Interview an individual who has a chronic illness.

Learning to live with a chronic illness is an exhausting challenge for everyone involved. From diagnosis until either the illness resolves or the client’s life ends, that individual and family must make every decision and every move with the chronic illness in mind.;

The social worker’s role is many times fairly limited. It is often a matter of following the client and seeing that their basic needs are being met. At times, it does take on the role of sleuth when the social worker is able to go in search of resources to help pay for special needs for everything from prostheses to new treatments. At the very least, it is to help the client and their family to hold on to hope.

To Prepare:

Interview an individual who has a chronic illness. With the individual’s permission, interview them about what it is like to live with a chronic illness, the most difficult parts of being chronically ill, how they manage their illness, what aspects—if any—frighten them, what kind of social support and family support they have, how willing they would be to try new treatment methods, and which social worker stands out most in their mind (good or bad) and why.

In a 5-6-minute video reflect on the following: 

  • How did it feel for you to talk candidly with an individual about their illness? 
  • Who would you say was more uncomfortable talking about it—you or the person you were interviewing?
  • Why? 
  • How informed was in the individual about their illness and the treatments and prognosis? 
  • How supported did this individual feel from the community, and how did that support change from before they became ill? 
  • What insights did you gain from this experience that you will take into the field as a social worker to help when you work with clients with chronic illnesses?
Discussion 1: evidence-based interventions used in trauma

Individuals can experience trauma from public events at the national level or extremely private ones at the interpersonal level. In this Discussion, you analyze these two types of trauma, describing potential interventions and their effectiveness.

To prepare: Read the DSM-5 section on trauma and stressor-related disorders and review the Learning Resources on PTSD, disaster response, and trauma.

Then search the literature for studies related to an evidence-based intervention used to treat those suffering from trauma and stressor-related issues. Specifically, locate the following:

  • One study on treating symptoms resulting from a national traumatic event (e.g., natural disaster, mass shooting)
  • One study on treating symptoms resulting from an interpersonal trauma (e.g., rape, childhood sexual molestation, domestic violence)

Post a response in which you address the following:

  • Post the APA references for the two studies you located.
  • Provide a brief description of the traumatic events, including a summary of how they affected the individuals involved.
  • Describe the interventions discussed in the articles and explain how they addressed the psychosocial issues and needs of the individuals affected by the trauma.
  • Explain the effectiveness of the interventions, as stated in the articles.
  • Analyze and discuss the similarities and differences in the individuals’ needs depending on whether the issues occurred due to a national traumatic event or an interpersonal trauma.

Support your post with specific references to the resources. Be sure to provide full APA citations for your references

write a 4-page (4 minute) script.

Based on what you have learned in Chapter 2, Interpreting The Written Word, write a 4-page (4 minute) script. You may choose to write your script for an animation or for live action. Think of this as a script for a short film or one scene in a longer film.

Your script will meet these objectives:

• Write a brief, one-paragraph treatment for your story/script idea – See the About Treatments page below to learn about this

• 4 pages, 12-point Courier font

• Indentation and spacing as shown on pages 20, 22, 23 in the textbook. Each script page represents 1 minute of screen time.

• Script may be for an animation or live action production

• Include at least two different characters

• This may be a self-contained short film (4 minutes) or one scene excerpted from a longer film

• Include the slugline (master scene heading) that describes the location, time of day, weather, etc.

• Include script elements for action prior to dialogue, character names and actor direction in parentheses

Think about the type of dramatic conflict that may be the basis for a plot for your script:

  • Human vs. self
  • Human vs. human
  • Human vs. nature
  • Human vs. environment
  • Human vs. technology (machine)
  • Human vs. supernatural
  • Human vs. god

(If your characters are not human, just substitute their “species” in place of “human”)

 A treatment is a brief synopsis or description of the story idea for your animation or film. For the scriptwriting assignment, you only need to write a short paragraph. Treatments should read like a short story and be written in the third person, present tense. It should present the entire story including the ending. 

Do you believe you have the traits to be an effective leader?

Do you believe you have the traits to be an effective leader? Perhaps you are already in a supervisory role, but as has been discussed previously, the appointment does not guarantee leadership skills.

How can you evaluate your own leadership skills and behaviors? You can start by analyzing your performance in specific areas of leadership. In this Discussion, you will complete Gallup’s StrengthsFinder assessment. This assessment will identify your personal strengths, which have been shown to improve motivation, engagement, and academic self-conference. Through this assessment, you will discover your top five themes—which you can reflect upon and use to leverage your talents for optimal success and examine how the results relate to your leadership traits.

Post a brief description of your results from the StrengthsFinder assessment. Then, briefly describe two core values, two strengths, and two characteristics that you would like to strengthen based on the results of your StrengthsFinder assessment. Be specific.

Making recommendations on how you might strengthen the leadership behaviors profiled in your StrengthsFinder assessment, or by commenting on the lessons learned from the results that can be applied to personal leadership philosophies and behaviors.

Write a short paper 750 words in length on Why People Use Facebook

Write a short paper 750 words in length on Why People Use Facebook

  • Summarize the article BRIEFLY.  (1-2 paragraphs)
  • Identify the research problem.  Analyze the article, examining the strength of its thesis/hypothesis, method of investigation, analysis of data, and conclusions (4-5 paragraphs)
  • How does this research fit into the big picture?  Connect your article with the lessons from the week or the course as a whole.  (1-2 paragraphs)
  • Discuss your educated opinion on the research.  Can you apply this research to “real life?” (1 paragraph)

Please consider the following: 

  • Please use APA format.  See the attached paper for an example of an APA paper.
  • Important Tip: Choosing articles that you can potentially use as resources in future assignments would be helpful in getting “ahead”.

This will be the only source I will need you to use. 

https://www-sciencedirect-com.ezproxy2.apus.edu/science/article/pii/S0191886911005149?via%3Dihub

What is the responsibility of the social workers working with Iris to advocate for a change in the social policy?

In your reading for this week, you meet Jose and Iris, two individuals who are in situations that require assistance and guidance from a professional social worker and policy advocate.

In this Discussion, create a policy proposal that will impact the situations faced by either Jose or Iris. Describe the trade-offs you used to develop your proposal.

Respond to colleague who selected the Iris case:

– Provide another approach to address the identified problem. 

– What is the responsibility of the social workers working with Iris to advocate for a change in the social policy?

Be sure to support your post with specific references to this week’s resources. If you are using additional articles, be sure to provide full APA-formatted citations for your references 

Organizational Behavior Journal Article Review

Journal Article

For this assignment, you will select an article from the Journal of Organizational Behavior.  You can find this journal through the Ashworth Library in ProQuest.  The link is located in the Course Introduction on the Library page. 

You will write a 500-750 word review of the article. Your article needs to discuss or investigate one or more aspects of organizational behavior as it relates to your Final Project topic; it does not need to be comprehensive. The article should be one written within the last decade, unless you have prior approval from your professor.

In your article review, complete the following tasks.

  • At the top      of the page, cite the article’s source using APA style.
  • Then, answer      these four questions, in one paragraph each:
    • What       did you learn?
    • What       surprised you?
    • What       do you want to learn more about?
    • How       might you apply what you learned to your Final Project in this course?
Giotto di bondone – art renaissance history essay

Giotto di Bondone is one of the best-known artists of the Early Renaissance in Italy, influential in developing what came to be the “Renaissance” style of painting. Please discuss the narrative tradition that Giotto helped to develop as a didactic tool for the congregation of a Church, and explain how the new naturalism found in his style helped his viewers to understand his work.

1750+ word essay

Describe what hacking of memory or hacking of RAM means.

1. Describe what hacking of memory or hacking of RAM means. Weight: 20%

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2. Examine the common tools that hackers use to

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hack into memory of computing devices. Detail two

(2) real-life

examples of such tools in action.

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common tools that hackers use

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that hackers use

to hack into memory of computing devices.

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examples of such tools in action.

that hackers use

to hack into memory of computing devices. Thoroughly detailed two (2) real-life examples of such tools in action.

3. Identify three (3) best practices that one should use to

protect their computer(s) from being hacked. Weight: 20%

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4. Analyze the significance of hacking in organizations and modern society. Weight: 20%