For this Check-Up, your patient is a 43-year-old female. She is 4 months pregnant for the first time, and she never expected to get pregnant as she believed herself to be infertile. She has enjoyed 2 glasses of wine each night her entire first trimester because she read a few articles by some renowned international obstetricians who suggested that having a glass of red wine during pregnancy is healthy to maintain normal blood pressure, and to reduce anxiety levels.

Your patient, Claudia, wants to know if it’s important for her to stop drinking her red wine each night, or if the warnings given by her family are just “super strict and overly protective.” Claudia needs facts to change her mind about this topic. As her Nurse/health care investigator, can you explain to her what the risks are for her to continue drinking 2 glasses of wine every night while she is pregnant? Do you think that you should also address other factors like her age, first time pregnancy, etc.? Use your Nurse/health care-Investigator skills and present the facts to her.

12 hours!!!!!

1. A family has contacted you, a Behavior Analyst, to help their son Jimmy be more consistent in completing his homework. His parents are specifically concerned about reading and math. Jimmy’s parents want him to read for 20 minutes per weeknight and practice multiplication for 10 minutes per weeknight. Jimmy is currently reading once a week for 20 minutes and practicing multiplication once a week for 10 minutes. He is a typically developing child with normal intelligence and has the capability to read and complete math at grade level. He is choosing not to read and practice math and is instead choosing to watch television, play video games, and chat with friends online. You have decided that a contingency contract is the best plan to change Jimmy’s behavior.  

2.  You, a Behavior Analyst, have been contacted by the program director of a group home for 11-15-year-old boys. He describes the current environment in the group home as “chaos.” The boys are refusing to do household chores, complete homework, or clean their rooms. Staff members are having problems with “non-compliance” and “rowdy behavior” exhibited by the boys. You have been asked to develop a plan to bring order to this chaotic home. You have decided that a token economy is the best choice 

Each evaluation plan must include:

• The measurement system you are using to collect data on what specific behavior(s). Include the operational definitions.
• How often you are collecting data
• Who is going to collect that data
• The research design you are using to evaluate your treatment
• An explanation of why that research design was the best choice
• How the research design would demonstrate functional control of the intervention over the behavior(s).
• Describe how you will know if your treatment was effective – what would a visual analysis of the graphed data show? You do not need to create a graph, but you should describe what your graph would show if your treatment were effective.

For the second part, imagine a 13-year-old female client is brought by her parents to see you. Her parents are concerned because they report their daughter is very unhappy with being a girl. She is increasingly being teased at school because she looks, dresses, and tries to act like a boy. She is an active athlete, but will only play contact sports with boys. The client states she does not like her breasts and wishes she could have them removed. She reports that she has always wanted to be a boy for as long as she can remember. Give a DSM diagnosis for the presenting problem. Include an assessment of the client’s ability to function in daily life. Be sure to pay particular attention to the symptoms of the disorder and the influence it has on the client, as well as the client’s family.

• A DSM diagnosis of each client
• An explanation of your rationale for assigning these diagnoses on the basis of the DSM
• An explanation of what other information you might need about each client to make an accurate diagnosis
• A brief description of additional individuals you might include in your assessment and explain why
• Discuss how you would produce a comfortable environment to lead your clients to discuss their issues

Support your Application Assignment with specific references to all resources as well as current literature used in its preparation. You are to provide a reference list for all resources, including those in the Learning Resources for this course.

McCarthy, B. W., & Fucito, L. M. (2005).Integrating medication, realistic expectations, and therapeutic interventions in the treatment of male sexual dysfunction. Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, 31(4), 319–328.

Stein, E. (2012). Commentary on the treatment of gender variant and gender dysphoric children and adolescents: Common themes and ethical reflections.Journal Of Homosexuality, 59(3), 480–500.

Zucker, K. J., Wood, H., Singh, D., & Bradley, S. J. (2012). A developmental, biopsychosocial model for the treatment of children with gender identity disorder. Journal Of Homosexuality, 59(3), 369–397.

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 Consider physical activities in which you currently or previously participated. Is there a person or group of people who has or have influenced your physical activity choices? What other factors contribute to, distract, or prevent you from exercising or participating in physical activities?

As a participant or observer of physical activity (e.g. a sports game), are there strategies you have observed that motivate or deter participants in the activity? What types of behaviors have you observed that you would or would not apply as a professional? Why? 

 

For the Week 1 Assignment, you will submit answers to the following questions in your textbook:

Chapter 1

• Question 1-3
• Question 1-4
• Question 1-5
• Question 1-8
• Question 1-11

Questions in textbook below.

 1-1 What is a firm’s intrinsic value? Its current stock price? Is the stock’s “true” long-run value more closely related to its intrinsic value or to its current price? 1-2 When is a stock said to be in equilibrium? Why might a stock at any point in time not be in equilibrium? 1-3 Suppose three honest individuals gave you their estimates of Stock X’s intrinsic value. One person is your current roommate, the second person is a professional security analyst with an excellent reputation on Wall Street, and the third person is Company X’s CFO. If the three estimates differed, in which one would you have the most confidence? Why? 1-1 What is a firm’s intrinsic value? Its current stock price? Is the stock’s “true” long-run value more closely related to its intrinsic value or to its current price? 1-2 When is a stock said to be in equilibrium? Why might a stock at any point in time not be in equilibrium? 1-3 Suppose three honest individuals gave you their estimates of Stock X’s intrinsic value. One person is your current roommate, the second person is a professional security analyst with an excellent reputation on Wall Street, and the third person is Company X’s CFO. If the three estimates differed, in which one would you have the most confidence? Why? 1-11 Edmund Enterprises recently made a large investment to upgrade its technology. Although these improvements won’t have much effect on performance in the short run, they are expected to reduce future costs significantly. What effect will this investment have on Edmund Enterprises’ earnings per share this year? What effect might this investment have on the company’s intrinsic value and stock price?