Select a specific personality or paraphilic disorder from the DSM-5-TR to • Explain the controversy that surrounds your selected disorder. • Explain your professional beliefs about this disorder, supporting your rationale with at least three scholarly references from the literature.

• Review this week’s Learning Resources and consider the insights they provide on assessing, diagnosing, and treating personality and paraphilic disorders.
• Select a specific personality or paraphilic disorder from the DSM-5-TR to use for this Assignment.
• Use the Walden Library to investigate your chosen disorder further, including controversial aspects of the disorder, maintaining the therapeutic relationship, and ethical and legal considerations.
In 2–3 pages:
• Explain the controversy that surrounds your selected disorder.
• Explain your professional beliefs about this disorder, supporting your rationale with at least three scholarly references from the literature.
• Explain strategies for maintaining the therapeutic relationship with a patient that may present with this disorder.
• Finally, explain ethical and legal considerations related to this disorder that you need to bring to your practice and why they are important.

conduct research on the merits of prison reforms

conduct research on the merits of prison reform.
The B.S. in Criminal Justice library guide is a good place to start your research.
The Colson Task Force issued a report calling for the federal Bureau of Prisons to reduce its population by 60,000 inmates and to reserve mandatory minimums for violent offenders only. It also urged Congress to create a path for prisoners who have served more than 15 years to apply for shorter sentences by asking their judges to give their cases a second look.

Please respond to the following in a substantive post:

Defend reforms such as these to those who take a tough-on-crime stance.
Share evidence that supports your argument with your classmates.

create a Personal Legislative Agenda in which you will detail your strategy for moving your policy through the legislative process.

How can you move a policy forward? What strategies need to be implemented, evidence compiled, or resources utilized? What is the plan for the legislative process?

For this Assignment, you will create a Personal Legislative Agenda in which you will detail your strategy for moving your policy through the legislative process.

Review the Personal Legislative Agenda and Action Plan Exemplar to demonstrate how you will construct your Personal Legislative Agenda for the state and federal proposed legislation.
Review the Personal Legislative Agenda and Action Plan Exemplar to determine which approach might work best for advancing your policy initiatives at various stages of the legislative process.

Submit a Personal Legislative Agenda detailing your strategy for moving your policy through the legislative process, using the Personal Legislative and Agenda and Action Plan Exemplar as your template.

In your Personal Legislative Agenda, choose from the strategies provided in Advocacy Toolkit resource that best suite moving your policies forward.

Search for information on the California vote on legalizing marijuana.

Snack food venders and beer distributors earn some monopoly profits in their local markets but see them slowly erode from various new substitutes.

1.Search for information on the California vote on legalizing marijuana.
2. Which side of the vote did the two industries take and why? Please discuss at least one more group/industry in the state that took the same side as each of the parties above and provide a discussion of the potential reasons. Please provide references.

3. Your discussion should be based on what you have learned in this (Managerial Economic)course as well as what you know about the products in question.

Explain how ethical considerations may impact your treatment plan and communication with patients.

Examine Case Study: A Middle-Aged Caucasian Man With Anxiety. Psychopharmacologic Approaches to Treatment of Psychopathology (waldenu.edu)
You will be asked to make three decisions concerning the medication to prescribe to this patient. Be sure to consider factors that might impact the patient’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.

References 5 x including:
Bui, E., Pollack, M. H., Kinrys, G., Delong, H., Vasconcelos e Sá, D., & Simon, N. M. (2016). The pharmacotherapy of anxiety disorders. In T. A. Stern, M. Favo, T. E. Wilens, & J. F. Rosenbaum. (Eds.), Massachusetts General Hospital psychopharmacology and neurotherapeutics (pp. 61–71). Elsevier.
American Psychiatric Association. (2010a). Practice guideline for the treatment of patients with acute stress disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder Links to an external site.. https://psychiatryonline.org/pb/assets/raw/sitewide/practice_guidelines/guidelines/acutestressdisorderptsd.pdf
Cohen, J. A. (2010). Practice parameter for the assessment and treatment of children and adolescents with posttraumatic stress disorder. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Links to an external site., 49(4), 414–430. https://jaacap.org/action/showPdf?pii=S0890-8567%2810%2900082-1
Ostacher, M. J., & Cifu, A. S. (2019). Management of posttraumatic stress disorder. JAMA Links to an external site., 321(2), 200–201. https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2018.19290
Strawn, J. R., Wehry, A. M., DelBello, M. P., Rynn, M. A., & Strakowski. S. (2012). Establishing the neurobiologic basis of treatment in children and adolescents with generalized anxiety disorder. Depression and Anxiety Links to an external site., 29(4), 328–339. https://doi.org/10.1002/da.21913

 

Should marijuana be legal in every state?

The following are topics to be considered for your 5 page APA research term paper.

Choose a topic, research it and state your position but… support your position with research and data. You should have 5 pages in total. Do not include an abstract. Please make sure your citations are correct. Anything with more than a 20% similarity index is a failing paper. I will remove the reference page on my end if all of your similarity is in the reference page. The paper will be due in week 12.

Page 1- Cover page (Do not put any pictures follow APA format)
Page 2- Content
Page 3- Content
Page 4- Content
Page 5- Reference Page

There will be a draft drop box in week 12 that will allow you to check the similarity before a final submission. After checking the draft YOU must submit a final paper in the final submission drop box.

Topics:
Should marijuana be legal in every state?

-Identify some aspect of unfinished business in your life now. How do you think it might affect your work as a counselor?

INSTRUCTIONS- Follow the directions and complete the assignment on forum pdf file. Use the information on pdf to answer to respective Forum questions.

FORUM #5 (1-2 paragraphs total)
Question 1: Which statements in the Gestalt Therapy Self-Inventory did you mark as “Strongly Disagree” and why? How many statements did you mark “Strongly Agree”? What does this tell you about making this your counseling theory of choice?
Question 2: re: Unfinished business–Identify some aspect of unfinished business in your life now. How do you think it might affect your work as a counselor? What Gestalt techniques do you think might be helpful in your work with future clients who have unfinished business?
Question 3: Which statements in the Behavior Therapy Self-Inventory did you mark as “Strongly Disagree” and why? How many statements did you mark “Strongly Agree”? What does this tell you about making Behavior Therapy part of your counseling theory of choice?
Question 4: Study the Behavior Chain Analysis handout. Complete a behavior chain analysis on a personal experience where it could have been useful for you. What did you learn? In your opinion, how would this be useful for your future clients?

FORUM #6 -(1-2 paragraphs total)
Question 1: Which statements in the Cognitive Behavior Therapy Self-Inventory did you mark as “Strongly Disagree” and why? How many statements did you mark “Strongly Agree”? What does this tell you about making this your counseling theory of choice?
Question 2: Select 2 of the questions from the Practical Applications exercise and share the homework suggestions you would offer the client.

FORUM #7 — (1-2 paragraphs total)
1. Review your answers to the WDEP exercise What did your learn about yourself from this self-reflection? How did this exercise help you in learning to apply Choice Therapy to future clients?
2. How does this therapy fit into your views on how to work with clients?

FORUM #8 — (1-2 paragraphs total)
Question 1: Which statements in the Post-Modern and Family Systems Therapy Self-Inventories did you mark as “Strongly Disagree” and why? How many statements did you mark “Strongly Agree”? What does this tell you about making either of these part of your counseling theory of choice?
Question 2: Select two SFBT or Narrative therapy techniques that you would find useful and explain how you would make use of them within your theory of choice.
Question 3: After completing the exercises on family systems, what did you learn about yourself? What insights did you get that shed some light on the way you view yourself, others, and the world?
Question 4: After completing the self-inventory, what are your views on the importance of including Family Systems exploration into your counseling practice?