Part 1: Stress and Mental Health Functioning

Create a 5- to 6-page paper in a Microsoft Word document addressing the following:

• How might stress be different for male versus female officers?
• How are stressors for law enforcement personnel different from those for other individuals living in the community?
• What are some of the unique stressors encountered in law enforcement?
• Is PTSD more prevalent in law enforcement? If so, why?
• How much do past life-events impact current mental health functioning?

Apply APA standards to citation of sources.

Part 2: Stress Management Curriculum

Using the module readings and the Argosy University

Part 1: Stress and Mental Health Functioning

Create a 5- to 6-page paper in a Microsoft Word document addressing the following:

• How might stress be different for male versus female officers?
• How are stressors for law enforcement personnel different from those for other individuals living in the community?
• What are some of the unique stressors encountered in law enforcement?
• Is PTSD more prevalent in law enforcement? If so, why?
• How much do past life-events impact current mental health functioning?

Apply APA standards to citation of sources.

Part 2: Stress Management Curriculum

Using the module readings and the Argosy University online library resources, research sources of stress and stress management methods.

In this part, you will develop a stress management curriculum to be taught at a weekly in-service training for law enforcement officers. This will be a 4-hour instructional presentation.

Create an 8- to 10-slide PowerPoint presentation addressing the following:

• Outline the topics you will include in the presentation.
• Include relevant research and statistics related to stressors in law enforcement work.
• Include practical exercises and handouts for helping officers to understand and address the effects of stress related to their employment.

Support your responses giving reasons and examples from scholarly resources.

Include the following in your presentation:

• A title slide.
• A reference slide.
• Headings for each section.
• Speaker notes to support the contents of each slide.

library resources, research sources of stress and stress management methods.

In this part, you will develop a stress management curriculum to be taught at a weekly in-service training for law enforcement officers. This will be a 4-hour instructional presentation.

Create an 8- to 10-slide PowerPoint presentation addressing the following:

• Outline the topics you will include in the presentation.
• Include relevant research and statistics related to stressors in law enforcement work.
• Include practical exercises and handouts for helping officers to understand and address the effects of stress related to their employment.

Support your responses giving reasons and examples from scholarly resources.

Include the following in your presentation:

• A title slide.
• A reference slide.
• Headings for each section.
• Speaker notes to support the contents of each slide.

To prepare for this assignment, read the article Balanced Literacy: Practical Strategies to Help You Build a Truly Balanced Classroom Literacy Program (Links to an external site.) and pages 5-12 of the joint position statement Technology and Interactive Media as Tools in Early Childhood Programs Serving Children from Birth Through Age 8 (Links to an external site.) (Strickland, n.d.; National Association for the Education of Young Children & Fred Rogers Center, 2012).

Your presentation should be a five- to six-slide PowerPoint

Be sure to include the following in your presentation:

• Evaluate the key considerations in a balanced literacy approach.
• Describe the instructional approaches you will use to teach (e.g., reading, writing, speaking and listening, and language on a daily basis, etc.). Provide a rationale.
• Support how your plan aligns with the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) or your individual state standards. Use cited evidence from Common Core State Standards Initiative (Links to an external site.) or your state education website to support this portion of your assignment.
• Justify how your plan explicitly incorporates language across the curriculum. Include strategies for teaching students with limited English proficiency.
• Explain how your plan incorporates the 21st-century requirement for children to be technoliterate. Cite evidence from the joint position statement of the Technology and Interactive Media as Tools in Early Childhood Programs Serving Children from Birth Through Age 8 (Links to an external site.) to support this section of your paper.