Life Expectancy Questionnaire and Death and Dying—Customs and Beliefs

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Assignment 2: Life Expectancy Questionnaire and Death and Dying—Customs and BeliefsThe first part of the assignment includes an informal assessment of your personal protective and risk factors assoc

Assignment 2: Life Expectancy Questionnaire and Death and Dying—Customs and Beliefs
The first part of the assignment includes an informal assessment of your personal protective and risk factors associated with aging. This type of assessment could also be useful for your future client populations. In addition, you will look at how the response to death and dying varies widely among individuals and cultural groups. This second part of the assignment provides additional awareness and insight into these beliefs and practices.
Part A
Tasks:
Click here to download and complete the life expectancy questionnaire.
Write a 2- to 3-page response paper to your self-assessment. Address the following questions:

  • What is your reaction to your estimated life expectancy?
  • What lifestyle factors positively and negatively contributed to your estimate?
  • How do your personal cultural variables contribute to your estimate?

In addition, specify any modifications you plan to make in response to your estimated life expectancy.
Part B
Tasks:
Conduct research to find cultures different from your own in terms of beliefs and practices related to death and dying.
In a 2- to 3-page paper, describe your personal cultural beliefs and practices related to death and dying. Choose a culture different from your own and describe the beliefs and practices related to death and dying in that culture. In addition, describe how these beliefs and practices differ from your own. Include two or three peer-reviewed journal articles to support your opinion.

What are the psychological costs and benefits of behaving compassionately?

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For this assignment your challenge will be to live each minute of one day in as compassionate a way as possible. In other words, for a full day you should do your best to help other people in need, to

For this assignment your challenge will be to live each minute of one day in as compassionate a way as possible. In other words, for a full day you should do your best to help other people in need, to be considerate and respectful, and to avoid causing harm to any living being.
When carrying out this assignment, leave no behavior unexamined — from watching TV to eating lunch to decisions about giving time or money to others. That is, don’t limit yourself to simply holding the door open for a stranger or petting a lonely dog; think about all the unnecessary suffering in the world, and strive for the greatest impact and deepest level of compassion without being phony or insincere. It is up to you to define what compassion is and to decide how best to realize it.
If you are already quite compassionate, try being compassionate toward groups you don’t often focus on, and even if your actions don’t differ much from how you normally behave, be sure to carefully observe and analyze what transpires during the experience. If outside events make it difficult for you to participate on the designated day, or if you feel dissatisfied with your performance of the assignment, feel free to repeat the exercise on a later day.
Note: To minimize any bias in social reactions, it is best if you do not tell others about the class assignment.
You must turn in a social psychological analysis of what the day was like. Some sample questions to address include: How did you define compassion, and who were the recipients of your efforts? What are the psychological costs and benefits of behaving compassionately? In your view, do the benefits outweigh the costs? How did others respond to your compassion? Do you think they noticed a difference in your behavior? What attributions did people make for your behavior, and why?
This essay should be 3-4 pages of text, plus a title page and reference page.  All papers should be in proper APA format. Please remember proper in-text citations.

How are conference presentations professionally relevant?

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This assignment looks long but it’s alot of information that pertains to this assignment! Last section is similar to what the poster should look like! One to one half page single spaced! Really as lon

This assignment looks long but it’s alot of information that pertains to this assignment! Last section is similar to what the poster should look like! One to one half page single spaced! Really as long as it needs to be to fully answer all questions!
Assignment:  Virtual Conference: Call for Posters
Effective clinical innovations and the dissemination of research findings are key elements in the growth and development of the psychology profession. There are numerous avenues that enable authors to publish and present their work. Poster presentations at conferences are effective methods for communicating research findings and providing opportunities to meet with other researchers and clinicians to discuss the research being presented. Thus, these types of conference presentations play a key role in the proliferation of research.
In this week’s discussion, you will be submitting your proposal for the Week Five Virtual Conference. You may utilize relevant assignments from previous courses in this program or suitable projects from your professional life. See the PSY699 Call for Student Poster (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. Presentations document for specific parameters and instructions on how to create your proposal. Following the guidelines presented in the document, create your proposal and attach it to your initial post in the discussion forum. Evaluate the impact participating in conference presentations may have on potential work settings and/or doctoral programs and comment on the following questions in your initial post.

  • How are conference presentations professionally relevant?
  • What elements of the proposal process were most difficult for you, and why?
  • What positive outcomes do you anticipate will come from this process, which may be applied to potential work settings and/or doctoral programs?

Call for Student Poster Presentations  We invite you to submit a proposal for the Virtual Conference that will occur in Week Five of this course.  The Virtual Conference is designed to bring the class together to review and evaluate poster presentations of technical, professional, and/or scientific interest to psychology professionals.    To submit your poster proposal, include the following information in a document attached to your initial post. • Poster Title • Author Information • Abstract (300 to 500 words maximum) • List of References  The abstract should concisely explain the purpose and content of the poster.  Abstracts for empirical studies, literature reviews, and meta-analyses should include the following sections: Objectives, Method, Results, Conclusions, and Implications.  Abstracts for case studies, theoretical and methodological studies, and other projects should include the following sections: Purpose, Description, Assessment, and Conclusions.  The poster proposal must represent your original work.  Work already published in another conference or journal will not be accepted.  Please see the instructions for the Week Five Virtual Poster Conference Discussion for the Poster Submission Guidelines in order to prepare your poster for presentation.  Example:• Protecting and Serving the Black Community Program Proposal Poster
• Justin Clark
• Abstract

What are the ethical principles and implications raised by legally mandating clients into treatment?

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Not a paper but a discussion! The Ethics of Mandated Treatment Prior to beginning work on this discussion forum, be certain to have read all the required resources for this week. The use of mandated

Not a paper but a discussion! The Ethics of Mandated TreatmentPrior to beginning work on this discussion forum, be certain to have read all the required resources for this week. The use of mandated, or legally coerced, treatment is widespread. Yet research demonstrating the efficacy of this type of treatment is limited, and mandating mental health treatment is one of the most contested issues in the field of psychology. To justify the continued use of mandated treatment, policymakers, practitioners, and researchers are obligated to demonstrate the effectiveness and limitations of such treatment programs.
You have been called in to consult on cases that may require mandated treatment. After reviewing the PSY699 The ethics of mandated treatment scenarios (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site., choose two to discuss in your initial post. Begin your research with the required resources for this week. Using the specific situations presented in each of the scenarios you have chosen, conduct further research to help inform your recommendations for each individual. A minimum of one resource per scenario, beyond those already required for the assignment, must be included in your initial post.
In your post, construct clear and concise arguments using evidence-based psychological concepts and theories to present your recommendations as to whether or not treatment should be mandated for the individuals in each of the scenarios. As you write your recommendations, be certain to provide insights into the following questions.

  • What are the ethical principles and implications raised by legally mandating clients into treatment?
  • What evidence exists regarding the effectiveness of treatment with and without coercion for this type of situation?
  • What would be the challenges in evaluating the effectiveness of mandated treatment?
  • How might mandated treatment impact your clinical decision making as the mental health professional assigned to these cases?
  • What client factors might limit or augment the potential benefits of treatment if it were mandated?

Integrating concepts from your research and the required readings, offer insights across different content domains as to why you have reached these conclusions. Explain how you used the APA Ethical Code of Conduct to guide your decisions. Evaluate the generalizability of your specific research findings to the situations presented and provide a rationale as to why this research supports your recommendations.
Choose 2 cases for this post! The Ethics of Mandated Treatment Scenarios  Scenario 1: A client with a well-established history of repeated dangerous behavior and inpatient commitment has been treated, stabilized, and discharged into the community.  The treating psychiatrist believes that the client’s success in the community is far more likely if treatment is continued. However, the client wishes to terminate treatment.  A request for mandated treatment is filed by the psychiatrist with the court.  During the hearing, the psychiatrist testifies that while the client is not imminently dangerous, he potentially could become dangerous again without treatment.  Scenario 2:  A long-term client appeared quite excited during a recent session with her therapist.  Speaking rapidly, she told the therapist that she was planning a gambling trip that would win her millions of dollars.  After some probing, the therapist learned the client had recently stopped taking the medication prescribed for her bipolar disorder because she had been feeling so happy.  The client also indicated that she no longer saw a need for therapy and was planning to stop treatment.  Scenario 3:  An older, debilitated adult is living within two miles of her adult daughter.  The daughter currently has control of her mother’s finances and is aware that her mother is unable to leave home to purchase basic necessities.  The mother wishes to be in psychotherapy, but the daughter claims that she can care for her mother on her own.