How important do you think it is for psychologists to treat problems and help people stay healthy, and prevent problems in the first place? Give examples and use information from a research article to support your ideas. Sometimes, trying to stay healthy can be challenging. Can you think of two things that might make …
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This 5-page paper will require you to think critically and personality psychology. Based on the area of “BIG 5 TRAITS” in personality psychology that we talked about in class, explore what the research looks like across cultures. Your level of analysis can be very large (e.g., comparing collectivistic culture vs. individualist culture, or West vs. …
What are the early warning signs and symptoms of mental illnesses, and how can they be effectively recognized and addressed?
What are the long-term outcomes and quality of life for individuals living with mental illnesses, and how can interventions and policies be improved to enhance their well-being?
Carla is a 26-year-old woman from Medellin, Colombia. She works as a server in a local restaurant. Her employer found her unresponsive in the restaurant’s staff room and took her to the local hospital. After she was revived with the opioid antagonist naloxone (called la naloxona in Colombia), Carla was found to have nearly overdosed …
Carla is a 26-year-old woman from Medellin, Colombia. She works as a server in a local restaurant. Her employer found her unresponsive in the restaurant’s staff room and took her to the local hospital. After she was revived with the opioid antagonist naloxone (called la naloxona in Colombia), Carla was found to have nearly overdosed …
Why do you think suicide rates have increased so much in the past decade? What factors in today’s culture are making suicide rates so much more prevalent? Expand and explain. Give examples of what you think are warning signs of suicide. What should be done to help someone who seems suicidal? How …
Darlene, age 32 years, has been having back pain for a number of years, ever since suffering a compressed L2 disc as the result of a motor vehicle accident that led to surgery and extensive physiotherapy. Now she is missing time from work as a secretary because of constant pain. Darlene …
Which interventions or actions could you use to influence the student to behave appropriately? Explain your choices. Which logical consequences would be appropriate? Which domains of Social-Emotional Learning could be utilized in your instruction to support the student’s appropriate behavior in the future? Explain how the SEL domains will help. …
Motivation researchers have distinguished different types of goals as consequential for student behavior and learning in classrooms. What sorts of behaviors and attitudes distinguish students with mastery goals and students with performance goals? Researchers also have found that the learning context can shape students’ goals. Describe learning situations where you have held these different goal …
