Assignment Teen Pregnancy Prevention Plan

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For this assignment, you will be creating a teen pregnancy prevention (or teen parenting) plan.  The teen pregnancy prevention plan can focus on how to reduce unplanned teen pregnancy, or can focus on how to improve teen parenting efforts.  How you go about this is up to you, but it is important to use the research when formulating your plan. Any variables you select should be backed up by research. In this paper you will:

 

  1. Describe several facets of your plan: what variables (e.g., parental monitoring) will you choose to focus on and why (e.g., higher parental monitoring has been shown by the research to lower teens’ risk of adolescent pregnancy).
  2. You will also discuss how you would attempt to effect those variables (e.g., educating parents on how to effectively monitor without being overprotective, since that seems to increase teens’ risk).
  3.  Finally, you will discuss how you would implement such a program logistically (e.g., who specifically would you target for your program and why?  Where would this program be based?).

You must use scholarly sources, such as class notes, outside journal articles and/or text to formulate your response. Use a minimum of four scholarly resources, two of these being peer-reviewed journal articles.

 

Your plan should be written in paragraph form (not in bullet points). Your plan should have a minimum of 1,000 words, but you will not be penalized for going over the word limit.

 

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the GCU Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

 

This assignment uses a grading rubric. Instructors will be using the rubric to grade the assignment; therefore, students should review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the assignment criteria and expectations for successful completion of the assignment.

Describe the origins or history of the mental disorders.

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The paper should address information on the following areas on the subject of Neurodevelopmental Disorders:

  • Describe the origins or history of the mental disorders.
  • Describe the psychological theory or theories that relate to the mental disorders especially in the areas of diagnosis and treatment.
  • Describe the difference if any in age of onset and diagnostic criteria based on gender.
  • Explain the potential impact of the mental disorders on the individual and his or her family.
  • Explain the social perceptions of the mental disorders from stigma to advocacy.

The paper should adhere to the following guidelines:

  • The length of the paper should be 12–14 double-spaced pages (not including the title and reference pages).
  • For the main sections it should have a:
    • Title page
    • Introduction
    • Literature review
    • Conclusion
    • Reference page(s)

I submitted an annotated bibliography on the subject 2 weeks ago and the following references (along with any additional) should be used to write the paper:

 

Ahn, D. H. (2016). Introduction: Neurodevelopmental disorders. Hanyang Medical Reviews 36, 1-3. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.7599/hmr.2016.36.1.1

Lee, C. T., Freed, W. J., & Mash, D. C. (2015). CNVs in neurodevelopmental disorders. Oncotarget, 6(21), 18238-18239. Retrieved from http://doi:10.18632/oncotarget.4853

 

 

Polyak, A., Rosenfeld, J. A., & Girirajan, S. (2015). An assessment of sex bias in neurodevelopment disorders. Genome Medicine, 7. Retrieved http://search.proquest.com/docview/1772405948?accountid=87314

What ethical concerns does Keith need to consider?

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Must answer all the questions, use in-text citations, valid references, zero plagarism, check for grammatical errors, APA guidelines.

 

Recall our consultant, Keith, from Module 1. Keith has been asked to conduct a psychological evaluation on an adolescent female. Her teachers and parents are concerned that her grades have been dropping and she has been acting out.

Keith is short on time and needs to complete his assessment quickly. He likes using the MMPI-A and decides to send a protocol home for the girl to complete.  Once she returns it, he’ll score it and determine if the girl’s personality is somehow influencing her grades and behavior changes.

Refer to the Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct Standard 9 on Assessment (APA, 2010).

  • What ethical concerns does Keith need to consider?
  • As Keith’s colleague, what advice can you give him based on what you have learned about psychological assessment?

Clearly delineate the components of a clinical psychological assessment.

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an informative PowerPoint presentation consisting of 4–10 slides, designed for an audience of attorneys, based on your course project specifications. Your presentation should:

  • Clearly delineate the components of a clinical psychological assessment.
  • Clearly delineate the components of a forensic psychological assessment.
  • Provide a summary table of the differences between clinical and forensic. assessments to ensure the lawyers can discriminate between the two types of assessments and when they would use each one.
  • Include a list of malingering characteristics and analyze the influence of these characteristics on a forensic assessment outcome. Describe one measure that might be used to assess the possibility of malingering in a forensic psychological assessment.