Choose the same two variables you chose from your Week 2 Assignment and perform the appropriate descriptive analysis of the data.

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  •  Review this week’s Learning Resources and the Central Tendency and Variability media program.
  • For additional support, review the Skill Builder: Measures of Central Tendency for Continuous  Variables, Skill Builder: Standard Deviation as a Measure of Variability  for Continuous Variables and the Skill Builder: Measures of Central Tendency and Variability for Categorical Variables, which you can find by navigating back to your Blackboard Course Home Page. From there, locate the Skill Builder link in the left navigation pane.
  •  Using the SPSS software, open the Afrobarometer dataset or the High School Longitudinal Study dataset from your Assignment in Week 2.
  •  Choose the same two variables you chose from your Week 2 Assignment and perform the appropriate descriptive analysis of the data.
  •  Once you perform your descriptive analysis, review Chapter 11 of the Wagner text to understand how to copy and paste your output into your Word document.

Write a 2- to 3-paragraph analysis of your descriptive analysis results and include a copy and paste your output from your analysis into your final document.

Based on the results of your data, provide a brief explanation of what the implications for social change might be.

Use appropriate APA format, citations and referencing. Refer to the APA manual for appropriate citation.

Examine the personality assessment instrument used in the scenario and research a peer-reviewed article in the Library on this personality assessment.

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Prior to beginning work on this discussion, read the Splett, Fowler, Weist, McDaniel, & Dvorsky (2013), Stinnett, Bui, & Capaccioli, (2013), and  Kosher, Jiang, Ben-Arieh, & Huebner, (2014) articles,  and review Chapters 10 through 13 in your textbook.

 

For this discussion, you will be taking on the role of the school psychologist in a public middle school. In this role, you will facilitate the evaluation of a student based on psychoeducational personality assessments, mental status exam, and observations of the student to make recommendations to the education team consisting of yourself, school counselors, and teachers who work with the student. Carefully review the PSY615: Week Three School Psychologist-Based Personality and Behavior Assessment Scenario .

 

In your initial post:

 

Examine the personality assessment instrument used in the scenario and research a peer-reviewed article in the Library on this personality assessment.

Using the required articles as well as your researched article to support your statements, describe the standard use of this personality assessment.

Based on the scenario, evaluate the reliability, validity, and cultural considerations inherent to the personality assessment used and comment on the relevance of these elements within the scenario.

Analyze and describe some of the potential ethical issues which might arise from the use of this personality assessment in the given scenario.

Provide information from your research regarding the use of the personality measure, and assess the value of other possible instruments that could be added to create a more complete assessment of the student in the scenario.

Submit Parts 1, 2, 3, the Annotated Bibliography, and the References section of your final Major Assignment 1: Developing a Research Topic for a Qualitative Research Study.

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In Week 4, you submitted your Parts 1 and 2 and your Annotated Bibliography to your Instructor for feedback.

For this Major Assignment 1, you will incorporate your Instructor’s feedback if you have not already done so. Also, you will finalize your Major Assignment 1 and complete Part 3: Potential for Social Change section.

To prepare for this Assignment:

  • Review the      Major Assignment 1: Developing a Research Topic for a Qualitative Study      Assignment Overview and Guidelines for proper formatting of your paper.
  • Incorporate      your Instructor’s feedback from week 4 Parts 1 and 2 submission.       Please indicate the new material by highlighting the new or revised text      in Parts 1 and 2.
  • Update      your Annotated Bibliography to include any new articles you have read      since Week 4 that would be appropriate to include.
  • Continue      on to Part 3 and finalize this section for your final submission. Use the      Detailed Major Assignment 1 Guidelines to format your paper.

Part 3: Potential for Social Change

  • Based on      your understanding of social change, write one paragraph to describe how      the results of your study might contribute to making a difference at a      local/community, regional, or national level.
  • Finalize      your Annotated Bibliography. Use the Major Assignment 1: Developing a      Research Topic for a Qualitative Study Assignment Overview and Guidelines      for proper formatting of your paper.
  • Finalize      your References section of your paper. Use the Major Assignment 1:      Developing a Research Topic for a Qualitative Study Assignment Overview      and Guidelines for proper formatting of your paper.

By Day 7

Submit Parts 1, 2, 3, the Annotated Bibliography, and the References section of your final Major Assignment 1: Developing a Research Topic for a Qualitative Research Study.

Identify legal, ethical issues in theories of personality and psychotherapy 

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Vignette Analysis II:

This  assignment focuses on vignette analysis and direct application of  course concepts to the persons and situations presented in the vignette  for each question. All discussions must take into account the legal  and ethical considerations, as well as issues of culture and human  diversity that may pertain to the situations presented below. 

Please  keep your responses focused on what is presented in the vignette. Do  not add information but use your creativity to support what you see in  the vignette as written. All assignments MUST be typed  in APA style and must be written at graduate level  English. The content, conciseness and clarity of your answers will be  considered in the evaluation of your work. You must use and integrate the material presented in the course text and cite your work according to APA format. Use of outside resources for culture-specific information to enhance your vignette analysis is encouraged.

This assignment should be 6-7 pages total plus a Title and Reference Page

A  panel of experts from Phenomenological Theories, Trait Theories and  Biological Theories of personality has been asked to evaluate this case.  Each panel will discuss their view of this case in direct and specific  context to a minimum of four (4) of their theoretical constructs. Each  panel will take into consideration the research on personality and the  brain as well as culture and legal/ethical issues that might arise. 

For this assignment you are to present this case from each of these panels of experts: 

Panel I: Phenomenological Theorists 

Panel II: Trait Theorists 

Panel III: Biological/Genetic Theorists 

John,  a 28 year old, Hispanic male, is seen in an initial interview at a  community mental health clinic. He has been diagnosed as Chronically  Mentally Ill. He resides with his mother and grandmother. Both his  father and grandfather committed suicide in their early 30’s. John is  afraid that he is fated to join the male-dominated generational pattern.  John is oriented to reality and does not appear to have any  disturbances in perception or thought. He does appear to be severely  depressed and anxious during your interview.

Assignment Outcomes

Distinguish the major theories of personality

 

Contrast historical and current views of personality

 

Integrate evidence based treatment interventions

 

Combine current research to assessment and technique

 

Identify legal, ethical issues in theories of personality and psychotherapy

 

Examine issues of culture and diversity in theories and application