To prepare for this Assignment:

• Review this week’s Learning Resources, including the Medication Resources indicated for this week.
• Reflect on the psychopharmacologic treatments you might recommend for the assessment and treatment of patients requiring therapy for impulsivity, compulsivity, and addiction.

The Assignment: 5 pages

Examine Case Study: A Puerto Rican Woman With Comorbid Addiction. You will be asked to make three decisions concerning the medication to prescribe to this client. Be sure to consider factors that might impact the client’s pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic processes.

At each decision point, you should evaluate all options before selecting your decision and moving throughout the exercise. Before you make your decision, make sure that you have researched each option and that you evaluate the decision that you will select. Be sure to research each option using the primary literature.

Introduction to the case (1 page)

• Briefly explain and summarize the case for this Assignment. Be sure to include the specific patient factors that may impact your decision making when prescribing medication for this patient.

Decision #1 (1 page)

• Which decision did you select?
• Why did you select this decision? Be specific and support your response with clinically relevant and patient-specific resources, including the primary literature.
• Why did you not select the other two options provided in the exercise? Be specific and support your response with clinically relevant and patient-specific resources, including the primary literature.
• What were you hoping to achieve by making this decision? Support your response with evidence and references to the Learning Resources (including the primary literature).
• Explain how ethical considerations may impact your treatment plan and communication with patients. Be specific and provide examples.

Decision #2 (1 page)

• Why did you select this decision? Be specific and support your response with clinically relevant and patient-specific resources, including the primary literature.
• Why did you not select the other two options provided in the exercise? Be specific and support your response with clinically relevant and patient-specific resources, including the primary literature.
• What were you hoping to achieve by making this decision? Support your response with evidence and references to the Learning Resources (including the primary literature).
• Explain how ethical considerations may impact your treatment plan and communication with patients. Be specific and provide examples.

Decision #3 (1 page)

• Why did you select this decision? Be specific and support your response with clinically relevant and patient-specific resources, including the primary literature.
• Why did you not select the other two options provided in the exercise? Be specific and support your response with clinically relevant and patient-specific resources, including the primary literature.
• What were you hoping to achieve by making this decision? Support your response with evidence and references to the Learning Resources (including the primary literature).
• Explain how ethical considerations may impact your treatment plan and communication with patients. Be specific and provide examples.

Conclusion (1 page)

• Summarize your recommendations on the treatment options you selected for this patient. Be sure to justify your recommendations and support your response with clinically relevant and patient-specific resources, including the primary literature.

 

CS212M4-4: Apply logical reasoning to address issues in professionalism.

GEL-7.02: Apply ethical reasoning to ethical issues within your field of study.

Professional Code of Ethics Analysis

Your task is to write a 1- to 2-page paper (double spaced) that identifies, summarizes, and applies a published code of ethics for your profession.

Using the internet and the PG Library, locate an industry organization’s code of ethics. For example, the American Marketing Association, American Psychological Association, and the American Medical Association all have extensive codes of ethics. An excellent source is the Ethics Code Collection.

Once you have located and examined the code, summarize the main points of the code. Provide an example of an ethical decision or issue that may arise in your profession. Explain how the code of ethics could be used to provide guidance regarding the decision or issue. Conclude your paper with an explanation regarding the importance and benefits of codes of ethics.

Content Requirements:

• Identify a professional code of ethics for your profession.
• Summarize the main points of the code.
• Demonstrate how the code of ethics can be applied to a specific ethical issue that could arise in that field.
• Explain the benefit of codes of ethics.
• Demonstrate consistency of your clearly established viewpoint throughout the paper and a clear logical flow as you apply ethical reasoning.
• Make sure your writing is original and insightful.

Grammatical/Format Requirements:

• Paper must be 1–2 pages in length, double spaced, in correct APA format using Times New Roman or Arial font size 12.
• Paper must include a title page and a reference page that includes references for the code of ethics and any other sources used.
• Paper must adhere to Standard English with correct grammar, punctuation, and spelling.

For help with APA formatting and writing, visit the Academic Writer and Academic Success Center links located in Academic Tools.

Put your assignment in a Word document. Save it in a location and with a name that will help your instructor identify the assignment, the course, and you, the student. Submit your document to the Competency Assessment Dropbox.

Minimum Submission Requirements

• Proper notification of any resubmission, repurposing, or reworking of prior work per the Purdue Global Student Coursework Resubmission, Repurposing, and Reworking Policy Resource.
• This assessment should be a Microsoft Word document (minimum 1 page in addition to the title and reference pages).
• Your writing should be well ordered, logical, and unified, as well as original and insightful.
• Your submission must be written in Standard English and demonstrate exceptional content, organization, style, and grammar and mechanics.
• A separate page at the end of your submission should contain a list of references in APA format. Use your textbook, the Library, and the internet for research.
• Be sure to include references for all sources and to cite them using in-text citations where appropriate. Your sources and content should follow current APA citation style. Review the writing resources for APA formatting and citation found in Academic Tools. Additional writing resources can be found within the Academic Success Center.
• Your submission should:
  • include a title page
  • contain 1-2 pages of content
  • include a reference page
  • be typed in Times New Roman, 12 -point font; and
  • be free of spelling or punctuation errors.

If the work submitted for this competency assessment does not meet the minimum submission requirements, it will be returned for revision. If the work submitted does not meet the minimum submission requirements by the end of the term, you will receive a failing score.

Plagiarism

Plagiarism is an act of academic dishonesty. It violates the University’s Code of Student Conduct, and the offense is subject to disciplinary action. You are expected to be the sole author of your work. Use of another person’s work or ideas must be accompanied by specific citations and references. Whether the action is intentional or not, it still constitutes plagiarism.

For this paper, you will need to not only demonstrate your understanding of the sociological imagination, but you must also analyze the American family from the perspective of the book, Cohabitation Nation: Gender, Class, and the Remaking of Relationships by Sharon and Sassler and Amanda Jayne Miller. More specifically, in a 4-5 page paper, using the book as your guide, you are to critically analyze growing trends in the American family structure, and assess how these trends affect, and are affected by, gender and class structures. First, in your own words, summarize the core tenants of the book. You have to approach your summary as if the reader has never heard of this study. What was the methodology? What did it argue? What were the primary findings? Next, select 1-2 themes from the book and contrast them with some of the topics/themes/concepts that we have covered in class. What does this particular comparison say about inequality and the family in the United States, today? This section should comprise the bulk of your paper. Finally, I want to hear your voice. In your opinion, what are your thoughts about the book? What do you think of its arguments? Was the evidence convincing? Why? 

Your paper should demonstrate writing proficiency at the college and university level, and you must include 2-3 themes from our class lectures. Please check for any typos and/or grammatical errors. 

Papers should be double-spaced with 12-pt Times New Roman font and 1-inch margins. 

Assignment Objectives:

·  Demonstrate your ability to understand, summarize, and analyze sociological studies. 

·  Demonstrate reading comprehension and writing proficiency at the university level.

·  Demonstrate an understanding of, and be able to apply, the sociological imagination.

·  Demonstrate your ability to extract and think critically about sociological concepts in the real world. 

Assignment Grading Rubric

I.  Introduction

a.  Your introduction should introduce your reader to the topic of your paper. In your introduction, you should include a definition of cohabitation, and you should at least mention the book you will be analyzing. Also, you must include a thesis statement which clearly articulates the main points of your critical analysis.

b.  HINT: Many people find it easier to write the introduction last – after they have written the rest of the paper.

II.  Critical Analysis

a.  You should summarize and discuss the book here. Talk about some of its core principles/themes. 

 i.  If you were summarizing the book to someone who has never heard of it, what would you say? These are your themes.

b.  You have to do more than simply summarize the book; you have to use it to analyze the family. How does this study make sense of, describe, and speak to the family in the contemporary United States? How does it relate to the class material?  

III.  Conclusion

a.  Your conclusion should re-state the main points of your paper, and include your final thoughts about the topic(s) discussed. Offer and elaborate on your own opinion. Again, I want to hear your voice. Also, please keep in mind that your conclusion is the last thing your reader will read. Be sure to make it as grammatically sound, sociologically compelling, and thematically detailed as possible. You want this to be one of the strongest parts of your paper. 

IV.  Works Cited

a.  You need to include references for any thoughts/ideas that are not your own. This includes citations from the course readings, any outside readings, and even the class lectures, themselves. It includes both internal citations and a Works Cited page.

 i.  Any time you use a direct quotation, you need to include an internal citation with the author’s name, the year of publication, and the page number. It looks like this: “This is a direct quotation” (Bell, 2020: 35).

 ii.  Any time you paraphrase, you need to include an internal citation with the author’s name and year of publication. A citation for a paraphrase would look like this (Bell, 2020). If you are citing a lecture, you may do so as (Bell, 2021). Works cited page should adhere to APA format.

 iii.  The Purdue OWL is a great resource for citations. It includes information for internal citations and your works cited page, and has multiple examples you can look at. You can access it here: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/

b.  Failure to properly cite can result in a failing grade on this assignment. PLEASE feel free to contact me before the paper is due if you have any questions about citations. Do not wait until the last minute to begin writing this paper.

Overview

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Intelligence: From Theory to Test

In this unit, you are introduced to a variety of theories of intelligence, including Spearman’s two-factor theory (1927), Cattell-Horn’s two-factor theory (1966), Luria’s information processing approach (1966), Cattell-Horn and Carroll’s CHC model (1997), and Carroll’s three- stratum theory (1997).

In your post:

• Describe how these theories differ in regard to the ever-reversing role of general intellectual ability factor (g).
• Explain how these theories are relied upon in each of the following current tests that you also read about in this unit. Please note that some of these tests may now rely on more than one theory, or a theory different than the original versions of the same test. Subsequently, you will need to address such multiple contributions and only for the versions listed below (for example, fifth edition).
  • Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, fourth and fifth editions.
  • Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children, second edition.
  • Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales, fifth edition.
  • Woodcock-Johnson Tests of Cognitive Abilities, third or fourth editions.
• Explain your thoughts regarding an intelligence test that has a dual theoretical basis, based on your readings and review of the theoretical influences on these tests. Explain your position by including consideration of validity.
• Explain which theory of intelligence you find yourself most affiliated with in the context of your professional goals.
• Explain how your selected theoretical model aligns with your interests and career.