Recognize challenges faced by Human Services Professionals and how to manage them.
Scenario
Throughout this course, weve covered a lot of information about the Human Services field its roles and responsibilities, history and changing services, ethics, diversity, special populations, and preventing burnout. As you wrap up the course, you will now reflect on what youve learned and/or how youve grown.
Instructions
Write a 1-2 page reflection paper that addresses the following
Describe three challenges faced by Human Services Professionals and how you would manage them.
Describe how your perception of the work done by Human Services Professionals has changed.
Explain what you consider the most valuable thing you learned about the work done by Human Services Professionals.
Reflect on your reason for pursuing a career in the Human Services field.
Final Research Paper: International Organizations and Human Rights CO2: Evaluate the roles and influence of international structures and regimes. CO3: Discuss the positive and negative aspects of the interaction between international organizations and developing nations. Your final research paper should be between 3-5 double-spaced pages, excluding the reference list. You must use Chicago-style parenthetical references. Explore and analyze the impact of an IGO, NGO, or MNC on a specific human rights problem. Make sure to include overviews of the organizations you mention in your own words- no quotations, but be sure to cite paraphrased information with Chicago in-text citations. Give the background of a specific human rights issue, event, or incident where an IGO, NGO, and/or MNC has taken action. Give a summary of that event, the outcome (or current progress), and an analysis of how you feel it was handled. Evaluate successes and failures, as well as what could have been done differently. Assess if the actors are cooperating on this issue and how well. Your paper should include the following components: Introduction with a thesis statement Background of human rights issue Background of the actor(s) and actions taken Impact what has been the outcome? Where did the actors succeed or fail? What could have been done differently? Should other actors have become involved? If so, who? Conclusion Setting up your essay, turning it in, and seeing feedback: 1. Do not use a cover page. Your name, assignment name, date, and page numbers should be in a header. In Word, go to “insert” and then “header.” Use the “help” function to learn more about inserting a header in Word. 2. Prepare and include a list of References (which will be the fifth page of the assignment). Make sure to use the appropriate citation format (Chicago). 3. Put your name on the file and the assignment name, too. 4. Use standard Word settings for the assignment. Double-space, 12 pt. font, 1″ margins. Use subheadings to set off the various sections of the paper, giving the subheadings a catchy title to let the reader know what’s in the section. 5. Upload the document here. To see feedback on the assignment once it is graded, return here and find the uploaded document with comments.
In ABA, interpreting graphed data is crucial for assessing the effectiveness of interventions and making informed decisions. Understanding the concepts of level, variability, and trends (ascending, descending, and variable) allows practitioners to evaluate behavior changes accurately. This assignment will help you develop a comprehensive how-to guide that explains these concepts and provides practical examples from ABA settings.
Instructions
Provide an overview of the importance of interpreting graphed data in ABA.
Briefly introduce the concepts of level, variability, and trends (ascending, descending, variable).
Using Canva, PowerPoint or a word document create a how-to guide with visuals on the concepts learned in this module.
Level
Include an example with a graph illustrating a specific level of behavior (e.g., average number of correct responses during baseline).
Variability
Provide an example with a graph showing high variability and another showing low variability in a behavior.
Trends
Include examples with graphs for each type of trend, explaining what each trend indicates about the behavior and the effectiveness of the intervention.
Length: This assignment must be 3-5 pages (excluding the title and reference pages).
Article Analysis #2- The Founding of Our Government
DueFeb 2 by 10:30am
Points50
Submittinga file upload
File Typesdoc, pdf, pages, and docx
Availableafter Aug 25, 2025 at 12am
One Page Article Analysis
First, read a news story from the newspaper or the Internet. Answer the following questions regarding your news story: 1) What is the main issue, who are the main actors being discussed, what are your thoughts about this story?;
Second, choose one of the assigned articles from Canvas you read for this week. Answer the following questions regarding the assigned article: 1) What are the basics of this article (who, what, when, how, why, etc.); 2) What is the overall main point the author is trying to convince you of? 3) Do you agree with the authors argument? Why? Why not?
Finally, tie together your news story with what you learned from the assigned article, textbook readings, podcasts, videos, etc. for this week. Type your answers using your own words, no outline or bullets, complete sentences and paragraphs, single-spaced, full-page.
There are fifteen article analysis assignments required (50 points each), one due in the dropbox on Monday of each week by 10:30 am (no late work please). Each of these assignments requires the student to read articles assigned for the week on Canvas (for example: “Export This?”), as well as recent political news stories from a major daily periodical or e-news source (NY Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, CNN Politics, Sacramento Bee, etc.). You must read the newspaper every day and choose a story about American politics for your weekly Article Analysis. We will discuss your news story at the beginning of class every Monday when I ask “So, what is going on in American politics today?”
The idea behind this assignment is to have students keep up on political events from throughout the country, put them in the context of broader conceptual thought (based on the assigned articles for the week), and then think critically about that news event. Students are expected to use their own thoughts and words in the written assignments. Use of ChatGPT or other AI tools to submit what should be original written work will be detected and given zero points.
The quality of writing should be college level, one full page, at least 300 words, double or single spaced, 12 pt font. You must include a citation of the source of your news article with the title, author’s name, periodical name, and date of publication (MLA or APA format). Please Submit Assignment as a .pdf or Word doc.
Plagiarism will result in zero points. I use a program called TurnItIn and other AI detectors to determine how much, if any, of your assignment has come directly from the Internet or is AI generated. So, please put everything in your own words. Do not cut and paste anything from the Internet or AI generated text.
I recommend students clip several political news articles from the newspaper or the internet each week. Then, in your article analysis, you can tie one or more of these stories to what you have been learning from the assigned articles, textbook, podcasts, and other course resources.
Be prepared to talk about your news story in class on Mondays.
For 2 of the following scenarios, you will do the following:
Briefly describe how you will conduct a functional behavior assessment of the target behavior in the scenario (to meet ethical standards and demonstrate evidence-based practice). Assessments may be informal for some of the scenarios, but they should be descriptive assessments based on direct and indirect observations of behavior.
Provide a hypothesis statement about the function of the behavior based on the FBA.
For each scenario you choose, discuss 3 strategies you could use to either increase a desirable behavior, train a replacement behavior, and/or decrease an undesirable behavior. The discussion of each strategy must include a description of the strategy and the rationale for using it (in at least 2 sentences).
You can use your textbooks, your notes from this course and previous courses, and the in order to come up with the strategies.
An example response is provided for the first scenario below. You need to pick 2 other scenarios to address.
SCENARIOS:
1. Sally is a nine-year-old girl in third grade. She is frequently late to school, and her mother is trying to figure out a way to get her out the door on time to walk to school. Even when she is not walking and the mother is driving her to school, she is late coming out of the house and getting into the car. How might you handle this if Sally was your daughter?
I would first conduct a functional behavior assessment (i.e., descriptive assessment) by interviewing Sally and asking her what causes her to be late leaving the house in the morning. I would also collect observational data on the relevant behavior using an antecedent-behavior-consequence (ABC) Chart during the time that she is getting ready for school from 6:45 a.m. 7:30 a.m.
Hypothetical results: Based on the data collected, it appears that she takes 20 minutes to pick out clothes to wear in the mornings. She also says in the interview that it takes her a long time to decide what to wear. These factors result in a delay in getting out and to school on time.
Hypothesis: Sallys lateness in getting to school is maintained by an access function, specifically due to too much time spent selecting clothes (i.e., potentially a decision or choice-making problem).
Strategy 1: Use a goal setting procedure for Sally in which she has a (duration) goal for how long she will spend picking out her clothes each morning. She will start with 18 minutes (since her baseline is 20 minutes), and the goal will be reduced by 2 minutes every day until she can pick out her clothes in 8 minutes. She can earn a special snack in her lunch if she meets the goal that day. This provides reinforcement for meeting the goal and shortening the duration of time taken to get ready.
Strategy 2: Use an antecedent intervention by requiring her to pick her clothes out the night before. She can pick them out each evening before her nighttime snack. This will reduce her time taken to get ready in the morning so that she should be on time. She will also be provided the opportunity to request assistance with picking her clothes.
Strategy 3: Skill shaping procedure. Her parent will model and assist with different clothing options and styling and use praise to shape Sallys decision and choice skills
Strategy 4: Use a positive reinforcement procedure in which she earns an additional 30 minutes of computer game or TV time after school for every day she gets to school on time. She normally gets 30 minutes of TV and/or screen time after school and can add to that by getting to school on time. This may be an effective motivator to shorten the duration of time she spends picking out her clothes (and therefore be on time to school) if her screen time is a potent reinforcer.
2. The night shift supervisor at the local grocery store has noticed that employees are taking twice as long to complete their closing tasks. This not only delays everyone leaving for the night, but the supervisor is concerned that this behavior will transfer over to the morning shift who have the responsibility of restocking shelves, placing the tills in the cash register, booting up the point of sale (POS) machines, and unlocking the doors for customers. You have been consulted to find a solution to increase employee productivity and efficiency. What would you suggest to the supervisor?
3. A student in Mrs. Kellys 3rd grade English class has become incredibly disruptive recently and talks out of turn, bullies other students by pushing them and glaring, gets up out of his seat in the middle of instruction and yells out loud when he does not get what he wants. What would you do about this?
4. You are having issues with your roommate because she is very messy, especially in the kitchen, where she never picks up or cleans up. She routinely leaves dishes in the sink and doesnt even soak them. How might you use behavior change principles to change this unwanted behavior?
5. Your friend Isabella is struggling in her statistics class and knows you are taking the same class. She comes to you for help. You find out the main reason she is not doing well because she spends very little time studying. You learn that every evening after supper, she spends time with her friends, talking, watching TV and videos, and playing video games. How might you help her to make better use of her study time?
6. Thomas is an 8-year-old boy who sucks his thumb while reading during language arts instruction. His parents and teacher want to stop this behavior, as some of the kids in his third-grade class make fun of him. What are some strategies that you might use?
Please note: Your assignment should be submitted in a Word Document format using Times New Roman 12. The assignment must use APA format (See link to APA publication style in the course site resources.) Please include an appropriate heading on your paper and references to support methods or procedures used.
Please be sure to save your work using the naming convention:
Student last name, first name, ABA 506 Assignment 1
Interview a nurse leader (chief nurse, associate chief nurse, director, supervisor, manager), a masters-prepared nurse with leadership responsibilities (nurse educator, nurse quality specialist, nurse risk manager, nurse case manager, etc.), or advanced practice nurse with leadership responsibilities (clinical nurse specialist, nurse anesthetist, nurse midwife, or nurse practitioner). Analyze the leaders role as it relates to a minimum of five of the major course concepts addressed (ethics in leadership, emotional intelligence, communication, conflict resolution, change theory, cultural competence/diversity, labor relations management, leadership models, management theory, motivational theory, Nurse of the Future competencies, interprofessional collaboration, and team building). Provide a narrative summary of your interviewees responses to each of the concepts of the interview. This should not be a verbatim account. Incorporate references to provide support and analyze the concepts you discussed. Include your impression of congruence between the leaders self-reflection and your personal observations of demonstrated leadership. Include the following in your paper: Comprehension: Introduce the leader, his or her credentials, title, job responsibilities, placement on the organizational chart/reporting responsibilities, education, experience, mentors, and pathway to his or he current role. Application: Describe the predominate model/theory of leadership used by this leader. Describe his or her style of leadership. Analysis/Synthesis: Clarify and illustrate the leaders level of authority and influence within the organization. Discuss this leader’s sense of empowerment and efforts to empower others. Describe his or her intra- and extra-organizational responsibilities. Compare your personal philosophy/style/model of leadership with this leader and share whether expectations/perceptions of this leader were accurate. Evaluation: Summarize the leaders behavior, strengths, successes, challenges, and weaknesses. Your paper should be 910 pages long, not including the cover page or references list, and should use 1012 scholarly references. Tips and Hints Reminders: avoid using personal pronouns and use initials or first name only of your interviewee. You are not writing a documentary or a play for the nurse leader interview paper. You should review the information you will have learned in this course and essentially tell the leader’s story. For example: S. J. wanted to be a nurse since she was young. She earned her nursing diploma immediately after high school and worked for three years on a medical/surgical unit at the local hospital. (And so on.)