Responses to crises and other trauma-causing events often are normal responses to abnormal situations. When these responses result in difficulty functioning in daily life, helping professionals need to consider if the client needs specialized conceptualization within a diagnostic framework. Some diagnoses that require clinical conceptualization and treatment include posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), complex posttraumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD), acute stress disorder, and dissociation. Each of these […]

You will use your readings and research articles to address the hot topic of ethics within groups in an 8–10-page rough draft research paper. In addition, you will need to address the ethical issues unique to group therapy and how these issues compare to those from individual counseling. Discuss why a therapist would choose group therapy over individual counseling or vice versa. You must use […]

For this assignment, you will choose three different interpersonal relationships in your life in three different areas of interpersonal communication (romantic/friendship, family, and professional/academic). You will evaluate these relationships and the type of communication you display by answering the posed questions in an essay. The purpose is to gain a better understanding of how you communicate in these relationships, and possible ways to improve your […]

For this Project, discuss how you would address the practice of female genital mutilation with a family that believes in this practice. Research the underlying sexual beliefs of this practice and how you would address these views. Make sure you use the provided resources and your own search of the to support your efforts of advocacy. Discuss the major barriers you believe exist in advocating […]

Codes of ethics and standards are documents that express the ethical and professional ideals of a profession. They outline the aspirational practices that are expected in a profession but often do not provide explicit guidance on how attainment of these ideals should be accomplished. For instance, in this course, you focus on the National Organization for Human Services’ (NOHS) Ethical Standards for Human Service Professionals. […]

Choose a culture other than your own, and fill in the chart with details contrasting how the 2 cultures care for infants.  Use at least 2 resources, cited using APA style, to support your assertions about the different culture’s ways of caring for infants.  Before completing this assignment, be sure that you understand the definition of culture.  Here is a resource that may be helpful.  […]

Assignment Updated Due March 21 at 12:59 AM Outlining the public health financing process is an intuitive phase. Many public health officials start drafting the program budget along with the planning phase just to have some idea of the funding needed to support such a venture. Later, financial analysts are consulted to form a detailed plan of action and develop multiple financial options and a […]

Couples are impacted by many external factors that may negatively affect their system.  Couples are impacted by common life stage transitions (e.g., children introduced to the system by birth or adoption, empty nests when children become adults, blended families), as well as uncommon life events such as infidelity, substance use, financial challenges, gambling problems.  When working with couples it is important to remain aware of […]

To go along with this assignment, I would normally have us to a privilege walk in class, where we line up and step forward or back, the people in the front of the line are more ‘privileged’ while the people further back are ‘less’ privileged. Because we could not complete the exercise in class, please watch the videos and take the Buzz Feed survey to […]

Couple and family helping professionals have varying degrees of work. What they all have in common is that their clients represent the variety of human experience. Even those helping professionals with a specific clinical focus see variety in the ways in which specific issues manifest in different relationships. Part of the goal of your program is to expose you to varying scenarios so that when […]