Describe the spiritual experience you had with your patient, family member, or friend using this tool. How does this tool allow you to better meet the needs of your patient?

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This assignment requires you to interview one person and requires an analysis of your interview experience.

Part I: Interview

Select a patient, a family member, or a friend to interview. Be sure to focus on the interviewee’s experience as a patient, regardless of whom you choose to interview.

Review The Joint Commission resource which provides some guidelines for creating spiritual assessment tools for evaluating the spiritual needs of patients. Using this resource and any other guidelines/examples that you can find, create your own tool for assessing the spiritual needs of patients.

Create a survey to assess the subject’s spiritual need during the interview. The spiritual needs assessment survey needs a minimum of five questions that can be answered during the interview.  During the interview, document the interviewee’s responses.

Submit the transcript of the interview. The transcript should include the questions asked and the answers provided.  Be sure record the responses during the interview by taking detailed notes. Omit specific names and other personal information from the interview.

Part II: Analysis

Write a 250-500 word analysis of your interview experience. Be sure to exclude specific names and other personal information from the interview. Instead provide demographics such as sex, age, ethnicity, and religion. Include the following in your response:

  1. What went well?
  2. What would you do differently in the future?
  3. Were there any barriers or challenges that inhibited your ability to complete the assessment tool? How would you address these in the future or change your assessment to better address these challenges?
  4. Describe the spiritual experience you had with your patient, family member, or friend using this tool. How does this tool allow you to better meet the needs of your patient?
  5. Did you discover that illness and stress amplified the spiritual concern and needs of your interviewee?  Explain your answer with examples.

Submit both the transcript of the interview and the analysis of your results.

Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines

Summarize what you have learned about psychosocial development through these observations/interviews.

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Assignment 2: LASA 1: Development Throughout the Lifespan

Erikson and Freud are two of the few theorists who have developed a lifespan approach to development. Freud’s approach to development was psychosexual while Erikson’s was psychosocial. Even though Freud’s theory is better known, Erikson’s theory remains a leading and very much applied model in personality and developmental psychology today.

When considering these two stage-oriented theories, you can directly compare the majority of their stages. These are matched in the following table:

Approximate Age
Freud’s Stages of Psychosexual Development
Erikson’s Stages of Psychosocial development
Infancy (Birth to 1 year)
Oral stage
Trust versus mistrust
Early childhood (1–3 years)
Anal stage
Autonomy versus doubt
Preschool (3–6 years)
Phallic stage
Initiative versus guilt
School age (7–11 years)
Latent period
Industry versus inferiority
Adolescence (12–18 years)
Genital stage
Identity versus role confusion
Young adulthood (19–40 years)
Intimacy versus isolation
Middle adulthood (40–65 years)
Generativity versus stagnation
Older adulthood (65–death)
Integrity versus despair

When considering Erikson’s eight stages of development, the way a person moves through each stage directly affects their success in the next stage. Their personality is being built and shaped with each stage. At each stage, there is a turning point, called a crisis by Erikson, which a person must confront.

In this assignment, you will observe or interview two different people, each at a different stage of development. For a third observation, take a look at yourself and the stage that you are in (this stage must be different from your other two observations).

  • Record your three observations in a template. Include the following information:
    • Name
    • Age
    • Gender
    • Current developmental stage
    • Status within the stage (i.e., identity achievement or role confusion)
    • Events that have lead to this status

Download a Development Template from the Doc Sharing area to record your observations.

  • Summarize what you have learned about psychosocial development through these observations/interviews.
  • Summarize the trends you see in your observations/interviews regarding psychosocial development.
  • How does movement through Erikson’s stages influence personality development? Again, be specific.
  • How do Erikson’s stages of development compare to Freud’s stages? How are they similar? How are they different?
  • Between these two theories, which one do you feel best explains your own personality development? Justify your answers with specific examples.

Write a 3–4-page paper in Word format. Insert your chart at the end of your paper. Apply APA standards to citation of sources. Use the following file naming convention: LastnameFirstInitial_M3_A2.doc.

By Wednesday, January 6, 2016, deliver your assignment to the M3: Assignment 2 Dropbox.

Course Project Grading Criteria and Rubric

Assignment 2 Grading Criteria
Maximum Points
Chart identifies general characteristics of people being observed
Chart identifies each person’s Erikson’s stage of development
(Course Objective [CO] 2)
20
Explains which events of this developmental stage influence this outcome
(CO 2)
24
Summarizes learning about psychosocial development, applies observations
(CO 2)
24
Explains the connection between Erikson’s stages of development and personality development
(CO 2)
28
Compares and contrasts Erikson and Freud’s stages of development
(CO 1)
32
Determines which theory best fits own personality development, applies self-observations
(CO 1, 2)
28
Presentation Components:
Organization (12)
Usage and Mechanics (12)
APA Elements (16)
Style (4)
44
Total:
200
Click here to view the rubric for this assignment.

Provide a brief analysis of the two theories you selected.

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Application of Theories

Attribution theory is one of the hallmarks within the field of social cognition. Theories such as Heider’s naïve psychology theory, Jones and Davis’ correspondent inference theory, and Kelley’s covariation model provide seminal contributions to this field. Although these theories differ in level of complexity and detail, all attempt to provide a consistent explanation why humans behave as they do.

For this Application Assignment, select one of the two vignettes provided. Then, consider two attribution theories and analyze the constructs of each theory. Apply the key constructs of the theories to the vignette, and analyze how the theory may explain what occurred.

Vignette #1: Molly, 62-year-old Caucasian American Female

Molly exited her doctor’s office and promptly lit a cigarette. In doing so, she missed her bus and would have to wait an additional 30 minutes for the next one. She thought about Dr. Wilson, her primary care physician, who was not too concerned about her smoking. Then, she thought about Dr. Smith, her cardiologist, who had clearly stated that she needs to stop smoking. Waiting for the next bus was no problem for Molly; she could enjoy a second cigarette.

Vignette #2: James, 35-year-old African American Male

Anticipating the long weekend ahead to be filled with social opportunities with friends and family, James felt overwhelmed and left work early on Thursday. While en route, James thought that perhaps having some quiet time now might make the weekend more enjoyable. Besides, his stomach was bothering him and he had a sizable headache. He worried a little about what his office mates thought of his departure, as this was the sixth time in the past month he had left early.

The assignment (5–7 pages)

  • Select one vignette and select two attribution theories.
    • Choose two theories from the three theories
      • Heider’s naive psychology theory
      • Jones and Vavis’ correspondent inference theory
      • Kelly’s covariation model
  • Provide a brief analysis of the two theories you selected.
  • Explain how the key constructs of each theory can be applied to the vignette.
  • Explain how each theory might explain what causes the situation in the vignette.
  • As you complete your academic comparison, elaborate on the vignette, including how the person might behave if he or she was in a different situation or setting.
  • Provide examples to support your response.

Provide a reference list for all resources used in this assignment. While you are encouraged to use supplemental resources in addition to any course resources listed for this week, be sure to use the weekly learning resources before utilizing supplemental ones

Define and utilize concepts necessary to profile cases such as modus operandi, signature behavior, and crime scene reconstruction and offender typology.

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Create a PowerPoint presentation of a crime scene that you create (not one copied from another source) related to a domestic violence homicide. The crime scene must demonstrate the following characteristics:

 

1.    Evidence of motive, opportunity, and means (MOM) consistent with domestic violence

 

2.    Evidence of signature behavior consistent with domestic violence

 

3.    The presence of one or more X-factors (i.e., events beyond the offender’s control that alter the crime scene or the offender’s behavior)

 

4.    The crime scene should also contain other elements that you choose to enhance the quality of their presentation. Examples include staging, multiple victims, murder-suicide (common to domestic violence), and victim-precipitation (when the original victim turns table on the offender and victimizers them instead; you could also include an example of the “burning bed” offense).

 

For your PowerPoint presentation, make sure you provide notes in the Notes section. The presentation should be visually appealing.

 

 

 

 

 

Assignment Objectives

 

Define and utilize concepts necessary to profile cases such as modus operandi, signature behavior, and crime scene reconstruction and offender typology.

 

Demonstrate an understanding of the categories of abnormal behavior that are likely to be encountered in criminal behavior.

 

 

 

 

 

Tidbits I was considering to put in my Speaker notes:

 

Most dangerous situations can be identified and prevented “if only officials had done their jobs. Too many women are murdered only because the police, prosecutors, and courts to whom she had earlier gone for help failed to respond properly or failed to respond at all (WJC, 2010).”

 

 

 

Assessment question considering asking a victim:

 

  • Ever used a weapon against you or threatened you with a weapon
  • Threatened to kill you or your children
  • Do you think he/she might try to kill you
  • Does he/she have a gun or get one easily
  • Ever choked you
  • Violently or constantly jealous or control most of your daily activities
  • Have you left him/her or separated after living together or being married
  • Unemployed
  • Ever tried to kill him/herself
  • Do you have a child that he/she knows is not his/hers
  • Follow or spy on you or leave threatening messages

 

 

 

Links I’ve used/considering to support slide in the speaker notes section.

 

  • http://wps.prenhall.com/chet_schmalleger_crimtoday_3/13/3544/907274.cw/index.html
  • http://www.practicalhomicide.com/Research/domviolence.htm
  • http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/mfr/4919087.0002.103/–biological-factors-in-family-violence?rgn=main;view=fulltext