Course Project: Pilot Survey

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Course Project: Pilot SurveyFor the past six weeks, you have been actively planning the construction of a survey containing good-fit items that efficiently tap the construct under investigation (attac

Course Project: Pilot Survey
For the past six weeks, you have been actively planning the construction of a survey containing good-fit items that efficiently tap the construct under investigation (attached). You have created items followed by appropriate response choices and ones that can be quantified as part of an objective scoring strategy. This week, you learned how to gather demographic data from a representative sample of the population of interest.
In this week’s project task, you will select and use your tryout sample to mock-pilot your survey. Your tryout sample should be a close approximation of each subsequent sample that will be used in the process of validating your survey. After creating mock data from the tryout sample, you will conduct an item analysis to evaluate each item of your survey. Accordingly, you will decide which items to retain versus those to be discarded.
Tasks:
Complete the following:

  • Pilot your survey as you would if using real participants. Accordingly, create mock data that would approximate what you would expect to find participants in a real-world setting.
  • Conduct item analysis using the data from your pilot study.
  • Based on this, determine which items should be retained and which ones should be discarded.
  • Justify your decisions for maintaining or eliminating specific items.

Submission Details:

  • Present your assignment in a 5- to 6-page Microsoft Word document.
  • Attach a Turnitin.com Report.
  • Cite all sources in APA format.

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)

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counsel an adult client who has Bipolar Disorder. He is a 48-year-old who also has addiction issues. He is starting to decompensate and beginning to go into a manic phase of his illness. He sleeps les

counsel an adult client who has Bipolar Disorder. He is a 48-year-old who also has addiction issues. He is starting to decompensate and beginning to go into a manic phase of his illness. He sleeps less than 2-3 hours per night, engages in risky sexual behaviors, and decreased self-care. He states that he is starting to have auditory hallucinations consistent with Bipolar Disorder with Psychotic Features. He also reports that he has started using drugs again to calm himself down because he couldn’t afford the psychotropic medication due to losing his job and insurance 3 months ago. He further tells you that years ago he managed his symptoms the best when he was in group therapy but could not remember the type of group he was in.
After referring this client to the psychiatrist for an urgent medication evaluation due to decompensation, bring this case to the next staff meeting to discuss with the team, explaining your initial counseling plan, initial concerns, and back up plans for this patient. Include a 1-3 sentence response to all of the following:

  • 1-2 initial concerns for this patient
  • 1 initial goal and objective to plan for this patient
  • 1 goal and objective as a back-up plan for this patient
  • Include 1-3 sentence responses to all of the following:

Which 1 of the following group therapies would you start with to assist this client most effectively?

  • Dual Diagnosis Group
  • Psycho-educational Groups
  • Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)
    • Give 1-2 reasons why you would utilize your chosen group.
    • Provide a description of at least 2 benefits and 1 drawback that therapy provides

ExplanatoryExploratoryTriangulationParallel

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Research Methods Literature ReviewPrior to beginning work on this assignment, review the qualitative and quantitative research designs encountered so far in this course.For your literature review, you

Research Methods Literature Review
Prior to beginning work on this assignment, review the qualitative and quantitative research designs encountered so far in this course.
For your literature review, you will select one design from each of the following categories.
Categories
Non-experimental
DescriptiveArchivalObservationalCorrelationalSurvey research
Quantitative experimental
Pretest-posttest control groupPosttest-only control groupSolomon four-group
Qualitative
EthnographyPhenomenologyGrounded theoryNarrativeParticipatory action research (PAR)
Mixed methods
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Visit the Research Methods research guide in the Ashford University Library and search the databases for a minimum of one peer-reviewed journal article published within the last 10 years about each of the research designs you selected. The articles must not be research studies using the designs. Instead, they must be about how to conduct a study using the design. Examples of acceptable articles for this assignment are listed at the Suggested Articles tab in the Research Methods research guide.
In your paper, briefly outline the topic you selected for your Final Research Proposal in Week One and apply the scientific method by suggesting both a specific research question and a hypothesis for the topic. Evaluate your chosen peer-reviewed articles summarizing each and explaining how the research design described could be useful for designing original research on your topic. Compare and contrast the paradigms or worldviews inherent in the methodology associated with each research design. Apply professional standards and situate yourself as a researcher by identifying which of these approaches best fits with your worldview.
I am totally lost on this one I did find articles that might me useful if not if you find ones that may work better please use. I found 10 I hope this is what I was suppose to look.
The Research Methods Literature Review

  • Must be four to six double-spaced pages in length formatted to APA style
  • Must include a separate title page with the following:
    • Title of paper
    • Student’s name
    • Course name and number
    • Instructor’s name
    • Date submitted
  • Must use at least four peer-reviewed sources published within the last 10 years.
  • Must document all sources in APA style
  • Must include a separate reference page

Cultural Influences in Development

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Assignment 2 (RA 2): Cultural Influences in DevelopmentIn this assignment, you will apply your knowledge of cultural influences on development to create psychosocial workshops for a specific populatio

Assignment 2 (RA 2): Cultural Influences in Development
In this assignment, you will apply your knowledge of cultural influences on development to create psychosocial workshops for a specific population.
Tasks:
Scenario:
As a human services administrator at a local agency, one of your duties is to write descriptions of the agency’s community workshops to publish in the community’s resource guide delivered free of charge to all residents. These are the titles of the workshops:

  • Single Moms: A workshop for working mothers to help them balance work and home
  • Community Living: A workshop for those transitioning from incarceration to society
  • Caregiver Parents: A workshop for those taking care of aging parents, while also raising a young family
  • Parenting Teens: A workshop to enable parents to help their teenage children transition to young adulthood

Your community largely comprises blue-collar workers, many of whom are working on either visas or green cards; thus, there are pockets of immigrant communities. Some of the workers are those who were reintegrated into society after prolonged incarceration (more than three years). The median age of the area is thirty-five years, and multigenerational households are commonplace. The public school system is underresourced, and truancy is a big problem. Many students do not complete high school, and standardized test scores are well below what is federally mandated for funding.
Directions:

  1. For each of the four workshops, write a 100- to 200-word description on the basis of the following:
    • Utilize what you have learned throughout the course to describe specific services that each workshop will include.
    • Tailor each description to the community and the target audience for the workshop.
    • Apply cultural and multicultural sensitivity within and across all descriptions. Remember, a single mother may also read the description for community living. Craft your descriptions to be readable and sensitive to all.
    • Account for individual differences and environmental contexts that will influence developmental changes.
    • Account for the role of culture in shaping attitudes, values, and behaviors.
  2. For each description, write a two-page rationale. Use at least three references from scholarly sources to demonstrate how you determined which services to offer for each workshop.