Summarize the effects of some of the main neurotransmitters in the brain, and list four hormones that influence behavior.

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Imagine that you are a practicing psychologist, and you are the featured presenter for the upcoming psychology conference. Your chosen topic centers upon factors that influence human behaviors and cognitions. In your presentation, you want to teach the audience about biological, evolutionary, and environmental factors that influence behaviors. To do this, you will need to prepare a PowerPoint to present to the audience. In your PowerPoint presentation, be sure to include the below concepts:

1. Identify ways in which the environment can both nurture and thwart mental ability.

2. Explain how nurture and nature play interactive roles in shaping behavior.

3. Summarize the effects of some of the main neurotransmitters in the brain, and list four hormones that influence behavior.

Your PowerPoint presentation must be at least eight slides in length, not including the cover slide and reference slide. In addition to your textbook, you must use a minimum of one scholarly source. Any information from an outside source that is used should be cited appropriately according to APA format. You may use the notes field in PowerPoint to expand on your ideas, if necessary, but this is not required.

Analyze personal and contextual factors that promote identity development in young adults and explain the close link between a young adult’s identity development and cognitive processes or a young adult’s identity development related to career and family. Include a discussion on what clinical mental health counselors might consider when working with young adults and recommend treatment goals that synthesize theories and models of individual, cultural, couple, family, and community resilience to address a young adult client’s system.

Your document should be written in APA format. Your document should be written in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrate ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; and display accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.

What would I notice if I believed this view? In what sense or under what conditions might this idea be true?”

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These are the positions that oppose my position. I am pro legalization of prostitution.

For the three (3) premises (reasons) that oppose your position on the  issue, answer these “believing” questions suggested by Elbow:

  • What’s interesting or helpful about this view?
  • What would I notice if I believed this view?
  • In what sense or under what conditions might this idea be true?”

 

Should prostitution be legal?

Cons:(1)

Melissa Farley, PhD, Research and Clinical Psychologist and Founder of the Prostitution Research & Education website, stated in her 2016 article “Very Inconvenient Truths: Sex Buyers, Sexual Coercion, and Prostitution-Harm-Denial,” available at logosjournal.com:

“The existence of prostitution anywhere is society’s betrayal of women, especially those who are marginalized and vulnerable because of their sex, their ethnicity, their poverty, and their history of abuse and neglect. Prostitution is sexual harassment, sexual exploitation, often torture. Women in prostitution face a statistical probability of weekly rape, like domestic violence taken to the extreme.
The complicity of governments sustains prostitution. When the sex trade expands, women are less likely to compete with men for jobs. When prostitution is incorporated into states’ economies, governments are relieved of the necessity of finding employment for women. Blood taxes are collected by the state-as-pimp in legal and decriminalized prostitution. Banks, airlines, Internet providers, hotels, travel agencies, and all media are integral to the exploitation and abuse of women in prostitution tourism, make huge profits, and are solidified as part of the economy.”

2016 – Melissa Farley, PhD

Cons: (2)

Donna Gavin, Lieutenant in the Human Trafficking Unit at the Boston Police Department, in a Mar. 23, 2015 article for bostonglobe.com titled “‘Pretty Woman’ Normalizes Something That Destroys Lives,” wrote:

“Prostitution is not a fairy tale. ‘Pretty Woman’ normalizes something that destroys lives. It glamorizes prostitution and creates an illusion that prostitution is a voluntary, desirable occupation. The film suggests that prostituted people are knowledgeable and have other options they might have chosen. The reality is that prostitution and sex trafficking make up a harmful, pervasive, illegal, and violent criminal industry involving pimps and traffickers who are tied to gangs, drugs, and street violence…
Now is the time to act. We need men and women to speak up for those who can’t speak for themselves. We need to attack this harmful sex industry from all sides by targeting the pimps and the traffickers, providing services and exit strategies for those being prostituted, and educating and dissuading would be buyers. We need to dissuade buyers from fueling this industry and hold them accountable when they do.”

Mar. 23, 2015 – Donna Gavin

Cons: (3)

Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States, in a May 31, 2016 article for the Washington Post titled “To Curb Prostitution, Punish Those Who Buy Sex Rather Than Those Who Sell It,” wrote:

“Some assert that this ‘profession’ can be empowering and that legalizing and regulating all aspects of prostitution will mitigate the harm that accompanies it. But I cannot accept a policy prescription that codifies such a pernicious form of violence against women. Normalizing the act of buying sex also debases men by assuming that they are entitled to access women’s bodies for sexual gratification. If paying for sex is normalized, then every young boy will learn that women and girls are commodities to be bought and sold…
[I]f full legalization is adopted, it will not be the ’empowered sex worker’ who will be the norm — it will be the millions of women and girls needed to fill the supply of bodies that an unlimited market of consumers will demand. Where do we think these young girls in the sex trade will come from? (Most victims are girls, though some boys are exploited, too.) It is simply naive to oppose sex trafficking of children and women and at the same time support decriminalizing the buyers who create the demand and the pimps who profit from the supply of girls and women.
I believe it is better to help women and girls avoid a life of prostitution and to deter men from buying sex acts.”

May 31, 2016 – Jimmy Carter

What techniques would you use to develop rapport, express empathy, and encourage your client/student to “tell his or her story?”

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Throughout this course, you have been introduced to tools to assist clients and students with identifying options for meaningful and desirable work. These tools include theories, assessments, and job-seeking strategies to facilitate self-exploration, increase career knowledge, and enhance career decision-making. In this final project, you will synthesize what you have learned by developing a career plan to support a client or student’s career development. To complete the project, you will first develop a case study illustrating a fictional client or student with career development needs. You will then apply the Hill and O’Brien (1999) Helping Skills Model to address the needs of this fictional client or student. The Helping Skill Model is outlined in the case study, Darren: The Case of the Unemployed Runaway, located in the Week 10 Learning Resources.

To Prepare:

  • Consider the learning resources presented throughout the course. If necessary, for your action plan, review the resume and interviewing resources presented in the Week 11 resources as well. Additional career resources can be found on the Walden University Career Services website (https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/careerservices/home).
  • Access the Hill and O’Brien (1999) Helping Skills Model located in the Week 10 Learning Resources.
  • Access the Career Plan template located in the Week 10 Learning Resources.

In 5–6 pages, use the Hill and O’Brien (1999) Helping Skills Model to describe the strategies/interventions that you would use to support a client’s/student’s life work plan.  The Helping Skills Model is outlined in the case study, Darren(  https://class.content.laureate.net/9c592372bb596bc46dc9b2d83671d4ec.pdf): The Case of the Unemployed Runaway. It is located in the Week 10 Learning Resources.

  • First, develop a case study to use for this Application Assignment. Do not use “Darren” from the resources. In your case study, you should:
    • Briefly describe your client’s/student’s presenting problem or career concern, and
    • Relevant sociocultural factors that influence the case.
  • Next, following the Hill and O’Brien (1999) model,
    • describe the activities that you would engage in at Stage One of your career plan (Exploration, pp. 231–232).
    • What techniques would you use to develop rapport, express empathy, and encourage your client/student to “tell his or her story?”
    • How would you broach the role of sociocultural factors in your client’s/student’s career story?
  • For the second stage, Insight (p. 232), identify the areas that you would focus on to gain a deeper meaning and understanding of your client’s/student’s situation.
    • How would you identify his or her interests, abilities, and strengths?
    • What career assessments and/or computer-assisted programs might be of use?
    • What changes in the world-of-work might be relevant?
  • For the Action stage (p. 232), identify
    • The plans you would develop
    • How you would evaluate them, and
    • What follow up activity you would do with your client.

Be sure to include your advocacy statement from your Week 7 Reflection Paper (this will be messaged to you privately), and how you might advocate with or on behalf of your client or student.

Include anything else that you would like to add to further develop the plan.

Discuss sleep aids and cough-and-cold remedies as some of the other classes of over-the-counter drugs. 2). Examine the importance of family systems in substance-abuse prevention attempts.

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WEEK 8 FINAL QUIZ

Answer each question thoroughly and clearly, and ground it in course reading material. Essay answers must be more than 3 or 4 brief sentences per paragraph, but kept within the bounds of an essay exam must have (3 to 6 paragraphs) Per question. All your writing must be in your own words. Paraphrase (restate what you read) rather than copying material from course readings or the Internet.  No copying is permitted in this course and doing so will result in zero points on the exam. Answers must be written in narrative, paragraph form.  Lists and/or sentence fragments also will not receive points.

Questions

1). Discuss sleep aids and cough-and-cold remedies as some of the other classes of over-the-counter drugs.

2). Examine the importance of family systems in substance-abuse prevention attempts.

3). What are the behavioral symptoms of marijuana use?

4). Could the public associate a valuable medicinal agent (i.e., a medicine) with the dark world of doping and performance-enhancing drugs? Even worse, could some people accuse these companies of developing drugs that could be misused by athletes as a way of enhancing sales? Discuss the implications.

What are some of the principles of effective treatment for substance abuse and dependence?

5). Discuss the components of school-based substance-abuse prevention programs that have worked in the past.

6). Discuss the importance of different sociocultural filters for effective substance-abuse prevention.

7). Based on our current research, who is at greatest risk for alcohol abuse or dependence?

8). Relate the biomedical model of mental illness to the development of psychiatric drugs.

9). Analyze the challenges in designing effective substance-abuse treatment programs.