Discipline: Psychology

You are the social worker for Joe’s family and are tasked with completing an assessment on the family. What are all of the societal factors involved, for each family member? How might these societal factors influence family dynamics? How might these societal factors influence the psychological or biological systems with which they are involved?

Explain four patterns of attachment and give an example of each one. Indicate which pattern you find to be the most common, and support your answer with examples from the text and movie. (movie…Joe the King)

100 words Describe how social welfare agencies discriminated against African Americans and how these same systems may still oppress them. Use your personal and work experience as well as course readings to respond to this question. You may also need to do some outside research.

(100 words) During the Civil War, American women became active in public life. Explain the role of women during this era. How was women’s involvement during this time a precursor to the development of the social work profession? Describe the factors that led to the development of the social work profession. Include in your analysis […]

Theories are used to inform counselors of ethical and evidence-based practices. To ensure optimal support for clients, counselors should know when and how to apply theories that have been proven to be effective with intervention. Counselors improve in their practice when they understand their clients and the theories that they can use to interpret clients’ […]

In this module, we explore intelligence. More specifically, we engage with theories on intelligence and question whether human intelligence can be found in computers. For your initial post, review the video The Turing Test: Can a Computer Pass for a Human?—Alex Gendler and answer the following questions: Is Turing’s test the right way to approach […]

  Here, I want you to identify one career assessment that would be appropriate for this client. Discuss why you chose this assessment, how it is aligned with his issue(s), and what theory it is related to. You can take a look at the Career Assessment Resources for some ideas on assessments to use.  Your […]

Module 10 Question 1:  Take two Prozacs and call me in the morning.  Have psychiatric medications made psychological (talk) therapies obsolete?  Why or why not?  Provide evidence to support your opinions. Module 10 Question 2:  Evidence-based medicine?  Find an example of a dubious “therapy” technique that is not supported by empirical evidence.  Provide a link […]

  Provide citation and reference to the material(s) you discuss. Describe what you found interesting regarding this topic, and why. Describe how you will apply that learning in your daily life, including your work life. Describe what may be unclear to you, and what you would like to learn.

  Nice start! As we are discussing probability this week, I’d like to follow up on your statement that “More grounded proof against the null hypothesis is shown by smaller p-values.” Why are smaller p-values indicative of stronger evidence against the null hypothesis? That is, what does the p value represent in terms of probability?