How would you help Ruth with this challenge? As part of your assistance, would you offer vocational counseling also?

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Scenario: Ruth is a 24-year-old woman who, due to a tragic car accident at the age of 9, is now paralyzed from the waist down and is in a wheelchair. She graduated from Liberty University with her bachelor’s degree in psychology and now lives in Baltimore, Maryland with her close friend as a roommate. Ruth has been looking for a job in the area since they moved there 6 months ago, but has not yet had any luck finding a job. This is frustrating for her because she wants to be able to provide her side of the rent for the apartment, but without a job, her roommate has had to contribute to the rent, food, utilities, etc. Due to her situation, Ruth finds she is discouraged, depressed, and feeling worthless. She comes to you for counseling.

As a counselor, how would you help Ruth with this challenge? As part of your assistance, would you offer vocational counseling also? In your initial conversation, Ruth discloses that she has encountered discrimination based on disability as two potential employers rejected her application for employment based strictly on her wheelchair status, stating that bringing her in as an employee would put an undue burden on their business in terms of special accommodation for her disability (e.g., parking, bathroom [stalls, sinks], ramps into the building). How would you address this disclosure?

Write an 8-page (2000-word) term paper on one of the recent theoretical perspectives on human development contained within your textbook, noting the contributions of your chosen theorist

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From the syllabus: Your project is to write an 8-page (2000-word) term paper on one of the recent theoretical perspectives on human development contained within your textbook, noting the contributions of your chosen theorist. Students are expected to identify the perspective of the contemporary theory and describe current research and application to the field of lifespan development. The page/word count does not include the title page, abstract or reference page. The goal of the term paper is to analyze and synthesize the literature on a chosen lifespan developmental theorist. You are required to use American Psychological Association Style (APA) for all source citations. Since psychology is a dynamic field, I expect most of your resources to have been published within the last ten years. You should review a minimum of seven empirical studies beyond the text book.

You should begin your term paper by discussing the importance of the topic. Organize your literature review around issues essential to your topic. Statements in your paper should be supported by data and information from your library research. The conclusion should be supported by the evidence from the literature that you evaluated.

Identify the complexities and controversies in defining happiness and well-being.

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Guidance on answering assessment questions:
•Your essay should:
•Identify the complexities and controversies in defining happiness and well-being.
•Refer to hedonic and eudaimonic approaches to happiness and compare theoretical frameworks falling under the hedonic and eudaimonic well-being umbrellas.
•Explain Seligman’s Authentic Happiness theory.
•Consider the role of character strengths in achieving happiness.
•Identify different locations for the application of positive psychology and propose interventions to increase happiness and well-being.

Integrative approaches to psychology and Christianity

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4MAT book review on: Integrative approaches to psychology and Christianity:An introduction to worldview issues, philosophical foundations and models of integration.By David N. Entwistle

2-Pg Summary- Be appropriately concise but also be adequately complete in your ideas. Prove that you comprehend the main ideas by writing a clear and succinct summary. The summary is not a commentary or listing of topics but rather a discussion of the core ideas (main ideas) in the entire book. Cite the book in-text at least once per paragraph and include page numbers for direct quotations.

1-pg Concrete Response-In approximately 1 page, write about a personal life episode that this book triggered in your memory. Relate your story in first person, describing action and quoting exact words you remember hearing or saying. In the teaching style of Jesus, this is your own parable, case study, or personal connection to the main ideas of the book. Your comments in this section need to be clearly tied to main points from the book, not tangential ideas. Connect your comments to the main points for the reader.

1-pg Reflection – This section is a short critique or evaluation of the author’s main ideas; include positives/negatives and strengths/weaknesses. You should consider new questions that arose for you in response to what you have read and explore concerns, implications, etc.

1-pg Action – What are you going to do about it? Develop action steps based on the core points of the book. This section must be a description of how the main ideas will affect your counseling. What professional changes will you implement and share with others? Be precise in summarizing your action steps and clearly connect your action steps to main points from the book.

In sum, after having read Entwistle per my suggestions, you should be able to explain the following in your paper:
The concept of truth: both psychology and theology seek truth—why have they been enemies in the past, and why do some counselors still see them as enemies?; how do to the two systems seek truth differently?; what epistemology does each system accept/reject?; how can each discipline contribute to truth in ways that the other may not be able to?; why is “all truth is God’s truth” an important tenant in the Christian worldview?; what is meant by the “two books”?
Why is the concept of worldview so important to both psychologists and theologians? What are the implications to counseling for a therapist’s worldview?
What are the main elements of the models of integration? What are the implications for integration (and counseling) if one identifies with one model over another?