Provide Opinions About Custody In Cases Of Divorce

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Forensic professionals are often called upon to provide opinions about custody in cases of divorce, parental termination, and reestablishment of custody after a child has been removed from the custodial parent’s home. Specific ethical and legal parameters govern when and how a professional should offer such an opinion in a legal setting. For this assignment, you will be asked to provide an analysis of factors relevant to custody evaluations or evaluations for termination of parental rights.

Tasks:

In a 3- to 4-page paper, address the following:

  • The best interests of the child, with a specific focus on how this is defined in the APA guidelines
  • The manner in which the best-interest decisions are influenced by the wishes of the child
  • The difference between a fact and an expert witness in the cases of child custody
  • The specific procedures, including parent interviews, child interviews, observations, and objective tests, used in custody evaluations
  • The issues surrounding confidentiality, privilege, and privacy in custody evaluations
  • The court testimony in custody evaluations, with emphasis on the collective use of data and opinion versus fact in reporting the results

Use three additional 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).

Assignment: Measures of Central Tendency and Variability

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Assignment: Measures of Central Tendency and Variability

Last week, you learned how to summarize a distribution by using frequency distribution tables and various graphs. The shape the frequency distribution forms is important, but frequency tables and graphs are not always the most efficient or meaningful way to summarize large amounts of data. In addition to graphing the shape of the distribution, statistics can be computed to provide even more information about the scores. Measures of central tendency tell us how the scores in the data set “hang together.” What score or scores are “typical” for the data set? Measures of variability help us understand how scores are spread out. How big are the distances between scores? Computing measures of central tendency, such as the mean, median, and mode, and measures of variability, such as the range and standard deviation, is often the first step researchers take after collecting data for a study.

This application will allow you to practice computing and interpreting some common measures of central tendency and measures of variability, both by hand and with the statistical software package SPSS. Download the data set that you will use for this assignment from the Weekly Data Set forum. Be sure to watch this week’s instructional video in the introduction or Learning Resources folder before beginning your Application Assignment.

Scenario: Imagine that your employer is hosting a walking competition. Employees are to report the number of minutes they walk each week. Your employer has asked you to compute descriptive statistics on the data from the first week of the competition to help him know how much people are walking.

You can find the data for this Assignment in the Weekly Data Set forum.

To complete this Assignment, submit by Day 7 calculations of the following measures of central tendency and measures of variability by hand:

By Day 7

To complete this Assignment, submit calculations of the following measures of central tendency and measures of variability by hand:

  1. Mean
  2. Median
  3. Mode
  4. Range
  5. Deviation of the highest score from the mean
  6. Estimated population standard deviation
  7. ∑X2 (explain your calculations, but you do not to interpret this result in relation to the scenario)
  8. (∑X)2 (explain your calculations, but you do not to interpret this result in relation to the scenario)

For each measure you compute by hand, include an explanation of:

  • Your calculations (explain the steps)
  • What that measure tells you about the number of minutes walked by employees

For example, each of your answers might look something like this: “The mean of this sample is ______ minutes walked in the first week. The mean is calculated by _________________. The mean tells me that participants in the sample walked ____________ in the first week.”

  1. Compute the mean and standard deviation in SPSS. Note: Your hand-calculated mean and standard deviation may differ somewhat from the calculations in SPSS due to rounding.
  2. Describe how the standard deviation (SD) and the deviation of a single score from the mean differ in the information they provide.
  3. Without redoing any calculations, think critically about how each measure would be affected if the lowest score was eliminated from the data set. Explain if each measure (mean, median, mode, deviation of the highest score from the mean, and standard deviation) would increase, decrease, or stay the same.
  4. Identify the type of distribution (positive skew, negative skew, or normal distribution) the data create. Explain how you know the type of distribution and what it tells you about the sample.

Write your responses in your own words. It is acceptable to number your answers, but do not copy and paste the questions into your answer document.

Be sure to fully explain the rationale for your answer to each question, including evidence from the text and learning resources.

Provide an APA reference list.

Submit three documents for grading:

  • Your text (Word) document with your answers and explanations to the application questions.Submit the word document to the Week 2 Assignment Part 1 link.
  • Your SPSS Data file , and your SPSS Output file to the Week 2 Assignment Part 2 link.

Discussion, review the Learning Resources and research two articles related to either gender and affiliation or gender and attraction.

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Affiliation and Attraction

Social psychologists have studied affiliation and interpersonal attraction, mate selection, and relationship satisfaction. Not surprisingly, research indicates that males and females think differently about relationships. Some of these differences include comfort with relationship intimacy and physical contact, perceptions of attractiveness, reasons for mate selection, and the role of emotion within relationships (Crisp & Turner, 2014). For this Discussion, review the Learning Resources and research two articles related to either gender and affiliation or gender and attraction. Consider how gender may relate to affiliation and attraction and whether or not you agree with the articles you selected.

Post by Day 4 a brief explanation of how gender might affect two of the following: friendship, attraction, entering a relationship, or relationship satisfaction. Then explain whether you agree or disagree with the research you selected regarding gender and relationships and why. Be specific and use the current literature to support your response.

Be sure to support your postings and responses with specific references to the Learning Resources.

Read a selection of your colleagues’ postings.

Respond by Day 7 to at least one of your colleagues’ postings in one or more of the following ways:

  • Ask a probing question.
  • Share an insight from having read your colleague’s posting.
  • Offer and support an opinion.
  • Validate an idea with your own experience.
  • Make a suggestion.
  • Expand on your colleague’s posting.

Return to this Discussion in a few days to read the responses to your initial posting. Note what you have learned and/or any insights you have gained as a result of the comments your colleagues made.

Click on the Reply button below to reveal the textbox for entering your message. Then click on the Submit button to post your message.

BE SURE TO READ THE DISCUSSION BOARD GUIDELINES IN THE ANNOUNCEMENT SECTION OF THE COURSE.

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RE: Discussion – Week 9

Describe the effectiveness of their use with the forensic population.

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In the role of a forensic counselor, you will be charged with subscribing to a particular theory to guide your practice. Some of the most well-known theoretical approaches to treatment are psychodynamic, humanistic, cognitive behavioral, and client centered.

For this assignment, complete the following:

  • Choose and analyze an approach to counseling forensic clients.
  • Include a discussion of the basic tenets of the approach you have selected and also include the curative factors of this approach.
  • Describe the effectiveness of their use with the forensic population.
  • Include your rationale for choosing this approach.

Post your response in a minimum of 400–500 words.

All written assignments and responses should follow APA rules for attributing sources.

Your responses to your classmates should rely upon at least two sources from additional professional literature. Professional literature may include online library resources, relevant textbooks, peer-reviewed journal articles, and websites created by professional organizations, agencies, or institutions (.edu, .org, and .gov).

Assignment 1 Grading Criteria
Maximum Points
Quality of initial posting
16
Quality of responses to classmates
12
Frequency of responses to classmates
4
Reference to supporting readings
4
Language and grammar
4
Total:
40