Read your colleagues’ postings. Respond to your colleagues’ postings who proposed the opposite method from the one you selected as the ideal method for investigating the question and justify why you chose the alternate method.

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Please no plagiarism and make sure you are able to access all resource on your own before you bid. Main references come from Balkin, R. S., & Kleist, D. M. (2017) and/or American Psychological Association (2014). You need to have scholarly support for any claim of fact or recommendation regarding treatment. I have also attached my discussion rubric so you can see how to make full points. Please respond to all 3 of my classmates separately with separate references for each response. You need to have scholarly support for any claim of fact or recommendation like peer-reviewed, professional scholarly journals. I need this completed by 10/05/19 at 4pm.

Expectation:

Responses to peers. Note that this is measured by both the quantity and quality of your posts. Does your post contribute to continuing the discussion? Are your ideas supported with citations from the learning resources and other scholarly sources? Note that citations are expected for both your main post and your response posts. Note also, that, although it is often helpful and important to provide one or two sentence responses thanking somebody or supporting them or commiserating with them, those types of responses do not always further the discussion as much as they check in with the author. Such responses are appropriate and encouraged; however, they should be considered supplemental to more substantive responses, not sufficient by themselves.

Read your colleagues’ postings. Respond to your colleagues’ postings who proposed the opposite method from the one you selected as the ideal method for investigating the question and justify why you chose the alternate method.

1. Classmate (M. Chr)

Quantitative Research  Study

This week for this discussion the question how does music impact mood was posed. This means that in order to research this question my design would need to involve two different types of data. The first type of data is quantitative data which is numerical and is based on gathering numerical data in terms of percentages and more. This is also a way to get a baseline for data (Laureate Education, 2017). Thus, one way I could get quantitative data is by implementing a survey to the participants asking if different genres of music affect their mood. This survey could be a scaled score seeing which genres tend to have a higher percentage of participants whose mood is affected by music. I could even be specific and ask questions first like how often do you feel you listen to music and give them choices like an hour a day and more.

Qualitative Research Study

The second type of  data would be very easy to collect for this research question which is qualitative data. I need to keep in mind that to gather qualitative data, one of the easiest ways for me to collect it would be to use the culture around me (Laureate Education, 2017). For instance, I hear songs when people are driving with the windows down at a stoplight and the person in the car is dancing which to me clearly indicates the music is affecting their mood.. I could also have participants come in and listen to different tracks from different genres and see if right then and there it affects them as they are listening to it.  I could also write down observations as I am talking to them of what I see what when I am watching them listen to music. This also includes observing their body language

Which Is  Better For Investigating the  Impact of Music on my Client’s Mood? 

When I think about this research question, I have to think about which type of data I would want to use. When I was looking for articles in the Walden library, I was unable to yield any research articles that dealt with music being impactful to one’s mood,  However, through googling I did find a few scholarly articles but they did not really deal with the question I was looking at. They dealt with things like the function of music. Thus, after thinking, I personally think that I qualitative data would be best for researching this question. One reason is because I think this particular research question should be experienced through the people (Laureate Education, 2017). This means that to get the best data I can out of this question I would be observing the people listening to music. Than I would interview them (Laureate Education, 2017).

Summary

In conclusion, there are two different types of data to consider as I mentioned. When thinking about a research  question, it is important to realize what kind of information I am seeking with my question, and that will lead to my determination of which type of data would be the best fit. I may find out as well  that as I am investigating the research question that I may need to have one type of data first then end up needing a little bit of the other to get a clear answer to the question (Laureate Education, 2017).I have also  figured out that collaboration is a great tool to use to collect large amounts of data from multiple locations or even from more spread out locations such as a beach (Laureate Education, 2017). Thus, for this particular question, I would  utilize qualitative data, and by utilizing these types of data, the question will be answered in a clear and concise way that will allow for possible future research to be done.

Resources:

Laureate Education (Producer). (2017). Qualitative methods: An example [Video file]. Baltimore, MD: Author.

Laureate Education (Producer). (2017). Quantitative methods: An example [Video file]. Baltimore, MD: Author.

Laureate Education (Producer). (2017m). Roundtable: Research methods [Video file]. Baltimore, MD: Author.

2. Classmate (J. Fun)

Quantitative Investigation

In quantitative research the typical process includes gathering participants, obtaining measures, evaluating data, and communicating results. I could quantitatively investigate how music impacts mood by using percentages. Percentages are often helpful in describing the participants of a study or nominal variables (Balkin & Kleist, 2017). In this case, percentages could provide information of different variables related to those listening to music. For example, a percentage of those who enjoy listening to music and those who don’t, a percentage of different activities participants participate in while listening to music. In quantitative research the typical process includes gathering participants, obtaining measures, evaluating data, and communicating results. In quantitative research, the nature of collecting data involves providing numeric values for phenomena (Balkin & Kleist, 2017).

Qualitative Investigation

Qualitative research produces knowledge that allows us to understand the human meaning of events, situations, contexts, experiences, or actions; the particular contexts within which actions and experiences take place; social and psychological processes by which events and actions take place; and the unanticipated phenomena and influences of experiences and processes (Maxwell, 2013, as mentioned in Balkin & Kleist, 2017). I could use this to investigate how music impacts mood by researching the psychological process, mood, and experience felt while someone is listening to music.

Best Choice for Investigation

I would utilize qualitative research to investigate this question due to its ability to provide insight into the feelings and thoughts participants may have in studies that study the impact music has on their mood. In particular, researching descriptions, interviews, journals, etc., that participants may have used to communicate these feelings and thoughts towards music.

References

Balkin, R. S., & Kleist, D. M. (2017). Counseling research: A practitioner-scholar approach. Alexandria, VA: American Counseling Association

Laureate Education (Producer). (2017e). Introduction to research design [Video file]. Baltimore, MD: Author.

Laureate Education (Producer). (2017m). Roundtable: Research methods [Video file]. Baltimore, MD: Author.

3. Classmate (L. Lan)

The research question that we are investigating is how does music impact mood? If we were to design a quantitative study to test this question, we would need to develop an operational definition of what is to be measured, in this case, mood (Balkin, 2017). We are looking at how variables relate to one another, known as correlational research because we know that “quantitative research is useful when the research question examines relationships between variables” (Balkin, 2017; Laureate Education, 2017). Ideally, a random sampling of participants would need to be gathered in order to be representative of the general population, but this can be challenging (Balkin & Kleist, 2017). As Dr. Smeaton notes while describing his quantitative study, it is difficult create a representative sample when when researchers are often reliant on convenience sampling (Laureate Education, 2017). In this case, researchers would need to be careful not to only gather participants who are interested in music or who listen to music frequently.

In order to measure how music impacts mood, a researcher might provide a questionnaire to participants for them to report how they feel before listening to certain types of music and again after.  A researcher might also measure participants cortisol levels before, during and after listening to a certain type of music. All of these numbers would need to be analyzed and interpreted in order to make a generalization about the impact music has on people’s mood (Balkin & Kleist, 2017).

Qualitative Research Study

Qualitative relies primarily on words, documentation and some type of description (Laureate Education, 2017). In this case, we are looking at the participant’s experience with music and their perception of whether or not it impacted their mood. A researcher using a qualitative method might also go about gathering a representative sampling and interviewing participants about their experiences with music and how they noticed their moods changing or not.
Which is better for investigating the impact of music on my client’s mood?

For this study, I believe that a mixed methodology is best. As Dr. Wilson notes in the video, “it’s hard to describe something with numbers when it’s an experience you’ve had”, and mood is certainly a personal experience (Laureate Education, 2017). I think a qualitative approach would be helpful in gathering details about the type of music and how it changes a person’s mood, given that there are so many types of music and so many moods. This would provide a narrative to the way that music impacts mood (Balkin & Kleist, 2017). That being said, a quantitative approach might be helpful in gathering a larger sample of the population since a survey instrument can more easily be disseminated to a large group of people and the numbers can be analyzed and interpreted.

Summary

Reading and listening to this week’s resources, I’m overwhelmed at the detail and complicated considerations that go into designing a research study. A simple question like “how does music impact mood?” could be examined by so many different approaches both qualitatively and quantitatively.

References

Balkin, R. S., & Kleist, D. M. (2017). Counseling research: A practitioner-scholar approach. Alexandria, VA: American Counseling Association

Laureate Education (Producer). (2017). Qualitative methods: An example [Video file]. Baltimore, MD: Author.

Laureate Education (Producer). (2017). Quantitative methods: An example [Video file]. Baltimore, MD: Author.

Laureate Education (Producer). (2017m). Roundtable: Research methods [Video file]. Baltimore, MD: Author.

Required Resources

Balkin, R. S., & Kleist, D. M. (2017). Counseling research: A practitioner-scholar approach. Alexandria, VA: American Counseling Association.

  • Chapter 4, “Types of Research”
  • Chapter 5, “Fundamental Concepts in Quantitative      Research”
  • Chapter 10, “Fundamental Concepts in Qualitative      Research”

Required Media

Laureate Education (Producer). (2017e). Introduction to research design [Video file]. Baltimore, MD: Author.

Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 14 minutes.

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Laureate Education (Producer). (2017m). Roundtable: Research methods [Video file]. Baltimore, MD: Author.

Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 26 minutes.

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Optional Resources

Laureate Education (Producer). (2017). Quantitative methods: An example [Video file]. Baltimore, MD: Author.

Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 13 minutes.

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Laureate Education (Producer). (2017). Qualitative methods: An example [Video file]. Baltimore, MD: Author.

Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 11 minutes.

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What is a time when you or someone you know of experienced a conflict between duty to self and loyalty to the community?

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Week 3 Discussion: Self and Others

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Required Resources
Read/review the following resources for this activity:

  • Textbook: Chapter 5, 6
  • Lesson
  • Minimum of 1 scholarly source (in addition to the textbook)

Initial Post Instructions
Rather than living in chaos, danger, and the hostility of our neighbors, we find ways to live together. It isn’t easy, but can we avoid doing so?

If everybody has self-interest in their own welfare and safety, then everybody also has self-interest in the welfare and safety of others. Self-interest involves community interest, and we must think about what we are willing to give up in order to get that safety and stability for ourselves, our families, our community, our nation, and even the world.

Thomas Hobbes and John Locke are just two examples of social contract moralists. Locke’s philosophy helped Thomas Jefferson formulate the United States Declaration of Independence. We are interested in what it means to live together in an orderly way under a social contract.

Initial Post Instructions
For the initial post, address one of the following sets of questions:

  • What is a time when you or someone you know of experienced a conflict between duty to self and loyalty to the community? What would logical reasoning say should be done in that case? Why that? What would an Ethical Egoist say to do? Why would they say to do that? Note what you feel is the best course of action.
  • What is a time when you or someone you know experienced a clash between professional duties and familial duties? Reference a professional code such as that of the American Nurses Association or American Bar Association in explaining the clash. What moral values should have been used in that case? Why those values? What would social contract ethics have said to have done? Why would social contract ethics say that? Note what you feel is the best course of action.
  • Articulate and evaluate a time when you or someone you know saw personal obligations collide with national obligations. How did that tension involve differing positions on a moral debate? Did those positions rely on any key moral theories? If so, how so? If not, why not? Note what you feel is the best course of action.

Reference

Rachels, S., & Rachels, J. (2019). The elements of moral philosophy (9th ed.). Mcgraw-Hill Education.

describe two potential counseling goals and two interventions you could use for the client using a wellness perspective.

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Please no plagiarism and make sure you are able to access all resource on your own before you bid. One of the references must come from Broderick and Blewitt (2015). I need this completed by 01/30/18 at 5pm.  My assigned family is the Joeng Family attached.

Discussion 1: Developmental Challenges in Middle Adulthood

All we know about the future is that it will be different.
—The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

Adulthood has a way of spurring a false sense of stability and predictability. For example, adults who have settled into a successful career and family routine often start each morning with a clear vision of what the day will bring. However, what happens when the unexpected happens? How do unforeseen circumstances such as a natural disaster, medical complication, car accident, layoff, an unfaithful partner, or addiction alter one’s life path and overall happiness? These are events that may lead someone to see a counselor. As such, counselors must equip themselves with a wide range of strategies and approaches that will support their adult clients as they create counseling goals and interventions.

For this Discussion, review this week’s media, “Middle Adulthood.”Focus on your assigned client in your case study family. Before crafting your post, also consider the points raised in the media, “Perspectives: Middle Adulthood.”

Post by Day 3 a conceptualization of the client that you were assigned. Then, describe two developmental challenges associated with that client. Finally, describe two potential counseling goals and two interventions you could use for the client using a wellness perspective. Justify your response with references to this week’s Learning Resources and the current literature. Be specific.

Readings

· Broderick, P. C., & Blewitt, P. (2015). The life span: Human development for helping professionals (4th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education.

o Chapter 13, “Middle Adulthood: Cognitive, Personality, and Social Development” (review pp. 478-525)

o Chapter 14, “Living Well: Stress, Coping, and Life Satisfaction in Adulthood” (pp. 526-555)

Diehl, M., & Hay, E. L. (2010). Risk and resilience factors in coping with daily stress in adulthood: The role of age, self-concept incoherence, and personal control. Developmental Psychology, 46(5),1132–1146.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

Henning, P. B. (2011). Disequilibrium, development, and resilience through adult life. Systems Research and Behavioral Science, 28(5),443–454.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

Ong, A. D., Bergeman, C. S., & Boker, S. M. (2009). Resilience comes of age: Defining features in later adulthood. Journal of Personality, 77(6),1777–1804.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

Pufall-Jones, E., & Mistry, J. (2010). Navigating across cultures: Narrative constructions of lived experience. Journal of Ethnographic & Qualitative Research, 4(3), 151–167.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

Specht, J., Egloff, B., & Schmukle, S. C. (2011). Stability and change of personality across the life course: The impact of age and major life events on mean-level and rank-order stability of the Big Five. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 101(4), 862–882.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

Sutin, A. R., Costa, P. T., Jr., Wethington, E., & Eaton, W. (2010). Turning points and lessons learned: Stressful life events and personality trait development across middle adulthood. Psychology and Aging, 25(3), 524–533.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

Buchanan, T. (n.d.). Five factor personality test. Retrieved March 10, 2013 from http://www.personalitytest.org.uk/

Media

· Laureate Education (Producer). (2013e). Middle adulthood [Video file]. Retrieved from CDN Files Database. (COUN 6215/COUN 8215/HUMN 8215)
In this week’s media, you will examine the family member aged 30–65.
Note: Please click on the following link for the transcript: Transcript (PDF).

· Laureate Education (Producer). (2013h). Perspectives: Middle adulthood [Video file]. Retrieved from https://class.waldenu.edu
Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 3 minutes.
This week’s presenter discusses the impacts of family, career, and sexual orientation in middle adulthood.

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Please note that the same rules for citation that apply to other documents (such as proper paraphrasing and the use of quotation marks where necessary) apply to Annotated Bibliographies as well.

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Warm-up Activity 5.1
Review note taking tools. Visit the Northcentral library. In the category “Research Help” click on “Research Process”. Then click “Organizing Research & Citations” on the left-hand menu. Explore the available resources. Also visit the Zotero and Citeulike websites and review these online note taking and organizing tools. Choose a tool that best fits your need and you feel most comfortable with.

Warm-up Activity 5.2
Carefully study the following example of how to prepare an annotated bibliography entry. Note that there are four sections to the entry: hypothesis, methodology, conclusion, and evaluation. Be sure to include each of these sections in your annotated bibliography entries. For information on annotated bibliographies, visit the “Conducting Research” and “Forms of Writing” sections in the Northcentral University Academic Success Center (ASC) (click the links in the left side navigation area of the Academic Success Center (ASC) screen ).

Assignment

Begin an annotated bibliography of the articles that you are reviewing. Note all the important sections of the article, as illustrated in the sample above. Also, note not only the articles that you plan to use, but also any article that you read. Be sure to note at the end of the article how useful the article may be for your literature review.

Include the articles you reviewed in Week 3, so that there is a total of 15 articles in this version of your Annotated Bibliography. Add a one-page paper that reflects your experiences with note taking and research tools. Identify those that include features you would like to use and which one, if any, you have adopted for your own use.

Please note that the same rules for citation that apply to other documents (such as proper paraphrasing and the use of quotation marks where necessary) apply to Annotated Bibliographies as well. It is not acceptable to cut and paste from the abstract or the body of an article. Rather, the student is expected to read the article completely and appropriately paraphrase the necessary material. For those few situations where paraphrasing is not acceptable, then material that has not been paraphrased needs to be placed in quotation marks. Please refer to the Northcentral University Integrity Policy and tutorial for more information on this.

Length: at least 15 research articles

Your annotated bibliography should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts that are presented in the course and provide new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your response should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards. Be sure to adhere to Northcentral University’s Academic Integrity Policy.

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