It was all so hard to explain. He said it took months, yet it has happened so suddenly that it is difficult to say where to start. He had been a very successful contractor, more successful than he had ever expected. Then he underbid a project and lost money; his foreman quit and became a competitor, and slowly he began to doubt himself. Finally, it happened. One morning before leaving the house, his heart started pounding; he began to tremble and felt numb. He felt strange like he was in a movie, so unreal. He started gasping for breath. He thought he was having a heart attack or was about to die. He was terrified. Nothing like this had ever happened to him before.

His wife took him to an urgent care center in town where they did an EKG and told him his heart was fine; he was just stressed. He took the day off. Before he knew it, he couldn’t leave his house and he would shake whenever he tried to get in his truck. Quickly his crew went to work for his competitor, and he could no longer bid on jobs. His business started failing. He started drinking and soon he was drinking a 12 pack of beer a day, just to get by. His wife said if he didn’t do something she was leaving him. Now he was really scared but didn’t know what to do.
 

When he arrived in the primary care office his appearance was flushed; he was sweating; his hands were shaking; he was breathing rapidly and was very tense. He said he hated what his life had become.

1. What are the stressors that lead to his current condition?

2. What medical and nursing diagnosis do his symptoms suggest?

3. What comorbidity has he developed?

4. What neurotransmitters might be involved in his behavioral responses?

5. Which medications do you think would be helpful to him? Which ones should be avoided and why?

6. What types of education do he and his wife need?

The language of qualitative research can be confusing. The words sound like regular English, but they have very particular meanings. To make the language even more complicated, the definitions can vary across different qualitative methodological scholars.

Submit a 1- to 2-page written journal or 4- to 5-minute video or audio journal focusing on themes of bias and self-awareness. Address the following:

• What was your experience of completing the implicit bias test? Which test did you choose, and why?
• What self-awareness themes have emerged so far in Week 1s Discussion and this weeks activities?
• Identify a population that you are not comfortable with or would like to know more about; this could be a population represented by the implicit bias test you took, but it does not have to be.
• Why might you feel discomfort or want to know more about this population? Consider your origins of thought, socialization into your culture and family, and any biases you may have.

By Day 3

Post a reflection on the ADDRESSING-GSA Self-Assessment and apply what you learned to social work practice. Specifically, answer the following questions:

• What insights did you gain from the activity in terms of your identities and aspects of power and privilege?
• In what ways do you envision your diverse identities and associated power, privilege, or oppression influencing the social workerclient relationship? Provide an example.

By Day 3

Post a blog post that includes:

• An explanation of potential challenges in adhering to confidentiality in your field education experience
• A description of agency policies or mandates with regard to confidentiality
• An explanation of potential challenges in communicating with clients within your agency

Assignment Content

1. Many digital and social media sites are widely used in marketing strategies.

   Prepare a 10- to 15-slide presentation with detailed speakers notes and visuals elements.

   Complete the following in your presentation:

   • Identify a company that could benefit from better use of social media.
   • Analyze at least 10 digital and social media channels and describe the strengths and weaknesses of each of these as a marketing tool for this company.
   • Design an online strategy that maximizes the use of some or all of the digital and social media channels, as appropriate, based on your analysis.
   • Determine key performance indicators to measure the success of the online strategy.
   • Format your citations according to APA guidelines.

Assignment 2: Self-Assessment

The ability to demonstrate social work practice skills is a key component of any social work field education experience. As you demonstrate social work practice skills in your field education experience, you will develop your professional identity as a future social worker.

For this Assignment, reflect on your personal and professional goals or objectives that you hope to achieve by participating in this course.

The Assignment (12 pages):

• Identify and describe your personal professional goals and objectives within the parameters of the field education experience. I WANT TO OPEN MY OWN COUNSELING PRACTICE, HOPEFULLY FOR THE UNDERSERVED POPULATION SUCH AS THE LGBTQ+ COMMUNITY.   I ALSO WANT TO ADVOCATE FOR MY CLIENTS ESPECIALLY THOSE IN UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES SUCH AS LGBTQ+.
• Explain how your personal professional goals and objectives that you identified might be reflected in your agency learning agreement.

My last name begin with Q so choose from  

• M-R

A wide diversity of microbial species colonizes the human body, providing considerable benefits to the host through a range of different functions. A variety of genetic, environmental, and lifestyle factors – including diet, diseases, and medications – can induce substantial shifts in microbiome composition.

For this discussion, each person will be reading a short excerpt of the paper:

Post Requirements:

This assignment requires two posts, each completed individually. Excerpts are assigned by last name. Click on the link to read the excerpt about the listed topic. If your last name begins with:

• A-F
• G-L
• M-R
• S-Z

First Post – Due Wednesday

1. Title your post with the name of the excerpt.
2. According to your excerpt, what factor(s) affect the microbiome? For each factor, describe if it has a positive or negative impact on the microbiome. What implications does this have for human health?
3. According to your excerpt, what solution(s) could be implemented to increase societal access to beneficial microorganisms?
4. Define at least two vocabulary words or phrases from the section you read. These can be any words/phrases that you didn’t know the meaning of. (Examples: protozoa, biobanking, metabolic profile, etc.)
5. What are two questions you have about what you have read? These may be something you need clarification on, technical questions, or broader questions about microbiomes.

A. Transgression of the Law 

1. Who was right, the Roman consul or the military engineer of Athens in determining the proper battering ram for the siege?  Explain.

Your Answer

2. Can you envision both the behaviors and interactions between the Roman consul and the military engineer (excluding the punishment) happening in todays times? On the other hand, are their behaviors and interactions limited to that point in time? 

Your Answer

3. If you were the military engineer, how would you have gone about convincing the Roman consul that your battering ram was the better one for the siege?

Your Answer

B. Observance of the Law

4. Do marketers today use similar tactics such as those used by Michaelangelo to get the approval of Soderni?  Give examples.  Is Michaelangelo being deceitful? Why or why not? 

Your Answer

C. Keys to Power

5. What in your estimation would have been the response of the mayor if he found out that the two columns never touched the ceiling after two months time?  After finding this out, if the mayor passed Sir Christopher Wren on the street that day, would he say anything to Sir Christopher Wren and if so, then what would you imagine that he would say?

Your Answer

This assignment is the fourth in a series of 4 assignments on the same topic. The assignments build upon each other.

As described you wrote two articles (Parts 1 and 2) as if you were an investigative reporter who has been assigned to research important issues (ethnic, racial, gender, or class) that are affecting people in a local area, workplace, or specific part of the world. The articles are for a major publication (magazine or newspaper). Your goal was to provide both an in-depth analysis of and put a human face on an issue. After publication, your editor has asked that you provide a summary of your articles using Google Slides or PowerPoint for a meeting of the National Association of Journalists, so the members can determine if the series should win one of its top three prizes for investigative reporting.

Requirements

Develop a 1012 slide presentation in which you:

1. Revise the ideas and concepts from Parts 1 and 2 of your articles, based on your professor’s feedback, to include the ideas in your presentation as needed.
2. In addition to posting to the discussion board, submit the slide presentation to the assignment location to receive credit.

Your slide deck should:

1. Introduce the topic area with a quote, question, and/or statistic, along with an overview and a thesis statement. (Grab the audiences interest.)
2. Highlight 35 major historical factors (social events/attitudes, wars, laws, economy, political environment, et cetera) in the past 50100 years that have contributed to the current issue(s)/problems for this topic area. 
3. Highlight 35 major current issues/problems (economic, social, political, legal, et cetera).
4. Describe 12 groups of people affected by the issue/problem, including 12 quotes and/or paraphrased comments from the people affected.
5. Propose 23 changes (economic, social, political, legal, et cetera) that could possibly improve the situation.
6. Highlight 23 likely challenges (economic, social, political, legal, et cetera) to achieving the proposed change(s).
7. Provide a brief logical response to each of the challenges. 
8. Highlight 23 possible benefits (economic, social, political, legal, et cetera) that could be realized following the proposed change(s).
9. Include 23 thought-provoking questions to which the audience should be asked to respond.
10. Provide a summary of the articles you have written that includes a quote, question, and/or statistic, along with a call for readers to respond by taking some specific action.
11. Include commentary (speaker’s) notes for the presentation in the notes section of the deck.
12. Include meaningful headings, short bulleted lists, and 24 visuals (photographs, charts, and/or graphs).
13. The last slide will include the source list for the presentation..

The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is:

• Create a presentation of the challenges and benefits of the proposed changes to societal issues and problems concerning class, ethnicity, gender, or race that reflects increased cultural knowledge and self-awareness.