Today’s families are largely affected by divorce, re-marriage, single parenthood, and poverty. How do you believe today’s adolescents are different from past adolescents because of these factors? What parenting advice would you give to a friend with an adolescent child going through divorce?

Changes in the teenage brain have become a hot topic in the media. Please share one example of a teenager featured in the media (LINK PLEASE!) and discuss the potential role brain development played in shaping their actions. How do cognitive changes contribute to decision-making during adolescence, in general?

For this Discussion, in your Initial Post you will share with your classmates your observations from your research on Clinical, Counseling, and School Psychology as subspecialties and career options. Please be sure to address EACH subspecialties in your response to each question. Points will be deducted if both subspecialties are not clearly and separately addressed.…

Attraction between intimate partners can be attributed to a wide range of personal qualities. People choose to have partners, or not, at different times in their lives for a variety of reasons. As a counselor, you may be expected to work with clients who have attraction preferences, sexual behaviors, or comfort levels with nontraditional relationships…

 post a reflection on the decisions you made in the risk assessment client scenario. What did you choose to do, and why? Then, describe your agency’s scope of practice and its policies related to clients at risk. How would these policies have changed your actions in the interactive scenario?  read results on lesson 3, page…

 Post a description of what strengths-based and client-centered social work with clients with substance use disorders entails. Identify two or three elements of at least one other theoretical framework that you would like to integrate into your own practice with clients with substance use disorders. How will the addition of these theoretical elements be beneficial to…

175 words each  Discussion 1: One folktale that deeply influenced the way I think and relate to others is The Girl with a Brave Heart: A Tale From Tehran by Rita Jahanforuz. This story had a powerful impact on me because of the way it illustrated the beauty of empathy and genuine kindness. When I first heard…

  Submit a 2-pg analysis of substance use disorder models, in which you:   Analyze the etiology of addiction according to the biological model, the psychological model, and the sociocultural model and explain how each of these perspectives contribute to our understanding of how substance use disorders develop.   Describe the interrelationships between the biological…

Our textbook authors, Myers and Twenge (2021), start off talking about Cinderella, a popular folktale. They then deconstruct the message into two versions of the folktale. For many of us, folktales represent some of our earliest moments of understanding how the social environment impacts individual attitudes, behaviors, and ways of thinking. Think about the folktales…

We often aren’t aware of how much influence attitudes and norms of our social environments have on our views, preferences, and decisions until we take a closer look. Studying social psychology aims to better understand the interchange between our social environment and our personal development. This assessment invites you to conduct a simple observational study…