LASA 2: Generating A Policy Proposal

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Assignment 1: LASA 2: Generating a Policy Proposal

Although some states and cities have passed laws to ban texting and using handheld phones while driving, there is no current law to ban all cell phone use while driving. However, according to the National Safety Council (2009), 28 percent of all crashes—1.6 million per year—are caused by cell phone use and texting by drivers. The mission of a new national nonprofit organization called FocusDriven, patterned after Mothers Against Drunk Driving, is to make phone use while driving as illegal and socially unacceptable as drunk driving. US Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood supports FocusDriven and its efforts: According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette,LaHood said this movement will become “an army of people traveling the countryside” to push for bans on cell phone use and tough enforcement (Schmit, 2010).

As a political advocate interested in this issue, you will be writing a policy proposal that utilizes the current research to propose a solution to the issue and submit it in this assignment.

Please note that your proposal is not an opinion/position paper, and your conclusions need to be based on the scientific research you reviewed earlier . Please follow the typical steps in proper academic writing (planning, outlining, drafting, revising, proofing, and editing) to generate the following proposal structure:

Introduction

In the introduction, you should set up the purpose for the proposal, provide a bit of background on the topic, and present your thesis.

Policy

Now that you have researched a variety of studies , compile that information together to create a recommendation for policy makers regarding cell phone use while driving.

1: In a one-page summary, compare and contrast the results of the various studies regarding the cognitive abilities that are affected during cell phone use while driving.

2: Using that research, develop and explain particular recommendations for policy makers. For instance, restrict texting, or regulate the use of hand-held phones. All your recommendations must be supported by your research findings.

3: Based on the gaps in current research, describe the variables, populations, and situations which you would like to see future research address.

Conclusion

Review the important current research, your conclusions from that research, and how the future could look in both policy and research. Keep your goal in mind: To convince the reader to support your current policy proposal and future research to examine this issue more closely.

Your proposal should be written in APA style (which includes a title page with running header and a reference page), and free of typographical and grammatical errors. The body of your proposal should be 4–5 pages long.

The Application Paper

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Write a 1000-word (minimum) paper, using APA standards, that addresses the following questions:

 

Families have changed greatly over the past 60 years, and they continue to become more diverse.

  • Why is the family considered the most important agent of socialization?
  • What caused the dramatic changes to the American family?  What are those changes?
  • Describe the differences in marriage and family life that are linked to class, race, gender, and personal choice.
  • Do you feel the trend towards diverse families is positive or negative?
  • If the trend changed towards traditional (pre-World War II) families, how would that affect women’s rights?

Describe the theory in detail and indicate why you feel it would be effective.

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Good Morning;

I need assistance in writing the below DBP.

 

HN300-01: Human Services and Social Policy Unit 4 Discussion Board Question:

 

Theory and Practice

 

It is important to understand the theories underlying our work and how they impact our actions in practice. Select one of the theoretical perspectives discussed in Chapter 4 that you believe would be effective in working with clients and respond to the following questions:

 

·         Describe the theory in detail and indicate why you feel it would be effective.

·         Using the Kaplan Library and the internet, research the theory you have chosen. Describe some of the basic helping skills that human services workers utilizing this theory would use.

·         Next, review and respond to the seven questions about clarifying your values on page 210 of your text:

 

  • • What values underlie your desire to help others?
  • • What social issues do you feel strongly about?
  • • Which client behaviors would you have trouble accepting?
  • • Which of your values would you like to change?
  • • What would you like to accomplish in human services?
  • • How do you go about solving personal problems?
  • • Do you readily seek help from others when you need it?

 

 

·         Finally, discuss how these values relate to your choice of the theory under which you will practice and the interventions you choose to utilize with your clients.

Thank You

The Role of Women in Society: from Preindustrial to Modern Times.

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RESPONSE 1

 

Respond to at least two colleagues by in one of the following ways:

·       Offer and support an opinion about the likely outcome based on the theories your colleague described.

·       Make a suggestion for another way in which each theory your colleague described might inform social work practice when working with Tiffani.

·       Expand on your colleague’s posting with more evidence in support of your colleague’s position.

 

Colleague 1: Shaquahia

 

Selected Article

The article that I’ve selected in relation to the topic of women in society it titled, “The Role of Women in Society: from Preindustrial to Modern Times.” The article discussed the role of the women in agriculture and distinguished based upon ethnicity. During the preindustrial period, majority of the agriculture work was done by women, although dominated by men. The article centered the women’s role based upon different cultures and marital status. Once the plough was invented, women’s input dwindled or ceased. In modern times, countries with a tradition of plough use, women are less likely to participate in the labor market, are less likely to own firms, and are less likely to participate in national politics.

Feminist Theory 

The feminist theory I selected is liberal feminism. According to Robbins, S. P., Chatterjee, P., & Canda, E. R. (2012) liberal feminism refers to women being basically the same as men and therefore should have equal rights to men. The focus of the theory is for women’s rights to control their own bodies through sexual education and contraception, in relation to abortion rights. This theory relates to social work practice due to the profession being majority women. Due to being a woman dominated field, it shows that women can be in a leadership position as a man could. This feminist theory hasn’t really influenced my understanding of women’s role in society, but rather confirmed my thought process. Often times we hear how men make more money than men, although they can do the same job and this theory opposes that.

The Bradley Case

The Bradley case better references radical feminism rather than my choice of liberal. Radical feminism focuses on issues of violence against women, including sexual harassment, rape, battering, and prostitution.  My views of women’s roles inform my next steps with Tiffani due to teaching/assisting her with the liberal theory. The case ended with Tiffani overcoming her urge to see Donald, attaining her GED and planning to attend college. Due to such improvement, I would continue to uplift Tiffani and encourage her to be the best she could be. Continue with college and obtain a degree in the study that interests her. Even finding part-time employment while attending college to keep her occupied.

Reference

Giuliano, P. (2015). The Role of Women in Society: from Preindustrial to Modern Times. Cesifo Economic Studies, 61(1), 33-52.

Plummer, S.-B., Makris, S., Brocksen S. (Eds.). (2014). Sessions: Case histories. Baltimore, MD: Laureate International Universities Publishing. [Vital Source e-reader]. Part 2, “The Bradley Family”

Robbins, S. P., Chatterjee, P., & Canda, E. R. (2012). Contemporary human behavior theory: A critical perspective for social work (3rd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Allyn & Bacon. Chapter 5, “Feminist Theory” (pp. 107–133)

 

Collegue 2: Jennifer

 

The roles for women have evolved over time. The roles have changed from being bare foot and pregnant with no equal rights to complete opposite for women in today’s society. In today’s society women have developed rights and have become empowered. Feminism provides insight about certain aspects such as social, political and economic structures for societies; and stresses that gender should be taken into consideration when analyzing the impacts of oppression, domination, power and powerlessness among society (Turner, & Maschi, 2015). Women were not taken into consideration and had equal rights that women have today. Although, women have gained rights and are more established, there is a stigma among society were women struggle with oppression, domination, power and powerlessness. Research has indicated despite social constraints and changes for women across the nation, historically, culture, specific religion and social controls over the female body have been persistent in Turkey that is a lifelong process (Gursoy, William, Sahinoglu, & Yesemin, 2014).

 

Social workers are to take many aspects into consideration such as culture race gender etc. Research has indication that the feminist theory is a mode of analysis that encompasses certain ways of thinking, and acting that is designed to transcend women’s liberation by ending oppression of women throughout society (Robbins, Chatterjee, & Canda, 2012). Social worker practice is intertwines with understand women’s roles in society while striving to end oppression. Feminist social work practices are related with empowering others and are sensitive towards the focus on domination and subordination (Turner, & Maschi, 2015). In addition the Ecofeminism theory seeks to end the subordination. The Ecofeminism theory is linked with the domination of women within the environment where women are viewed are closer to nature since women and nature were viewed as being under the control of men (Robbins, Chatterjee, & Canda, 2012). This theory relates to the social work practice to empowering women to gain self-confidence, self-esteem and becoming content with themselves.  The power of control from men in general can manifest into other issues that women are capable to develop. Gender discriminations that have been continuous has led to restriction towards Turkish women’s lives, decompensation of their health, and punishment is implemented of acting contrary to social expectations (Gursoy, William, Sahinoglu, & Yesemin, 2014). Social workers are able to address these issues and empower others. Empowerment is essential to the feminist theory such as seeking to enhance personal and interpersonal and political power of the oppressed for individuals (Turner, & Maschi, 2015).

As a result, research has influenced my understanding of women’s roles among society is despite that women have developed rights, women have continued to struggle with discrimination among certain cultures, religions and race throughout history. This has influenced me as a social worker to continue to strive to end discrimination and meet the client where they are at. Social workers are focused to socially change issues of poverty, unemployment and other forms of social issues among society (National Association of Social Workers, 2008).

References

Gursoy, E., William, M. F., Sahinoglu, S., Yesemin, G. Y. (2014). Views of Women’s Sexuality and Violence Against Women in Turkey. Journal of Transcultural Nursing, 27(2), 189-198. doi:10.1177/1043659614550485

National Association of Social Workers.(2008). Code of Ethics of the National Association of Social Workers

Robbins, S. P., Chatterjee, P., & Canda, E. R. (2012). Contemporary human behavior theory: A critical perspective for social work (3rd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Allyn & Bacon.

Turner, S. G., & Maschi, T. M. (2015). Feminist and empowerment theory and social work practice. Journal Of Social Work Practice, 29(2), 151–162.

 

 

 

 

 

RESPONSE 2

 

·       Respond to two of your colleagues’ posts by supporting or challenging one of the potential treatments.

 

·      Explain your viewpoint and provide current scholarly evidence to support your position.

 

Colleague 1: Kerzell

 

I selected the case study involving June. June is a 39-year-old female who has been diagnosed with agoraphobia. She lives alone, and she works from home. One of the biggest challenges of treating this disorder would be getting June into the office to be treated. One of the main characteristics of agoraphobia is the feeling of intense fear of anxiety in response to public transportation, open spaces, enclosed places, being in a line or a crowd, and/or being alone when not at home (APA, 2013). Another challenge would be working with June to expose her to her fears as a way to help her adopt methods to cope with her fear and anxiety. Lastly, it could be a challenge to help her become more social since everything that happens in her life seems to place her in a position to be alone. She must begin to work on her self-esteem and her social skills.

 

An anxiolytic medication that would be beneficial to June is buspirone (BuSpar). This medication antagonizes the 5-HT1A receptors, and it provides relief of anxiety without the client experiencing sedation or euphoria. This is a first line medication for persistent anxiety, and does not subject the client to dependence or withdrawal (Lichtblau, 2011). Benzodiazepines may also be used to treat June as well. Two common types are alprazolam (Xanax) and lorazepam (Ativan). These medications affect GABA receptors, and they cause muscle relaxation. One of biggest downsides to this medication is that it can cause amnesia (Lichtblau).

 

As a mental health professional, this information is very important. June has a number of things going on that can contribute to her agoraphobia. I would stick with the buspirone in conjunction with counseling, and work towards removing her from the medication completely or sparingly. When prescribing medication, it is important to look the lifestyle of the client, and to carefully examine the effects of the medication on the client. Mental health professional should share any and all concerns with the community about any drug therapy. This is not a cookie cutter profession, and sometimes what works for one client may not work for another.

Reference

American Psychiatric Association (2013). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders

(5th ed.). Arlington, VA: American Psychiatric Publishing.

Laureate Education (Producer). (2012a). Anxiety disorder case study: June: Panic disorder with 

agoraphobia[Video file]. Baltimore, MD: Author.

Lichtblau, L. (2011). Psychopharmacology demystified. Clifton Park, NY: Delmar, Cengage

 

 

Colleague 2: Dawn

 

Treating Anxiety Disorder

 

There are many challenges of treating the anxiety disorder as in the case of June. She is 39 years old and has no reasoning behind her panic attacks she feels as they came from nowhere (Laureate Education, 2012). She began these attacks as she was out in public she experienced chest tightness and chest pain as she was having a heart attack and fear of losing control in public (Laureate Education, 2012). June also becomes frighten and terrified when these panic attacks begin. The challenges are to understand why the attacks occur because they can begin at any time also everyone goes through a different experience when it come to their anxiety. It also can be challenging to treat because it mimics symptoms of other illness such as fatigue, headache, dizziness, and nausea (Manag, 2005).

 

Treating June with anxiolytic medications can be effective in treating her anxiety. The anxiolytic medications help send key chemical signals to the brain (Preston, O’Neal, Talaga, 2017).Three potential anxiolytic medications are Alprazolam (Xanax), clonazepam (Klonopin) and diazepam (Valium) (About Anxiolytics, 2017).

 

It could become a potential problem for June because of the addiction risk of these kinds of medications. June started taking medication 5 years ago and continuing to take these kinds of medication the longer she takes them she could build a drug tolerance (About Anxiolytics, 2017).

 

Mental health professional’s approach to potential addiction risk is to take an evidence-based approach to screening a person to make sure they are not addicted to their medication (NIDA, 2016). They also can set up the recovery goals to make sure they are not using the medication more than necessary (Nida, 2016). When a patient first comes to seek treatment and engages in counseling and other behavioral therapies they should first try a less addictive medication before prescribing these other types of medication.

 

As a mental health professional, an important role is to communicate concerns to other health care professionals by monitoring prescription drugs between the prescription programs (Nida. 2016). These programs help monitor through an electronic database and help monitor drug misuse (Nida. 2016).

 

References

 

About Anxiolytics. (2017). Retrieved from  http://www.healthline.com/health/anxiolytics#takeaway6

 

NIDA. (2016). Misuse of Prescription Drugs. Retrieved from https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/research-reports/misuse-prescription-drugs on 2017, June 27

Laureate Education (Producer). (2012a). Anxiety disorder case study: June: Panic disorder with agoraphobia[Video file]. Baltimore, MD: Author.

 

Preston, J. D., O’Neal, J. H., & Talaga, M. C. (2017). Handbook of clinical psychopharmacology for therapists (8th ed.). Oakland, CA: New Harbinger. Chapter 9, “Anxiety Disorders” (pp. 107-122) Chapter 18, “Antianxiety Medication” (pp. 217-226)

 

Manag. A.J.(2005). Anxiety Disorders in the 21st Century: Status, Challenges, Opportunities, and Comorbidity With Depression

 

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