Identifying A Population And Clinical Area Of Concern-Peer Responses

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1st Peer Posting

 

Childhood anxiety is a prevalent disorder affecting several children of all ages. The population being served will be in children between the ages of 3 and 12 years old who suffer from anxiety disorders.
The treatment of anxiety in children is dependent on the developmental level of a child and those factors need to be assessed in assessing and treating the child (Barrett, 2000). Additionally, anxiety disorders among children can also lead to lifetimes of different issues or disorders if not treated effectively (Bittner, Egger, Erkanli, Costello, Foley, and Angola, 2007).
As I continue researching, I may narrow down the type of anxiety or have anxiety disorders due to trauma.

References
Barrett, P. M. (2000). : Treatment of childhood
anxiety: developmental aspects. Clinical
Psychology Review, 20(4), 453-471.

Bittner, A., Egger, H. L., Erkanli, A., Costello,
J., Foley, D. L., & Angold, A. (2007). What
do childhood anxiety disorders predict?
Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry,
48(12), 1174-1183

 

 

 

2nd Peer Posting

 

Population: Caucasian, female, between age of 13-17

 

Concern: depression, self-harm

 

It is found that 3 teenagers will self-harm within an hour. Self-harm includes cutting or burning themselves or taking an overdose of some form of drug to deal with difficult emotions. Some of these teens may feel suicidal and wish to die while others are trying to express their pain (Teenage self-harm ‘soars’, 2000). Self-harm is the fourth most common problem that teenagers are facing (Naughton, 2013). “Self-harm is a clear sign of immense psychological and emotional distress, and that person cannot cope” (Naughton, 2013; 16).

 

There is a belief that the child may not get the idea of self-harm by themselves. There is a possibility that they go to the internet looking for some way to express how they are feeling and they find that there are other children whom are causing self-harm to express themselves (Naughton, 2013). Self-harm can be used to distract oneself from intense emotional pain, release bad feelings; it could follow trauma, bereavement or abuse or learned from older siblings or peers among many other reasons.

 

Bullying is a trigger, this is something that is very difficult to prevent. Even several schools that are enforcing no bullying rule, students still find ways to bully one another (Naughton, 2013). Self-harm can also meant that an individual has an unmet mental health need; depression or personality disorder. It is very difficult to know if the individual is self-harming due to psychological difficulties or if the individual is trying to cope with something they are going through.

 

 

 

 

 

Naughton, L. (2013). Too much, too young. Community Practitioner, 86(5), 16-9.

 

Teenage self-harm ‘soars’. (2000). Emergency Nurse (through 2013), 8(4), 4.

 

What role does effective interpersonal communication play within organizations?

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1.       What are team norms, and what role do they play in behavior and cohesiveness of the group? How does the diversity of a group affect its performance?

 

 

 

2.       Goes through Tuckman’s five stages of team development, what impact does this have on the three characteristics of effective teams? Provide examples to support your response.

 

 

 

3.       What are examples of effective techniques for team decision making? What are examples of strategies for avoiding potential liabilities in team decision making (e.g., groupthink)?

 

 

 

4.       What role does effective interpersonal communication play within organizations?

 

 

 

5.       Using a practical example, what are the benefits and potential problems associated with conflict? What are examples of strategies that can be applied for resolving conflict?

 

 

 

6.       What is negotiation? What are the common negotiation pitfalls? What are the strategies to overcome them?

 

 

 

7.       Explain power bases. How does one build power within an organization? How are power and politics related within an organization?

 

 

 

8.       Discuss a time when you have been a good follower. What did it entail? What theory most applied to the dynamic of your role as a good follower?

 

 

 

9.       It has long been a dictum of management theory that leaders must adapt their behavior to fit the specifics of a situation. Discuss whether transformational leadership is appropriate for all occasions. In which situations might it not be effective? Which theories might be effective instead?

 

 

 

10.   In what ways does human resource management process align human capital with organizational strategies?

 

 

 

11.   In what ways are the HR function and governmental legislation designed to protect against employee discrimination? Provide specific examples of U.S laws in place to protect against employee discrimination.

 

 

 

12.   How does an individual’s faith or worldview inform personal management practices?

 

 

 

13.   Identify the formal structure of an organization. Using an organization of your choice as an example, how is the organization’s structure and design a reflection of its environment, goals, and competencies?

 

 

 

14.   Using an organization with which you are familiar, identify its corporate culture and the elements of its observable culture. What do you think would need change in order to facilitate innovation? What role would organizational development play in overcoming resistance to change?

 

 

 

 

 

15.   Using an organization with which you are familiar, identify ways through which feedforward, concurrent, and feedback controls can be used to assure the high quality of a final outcome. How do these controls lead to effective management?

 

Each question MUST have a cite in it MUST PASS TURN IT IN WITH LESS THAN 5% and be about 100-200 words.

 

Evidence And Non-Evidence Based Treatment Options

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Prior to beginning work on this discussion, please read both “Limitations to Evidence-Based Practice” and “Rationale and Standards of Evidence-Based Practice,”and listen to the Case Studies in Non-evidence Based Treatment Part One. On the last day of Week 5, listen to Case Studies in Non-evidence Based Treatment Part Two.

For your initial post, you will choose one of the case studies from this week’s audio file selection on which to base your remarks. Based on the available information, evaluate the symptoms and presenting problems for the patient in the chosen case study and propose a provisional diagnosis. Describe one evidence-based treatment for this diagnosis and provide a rationale for your choice. Research at least two peer-reviewed articles to support your evidence-based treatment selection.

Guided Response: Review several of your colleagues’ posts, and respond to at least two of your peers by 11:59 p.m. on Day 7 of the week. You are encouraged to post your required replies earlier in the week to promote more meaningful interactive discourse in this discussion.

Examine your colleague’s initial post, and assume the proposed evidence-based treatment was ineffective. Using a sociocultural perspective, provide an explanation for why the evidence-based treatment may have been ineffective in this case. Describe at least one non-evidence-based treatment option as an alternative to evidence-based treatment in this case. Compare and contrast the failed evidence-based treatment with the proposed non-evidence-based treatment option. Justify the use of the proposed non-evidence-based treatment option for this patient (i.e., How does this treatment option meet the patient’s unique sociocultural needs?).

Continue to monitor the discussion forum until 5:00 p.m. Mountain Standard Time (MST) on Day 7 of the week, and respond to anyone who replies to your initial post. Be sure to indicate whether your diagnosis and conceptualization has changed based on your colleague’s feedback.

Carefully review the Discussion Forum Grading Rubric for the criteria that will be used to evaluate this Discussion Thread.

Discussion 1: Contributing to Community Recovery

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Discussion 1: Contributing to Community Recovery

The damaging effects of disaster on mental health and the increased vulnerability to addiction of survivors are well documented. The most common conditions that follow a disaster are post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, depression, grief, and an increase in substance abuse and addictive behaviors (Beaudoin, 2011; Cepeda, Valdez, Kaplan, & Hill, 2010; Johnson & Fendrich, 2009).

As a helping professional, it is essential that you become familiar with federal and local regulations that can impact your role in community recovery.

For this Discussion, review the two scenarios below. Choose one of the scenarios and reflect on the ways in which government and community organizations might contribute to the treatment of addiction.

 

Scenario A: You are the director of a local addiction treatment center in a West Coast metropolitan area that has experienced an earthquake of major magnitude. The earthquake has caused a large loss of life and destruction of property. The entire metropolitan infrastructure is disrupted, including transportation, sanitation, emergency medical care, and power. People are unable to get to work, children are unable to attend school, and people are confused and frightened. Many mental health and substance abuse facilities have been destroyed, so their services will be interrupted for a long time. A large number of citizens are left homeless, without jobs, and are dealing with the trauma of the event and loss of family and friends. The level of destruction is so vast and far reaching that it will be several months to a year before life returns to what the community could consider normal.

Scenario B: You are the director of a local addiction treatment center in a small Midwestern town of 20,000. A tornado has struck the community, cutting a path of destruction through the entire town and causing hundreds of thousands of dollars in property damage. More devastating, the tornado has resulted in a huge loss of life, including the deaths of over 100 children who were in the local elementary school. Many families are left homeless and grieving over the loss of their property, businesses, friends, and loved ones. The loss of such a large number of children has a particularly serious impact on the emotional well-being of the town’s citizens.

 

·       Post a response to the scenario that you selected.

 

·       Explain how you might direct your staff or helping professionals at the addiction treatment center to contribute to the community’s recovery.

 

·       Explain what your goals would be in the community recovery effort.

 

·       Then, explain how federal and local government regulations might impact an addiction counselor’s ability to contribute to this community’s recovery.

 

Support your response using the Resources and the current literature.  Needs to be at least 1 page in length.

 

References (use at least 2)

 

Johnson, T. P., & Fendrich, M. (2009). Substance use under conditions of uncertainty and trauma: An introduction. Substance Use and Misuse, 44(12), 1661–1664.

 

Wiley Periodicals, Inc. (2006). Substance abuse counseling written into federal disaster response bill. Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly, 18(33), 5–6.

 

 

Discussion 2: Perceived Crisis Influencing Addiction

Personal crises and increased vulnerability to addictive chemicals and behaviors can stem from any event or situation that a person perceives as intolerable, the key word being perceives.

In your role as a helping professional, remember that events that seem benign to you may constitute a crisis in a client’s life. If a client perceives himself or herself to be in a crisis, whether you agree or not, the client is probably in a crisis and needs your professional assistance. There are a number of crisis intervention models available, and you should choose the model that seems to be most effective.

 

·       Post a description of at least two factors outside an individual’s control that could result in a perceived crisis and explain how that perception may affect propensity toward addiction.

 

·       Then describe a model of crisis intervention that might be most effective in addressing these factors and explain why.

 

Support your response using the Resources and the current literature. Needs to be at least 1 page in length.

 

References (use at least 2)

 

Johnson, T. P., & Fendrich, M. (2009). Substance use under conditions of uncertainty and trauma: An introduction. Substance Use and Misuse, 44(12), 1661–1664.

 

Wiley Periodicals, Inc. (2006). Substance abuse counseling written into federal disaster response bill. Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly, 18(33), 5–6.