QUESTION 2
Critically evaluate the roles and efficacy of empathy in counseling.

Dementia. Is the rate of dementia increasing? How will you deal with dementia? Are you or will you work in a dementia care facility? Why do you think the care givers that deal with dementia suffer from higher than average rates of depression? How do we help the care givers?

Define the following terms:

1.      Skepticism

2.      Rationalism

3.      Empiricism

4.      Pantheism

5.      Pragmaticism

6.      Copernican revolution in philosophy

7.      Existentialism

8.      Problem of evil

9.      Transcendental realm

10.   Descartes substance dualism

11.   Philosophy of mind

12.   Turning test

13.   Chinese room

14.   Hume’s view of causation  

Define the following terms:

1.      Philosophy

2.      Metaphysics

3.      Epistemology

4.      Logic

5.      Ethics

6.      Political Philosophy

7.      Argument

8.      Fallacy

9.      Socratic Method

10.   Platonic forms

11.   Aristotle’s Prime Mover

12.   Key assumption of the modern period

13.   Dualism

14.   Materialism

15.   Idealism

A. (i) Distinguish between character and characterization

(ii) Select two (2) of the following characters and show their significant roles in the novel Weep not, Child. (a) Njoroje (b) Ngotho (c) Jacobo

B. To what extent can the drama Edufa be described as an African Tragedy? ( Guidelines: briefly summarize what Edufa drama is about, briefly explain Tragedy by Aristotle, analyze the drama using Aristotle's elements of tragedy and explain the elements using the passage in the story as reference thus examples)

Answer the following in a paragraph:

1.      What is meant by the terms perception and external world? Explain philosophical problem that exists in reconciling perception and the external word using an example of your choice?

Discuss the global distribution of income and wealth.?

How can I narrow this topic if I am studying the phenomenon: African American women veterans transitioning from military service?

What are the special challenges of working with juveniles in the criminal justice system?

Generally, schools in the United States are organized around four goals: Academic, Civic, Personal, and Vocational. The academic goals are the knowledge and curriculum that we expect students to learn in school (English, math, science, etc). With the civic goals we want our students to learn about the American system of government and to learn the skills and attitudes to become informed citizens (courses such as American government, social studies, political science). The personal goals help our students with issues such as development of personal talents (think music, drama, athletics, etc.), life skills (maintaining a bank account, economics, consumer information) and health (PE, health classes, biology). In the vocational goals, students learn skills and knowledge which will make them productive in the workplace; able to leave school and to participate in the job market.

Question: Based on this information, which goal or goals do you think are most important for our schools. Which goals should American schools concentrate on? Explain your answers.

Discuss the overall effectiveness of school counseling . Expand upon your answer by pointing out some specific examples of effective strategies.

1. What are some of the reasons that staff may be resistant to or even fearful of evaluation?

2. How could evaluation be made non-threatening or even valued for workers in human service agencies?

3. What is the administration’s role in evaluations?

4. Think of the agency where you currently work, or the one in which you wrote about earlier in the module, when answering the following questions:

How effective is the agency's planning and program design in responding to the needs of the social problems/customer it was intended to address or provide services too?

Does the agency have effective human resources and supervision practices to ensure success to meet the agency's goals?

What are the administrative roles in the agency and how does this affect staff, clients, and the human service agency environment?

Does the agency formally evaluate itself?

Consider the ramifications of Mill’s perspective on free speech with reference to any of the contemporary free speech examples reviewed in class.

In Chapter II ‘Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion’ Mill sates... “the peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it is robbing the human race, posterity as well as the existing generation- those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth; if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth produced by its collision with error....”

I have to right an essay based on that quote, but I don’t fully understand the quote. I was hoping that you could give an in depth analysis of the quote.