Explore briefly the literature on earlier theories or research in the domain in which the adult has challenges, considering that early influences can impact development across the lifespan.

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Part 1: Create the Case

Create a simulated case study, relevant to your area of specialization, of a person in early, middle, or late adulthood who presents developmental challenges that could be predicted by developmental theory and/or research.

Your case should be 1–2 pages in length and it should describe:

The person and his or her strengths and challenges.
The person’s medical, family, and social context.
The developmental challenges evident in the person’s behavior.
Individual and cultural factors that theory and/or research indicate could impact the person’s development.
Any other factors you deem appropriate based on your understanding of the theory and related research.
To develop this case, you should:

Explore through theory and research stages of adulthood development.
Develop your case by creating a challenge for the adult who is navigating through one of the three phases of adulthood. Describe what the selected adult struggles with in this phase of his or her lifespan.
Develop your case study further by creating an environmental context for the adult. Include any specific issues that you want to explore through research, such as influences of a specific culture or ethnicity, specific socioeconomic status, family structure, attachment issues, and neighborhood context.
Maintain a resource list of the materials you consulted to build your case.
Follow current APA guidelines for style and formatting, as well as for citing your resources. Include a reference list of the scholarly resources you use.

Part 2: Adolescent Case Intervention Analysis

Research

Complete the following:

Research evidence-based interventions that have been effective in meeting the challenges of the adult you described in your case study, from the perspective of your own professional specialization (as far as possible).
Explain how the deficits in developmental domains or environmental contexts impact functioning.
State the recommended interventions that align with your specialization.
Include evidence for those outcomes from the professional literature.
Explore briefly the literature on earlier theories or research in the domain in which the adult has challenges, considering that early influences can impact development across the lifespan.
Explain, from the perspective of your specialization, how the earlier issues that are manifested in adulthood could be relevant.
Explain how the developmental history might help in understanding and determining an approach to working with an adult with the identified challenges.
Structure of the Report

Writing Assignment Paper Draft link Developing a Theoretical Framework Is addiction biologically based? How does dopamine affect learning?

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Writing Assignment Paper Draft link Developing a Theoretical Framework
Is addiction biologically based? How does dopamine affect learning? What about psychological influences, including personality and effects of trauma? Don’t people “use” to cope with unacceptable feelings or memories? Don’t peers and family influence behavior? Don’t people develop patterns within family social and cultural systems? What about how we learn? If you expect to get certain experiences aren’t we more likely to get them?
For this assignment, I would like you to read about addiction theories in your text (Chapter 2) and on the AMHC website to read more on theories of addiction (from Hester and Miller’s out-of-print 2003 book). Notice that the theories generally fall into 4 areas: biology (biomedical, disease concept) psychology (social learning, coping through self-medication, developmental, personality), sociology (general systems, socio-cultural, family systems) and spirituality (moral/spiritual aspects of addiction). Think about what they have in common as well as how they are different.
Choose 3 models to discuss from 3 of the 4 areas listed above. (Do not select models from the same area). Compare the theories. What do some have in common? Also, contrast them. How are some very different from others – even to the point of being “mutually exclusive”? (impossible for both theories to be accurate at the same time) (5%) What are the advantages of each model for explaining addiction? What strengths and weaknesses do you see in the theory’s ability to explain the addictive process? Describe at least 2 strengths and 2 weaknesses for each model. (70%) How might the ideas in the model make sense to a particular group of people with addiction? (Describe the groups that the theory might appeal to). How could those ideas possibly make it more difficult for some addicts to understand and accept being addicted? Describe the groups that might find those ideas challenging. (5%) What ideas in which theories make most sense to you? Write a final paragraph defining addiction as you see it, based on ideas from your reading and your life. How has this project helped you expand your personal definition of addiction? (10%) Write approximately a 2 page paper (1” margins, no more than 1 ½ line spacing, 12-point font).

In an era where medicine can keep one’s body physically functioning while there may be no cognitive awareness, feeling or outward interactions: How much care ‘ought’ we provide?; Who ‘ought’ to have the ability and ‘power’ to decide when curative medical treatments are to be stopped?

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You read several articles this week that addresses what care at near the end of life “ought” to include and/or exclude. There are differences in how people would like to be cared for when they are near the end of life. “Letting Go”, “Approaches to end-of-life decision in the NICU and “Dying: Go Gentle” all address the role of medical care for people that are near the end of life. Leaders in medicine need to be aware and responsive to the special needs of people near the end of life and their families, Some topics to consider in your comments on the Forum may include:

In an era where medicine can keep one’s body physically functioning while there may be no cognitive awareness, feeling or outward interactions: How much care ‘ought’ we provide?; Who ‘ought’ to have the ability and ‘power’ to decide when curative medical treatments are to be stopped?; When does ‘futility’ of the treatment options morally require the medical practitioner to stop treatments that could be said to be doing ‘more harm than good’? Connect your comments to an application of the weekly principle which is ” Justice”

Examine the findings that the article presents and consider how well they addressed the researcher’s initial question(s)

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When conducting original research, the final step researchers must complete is weighing the evidence and interpreting the meanings of their data, statistics, and analyses. This is the culmination of the research process in which all of the research methods and designs can be synthesized into a meaningful conclusion. In this stage, researchers should formulate explanations for what their data indicates, determine whether the data answers their initial research question, identify areas of uncertainty, and consider directions for further research.
In this Discussion, you focus on one of the research articles that you identified for Part 2 of the Course Project (Literature Review). You then explore the process of how the researchers generated conclusions based on their data, consider other possible interpretations of their data, and formulate ideas for further research.
To prepare: •Review this week’s Learning Resources, focusing on how researchers find meaning in their data and generate sound conclusions. Pay particular attention to Table 2 in the article, “Study Design in Medical Research.” •Revisit the 5 articles that you identified in Part 2 of the Course Project. Select one to consider for the purpose of this Discussion. •Read sections of the chosen article where the data is presented, analyzed, and interpreted for meaning. What reasoning process did the researchers use to formulate their conclusions? What explanation did they give to support their conclusions? Were there any weaknesses in their analysis or conclusions? •Consider possible alternate conclusions that the researchers could have drawn based on their data. •Examine the findings that the article presents and consider how well they addressed the researcher’s initial question(s). What additional research could be done to build on these findings and gain a fuller understanding of the question?