The goal of this assignment is to conduct a community mental health needs and resources assessment that also familiarizes you with the overall mental health needs in your community. Having assessed the most pressing local mental health needs, you will focus on one of the major identified issues involving a specific, marginalized population and evaluate what services are offered and by what organizations. 

Your paper must be 10-12 pages (not including title page, abstract, or reference page; however, these are required as well). You must use current APA style (write in third person) and integrate references to at least 10 recent and relevant sources. Ideally, include both June & Black and Scott & Wolfe in a meaningful way. You may use scholarly journal articles, but your most important sources will be (local and state) government reports, census data, hospital records research, news reports, information from CDC and DHHS, and professional organizations. Sources cited must be specific and relevant to your immediate locality. Include the following content, using appropriate headings: 

1. Introduction of your community: Describe its location, populations, demographics, and relevant trends, etc.

2. Local needs assessment: Articulate the overall, big picture of your communitys mental health needs and at-risk populations. Be sure to give clear attribution to your sources.

3. Identification of a specific population or issue: Explain why you chose to focus on this particular group. 

4. Local resources assessment: Identify the specific organizations that work with this specific population/ issue. Include government, for-profit, and nonprofit organizations in your analysis. How are these organizations addressing this specific need in the community? Your goal is to briefly describe what they do, not to evaluate their effectiveness. 

5. Personal reflection: Reflect on how this project has changed your view of your community and/or aided you in better understanding your community. You may use first person in this section.

this week you will examine the five movements listed below.

In your paper, outline the following information for each of the five movements:

• Include the name and time period of the movement.
• Describe the movement, including unique key characteristics.
• Identify two works of art that incorporate the significant characteristics of the time period. 
  • Include the following basic identifying information for each: artist name, title of work, year completed, medium (materials from which the artwork is made), size, and current location
• Renaissance
• Baroque
• Romanticism
• Impressionism
• Modernism

Example

• Name of Movement (time period) 
  • Description of movement
  • Artwork significant to the movement 
    • Artist, title of work of art, year completed, region
    • Artist, title of work of art, year completed, region
• Name of Movement (time period) 
  • Description of movement
  • Artwork significant to the movement 
    • Artist, title of work of art, year completed, region
    • Artist, title of work of art, year completed, region

Cite your sources

two pages

Contemplate the work of art, and discuss your interpretation of the art based on the characteristics of the corresponding movement in your art journal entry. Pay close attention to style, media (materials), methods, subjects, and any other details that make this work significant, using appropriate art terminology and taking care to correctly cite information that you use from the textbook or any other source. Be sure to include your personal reaction to the work of art and an image of the work. Include an image of the work of art you have chosen in your journal.  one full page

Cite your sources 

https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/self-portrait-with-small-monkey-frida-kahlo/MAElamBvSYjiGw

Write a three-page, APA-formatted paper contrasting the differences between a traditional approach and a strengths-based approach to working with clients.As part of the paper, you will need to identify sources that support your main points. Please provide two outside references, in addition to any references from your readings, for these sources in a reference page in correct APA format at the end of the paper.

Many grant applications require an abstract and a cover letter. The cover letter is your first opportunity to form a first impression with your potential funder and show that you understand their philanthropic mission (Grantspace.gov, n.d.). While the cover letter is ideally brief and succinct, it is not an executive summary. There are specific strategies used to write the cover letter. Using the template below, you will draft a cover letter. 

Another important document that is a part of the grant process is the abstract. This narrowly focused document provides the grant reviewer with a summary of your proposal contents. Abstracts are generally constrained to a specific word count. Please use the template below to draft your abstract. 

In preparation for this Assignment:

• Review the Gitlin & Lyons textbook pp. 8283 for      information on abstracts. 
• Review the cover letter template in the Module 5      Learning Resources.
• Review the grant application abstract template Module 5      Learning Resources

In 12 pages, address the following:

• Submit a cover letter to be included in your grant      application.
• Submit an abstract of no more than 500 words of your      grant application.

Choose one of the case studies provided in the electronic readings for Week One. **African culture v.s American culture***

Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper in which you analyze cross-cultural psychology. As a part of your analysis, do the following:

• Provide an overview of the case study.
• Use the case study to provide a definition and an example of cultural and cross-cultural psychology.
• Analyze the relationship between cultural psychology and cross-cultural psychology.
• Discuss the methodology associated with cross-cultural psychology research.
• Discuss how the case study helps you better understand how ethnicity, race, and worldviews are separate yet related concepts.
• Discuss how enculturation may play a role in the case study you have chosen.

Incorporate a minimum of three credible, peer-reviewed references.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

Submit your assignment.

• **The case study is african culture v.s american culture***

To Prepare

Consider the potential of influence you might have on a client. Think about the cautions that you must take as a Human and Social Services professionals when creating client goals.

By Day 3

Post your response to the following: Given your potential for influence, how can you as a professional maintain the balance between guiding the client toward appropriate goals and objectives for the situation, while ensuring that one is not deciding the goals FOR the client? How can this relationship be used or misused to facilitate social change?

Use sources from the literature to support your position.

BOOK: Summers, N. (2016). Fundamentals of case management practice: Skills for the human services (5th ed.). Boston, MA: Cengage Learning. 

CHAPTER 25: Developing Goals and Objectives at the Provider Agency

Introduction

It is important to note at the outset that goals and objectives like the ones we will be discussing in this chapter are done in many different settings. Case managers in many agencies develop these more specific goals and objectives with clients. This would be particularly true if the agency did their own intakes and provided the services as well. For example, it might be that a program for domestic violence would do the intake, learn the goals the woman wanted for herself, and develop a specific goals and objectives plan with her. Perhaps in an agency that served individuals with substance abuse issues, the case manager would learn that abstinence was the goal the person had set for himself and the case manager might go on to develop with the person the specific goals and objectives to get him there.For our purposes in this textbook, we have case managers outlining the general goals with people that these clients have for themselves. These goals are then sent to the provider agency where the actual service will be given and a very specific plan with goals and objectives is developed there with the person. In other words, these more specific goals and objectives become the steps or the plan to achieving the general goal.Therefore, at the provider agency they have received your broad general goals for the client. That person has arrived there, and the people at the provider agency have read over the general goals you wrote on your referral sheet. Now they will sit down and develop with the person very specific goals and objectives to address the larger goals you put on the referral form. In other words, they develop the goals you sent over in much greater detail.In this chapter, you will step out of your role as case manager at the case management unit and step into the role of the person primarily responsible for implementing the clients service plan at the provider agency. In the agency where the service is actually given (the provider agency), goals and objectives are written very specifically and in greater detail. Here the broad general goal supplied by case management is broken down into more specific goals and objectives. The objectives tell us how the goal will actually be met. The objectives are a plan or blueprint for reaching each goal. This enables the staff at the case management agency to know exactly what the plans are for the client.When the referred person arrives at the treatment or service agency, that agencys staff takes their turn looking at the stated goals on the referral form that were worked out with the individual. They then decide with the person just how to meet those goals in the time allotted by the case manager. Completion of the more specific goals is expected to take place during the time for which the case manager has authorized payment of services for the client. Sometimes the client cannot meet the goals in that time or needs more time because of other issues that have surfaced or new problems that have occurred. For example, a person who has periodic difficulty with asthma was hospitalized on a pulmonary unit for a week and missed several weeks of services, necessitating an extension to the agreement. In another case, a person did not do well in the program where she went 4 days a week to learn more about independent living. Although she appeared to make progress, her progress was slower than anticipated, so the case manager extended the authorization for 6 more weeks. In these cases, the case manager authorized additional time for the person in that agency.Much of the material in this chapter is based on the work of Arnold R. Goldman (1990), from his newsletter Practical Communications.

Client Participation/Collaboration

We would not make goals for people without collaborating with them. If you are working with a child, you want to note that the parent or parents were involved in the decisions. For an adult, you need to include the fact that the adult has participated in determining his own goals. If the person is unable to participate at the time due to her mental or physical condition, try to learn who the person would want to participate in the planning on her behalf. For example, Ardith assisted her mother in developing a plan with the worker because her mother was in the beginning stages of Alzheimers disease.Assessment and evaluation forms usually have places to record peoples answers when you ask them what they see as the main issues to be resolved and what they expect of services. Each of these forms addresses this issue in a different way, but look at this material when developing goals with people. The information you collect from the person should indicate that you and the person developed the goals and objectives together. Someone reading your plans should see it clearly indicated that the client participated and agreed with the direction the goals tend to lead.

Make Objectives Manageable

Goals and objectives can overwhelm people. Sometimes when working with people to develop goals and objectives, case managers develop objectives that are too difficult. It is not always possible to foresee that what you and the client have planned will overwhelm the client when she attempts to meet the objectives. It is best to choose small objectives, small attainable steps that you know the person will be able to accomplish. Meeting these objectives shows progress toward the goal much faster and gives people a sense of having accomplished something important and a sense of moving forward. You can stress to them that they have accomplished something important. When you develop your objectives, work with the tasks you are sure people will be able to attain.In addition, be careful not to overwhelm people with too many goals and objectives to accomplish. Try only two or perhaps three to start so that people do not feel buried in to-do lists right from the start.Here is an example of a goal and the objectives that were developed for a woman who wanted to leave welfare. In this example, the case manager overwhelmed the person.Goal: Larita will become self-sufficient financially by 2019 as evidenced by:

• Objective 1: Larita will go to college in nursing by fall 2015
• Objective 2 Larita will attain a nursing degree by June 2017
• Objective 3: Larita will attain a position in the local hospital by July 2017

In this example, Larita has a plan but the goals are large and could be overwhelming. In addition, she would not accomplish anything before the fall of 2015. Here is a better way to plan with Larita.Goal: Larita will go to college in nursing by fall 2015

• Objective 1: Larita will get the college catalog
• Objective 2: Larita will choose a course of study
• Objective 3: Larita will enroll at the college
• Objective 4: Larita will choose her courses for the semester
• Objective 5: Larita will complete her first semester

In this example, your service interventions might be to assist her with these tasks and support her as she tackles her first semester. Larita, however, has a clear step-by-step plan to begin her degree. As she checks off each task she will sense she is moving forward. This example has a greater chance of being successful and a greater opportunity to instill confidence.

Expect Positive Outcomes

Goals are actually the outcomes you expect to occur as a result of the treatment, service, or intervention you have chosen (Goldman, 1990). Goals are written, therefore, in the positivewhat will happen, rather than what will not happen or what might happen.

A clients social history can be a valuable tool when working with clients and setting goals. Completing a social history form or documenting it in another way, can serve as a broader view of where the client was when he or she came in and current issues. To create a social history document, it should be a collaborative process with the client, in order to make recommendations for actions to resolve the issue. For this Assignment, you will create a brief social history and in Week 9 a service plan on a colleague that was assigned to you last week. For this assignment you work in pairs using the scenario in the resources about a Syrian teen, George, from the interactive community.

To Prepare

Schedule a call or Skype session with your colleague. Then, use the outline in Chapter 16 of your Summers textbook. Take turns over the phone or Skype with your colleague playing the human and social services worker and the interviewee, George. Click on George in the Community Center of the Interactive Learning Community, you will see his background at the bottom. The rest of the Interactive Learning Community where he lives is there so you can draw upon the community background while role playing. When participating as George, you can make up the information to fill the gaps, when being interviewed. The most important takeaways are that you are practicing taking a social history and organizing it appropriately. You should be referring to Chapter 16 of your Summers textbook for advice on completing a social history appropriately. (George Tiblis is 16 years old. He is a refugee from Syria. His parents and sister were killed in a bombing attack of his village in northern Syria 2 years ago. He came to America as part of a Christian mission rescue. He lived with a foster family for a year and attended high school, but had difficulty fitting into the routine and lifestyle. He recently decided to leave his foster family and has been hitchhiking around the country, staying in shelters or sleeping in public buildings when he can)….

For this Assignment

Complete a Social History of George from the interview that you conducted. Use the headers outlined in Chapter 16 of your Summers textbook (pg. 298 Figure 16.1).

CHAPTER 16

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 (12 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.

Please answer the following questions:

Do you believe the term criminal justice system is an oxymoron? Why or why not?

Identify a mala prohibita law(s) that exists in Florida which you believe should be decriminalized? Why?

classmate answered: