How might Irina’s age and parents’ involvement in the referral affect how Dr. Matthews can resolve the dilemma? How might the state law on treatment of minors and HIPAA rule on access of guardians to a minor’s health care record influence Dr. Matthews’ decision?

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Respond to the following questions in at least  1,250 words. Regarding the case study below APA format

 

1. Why is this an ethical dilemma? Which APA Ethical Principles help frame the nature of the dilemma?

 

2. How might Irina’s age and parents’ involvement in the referral affect how Dr. Matthews can resolve the dilemma? How might the state law on treatment of minors and HIPAA rule on access of guardians to a minor’s health care record influence Dr. Matthews’ decision?

3. How are APA Ethical Standards 2.01a b, and c; 2.04; 3.04; 3.06; 4.01; 4.02; and 10.10a relevant to this case? Which other standards might apply? Use this site  http://www.apa.org/ethics/code/index.aspx

 

 

4.  What are Dr. Matthews’ ethical alternatives for resolving this dilemma? Which alternative best reflects the Ethics Code aspirational principle and enforceable standard, as well as legal standards and Dr. Matthews’ obligations to stakeholders ?

 

5. What steps should Dr. Matthews take to ethically implement her decision and monitor its effects

 

 

Reference

 

 

Fisher, C. B. (2013). Decoding the ethics code: A practical guide for psychologists. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

 

Case 2. Cultural Values and Competent

 

Mental Health Services to Minors

 

 

Irina, a 13-year-old girl of Arabic cultural heritage living in Boston, Massachusetts,

 

was brought by her parents to a hospital emergency room after an assault by a

 

stranger. Based on her injuries, the hospital staff suspected that the attacker had

 

also sexually assaulted the girl, but she and her parents refused medical evaluations

 

for rape. The family received a referral to see Janet Matthews, a clinical psychologist

 

specializing in adolescent trauma. During their initial meeting with Dr. Matthews,

 

the parents asked the psychologist not to discuss any sexual aspects of the assault

 

with their daughter but to treat the psychological trauma from the assault in general.

 

They told the psychologist that admitting a rape had taken place would cast a

 

stigma on their daughter and make her ineligible to be married to men in their

 

closely knit ethnic community. When asked in private, the girl also requested that

 

sexual issues not be discussed for the same reason.

 

Ethical Dilemma

 

Dr. Matthews does not know if she should agree to the parents’ and child’s

request

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Internet-Based Psychological Interventions

With so many individuals using the Internet today, the psychology of the individual, the family, the community, and the society has changed. Some might argue that the traditional psychological theories cannot be applied and therefore psychology as an entire field needs to be revamped to incorporate the impact and the application of internet technology. As a student completing a bachelor’s degree in psychology, your future career will undoubtedly incorporate the use of the Internet in very new ways. Read the following article from the AUO Library:

Ritterband, L. M., Gonder-Frederick, L., Cox, D. J., Clifton, A. D., West,
R. W., & Borowitz, S. M. (2003). Internet interventions: In review,
in use, and into the future. Professional Psychology: Research and
        Practice, 34(5), 527-534.

Identify a problem area or psychological issue that could benefit from the use of an internet intervention. Now, using what you learned from the article, propose an internet intervention using the following guidelines:

  1. What problem area would the internet intervention address?
  2. Provide a general description of the proposed internet intervention.
  3. How would the effectiveness of the proposed intervention be tested?
  4. What are any legal and ethical issues related to the proposed intervention? Include the specific APA ethical standard(s) in your response.

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Assignment 2: Internet-Based Psychological Interventions

With so many individuals using the Internet today, the psychology of the individual, the family, the community, and the society has changed. Some might argue that the traditional psychological theories cannot be applied and therefore psychology as an entire field needs to be revamped to incorporate the impact and the application of internet technology. As a student completing a bachelor’s degree in psychology, your future career will undoubtedly incorporate the use of the Internet in very new ways. Read the following article from the AUO Library:

Ritterband, L. M., Gonder-Frederick, L., Cox, D. J., Clifton, A. D., West,
R. W., & Borowitz, S. M. (2003). Internet interventions: In review,
in use, and into the future. Professional Psychology: Research and
Practice, 34(5), 527-534.

Identify a problem area or psychological issue that could benefit from the use of an internet intervention. Now, using what you learned from the article, propose an internet intervention using the following guidelines:

  1. What problem area would the internet intervention address?
  2. Provide a general description of the proposed internet intervention.
  3. How would the effectiveness of the proposed intervention be tested?
  4. What are any legal and ethical issues related to the proposed intervention? Include the specific APA ethical standard(s) in your response.

Please no plagerism

What confounding variables (factors that were not controlled for but may have affected results) were there? What other factors should be considered when making conclusions about the results?

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Guidelines:

You are to select a scholarly, peer reviewed, full-text journal article in the field of developmental psychology to read and critically analyze its content.

Full-text journal articles may be accessed online through your school library, You will have to sign in using your  credentials. Once you are signed in, select a search engine (e.g. – EBSCOhost) and then select databases you want to search (e.g. – Academic Search Premier, Psychology and Behavioral Science Collection, PsycINFO).

Key points for your Journal Article Summary:

Your article needs to be peer-reviewed, which means experts in the field have reviewed it to ensure its credibility before its publication. In other words, Psychology Today is NOT an appropriate source, but the International Journal of Group Psychotherapy is. You can choose to have results limited to only those that have been peer-reviewed and those that are full-text by selecting these options when searching topics. Reading only an abstract is not sufficient for this assignment; articles must be full-text.

Your summary should include the following factors:

  • What was the hypothesis for this study?
  • The number of participants and their demographics.
  • i.e. Was the study made up of 20 college-aged students at a small liberal arts college or 500 participants referred by inpatient psychiatric hospitals?
  • Details about the methodology:
  • Type of research design (i.e. correlation, naturalistic observation, cross-sectional, longitudinal, etc.)
  • Assessments used
  • Procedure
  • What were the results of this study?
  • What confounding variables (factors that were not controlled for but may have affected results) were there?
  • What other factors should be considered when making conclusions about the results?
  • What significance does this study offer the field of developmental psychology?

Include a Christian perspective on the topic using relevant Scripture to support the viewpoint.

Include in the reference page a link to the journal article for easy access.

This paper should be 2-3 pages in length (in addition to a cover page and reference page) and should meet the expectations outlined in the grading rubric.

A good example of a developmental psychology topic would include “Attachment.” Review the following full-text journal article for an example of an appropriate article on this topic:

http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4714833?pdf=render; https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203

https://doaj.org/article/3cecef729194475eafeb68925a20e76f

What is the relationship between applied research and basic research? Provide an example from your selected studies, of how each contributes to the body of knowledge.

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Search for research articles from peer-reviewed publications. Examples of peer-reviewed publications are listed in Table 2.1 in Chapter 2 of Methods in Behavioral Research.

Select four research articles to review. Include at least one applied research article and one basic research article. Be sure to apply the scientific method to evaluate the evidence presented in the selected articles. Use these articles as a framework for completing the questionnaire.

Write a 100- to 500-word answer to each of the following questions:

PART I:

  • What is the purpose of each of the sections in a typical research article?
  • What are the steps to critically evaluate research articles and how does the scientific method help you do this?

PART II:

  • What is the importance of research in behavioral sciences?
  • What is the relationship between applied research and basic research? Provide an example from your selected studies, of how each contributes to the body of knowledge.
  • What ethical issues can you identify in the selected articles? How were the issues addressed or neglected?

PART III:

  • Identify three possible research topics that you might want to explore further as you go through this course.
  • List appropriate sources, including databases that you might use when exploring these topics.

Respond with three scholarly references. Use citations, cite your references.  

Cite the articles using a reference page.

Format your answers according to APA guidelines.