Psychology Lifespan

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Psychology Lifespan UNIT 6 ASSIGNMENT

(Psychology Lifespan)

For this Assignment, select one of the topics listed below, research the topic using primary sources, and be sure to respond to the questions. The paper should be 4–5 pages long (body) and should specifically address all parts of the question.

Along with the text, use a minimum of five scholarly journals, books, articles, or other academic sources. You will find many journal articles pertaining to your topic of choice.

The research paper should:

  • Follow Assignment directions (review grading rubric for best results).
  • Use correct APA formatting per the APA Publication Manual, 6th Edition.
  • Demonstrate college-level communication through the composition of original materials in Standard American English.
  • Be written in Standard American English and be clear, specific, and error-free. If needed, be sure to use the Writing Center for help.

Your Assignment should include:

  • Title Page.
  • Abstract
  • Body of the paper (4–5 pages).
  • Reference Page.

Select one of the following for the focus of your paper:

Eating Disorders

  1. Explain how eating disorders develop in adolescent females.
  2. What risk factors are common amongst those who develop eating disorders?
  3. Using one of the developmental theories that you have studied, explain how the adolescent’s self-identity is affected by having an eating disorder.
  4. Propose interventions that could be used to reduce the risk of developing an eating disorder with an adolescent who is still experimenting with food reduction.

Pregnancy

  1. Explain the impact of early pregnancy in adolescent females. What developmental issues do they face as a result of the pregnancy?
  2. What are the risk factors that are common amongst pregnant teens or those who impregnate?
  3. Using one of the developmental theories that you have studied, explain how the adolescent’s self-identity is affected by the pregnancy (could be male or female; be sure to explain).
  4. Propose interventions that could be used to reduce the risk of pregnancy with an adolescent who is still experimenting with sex and has not gotten pregnant (or has not impregnated).

Substance Abuse

  1. Explain how adolescents develop substance abuse problems. What influences lead them to drinking or using drugs?
  2. What risk factors are common amongst adolescents who develop addictive disorders?
  3. Using one of the developmental theories that you have studied, explain how the adolescent’s self-identity is affected by the addiction.
  4. Propose interventions that could be used to reduce the risk of experimenting with alcohol and drug use.

Emotional Intelligence

  1. Explain how emotional intelligence develops in adolescence.
  2. What risk factors are common amongst those who fail to develop healthy emotional intelligence?
  3. Using one of the developmental theories that you have studied, explain how the adolescent’s self-identity is affected by emotional intelligence.
  4. Propose interventions that could be used to reduce the risk to identity formation with an adolescent who has not acquired emotional intelligence.

Submitting your Assignment(Psychology Lifespan)

Put your Assignment in a Word document. Save it in a location that you will remember and with your full name along with the class number. When you are ready to submit it select the unit dropbox. To meet the writing requirement, you will need to demonstrate the use of clear communication that is well-ordered, unified, and insightful. Work will display proper content for the Assignment, as well as proper organization, grammar, paragraphs, mechanics, and APA writing style.

 
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Biological Basis Of Schizophrenia

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Biological Basis Of Schizophrenia

(Biological Basis Of Schizophrenia)

Schizophrenia is a complex mental disorder with both genetic and environmental factors influencing its development. At its core lies dysregulation in neurotransmitter systems, particularly dopamine, glutamate, and serotonin. Dopamine dysfunction, especially in the mesolimbic pathway, is strongly associated with positive symptoms like hallucinations and delusions. Glutamate abnormalities, particularly hypofunction of the NMDA receptor, contribute to cognitive deficits seen in schizophrenia. Structural brain abnormalities, including enlarged ventricles and reduced gray matter volume, are also observed.

Genetic predisposition plays a significant role, with heritability estimates around 80%. Several susceptibility genes have been identified, implicating processes such as synaptic function, neurodevelopment, and immune response. Environmental factors such as prenatal stress, urban upbringing, and substance abuse during adolescence can increase vulnerability.

Moreover, epigenetic modifications, alterations in brain connectivity, and neuroinflammation have been implicated. The interplay between genetic predisposition and environmental stressors likely disrupts neurodevelopmental processes, leading to the onset of symptoms in early adulthood. Understanding these multifaceted biological underpinnings is crucial for developing more effective treatments for schizophrenia.

(Biological Basis Of Schizophrenia)

There is a lot of research on our next topic: the biological basis of schizophrenia. There is still a lot more work to do but we have a lot of information to build on. Read the sections called, “Diagnosis”, “Genetics”, and “The Neurodevelopmental Hypothesis” in module 14.3 (15.2 in the 11th edition) of the textbook.

 

Source: Public Library of Science (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site., 2005 – Comparison of a Selected Set of Relatively Well-Established Risk Factors for Schizophrenia, Focusing Mainly on Pre- and Antenatal Factors (abbreviations: CNS, central nervous system; depr, depression).

Post a thoughtful response to the following question. What could be done to try to reduce the rate of schizophrenia in the population using the information we have about what correlates with schizophrenia risk?  

OR 

Reply to a classmate’s response with in depth commentary about what might work or not work about their proposal or adding more detail to their proposal.

 
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Race And Ethnicity

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Race And Ethnicity

(Race And Ethnicity)

This is three separate assignments. Please do not combine them

 

#1

Listen to or read Dr. King’s speech, I Have a Dream. Then, respond to the following:

  • Dr. King’s famous speech envisions a future in which the racial distinction established by slavery and segregation is no more. Define what Dr. King’s refrain, “free at last,” looks like to you and how our society will need to change in order to achieve it.
  • Even in today’s society, there are economic and cultural inequalities, the causes of which we can trace back to slavery. Evaluate an inequality in today’s society (think about inequalities in education, income, wealth, popular culture, etc.) and explain the ways in which the legacy of slavery may have led to that inequality.

Your initial post for each discussion should be a minimum of 250 words. Use scholarly sources to support your responses. Include citations and references in APA

Link- http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm

 

#2

Please read Asian Americans Respond to Pew: We’re Not Your Model Minority, which discusses several issues related to drawing conclusions about racial groups. For example, it specifically presents “Asian Americans,” a category that often includes over 45 distinct ethnicities speaking over 100 language dialects.

Next, review the Pew Research Center’s Chapter 3: Demographic & Economic Data, by Race. Scroll down to the College Completion Rate by Race/Ethnicity, 1964-2012 chart, which shares the data for one of the social trends regarding Asian Americans. Then, describe what the data says about the trend for Asian Americans.

Next, evaluate at least one reason these broad racial categories are useful and at least one reason why these broad categories are problematic.

Your initial post for each discussion should be a minimum of 250 words. Use scholarly sources to support your responses. Include citations and references in APA style

Link- http://www.colorlines.com/articles/asian-americans-respond-pew-were-not-your-model-minority

Link- http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2013/08/22/chapter-3-demographic-economic-data-by-race/

 

#3

Ethnic Group Evaluation

By the mid-twentieth century, the European immigrant groups described in Week One had combined to form a White racial majority in the United States. Today, Blacks, Indigenous Americans, Asians, Hispanics, and non-white Europeans interact with the White majority in a system of race that can be broadly described as comprising Whites and non-whites, Whites and racial minorities, or Whites and people of color. While unique ethnic groups share a culture in which ethnic conflict is present, including pressures to assimilate, the broader culture also celebrates the unique culture of many ethnic groups in America.

Write a paper in which you evaluate a selected major ethnic group in the United States. Please, elaborate on the following points in your essay:

  • Select and describe one of the following ethnic groups:
    • Black Americans
    • Hispanic Americans
    • Asian Americans
    • Indigenous Americans
    • White Americans
  • Examine the history of this group in the United States, including the following:
    • Immigration
    • Contact with other ethnic groups
    • Assimilation or pluralism, and its connection to the group’s contact with other ethnic groups
    • Conflict with other ethnic groups
  • Provide an example of a widely-held myth or misconception about this ethnic group. How do we know this is a myth? Why is this myth so difficult to abandon?

 

Your paper must be three to four pages in length, and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. Include separate title and reference pages (neither of which counts towards the three-page requirement). In addition to the required readings, use at least two scholarly sources.

 
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Reflective Case Study Synthesis

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Reflective Case Study Synthesis

Synthesis Paper

(Reflective Case Study Synthesis)

Synthesis Paper Instructions

The purposes of this assignment are to:

 

·         Demonstrate proper use of current APA style in a term paper.

·         Demonstrate proper use of one of the research methods studied in this course—specifically, the case study.

·         Reflect on what you have learned in this course.

·         Reflect on the course content as critiqued from a biblical, Christian perspective.

 

Instructions: Using a case study approach, write a 4–8-page research-based paper using yourself as the research subject by answering the assigned research questions:

 

·         What have you learned about research at an introductory level?

·         How do you evaluate or critique this from a biblical, Christian perspective?

 

You will use the APA skills that you honed during Module/Week 1, the case study skills you developed in Module/Week 6, and all the content you studied throughout all the modules/weeks of this course. APA style needs to be demonstrated in all aspects of this assignment.

 

Include your properly formatted title page, references page, the body of your document with proper citations, and levels of headings. Be sure to cite enough references to sufficiently support your paper. Maintain consistency between your citations and references page. The 4–8-page body of your paper is in addition to the title page and references page.

 

You may use your Discussion Board Forum posts, your answers to previous short essay quiz questions, and additional personal reflection. Your answer is not going to be just like anyone else’s answer, and that is what is expected.

 

Your assignment will be checked for plagiarism.

Note: Some matching on the Learn Assignment report is not unexpected. You will be citing sources that others may have used in other papers, so some matches might appear. The faculty member will be able to discern what is appropriate matching due to properly cited sources. This assignment is open-book/open-notes, open-Bible, open to discussion with friends, etc. Be sure to document your sources when you use the textbook or other material from this course, personal interviews with friends, etc.

 

Submit the Synthesis Paper by 11:59 p.m. (ET) on Monday of Module/Week 7

 
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Critique Treatment Outcome Study

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Critique Treatment Outcome Study

(Critique Treatment Outcome Study)

The Treatment Outcome Study (TOS) presents a comprehensive analysis of therapeutic interventions and their impact on patient well-being. However, several notable points warrant critique. Firstly, methodological limitations such as small sample sizes, lack of control groups, and short follow-up periods might compromise the validity and generalizability of findings. Additionally, the absence of standardized outcome measures across interventions impedes comparative analysis and hinders the identification of best practices. The study’s reliance on self-reported outcomes introduces potential bias and may not fully capture objective changes in health status. Furthermore, the study’s focus on short-term outcomes overlooks the long-term effects of interventions, which are crucial for assessing sustainability and durability of treatment benefits. Lastly, contextual factors such as patient demographics, socioeconomic status, and access to resources are insufficiently addressed, limiting the study’s ability to account for diverse patient experiences and outcomes. Addressing these limitations through rigorous methodology, longer follow-up periods, standardized outcome measures, and consideration of contextual factors would enhance the study’s utility and credibility in informing clinical practice and policy decisions.

Need in 8 hours by 9am

Follow the instructions in the Lab Manual, pp. 79-80.

A research journal article is provided below (in these instructions). It describes a treatment outcome study. Read and critique this article, addressing each one of the questions listed on pp. 79-80.

Answer in complete sentences and be sure to explain your answers so that you demonstrate a clear understanding of internal and external validity, bias, confounding variables, and experimental control.

Be sure to consult the vocabulary list of definitions and your notes and the other material provided below from this lab’s in-class discussion.

This file below is the research article that is the focus of your homework.

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HELPFUL INFORMATION: For your reference, the file below is a review of specific answers to the questions of the In-Class Assignment, the questions which were the focus of your group discussions and presentations in the lab class. It highlights many of the concepts (and vocabulary terms) that were relevant to the specific questions.

Many of the homework questions are similar to the questions we discussed in class, so a good review of this document could be VERY HELPFUL with the homework. Remember to use the vocabulary appropriately on your homework as much as you can wherever it is relevant, and be sure to explain.

 
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Health and Wellness

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Health and Wellness

(Health and Wellness)

Question description

Use a Microsoft Word document and check your work before submitting. Be sure you do not copy from the Internet. This assignment is limited to one-page. The assignment includes Part I and Part II. Read carefully.

To develop spiritual wellness, it is important to take time out to think about what gives meaning and purpose to your life and what actions you can take to support the spiritual dimension of your life.

Part I. Look inward This week, spend some quiet time alone with your thoughts and feelings. Slow the pace of your day, remove your watch, turn your cell phone off, and focus on your immediate experience. Try one of the following activities or develop another that is meaningful to you and that contributes to your sense of spiritual well-being. (Choose one activity to do)

Describe the activity you performed and how it made you feel—both during the activity and after. Include details about your experience.

  • Spend time in nature: Experience continuity with the natural world by spending solitary time in a natural setting. Watch the sky (day or night), a sunrise, or a sunset; listen to waves on a shore or wind in the trees; feel the breeze on your face or raindrops on your skin; smell the grass, brush, trees, or flowers. Open all your senses to the beauty of nature.
  • Experience art, architecture, or music: Spend time with a work of art or architecture or a piece of music. Choose one that will awaken your senses, engage your emotions, and challenge your understanding. Take a break and then repeat the experience to see how your responses change the second time.
  • Express your creativity: Set aside time for a favorite activity, one that allows you to express your creative side. Sing, draw, paint, play a musical instrument, sculpt, build, dance, cook, garden—choose an activity in which you will be so engaged that you will lose track of time. Strive for feelings of joy and exhilaration.
  • Engage in a personal spiritual practice: Pray, meditate, do yoga, chant. Choose a spiritual practice that is familiar to you or try one that is new. Tune out the outside world and turn your attention inward, focusing on the experience.

Part II. Reach Out(Health and Wellness)

Spiritual wellness can be a bond among people and can promote values such as altruism, forgiveness, and compassion. Try one of the following spiritual activities that involve reaching out to others.

Describe the spiritual activity you performed and how it made you feel—both during the activity and after. Include details about the writings you chose or the acts of kindness or community service you performed.

  • Share writings that inspire you: Find two writings that inspire, guide, and comfort you—passages from sacred works, poems, quotations from literature, songs. Share them with someone else by reading them aloud and explaining what they mean to you.
  • Practice kindness: Spend a day practicing small acts of personal kindness for people you know as well as for strangers. Compliment a friend, send a card, let someone go ahead of you in line, pick up litter, do someone else’s chores, help someone with packages, say please and thank you, smile.
  • Perform community service: Foster a sense of community by becoming a volunteer. Find a local nonprofit group and offer your time and talent. Mentor a youth, work at a food bank, support a literacy project, help build low-cost housing, visit seniors in a nursing home. You can also work on national or international issues by writing letters to your elected representatives and other officials.
 
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Treating the Substance Abuser

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Treating the Substance Abuser and his Family Presentation

(Treating the Substance Abuser)

Harvey is married and has 2 teenage children. Harvey has been heavily drinking on a regular basis for the past 10 years.  In the past his wife often covered for him with his job, and usually made excuses for him with his children and his friends. Harvey has not attended his son’s baseball games this year, and he missed his daughter’s performance in the school play due to having been passed out from drinking. At this time, he is at risk for losing his job due to excessive absences, and he was recently arrested for a DUI. Harvey has realized that his drinking is adversely affecting all aspects of his life and he is ready to quit.

Directions:

Create an 8-10 slide Power Point presentation to discuss treatment plans for Harvey and his family. Use the speaker notes in the slide show to further discuss the topics on each slide. In addition make sure you have a title slide and a slide with references (in APA format).  Please reference at least two peer-reviewed journal articles in your presentation along with appropriate information from the assigned weekly readings. In your presentation:

  1. Evaluate the following methods of treatment and develop a treatment plan for Harvey: Alcoholics Anonymous, Transactional Analysis, and Family Systems Therapy. Please:
  • Provide  an assessment of Harvey’s situation and what he needs from treatment.
  • Evaluate and discuss the at least one pro and con of each of the following treatment methods: Alcoholics Anonymous, Transactional Analysis and Family Systems Therapy.
  • Develop a treatment plan  for Harvey:
    • Choose at least one of the above treatments for the plan.
    • Address at least two issues that Harvey needs to resolve in treatment.
    • Include at least three steps for Harvey’s recovery.
  1. Explain Brief Strategic Family Therapy and when it is used. Next, do the following:
  • Develop a treatment plan for Harvey’s wife.
    • Address her specific needs as the spouse of a substance abuser.
    • Include at least three steps for her recovery.
    • Take care that this plan is specifically addressing her recovery, and not how she can help Harvey recover.
  • Develop a treatment plan for Harvey’s children: Address their specific needs as adolescent children of a substance abuser
    • Include at least three steps for their recovery.
    • Recommend at least two substance use prevention strategies aimed at adolescent children of substance abusers.
  1. Choose one of the following cultures: Hispanic, African American, or Asian American, and analyze how being a part of this culture might affect Harvey and his family’s treatment and recovery.  Explain at least two issues present in treating substance abuse within that culture.
 
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PSY620 Choosing Your Focus

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PSY620 Choosing Your Focus

(PSY620 Choosing Your Focus)

Prior to beginning this assignment, please review all the required readings from the first three weeks as well as the articles you used in your Week 2 Discipline-Based Literature Review. During this course, you have been developing your knowledge in the area of learning and cognition. In the Week 2 assignment, there was special focus on six topics that influence a wide variety of disciplines in psychology and other fields. In the final week of this course, you will develop a Learning and Cognition Handbook based on these topics.

This week, you will write an extensive review and annotated bibliography on one of the six main course topics below:

  • 1. Traditional learning theories: Operant and classical conditioning
  • 2. Traditional learning theories: Behaviorism and social learning theory
  • 3. Attention and memory
  • 4. (Decision-Making)          I CHOSE THIS ONE
  • 5. Language acquisition
  • 6. Organizational and lifelong learning

The topic you choose should be based on the area in which you would most like to develop your knowledge. Your choice should also consider your current interests in psychology and support your future career goals.

As you prepare this assignment, keep in mind that it is designed to assist you with beginning the process of drafting your Learning and Cognition Handbook, which is due in Week 6. It is recommended that your paper be checked in Grammarly (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. and through Turnitin (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. prior to submission.

Include the following components in your review:

Introduction: Explain your motivation focusing on your chosen topic and describe how this topic aligns with your future career goals.

Research: Research five Scholarly, Peer-Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. in the Ashford University Library focusing on your chosen topic, and provide an annotated bibliography (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. These articles must provide sufficient information so that they will support your work in the Learning and Cognition Handbook. (See the instructions in Week 6 for further clarification.) Provide a complete reference for each of the five articles. Beneath each reference, provide an annotation that explains the theoretical perspectives, historical trends, and/or empirical research within the article that describe and define your chosen construct.

Conclusion: Provide a concluding paragraph that synthesizes the cognitive learning principles and theories found within the articles as they relate to your chosen construct.

The Choosing Your Focus paper

Carefully review the Grading Rubric (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.

NO Plagiarism

 
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Business Level and Corporate Strategies

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Business Level and Corporate Strategies

(Business Level and Corporate Strategies)

Question description

I used Apple as my company. I have also attached the template or format in which the paper must be written in.

Using the same industry from Assignment 2, and one of your chosen publicly traded corporations within that industry from Assignment 1, research the company on its own website, the public filings on the Securities and Exchange Commission EDGAR database (http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml), in the University’s online databases, and any other sources you can find. The annual report will often provide insights that can help address some of these questions.

Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:

  1. Analyze the business-level strategies for the corporation you chose to determine the business-level strategy you think is most important to the long-term success of the firm and whether or not you judge this to be a good choice. Justify your opinion.
  2. Analyze the corporate-level strategies for the corporation you chose to determine the corporate-level strategy you think is most important to the long-term success of the firm and whether or not you judge this to be a good choice. Justify your opinion.
  3. Analyze the competitive environment to determine the corporation’s most significant competitor. Compare their strategies at each level and evaluate which company you think is most likely to be successful in the long term. Justify your choice.
  4. Determine whether your choice from Question 3 would differ in slow-cycle and fast-cycle markets.
  5. Use at least three (3) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not quality as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

  • Be typed, double-spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
  • Citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format.
  • Check with your professor for any additional instructions.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

  • Identify various levels and types of strategy in a firm.
  • Use technology and information resources to research issues in business administration.
  • Write clearly and concisely about business administration using proper writing mechanics.
 
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Foundations: Counseling Silence Exploration

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Foundations: Counseling Silence Exploration

(Foundations: Counseling Silence Exploration)

For this module, you will be engaging in a few different necessary activities that “set the stage” for your first counseling session. Every initial meeting with a client requires an ethical discussion regarding full disclosure of the counseling process. Within this discussion, one should be acquiring a signed informed consent form. In this class, you will be required to practice your skills with others; ethically you are required to provide informed consent and to get their agreement in written form.

One of the most powerful foundational counseling skills is silence. It is important for counselors to be able to sit comfortably in silence while focusing fully on their client. The final part of this module’s assignment intends to help you identify how this might or might not be a challenging skill for you to develop.

Directions:

Follow the below directions to complete this three-part assignment. First, you are to create a counseling informed consent form and an opening statement. Then you are to identify someone to assist you with a short “counseling” session where you will practice your informed consent and opening statement as well as the “Five Minutes of Silence” exercise. You will then write a reflection critiquing your experiences.

Part I: Develop an Informed Consent to Counseling Form

Review the “Written Consent Template.” Develop your personal written informed consent form referencing the template as a guide. Your form should have a personal letterhead, contained to a single page (you can use single spacing), and contain all of the required essential information.

There are five major sections for your consent form: Letterhead, Introduction, Confidentiality, Audio/Videotape, and Boundaries of Competence (see the template above). Note that your informed consent will vary according to the setting (i.e., a mental health clinic, a psychiatric hospital, or a private practice) and the client with whom you are working (i.e., a child, an adult, or a couple).

Part II: Create an Opening Statement(Foundations: Counseling Silence Exploration)

In approximately 1 page:

Create an “Opening Statement” monologue regarding what you might specifically say to your client when meeting him or her for the first time. This statement should include the following:

  • Formal education/training
  • Continuing education and supervision requirements
  • Your supervisor’s information
  • Philosophy and approach to counseling (write in layman’s terms)
  • Counseling fee schedule—Remember, for your practice sessions there will be no fee!
  • Limits of confidentiality (also review the American Counseling Association’s [ACA’s] website)
  • Contact information for any complaints related to counseling/counselor

Part III: Practice and Reflection of Your Informed Consent, Opening Statement, and Five Minutes of Silence

Part of this module’s assignment is to practice your opening statement with a “client” and review your informed consent. For this session, your informed consent should include informing your client about the silence exercise. The “Five Minutes of Silence” exercise will include two parts: 1) where you, as the counselor, attempt to stay silent for five minutes allowing the client to speak while practicing being attentive; 2) where you sit in complete silence with the client for 15 seconds.

It is important for clinicians to be comfortable in silence and be self-aware of their nonverbal attending skills, thus allowing clients to have time to reflect during the session and choose to speak when ready. Nonverbal body language can also say a lot to the observer as to whether a counselor is fully engaged and attentive. Additionally, it is important to be comfortable with absolute silence as this can give client’s time and permission to internally process.

For this “Five Minutes of Silence” portion of the assignment, you will take an opportunity to practice both skills. You are to engage with your client, during which you must take at least five minutes of this time to say absolutely nothing but try to just fully understand what your client is saying and feeling. Additionally, you will practice sitting in silence (both of you being silent) for at least 15 seconds to explore your reactions to the silence.

SOLER Technique

While listening to your subject, be aware of your own nonverbal attending skills. Effective listening is the key to being an effective counselor. These nonverbal skills are covered with the acronym SOLER (Egan, 2014). (Note: Use of this resource is not necessary to complete the activity.) Egan (2014) presents “SOLER” as a way the listener can: “. . . make sure you are physically present to a client.”

  • S—If it suits them, face the client squarely (some prefer up to 45 degrees, etc.).
  • O—Maintain an open posture with the client.
  • L—Lean toward the client (as appropriate) and nod your head.
  • E—Maintain appropriate eye contact with the client. Always consider culture when maintaining eye contact and watch for signs of stress or discomfort. (There is also a suggestion of changing the “E” to “A” to symbolize “aim” toward the client physically and directly, for the visually impaired counselors.)
  • R—Be a relaxed helper, as by doing so you greatly improve the quality and comfort of the sessions.

Reflection:

In 2–3 pages, critique your delivery of the informed consent, opening statement, and nonverbal attending skills (i.e., visual/eye contact, vocal qualities, verbal tracking, and body language—SOLER). Include the following in your critique:

  • A critique of your opening statement and informed consent delivery
  • A statement regarding if you were able to meet the minimum of 5 minutes of attentive silence or if you had difficulties
  • Identification of what was getting in the way of you fully listening for understanding while remaining silent
  • Discussion regarding your internalized thought and emotional process
  • Determination of what else you were aware of during this time
  • Explanation of how your “client” reacted to your silence
  • Development of strategies of ways to maintain this attentive “self-silence” in the future

Allow yourself at least three attempts to get the full five minutes, and then you can stop trying.

Your final product will be in a Microsoft Word document, written in APA format, and be approximately 3–4 pages in length (including your consent to counseling form). Your paper should be written in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrate ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; and display accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.

 
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