Describe how you might approach the individual as a peer to call her or his attention to this potential impairment. Use the American Counseling Association’s code of ethics to justify your approach.

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Triadic Supervision Session:

Julie and David are graduate students completing an internship in a MS in Mental Health Counseling training program. They are working as interns for an outpatient counseling center that specializes in the treatment of children. Julie has been shadowing a clinician performing forensic evaluations and conducting individual therapy with young children who have been physically and sexually abused. David has been performing psychosocial assessments and facilitating groups with domestically violent families. Julie and David are participating in triadic supervision as a requirement for their internship. Julie begins to cry easily during supervision when reviewing their clinical cases. Despite efforts to conceal her emotion, Julie’s supervisor would frequently inquire about her affective state. At first, Julie dismissed her behavior claiming she “just didn’t feel good” and was hesitant to share her anguish. Julie’s supervisor fostered a safe environment and persisted in questioning her about her tearfulness and reactivity to difficult cases. Eventually, Julie began to discuss her feelings of despair particularly about working with children who have been abused or neglected. She went on to explain that the stories she was hearing in supervision made her feel overwhelmed that no matter what setting or population she went to work for, she feared that counseling work is filled with only darkness and hopelessness. She described excessive worry and concern about the well-being and future of the children with whom she works. She expresses anger and resentment towards the parents that did not protect the children, the judges that send kids back into homes with abusive parents, and clinical supervisors that she felt were not providing adequate care. Although Julie could not identify any actual inappropriate events, she believed the children deserved better care. Julie reported nightly sleep disturbance and avoidance of all social activity. It became clear to Julie’s supervisor and to Julie’s colleague that she was emotionally and physically exhausted and was absorbing client pain. David watches and listens impassively as Julie describes her plight. He started out his internship very energized by the opportunity to help families break the cycle of abuse. He initially received many compliments from the clients and staff for his insight and empathy. As time passed, David begins to question the quality of his own marital relationship. After hearing about stories of abuse, David began to question whether his most intimate relationship had a passive aggressive pattern of abuse. Rather than returning home after work, David becomes increasingly vigilant about personal space and boundaries. He became emotionally distant from his wife and his colleagues. During supervision, David implies that all relationships are at risk for exploitation and abuse. He remarks that he used to be uninformed but now he “knows better.” As the supervisor talks with David, it becomes evident that he is greatly influenced by the emotional and physical condition of his clients and their stories of abuse. In response, David is struggling with trust and intimacy, has become suspicious of people, and has developed a self-protective stance.

 

The assignment: (1-3 pages)

  • Identify yourself as a master’s student on the title page of your assignment.
  • Choose one of the supervisees in the triadic supervision session and identify a behavior that may reflect impairment.
  • Describe how you might approach the individual as a peer to call her or his attention to this potential impairment. Use the American Counseling Association’s code of ethics to justify your approach.
  • Identify two self-care strategies this supervisee could address her or his impairment. Justify your selection. Be specific.
  • Support your responses with references to the Learning Resources or current literature.
  • See the weekly Application area for assignment details.

Submit your assignment by Day 7.

 

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Identify some potential resources for funding a program you are interested in being an administrator of. What role will you play in securing and maintaining these funds?

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  •  Your post should be at least 200–250 words in length and should extend the discussion of the group supported by your course materials and/or other appropriate resources.Designing Spaces for Children, Staff, and FamiliesWhen planning a facility, the Early Childhood Administrator must carefully analyze the physical environment based on the needs of children, staff, and families. Along with the basic requirements for creating “a safe and healthful environment that provides appropriate and well-maintained indoor and outdoor physical environments” (NAEYC, 2007, p. 63), administrators must consider how the space feels and looks. The way spaces are designed and used “conditions how we feel, think, and behave; and it dramatically affects the quality of our lives” (Greenman, 2007, p. 1).

    Envision the type of program you hope to administrate and consider how you will design the facility to meet the needs of children, staff, and families. After reading Chapters 7 and 12 from the course textbook, please respond to all three parts of the discussion described below based on your envisioned program:

    Part 1: Part 1 of the Discussion focuses on planning physical spaces for the children. First, provide a brief description of the type of program you hope to administrate. Review the requirements for spaces for children described in this week’s readings, and describe what areas you would include and how those areas will be used and maintained. Discuss the challenges an existing facility would pose.

    Part 2: For Part 2 of the Discussion, you will focus on planning spaces for the staff. Review the requirements for staff areas described in this week’s readings. Suppose your facility has limited space. You have a large open 16×20 space available. How would you design this space to meet the needs of staff? Consider how you would make it functional, welcoming, and multi-purposed. What challenges might you face with renovating the space?

    Part 3: For Part 3 of the Discussion, you will focus on designing spaces for families. Describe your vision for family involvement in your program. What kind of space is needed? How will you create a sense of welcome and provide space for community building?

    Discussion 2

    Your post should be at least 200–250 words in length and should extend the discussion of the group supported by your course materials and/or other appropriate resources.

     

    Managing Finances and Fundraising

    The Early Childhood Administrator must “effectively manage financial resources and create policies and procedures that develop and follow a plan for using funds, keep records, and provide required documentation” (Sciarra, Lynch, Adams, & Dorsey, 2016, p. 68). Poorly managed funds impact the quality and stability of programs. As an administrator, you will need to create a financial plan that establishes a budget and policies and procedures to manage financial resources. After reading Chapters 5 and 6 from the course textbook, please respond to all three parts of the discussion described below:

    Part 1: Part 1 of the Discussion focuses on the process of creating a financial plan for an early childhood program. Review the administrator’s financial responsibilities discussed in this week’s readings, and describe how to prepare and operate a budget.

    Part 2: For Part 2 of the Discussion, you will focus on the other financial responsibilities of an administrator that relate to the budget but are ongoing. Review the administrator’s financial responsibilities discussed in this week’s reading, and describe examples of other ongoing financial responsibilities you will have as an administrator of an early childhood program. Which of these responsibilities will you spend more or less time on? Which responsibilities would you find most challenging? How would you accommodate for these challenges?

    Part 3: For Part 3 of the Discussion, you will focus on the director’s role in obtaining funding for an early childhood program. There are many different typesof funding available for early childhood programs. Identify some potential resources for funding a program you are interested in being an administrator of. What role will you play in securing and maintaining these funds?

    DISCUSSION 3

    I Need 150 words for this discussion

    What steps can you take to save and invest in your future now?

    How might a college education affect your long-term financial plan? Consider future income and loan repayment in your response

During the late 1960s and early 1970s, cognitive psychology researchers conducted studies that offered new information about how memory is stored and processed.

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During the late 1960s and early 1970s, cognitive psychology researchers conducted studies that offered new information about how memory is stored and processed. Findings suggested that memory is first encoded based on sensory data from the environment (sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell), moved to short-term memory, where it can be easily retrieved, and, when rehearsed (i.e., repeated thinking about the memory), moved to long-term memory, where it is stored and can be retrieved at a later date (Atkinson & Shiffrin, 1968; Craik & Lockhart, 1972).

The basic structural information about memory that arose from these early studies, along with the emergence of brain imaging technology, has led to major advancements in our understanding of cognition and cognitive neuroscience. For example, there is a body of literature on the association between PTSD and memory dysfunction. Traumatic memories are thought to be encoded differently than other memories, which helps explain symptoms such as flashbacks, nightmares, and anxiety. In addition, experiencing a traumatic event and then consistently reliving it through flashbacks and nightmares can damage the hippocampus, the area of the brain responsible for memory encoding, leading to deficits in short-term memory (Hays, VanElzakker, & Shin, 2012; MacIntosh & Whiffen, 2005). Fortunately, exciting new research on neuroplasticity suggests that the brain is malleable and that it is possible to reverse the damage to certain parts of the brain (Kays, Hurley, & Taber, 2012).

In this discussion, you will examine other studies on memory and consider how the findings contribute to our understanding of cognition and cognitive neuroscience.

Atkinson, R. C., & Shiffrin, R. M. (1968). Human memory: A proposed system and its control processes. In K. Spence & J.T. Spence (Eds.), Psychology of learning and motivation (Vol. 2, pp. 89–195). Cambridge, MA: Academic Press.

Craik, F. I., & Lockhart, R. S. (1972). Levels of processing: A framework for memory research. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 11(6), 671–684.

Hayes, J. P., VanElzakker, M. B., & Shin, L. M. (2012). Emotion and cognition interactions in PTSD: A review of neurocognitive and neuroimaging studies. Frontiers in integrative neuroscience, 6(89), 1–14.

Kays, J. L., Hurley, R. A., & Taber, K. H. (2012). The dynamic brain: Neuroplasticity and mental health. The Journal of neuropsychiatry and clinical neurosciences, 24(2), 118–124.

MacIntosh, H. B., & Whiffen, V. E. (2005). Twenty years of progress in the study of trauma. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 20(4), 488–492.

To prepare

  • Review this week’s Learning Resources on cognitive evolution, memory, and cognitive neuroscience.
  • Locate a peer-reviewed journal article on memory related to one of the following topics:
    • Improving memory
    • Aging
    • Amnesia
    • Cognitive mapping
  • Consider how the article you selected relates to cognition and cognitive neuroscience.

What theorist and their theoretical perspective in Psychology explains your topic? – “link  those elements to your topic”  5)  What societal changes affect the emergence of this topic?

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Your instructor will randomly assign each student a Library Assignment. This assignment will be dedicated to a topic related to Human Development. No student will have the same topic. Your instructor will guide you regarding selection of topics. Do not begin to write your paper until your instructor has approved your topic. Once a topic is chosen, all selections are final.

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•  The Aging Process

The paper will consist of a 1 Page Essay (single space) on the selected topic. The essay will include the Title Page and a Body Page. No in-text citations in the body of the paper or References Page are needed. Students are encouraged to save an additional electronic copy of your assignments to avoid losing or damaging the final results.

In the body of your paper, each student should incorporate terms from the textbook demonstrating a smooth transition in your writing and maintain professional undertone. For scholarly information regarding your topic, please refer to Coastal Pines Technical College’s on-line electronic library GALILEO.

Your 1 page Essay must fully address each of these questions:

1)  An introduction of the topic (history, background)

2)  How does your topic effect one’s crystallized or fluid intelligence. How does both change with         age?

3)  How does ones environment influence your topic?

4)  What theorist and their theoretical perspective in Psychology explains your topic? – “link  those elements to your topic”

5)  What societal changes affect the emergence of this topic?

6)  Discuss the roles of genes, parents, peers and culture on your topic.

7)  Concluding Paragraph

Additional Writing Resources

As an additional resource for writing in APA style, log on to www.apastyle.org and

www.plagiarism.org for more information. As you prepare to research your topic, be sure to access the APA folder in Blackboard, participate in the APA workshops on campus, explore CPTC’s electronic library (LIBGuides), and refer to your text book and scholarly articles in GALILEO to properly cite reputable sources for your library assignment/essay.

Avoid communications such as ghost writers, on-line student papers, e-mail communications, publications, hearsay and double hearsay, Facebook, Twitter, Suite101, Encyclopedia’s and Wikipedia and the dictionary. These sources are not acceptable or viewed as reputable communications simply because: 1) these communications can be altered by anyone, 2) some communications do not provide recoverable data that can be retraced and 3) such statements provide no evidence to prove the truth of what is asserted.

Power Point Presentation 

Each student will be required to submit in Blackboard a creative and detailed Power Point Slide show reflecting their assigned library topic. Students will also present their Power Point Portfolio before the class. The power point slide show must contain a title slide with the name of the library topic and the student’s name. The remaining seven slides must contain headings addressing all questions answered in the Essay paper. Using a grading rubric, your instructor will evaluate you the student on your knowledge, information and critical application of the topic as addressed in your essay paper and Power Point Portfolio.

Turnitin

Students are required to submit to the final draft of their typed Essay in a Microsoft Word document to Turnitin.  The Turnitin link will be accessible in Blackboard. Turnitin is the leading academic plagiarism detector, utilized by teachers all around the world to help students avoid plagiarism and ensure academic honesty and integrity is maintained in all educational institutions.

Important: If the final draft of your library assignment is typed and saved in another format (i.e., Word Pad or Word Perfect), this will likely affect the appearance of your paper when you submit it to the Turnitin link in Blackboard. This will also impact your final grade for the assignment.

Each student will be required to access his or her Smarthinking account by visiting the official website. Submission to Smarthinking is included in the overall grade for the Essay. Remember, students must submit a rough draft of their typed library assignment to Smarthinking. You, the student will receive feedback from a subject area expert. Students will incorporate the suggestions from the feedback into the final draft of their typed library assignment. Procrastination with submissions to Smarthinking will delay a timely feedback response. Students are also required to submit their feedback from Smarthinking to the assigned drop box as instructed in Blackboard.

Additional Writing Resources

As an additional resource for writing in APA style, log on to www.apastyle.org and

www.plagiarism.org for more information. As you prepare to research your topic, be sure to access the APA folder in Blackboard, participate in the APA workshops on campus, explore CPTC’s electronic library (LIBGuides), and refer to your text book and scholarly articles in GALILEO to properly cite reputable sources for your library assignment.

Avoid communications such as ghost writers, on-line student papers, e-mail communications, publications, hearsay and double hearsay, Facebook, Twitter, Suite101, Encyclopedia’s and Wikipedia. These sources are not acceptable or viewed as reputable communications simply because: 1) these communications can be altered by anyone, 2) some communications do not provide recoverable data that can be retraced and 3) such statements provide no evidence to prove the truth of what is asserted