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Assignment: Conducting Time-Series Research

Traditional experimental research dictates that there must be one or more experimental groups (groups receiving a treatment or intervention) and a control group (which does not receive the intervention). Participants are assigned randomly to the experimental and control groups. Although experimental designs may be preferable to other designs, even in action research, they are not always feasible for practitioners for many reasons. There may be ethical issues regarding withholding an intervention from a client group; or time, financial, or logistical constraints may make it impossible to include random assignment into groups.   In such cases, the use of time-series research can provide a meaningful alternative to true experimental research. Time-series designs are quasi-experimental, meaning that they still seek to evaluate the impact of a treatment or intervention on a target group (or individual) but do not include random assignment to treatment and control groups. Researchers still have control over admittance criteria to the treatment group (e.g., mothers under the age of 21). Times series then allows researchers to take measurements of treatment effectiveness at various intervals over time. Taken together, these data points provide information about the intervention under consideration.

In this Assignment, you apply time-series research techniques to a case study.   To Prepare  Imagine that you are a human and social services professional working with a child, Kaya, who is having some behavioral problems at her elementary school. As a scholar practitioner, you approach your work with her from an empirical standpoint and want to measure the effectiveness of your recommended services. To date, you have provided information about resources to the family and coordinated services for the child and family.  As such, you pose the following research question: “What impact do the services the child is currently receiving have on reducing off-task behavior, physical aggression, and verbal aggression for the identified child?”  For the purposes of this research, the target behaviors are as follows: 1.Off-task: failure to maintain eye contact with task at hand for more than 3 consecutive seconds 2.Physical Aggression: hitting/pushing/kicking peers/teachers, throwing objects 3.Verbal Aggression: threatening, yelling  Consider the following observation report:  During the first observation period, which was conducted on Monday (in math class) between 11:20 and 11:30, 10-minute, 10-second, partial interval recording was used to assess the frequency of off-task behaviors, physical aggression, and verbal aggression. Kaya was observed to be off-task during 12% of the intervals observed, engaged in physical aggression 0% of the intervals observed, and engaged in verbal aggression 2% of the intervals observed.  During the second observation (during recess), which was conducted on Wednesday from 9:00 to 9:30, Kaya was observed to be off-task during 15% of the intervals observed, engaged in physical aggression 20% of the intervals observed, and engaged in verbal aggression 3% of the intervals observed.  Kaya was also observed on Friday from 10:30 to 10:40 during a group activity. Kaya was observed to be off-task during 20% of the intervals observed, was observed to engage in physical aggression 7% of the intervals observed, and was observed to engage in verbal aggression 10% of the intervals observed.   Off-task   Physical Aggression   Verbal Aggression    12%   0%   2%    15%   20%   3%    20%   7%   10%

The Assignment (1–2 pages)  Based on the data, you determine that you must design a behavioral intervention for Kaya and determine if it is successful. As you begin the process of investigating your research question: •Briefly describe a time-series design that you would use to investigate the impact of your intervention, and explain how you would collect and record the additional data. Be specific.  •Select a method for graphically representing the provided data. Use the method to create a graph. (You can use Microsoft Excel or Word).  •Analyze the data and provide a narrative description of your analysis

http://userwww.sfsu.edu/efc/classes/biol710/timeseries/timeseries1.htm

Babbie, E. (2016). The basics of social research (7th ed.). Belmont, CA: Cengage.

•Chapter 4, “Research Design” (pp. 89–124)

https://cengagebrain.vitalsource.com/books/9781305856318/pageid/118

•Chapter 8, “Experiments” (pp. 232–253)

https://cengagebrain.vitalsource.com/books/9781305856318/pageid/261

•Chapter 12, “Evaluation Research” (pp. 361–389)

https://cengagebrain.vitalsource.com/books/9781305856318/pageid/390

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Discussion: Cognitive Behavioral Orientation: Case Conceptualization

For this Discussion, you will write a case conceptualization as though you were a cognitive behavioral counselor. Continue to refer to and incorporate previous Instructor feedback as you examine these cases.

As you review this week’s Learning Resources and media files, note techniques and interventions, and consider the role of a cognitive behavioral counselor in planning treatment. Further, reflect on cognitive behavioral therapy with respect to developing your own theoretical orientation. In what ways do you find that cognitive behavioral therapy may resonate with your own point of view?

Note: For this Discussion, you are required to complete your initial post before you will be able to view and respond to your colleagues’ postings. Begin by clicking on the Post to Discussion Question link, and then select Create Thread to complete your initial post. Remember, once you click on Submit, you cannot delete or edit your own posts—and cannot post anonymously. Please check your post carefully before clicking on Submit!

To Prepare:

• Review this week’s Learning Resources.
• Review the Psychoanalytic Case Conceptualization Example found in this week’s Learning Resources and use this document to prepare your initial Discussion post.
• Select one of the four case studies presented in this week’s Learning Resources and answer the following points as if you were using a cognitive behavioral, rational emotive behavioral, or reality therapy approach. Use your Learning Resources and the notes you took from the videos to support your conceptualization and integrate examples to support your post. Include the following:
  • Presenting Problem
  • Treatment Goals
  • Identification and explanation of at least two techniques and interventions from your chosen theory (i.e., cognitive behavioral or reality therapy)
  • Expected Outcome

By Day 3

Post your cognitive behavioral, rational emotive behavioral or reality therapy conceptualization.

Be sure to support your main post with specific references to the Learning Resources using proper APA format and citations. Your response posts may be more conversational and less formal.

Read your colleagues’ postings.

By Day 5

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Formative Guidelines and Rubric5.html

Overview

There are many tools to evaluate implicit biases, such as surveys and tests. The most popular is the Implicit Association Test, or IAT, which measures association between concepts and evaluations or stereotypes. This test, which was created by Anthony Greenwald and his colleagues, is an online test that is available to the public through Harvard University and has several adaptations, including a Gender-Career IAT, Disability IAT, Age IAT, and others. Although you are not required to complete the IAT for this assignment, feel free to explore the tests and their descriptions.

For this assignment, you will be completing a “Comfort in Social Situations” survey and reflecting on your results. The results of this survey may help identify any implicit biases you may have and how they may impact your communication in the criminal justice field.

Prompt

For this journal assignment, visit the Breaking the Prejudice Habit website and click on “Comfort in Social Situations (College Student Version)” at the bottom of the page. Complete the worksheet. You do not need to share your results or hand in this worksheet; this is for your personal reflection only.

Once you receive your results, reflect on them. Were you surprised at the results, or were they what you had expected? What factors or experiences may have contributed to how you responded to the scenarios? Compare your results to your journal response from Module One. Do your results align with the personal factors from Loden’s Wheel that you identified in that journal assignment? Next, identify any implicit biases that you may have, based on your survey results, and any known explicit biases. Lastly, explain how your results, along with any implicit and explicit biases you may have, may impact your communication in the criminal justice field.

Specifically, the following rubric criteria must be addressed:

1. Reflect on your “Comfort in Social Situations” survey results.
2. Compare those results to the personal factors from Loden’s Wheel.
3. Identify any implicit or explicit biases.
4. Explain how the survey results and your biases may impact communication in the criminal justice field.

Guidelines for Submission

This assignment must be 200–350 words in length. Any references should be cited in APA format. Consult the Shapiro Library APA Style Guide for more information on citations.

Note: For this journal assignment, you can receive a Proficient, Needs Improvement, or Not Evident score on each of your rubric criteria. There is no Exemplary score for this assignment.

Module Four Journal Rubric

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SOCW 6070-week 3 discussion 1 responses

Respond to at least two colleagues separately by addressing an example in each colleague’s post in at least one of the following ways:

Suggest a strategy for addressing a situation that your colleague described in one of his or her examples.

Offer additional thoughts regarding the impact of the interaction described in the example.

Peer 1 Discussion to respond to

Jasmine Dixon 

RE: Discussion 1 – Week 3

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Personal Leadership Philosophy and Style

Individual attributes that have an impact on leadership skills and knowledge: general cognitive ability, crystallized cognitive ability, motivation, and personality. These attributes play important roles in the skills model. Complex problem solving is a very difficult process and becomes more difficult as people move up in the organization. These attributes support people as they apply their leadership competencies. A social worker administrator personal leadership and style may influence the environment of the organization, well as how efficient the organization will operate. With an administrator who has positive leadership philosophy and style the organization can benefit in a positive way to achieve their goals. However, an administrator with a negative style and philosophy might have a negative influence and therefore experience internal issues within the organization amongst staff, therefore making it difficult to achieve their goals (Northouse, 2021).

Influence of Organization’s Culture

Internal environmental influences affecting leadership performance can include such factors as technology, facilities, expertise of subordinates, and communication. For example, an aging factory or one lacking in high-speed technology could have a major impact on the nature of problem-solving activities. Another example might be the skill levels of followers: If a leader’s followers are highly competent, they will definitely improve the group’s problem solving and performance. Similarly, if a task is particularly complex or a group’s communication poor, the leader’s performance will be affected (Northouse, 2021). All of the factors listed could be potential factors that are needed for the administrator to function properly in their roles.

Interactions with Stakeholders

A stakeholder model of organizational leadership presumes that leadership emerges from and influences those stakeholders in an organization’s environment on which it is dependent (e.g., donors) or with which it is significantly interdependent (like those it collaborates with in service delivery) Such authority is used to encourage, facilitate, and guide process, rather than to direct action that is aimed at specific outcomes (Lauffer, 2011).

Positive interaction with stakeholders is needed in order for the organization to properly serve their clients. This can include effectively communicating in order to address the needs and the concerns of their clients. These interactions can determine what polices are revised or created in order to better serve them. If the interactions are negative due to lack of competency, training, or power understanding the goal of the organization could be at risk. As a leader or someone in management this is an important factor.

References

Lauffer, A. (2011). Understanding your social agency (3rd ed.). Washington, DC: Sage.

Northouse, P. G. (2021). Introduction to leadership: Concepts and practice (5th ed.). Washington, DC: Sage.

Peer 2 discussion to respond too

Emily Heare 

RE: Discussion 1 – Week 3

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Leadership Philosophy and Style Influencing Organization’s Culture

A social work administrator’s leadership philosophy and styles influence the human services organization’s culture based on the administrator’s personal experience in leadership, how they interact with organization staff, and the organization’s atmosphere. The administrator can have one of two leadership philosophies; Theory X and Theory Y (Northouse, 2021). Theory X believes that people dislike having to work and will get out of work whenever possible. The idea that people have to be controlled and given directives is a part of Theory X. Theory Y is the opposite of Theory X. Theory Y believes that people do not like or dislike work, but instead, they work naturally. Theory Y also believes that if people are committed and valued, they will show more responsibility and commitment (Northouse, 2021).

If a social work administrator’s leadership philosophy is in line with Theory X, they are more likely to have an authoritarian leadership style (Northouse, 2021). Authoritarian leaders need to be in control, and in some situations, micromanage, similar to task style (Northouse, 2021). The organization’s culture may be stressful or uptight as a result. If the leadership philosophy is like Theory Y, then the leader will be more apt to have a democratic leadership style (Northhouse, 2021). Democratic leaders work with their employees, which is a more relationship style (Northouse, 2021). As a result of this philosophy, the organizations’ culture may be more relaxed and less stressed.

Organization’s Culture Influencing Personal Leadership Style 

An organization’s culture can also influence personal leadership styles. If an organization’s culture is relaxed and staff members take responsibility for themselves, then a personal leadership style of laissez-faire style may develop (Northouse, 2021). There could be an organization that has an authoritarian style atmosphere. Depending on the person, that style may not be a good fit, resulting in identifying and preferring a more democratic manner.

Stakeholder Interactions Impacting Oganization’s Treatment of Clients

Stakeholders can be various groups; organization boards, community groups, volunteers, or charitable donors. Depending on how interactions go with each stakeholder can determine the organization’s treatment of clients. For example, if a stakeholder group favors cutting services to save money, then the treatment of clients will decline. However, if a stakeholder group wants to expand the organization, then the clients will benefit. The impact is determined by the intentions of the stakeholder’s interactions.

Reference

Northouse, P.G. (2021). Introduction to leadership: Concepts and practice (5th ed.). Washington, DC: Sage.

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