12 HOURS!!!

Explain why identifying function is so important to successful behavior intervention programs.

1. Base this on your Unit 9 reading assignment and present facts supporting the value of conducting FBAs in the public-school system and why it is important that teachers have the skills needed to conduct them.
2. To illustrate the importance of identifying the function of a target behavior before implementing a BIP, provide an example of a target behavior that is being inadvertently reinforced because the function of the behavior has not been identified.
3. Ethical Considerations for Assessments and Behavior-Change Interventions
   1. Explain how you can select and design assessments using the Behavior Analyst Certification Board’s (BACB’s) Ethics Code for Behavior Analysts, Code 2.13.
   2. Explain how you can select, design, and implement behavior-change interventions using the BACB’s Ethics Code for Behavior Analysts, Code 2.14.
4. Discuss the two components of the FBA, the indirect assessment and the direct descriptive assessment, and explain how they are carried out. Include the following in your discussion:
   1. Describe two indirect assessment approaches/tools.
   2. Describe two direct descriptive assessment approaches/tools.
   3. Detail how the probable function of a target behavior can be hypothesized based upon the results of the FBA.
      1. Define the two broad categories of behavior function.
5. Acquisition Programs: Shaping and Chaining
   1. Define shaping and chaining. (Include the three types of chaining procedures in your discussion.)
   2. Create a simple scenario in which a complex behavior can be broken down and trained using one of the chaining methods. Create a task analysis to illustrate the concept.
      1. Using one of the components in the task analysis used for your chaining example, demonstrate how shaping can be used to train that one component.
6. Reduction Programs: Differential Reinforcement
   1. Describe the methods of differential reinforcement of alternative (DRA) behavior; differential reinforcement of other (DRO) behavior; and differential reinforcement of incompatible (DRI) behavior.
      1. Create a scenario in which you illustrate the use of one of the differential reinforcement approaches (DRA; DRO; DRI).
7. Generalization and Maintenance
   1. Define generalization and maintenance.
   2. Explain the importance of programming for generalization and maintenance.
   3. Present three techniques that can be used to program for generalization.

Find a news article or media issue (within the past 2 years) that reports either an admirable or poor example of behavior exhibited by a professional athlete. This behavior can be either within their sport or within their personal life. It is recommended that you utilize the following library guides (link) as a place to start.

Once you have found your article, you will read it and answer the following questions regarding the report:

1. Provide the full citation (including any website link) for the article you have chosen.
2. What is the behavior you have chosen to focus on in the article? Is the behavior good or bad? Explain.
3. What was your reaction to the behavior? How do you feel about it? Is it morally acceptable to you?
4. What effect do you think this behavior has on the attitudes and beliefs of adults? What about children?
5. If you were the coach of the athlete in the story, how do you think you would react to the athlete’s behavior?

For the Week 2 Case Study, you will review the following case.  Upon thorough review of the case, you will then answer the 11 questions below:

Assume that you recently graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in finance and have just reported to work as a financial investment adviser at the brokerage firm of Willox Financial & Co. Your first assignment is to explain the nature of the U.S. financial markets to Manuel Jones, a professional basketball player who recently came to the US from Mexico. Mr. Jones is a highly ranked basketball player who expects to invest substantial amounts of money through Willox Financial. He is very intelligent; therefore, he would like to understand in general terms what will happen to his money. Your supervisor has developed the following questions that you must use to explain the U.S. financial system to Mr. Jones.

1. What are the three (3) primary ways in which capital is transferred between savers and borrowers? Describe each one.
2. What is a market? Differentiate between the following types of markets: physical asset markets versus financial asset markets, spot markets versus futures markets, money markets versus capital markets, primary markets versus secondary markets, and public markets versus private markets.
3. Why are financial markets essential for a healthy economy and economic growth?
4. What are derivatives? How can derivatives be used to reduce risk? Can derivatives be used to increase risk? Explain.
5. Briefly describe each of the following financial institutions: investment banks, commercial banks, financial services corporations, pension funds, mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, hedge funds, and private equity companies.
6. What are the two leading stock markets? Describe the two (2) basic types of stock markets.
7. If Google decided to issue additional common stock, and Mr. Jones purchased 100 shares of this stock from Willox Financial, the underwriter, would this transaction be a primary or a secondary market transaction? Would it make a difference if Mr. Jones purchased previously outstanding Google stock in the dealer market? Explain.
8. What is an initial public offering (IPO)?  Why is it important that Mr. Jones know about this?
9. What does it mean for a market to be efficient? Explain why some stock prices may be more efficient  than others.
10. After your consultation with Mr. Jones, he wants to discuss these two (2) possible stock purchases:

    a. While in the waiting room of your office, he overheard an analyst on a financial TV network say that a particular medical research company just received FDA approval for one of its products. On the basis of this “hot” information, Mr. Jones wants to buy many shares of that company’s stock. Assuming the stock market is highly efficient, what advice would you give him and why?

    b. He has read a number of newspaper articles about a huge IPO being carried out by a leading technology company. He wants to purchase as many shares in the IPO as possible and would even be willing to buy the shares in the open market immediately after the issue. What advice do you have for him?

11. How does behavioral finance explain the real-world inconsistencies of the efficient markets hypothesis (EMH)?

Choose from one of the three trauma topics listed below and prepare a presentation related to trauma and clinical practice. The presentation should be 10-15 slides in length. You are not required to complete a voice over for this presentation.

1. What is the impact of different restraints in relation to trauma? (physical or pharmacological)
2. What is the relationship between trauma and homelessness (and other social determinants of health)?
3. What is the correlation between trauma and substance abuse?

Your Assignment should:

• follow the conventions of Standard English (correct grammar, punctuation, etc.);
• be well ordered, logical, and unified, as well as original and insightful;
• display superior content, organization, style, and mechanics; and;
• use APA formatting and citation style.

n your presentation cover the following information:

1. Title Slide
2. What is the definition of trauma?
   1. Who is vulnerable to trauma?
3. How can trauma be experienced on the intergenerational level and over the individual and family lifespan?
4. Pathophysiology of Trauma
5. How do social determinants of health correlate to the effects of trauma?
6. S/Sx of Trauma
7. What is the difference between trauma therapy and trauma-informed care?
8. What is a trigger and how would you recognize that someone is experiencing trauma-related distress?
9. How might a person with a history of trauma have behavior that could be interpreted as “noncompliance” or non-adherence?
10. Special trauma topic: one from the 3 choices listed above.
11. Conclusion
12. References