different group leadership or facilitation styles and approaches

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Group Proposal
Assignment Instructions
Now that you have examined the literature and developed the structure for your proposed group, it is time to put the pieces together. Assume your supervisor has asked you to assemble all your work to present to the rest of the clinical team. Consider the feedback you have received from the previous assignments and complete the following:

Section 1: Compare and contrast the applicability of different group leadership or facilitation styles and approaches (revise from Unit 3 assignment).
Section 2: Integrate theoretical orientation and group leadership and facilitation styles into the group structure and development processes and support choices with recent academic research (revise from Unit 7 assignment).
Section 3: Based on your analysis of the research, develop a succinct plan appropriate for the selected group topic and population. Include session activities and interventions aligning with measurable group outcomes established in Unit 7 assignment. Make sure that your plan:

Addresses key ethical and legal issues (revise from Unit 3 assignment).
Incorporates multicultural and diversity awareness, knowledge, and skills (revise from Unit 3 assignment).
Is based on a specific major counseling theory.
Supports therapeutic factors of a group in the working stage (see Chapter 5 of your Group Counseling: Concepts and Procedures text ).

What could be done to reduce the burden of mental health conditions among adolescents? 

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For each question, please type out your answers in a Word file. You must use 11 fonts and Times New Roman. The document must be double spaced. Your typed document must a full 3 pages long for all questions answered. Your submitted work cannot be less than or greater than three pages.

1) Chapter 11. Page 308 Question 9.
What could be done to reduce the burden of mental health conditions among adolescents?
2) Chapter 12 Page 359 Questions 4 & 9.
In sub-Saharan Africa, what would be the most cost-effective measures to try to prevent further transmission of the HIV virus? What approach would you take to prevention in South Asia, and why would it differ from what you would do in sub-Saharan Africa?
Why is it important to develop a vaccine for HIV?
3) Chapter 13 Page 399 Questions 7 & 9.
Why are mental disorders so important to the burden of disease if so few people die of them?
What lessons of Uganda’s approach to mental health concerns are important for other resourcepoor countries?
4) Chapter 5 Page 140 Questions 3 & 4.
What are primary, secondary and tertiary health care, and what services are generally rendered at each level?
How might one compare and contrast the organization of the healthcare systems of the United Kingdom, Germany, and the United States?

Discuss differences in access to and familiarity with technology such as generational differences, socioeconomic differences, etc. How might this impact your store?

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APA Format/ Presentation Answering all Parts of the questions/ 7 Slides/ Rubric Attached
You have recently started working for a local department store in the Operations Department. Upon settling into your new position, you come to realize that they have outdated business practices. In your past work experience, you have utilized various forms of technology to complete daily job functions and have been part of updating technology to meet the demands of your organization. Technological advances can address all areas of the business including, but not limited to, how applicants apply for positions, the type of phone and computer systems operated, cash register functions, marketing methods, etc.
You have shared your thoughts with your supervisor, and he has tasked you with putting together a narrated presentation, with visuals for your peers, to share the overall benefits of utilizing modern technology to help improve overall efficiency for the business and help to expand the consumer base for the store.
For this narrated visual presentation, you are to reflect upon and include discussion of the following topics or categories:

Demonstrate how digital and technological growth can assist the organization:

Provide a definition for digital growth.
Explain how digital growth has impacted organizations.
Describe how digital growth impacts society as a whole and your store in the future.

Demonstrate how an individual creates their own digital identity, how it can impact organizational identity, and how these can be impacted by changes to technology:

Explain some key methods of identity development.
How can technology and digital forums help with personal or organizational identity formation?
What do individuals and employees as a whole have to do with developing the identity of an organization?

Demonstrate challenges and benefits to upgrading technological resources:

Describe main sociological theories that can describe an individual or a store’s ability to access technological resources.
Identify some key examples of societal change due to technology. What does this imply for your store?
What is the digital divide and how can this impact the use of technology in your store?

Examine your organization through a sociological perspective and explain benefits of change to the organization:

Conflict Theory – How is it defined and how would a Conflict Theorist justify upgrades in technology
Symbolic Interaction Theory – How is it defined and how would a Symbolic Interactionist justify or explain the need for upgrades to technology?
Outline additional theories that can help explain the need for technological growth at your store.

Demonstrate the ability to evaluate the evolution of language within online environments and with the use of enhanced technology:

Examine some of the changes to technology that have impact language and communication.
Discuss differences in access to and familiarity with technology such as generational differences, socioeconomic differences, etc. How might this impact your store?
Consider how communication could change within your store for employees and consumers with various types of technology.

Demonstrate how deviance in the physical and virtual world could impact your store:

Provide a definition deviance in both the physical and the virtual world.
Explain how deviant behaviors have led to changes at your store and what considerations should be taken into account when upgrading technology at your store.

Consider Conflict Theory and Symbolic Interaction theory and how they would explain deviance and a method to overcome it at your store. On your final narrated visual, provide a summary that directly ties together your visuals and discussion points, and provide an overall statement of the benefits of updating technological resources to help the store run more efficiently.
Before recording your final narration, rehearse your presentation as if you are delivering it to a live audience so that you are fully prepared. Your presentation should be fluent and fluid in nature so that it is clear that you are the expert on the material that you are presenting to your audience.