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Achieving Work–Life Balance

 

Thanks to the ever-increasing wireless connectivity, the boundary between work and personal life is constantly thinning. A new term “weisure” describes the increasing tendency to continue to work during leisure time (Patterson, 2009). Examples include reading work e-mail while spending time with the family and answering work-related cell phone calls during a leisure outing. This trend, according to Patterson, is partly due to the increasing enjoyment of work but also due to the difficulty faced in establishing clear boundaries between work and leisure time. This difficulty is magnified by the increase in the average number of hours in the workweek for many in the workforce and multiple roles. Many are parents, spouses, partners, employees, and caregivers to elderly parents and also engaged in continued education.

Whether you decide to enter the workforce directly upon graduation or attend graduate school, you will be faced with the challenge of juggling multiple roles and maintaining a balance. You will also be attempting to prove yourself as a new employee or as a new graduate student. The temptation to overwork will be great. However, it can have ethical implications, especially if you work in the psychology field. The stress you face may impair your effectiveness, leading to ethical ramifications (Barnett, Baker, Elman, & Schoener, 2007).

Using the Argosy University online library resources, research work–life balance. You may want to use some or all of the following search terms: work–life balance, job satisfaction, burnout, weisure, overworked, and self-care.

  • Select at least one authoritative article from the library and provide a summary. Focus on the effects of work–life imbalance and the benefits of work–life balance.
  • Discuss any ethical ramifications of failure to take proper care of yourself while working in the field of psychology. Identify at least one ethical standard from the American Counseling Association (ACA) Code of Ethics and one standard from the APA Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct that apply, providing the specific standards’ numbers and titles.
  • Be sure to cite your sources

Explain how the person demonstrates integrity or ethics, giving examples.

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Write a paper on your selected leader, include the following in the paper:

 

Give an overview of the organization and the leader.

 

Explain how the person demonstrates integrity or ethics, giving examples.

 

Provide your own insight into the organization or leader.

 

What makes the person ot organization stand out?

 

If you were in that person’s place or worked for the organization, would you make the same choice?

 

 

Write a three-four page paper in worf format.  Apply APA standards for writing style to your work. Also use APA to cite books, articles and websites used in your research.

 

Why is a z score a standard score? Why can standard scores be used to compare scores from different distributions?

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University of Phoenix Material

 

Time to Practice – Week Two

 

Complete Parts A, B, and C below.

 

Part A

 

Some questions in Part A require that you access data from Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics. This data is available on the student website under the Student Text Resources link.

 

1.    Why is a z score a standard score? Why can standard scores be used to compare scores from different distributions?

 

2.    For the following set of scores, fill in the cells. The mean is 70 and the standard deviation is 8.

 

Raw score Z score
68.0 ?
? –1.6
82.0 ?
? 1.8
69.0 ?
? –0.5
85.0 ?
? 1.7
72.0 ?

 

3.    Questions 3a through 3d are based on a distribution of scores with  and the standard deviation = 6.38. Draw a small picture to help you see what is required.

 

a.     What is the probability of a score falling between a raw score of 70 and 80?

b.    What is the probability of a score falling above a raw score of 80?

c.     What is the probability of a score falling between a raw score of 81 and 83?

d.    What is the probability of a score falling below a raw score of 63?

 

4.     Jake needs to score in the top 10% in order to earn a physical fitness certificate. The class mean is 78 and the standard deviation is 5.5. What raw score does he need?

 

5.     Who is the better student, relative to his or her classmates? Use the following table for information.

 

Math      
Class mean 81    
Class standard deviation 2    
Reading      
Class mean 87    
Class standard deviation 10    
Raw scores      
  Math score Reading score Average
Noah 85 88 86.5
Talya 87 81 84
Z-scores      
  Math score Reading score Average
Noah      
Talya      

 

From Salkind (2011). Copyright © 2012 SAGE. All Rights Reserved. Adapted with permission.

 

Part B

Some questions in Part B require that you access data from Using SPSS for Windows and Macintosh. This data is available on the student website under the Student Text Resources link.

 

The data for Exercises 6 and 7 are in thedata file named Lesson 20 Exercise File 1. Answer Exercises 6 and 7 based on the following research problem:

 

Ann wants to describe the demographic characteristics of a sample of 25 individuals who completed a large-scale survey. She has demographic data on the participants’ gender (two categories), educational level (four categories), marital status (three categories), and community population size (eight categories).

 

6.     Using IBM® SPSS® software, conduct a frequency analysis on the gender and marital status variables. From the output, identify the following:

 

a.     Percent of men

b.    Mode for marital status

c.     Frequency of divorced people in the sample

 

7.     Using IBM® SPSS® software, create a frequency table to summarize the data on the educational level variable.

 

The data for Exercise 8 is available in the data file named Lesson 21 Exercise File 1.

 

8.     David collects anxiety scores from 15 college students who visit the university health center during finals week. Compute descriptive statistics on the anxiety scores. From the output, identify the following:

 

a.     Skewness

b.    Mean

c.     Standard deviation

d.    Kurtosis

From Green & Salkind (2011). Copyright © 2012 Pearson Education. All Rights Reserved. Adapted with permission.

 

Part C

 

Complete the questions below. Be specific and provide examples when relevant.

 

Cite any sources consistent with APA guidelines.

 

Question Answer
What is the relationship between reliability and validity? How can a test be reliable but not valid? Can a test be valid but not reliable? Why or why not?  
How does understanding probability help you understand statistics?  
How could you use standard scores and the standard distribution to compare the reading scores of two students receiving special reading resource help and one student in a standard classroom who does not get special help?  
In a standard normal distribution: What does a z score of 1 represent? What percent of cases fall between the mean and one standard deviation above the mean? What percent fall between the mean and –1 to +1 standard deviations from the mean? What percent of scores will fall between –3 and +3 standard deviations under the normal curve?  

 

 

Providing Faith-Based Services

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Assignment 1: Discussion—Providing Faith-based Services

Faith-based services are those that incorporate elements of spirituality. In the field of counseling, those who provide faith-based services have traditionally been referred to as “pastoral counselors.”

For clients with strong religious convictions or the desire to explore their own spirituality further, particularly as it relates to a mental health issue, faith-based services may be the best choice. If a provider has strong religious convictions, it is important that the provider abide by the ethical guidelines of the profession. This is particularly relevant when the provider’s own convictions are in opposition to the client’s values, beliefs, behaviors, or issues.

As reported in The Chronicle of Higher Education, a graduate student in a counseling psychology program was dismissed from the program after she refused to work with certain client populations based on her religious beliefs. Open the link to read the article:

  • Schmidt, P. (2010, July 27). Federal judge upholds dismissal of counseling student who balked at treating gay clients. The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved from
    http://jobs.chronicle.com/article/Judge-Upholds-Dismissal-of/123704/

In a minimum of 350 words, respond to the following:

  • Summarize the reasons the judge upheld the student’s dismissal from her academic program.
  • Why did the judge agree with the school’s decision to dismiss her?
  • What are your views on her refusal to work with certain groups?
  • How does her refusal violate the ethics code for counselors? Identify the relevant code(s) or standard(s) from the following associations’ ethics codes:
    • American Counseling Association. (2005). ACA code of ethics. In Ethics. Retrieved from
      http://www.counseling.org/Resources/aca-code-of-ethics.pdf
    • American Psychological Association. (2010). Ethical principles of psychologists and code of conduct: 2010 amendments. Retrieved from
      http://www.apa.org/ethics/code/index.aspx
    • National Association of Social Workers. (2011). Code of ethics of the National Association of Social Workers. Retrieved from
      http://www.naswdc.org/pubs/code/code.asp

Respond to at least two of your fellow students’ responses. Provide a statement of clarification, a point of view with rationale, challenge a point of discussion, or draw a relationship between one or more points of the discussion. Respond to the following in your review:

  • Do you agree or disagree with the school’s decision to dismiss this student?
  • Discuss how counselors can remain true to their own values, while practicing ethically and professionally.

Apply APA standards to citation of sources.

By Saturday, March 22, 2014, post your response to the appropriate Discussion Area. Through Wednesday, March 26, 2014, review and comment on at least two peers’ responses.

Discussion Grading Criteria and Rubric

Assignment 1 Grading Criteria
Maximum Points
Initial Discussion Response
16
Discussion Participation
16
Writing Craftsmanship and Ethical Scholarship
8
Total:
40
Click here to view the rubric for this assignment.