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NO PLAGIARISMMINIMUM  6 PAGES NOT INCLUDING REFERENCE PAGEAPA FORMATThe purpose of this assignment is to help you to begin to carefully observe the many processes that occur during a group session and to identify relevant skills that may be used to assist the group in moving forward toward its goals. You will be expected to recognize, identify, and assess fundamental group dynamics and how they might impact group process and development. Finally, you will suggest appropriate intervention skills, attending to issues of trauma and resiliency, which might help the group navigate through these potentially problematic processes. The subject of your analysis will be the group identified by your instructor. This assignment will account for 30% of the grade, based on the content in your paper.Briefly describe the group that will be the focus of your observationsDiscuss and evaluate the structural factors you think may have impacted the group and its development. (For example, how do you think such factors as temporal factors, meeting space and furniture, member selection processes, member differentials, and compositional balance, seating arrangement, leadership styles, etc. have influenced the group’s development? Did the group’s homogeneity or heterogeneity enrich or constrain the group coming together? How do you think individual members’ experiences of oppression, historical trauma, and privilege factor into the group’s interactions?)Identify and discuss any ethical issues that may or have arisen in the g Explain how you would handle these issues.  Reference the NASW Code of Ethics and the IASWG Standards of Group Practice.Using the guidelines presented in the class handouts, as well as material presented in your textbooks and other assigned readings, assess the group’s actions, interactions, behaviors, and process. The following list offers some suggestions to help you formulate your analysis discussion.Norms and ritualsExpressions of feelings/affectMembership dynamics… (subgroups? Insiders? outsiders?)Participation… (High/low participators? Which members talk primarily with whom? Have participation levels shift as the group continued?)Levels and styles of influence…. (Which members appear to have the most “clout?” Who have been ignored or dismissed? What leadership struggles have emerged? What forms of influence or power did not notice exhibited?)How was conflict handled?Member roles… (those who monopolized, remained silent/quiet/ served a scapegoating function; intellectualized, entertained, e)Developmental stages… (inclusion-orientation, uncertainty-exploration, e) and critically reflect on their leadership and diversity intervention skills.How did mutuality develop? (If it did not, what processes do you think prevented it?).Describe how the facilitator attempted to gain rapport and the extent that you observed affinity. How successful was the facilitator in engaging group members to fully participate in the group’s goals and expected outcomes? Provide a brief discussion and evaluation of specific group leadership skills you observed the various facilitators utilizing.Describe how your conceptualization of trauma helped you to understand interactions between members, as well as the facilitator’s response. What trauma-informed responding did you observe, or, how might the facilitator have acted in a more trauma-informed fashion?Imagine that the group will be meeting again next week, and when it does, you will be the facilitator. Concerning where the group’s current goals and with consideration to issues of oppression and historical trauma, what do you think might be the best intervention on your part to help the group’s development? Why? Describe a set of skills, activity, or creative use of programming that might help the group achieve this desired outcome.*Throughout your discussions in this assignment, integrate the group practice literature using the APA format that informed your understanding of group processes and your decisions about the group practice skills that you observed. Your writing  should demonstrate your engagement with assigned course readings for this course and other relevant literature.Video Name:  Group Microskills: Encountering DiversityHow to access Video1. Access weblinkhttps://search-alexanderstreet-com.ezproxy.barry.edu/view/work/bibliographic_entity%7Cvideo_work%7C17787412. Enter Passwordvita.lubinMarch1991!3. SelectBarry University

TurnItIn Assignment(APA FORMAT)

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Ethical Input

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Write a 500- or more-word summary of the ethical issues that affect your selected research question and methodology, including the following:MUST USE ATTACHED NOTES FOR THIS ASSIGNMENTWrite a brief statement of the research question.List the possible ethical issues, such as consideration of characteristics of your sample, type of data collection, potential for bias, and so forth.Identify and cite the APA ethical standard concerning the issue.Respond to each issue, specifying how you, the researcher, will minimize or eliminate it.Format your summary consistent with APA guidelines.

Reflection: Correlation

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Requirements:Your reflection post needs to be at least 10 full sentences; there is no maximum limitYour post must be written in your own wordsIf you refer to a source such as an article, video, or a book, provide a link or other identifying information about the source. Sources are not required for this reflection post, but they might be relevant. The source could be our textbook. If you refer to sources, use APA format citations (in-text citations and a reference list; see the APA resources in Canvas)Respond to 2 other students’ posts. Your responses have no specific length requirements, but you need to refer to something in the student’s post, showing that you read it (something like “I agree” or “Interesting!” is not enough for the points). If you respond to a student that initially responded to you, that also counts as one of your responses (the idea is obviously to generate discussion here)GRADING:10 points for your own post (you get the full points if your post is at least 10 sentences and your discussion is relevant to the topic; your opinions, ideas and experiences are not graded for “accuracy”)REFLECTION TOPIC: CORRELATIONOne of the important distinctions between correlational and experimental research methods is that while experiments can tell us something about cause and effect (because we carefully manipulate some variable and try to control extraneous variables), correlational research cannot (because we only observe and measure the variables and don’t manipulate them). Just because X is related to Y does not mean that X causes Y.One example of this is that there’s a correlation between length of marriage and hair loss in men, such that men who have been married for a longer time tend to have less hair on their head. Does this mean that marriage causes hair loss? Well, maybe, but there’s probably a third variable involved here: age (older men tend to have less hair and are more likely to have been married longer than younger men).Another example: Women who give birth at older maternal ages live longer than women whose last child is born when they are younger. Does giving birth at an older maternal age cause women to live longer? Not necessarily; a possible third variable might be rate of aging (how fast a person ages): women who age slower are still able to have children at older ages, and they also live longer because they age slower (this means that giving birth did not cause the increased longevity).  For another famous third variable example, see my lecture for this module.Note that the third variable must cause/explain BOTH of the correlated variables.Question : We often believe that two things are related, even though in actuality we just notice random coincidences. For example, some people may believe that when they wash their car it will soon rain, and when couples adopt they immediately get pregnant. We easily perceive patterns even when they are not there. This phenomenon is called an illusory correlation. Can you identify any illusory correlations that you or people you know hold (or have held in the past)?