Observation Interpretation Paper

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Final Observation Report
Assignment

This interpretation will focus on school-age children and will be based on a feature-length film, “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas”.  You are responsible for obtaining and viewing the film.
You will not be required to write a separate observation. since the assignment is based on a film, you will simply pull the desired behaviors from the film and interpret them.
You will need to include TWO milestones from each domain in your report, for a total of SIX milestones.
*Learning Outcomes:
Use observation and interpretation to analyze child behaviors according to developmental milestones across all domains of development.
Based on observation, identify diverse ways families/cultures interact with and nurture children considering the multiple influences on development.
Examine developmental theories and domains of development; considering the developmental theory in terms of cultural context.

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Values and Ethics

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VALUES AND ETHICS
Overview
Part of becoming a professional social worker is reflecting on how your personal values and professional ethics will play a role in your practice. This assignment will give you an opportunity to define some key terms, consider potential ethical challenges in your present or future practice, and place your discussion in a scholarly context.
Description
For this assignment, prepare a three-page paper (page number refers to the body of the paper and does not include the title page, abstract, or reference pages in APA format) addressing the difference between your personal and professional values and examining how personal values can create bias. In addition, address how values will play a role in social work practice and ethical decision making based on the lens and content of the assigned reading.

Instructions
Include the following in this paper:

Address the difference between your personal and professional values and examine how personal values can create bias.
Discuss the concepts of competency, integrity, boundaries, and social justice.
Address how values will play a role in social work practice and ethical decision making.
Discuss any ethical challenges you anticipate in the field and areas or concepts on which you can improve.
Being insightful and using the critical thought process is imperative for this paper.
Describe how you could advocate for clients to secure resources to support their efforts to change behaviors and how this relates to ethics and values.
This paper must be based on the assigned readings and a minimum of two other scholarly literature sources. This is not a personal reflection paper. The goal is to shift away from personal bias and values and into the literature and lens of professional ethics.
Additional Requirements
The assignment you submit is expected to meet the following requirements:

Written communication: Written communication is free from errors that detract from the overall message.
APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to current APA Style and Format.
Cited resources: Minimum of two scholarly sources. The assigned reading must be utilized. All literature cited should be peer-reviewed and current, with publication dates within the past five years.
Length of paper: Minimum of three double-spaced pages.
Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.

Moral Dilemma Reflection

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Moral Dilemma Reflection
Assignment

Moral dilemma for two moral dilemmas – one from middle childhood , one from own life
1. Describe the dilemma
2. Describe the options
    a. Option one
        i. Pros – both internal and external
        ii. Cons – both internal and external
    b. Option two
        i. Pros – both internal and external
        ii. Cons – both internal and external
3. Describe what you chose to do
4. Describe reasons for your choice
5. Explain what stage of moral development you were in based on your REASONS, not choice
Factors to consider:
1. Make sure your dilemma is a MORAL dilemma.  It can only be considered so if it meets the guidelines presented and there was actually a sense of conflict involved in both choices.
2. Make sure you fully describe your options, your choice, and your reason for making the choice.
3. Make sure you accurately relate the text to your reasons, not your choice (it is always the reasons for the choice that indicate the moral development stage, not the choice alone).
4. Remember that most choices we make are not from the level 3 perspective.  You should only analyze based on level 3 if your dilemma meets all the criteria in the text, and if it relate to just overarching moral or spiritual principle that you would adhere to in all situations, not just the one you found yourself in.
Student Learning Outcomes:
Examine developmental theories and domains of development; considering developmental theory in terms of cultural context.

Attribution Theory and Performance

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For this journal, you will reflect on your understanding of attribution theory, as well as apply the concept to your own past behavior(s). As you have learned, attribution theory states that individuals tend to make sense of (logically prescribe) situations by associating them to self, others, thoughts, feelings, or actions. This theory suggests that learners should consider why they do what they do, and what or who they are giving credit for both the victories and the failures. Further, this theory suggests that if a person believes that they are not good at something, they may attribute their unsuccessful outcomes to external factors, rather than to themselves. In contrast, if individuals have success, they more often may attribute their successes to internal factors.

To successfully write this journal,

Discuss your understanding, based on our required content, of attribution theory, including the origins and major premises.
Describe stability and controllability and how they affect performance attributions. Include why these matter in the context of learning.
Identify a time where you feel you have failed and blamed someone or something else when it was not actually, in hindsight, their fault (e.g., the teacher, the friend, a loved one). (Failure could be academic, relational, and/or organizationalloss of a job.)
Elaborate on how blaming the external source(s) preserved your self-image and your self-efficacy?
Based on your new understanding of how to identify your own responsibility in the learning or behavioral process, explain whether you might handle failure, in general, differently now. If so how? If not, why not?
Your journal this week should be 400 to 500 words, limit quoted material, and have an introduction and a conclusion as described in the Ashford University Writing Centers resource Introductions & Conclusions (Links to an external site.). You should exhibit obvious attention to critical thought and understanding of the content, as demonstrated in Samantha Agoos TED-Ed Animation 5 Tips to Improve Your Critical Thinking (Links to an external site.).