Explain the aspects of this case that would warrant a clinical approach and which would warrant an actuarial approach. Recommend strategies for locating the child using each approach.

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Assignment: Investigating a Missing Child

When assisting in a criminal case, a criminal investigative analyst must first determine the primary goal of the investigation and any other sub-goals related to the primary goal. The analyst must look at statistics concerning the crime and all evidence related to the crime. It is only then that the analyst can begin formulating a theory of what happened and who was involved.

In this Assignment, you will play the role of a criminal investigative analyst who has been asked by a local law enforcement agency to assist in locating a missing child. You will recommend strategies for locating the child using clinical and actuarial approaches.

  • Imagine that a child has gone missing and an Amber alert has gone out. Your local law enforcement has asked you for help locating the child and finding the perpetrator.

Assignment

In a 2- to 3-page paper:

Explain the aspects of this case that would warrant a clinical approach and which would warrant an actuarial approach. Recommend strategies for locating the child using each approach. Justify your rationale using the Learning Resources and other academic or professional sources. You can add fictional information about the case to support your answers.

Some READING matiraial

Bartol, C. R. & Bartol, A. M. (2010). Criminal & behavioral profiling. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

  • Chapter 3, “Scientific Approaches to Crime Scene Profiling” (pp. 57–92)

Turvey, B. E. (2012). Criminal profiling: An introduction to behavioral evidence analysis (4th ed.). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.

  • Chapter 4, “The Mental Health Professional’s Contribution to Criminal Profiling” (pp. 101–121)
  • Chapter 5, “An Introduction to Behavioral Evidence Analysis” (pp. 121–140)

Alison, L., Goodwill, A., Almond, L., van den Heuvel, C., & Winter, J. (2010). Pragmatic solutions to offender profiling and behavioural investigative advice. Legal and Criminological Psychology, 15(1), 115–132. doi:10.1348/135532509X463347

Rubric expectation

 

Excellent

Content

Points Range:

31.5 (63%) – 35 (70%)

Paper demonstrates an excellent understanding of all of the concepts and key points presented in the text/s and Learning Resources. Paper provides significant detail including multiple relevant examples, evidence from the readings and other sources, and discerning ideas

Writing

Points Range:

13.5 (27%) – 15 (30%)

Paper is well organized, uses scholarly tone, follows APA style, uses original writing and proper paraphrasing, contains very few or no writing and/or spelling errors, and is fully consistent with graduate-level writing style. Paper contains multiple, appropriate and exemplary sources expected/required for the assignment.

Finally, although this case refers to a “Christian” social services agency, also briefly review what you can and cannot do if this were a public services setting, with regard to expressing your beliefs and faith.

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The Learn material in this module discussed guidelines for the use of prayer and Scripture in your counseling. However, the course materials also suggested some “cautions” or possible negative impacts when using these spiritual interventions. Read the following case and discuss the following questions. What guidelines from the lectures/McMinn apply to this case? What would you proactively do? What would you not do in using prayer and Scripture with Danielle? From the course materials, what are the most important points to keep in mind when counseling clients like this?

Case Study

Danielle was the product of a highly chaotic home in which the mother was addicted to drugs and abused alcohol on a daily basis. The four children in the home were removed by Child Protective Services and placed in foster care; Danielle was five at the time of foster care placement. She never knew her father. The foster family was “religious” and took Danielle and her 5 foster-siblings to church each Sunday. At home, the foster father had little emotional interaction with the children—Danielle would later say that he was “in it just for the money.” The foster mother seemed overwhelmed with the responsibility of the children and would use excessive corporal punishment for slight infractions. During the beatings, the foster mother would recite verses such as Ephesians 6:1 and then would require the children to memorize passages that seemed to justify the harsh treatment. Danielle, now in middle school, was referred to the Christian social services agency where you are a therapist. She has exhibited both verbal and physical outbursts at school. You are eager to show Danielle that God loves her and can help her with her problems. For her part, Danielle seems pretty disinterested in “religion.”

Finally, although this case refers to a “Christian” social services agency, also briefly review what you can and cannot do if this were a public services setting, with regard to expressing your beliefs and faith.

Complete a draft of the prospectus by entering information from your 10 Key Strategic Points document into the prospectus template according to the helps and criteria presented in each section of the template.

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Dissertation Prospectus Draft

DISSERTATION TOPIC: Factors Affecting Utilization of Mental Health in Fort-Bend County, Texas

The research prospectus is an expansion of your 10 Key Strategic Points and will serve as the framework for your dissertation proposal and is considered the foundational document for your dissertation. The research prospectus will also assist your dissertation chair in providing valuable feedback to guide you in your dissertation. This assignment is the next step toward completing that process.

General Requirements:

Use the following information to ensure successful completion of the assignment:

· The College of Doctoral Studies recognizes the diversity of learners in our programs and the varied interests in research topics for their dissertations in the Social Sciences.
Dissertation topics must, at a minimum, be aligned to General Psychology in the Ph.D. program, Leadership in the Ed.D. Organizational Leadership program, Adult Instruction in the Ed.D. Teaching and Learning program, Management in the DBA program, and Counseling Practice, Counselor Education, Clinical Supervision or Advocacy/Leadership within the Counseling field in the Counselor Education Ph.D. program.
If there are questions regarding appropriate alignment of a dissertation topic to the program, the respective program chair will be the final authority for approval decisions.
Specifically, although the College prefers a learner’s topic align with the program emphasis, this alignment is not “required.” The College will remain flexible on the learner’s dissertation topic if it aligns with the degree program in which the learner is enrolled. The Ph.D. program in General Psychology does not support clinically based research.

· Locate and download the most recent version of the Prospectus Template document in the DC Network. This document has helps and criteria information embedded to assist you in the completion of the prospectus.

· Refer to your 10 Key Strategic Points document that you began in a previous course or residency. These will be included as an Appendix in this submission.

· Doctoral learners are required to use APA style for their writing assignments. The APA Style Guide is located in the Student Success Center.

· You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Refer to the directions in the Student Success Center. Only Word documents can be submitted to LopesWrite.

Directions:

Complete a draft of the prospectus by entering information from your 10 Key Strategic Points document into the prospectus template according to the helps and criteria presented in each section of the template. Be sure to synthesize into the prospectus draft all feedback given by prior instructors on your 10 Key Strategic Points document.

Include your 10 Key Strategic Points document as Appendix A in this submission.

 We often find a solution to an equation and that is also the x-intercept.  Can anyone tell the class what the other 2 terms are?

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Please respond casually as if you are having a conversation with the author

 

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The two types of graphs are helpful in a variety of disciplines.  In particular, mathematicians tend to use line graphs much more often then scatter plots.  Can you think of a discipline that uses more scatter plots than line graphs?

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We use scatterplot graphs and line graphs together to record our progress to our clients.  We have a complicated system of progressing construction and each entry allows for the progress to go up percentage wise.  We have scatterplot points for certain dates along with percentages and line segments that can show if we are on a late schedule or if we are early.  These graphs are presented to our management team and the clients we do work for so that they can have an idea of where each project stands.  If we are on the early schedule then we stand to make more profit, but if we are late then we can end up losing hundred of thousands if not millions of dollars.

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Microsoft Office states that scatter plots are most often used for “displaying and comparing numeric values, such as scientific, statistical, and engineering data” (Microsoft Office, 2012). These types of charts are useful for showing the relationships among the numeric values of data. I believe that medical researchers tend to use scatter plots as a way to show their completed data from any of their studies. The Census Bureau would use the scatter plot to show the population of the U.S.

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There are many uses for scatterplots by many different companies, agencies and information.  However, the discipline that I was referring to is Statistics.  It is a completely different area of study than mathematics (even though many people think they are the same), and focuses on looking at a variety of data to extrapolate a theory or general idea for the data.  You mentioned the Census and they ways they may use scatter plots.  In addition, some of your classmates also gave some good examples.  Can you think of any examples where you might use a scatterplot in everyday life?

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A line graph tracks changes over a given period of time. The information is easy to read and understand. * A Person could monitor weight gain/loss. If you are attempting the first you would be going from the lower left hand corner to the upper right. If you are attempting the latter, you would be going from the upper left to the lower right. This is just connecting the dots. It would be good to find out which months or holidays have the most sales.

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To me, the scatter point is hard to read. I can see graphing the slope in this to help with showing trends, etc. about something, but it is more difficult to get a good reading when you are just looking at it. The line graph seems simpler to read. Most of the charts that a person reads seem to be in a line graph format. When the points are graphed and the line is drawn you can see the trends so much easier. But, I guess it all depends on the person setting up the information and who reads it.

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One example of a scatter plot is when a person decides to lose weight. They could incorporate the data into a scatter plot to see how their diet is really coming along. It would show them weeks when they did not do quite as well and went off the dieting. An example of a line graph would be to mark a trend for a weekend crafter who sells their wares at festivals or online. They could enter their sales data for the month against their sales data for the same month the year before and connect their data for both years. This would allow them a visual to see how the sales go.

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One thing we find as we get further along in mathematics is that there are different terms that essentially mean the same thing.  For instance, we use the term “multiply” for most of our young life and then we add in “product” later one (which means the same thing).  The term “x-intercept” has a few synonyms – 3 to be exact.  One of them is a “solution”.  We often find a solution to an equation and that is also the x-intercept.  Can anyone tell the class what the other 2 terms are?