Best Writer

Provide a scenario involving a client whom you imagine you might encounter in your future field placement setting. Refer to the Stages of Change study material and describe what stage of the change process the hypothetical client is in. What evidence-based, developmentally appropriate strategies and techniques would you use to work with the client to support or enhance client motivation to make life changes? Explain why you chose these skills. How would the Stage of Change impact the choice of skills used and the treatment planning process? Include at least one scholarly reference in your response.

Consider the creation of a “positionality statement” as an opportunity to acknowledge your position or identity in relation to the work that you’re doing, and also to provide some additional relevant information that helps others to see how you may understand and interpret the world.
If needed, review these short videos and reading, for more informational about positionality and positionality statements.
Now, compose a 5 paragraph, 2 page positionality statement in which you address the following: Race- black/hispanic, language-english, gender- female, social class-middle class, ability- able-bodied, Sexuality- hetersexual, religion- christian
Paragraphs 1-2: Describe who you are based on BOTH how you see yourself and how society and people in society see you. Be sure to identify at least the following identity markers that have a very significant impact on how you experience school in this country: race, language, gender, social class, ability, sexuality, culture.
Paragraphs 2-3: Describe the ways you are both an insider and an outsider in relation to your educational journey thus far. Include a discussion of systems and structures in place that have positioned you as an outsider and insider. Revisit Kimberle Crenshaw’s videos (week 3) on Intersectionality to help you with this. Also include a brief discussion of how you think your educational journey may have been different if society and people in society saw/see you different from the way it does, or if your insider/outsider status were different. Finally, connect your insider and outsider status to your schooling experiences in terms of access and power. Provide examples of how your insider status afforded you power to have access to experiences and supports, and how your outsider status may have limited your power to have access to experiences and supports.
Paragraph 5: Describe at least 3 beliefs or perspectives you hold about the historical, social, cultural, and economic factors that influence children’s schooling experiences today. Only 1 belief can be focused on the economic factor. For each belief elaborate on how your own schooling experience contributes to or challenges this belief.
Writing Strategies: What’s Your Positionality?

What is the effect of a total compensation package within a market-competitive pay plan on employee motivation and satisfaction?

Evaluate why it is important for terrorist groups to become learning
organizations. Examine the two essential sets of terrorist
organizational tools.

What makes good people do bad things?

Explain the processes involved when drugs such as cocaine, marijuana, mescaline or alcohol enter the brain. You may draw a diagram to amplify your explanation.

Create a concept map that portrays application of a change model to the hypothetical implementation of the MSN Project. Submit the concept map and a brief explanation with the practicum log.

Evaluate and distinguish among the divisions and functions of the ANS and the importance of dual innervations.
Categorize the exteroceptors and interoceptors and provide examples of each.
Summarize the sensory pathways to the brain for gustatory and olfactory sensations.
Analyze and describe the process of hearing from the external to inner ear.
Analyze and describe how the ear provides equilibrium and balance for the body.

What kind of stories are your favorite to read? What element of a short story (plot, characters, setting) is most important to a good story? Make a list of what makes a good short story.

Chapter Six: Addiction Across the Life Span
This week we are discussing addiction across the lifespan. Please watch this powerful TedTalk by addiction expert, Dr Gabor Mate:
The Power of Addiction and The Addiction of Power: Gabor Maté at TEDxRio+20
(Links to an external site.)

Then compose a 2-3 minute Video Response *OR* a 350-word top-level post in ESSAY format that responds to these questions (if you do both, I’ll give 25 points extra credit for this DB!):
How does Mate define addiction and what does he mean when he says “we need to look at what’s right about addiction”? (i.e. what do people get out of their addictions?)
How does he relate his own shopping addiction to other addictions (i.e., problems that resulted in his life)?
How does the human brain and its interaction with the environment impact addiction?
In his experience, how does early trauma and abuse impact addiction and what does he say about intergenerational trauma and its impact on addiction?
What are your thoughts on this TedTalk and the perspective taken by Gabor Mate on addiction?
NOTE: If you write a response, please CITE YOUR FACTS and include a WORKS CITED!!
*** Be sure to use examples from the readings and field trip to support your answers to the above questions.***
***Pay close attention to the DB rubric in Course Information so you get full credit!!***