What are the advantages and disadvantages for each job listed in the scenario?

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Job Choice Scenario

Review the following scenario and identify the advantages and disadvantages that exist for each job opportunity. Use your analysis to write your “Choosing the Right Job” paper, due in Week Five.

Mary can hardly believe it! Graduation day has finally arrived. This is the day she has been waiting on, for four long years. Now, her hard work and dedication have paid off. Not only is she graduating with her college degree, she has received two job offers. What else could a person ask for? This is a dream come true.

As soon as she’s finished celebrating, she knows she must sit down and weight out her options and decide which job to accept. Following are her options:

· Job offer number one is an opportunity to work as a Psychological Associate at a small family owned rehab center. The organization is small with a total employee base of 20 people. Everyone is friendly and on a first name basis with President and owner. The owner is conscientious and works hard to mentor each employee. The company has been in existence for 15 years and has added five new employees during the past year as it continues to grow. They offer a competitive salary of $45,000 with raises promised once a year with periodic bonuses. The job also offers health and dental insurance along with two weeks paid vacation.

· The second job is with a large, well-known insurance company as a Patient Liaison. In total the company employs approximately 300 employees. The job pays $40,000 and includes annual raises for good performance. The benefits package includes company paid insurance and tuition reimbursement. Employees receive one week vacation the first year and three weeks’ vacation thereafter. In addition, the job offers 401K with an employer matching contribution.

Which job offers the best start for Mary?

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Characteristics of Effective Prevention Programs

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Please no plagiarism and use at least source from the listed readings below. I need this by 10/04/17 at 5pm.

Characteristics of Effective Prevention Programs

“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”
–Benjamin Franklin

Mental health services can target families and couples already experiencing severe problems, those couples and families experiencing common life stage transitions, and even couples and families that have not yet shown any signs of difficulty at all. Primary prevention seeks to intervene with the latter group on a mass scale with the goal of impacting the greatest number of couples and families as possible. As attractive as primary prevention sounds, and equally common-sensical and time-honored, the development and implementation of primary preventative interventions and programs proves difficult. For instance, it is difficult to measure the impact of an intervention or program that seeks to forestall some future outcome that may be one or more years away. Fortunately, much research has been conducted on what constitutes an effective, or good, preventative intervention or program. The dilemma for mental health professionals as a whole, and for you as a future marriage, couple, and family counselor, is how to carve out space in your professional work for the creation and development of prevention programming. This is challenging because in clinical practice, the majority of time and money may be spent on tertiary prevention or remedial counseling.

To prepare for this Discussion, use the Internet to find a prevention program for an area of professional interest. Consider how this program is effective or ineffective using the characteristics of effective programs outlined in the Learning Resources.

With these thoughts in mind:

Post by Day 4 the title for the prevention program you selected. Describe three characteristics that make this program effective and explain why. Then, describe at least one characteristic that the program is lacking. Finally, explain how you would redesign the program to effectively incorporate the missing characteristic.

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

Required Resources

Readings

  • Article: Bond, L. A., & Carmola-Hauf, A. M. (2004). Taking stock and putting stock in primary prevention: Characteristics of effective programs. The Journal of Primary Prevention, 24(3), 199–221.
    Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
  • Article: Kumpfer, K. L., Alvarado, R., Smith, P., & Bellamy, N. (2002). Cultural sensitivity and adaptation in family-based prevention interventions. Prevention Science, 3(3), 241–246.
    Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
  • Article: Larson, J. (2007). Couple enrichment approaches. Journal of Couple & Relationship Therapy, 6(1/2), 197–206.
    Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
  • Article: Stith, S., Pruitt, I., Dees, J., Fronce, M., Green, N. Som, A., & Linkh, D. (2006). Implementing community-based prevention programming: A review of the literature. The Journal of Primary Prevention, 27(6), 599–617.
    Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

Optional Resources

Articles

  • Sanders, M. R., Ralph, A., Sofronoff, K., Gardiner, P., Thompson, R., Dwyer, S., & Bidwell, K. (2008). Every family: A population approach to reducing behavioral and emotional problems in children making the transition to school. The Journal of Primary Prevention, 29(3), 197–222.
  • Wilson, K., Gonzalez, P., Romero, T., Henry, K., & Cerbana, C. (2010). The effectiveness of parent education for incarcerated parents: An evaluation of parenting from prison. Journal of Correctional Education, 61(2), 114–132.

Define classic illusory correlation and give an example.

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1. Roger is a heavyweight boxing champion. When he engages in fighting in the ring for a title match, would you say punching his opponent is hostile aggression or instrumental aggression? Support your answer.

2. Define classic illusory correlation and give an example.

3. Why does researcher Christopher Ferguson posit that the news media shouldn’t “make such a fuss” when it finds out that a shooter is a young male who played violent video games? http://techland.time.com/2013/10/08/researcher-says-linking-video-games-to-gun-violence-is-a-classic-illusory-correlation/

4. When we think about bullying, we think about both physical and verbal aggression. Provide at least one example of a physically aggressive type of bullying and one example of a verbal aggressive type of bullying.

Evaluate the effectiveness of the treatment interventions implemented by Dr. Banks

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Case Analysis – Treatment Format Prior to beginning work on this week’s journal, read the PSY650 Week Four Treatment Plan ,Preview the documentView in a new window Case 15: Borderline Personality Disorder in Gorenstein and Comer (2014), and Borderline Personality Disorder in Sneed et al., . (2012). Please also read the Rizvi, et al. (2013), An Overview of Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Professional Psychologists, a Harned, et al.  (2013), treatment Preference Among Suicidal and Self-Injuring Women with Borderline Personality Disorder and PTSD,” Miller (2006), Telehealth Issues in Consulting Psychology Practice, a  and Luxton, et al. (2011), “mHealth for Mental Health: Integrating Smartphone Technology in Behavioral Healthcare  articles. Assess the evidence-based practices implemented in this case study. In your paper, include the following. Explain the connection between each theoretical orientation used by Dr. Banks€™s and the interventions utilized in the case. Describe the concept of dialectical behavior therapy, being sure to include the six main points of this type of treatment. Explain Dr. Banks’s primary goal during the pre-treatment stage and how Dr. Banks related this to Karen in her initial therapy sessions. Describe the two formats that Dr. Banks told Karen would be part of her treatment program. Describe the focus of the second and third stages of treatment. Assume the role of a consulting clinical or counseling psychologist on this case, and recommend at least one technology-based e-therapy tool that would be useful. Explain liability issues related to delivering e-therapy consultation, supporting your response with information from the Miller (2006), telehealth Issues in Consulting Psychology Practice  article. Evaluate the effectiveness of the treatment interventions implemented by Dr. Banks supporting your statements with information from the case and two to three peer-reviewed articles from the Ashford University Library, in addition to those required for this week. Recommend three additional treatment interventions that would be appropriate in this case. Use information from the Sneed, Fertuck, Kanellopoulos, and Culang-Reinlieb (2012), borderline Personality Disorder â article to help support your recommendations. Justify your selections with information from the case. The Case Analysis Treatment Format Must be 4 to 5 double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site..Must include a separate title page with the following: Title of paper Student as  name Course name and number Instructor as name Date submitted Must use at least two peer-reviewed sources from the Ashford University Library in addition to the article required for this week. Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.