Imagine that two focus groups have been conducted in an Asian American and immig

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Imagine that two focus groups have been conducted in an Asian American and immigrant community in a large urban city. The rationale of conducting the qualitative study was because it has been noted that many Asian Americans and immigrants are reluctant to seek mental health services. To further understand this issue, service providers including social workers, counselors, doctors, and nurses were recruited to discuss the barriers in implementing mental health services targeted to Asian Americans and immigrants. After the focus groups were transcribed, two research assistants were hired to conduct a content analysis of the transcripts. Refer to the Week 5 Handout: Content Analysis of Focus Groups.
As the social worker, you have been asked to analyze the focus group data and are charged with working with an advisory board in the community to formulate social work practice recommendations using the ecological model.
To prepare for this Assignment, review Week 5 Handout: Content Analysis of Focus Groups.
By Day 7
Submit a 3-4-page report of the following:
1.  Discuss the themes found in the Week 5 Handout: Content Analysis of Focus Groups. Based on this data, what is your analysis of the current barriers to services?
2.  Create two social work recommendations to address a current barrier and explain how the recommendation proposed addresses the findings.
3.  Discuss how you would collaborate with the research stakeholders (e.g. service providers and community members) to ensure that the data are interpreted accurately and that the practice recommendations made will be culturally appropriate.
4.  Critically reflect on your own culture and explain how your cultural values and beliefs may have influenced how you interpreted the focus group data. What specific cultural knowledge do you think you need to obtain to conduct culturally sensitive research with this group?
Support the assignment with references using assigned readings and/or additional scholarly literature.

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Dr. Beeper, an Educational Psychologists who studies issues related to higher ed

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Dr. Beeper, an Educational Psychologists who studies issues related to higher education, is interested in studying key factors that impact year to year persistence among college students.  His review of the literature identifies several factors that appear to be causally related to persistence. Specifically, academic aptitude, goal commitment, institutional commitment, and the number of work hours. 
To test the importance of these factors, Dr. Beeper administers a set of questionnaires to 100 randomly selected first-time, full-time freshmen college students (50 male and 50 female) that attended the Freshmen Orientation in the Fall of 2016, at Newton Young University (NYU) in Nebraska.
Measures:
Institutional Commitment (IC) represents the importance that students place on graduating from the college they are currently attending.   Institutional Commitment was measured with five-item questionnaire. Each item was rated on a 0, 1, or 2 scale.  The possible range of scale scores are zero to 10, where values close to zero indicate little to no importance, and values close to 10 indicate high importance.
Goal Commitment (GC) represents the importance that students place on obtaining a college degree.  Goal Commitment was also measured with five-item questionnaire.  Each item was rated on a 0, 1, or 2 scale.  The possible range of scale scores are zero to 10; where values close to zero indicated little to no importance to obtaining a college degree, and values close to 10 indicated a high importance to graduating from college.
Academic Aptitude was represented as scores on both the SAT-Math and the SAT-Verbal tests.  SAT scores for all participants were obtained from high school transcripts.
Hours works, represents the anticipated number of hours the student expected to work throughout the semester.
Finally, Year-to-year persistence was determined by examining the enrollment records for the sample of 100 students. A student that was registered for registered for the Fall 2017 classes was classified as a “Persister”, and given a code of 1, a student that did not re-enroll for classes at NYU, or any other college/university (based on follow-up phone interviews) was considered a “Non-persister”, and was given a code of 0.  Therefore, the SPSS variable Persist has two levels, 0 and 1.
The assignment is, using the attached SPSS data file, conduct a binary logistical regression analysis in which IC, GC, SAT-Math, SAT-Verbal, and Hours Worked are the predictor. variables (covariates in SPSS), and the variable Persist is the outcome (DV in SPSS). Use my sample summary as a model for your summary.
The specific elements of the assignment are:
1) Create a Null and Alternative Hypotheses for the Logistical Regression Analysis
2) State the Goals of the analysis
3) Summarize the results and interpret findings the overall model (for example the Chi Square results, Nagelkerke R-Square or Cox Snell R-Square). 
4) Summarize and interpret the results for each predictor;  and present, summarize and interpret the results for each significant predictor (i.e., B, Wald’s test, df, p and OR (ExpB). Interpret the significant OR using the effect size conventions I posted in last week’s (8) discussion board.
5) Include and refer to the appropriate tables within the summary. 
Please read my sample summary see what statistics to report, and how to report and interpret them in correct APA style, as well as the tables to include.  
You’ll see that in my sample summary I also include t-tests. You may  want to conduct t-tests that compare “persisters” and non-persisters, on the predictor variables (covariates).  Please note that the t-test are optional, and will have no impact on your grade whether you include them or not.  The t-test  are very informative about the bivariate relationship between the predictor variables (covariates in SPSS) and the binomial outcome (DV in SPSS) .  
Please note that you are not required to conduct the t-tests, or to compute and report Cohen’s d. 
Here’s the syntax for my sample summary.
T-TEST GROUPS=BO(0 1)
/MISSING=ANALYSIS
/VARIABLES=teachsat ressat wkoverld
/CRITERIA=CI(.95).
LOGISTIC REGRESSION VARIABLES BO
/METHOD=ENTER teachsat ressat wkoverld
/PRINT=GOODFIT CI(95)
/CRITERIA=PIN(0.05) POUT(0.10) ITERATE(20) CUT(0.5). 

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When evaluating a program, there are numerous ways to collect data about its par

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When evaluating a program, there are numerous ways to collect data about its participation, impact, and success. A particularly powerful method that may be appropriate for program evaluation is qualitative field research. Qualitative field research allows the researcher to collect descriptive data about experiences directly from individuals in face-to-face settings. When evaluating such complex issues as human attitudes, behaviors, and opinions, qualitative research can provide in-depth information and rich insights that numerical data simply cannot provide.
This type of research is called qualitative field research because it is conducted in the environments in which experiences, such as program interventions, take place. Researchers collect detailed notes or transcriptions from observations, face-to-face interviewing, or focus group conversations.
In this Application, you consider how you might apply qualitative field research methods to needs assessments in human and social services.
To Prepare
Think back to the topic you selected for the Week 4 Discussion. Consider how you might evaluate a program for this topic using qualitative field research methods. Use the following questions to guide your thinking:
What specific field techniques would you use to reach this population?
Would you identify yourself as a researcher?
What logistical issues would you need to consider?
The Assignment (2–3 pages)
Explain how you would evaluate a program for your selected topic using qualitative field research methods. Be specific and provide examples. Assume the proposed actions you suggested last week have taken place.

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As you explored in Week 1, ethical dilemmas are referred to as such because they

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As you explored in Week 1, ethical dilemmas are referred to as such because they involve conflicting values and are not easy to resolve. Furthermore, ethical standards and codes do not often give prescriptive advice for specific situations. For these situations, it is useful to employ ethical decision-making models. These models are frameworks that provide sequential steps to guide your research, thinking, and actions regarding dilemmas you may face.
Your course text presents one ethical decision-making model in detail, but it mentions several others. In your current or future roles as a human and social services professional, the organization for which you work may have adopted models they wish you to use, or you may be free to choose your own. As you become more familiar with the models available, you may wish to select models that closely align with your professional values and perspectives. Finally, remember that when you make ethical decisions in your professional practice, clients should be included in this process whenever possible.
For this Assignment, you apply the ethical decision-making model in your course text to a specific event or issue relevant to working within a family system.
To Prepare:
Select a current event or issue related to ethics for human and social services professionals working within a family system. It is not necessary to select an issue for this Assignment that contains cultural elements, although you may if you wish.
Review the “Ethical Decision Making Model” found in Chapter 3 of your course text Issues and Ethics in the Helping Professions. Consider how you would apply this model to the event or issue you selected. If your selected issue does contain cultural elements, you may consider applying the transcultural integrative ethical decision-making model discussed in the article “A Transcultural Integrative Model for Ethical Decision Making in Counseling.”
The Assignment (3–4 pages):
Using the ethical decision-making model, write a 3- to 4-page paper in which you:
Describe your selected ethical event or issue related to working within a family system. Be concise yet specific about the ethical issues present.
Explain how you, as a professional, would resolve the dilemma using the steps of the ethical decision-making model. Use the NOHS standards as your relevant code of ethics to clarify the dilemma. For the step regarding consultation, explain what type of professional(s) you would need to contact for consultation (but you do not need to actually obtain a consultation for the purposes of this Assignment).

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