Corrections And Delinquency Intervention/Prevention Programs

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Corrections and Delinquency Intervention/Prevention Programs

Use the Ashford University Library to locate a journal article encompassing such topics as: corrections, jails, prisons, rehabilitation, or boot camps. You can use your research in your Final Paper, due in Week Five. Also, the Required and Recommended Resources, listed every week, are available to use as research for your Final Paper. Once you have found an article, provide the following information:

  1. Correctly cite the article in APA format: name of journal, authors, title of article, location.
  2. Summary of the article. Which type of crime intervention/prevention strategy is being addressed?
  3. List key findings and recommendations.

Your initial post should be at least 300 words in length. Support your claims with examples from the required material(s) and/or other scholarly resources, and properly cite any references. Respond to at least two of your classmates’ posts by Day 7 and continue to support your arguments with examples from the required material(s) and/or other scholarly resources.

Assignment 2: Pros and Cons of DSM Diagnosis

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Assignment 2: Pros and Cons of DSM Diagnosis

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) was originally developed in 1952 to help doctors and counselors across the country standardize the classifications of mental disorders in the American population. Throughout the intervening years, the DSM has gone through several revisions, establishing specific diagnostic criteria for each disorder listed, and revising disorders as more was understood about their origins, symptoms, and treatments. The DSM III (1980) marks the point when substance use disorders were moved to a category of their own, separate from personality disorders. Today, the current DSM lists the diagnostic criteria for substance use disorders.

While these standardized diagnostic practices have been in use for more than sixty years, there are some pros and cons in the use of the DSM diagnoses of substance use disorders in the assessment of clients.

Complete the following requirements:

  • Evaluate, in detail, the pros and cons of using DSM diagnoses as the primary classification structure for clients with substance use disorders.
  • Examine the assessment types used to diagnose clients with substance use. Choose two of these assessments that would not only help to diagnose the substance use disorder, but would also assess the whole person. Explain them fully.
  • Compare and contrast the two assessments chosen regarding how they will evaluate the whole person and not just the specific DSM diagnostic criteria.
  • Justify the value of using assessments that evaluate the whole person rather than just the specific DSM diagnostic criteria.

Use scholarly resources to support your work.

Write a 3–4 page paper in Word format. Apply APA standards to citation of resources.

Use the following file naming convention: LastnameFirstInitial_M2_A2.doc. For example, if your name is John Smith, your document will be named SmithJ_M2_A2.doc.

By Wednesday, September 9, 2015, deliver your assignment to the M2: Assignment 2 Dropbox.

 

Assignment 2 Grading Criteria Maximum Points
Evaluated the pros and cons of using DSM diagnoses as the primary classification structure for clients with substance use disorders. 30
Chose two of the assessment types used to diagnose clients with substance use that would not only help to diagnose the substance use disorder, but would also assess the whole person, and fully explained them. 30
Justified the value of using assessments that evaluate the whole person rather than just the specific DSM diagnostic criteria. 18
Supported positions using scholarly resources. 14
Wrote in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrated ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; displayed accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation. 8
Total: 100

American Psychological Association Publication Manual (6th Ed.)

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If you were given the task of providing an educational session regarding teratogens to women who were planning to get pregnant, what information would you consider vital to your presentation? If a participant stated that she believed that a few cigarettes and a glass of wine per day would not be harmful, how would you respond? What research-based reasons for not smoking or drinking would you provide to the participant?

 

Please use American Psychological Association Publication Manual (6th Ed.) formatted citations and references for all posts and responses. Include page numbers for citations from your text. Example: Berk (2013, p. 21) states ……. If the idea you are citing from the text references another source, please cite it accordingly. Example: (Saxe, 1988 as cited in Berk, 2013, p. 25). List your references at the end of your assignment on a separate reference page and list your name, the topic of the assignment, and the date you submitted the assignment on a cover page. The assignment should be a minimum of 1.5 pages long not including the cover page or reference page. However, of more importance than the minimum length of the assignment, it should cover all aspects of the assignment prompt.

 

Reflect on Aquinas’ arguments for God’s existence

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A. Start off by summarizing Anselm’s argument for God’s existence in your own words.  After summarizing Anselm’s argument, state if you think if it is a good argument or not.  Why or why not?

 

B. Reflect on Aquinas’ arguments for God’s existence.  Do you think that they are compelling arguments for God’s existence?  If so, why, if not, why not?

 

C. Suppose that Paley is offering an analogical argument for God’s existence.  Then we would take his argument to be like this.

Look at a watch, it has certain features such as order and intricately integrated parts that serve some purpose.  This is similar to lots of things that exist such as the eye, animals, and plants, which exhibit order and intricately integrated parts that serve some purpose.  Thus, since watches have a designer, there needs to be a designer of all of the things that exist in the universe.  This designer of everything in the universe is God.

An argument from analogy breaks down if there is enough dissimilarity between the two objects being compared.  Is this a problem for Paley’s argument (again assuming that he’s arguing by analogy)?  Why or why not?

 

D. Think about the argument for God’s existence developed by Collins.  The argument can be represented like this:

(1) Our universe is fine-tuned to sustain conscious, intelligent life.

The best explanation of (1) is that an intelligent designer such as God created our universe.

Assess the strength of this argument for God’s existence.  Do you think that it provides good reason to believe in God?  Why or why not?

 

 

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