Critically discuss what Attachment Theory offers to our understanding of the aetiology of psychological disorders and discuss any treatment implications.

Description Essay question: With reference to at least two psychological disorders outline the association between adult attachment patterns and psychological disorders. Evaluate the claim that there is a strong relationship between child attachment patterns and chances of later (adult) psychopathology, and consider the implications. Critically discuss what Attachment Theory offers to our understanding of the aetiology of psychological disorders and discuss any treatment implications. Information to include: The essay should consider The Association between attachment and psychological disorder. Specific disorders to think of – maybe focus on 2.. borderline personality disorder and another one maybe Is the link Causal, or an outcome of disorder? What are the Risks protection, cause, or trigger? What are the Implications – e.g., for understanding specific disorder or treatments?  The subject is Attachment Theory- topic: link between attachment and mood disorders/specific disorders It will be APA reference In text citations needs to be accurate and consistent. There should be a clear introduction stating the essay question and linking it clearly with the conclusion, with the findings of the essay I will provide some information, readings/ resources- but can the writer also kindly source some themselves please? (Thank you) Please please make sure it is clear and consice and answers the essay question.

Write a proposal for a qualitative research project.

SO120 Summative Research Design Proposal (2000 words)

Task: Write a proposal for a qualitative research project. The proposal is a summary of your research aims and plans, and should include the following elements: • Title / Research question: Qualitative research generally involves collecting and analysing non-numerical data in order to arrive at an in-depth understanding of the experiences, opinions, beliefs, concepts, etc of the participants. It is important, therefore, to choose a research topic/question that lends itself to exploring these kind of qualitative questions. • Introduction: Set the scene by outlining the objectives of your research. In what way is the proposed research significant/important/interesting/topical etc? Which groups might benefit from the research? Are there any personal reasons for you choosing this topic? • Literature review: Outline how your research relates to wider sociological questions and debates: how does it build upon, add to, replicate, or challenge previous work? There is likely to be a very large literature available on some topics, but for the purpose of this exercise a summary of four or five key pieces of previous research in your chosen area will be sufficient. • Methods: What method(s) will you use to collect your data? You must include at least one qualitative method, but you could choose to use mixed-methods (qualitative and quantitative) or multi-methods (more than one qualitative methods) if this makes sense in the context of your proposed project. Why is your selected method(s) most appropriate for your research? What benefits does the method have over other possible methods? Are there any potential weaknesses? What ontological/epistemological assumptions are you making in using this method? • Practical/ethical issues: What ethical questions are raised by your proposed research? How might you address these? How will you gain access to your chosen group? Will sampling be required? What will be the timeline for your research? • Dissemination: What will be the final outputs of the research (e.g. journal article, conference presentation, blog, museum exhibition, theatre production)? How will you spread your findings to a wider public? Who will this wider public be? The word limit for the proposal is 2000 words – so none of the above elements need to be covered in great depth. It is more important to give a sense that you understand how each component contributes to shaping the research design as a whole. Reading suggestions Any good social research methods textbook will cover the above. Some recommended ones are: Bryman, A. (2012) Social Research Methods. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Gilbert, N. (2008) Researching Social Life. London: Sage. Matthews, B. and Ross, L (2010) Research Methods: A Practical Guide for the Social Sciences. Essex: Pearson. There is also a useful, searchable, resource here.

Critically analyse the ways in which the practice assessor / supervisor can facilitate learning and assessment in the clinical environment

‘Critically analyse the ways in which the practice assessor / supervisor can facilitate learning and assessment in the clinical environment’.

Assessing Learning Outcomes: Knowledge 1 and 2 Skills 3, 4, 5 and 6.

Knowledge

1. An understanding of student learning styles and their impact on the student experience.

2 . An understanding of the factors that can contribute to a supportive learning environment.

Skills

1. A proficiency in the formative and summative assessment of students.
2. An ability to analyse strategies which can be used in giving and receiving feedback to students.
3. An ability to evaluate strategies to promote evidenced-based practice.
4. Leadership when applying practice assessor and supervisor skills in practice.
5. An ability to critically analyse the concept of reflective practice.
6. An ability to critically evaluate the reliability and validity of assessment strategies

Compare the concern about ‘culture’ as found in Marcuse, Horkheimer and Adorno, Geertz, Douglas, Alexander, and Zerubavel. What do they mean by ‘culture’?

Topic:

Compare the concern about ‘culture’ as found in Marcuse, Horkheimer and Adorno, Geertz, Douglas, Alexander, and Zerubavel. What do they mean by ‘culture’? How are their definitions similar or different? How do they understand culture to be operating in social life?

discuss the relevance of patient centred care and the importance (or not) of the patient’s involvement in their care and consider how relevant health policy shapes or guidelines informs decisions.

Clinical Decision-Making Assessment: A report into the clinical decisions made for a clinical care scenario.

You have to write a report on a clinical care scenario that involves clinical decision making.

Consider any clinical placements recent or one that you can remember. Think of an episode of care that was undertaken. This does not have to be good or bad. Please avoid anything that may be personal, emotive or considered poor practice and needs escalating. We are using this as an opportunity to learn why something happened in a particular way or why it may be best for it to be undertaken differently. You are also able to frame this on one of the case studies if you choose to.

The clinical care scenario care will provide the framework for the report and the critical discussions and therefore ensure that it has sufficient content to be able to explore, and not too much that it is hard to cover.

Tasks to undertake in order to write the report:

1. Identify an episode of care. Write down the details.
2. Consider the clinical decisions made and the processes involved getting to that decision. By doing this you may uncover elements that you will explore within your clinical care scenario. For instance, experience, ethical or professional aspects may influence the decision-making process.
3. Write down the key clinical decisions made. Break these down so that they can be explored. You may not choose to write all of these down. Focus on the important aspects

The report has to cover the following aspects

1. A brief summary of the clinical decisions made.
2. A discussion of the pathophysiology and pharmacology relevant to the episode of care
3. The importance of person-centred care and involving patients in their decisions around the planning and implementation of their care.
4. Discuss the relevance of health policy in relation to the episode of care.
5. Critical discussion and evidence to support or refute the decisions that were made
6. Evaluating the effect of the decision

Included in the report there must be consideration towards:

Ethical issues and professionalism.

Systematic approaches to care, for instance the Nursing process.

There must be critical discussion and evidence to support your writing from a wide range of sources.

Word count 2500+/- 10% due on the 27^th of April at 10.00am.

You will be offered the opportunity to undertake a formative to support you with your assignment.

The formative will consist of 500 words on section 2: Explore the relevant pathophysiology and pharmacology relevant to this clinical care scenario. Include in the appendix your clinical care scenario and an outline of your report (bullet points). 11th of February at 10 am

What are the causes of the existing social housing crisis in the UK?

Background

The provision of a sufficient supply of affordable and appropriate housing has been reflected as a primary challenge encountered by regions such as the UK, especially coupled with the planning policies adopted to curb sprawl and poor living conditions in cities (Addison et al., 2013). Bratt et al. (2013) posited accessibility, availability, and affordability (3As) of housing to be an essential aspect of every person in a society. However, the 3As of housing influence the economic vitality, quality, and sustainability of emergent cities, by prompting where a person can secure housing. The conditions in which an individual grows, works, and lives significantly affect their well-being and health. Such conditions can either be social, economic, or political and are often collectively recognised as the social determinants of health (SDoH), which might infringe the rights of citizens. The main research question guiding this dissertation is “Do social housing policies promote social justice in the UK?”

The critical and fundamental roles played by housing in an individual’s life means that when the government fails to protect, respect, and safeguard this right, it raises vital questions regarding the aptitude of people to live and adequately contribute to societal development. A report by Braveman et al. (2011) revealed that healthy homes enhance good mental and physical wellbeing. For instance, those living in impoverished neighbourhoods with inadequate and poor housing occasionally experience health conditions such as chronic diseases. Overcrowding in substandard housing causes high rates of poverty and little resources for the promotion of health through recreational activities. Therefore, the right to adequate housing should push the government to safeguard its citizens by offering subsidised housing facilities. The Office for National Statistics (2022) revealed that the average prices of houses in the UK have significantly grown by 10% between October and November 2021 (£271,000) from 9.8%. The statistic is higher than that recorded in November of the previous year by £25,000. Such growth has been witnessed in major countries in the UK with Wales experiencing the highest margin of growth. UN-Habitat (2011) pointed out that various governments have started addressing the challenge of affordable housing by the assertion of social housing as a social right.

Rationale

Social justice issues are some of the challenges facing various governments, especially in the UK. However, maintaining social justice in contemporary society has become complex because it is instigated by a range of problems ranging from social, economic, and political factors (Soken-Huberty, 2021; Sloan, 2010; Khechen, 2013), which governments may have some control over through the implementation of sufficient socio-economic policies. Scholars have identified social housing policies as key drivers or inhibitors of social justice in developed and developing countries (Bratt et al., 2013; Hohmann, 2017; Jonkman and Jassen-Jansen, 2018).

Although the UK government has considered various drastic measures toward improving the level of social justice, evidence shows the absence of social justice in this society. According to HM Government (2012), nearly 3.9 million workless households exist in the UK while more than 1.8 million children live in these households. These developments have considerably reduced the government’s effort in providing services such as education and recreational amenities. Additionally, even if the government provides affordable and safe housing to these families they are likely to default rent payment. Shu and Lin (2019) affirm that exclusion of eligible citizens to government facilities and services is a major dynamic driving the ever-growing social injustice. In a similar view, HM Government (2012) demonstrated that children eligible (from impoverished households/neighbourhoods) to get food and subsidised education have a greater probability to get a permanent exclusion from school when compared to those ineligible. The exclusion of these kids from school alone has resulted in a huge gap between the rich and the poor. And this is the reason why it is important to examine the extent to which social housing policy in the UK has promoted social justice in various communities.

Significance of study findings

Given the complexity attributed to the understanding of housing policy and social justice in the UK over the years, single research cannot entirely bring a clear comprehension of the effect of the research problem on the economy of the UK. Therefore, this research study will examine issues of social justice resulting from land and housing policies. Additionally, the outcome of the study will provide crucial information, knowledge, and evidence of the factors promoting the implementation and adoption of UK housing policies that influence social justice concerns affecting major cities in the region. Finally, the findings of the study will be relevant to those who have an interest in issues of social justice and social housing in the UK.

Research questions (RQs)

1. What are the causes of the existing social housing crisis in the UK?

This research question is important because it will inspire the understanding of the issues and factors promoting the prevailing crises within the housing sector. These facets will also provide the understanding to enhance social justice in the UK.

1. Are the existing housing policies in the UK sufficient to address the current housing crises?

This RQ is vital for understanding whether the current policies are effective and suggesting better ways to address the loopholes and gaps in the prevailing policies to reduce accommodation crises.

• To what extent are social justice concerns influencing the UK housing policies?

This RQ is essential to examine whether social inequalities problems inspire the formulation of current and future policies as a means of improving the well-being of citizens from different socio-economic backgrounds.

Aim and Objectives

Aim: To investigate the extent to which the social housing policies enhance social justice

Objectives

1. To define social justice in the background of this study

In the context of this research, social justice was defined as providing assurance to a citizen of all levels of income regarding accessings table, safe, high-quality, and affordable housing facilities (The Praxis Project, 2020).The definition is based on the ability of one to have a reliable and dependable place to live.

2. To highlight how social housing policies can theoretically improve social justice
3. To assess the extent to which social housing policies in the UK contributed to social justice

Outline of the Thesis

The next chapter is the literature review, which searches concepts and ideas related to social justice, social housing, and social housing policy. The methodology chapter is the third chapter, which highlights a detailed description of techniques utilised to gather data. This is a qualitative study focusing on a critical examination of the relevant policies developed from the early 1980s to the early 2000s and articles published between 2015 and 2022. An inductive approach is employed to examine the prevailing policies and existing literature. Qualitative data (SH policies and views of leaders) is analysed using discourse analysis. Although this is a qualitative study focusing on secondary data, the research topic and procedures have gotten ethical approval from the University Ethics Committee.

The result chapter presents the findings from data gathered using secondary sources. The discussion chapter offers the outcomes by comparing them to the existing literature for further investigation. Finally, the conclusion and recommendations chapter presents a succinct description of the concepts and findings. Additionally, it provides advice on how to improve practice and policy in this area.

How does the Pupil Premium funding affect educational outcomes in Key Stage 1 in the UK.

8 pages + well-structured + cited references

Description

Hi, my literature review will be around 4000 words.

My question is: How does the Pupil Premium funding affect educational outcomes in Key Stage 1 in the UK.

I will attach my dissertation template, parts of the assignment brief and a breakdown of what the literature review should include. In my literature review I have to break it down into three themes (1,2 and 3 in bold) and within these themes I have listed three subheadings (underlined) to help with answering the questions: My three key themes are: 1. What is the attainment gap? – Defining the attainment gap What does the attainment gap mean? What do OFSTED define the attainment gap as? How long has the attainment gap been around? – How is it measured? What data has been made to assess the attainment gap within the last few years? Is this data accurate – have a look at reports that have been published. What does the data show? is there data for Key stage 1 Is the attainment gap closing? – How does the attainment gap affect pupils? Having a look at data, what does suggest for children now and in the future? How will they be impacted? 2. What is the pupil premium funding? – Defining the Pupil premium funding What is pupil premium? When did it first come about and why? Explore the history of pupil premium (started in 2011) When the funding was first introduced, how much money was first provided? Has this increased as years have gone be? https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/2010‑to‑2015‑government‑policy‑education‑of‑disadvantaged‑ children/2010‑to‑2015‑government‑policy‑education‑of‑disadvantaged‑children – How is it allocated? Which schools receive the funding? How do schools apply for the funding? What is the criteria for pupil premium funding? Who has to be eligible? What do they receive? – How does schools use their PP funding? Once schools have the funding, how do they use the money? Is there guidance on what they should be spending their funding on? (The EEF) 3. Is the pupils premium funding effective? – Barriers towards the Pupil Premium funding Are there any articles or research that has been done to show if the pupil premium funding has made an impact on disadvantaged pupils? – Are schools using PP effectively? Schools receive different amounts of funding based on how many pupils are eligible. Do they spend their money effectively? What is effective and what is not? Is there any research to back this? (The EEF pupil premium guidance – how to use the funding effectively) Is there anything they should be spending their money on to help close the attainment gap? What are schools focusing their funding on – technology, teaching staff, extra tuition etc. In the literature review can you write down the subheadings under each of the key themes to separate the paragraphs. I have also included resources that I would like used in the literature review, along with any other readings you can find. Any of the readings I have included in the documents I have sent; I have picked out key information I have found. They are not in my own words so if you do use these resources included, please ensure that they are put into your own words as I do not want it being plagiarised.

You are responsible for enforcing a physical fitness/readiness standard for your employer. Due to your workplace responding to a catastrophe for the past month, many people have neglected their physical fitness. How do you address the issue of physical fitness when the staff has not had the time to put into it?

Ethical Issues in the
Workplace

A few ideas for your consideration:

~ You are responsible for enforcing a physical fitness/readiness standard for your employer. Due to your workplace responding to a catastrophe for the past month, many people have neglected their physical fitness. How do you address the issue of physical fitness when the staff has not had the time to put into it?

~ Your co-worker has been consistently late for the past month unbeknownst to the supervisor. Reporting such behavior could mean that your co-worker is dismissed, or put on a performance improvement plan. Yet, the co-worker is dealing with a personal tragedy because her 5-year-old son was diagnosed with Leukemia. Do you report?

~ You take a new hire on a sales call and meet with an executive at company X, your most important client. While your back is turned to grab something out of your briefcase, the executive fondles the back side of your new employee. What do you do to protect the employee yet preserve the relationship with the client?

This final paper is your opportunity to delve into a topic within the framework of ethics that you find interesting based on your approved topic and thesis statement.

Recognition, Analysis, and
Resolution

One of the most beneficial exercises in a course exploring ethics is to develop a paper that allows you the opportunity to create connections between your professional view of ethics and applied ethical theories. The nature of ethical decision making is recognition, analysis, and resolution.

Your paper must explore a current ethical issue in your workplace. It can be a current or former employer, or someplace where you have volunteered. Ideally, the issue that you explore is something related to your current or future career.

Focus your paper on the connection between your topic and ethics theory. You must use your approved topic. You must use at least two ethical theories in your analysis.

You must support your views. While your opinions are important, they are not enough for a discussion for this type of paper. The academic connections are crucial.
Use your full-sentence outline to build the paper. This creates the blueprint for the final paper.

Your paper must include the following:

• Introduction and overview of the ethical issue. Provide a clear description of the topic including all relevant facts (who, what, when, where, and why). This is where your thesis statement resides.
• History of an ethical issue in the workplace. Provide a brief background of the organization, description of the dilemma, and justification for why this experience is an ethical dilemma. (Hint: define ethical dilemma, and show how your facts meet the definition).
• Academic research on ethical theories, lenses, or models. Include both modern and traditional ethical theories in your analysis.
• Explore ramifications of potential solution options based on the ethical theory analysis.
• Conclusion; include a final discussion of how you—as a participant in the resolution—would play a role, the personal implications or consequences you may experience, and how you would handle these consequences.
• References in APA format. You must cite at least 2 of the sources used in this course. Your references may include academic and trade journals but should not include unverified, non-credible sources such as blogs. You must have a minimum of 5 references.
• Your paper should be 5-7 pages in length (not including title and reference pages) and must follow APA guidelines, use Times New Roman, 12-point font, double spacing, with one-inch margins.

This activity is used to assess one or more general education career competencies (GECC). You will see additional rows in your rubric from your instructor along with assessments of Above/Meets/Does Not Meet Expectations for each competency. These rows do not factor into your grade.

OUTLINE Instructions

Building on your paper topic selection from Module 2 and annotated bibliography in Module 4, in this assignment you will be creating and submitting an outline for the Module 8 paper.

A full-sentence outline helps you create the structure of your paper and the topic sentences of your paragraphs at the same time. Think of this document as your blueprint for the final paper. By approaching the outline in this way, you can easily move paragraphs around and edit the flow of the paper before you write a full draft. This makes editing for the flow of information easier.

For this activity, create a full-sentence outline for your final paper. Each sentence will act as a topic sentence for a new paragraph. The entire paper should be outlined using this method. This will allow your instructor to provide feedback to you about the information flow in your paper.

What is knowledge management in an organization and how does knowledge management differ from information management?

Instructions: Do not share your answers with others or copy answers from another student. Please write your answers as sentences. Formal citations and references are not required. Type into the boxes below in Microsoft Word. EXPAND THE BOXES as needed to complete your responses. There are a total of 20 questions.

The major sources containing answers to the following questions include your textbook and my written introductions to the modules in GaVIEW. Some questions may require some research using Wikipedia.org and/or other sources. Some answers require your ability to reason.

Student name:

1. Find one of the most commonly used GIS (Geographic Information System) software applications used by city governments for planning, zoning (and other) purposes. What is the name of the software application? What hardware (or operating system) does it run on? What is the approximate cost per workstation or per license? (Enlarge box below as needed.)

2. You have accepted the position of City Administrator of a small to mid-size city. You now discover that the city is running on a variety of old “stovepipe” applications. It keeps its books using Microsoft Excel. As a result the business processes of the city are cumbersome. When you ask about them, city employees often explain, “we have always done it that way.” The IT director has been there for 30 years and does not see a problem. You talk with the mayor and she is open to your concerns and realizes that this is the 21st Century. But she does not want to take the political “heat” to advocated for costly IT upgrades. You want to make the case that the city must consider moving to a modern ERP to automate common business processes of modern city governments. You face trying to sell your “progressive” idea to the elected members of the city council. The council members see this as, “an administrative thing.” You are not getting any support among city employees. You need support from the mayor and elected council members. You are on the agenda for the meeting next week. You are willing to sacrifice your new job for this, if necessary.

Write out in detail what you plan to say to them.

3. Identify the two major models of the software development lifecycle.

4. Explain why the common political need to put the specifications for a new software system needed by a government organization violates the integration of analysis and design in the iterative incremental model of the software development lifecycle.

5. What is the difference between information processing and knowledge management?

6. In the organizations of the future the distinctions between natural intelligence and artificial intelligence is likely to become increasing blurred. It will more often NOT be clearly apparent when we are interacting with humans and when we are interacting with devices with artificial intelligence.

7. In new software analysis and development design, a visual model that includes “actors” and new system functionalities and that can be used to guide the prototyping of screens for each kind of user is a . . .

8. Prototyping a potential new software system involves . . .

9. The “waterfall” model of software development is a sound, modern approach to project management in actual practice.

10. The iterative-incremental model of software development is a sound approach to project management in actual practice, in part because the method of testing helps mitigate risks of project failure.

11. Modern software development is complex and you need an experienced software project manager to convent the specifications into the application.

12. Cloud-based ERP applications reduce the need for an organization to employ a large number of local IT employees.

13. The “waterfall” model of software development is useful for teaching purposes but is not useful in modern practice, using modern object-oriented programming languages.

14. Reports and news stories online report that employment conditions at Amazon.com warehouses are very demanding. In warehouse environments with many robots, human employees work long hard shifts with limited regard for their human needs. Do you think this is a trend that is likely to carry over into governmental clerical employments, such as the oversight of foster care services where public service values emphasize care and the personalization of services?

15. According to the model shown above, in what project phase does deployment of the new system begin? “Deployment” means actually making the new system available to employees and beginning to use it in the organization.

16. According to the model shown above, what are the two major core business during the inception phase of the software development project?

17. Given modern software development practices, it would be far better if the software contractor (the outside consulting company) could be known and onboard while specifications are being written, rather than only after the bidding and acceptance process.

18. A data warehouse contains historic data organized to be useful for strategic decision-making purposes, rather than current data used to support real-time transactions.

19. What is knowledge management in an organization and how does knowledge management differ from information management?

20. What are the risks of antomation bias in decision making in modern organizations? Are the risks of automation bias likely to become more or less serious as computer algorithms become increasingly complex? Explain your reasoning.

reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automation_bias

conduct penetration testing of its operations to help ensure that it is able to meet the government’s requirements for cybersecurity and the protection of government owned sensitive but unclassified information.

Sifers-Grayson

Background

Sifers-Grayson is a family owned business headquartered in Grayson County, Kentucky, USA. The company’s physical address is 1555 Pine Knob Trail, Pine Knob, KY 42721. The president of the company is Ira John Sifers, III. He is the great-grandson of one of the company’s founders and is also the head of the engineering department. The chief operating officer is Michael Coles, Jr. who is Ira John’s great nephew. Mary Beth Sifers is the chief financial officer and also serves as the head of personnel for the company.

Recent contracts with the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security have imposed additional security requirements upon the company and its R&D DevOps and SCADA labs operations. The company is now required to comply with NIST Special Publication 800-171 Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information in Nonfederal Information Systems and Organizations. The company must also comply with provisions of the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulations (DFARS) including section 252-204-7012 Safeguarding Covered Defense Information and Cyber Incident Reporting. These requirements are designed to ensure that sensitive technical information, provided by the federal government and stored on computer systems in the Sifers-Grayson R&D DevOps and SCADA labs, is protected from unauthorized disclosure. This information includes software designs and source code. The contract requirements also mandate that Sifers-Grayson report cyber incidents to the federal government in a timely manner.

The company has agreed to allow an external Red Team to :

-conduct penetration testing of its operations to help ensure that it is able to meet the government’s requirements for cybersecurity and the protection of government owned sensitive but unclassified information. The company has also assigned personnel to conduct After Action Reviews of the penetration testing.