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    Counselling: Logical Positivism and Reflection in Action

    Analyze the similarities between technical rationality and reflection in action and between logical positivism and interpretive epistemologies. Discuss evidences of technical rationality and reflection in action in counselling and then discuss that discipline's quest for professionalization. Refer to the attached documents for

    Creating an Attitude Survey

    Select an issue that you are interested in. Based on your issue, C=create an attitude survey. Explain the steps you took in creating your survey. Include the following: - Explain the purpose of the survey. - Discuss the preliminary design issues you experienced in creating your survey. - Describe the specific inst

    Juvenile Offenders Critically Evaluated

    Critically evaluate the effectiveness of the contemporary responses to juvenile offenses. Assess the effectiveness of alternative treatment programs for juvenile offenders. Identify the key components of a strategy to prevent juvenile delinquency and recidivism. Use references/cite sources.

    Wadesville Case Study: Ethical Violations

    Wadesville Case Study: Ethical Violations Use the Codes of Ethics for the Helping Professionals texts to identify five specific ethical violations present in the case study. Provide the ethical codes from the text, and explain why each situation violates an ethical code. Then, explore the function of ethical standards in rese

    Blending and Adapting Qualitative Research Approaches

    Discussing how the five qualitative research approaches might be blended or adapted to suit particular research questions or topics. Consider situations in which blending or adapting two or more research approaches might be useful. What kinds of research questions would benefit from such a blending or adapting?

    The Effects of Stress on the Body and Brain

    What physiological changes occur in the brain due to stress response? What emotional and cognitive effects might occur due to this stressful situation? Would the changes stemming from stress be any different if the same stress were being experiencing by a person depending sex or age? What three behavioural strategies would be im

    Types of Parenting Styles

    Talk to a relative, friend, or co-worker concerning her or his beliefs on child rearing. Based on the description you are given, would you say the parenting style most closely matches the authoritarian, authoritative, or overly permissive styles you have studied in this unit? How so? Using information from the textbook and fr

    Impact of family relations on a caregivers' appraisal

    Using the attached article, I need some notes on comparing the ontological, axiological, and epistemological assumptions that the author made in this study (with examples); discuss the research method the author used to validate and build knowledge in the area of caregiving, and explain how this method makes sense given the onto

    Sex Offenders and Treatment Approach

    I need a brief description of the research article entitled: Therapeutic Responses of Psychopathic Sexual Offenders Treatment Attrition, Therapeutic Change, and Long-Term Recidivism. It needs to include the type of sex offender and treatment approach. Then, would you please explain which treatment outcome model (recidivism

    Comparison: Juvenile Sexual Offenders and Female Rapists

    I need a a brief description of two types of sex offenders, I am particularly interested in juvenile offenders. Please explain at least two similarities and two differences between these two types of sex offenders. Please explain one challenge related to the treatment of each type of sex offender.

    Research on the merits of restorative justice

    I am seeking help with explaining restorative justice impact on lowering the rate of recidivism. Evaluate procedural or moral justice. Also, justify which type of justice is most useful based on psychological theories.

    Amazon Company Review: Operations & Tech

    Conduct a search of Amazon and its online communities, networking sites, and blogs to report company performance, employment practices, employee reviews, coupon offering, price comparisons, or other information that could either hurt or help Amazons reputation and/or profits. Directions: 1. Write a short summary about the

    Psychological Consultation in Relation to Services and Settings

    Discuss the potential application of consultation to settings relevant to your area of specialization: What is the role of consultation in the delivery of psychological services (within your respective specialization, setting, etc.)? What role does culture play in the delivery of consultation services?

    Fatal Attraction/Stanford Prison Experiment

    Part I In the movie "Fatal Attraction" the main character is suffering from a mental illness. Analyze the character's illness in terms of one or more of the theoretical perspectives (e.g. biological, psychoanalytic, cognitive-behavioral, biopsychosocial). Be sure to include references. - Describe the character's diagnosis in t

    Classical and Positivist Schools of Criminology

    Describe the basic elements of the classical and positive schools of criminology. Be sure to identify when each school emerged. Describe the contributions of Cesare Beccaria and Cesare Lombroso. Who is the "father of criminology"?

    Analysis of the Zodiac Killer

    Read and analyze why you think the zodiac killer was never captured. How is this serial killer different from a normal homicide suspect? What were his criteria when choosing his victims? Did forensic psychology have any input into this case? Why do you think he was never captured? Hindsight is better than foresight—w

    Important Social Psychology Research: Milgram, Zimbardo

    I need to know about two historical periods of attitude research 1950's and 1960's ( a brief description). what social issues and/or debates prevalent at the time may have influenced the focus of attitude research during each of these historical periods. I know that social psychology attitude has played a significant r

    Multiculturalism from Sociological Perspectives

    I need notes with at least 700 words that focuses upon the following: 1) Is the United States of America a multicultural country? Why? 2) Why is multiculturalism a controversial issue for some people? 3) How can the three sociological perspectives (social functionalism, social conflict, and symbolic interaction) be used to

    Students' Class Assessments

    I need help as to whether the assessments listed below would be appropriate to measure the students' performance based on these learning objectives for these two chapters in a syllabus. If not, can you help me with more appropriate assessments? Also, can you tell if the rationales for the assessments are grounded in instructiona

    Differing Psychology instruction strategies for differing types of learner groups

    Can someone help me a description of an instructional strategy and example that a psychology instructor could use for each of the following learner populations: adult learners, traditional college students, and graduate students. Also, why would the instructional strategy be appropriate for each learner population and how would

    Sampling Strategies and Size

    Sampling Strategy and Sample Size for a Quantitative Research Plan 3-to 5-page paper in which you recommend the sampling strategy and sample size for your quantitative research plan. Include a rationale for why that is the best strategy and size for your plan.

    Comprehensive Guide: Doing Literature Review & Theoretical Disucssion

    Perceptions of illegal immigrants and crime would be a topic to present. As much descriptive data both nationally and locally would be helpful. The project is a qualitative research, discussing correlation between two variables is unnecessary. With that, social organization theory may be less relevant to how immigrants view cr

    Dispositional Personality Theory vs Evolutionary & Biolgocial Personality Theory

    I need help writing about the following: - Describe the differences between dispositional and evolutionary or biological personality theories. - Discuss the strengths and limitations of dispositional and evolutionary or biological personality theories as they apply to behavior. - Discuss the Big Five personality test and h

    Assigning Values in Likert Scales

    Likert Scale. Since it is a continuum, how do we assign numerical value for statistical analysis if somebody rate themselves in between two answers (i.e. between 'not likely' and 'somewhat possible')?