Access and read the “Non-Traditional Family Case Study” to complete the essay assignment.

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Access and read the “Non-Traditional Family Case Study”   to complete the essay assignment.

Citing three to five scholarly sources, address the prompts in an  essay of 750-1,000 words:

  1. Explain the family structure described in the case study.
  2. Decribe the unique challenges this family faces.
  3. Explain the differences and similarities between    Lorraine’s cultural background and the current family culture    she is in.
  4. How can Lorraine, Mike and John help build    resiliency in Charlie and the twins to ensure their overall health    and function in society?
  5. Lastly, imagine you are the mental    health worker assigned to assist this nontraditional family system.    Use the SAMHSA website to recommend two resources (parenting    classes, resources for military families, etc.) this family could    use to help the children cope with the family situation. Describe    the resources and defend why they are beneficial to this  family.

     

     

     

     

     

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    Nontraditional Family Case Study

    John and Mike are in their late 30s and have been partners for 7 years. John is a teacher; Mike is a writer who works from home. He is also a musician who supplements his income by playing gigs a few nights a week at a local nightclub and teaching piano lessons to children on the weekends. John and Mike have twin daughters, Presley and Aubrey, who are 3.

    Lately, they became the guardians of Charlie, the 5-year-old son of Mike’s brother, Stan. Stan is currently deployed and will be away for the next year. Stan fathered Charlie with his girlfriend, Deirdre. The two never married.

    Deirdre struggled with mental illness most of her life and suffered from postpartum depression after having Charlie, so her mother, Lorraine, moved in to help out with baby Charlie. The arrangement worked well until Stan was deployed.

    When Charlie was only 4 months old, Deirdre left and died from a drug overdose a few months later. Lorraine, a kind and loving widow from Poland, grew up with her parents, aunts and uncles, and grandparents living in the same house. For her, grandparents taking care of grandchildren is part of her culture. She found that her grandson Charlie was the only thing that helped her through the loss of her daughter. Lorraine is disabled and unable to safely care for Charlie without assistance, so she and Charlie moved in with John, Mike, and the twins until Stan returns from deployment. The house, however, is barely big enough for all of them. They have no extra space, no extra money, and no extra time. They do, however, have plenty of love to spare.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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Review/research current state laws pertaining to juveniles “bound over” to adult court

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Review one of the juvenile mass school shooter cases listed below. A couple of them also killed one, or both, parents, in addition to students at school. Each of these juvenile mass school shooters was “bound over” to adult court, tried, and sentenced as adults.

Kip Kinkel

Charles Andrew Williams

Barry Loukaitis

Michael Carneal

Luke Woodham

Thomas “T.J.” Lane

For this Final Project, you are to apply  kansas state case law, identify forensic risk assessment factors, and evaluate your own biases pertaining to the case you chose.

Write a 10- to 12-page (not including references, title page, or abstract) APA-formatted paper in which you do the following:

  • Review/research current state laws pertaining to juveniles “bound over” to adult court. Provide an analysis of your state laws regarding juveniles sentenced as adults. If you are an international student, you may use your local or regional laws.
  • Evaluate risk factors that may have contributed to the shooter’s actions. Be sure to include developmental risk factors.
  • Recommend forensic risk assessment instruments that would be appropriate to be used in evaluating risk specific to this case.
  • Evaluate your own personal biases, which may lead to weaknesses regarding how you effectively communicate the results of the forensic assessment where the defendant is a juvenile given a life sentence.
  • Explain ethical concerns that may impact your work on this case. Be sure to cite relevant APA Ethical Guidelines, Specialty Guidelines for Forensic Psychology and/or Multicultural Competence Guidelines located within the Week 2 Learning Resources.

The Final Project must include a minimum of five academic references (in addition to any course readings that you may wish to reference). Please be aware that non-professional, user-created websites such as Wikipedia will not be accepted as scholarly references.

Explain how heredity and the environment influence human development.

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Prepare a 900- to 1,150-word paper in which you discuss the life span perspective of human development. Be sure to include the following items in your description:

  • Summarize three theories related to human growth and development and identify at least one influential theorist for each.
  • Identify aspects of the life span perspective.
  • Explain how heredity and the environment influence human development.

Use a minimum of two peer-reviewed sources.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

Submit your assignment.

Interdisciplinary Experience: Sustaining Quality of Life in the City

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Week 1: What Is Quality of Life?

Many people show pride of place, or pride in where they live, through symbols of their hometown, such as a baseball cap or t-shirt, or simply through their attitude. You might also recognize some people from Chicago by their accent, or people from Quebec City because they choose to speak French in predominantly English-speaking Canada.

What may not be so apparent is the reason why humans settle where they do—and why they stay there. You may learn that a woman you met on a plane lives in São Paulo, Brazil because of her job, or because her family settled there 20 years ago. However, what made the original inhabitants settle in Brazil centuries ago, and do those reasons, centuries old, still resonate today?

This week, you begin examining how Interdisciplinary Studies relates to quality of life in a city by considering what defines a city, how Interdisciplinary Studies can contribute to that definition, and how cities began.

Learning Objectives

Students will:
  • Analyze perspectives for defining quality of life in a city
  • Analyze sources relevant to quality of life in a city

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Learning Resources

Required Readings

Note: To access this week’s required library resources, please click on the link to the Course Readings List, found in the Course Materials section of your Syllabus.

Kotkin, J. (2005). Cities: Places sacred, safe, and busy. The Next American City, (8), 19–22.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

Joel Kotkin, a well-known author in urban studies and related areas, writes about the characteristics that make cities important.

Montgomery, C. (2013, November 1). The secrets of the world’s happiest cities. The Guardian. Retrieved from http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/nov/01/secrets-worlds-happiest-cities-commute-property-prices

Document: Final Project Summary (PDF)

Document: Student Contributed Resource Worksheet (Word document)

Student Contributed Resources

In this course, you contribute resources to the overall course dialogue. This week, you will complete an exercise for the Assignment that focuses on finding a quality article in the Walden Library or from another reputable source.

  • Download the “Student Contributed Resource Worksheet” document from this week’s Learning Resources. This worksheet will help guide you in seeking resources to complete this week’s Assignment.
  • Find one article about quality of life in a specific city or in cities generally.
  • Complete the Week 1 Assignment.

Author and Source Suggestions

You are not required to find work from these authors or sources, although you may use them. You may also find that these authors or sources lead to others in the field.

  • Richard Florida
  • Joel Kotkin
  • The Guardian. (2015). Cities. Retrieved from http://www.theguardian.com/cities
  • CITYLAB. (2015). Retrieved from http://www.citylab.com/
  • Numbeo. (2015). Quality of life index 2015. Retrieved from http://www.numbeo.com/quality-of-life/rankings.jsp
Required Media

Laureate Education (Producer). (n.d.-d). Interdisciplinary perspectives in urban studies [Video file]. Baltimore, MD: Author.

Note:  The approximate length of this media piece is 5 minutes.

In this video segment, urban studies practitioners and scholars discuss the inherent interdisciplinarity of the field.

Optional Resources

Jacobs, J. (1992). The death and life of great American cities (Modern Library ed.). New York, NY: Random House.

This classic work in urban studies, originally published in 1961, focuses on Jane Jacobs’ Greenwich Village neighborhood in New York City as a model, thriving urban area. It is a reference point for many authors who write about urban issues today. You may find ideas from this book referred to in your course reading and in articles that you find.

Discussion: Quality of Life: Perspectives

The word city conjures up many images, drawn from personal experience and perhaps influenced by characterizations in film, literature, or other cultural expressions. Your expectation for how life should be lived may also come from multiple perspectives. Do citizens refer to a nostalgic past? Were things really better in the past? Is the economy attracting new residents? How is the city adjusting to the influx? In this Discussion, you define quality of life in a citythrough a particular perspective.

To prepare for this Discussion:

  • Read “The Secrets of the World’s Happiest Cities” and “Cities: Places Sacred, Safe, and Busy,” located in this week’s Resources area.
  • View the media in this week’s Resources area, Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Urban Studies.
By Day 3

Post a 250-word response that explains the best perspective through which to define quality of life in a city. Choose from the following perspectives:

  • Commerce
  • Public Health
  • Culture/Religion
  • History

In your post, be sure to:

  • Use the place you live to provide real-life examples of how quality of life can be measured.
  • Refer to one specific example from your course reading.

Note: Be sure to support your ideas by connecting them to the week’s Learning Resources or something you have read, heard, seen, or experienced