Psychological Preparation Kira is a 5-year-old who is admitted to the ER following a fall from her bunk bed. The primary health care provider has ordered a X-ray. Kira is worried and keeps asking, “When can I go home? What are you going to do to me? Don’t hurt me.” What can you, as a CCLS, do to help alleviate Kira’s stress and to teach […]

  Instructions See the general instructions in the Essay Discussion Instructions section of the course menu. Once you choose which question you’d like to write about, write your essay and post it in the discussion board and also save it as a Word document. To create your post, click the blue Create Thread button. To be able to read and respond to others’ posts, you will first need […]

  Directions: FIELDWORK ESSAY (Notes) (Grading Rubric)   KINESICS: the study of body motion or body behavior. Emblems: gestures that have a direct verbal translation and can stand alone such as the “ok” sign. Illustrators: gestures that compliment our words such as pointing when giving directions. Regulators: gestures that may prolong or  terminate the conversation such as looking at your watch, walking away  or nodding […]

Bullying is not a new phenomenon, but social media and communication technologies have introduced a breadth and depth to which public shaming, targeted taunting, and bullying have manifested. For this Discussion, consider how bullying has changed and how it has remained the same in light of modern technology. Post an explanation of one moral development theory and its connection to the act of bullying. Be […]

Assignment Content    Read Maryland Health Care Provider Sentenced to 10 years in Federal Prison for Health Care Fraud Resulting in Patient Deaths from the United States Attorney’s Office. Use the 5 Whys to conduct a root cause analysis to determine why the Medicare fraud occurred and Timothy Emeigh’s participation in the case. Write a 525- to 700-word paper that identifies and evaluates the root cause […]

Week 5: Assignment 2: Toulmin Essay This essay should be between 900 and 1000 words, excluding the required annotated bibliography. The Toulmin essay will help you practice what you have learned so far in this course. First, you will choose a topic of interest. Make sure that you choose a topic with two opposing sides. Then, you need to research that topic in order to […]

Like phenomenology, ethnomethodology is all about meaning and, in particular, how it is communicated and shared between people. Reading Garfinkel’s “Studies in Ethnomethodology” is a bit like reading a sitcom script in parts, if only because his brilliant breaching experiments expose the taken-for-granted absurdity of our everyday existence. Ponder the questions below as you work through the reading of Harold Garfinkel’s work, “Studies in Ethnomethodology” […]

For this assignment, you will keep 3 days of media logs and then write a reflective essay. Please keep a daily journal that records your media use for three days. Track you use of all of the following (even if you don’t use something, please make a note of that). Keep track of the time periods when you use it and what you are using […]

  For this Discussion, you view an initial suicide  risk assessment. As you evaluate the social worker’s actions, imagine  yourself in their place. What would you do, and why?  To prepare: Explore an evidence-based tool about suicide risk assessment and  safety planning. See the Week 3 document Suggested Further Reading for  SOCW 6090 (PDF) for a list of resources to review. Watch the “Suicide Assessment […]

  Cognitive Development Activities [WLOs: 1, 3, 4] [CLOs: 1, 4, 5, 6] Prior to completing this assignment, read Chapters 7 and 8 in your textbook and read the Piaget’s Enduring Contribution to Developmental Psychology, On Major Developments in Preschoolers’ Imagination, and The Timing and Quality of Early Experiences Combine to Shape Brain Architecture: Working Paper No. 5 (Links to an external site.) articles. Also, review […]