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analyzes the problem you chose specifically for your state

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You are a staff member for a state legislator. Many issues in your state have recently become a hot topic. The legislator has formed a committee to address some of the issues brought to them by staff. The legislator’s intention is to hear policy briefs and then implement action to begin solving some of the hot topic issues in the state. You have decided to present a policy brief on an issue that you are passionate about. You will need to prepare a short presentation to present your brief to the committee. Do the following:
Review the following to help you structure your policy brief correctly:
https://www.governor.wa.gov/tags/policy-brief
https://www.seattle.gov/Documents/Departments/Council/Issues/RegulatingShortTermRentals/Regulating-Short-Term-Rentals—Policy-Brief.pdf
Part I:
Write a 500-750 word policy brief that analyzes the problem you chose specifically for your state. The policy should be concise and follow the general structure of such a policy brief. At a minimum, your policy brief should contain the following:
A title
A summary of the problem
At least 3 possible solutions
Statement and explanation of the recommended solution with rationale
The implications and benefits of the recommended policy
Brief conclusion
At least 3 sources used to support claims
Graphics and/or other visual elements so it reflects the formatting of a professional policy brief
Part II:
Create a presentation that briefly outlines the policy. Include your decision making process for presenting the information contained in the policy.
Use two to three scholarly resources to support your decision making process, some of the sources may be the same as sources used to support your recommendations in the policy brief.
You will turn in both your policy brief and presentation. See the document “submitting multiple attachments” for assistance in attaching multiple documents to the assignment dropbox.
Your presentation will require an outline of your presentation speech or speaker notes depending on the format chosen for the presentation. For PowerPoint, 8-12 slides are required with speaker notes of 50-75 words for each slide. Reference information must be provided at the end of the presentation. Reference and title slides do not count as part of the slide count.

Identify and describe the diverse population and the unique characteristics and/or the distinctive needs of the population in 3 to 4 brief sentences

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 Piedra and Engstrom (2009) noted how the life model “remains general and unspecific regarding factors that affect immigrant families” (p. 272). Recall that there will never be one theory or a model that can fully explain a phenomenon or lay out all the steps and procedures when working with complex issues that clients present to social workers. Recognizing this, Piedra and Engstrom selected another theory in the immigration literature—segmented assimilation theory. They identified concepts from segmented assimilation theory to “fill in” the gaps that the life model does not address.
To prepare: (No More Than 500 words)

  • Review the life model.
  • Review this article in the Learning Resources: Piedra, L. M., & Engstrom, D. W. (2009). Segmented assimilation theory and the life model: An integrated approach to understanding immigrants and their children. Social Work, 54(3), 270–277. http://dx.doi.org.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/sw/54.3.270

Using an example from your fieldwork experience and a diverse population you encountered at the agency (for example, in Piedra and Engstrom’s article, it was immigrant families), respond to the following:

  • Identify and describe the diverse population and the unique characteristics and/or the distinctive needs of the population in 3 to 4 brief sentences.
  • Explain how the life model can be applied for the population.
  • Explain where the gaps are in applying the life model for this population.
  • When looking at the gaps, explain which theory might be helpful in filling the gaps of the life model when working with this population.

conduct your own observation of communication behaviors.

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Human communication, in essence, is about how humans interact and relay information to one another. It involves a wide variety of verbal and nonverbal methods and operates at the conscious and unconscious levels. The ways in which individuals communicate depend on many different variables, including age, social status, relationship (e.g., close friend versus new acquaintance), and culture. Psychological research on communication has also documented differences in communication based on gender.
These observed gender-based communication differences begin in childhood, with children often preferring same-sex play groups and demonstrating preferences for gender-typical styles of play. Differences continue through adulthood with variations in interaction style, language usage, leadership approaches, expression of emotion, and nonverbal behaviors (e.g., eye contact or touch). A great difficulty lies, however, in attempting to explain why gender-based communication differences exist. Is it possible to extricate sex and gender from the other aforementioned influences on communication? Research continues to search for trends in communication behavior to support theoretical explanations for gender differences.
For this Discussion, you will conduct your own observation of communication behaviors. You will analyze the behaviors for adherence to or difference from gender-typical behaviors in your culture and provide a theoretical argument for their potential causes.
To prepare

  • In a public place, such as a sporting event, the grocery store, the mall, a coffee shop, a park, or public transportation, conduct a 10- to 15-minute observation of the communication behaviors taking place around you. Write down your observations.
  • Consider the behaviors you observed that may be categorized as gender typical or atypical.

By Day 4

Post a summary of the gender typical and atypical behaviors you observed. What other factors (e.g., age differences, power differences, cultural context) might have influenced the individuals to display those behaviors? Provide a theoretical base to support your explanation of these behaviors.
Readings for this week:

Helgeson, V. S. (2017). Psychology of gender (5th ed.). New York, NY: Taylor and Francis.
Chapter 7, “Communication” (pp. 278–321)

Chaplin, T. M., & Aldao, A. (2012). Gender differences in emotion expression in children: A meta-analytic review. Psychological Bulletin, 139(4), 735–765. doi:10.1037/a0030737.
Note: You will access this article from the Walden Library databases.

Khazan , O. (2014, May). Vocal fry may hurt women‘s job prospects. The Atlantic. Retrieved from http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/05/employers-look-down-on-women-with-vocal-fry/371811/

Explain the empirical research presented in your assigned article, applying appropriate citations and references

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Prior to beginning this discussion, please read and view the following required sources:

  • “Flexible Retrieval: When True Inferences Produce False Memories”
  • “Memory Suppression in Alzheimer’s Disease”
  • “Mnemonic Instruction in Science and Social Studies for Students with Learning Problems: A Review”
  • “Short-Term Memory and Long-Term Memory Are Still Different”
  • “The Development of Real-Time Stability Supports Visual Working Memory Performance: Young Children’s Feature Binding Can Be Improved Through Perceptual Structure”
  • Memory

In your initial post, you will apply what you learned from each of the five articles, but you will discuss the findings and implications for just one of these articles. The articles are assigned based on the first letter of your last name. Please see the list below to determine which of the articles you will focus on for your initial post based on the first letter of your last name:

  • A through E: “Flexible Retrieval: When True Inferences Produce False Memories”

In your initial post,

  • Explain the empirical research presented in your assigned article, applying appropriate citations and references.
  • Describe, in your own words, how the research relates to your own experiences as well as how this area of psychology may have affected your past or current beliefs about memory development. Do the research findings refute or support your current beliefs, and in what ways? Are there variables about memory of which you were unaware based on your article?
  • Apply skeptical inquiry to the potential problems that might arise from research in the area of memory, and relate it to the APA’s Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct.
  • Provide a rationale for whether or not this premise is valid and/or appropriate based on the findings reported by the assigned articles.

It is recommended that you research articles in the Ashford University Library to support your assertions if the required articles do not provide sufficient information. Your initial post should be at least 500 words in length.