Choose religious leaders or teachers from two different faiths. Then compare and contrast their lives and beliefs. What were their lives like growing up? How did they become a teacher or leader of their faith?

Profiles in Faith

This week’s assignment will help put a “face” to religions in the modern world. Choose religious leaders or teachers from two different faiths. Then compare and contrast their lives and beliefs. Each leader must be from one of the major world religions that you study in this course (Indigenous Faiths, Hinduism, Buddhism, Daoism, Confucianism, Shinto, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, or Sikhism) and the two cannot be from the same major religion. Questions to consider for your biographies:

  1. What were their lives like growing up?
  2. How did they become a teacher or leader of their faith?
  3. What are their major religious beliefs?
  4. What are their challenges and/or concerns for their faith in modern times?

Submit your 3 page paper in APA format with at least two references

you will be assigned to a specific video case study for this Assignment. View your assigned video case, keeping the requirements of the documentation template in mind. Consider what history would be necessary to collect from this patient. Consider what interview questions you would need to ask this patient. Identify at least three possible differential diagnoses for the patient.

  • By Day 1 of this week, you will be assigned to a specific video case study for this Assignment. View your assigned video case, keeping the requirements of the documentation template in mind.
  • Consider what history would be necessary to collect from this patient.
  • Consider what interview questions you would need to ask this patient.
  • Identify at least three possible differential diagnoses for the patient.

By Day 7 of Week 5

Complete and submit your Comprehensive Psychiatric Evaluation, including your differential diagnosis and critical-thinking process to formulate primary diagnosis.

Incorporate the following into your responses in the template:

  • Subjective: What details did the patient provide regarding their chief complaint and symptomology to derive your differential diagnosis? What is the duration and severity of their symptoms? How are their symptoms impacting their functioning in life?
  • Objective: What observations did you make during the psychiatric assessment?
  • Assessment: Discuss the patient’s mental status examination results. What were your differential diagnoses? Provide a minimum of three possible diagnoses with supporting evidence, listed in order from highest priority to lowest priority. Compare the DSM-5 diagnostic criteria for each differential diagnosis and explain what DSM-5 criteria rules out the differential diagnosis to find an accurate diagnosis. Explain the critical-thinking process that led you to the primary diagnosis you selected. Include pertinent positives and pertinent negatives for the specific patient case.
  • Reflection notes: What would you do differently with this client if you could conduct the session over? Also include in your reflection a discussion related to legal/ethical considerations (demonstrate critical thinking beyond confidentiality and consent for treatment!), health promotion and disease prevention taking into consideration patient factors (such as age, ethnic group, etc.), PMH, and other risk factors (e.g., socioeconomic, cultural background, etc.).

 

 

 

Video Transcript

MOTHER This is the doctor. Sit up straight, put your phone away.

00:00:20SHANE Whatever.

00:00:20OFF CAMERA Hello, Mrs. Morgan, Shane.

00:00:25MOTHER Nice to meet you. Shane?

00:00:25SHANE Nice to meet you, doctor.

00:00:30OFF CAMERA Nice to meet both of you. Can the two of you tell me about why you came here today?

00:00:35MOTHER Shane?

00:00:35SHANE It wasn’t my idea to come here; you tell him.

00:00:40MOTHER Well, everything was fine until he was about 13 years old. He started attending a different school when we moved across town. That’s when he started hanging out with this bad group of kids.

00:01:00SHANE You didn’t like my friends at Grove Park either.

00:01:00MOTHER Well, I didn’t like some of them. The rest of them were fine; I knew their parents. Anyway after he started hanging out with this bunch that’s when he got into trouble.

00:01:15OFF CAMERA What type of trouble?

00:01:20MOTHER Shane lead by Alex and Burton burned a barn.

00:01:20SHANE It was an accident.

00:01:25MOTHER The police investigation found they used two gallons of fuel to set it.

00:01:30SHANE Whatever; believe what you want.

00:01:30MOTHER They dumped cement powder into the gas tank of one of their teacher’s cars.

00:01:35SHANE [Snickering]

00:01:40MOTHER [Smack] It’s not funny.

00:01:40OFF CAMERA Were there legal charges? Other legal charges?

00:01:45MOTHER Well, Alex comes from a wealthy family so, of course, he got off, but the case against Shane and Burton is still pending.

00:02:00OFF CAMERA And are there other charges?

00:02:05MOTHER Shane, tell him. You wanted help.

00:02:05SHANE I never said I wanted help.

00:02:10MOTHER You did too. You were crying. You said you were sorry for what you did.

00:02:15SHANE I never did I was sorry.

00:02:20MOTHER And you wanted help. You did too.

00:02:25SHANE I said I was sorry that Alex was such a fricking dick and told his brother what we did; that’s it.

00:02:30OFF CAMERA So, Shane, what were the other charges?

00:02:35SHANE Just breaking and entering.

00:02:40MOTHER Just.

00:02:40SHANE It was an abandoned building not like somebody’s house or business.

00:02:45OFF CAMERA What kind of building?

00:02:50SHANE Some warehouse. It had some old rusty tractors and papers and stuff. I don’t know.

00:03:00OFF CAMERA Did you take anything?

00:03:00SHANE Just some old tools. Nothing else seemed worth anything.

00:03:05OFF CAMERA Did you take the tools so you could sell those for money?

00:03:10SHANE I think Alex sold for some pot money. I don’t know; I didn’t sell it.

00:03:15MOTHER Just an accomplice. What a relief.

00:03:15SHANE Mom, shut up.

00:03:20OFF CAMERA Have you ever shoplifted?

00:03:20MOTHER Has he? Tell him.

00:03:25SHANE You do it. You’re the one that’s so eager to tell him.

00:03:30MOTHER He stole electronics from Wal-Mart and then a bracelet from Harmon’s Jewelers.

00:03:45OFF CAMERA What kind of consequences do you have for Shane at home when he gets in trouble?

00:03:50MOTHER Consequences? Are you kidding? We don’t see him for days at a time despite our having a firm curfew.

00:04:00SHANE I stay with my friends. You know where I am.

00:04:00MOTHER Well, you say you’re staying at Burton’s house, but when I call Burton’s mom, she hasn’t seen you for days either despite her setting firm curfews.

00:04:10OFF CAMERA Do you miss any school?

00:04:15MOTHER Does he? I don’t think he even remembers what the school looks like.

00:04:20OFF CAMERA Shane, do you miss any school?

00:04:25SHANE Yeah. I got expelled for truancy. Okay, I wanted homeschooling anyway. That place sucks.

00:04:40MOTHER He started being truant even at the other school. He was only 11 years old and he lied about his homework assignments everyday about what happened in school making it sound like he went to school. He didn’t. God only knows where he was.

00:04:55OFF CAMERA Shane, have you had any times of hurting people, physically hurting people?

00:05:05MOTHER No. No. Nothing like that has ever happened unless it has happened and you hid that from me too.

00:05:15SHANE I never bullied or hurt anyone, Mother.

00:05:20OFF CAMERA Shane, what about hurting any animals?

00:05:20SHANE No. Well, just some old cat down the street.

00:05:30MOTHER Mrs. Weston’s cat? You were the one who killed Mrs. Weston’s cat?

00:05:35SHANE I didn’t kill her cat. I tied a can around its tail and it got excited and ran into traffic. It’s not my fault.

00:05:45OFF CAMERA Do you have any, either owned or have access to any guns or knives?

00:05:50SHANE Guns, no, but everyone has access to knives. Look at any kitchen.

00:05:55OFF CAMERA Sure, I’m sorry. What about knives that are weapons?

00:06:00SHANE No.

00:06:05OFF CAMERA Have you ever threatened anyone with a gun or a knife or any other kind of weapon?

00:06:10SHANE Just threatened Alex to punch him in his big mouth for saying he was going to screw my girlfriend, but he just said that to get a rise out of me. He whines and says I don’t show much emotion. I don’t care.

00:06:20MOTHER It’s true. He’s always been a quiet, calm kid. Thank goodness for that.

00:06:35[sil.]

 

Submit a 1,000 word essay explaining your interest in University of North Texas Alumni Association scholarships. Include a brief explanation of leadership experience and educational and/or professional goals.

Submit a 1,000 word essay explaining your interest in University of North Texas Alumni Association scholarships. Include a brief explanation of leadership experience and educational and/or professional goals.

What are the major diagnostic models and techniques used in OD programs? How are these models used to identify system parameters and recognize, in turn, the symptoms, problems, and causes that result in ineffective organizations?

MGMT 603 Week 4 Discussion – Diagnostic Models (Must use 350 words with references)

 

Discussion Question(s) for Response: What are the major diagnostic models and techniques used in OD programs? How are these models used to identify system parameters and recognize, in turn, the symptoms, problems, and causes that result in ineffective organizations?

 

Assignment 1: Binary Logistic Regression In SPSS

Dr. Beeper, an Educational Psychologists who studies issues related to higher education, is interested in studying key factors that impact year to year persistence among college students.  His review of the literature identifies several factors that appear to be causally related to persistence. Specifically, academic aptitude, goal commitment, institutional commitment, and the number of work hours.To test the importance of these factors, Dr. Beeper administers a set of questionnaires to 100 randomly selected first-time, full-time freshmen college students (50 male and 50 female) that attended the Freshmen Orientation in the Fall of 2016, at Newton Young University (NYU) in Nebraska.

Measures:

Institutional Commitment (IC) represents the importance that students place on graduating from the college they are currently attending.   Institutional Commitment was measured with five-item questionnaire. Each item was rated on a 0, 1, or 2 scale.  The possible range of scale scores are zero to 10, where values close to zero indicate little to no importance, and values close to 10 indicate high importance.

Goal Commitment (GC) represents the importance that students place on obtaining a college degree.  Goal Commitment was also measured with five-item questionnaire.  Each item was rated on a 0, 1, or 2 scale.  The possible range of scale scores are zero to 10; where values close to zero indicated little to no importance to obtaining a college degree, and values close to 10 indicated a high importance to graduating from college.

Academic Aptitude was represented as scores on both the SAT-Math and the SAT-Verbal tests.  SAT scores for all participants were obtained from high school transcripts.

Hours works, represents the anticipated number of hours the student expected to work throughout the semester.

Finally, Year-to-year persistence was determined by examining the enrollment records for the sample of 100 students. A student that was registered for registered for the Fall 2017 classes was classified as a “Persister”, and given a code of 1, a student that did not re-enroll for classes at NYU, or any other college/university (based on follow-up phone interviews) was considered a “Non-persister”, and was given a code of 0.  Therefore, the SPSS variable Persist has two levels, 0 and 1.

The assignment is, using the attached SPSS data file, conduct a binary logistical regression analysis in which IC, GC, SAT-MathSAT-Verbal, and Hours Worked are the predictor. variables (covariates in SPSS), and the variable Persist is the outcome (DV in SPSS). Use my sample summary as a model for your summary.

The specific elements of the assignment are:

1) Create a Null and Alternative Hypotheses for the Logistical Regression Analysis

2) State the Goals of the analysis

3) Summarize the results and interpret findings the overall model (for example the Chi Square results, Nagelkerke R-Square or Cox Snell R-Square).

4) Summarize and interpret the results for each predictor;  and present, summarize and interpret the results for each significant predictor (i.e., B, Wald’s test, df, p and OR (ExpB). Interpret the significant OR using the effect size conventions I posted in last week’s (8) discussion board.

5) Include and refer to the appropriate tables within the summary.

Please read my sample summary see what statistics to report, and how to report and interpret them in correct APA style, as well as the tables to include.

You’ll see that in my sample summary I also include t-tests. You may  want to conduct t-tests that compare “persisters” and non-persisters, on the predictor variables (covariates).  Please note that the t-test are optional, and will have no impact on your grade whether you include them or not.  The t-test  are very informative about the bivariate relationship between the predictor variables (covariates in SPSS) and the binomial outcome (DV in SPSS) .

Please note that you are not required to conduct the t-tests, or to compute and report Cohen’s d.

Here’s the syntax for my sample summary.

T-TEST GROUPS=BO(0 1)
/MISSING=ANALYSIS
/VARIABLES=teachsat ressat wkoverld
/CRITERIA=CI(.95).

LOGISTIC REGRESSION VARIABLES BO
/METHOD=ENTER teachsat ressat wkoverld
/PRINT=GOODFIT CI(95)
/CRITERIA=PIN(0.05) POUT(0.10) ITERATE(20) CUT(0.5).

Write a 2- to 3-page critique of the research you found in the Walden Library that includes responses to the following prompts: Why did the authors select binary logistic regression in the research? Do you think this test was the most appropriate choice? Why or why not?

Write a 2- to 3-page critique of the research you found in the Walden Library that includes responses to the following prompts:

  • Why did the authors select binary logistic regression in the research?
  • Do you think this test was the most appropriate choice? Why or why not?
  • Did the authors display the results in a figure or table?
  • Does the results table stand alone? In other words, are you able to interpret the study from it? Why or why not?

1: Interview with Two Senior Citizens (Age 65+) Provide a transcript of your interviews using these questions.

Part 1: Interview with Two Senior Citizens (Age 65+)

Provide a transcript of your interviews using these questions. Plan to interview at least two senior citizens in order to complete the assignment.

Questions:

How old are you?

Where were you born/raised?

What was your family composition? How many siblings?

Were your parents married? Did they ever divorce?

What is your highest level of education?

What is the biggest difference about families now, as opposed to when you were being raised?

What do you think today’s families are lacking?

What were your parents’ roles in your household?

Was the community (neighbors, church, schools, etc.) more involved in the raising of families/children in your day? How so?

Do you have any regrets?

Are you involved in any activities?

What could society do to better support you as you age?

If you had to offer me one piece of advice about life, what would it be?

Part II: 5- Paragraph Essay

After you complete the interviews, review our readings of Week 2 Lessons. Write a 5-paragraph essay to include the following:

Compare the two interviewees’ responses

Address any public policies available to support senior citizens

Describe what are your two biggest ‘takeaways’ from these interviews

To support your statements within your essay, be sure to include at least two (2) in-text citations and matching references.

For this assignment, you will choose a world event. You can choose one of the ones listed below or come up with your own. I suggest that you message me if you choose your own event.

Before you begin this assignment, please review the course materials from the first three weeks of class with a special focus on the three mainstream theoretical perspectives: realism, liberalism, and constructivism. Please pay particular attention to the definition of each and avoid pairing them with domestic perceptions of conservatives, liberals, etc. I also recommend reviewing the week 2 forum’s Wrap up.  While you may select an outside source to present a world event, it is important to study and incorporate the week 2 readings to explain IR theories. Outside sources on IR theories can be quite confusing for students new to International Relations.

For this assignment, you will choose a world event. You can choose one of the ones listed below or come up with your own. I suggest that you message me if you choose your own event.   Explain which states are involved, if there are any non-state actors, (for non-state actors’ definitions, see Week One Lessons), international governmental organizations, or non-governmental organizations involved in the conflict. Also, identify a few of the key individuals involved.  Then lastly, and here’s the tricky part, decide which theory would best explain the event and explain your choice. Be sure to define the theory.  Lastly, remember that IR theories are not characteristics or states, or processes. Think of them as guidelines that help leaders make foreign policy decisions. For example:  Instead of claiming that North Korea was a realist, think about its leader as a realist.

Your response should be 3 – 5 paragraphs. Remember that one paragraph is about a 1/2 of a page long.  Use 12 pitch.  The paper should not be more than 2 double-spaced pages, plus References.

Important: the US southern border wall or other immigration matters are domestic policies. We don’t cover them in this course. Please get in touch with me if you consider a topic other than the ones listed.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

Terrorist attacks in France

The Iran Nuclear Deal (JCPOA)

The Korean War

The Cold War

Please be sure to cite sources in the text with Turabian in-text citations, and write a Reference List at the end of your work. By this time, you should be familiar with the basics of the Turabian Reference and Citation Style. I do not expect perfection, but I would like to see your effort

Week Four Read Tillman pages 101-122 and submit a three-page(2 pages) paper on The Church and the World as it relates to Culture views and values (2 pages).

Week Four 

Read Tillman pages 101-122 and submit a three-page(2 pages) paper on The Church and the World as it relates to Culture views and values (2 pages).

Unit Assignment 5 Week FiveFrom a biblical perspective address in a 2-page paper how we (as Christians and moral values perspective) should address the following issues: Alcoholism; Sexual Immorality; and Divorce.

Unit Assignment 5

Week FiveFrom a biblical perspective address in a 2-page paper how we (as Christians and moral values perspective) should address the following issues: Alcoholism; Sexual Immorality; and Divorce.