Develop a 10- to12- slide PowerPoint Presentation designed for training the staff at a local high school. The PowerPoint Presentation should focus on strategies that promote communication skills among adolescents.

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Develop a 10- to12- slide PowerPoint Presentation designed for training the staff at a local high school. The PowerPoint Presentation should focus on strategies that promote communication skills among adolescents.

Students are encouraged to approach the assignment creatively, adding graphics, visuals, charts and/or graphs to their work. Slides should be designed to address the selected topic clearly and concisely.  Each slide should be developed with professional presentation style (e.g., bulleted items in brief statements rather than complete sentences). Notes should complement the slides and provide details useful to the speaker if an oral presentation were to be given.

Creating the PowerPoint Presentation

The PowerPoint Presentation:

  1. Must be 10 to 12 slides, and formatted according to APA style as outlined by the Ashford Writing Center.
  2. Must include a title slide with the following:
    1. Title of the training
    2. Student’s name
    3. Course name and number
    4. Instructor’s name
    5. Date submitted
  3. Must present a thesis statement regarding why social skills training would be appropriate for adolescents.
  4. Must explain different types of communication (e.g., aggressive and assertive).
  5. Must share four strategies on how adolescents could improve their communication skills.
  6. Must create at least three hypothetical scenarios of problems that adolescents might encounter, including one that involves cultural/ethnic issues. The scenarios should show how adolescents could use improved communication skills to solve these problems.
  7. Must develop conclusions that reiterate the opening thesis statement, include a summary of the social skills training discussed, and offer evidence of its effectiveness.
  8. Must use at least four scholarly sources (in addition to the course text), including a minimum of two from the Ashford Online Library. References are to be provided as needed within the slides.
  9. Must include a separate reference slide, formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

How you will use Capella’s support resources to develop the skills required to successfully develop your writing and other competencies essential to the profession and your role as a graduate learner.

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U10 7-9Page Paper

Vision and Goals

By the time you complete this final assignment, you will have gained a lot more knowledge and insights about your interests in psychology and your career trajectory. To begin this assignment, take some time to reflect on all you have learned about the field and ways you can contribute to psychology.

What aspects of your research affected your vision or goals? Given this, what topics do you think you would be interested in researching in the future?

How was your vision affected by the career information in your readings from your Career Paths in Psychology text and your exploration of the Career Center and other resources?

Revise and refine the vision statement and long-term goals that you developed earlier in response to the feedback you have received and your studies in this course. Update your Articulating Your Purpose activity to help support these revisions.

Professional Competencies and Requirements

Understanding the competencies and responsibilities involved with your future career in psychology is essential for preparing yourself to become a practitioner-scholar in your field. It is also necessary to understand any requirements needed for your specialized practice and scholarship.

For this step in the assignment, analyze the competencies, responsibilities, ethical considerations, and other requirements needed for achieving your vision and goals as a professional in psychology. These may include:

Capella program and specialization requirements.

Skills, abilities, and attitudes critical to success in the field of psychology, such as those related to critical thinking, decision making, problem solving, evidence-based practices, ethical integrity, cultural competence, and conflict resolution.

Make note of skills, abilities, and attitudes related to the practitioner-scholar model and the experience you had in researching scholarly sources in your last assignment.

Credentialing, certification, licensure, and accreditation practices and standards.

Ethical codes, principles, laws, and policies applicable to your chosen career path.

Self-Assessment

Reflect on your current competencies, previous experiences, and achievements that help you meet those requirements. Since you are at the beginning of your journey to a future career, you will have gaps in required knowledge, skills, attitudes, and credentials. Identify any areas in which you need further development to achieve your goals and vision as a psychology practitioner-scholar.

Action Plan

With all this knowledge of your vision and goals, and the competencies and requirements for the field in hand, you are ready to plot your course to making these aspirations a reality. The final step in this assignment is to create a revised action plan to achieve your goals. This means translating the requirements for your profession and the development areas you identified into specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and timed (SMART) steps to achieve your vision.

Include these elements in your action plan:

Completion of your Capella program.

Possible opportunities for additional training or volunteer work to address gaps in your knowledge or skills.

Possible opportunities in your current position to develop additional skills through coaching or stretch assignments.

Capella Community groups and professional organizations that you could join for networking with others and completing additional informational interviews.

How you will stay current with the research and literature in the field..

How you can apply what you have learned in this course about researching psychological literature and evaluating it in terms of reliability, credibility, ethics, and value.

How you will apply critical thinking and effective decision making as a psychologist.

How you will use Capella’s support resources to develop the skills required to successfully develop your writing and other competencies essential to the profession and your role as a graduate learner.

At this point, there may be an overwhelming number of steps that you could complete to work toward your vision. If it helps you work through this plan, focus on major milestones and requirements as well as steps you can take during your Capella degree program to help translate your vision into SMART short-term goals and tasks.

If you feel the need for more input, review the SMART Goals presentation and Career Center resources or search the Capella library or the Internet for additional reflective exercises and inspiring ideas about transforming your vision into an action plan.

Additional Requirements

Your assignment should also meet the following requirements:

Template: Use the Your Career in Psychology Template to format your assignment.

Length: 7–9 typed and double-spaced content pages in Times New Roman 12-point font. The title page, abstract, and reference list are not included in this length.

References: Include a minimum of five references with at least three of them from course readings. Your references may include both scholarly literature and practitioner sources. All references need to be cited in-text, according to current APA standards, and listed in the reference list. Remember that citations are to support your thoughts, not take the place of them!

Written communication: Must be clear, with correct spelling, grammar, and syntax and with good organization.

Writing style: APA expectations for scholarly writing include the use of third-person narrative, unless it is awkward to do so. However, because you are talking about yourself in this paper, you may write in the first person.

APA formatting: Must be formatted according to APA style and formatting and include a title page, abstract, and reference list. Note that these three elements are not counted toward the length of your assignment.

Justify the use of the chosen diagnostic manual (i.e., Why was this manual chosen over others?). Evaluate symptoms within the context of an appropriate theoretical orientation for this diagnosis.

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Outline for the Psychiatric Diagnosis

Review the instructions for the Psychiatric Diagnosis assignment in Week Six (attached). This week’s assignment will build upon the work you have completed on your chosen case study in Weeks One and Two (attached).

For this assignment, you will construct an outline of your Psychiatric Diagnosis paper. This outline is meant to provide structure for your final assignment, jump-start your thought process on your case study, and ensure you are on the correct path toward the successful completion of your diagnosis.

Your outline should be one to two pages of content and include a brief two- to three-sentence description of each of the required areas listed in the Psychiatric Diagnosis prompt, except for the following two areas:

  • Justify the use of the chosen diagnostic manual (i.e., Why was this manual chosen over others?).
  • Evaluate symptoms within the context of an appropriate theoretical orientation for this diagnosis.

For these two areas, provide a complete draft of your justification and evaluation based on the case study. You must include explicit information on the theoretical orientation chosen for the case and justification of the use of the diagnostic manual chosen. Research a minimum of five peer-reviewed sources published within the last 10 years to support your choice of theoretical orientation and diagnostic manual. These sources will also be used for the Psychiatric Diagnosis paper. The outline should specify which sources will apply to the justification and evaluation areas.

The Outline for the Psychiatric Diagnosis:

  • Must be one to two single-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center (Links to an external site.).
  • Must include a separate title page with the following:
    • Title of paper
    • Student’s name
    • Course name and number
    • Instructor’s name
    • Date submitted
  • Must use at least five peer-reviewed sources published within the last 10 years.
  • Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
  • Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

Carefully review the Grading Rubric (Links to an external site.) for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.

  Identify the differences between case studies, naturalistic and laboratory  observations, tests, surveys, correlational studies, and experiments.

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Question 1 

When people think of psychology, they usually think of mental disorders, emotional disorders, abnormal acts, personal problems, and psychotherapy, but it relates to many different areas of life. Define psychology, and describe how it addresses topics from a scientific perspective. Your answer must include two specific examples.
Your response must be at least 200 words in length.

Question 2

Distinguish between a theory, a hypothesis, and an operational definition. You  must also provide an example for each one.
Your response must be at least 200 words in length.

Question 3

Compare the three early psychologies of structuralism, functionalism, and  psychoanalysis. Your response should identify the major thinkers who promoted  each of these schools of thought and an example of an area they would examine.
Your response must be at least 200 words in length.

Question 4

Identify the differences between case studies, naturalistic and laboratory  observations, tests, surveys, correlational studies, and experiments.
Your response must be at least 200 words in length.

Assignment 1: Generating hypotheses for t-tests and ANOVAs

By the due date assigned, post your response to the prompt in the Discussion Area below. Through the end of the module, review and comment on at least two peers’ responses, and offer your thoughts on their hypotheses and any recommendations you have to enhance their contributions.

Post a null hypothesis that would use a t test statistical analysis.. Use the same hypothetical situation taken in the t test hypothesis, and turn it into a null hypothesis using a one-way ANOVA analysis and a two-way ANOVA.

Grading Criteria

Quality of initial posting, including fulfillment of assignment instructions

Reference to supporting readings and other materials

Language and grammar