The government referred clients to an addiction counseling office.
Navigate to the threaded discussion and respond to the following questions: What is the mission statement of your agency and what are their hypotheses about the social problems and injustices in its community? What human rights does your agency commit to and what social justice issues does it address? What types of services does your agency provide to address human rights and social justice? What client groups might feel positively or negatively toward your agency and why? How does the agency determine whether it is effective? How well do you believe your agency is meeting the needs of your community?
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Explain which factor was more influential in the early development of Chinese civilization; geography or economic development; and why?
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Your text authors note that it is important to place consideration of the specific meaning of a good life in the context of
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personality and genetic differences |
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differences in values and religious orientation. |
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different cultures and stages of lifespan development. |
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life events and availability of resources and opportunities. |
According to your textbook authors, what is “new” and unique about positive psychology is that it has
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helped clarify the relative independence of the “good” and the “bad.” |
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shown the valuable lessons that can be learned from tragedy. |
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shown the health and happiness benefits of a positive outlook. |
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rejected psychology’s emphasis on the negative and replaced it with an emphasis on the positive. |
Relationship-enhancing and distress-maintaining attributions describe two major differences in how close relationship partners
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respond to the distress of their partner. |
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communicate the need to talk about a relationship problem. |
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explain their own perceived role in improving the relationship. |
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explain the transgressions and faults of their partner. |
The Signature Strengths Questionnaire was developed by Values in Action Project (VIA) researchers to measure 24 strengths of character. This questionnaire has been taken by over 350,000 people in 50 different countries. Analysis of character strengths profiles suggest that
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people in widely different cultures share a common understanding of character strengths. |
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the meaning of character strengths varies widely across different cultures. |
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the Signature Strengths Questionnaire contains a substantial Western value bias. |
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gender, age, and social class have a substantial influence on people’s understanding of character strengths. |
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physician-assisted suicide and contrasted it with euthanasia. Do you agree with either of them? Where do you stand in this week’s forum topic of passive vs active euthanasia and why?
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one of the characteristics of intellectual development is developing and understanding of personal abilities. a)Discuss this characteristics and give an example.
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Explain the main ethical principles you need to consider in using human subjects in research.
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Describe why the 1967 James Brown song, "Cold Sweat" was so musically innovative.
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what were some key ideas emerging in the Enlightenment? How did these ideas affect the monarchies of England, France, and Russia? How so? What were some characteristics of "enlightened rulers?
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The goal motive explanation (why goals are pursued) for the relationship between strong financial aspirations and lower well-being is that |
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strong financial motivations lead to a variety of personal and social conflicts that lower well-being. |
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people with strong financial aspirations are searching for a purpose in life, but have made a poor choice. |
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strong financial aspirations are typically adopted by people who come from impoverished backgrounds and see money as the cause and the solution to their problems. |
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strong financial aspirations are likely to involved controlled rather than autonomous sources of motivation and research shows controlled motivations lower well-being. |
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The goal contents explanation (what goals are pursued) for the relationship between strong financial aspirations and lower well-being is that |
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people with strong financial aspirations are shallow, superficial, and easily influenced by our “celebrity culture.” |
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extrinsic goals are inherently less satisfying than intrinsic goals and might also interfere with the pursuit of intrinsic goals such as developing supportive social relationships. |
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people must choose between extrinsic and intrinsic goals and materialists have made the wrong choice. |
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strong financial aspirations inevitably lead to a stressful and frustrating life that undercuts the satisfaction that may result from financial success. |
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Corey Keyes’ “complete model of mental health” describes |
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how the presence or absence of mental illness can be used to infer mental health. |
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discrete categories of mental illness and mental health. |
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a clear line of divide between mental illness and mental health. |
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a continuum running from mental illness to flourishing. |
Goals connect the “having” and “doing.” This means that
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personal goals help determine the influences that personal resources have on well-being. |
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personal goals determine what you have and what you do. |
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what you have determines what you do and therefore what you achieve. |
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personal resources and personal goals are both determined by an individual’s personality. |
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Given the limited impact of the exclusionary rule on crime fighting and Miranda on conviction rates, what purposes do they serve?
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Why is it important to ground the ontology of art to our standard artistic practices? Why would it be an issue if the theory conflicts with how we treat works of art? When might it be appropriate to accept an ontological theory that does conflict with our artistic practices?
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For the formalist theory of art, what makes something a work of art? What is one issue with the theory? What is something that the theory would deem to not be art that seems like it should be considered art?
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From a Freudian Perspective, examine a behavioral issue such as smoking, drug abuse, anxiety disorders, depression etc and explain how it would be explained
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Discus what is meant by strong need of approval and easily discourage during intellectual development in adolescent
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Discuss the major issues in teaching and supervising students in clinical practice.
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