For this Discussion, review the following resources and consider the different screening and assessment tools currently available. Identify the tools you think you would be most likely to use in your practice.

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What is important to know and when is it important to know it? To intervene in a problem, a social worker must first identify the problem. Screening and initial assessment can be useful to identity individuals who may be experiencing mental health concerns and could benefit from seeing a clinical social worker. This then would lead to a more comprehensive assessment from which a treatment plan is built. However, deciding who to assess, when, and using which tools can feel like a confusing process. For example, should you provide depression screenings in the community to people who are not clients? Should you screen all new clients for substance abuse regardless of presenting problem? Should you ask about suicide in every session or only when it feels like it could be a concern?

For this Discussion, review the following resources and consider the different screening and assessment tools currently available. Identify the tools you think you would be most likely to use in your practice.

American Psychiatric Association. (2018). Online assessment measures. Retrieved from https://www.psychiatry.org/psychiatrists/practice/dsm/educational-resources/assessment-measures#Disorder

Beidas, R. S., Stewart, R. E., Walsh, L., Lucas, S., Downey, M. M., Jackson, K., … & Mandell, D. S. (2015). Free, brief, and validated: Standardized instruments for low-resource mental health settings. Cognitive and behavioral practice, 22(1), 5-19. Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4310476/

SAMSHA. (n.d.) Screening tools. Retrieved from https://www.integration.samhsa.gov/clinical-practice/screening-tools

Provide Discussion Responses – to at colleagues who recommended a different screening/assessment practice and provide feedback.

Support your responses with specific references to the Learning Resources. Be sure to provide full APA citations for your references.

The original posts to which you need to provide responses are contained in the attachment. You Must provide references and citations!

structure of indifference by by Adele Perry and Mary Jane Logan McCallum

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Using three academic sources and an article that was written/produced by a media outlet in addition to Structures of Indifference, answer the following questions:
How is Sinclair represented?  Does systemic oppression affect Brian Sinclair?  Do you think his experience was unique? Why or why not?  Do you think people who are perceived to be living in poverty experience social services differently than the rest of the population?  Is this consistent with what scholars say about the issues? If so, how?  If not, how was Sinclairs situation unique? 

Also, identify at least one Calgary agency you think could help someone facing similar challenges.

Provide a 4 6 page (double spaced) paper that addresses the questions, making use of Structures of Indifference, three scholarly sources and a media piece within the paper.
Only focus on the last slide of the additional materials

Nearest Neighbors for Categorical Prediction

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Unit 3 Assignment: Nearest Neighbors for Categorical Prediction

Outcomes addressed in this activity:

Unit Outcomes:

Integrate methods for assessing risks.

Prepare a rubric for classifying risk.

Report results of risk analysis.

Course Outcome:

IT528-3: Develop appropriate action plans that address risks.

Purpose

There are many methods for categorical prediction using principal components. In this Assignment, you will practice one of these — linear discriminant analysis, in R Studio. You will classify risk through the rubric of a risk matrix and then build a model to assess the risk. Once you have built a model, you will report and explain the results.

Assignment Instructions

Complete the following steps:

Much has been made of the deteriorating public infrastructure in the United States. Roads, bridges, sidewalks, etc. need repair all over the country. This Assignment will focus on bridges. Engineers with responsibility for bridges categorize them into one of four categories with respect to risk: Monitor, Schedule Assessment, Schedule Repair/Replacement, or Immediate Repair/Replacement. Monitor means that the bridge is in good condition and is not in danger of failing. Schedule Assessment means that the bridge is showing signs of risk and should be evaluated. Schedule Repair/Replacement means that the bridge has deterioration that presents risk to users. Immediate Repair/Replacement means that the bridge has deterioration that presents risk of failure. In a Word document, create a four-quadrant risk matrix rubric and label the quadrants High Risk/High Impact; High Risk/Low Impact; Low Risk/High Impact; Low Risk/Low Impact. Place each of the four bridge conditions into the quadrant that you believe is appropriate for that condition. You need not have something in each of the four quadrants – your task is to appropriately assess and classify risk based on bridge condition. For each of the four bridge conditions, within the quadrant you selected in the risk matrix, give an example of an issue that may arise if the risk condition is not addressed.

Download the Bridges.csv and the ConditionUnknown.csv files from Course Documents. Import both of these into R Studio with appropriate names. In your Word document, provide evidence that you have imported the data sets.

Build a linear discriminant analysis model using the Bridges.csv data. Document each step in your Word document.

You will need to load the MASS library.

Create the linear discriminant analysis model for the Bridge_Action variable. Use this syntax: BridgeModel

Note that you are creating a data object called BridgeModel, and the data that you are using to create your LDA model is called Bridges (you may have named your training data something other than Bridges when you imported Bridges.csv.

Make predictions for the Condition Unknown bridges using the LDA model you created in step (b) above. Use this syntax: BridgePredict

Note that you are creating a data object called BridgePredict that will apply the BridgeModel LDA object to a data object called CondUnk (you may have named your condition unknown data something other than CondUnk when you imported ConditionUnknown.csv).

Put your LDA predictions into a data frame so that you can read and interpret them. Use this syntax: MyPredictions

Open the MyPredictions data frame and examine your prediction results. Answer the following in your Word document:

How many bridges do you predict will be in each action category?

What does the round function in step (d) above do to the posterior values in your predictions?

What do the posterior values tell you about each prediction? (Hint: add them up).

Give three ways that a city or county might use the predictions you have generated to manage their infrastructure plan? Give two risks that may arise from use of your predictions.

Make sure that you cite at least five supporting sources beyond the textbook in support of your writing and explanations. Cite correctly in APA format.

Assignment Requirements

Prepare your Assignment submission in Microsoft Word following standard APA formatting guidelines: Double spaced, Times New Roman 12-point font, one inch margins on all sides. Include a title page, table of contents and references page. You do not need to write an abstract. Label all tables and figures. Cite sources appropriately both in the text of your writing (parenthetical citations) and on your references page (full APA citation format).

Write a paper on Olive Senior’s “The Pain Tree” and Ana Menéndez’s “Her Mother’s House”

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Your initial post is due by midnight (11:59 PM) on Thursday. You must write at least 400 words on Olive Senior’s “The Pain Tree” and Ana Menéndez’s “Her Mother’s House” (in other words, at least 200 words for each story).Instead of relying on plot summary you will support your interpretation by using and analyzing textual evidence. When you quote the story make sure you cite the page number: for instance, after the quotation put the page number in parenthesis (60). Avoid writing out “on page 60”. When you quote a passage from the story make sure you introduce the context and that you are analyzing the meaning of what you quoted.I encourage your own formulations, but address the following prompts (you can address them in any order and be sure to write at least three or more paragraphs): In the short stories, you are going to encounter protagonists attempting to reconnect and remember (as in “putting together again”) their Caribbean “home” spaces. How have their perceptions of their Caribbean homelands been shaped by their parents? What new perceptions do they gain and how does this transform their view of themselves and their history? Victor Shklovsky argues that ostranenie (“making strange” in Russian, and also translated as estrangement/defamiliarization) is the essence of literature. Where in the two stories do we encounter descriptions of estranged perception? Analyze the significance of these moments in the stories. Be sure to consult and cite Shkovsky’s essay (especially his definition of ostranenieon page 80) to support your analysis. For our annotation assignment, we learned how to notice patterns and overlooked meanings that helped us understand “Sonny’s Blues” more fully. In “The Pain Tree” and “Her Mother’s House” what patterns, connections or implied meanings did you notice structuring the stories?