Watch the following video and respond to the prompts:
Describe the two approaches for depression: behavioral activation and opposite action.
Explain how these interventions work.
Explain your take on these interventions. Would you use them? Why or why not?
Original Discussion Post – Due Saturday before the assigned Canvas Discussion due date
Fully respond to the questions being asked.
Demonstrate content knowledge from our course textbook. Refrain from oversharing.
Fully spell out all words (it is, does not, etc.).
You must have a minimum of 200 words. Grammar, spelling, and punctuation will affect your grade, so be sure to proof your work before submitting it.
You must have an in-text citation from our course textbook to support what you are saying. You will need a reference for your in-text citation. Any information taken from a source (other than your classmate or professor) must include an in-text citation and reference to avoid plagiarism. Not including a properly formatted in-text citation and reference will affect your grade.
Lesson 06 – Discussion
Watch the following video and respond to the prompts:
List and describe the physical symptoms associated with anxiety.
Explain what you see as the best way to treat physical symptoms associated with anxiety.
Explain what you think is the biggest challenge in treating anxiety disorders.
Original Discussion Post – Due Saturday before the assigned Canvas Discussion due date
Fully respond to the questions being asked.
Demonstrate content knowledge from our course textbook. Refrain from oversharing.
Fully spell out all words (it is, does not, etc.).
You must have a minimum of 200 words. Grammar, spelling, and punctuation will affect your grade, so be sure to proof your work before submitting it.
You must have an in-text citation from our course textbook to support what you are saying. You will need a reference for your in-text citation. Any information taken from a source (other than your classmate or professor) must include an in-text citation and reference to avoid plagiarism. Not including a properly formatted in-text citation and reference will affect your grade.
Lesson 07 – Discussion
Watch the following video and respond to the prompts:
List and describe the obsessions and compulsions experienced by the person in the video.
Explain the different interventions she used for OCD.
Explain what you think is the biggest challenge in treating OCD.
Original Discussion Post – Due Saturday before the assigned Canvas Discussion due date
Fully respond to the questions being asked.
Demonstrate content knowledge from our course textbook. Refrain from oversharing.
Fully spell out all words (it is, does not, etc.).
You must have a minimum of 200 words. Grammar, spelling, and punctuation will affect your grade, so be sure to proof your work before submitting it.
You must have an in-text citation from our course textbook to support what you are saying. You will need a reference for your in-text citation. Any information taken from a source (other than your classmate or professor) must include an in-text citation and reference to avoid plagiarism. Not including a properly formatted in-text citation and reference will affect your grade.
Lesson 08 – Discussion
Watch the following video and respond to the prompts:
Explain how the speaker describes the cause of reexperiencing symptoms in PTSD.
Explain why avoidance worsens PTSD symptoms.
Explain what you think is the biggest challenge in treating PTSD.
Original Discussion Post – Due Saturday before the assigned Canvas Discussion due date
Fully respond to the questions being asked.
Demonstrate content knowledge from our course textbook. Refrain from oversharing.
Fully spell out all words (it is, does not, etc.).
You must have a minimum of 200 words. Grammar, spelling, and punctuation will affect your grade, so be sure to proof your work before submitting it.
You must have an in-text citation from our course textbook to support what you are saying. You will need a reference for your in-text citation. Any information taken from a source (other than your classmate or professor) must include an in-text citation and reference to avoid plagiarism. Not including a properly formatted in-text citation and reference will affect your grade.
Internship
Module 03
Discussion Replies – Due by the assigned Canvas Discussion due date
You do not need an in-text citation and reference.
You must have a minimum of 50 words. Grammar, sentence structure, spelling, and punctuation will affect your grade, so proofread your work before submitting it.
Refrain from oversharing.
You must reply to two different students. You cannot reuse your reply to respond to another student.
Fully spell all words (it is, does not, etc.).
You must include an AI Statement.
Classmate #1
Khamara Waters
Understanding what I want out of life has encouraged me to approach my internship experience with intention and purpose, recognizing that each experience contributes to my development as a future human services professional. At this point, I have collected 21 hours and 40 minutes of internship experience, not including todays hours. These initial hours have allowed me to become familiar with the agency environment, expectations, and daily operations while beginning to apply skills learned in the classroom.
I received supervision on my first day at the internship site, which focused primarily on orientation, role clarification, and reviewing expectations, policies, and ethical guidelines. Since that initial day, I have not had additional formal supervision, although I anticipate that more structured supervision will occur as I continue to gain experience and take on additional responsibilities. The initial supervision was helpful in establishing professional boundaries and providing a foundation for ethical and appropriate conduct. Within the organization, I have identified several key roles that support my learning and contribute to effective service delivery, including my site supervisor, case managers, counselors, intake staff, medical staff, outreach staff, and administrative personnel. Observing how these professionals collaborate has helped me better understand the agencys structure and how interdisciplinary teamwork supports comprehensive client care.
One human services task I perform well without much conscious effort is active listening and demonstrating empathy, as building rapport and making others feel heard comes naturally to me. In contrast, documentation remains a task I find consistently challenging, particularly completing accurate and detailed case notes. I also tend to avoid tasks that involve confrontation or delivering difficult information because these situations feel emotionally uncomfortable, even though I understand their importance in professional practice. Feedback I often receive in both academic and professional settings is that I need to be more confident and assertive, which can be difficult to hear but has helped me identify an important area for growth.
To further prepare for my career in human services, I plan to gain additional experiences at my internship site, including participating in intake interviews, assisting with case planning, and observing interdisciplinary team meetings. To improve a weakness at my internship, such as documentation, I plan to review examples of effective case notes and request feedback from my supervisor. Academically, I will work on building confidence by preparing thoroughly for assignments and discussions. When ethical dilemmas arise, I will rely on an ethical decision-making model that includes identifying the ethical issue, reviewing relevant ethical codes and laws, consulting with supervisors or colleagues, considering possible courses of action and their consequences, selecting and implementing the most ethical option, and evaluating the outcome to guide future practice.
AI Statement:
Grammarly was used for organization and editing. All content reflects my own work and understanding.
Gender Issues
Module 05
Discussion Replies – Due by the assigned Canvas Discussion due date
You must have an in-text citation and reference from the assigned course textbook.
You must have a minimum of 50 words. Grammar, sentence structure, spelling, and punctuation will affect your grade, so proofread your work before submitting it. Any elements that do not contribute to the application of knowledge will not be counted in the word count.
Any information taken from a source (other than your classmate or professor) must include an in-text citation and reference to avoid plagiarism. Not including a properly formatted in-text citation and reference will affect your grade.
Refrain from oversharing.
You must reply to two different students. You cannot reuse your reply or in-text citation to respond to another student.
Fully spell all words (it is, does not, etc.).
You must include an AI Statement.
Classmate #1
Holly Beal
Sexual orientation is shaped in meaningful ways by social conditions, especially culture and religious norms. Chapter 5 mentions how stigma tied to sexual orientation often shows up as long-term, ongoing stress that gradually affects individuals well-being and how they experience relationships, sense of safety and personal expression, rather than standalone acts of discrimination (Miville et al., 2024). This aligns closely with my own experience of being in a lesbian relationship for seventeen years. My previous partner and I both grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee, we experienced ongoing pressure rooted in Christian values, which required us to constantly be mindful of our behavior and identity in daily settings. Deciding to move to South Florida offered us an opportunity to live in a place with more social acceptance of our lifestyle and gave us the freedom we craved, yet it also showed how deep our internalized stress really was even when we were in more accepting environments. Chapter 5 highlights how important and useful these experiences are when it comes to counseling practice because they affect the trust, coping strategies, and relational dynamics you have with clients.
Challenges typically arise when human service professionals rely on personal societal norms regarding gender and sexual orientation instead of their clients understanding. These stereotypes often lead human service professionals to unintentionally treat normal coping responses as problems, minimize stress related triggers, or reinforce heteronormative structures that do not reflect lived realities (Miville et al., 2024). Such as relocation is the best option for someone to be in a more socially accepting environment automatically resolving stress but ignores the long-term impact of growing up in stigmatizing settings. After transitioning from Knoxville, Tennessee to South Florida, I experienced a lot more acceptance but still battled internal pressure from decades of religious and cultural scrutiny. Chapter 5 highlights how professionals must be involved in self-reflection and cultural humility to prevent the influence of bias on clinical judgment.
Human service professionals hold ethical obligation to validate and respect clients whose sexual orientation and gender identity fall outside of dominant societal norms. Ethical practices require honoring your clients autonomy, avoiding harm, and actively confronting oppressive systems that harm well-being (Miville et al., 2024). For example, human service professionals must ensure that language, documentation, and assessments reflect the clients self-identified experiences instead of placing labels on them. In my personal experience, feeling heard and validated without correction had a significant impact on my sense of emotional safety and trust. Chapter 5 explains that ethical care goes beyond neutrality and requires advocacy, informed consent, and understanding the impact of how systemic discrimination affects mental health.
Reference
Miville, M. L., Vera, T., & Bensmiller, N. (2024). Counseling & gender: Intersectional approaches for practice, research, & advocacy. Springer Nature.
My AI Statement
The course material was read carefully then I completed the assignment. I used Grammarly as a support tool to help with spelling, punctuation, grammar, organization and clarity. The ideas, language, and final written content reflect my own understanding and interpretation of the course material.
Attached Files (PDF/DOCX): Gender 5.pdf, Diagnosis chapter 8.pdf, Diagnosis chapter 7.pdf, Diagnosis chap 6.pdf, Diagnosis Chap 5.pdf
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my sister and I went to the rural area of Ethiopia for our cousin wedding party. it was beautiful traditional wedding we had a good time but on that wedding day night the hyena came to the village and attack animals and 1 neighbor.
This I Believe is an exciting media project that invites individuals from all walks of life to write about and discuss the core beliefs that guide their daily lives. They share these statements in weekly broadcasts on NPRs Morning Edition and All Things Considered.
The series is based on the 1950s radio program This I Believe, hosted by acclaimed journalist Edward R. Murrow. Each day, some 39-million Americans gathered by their radios to hear compelling essays from the likes of Eleanor Roosevelt, Jackie Robinson, Helen Keller and Harry Truman as well as corporate leaders, cab drivers, scientists and secretaries anyone able to distill into a few minutes the guiding principles by which they lived. Their words brought comfort and inspiration to a country worried about the Cold War, McCarthyism and racial division.
Eventually, the radio series became a cultural phenomenon. Eighty-five leading newspapers printed a weekly column based on This I Believe. A collection of essays published in 1952 sold 300,000 copies second only to the Bible that year. The series was translated and broadcast around the globe on the Voice of America. A book of essays translated into Arabic sold 30,000 copies in just three days.
As a college student in 2024, you are faced with turbulent politics, socioeconomic issues, and ethical dilemmas that will challenge you to take a stand and contribute to the local, national, and global conversation around you. The purpose of this writing task is not to persuade you to agree on the same beliefs. Rather, it is to encourage you to begin the much more difficult task of developing respect for beliefs different from your own as well as writing about a belief that is important to you in a way that can help you connect with other people.
Task:
Write a This I Believe Essay about a belief and/or life philosophy that guides your life and that you feel comfortable discussing with your peers. Select a clear belief statement and use narrative techniques such as stories and anecdotes to explain and analyze the belief and how it influences your life. Consider the following guidance as you compose your essay:
1. While the mentor texts we’ve examined can serve as models, it is essential that you write about a personal belief or philosophy that you feel strongly about.
2. Tell a story: Be specific. Take your belief out of the ether and ground it in the events of your life. Consider moments when belief was formed or tested or changed. Think of your own experience, work, and family, and tell of the things you know that no one else does. Your story need not be heart-warming or gut-wrenchingit can even be funny but it should be real. Make sure your story ties to the essence of your daily life philosophy and the shaping of your beliefs.
3. Be concise: Avoid repetition. This essay should be between 500-650 words. When read aloud, it should take roughly four minutes when read at a natural pace.
4. Name your belief: It is essential that you can name your belief in a sentence or two. If you cant name it in a sentence or two, your essay might not be about belief. Focus on one belief only; rather than writing a list, consider focusing on one core belief, because 500-650 words is very short!
5. Be positive: Avoid preaching or persuading. You arent trying to change the way others think or act. Write about what you believe, not what you dont believe.
6. Use the first person. Speak for yourself. Avoid using we or you.
7. Let your voice shine. Use language that sounds like you. Read it aloud as your revise. Keep making changes until your essay sounds like you and captures the essence of your belief.
Audience:
Your classmates and myself are your audience for this piece. You will potentially be able to submit this piece for publication to a more public audience as well.
PART 2: WRRESS DEAR READER LETTER
After you have composed and revised your This I Believe Essay, you will reflect on your writing process and the TIBE essay product you created. I strongly suggest you use the WRRESS Dear Reader Template in the resources section below to guide you in composing your reflection letter. Your letter should be at least 300-400 words. It should include the following:
a description of your writing process in composing your essay
what did you do?
what might you do differently if you were completing this assignment again in the future?
an evaluation and analysis of the writing strategies you used to compose your essay
what strategies did you use?
how did they help you compose your essay?
how might you adapt them the next time you use them?
an evaluation of your TIBE essay
what in your essay is working well? what are you most proud of?
what in your essay is not working well? what are you still not sure about?
a description of what you learned about yourself as a writer
how did you grow as a writer from completing this assignment?
what changes might you make in the future?
a description of how you might adjust your writing process and/or strategy use for future writing assignments
To remind you of the strategies we practiced throughout the Nearpod Modules and Process Assignments, please refer to the list below.
Strategies
Strategies for Developing & Organizing Ideas:
1-minute speed list of words
Value associations based on one word
Developing a personal mantra
Investigating mentor texts using 6-traits questioning
Have AI support you in creating a must have/could have list
Strategies for Generating Text:
Exploding ideas from brainstorming
Flash draft
Get-it-down draft
Development draft Strategies for Revision:
Fat drafting: center of gravity sentence
Fat drafting: expand mindfully
Fat drafting: add physical voices
Fat drafting: enjoy the company of others
Fat drafting: make use of expert strategies
Ask for suggestions from AI to improve writing techniques
Writing center feedback
Please refer to the WRRESS Dear Reader Letter Annotated Example to see how this portion of the assignment is formatted. (Though you do not need to color code your letter.)
Submission Guidelines:
Submit a link to your google document in which you have composed and revised your This I Believe Essay. Be sure you update the sharing settings to “All with the link can edit.”
At the top of your essay, compose a WRRESS Dear Reader letter that reflects on the essay that tells me a bit about how you see this paper and what it means to you in its finished state.
Attached Files (PDF/DOCX): Process Assignment 2 – TIBE _Get-it-Down_ Draft.pdf, WRRESS Dear Reader Letter Annotated Example.pdf
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In Hamilton, how does Lin-Manuel Mirandas portrayal of Eliza as a foil to Hamiltons endless ambition reveal the emotional cost of legacy building while conveying a message about the art of remembrance?
Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda follows the story of American Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, constructed into a musical. In it, it storytells Hamiltions rise to politics and influence, but also the personal consequences Hamilton faces through his relentless need to achieve and be remembered. Through the authorial choice of characterization, specially framing Hamilton against his wife, Eliza, as a foil, Miranda reveals that the pursuit of legacy often comes with real emotional costs, ones that go unnoticed until it’s too late. This shapes the musical as a whole by suggesting that legacy is not what we initially think it to be. Truthfully, legacy is not only about the things that we do but it is created through what is preserved and endured in remembrance, shaped by the people who continue to tell and protect our stories.
From Elizas introduction in Helpless, she is characterized by her vulnerability and sincerity to Hamilton, establishing her as a foil to Hamiltons ambition from the very beginning. Eliza is so open from the beginning to express her all consuming love for Hamilton shown by her repetition of saying im helpless/ im so into you/I’m down for the count
And I’m drownin’ in ’em. Her choice of language, connotes her love, and how it overwhelms her in the best way possible. In contrast, Hamilton responds to her but speaks in the terms of what he has rather than the love he can give her. He says, Eliza, I don’t have a dollar to my name, an acre of land, a troop to command, a dollop of fame immediately framing himself through status and power. The rapid rhyme in this reflects how restless and ambitious Hamiltons mind truly is and how he cannot seem to separate himself from achievement, even in a moment of love like this. In the juxtaposition of Eliza and Hamiltons characterizations, Miranda reveals that there was an initial imbalance between their relationship because for Eliza, love is enough, but for Hamilton, love must coexist with measurable things. So in this moment, the seeds of future emotional costs are already planted. The fact that Hamiltons first impression of Eliza is defined by what he has, it foreshadows the way his ambition will eventually cloud the love Eliza openly gives him.
Through characterization, Miranda further develops the relationship between Hamiton and his wife, Eliza, as foils, but now their marriage has become estranged because of their contrasting values within their relationship. From the beginning, Hamilton is characterized through his urgency, by the way he speaks and raps at a fast pace. He was constantly defining himself through his actions and chasing the next opportunity to do so. In contrast, Eliza is slow paced, willing to live in the present and value their connection not conditioned on the things they had. The contrast becomes more clear in That Would Be Enough. In the song, Eliza expresses that she doesnt need fame or power to be fulfilled, instead she wants Hamilton to slow down, find contentment in being and acknowledge the love around him. Eliza clearly knows Hamiltons inner struggles as she sings, I dont pretend to know the challenges youre facing / The worlds you keep erasing and creating in your mind, but insists for him to ,Look around, look around at how lucky we are to be alive right now Mirandas characterization of Eliza here is intentional, she is not against Hamiltons ambition, but she just hopes he recognizes that the way he chooses to love and cherish his family also creates legacy. This moment highlights the first emotional cost of Hamiltons ambition because even though he loves Eliza, he refuses to slow down or shift his priorities, pushing him away from his wife. In this characterization, Miranda wants to clearly highlight that at the expense of trying to build a future, we neglect the present and whats already around us, reinforcing the idea of how ambition cannot create remembrance alone.
Miranda deepens Elizas role as Hamiltons foil through the characterization in Burn, where the emotional cost becomes most clear. Hamilton publishes the Reynolds Pamphlet in the intention to protect his legacy but for Eliza, she experiences it as a great betrayal in the love they shared. In this, Miranda characterizes Eliza through withdrawal and grief as she says Im erasing myself from the narrative and by her burning the letters that might have redeemed you. Eliza is deeply hurt, not only because of Hamiltons infidelity but more less about the fact that Hamilton took priority in saving his reputation over honoring Elizas dignity and their relationship by publishing this document. Hamilton has spent the entire musical trying to control how history will remember him, documenting everything not realizing who he may be hurting in the process. Yet in this moment, Eliza refuses to let him control her story. Burning the letters acts as a symbol of her reclaiming her voice and her withdrawal from the story he has constructed. This scene really reveals the emotional cost of Hamiltons obsession with legacy and the way he wants to be remembered because in his need to clear his name, it leads him to subject his wife and family to public scrutiny. By this characterization, Miranda is suggesting that in the face of legacy and trying to protect it, it doesnt erase the wrongdoings within it but only shifts the burden of it onto others, who have to suffer for it. Remembrance isnt only about the goods but it’s about the bads too.
After Hamiltons death, Elizas characterization shifts. She is not just the foil to Hamiltons ambition but now the one responsible for his remembrance. In her final sequence in Who lives, who dies, who tells Your Story, she speaks about how she dedicates her life to holding Hamiltons legacy by her works of interviewing soldiers, establishing an orphanage, and telling his story. She sings And when my time is up,have I done enough?/Will they tell my story? Even after everything, Eliza still questions whether she has done enough in the light of Hamilton, who is characterized as someone who will never be satisfied. Eliza has always lived in her marriage trying to be enough for Hamilton so after death she still measures herself in what she can do to please him despite his endless expectations. Miranda makes it so that Eliza is portrayed through her devotion of continuing to tell his story so that audiences fully recognize that every trace of steps contributes to the story others must carry one day, and that loved ones ultimately inherit both the burden and power of shaping how a legacy is told, and that is what remembrance is.