Assignment 1: The Leader’s Role in Effecting Change

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Assignment 1: The Leader’s Role in Effecting Change

The leader plays a large role in shaping an organization’s culture. In this discussion, you will choose a Fortune 500 company with a well-known leader and research a current major change the company is embracing. Your role will be as an industrial/organizational (I/O) professional helping this company, team, and individual leaders embrace the change. You will need to understand the company’s culture by using Heckleman’s BEAR Model. Your discussion will be in the form of a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation.

Be sure your presentation addresses these specific questions:

  • What is the name of the company you chose? What are the leaders’ names?
  • What is the current change the company is adapting to?
  • What is the company’s current culture?
  • What are the challenges you think the company will have making said changes?
  • Using the BEAR Model, what recommendations do you have to change the company’s beliefs, experiences, actions, and results?

Attach your response as a 4- to 6-slide Microsoft PowerPoint presentation in the Discussion Area.

The slides need not be in APA style, but the notes should be grammatically correct. All citations should be in APA format on both the slides and the notes pages. A reference page, in APA format, should be included as a slide.

Submission Details:

What standards are used in your jurisdiction for an insanity plea?

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Assignment 2: RA 1: Legal Requirements

The insanity defense is as old as it is controversial. There are times when insanity truly applies and times when it is not easy to determine. In either case, the documentation of services provided to these clients is typically heavily scrutinized by attorneys since documentation is the primary means used by courts to measure insanity as it meets legal standards. This assignment will allow you to examine the legal standards for insanity in your jurisdiction in addition to the requirements for the documentation of services provided to these individuals.

Tasks:

Search your state and regulatory boards, professional associations, state psychology boards, and state psychological associations. Use resources from professional literature to support your response. Professional literature may include relevant textbooks; peer-reviewed journal articles; and websites created by professional organizations, agencies, or institutions (.edu, .org, and .gov).

Write a 3- to 4-page paper, including the following:

  • What are the legal requirements in your jurisdiction regarding the documentation of services provided by a forensic psychology professional? If not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity (NGRI) and guilty-but-mentally-ill (GBMI) evaluations are not recognized by your jurisdiction, review the legal requirements in a jurisdiction where they are the standard.
  • What are the specific laws and rules regarding the documentation of psychological services?
  • What are the differences between the requirements for clinical work and the requirements for forensic work, if any?
  • What standards are used in your jurisdiction for an insanity plea?
  • Do the insanity standards identify mental disease or defect with any exclusions, such as substance use? Explain.
  • How do the standards in your jurisdiction contrast with the standards presented in your course textbooks?
  • Do the insanity laws specify the presence of cognitive or volitional impairment as a threshold requirement to meet insanity? Provide brief examples.

Determination of the defendant’s competency to stand trial.

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  • Review the article “External Conversations: An Unexpected Discovery About the Critical Friend in Action Research Inquires.” Reflect on the value of external conversations in communicating your findings.
  • Review the article “Light Touch Critical Friendship.” Consider how to offer critical friendship.
  • Search online for a resource on creating PowerPoint presentations and prepare a10–15 slide PowerPoint presentation that summarizes the following about your assigned case:
    • Background and diagnosis of the defendant in your assigned case
    • Determination of the defendant’s competency to stand trial. Justify your determination.
    • Selection of two potential jurors for the defendant’s trial. Justify your selections.
    • Presentation of diagnostic criteria for the defendant’s mental disorder
    • Description of possible treatment plan, based on mental disorder, for the convicted individual. Description of roles of those involved with implementing the treatment plan within the correctional setting.

This presentation is a high level summary of your main points. It should include concise, clear language. In each slide, present a key finding with supporting commentary presented in the Notes section below the slide. Make use of bullets, tables, and other formats to ensure you are presenting the necessary information clearly and succinctly.

By Day 4, post your PowerPoint presentation to the appropriate thread for your case study group.

What Is Epistemology? Introduction To The Word And The Concept

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Prior to beginning work on this assignment, read the “Personal Epistemology in Education” article in your text (p. 52), the Bendixen and Rule (2004) and Hofer (2006) articles in the Ashford University Library, and watch the
What is Epistemology? Introduction to the Word and the Concept (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. video required for this week.

 

As suggested in the required articles and video for this assignment, the definition of what a personal epistemology is has been debated. However, developing a personal learning epistemology is important because it is foundational to how we think. Without a multifaceted understanding of how we obtain knowledge, how we rely on our intelligences, and how we expand ideas in our minds, we have no intelligible path for our beliefs. A rigorous learning epistemology is essential to comprehensive reasoning and thinking.

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Based on your current and newly developed knowledge as well as the required resources for this assignment, apply basic research methods to align the content of the information in the required course resources this week with your personally constructed learning epistemology. Apply skeptical inquiry to develop your personal epistemological beliefs through reflection on the questions below. Be aware that these questions are not the only considerations that might be included, and they should not be used verbatim; rather, they can serve as guides as you begin the process of creating your personal epistemology.

  • What can we know?
  • How can we know it?
  • What do/should individuals need to learn, and why?
  • What purpose(s) should education serve?
  • How do you believe persons acquire knowledge best?
  • What image of society and the kinds of adults that populate it seems to correspond with your vision of knowing/learning?
  • What do you believe about the way students learn and why they may (or may not) want to learn?
  • Why do we know some things but not others?
  • How do we acquire knowledge?
  • Is knowledge possible?
  • Can knowledge be certain?
  • How can we differentiate truth from falsehood?
  • Why do we believe certain claims and not others?
  • According to Plato, knowledge is a subset of that which is both true and believed. Do you agree or disagree?

After developing basic answers to the questions above and considering the impact of understanding how one’s own conscience awareness of knowledge and learning  may affect individual development and beliefs manifestations, research a minimum of five peer-reviewed articles in the Ashford University Library that can be used as support sources for your personal learning epistemology. Your learning epistemology must include six to seven key points with supporting rationales regarding your beliefs on learning and knowing.

Apply professional standards to your explanation regarding how knowledge is developed by providing references for any theoretical perspectives, historical trends, and/or empirical findings you include in your epistemology. Additionally, your personal epistemology should be an authentic and truthful explanation about your current beliefs about learning and knowing, as supported by your research, and not merely reflective of what you think your instructor or peers want to hear.

The paper should not include any elaborate quotes; it should be scholarly in nature with citations throughout. It is recommended that you submit your paper to both Writing Reviser and Turnitin prior to submission for grading. Please note that you will include a revised draft of this epistemology, based on instructor feedback as well as your own knowledge development during this course, as part of your Learning and Cognition Handbook.

The paper:

  • Must be three to four double-spaced pages in length, not including the title or references pages, and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site..
  • Must include a title page with the following:
    • Title of paper
    • Student’s name
    • Course name and number
    • Instructor’s name
    • Date submitted
  • Must begin with an introductory paragraph.
  • Must address the topic with critical thought and support all assertions with peer-reviewed sources.
  • Must end with a conclusion that synthesizes your belief statements about knowing and learning.
  • Must use at least five peer-reviewed sources from the Ashford University Library.
  • Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the In-Text Citation Guide (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site..
  • Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the APA References List (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site..