Case Study

Jed Smith is a 38-year-old welder who came into the treatment center after being arrested for drinking and driving (DUI/DWI). His attorney has suggested that he quit drinking and enter treatment, at least until his trial, which is scheduled to occur in 2 months. Jed does not anticipate serving jail time, but he believes that treatment could strengthen his legal case. After his first arrest for DUI 2 years ago, he simply paid a fine and attended a special driver's education program for 6 weeks. Jed found the program to be a “waste of time.”

Jed has been married for 8 years and has two daughters, aged 8 and 6. He has had numerous arguments with his wife, Emily, concerning his drinking. He gets very angry and defensive when she confronts him about his heavy drinking and he asserts that he is not an alcoholic. He knows this is true because his father was an alcoholic and Jed says that he is not like his father. His father died as the result of a fight that occurred in traffic when he was drunk. Jed says that his father used to “beat the tar” out of him and his brother when he was drunk and that his father always belittled, taunted, and threatened their mother, whether he was drunk or sober. Jed references that his family is Irish and that it was cultural normal to drink and enjoy alcohol and that all of his family and relatives drink in excess.

Jed's work history is very good; he misses less than one day per year. He works the day shift on weekdays, putting in time-and-a-half on most Saturdays. He is well regarded by his supervisors and peers at work. He is fearful that his employer will find out about his treatment (it is being covered by his HMO), and that people at work will learn about the second DUI arrest.

Jed drinks with his buddies from the plant, and does not think that his drinking is any more than what they do. He was just “unlucky” and was caught doing what everyone else seems to get away with. Jed's drinking is very predictable: he drinks 8-9 beers on a weeknight. Several of these are consumed at the bar with friends, the remainder at home over the course of the evening. He usually falls asleep in front of the television. When he is not working on Saturdays, he often drinks several 12-packs between Friday and Sunday. A typical Saturday involves getting up at 10:00 a.m., playing soccer with friends, and going to the bar for the rest of the day and night. This pattern leads to arguments with Emily, who calls him a “lousy father.” At times, Jed has had unsettling episodes of being unable to recall what happened while drinking. He has commented to friends that “maybe I overdo it a bit.” Several times, he has attempted to cut down on his drinking, especially after the last DUI. He once attended a few AA meetings, but did not feel that AA was helpful: "It was listening to a lot of guys whining…" and he especially did not care for the prayers.

Despite these attempts, Jed has experienced increased consumption levels over the past 2 years. He admits that, as a result of the drinking, he has become increasingly estranged from his wife and daughters. Jed feels that his marriage has been basically good, but that he would not blame Emily for leaving him, the way things have been going lately. She will no longer sleep with him while he is intoxicated, which occurs regularly. She complains that the house is falling apart because Jed does not keep up with his chores. He believes that his marriage would become solid again, if he stopped overdoing the drinking, but he complains about her hassling him about the alcohol.

Jed is not close to his remaining family members. His mother is very religious and wishes Jed would see religion as a way out of his problems. His siblings live in other communities and they rarely get together. His wife and daughters regularly attend his mother's church, but Jed only attends on Christmas Eve and Easter Sunday.

Jed is distraught about having to remain abstinent in preparation for the trial. He has trouble getting to sleep without alcohol. He also “gets jumpy” when he tries to stay away from drinking, feeling “closed in or like he is suffocating.” Jed reports that he is not used to socializing without alcohol and alcohol helps him relax and be more social with people.

Jed is willing to go to AA meetings only because he knows they may be court ordered and it may be better for his legal case. He does struggle with the philosophy of AA. He does not like the spirituality part of the program and does not like when people talk about God.

He does believe that he can go to the bars with his friends and not drink. He does think that he can increase his sports activities to help him not drink although many of his friends who play also drink.

1. Describe three community and support resources that are available to the client. Identify how often and the amount of support group meetings the client will participate in (any type of recovery support meeting) to improve health and sobriety. What resources might Jed find for himself and how will we know if they are effective resources?

2. Identify at least two strategies the client can do to improve his family relationships and describe how this is important to the success of the relapse prevention plan?

3. Describe how the ethnic and cultural aspects of the client may impact the relapse prevention plan?

4. Develop with the client an emergency contact sheet that the client may carry with them. Create a contact card with the client to list the people and resources to have available to use prior to a lapse or relapse to use substances. Go to Insert > Tables > and Select Table Size to begin creating the Contact Card.

Create an e-marketing plan to support American Eagle Outfitters in their choice. This plan must include aspects of the RACE Digital Marketing Planning Framework.

Tactics – This cover the RACE tactics

a. Which digital marketing activities for American Eagles Outfitters will be optimised and why

b. Identify Key performance Indicators (KPIs) for each tactic

Choose a behavior that you would like to change (either your own behavior, someone you know or an animal in your life) and use the techniques of classical conditioning learning to change this behavior. This example can be real or hypothetical.

Explain how you would classically condition a behavior in an organism by answering the following questions. (Please be very specific and detailed in your answers and write in full sentences.)

1. What is the target behavior and the person and/or animal chosen for this scenario?
2. Why did you choose this behavior?
3. Explain what your acquisition phase consists of and be sure to include the timing and the frequency of the pairing of the NS and US.
4. Why did you choose this timing and frequency of the pairing of the NS and US?
5. In your example, what is the NS, US, UR, CS, and CR?
6. What are the challenges to changing the target behavior?
7. How would you extinguish the behavior?
8. How would you prevent against generalization?
9. How would you check for spontaneous recovery?
10. Would this example be ethical if executed? Why or why not?

Identify Ghana educational goals (Primary, secondary, tertiary) and then state how those educational goals are being achieved at those level. (at least 2 pages)

According to Chapter 16, how many sections the Statements of Cash Flows? Give a brief description of these.

It has been reported that 45% of all college students use Twitter If we survey a simple
random sample of n = 225 college students and ask if they use Twitter, the percentage who
say “yes” will vary if the sampling method is repeated. In fact, the sampling distribution of
the percentage who say they use Twitter, in many samples of size n = 225, will be Normal in
shape, with mean (or center) of 45% and standard deviation of 3.3%. Based on this
information, we know that the probability of obtaining a sample (of size n = 225) where
39% or fewer students say they use Twitter is

Write an analytical response to the paragraph below:

If I were the CEO of an MNC who decides to enter into Nigeria I would choose to have a joint venture. Because JV is more appealing due to some more stable highlights, compared to strategic alliance mode. According to an article, the differences are a strategic alliance that can “seal the deal” with no more than a handshake. And a joint venture is formed by a binding contract. A strategic alliance is not considered a separate legal entity; a joint venture is. And last, a strategic alliance is often forged to maximize the benefits and opportunities that both companies bring to the table. In a joint venture, the emphasis is often on limiting risk. (Wroblewski, M. T. ). Due to all these factors, this is why I think coming up with a JV is more secure and official to propose contracts in Nigeria or any other across the border countries. Also according to our textbook on page 281, it states that "companies acknowledge that the IJV has resulted in faster development and increased production capacity and that costs are shared without either company renouncing its independence." (Deresky, H). Since investing across borders can get messy and unofficial sometimes, doing a JV would be a better option, because of its benefits and legally binding contracts.  

How gender and being born female in a society can impact your life? Sociology

1. What lines of reasoning support the hypothesis that the first self-replicating systems were based on RNA molecules?
2. Why is the origin of cyanobacteria a critical step in evolution?
3. What evidence supports the idea that mitochondria and chloroplasts were once free-living members of the domain bacteria?

4. What evidence supports the classification of life into three domains?

5. Compare and contrast the physical and chemical conditions on Earth at the time life first arose with conditions today.
   a) Discuss two reasons why animals could not have existed on early Earth.
   b) In what ways has microbial metabolism altered Earth’s biosphere?
   c) How might life on Earth be different if oxygenic photosynthesis had not evolved?

What is the racial wealth gap? What are the major factors driving the growing racial wealth gap? How are these representative of larger patterns in society? Finally, what specific factors contribute to these grave disparities?

Spiders have what kind of circulation?

A. Closed circulation with blood vessels

B. Intermediate circulation with some vessels and some areas where the fluid moves directly around tissues

C. Open circulation with fluid bathing all organs and tissues

D. None of the above

National polls are often conducted by asking the opinions of a few thousand adults nationwide and using them to infer the opinions of all adults in the nation. Explain who is in the sample and who is in the population for such polls. Please use a poll from a newspaper, TV, a magazine, or from the Internet (Chapter 8).

You may use the information in the textbook or cite a source.

Then answer your classmates' posts and comment on their description.

Please remember to use APA formatting if you use help from the textbook or a website. Try to use your own words!

Explain the importance of understanding intercultural communication. Identify the role that context plays in communication, and include references to high-context and low-context cultures. Must be at least 250 words.

Background For this exercise, you will write an Appointment class that tracks information about an appointment such as the start and end times and a name for the appointment. Your Appointment class will also have an overlaps() method that takes another Appointment object as an argument and determines whether the two appointments overlap in python.

Instructions

Write a class called Appointment with methods as described below:

__init__() method Define an __init__() method with four parameters: self name, a string indicating the name of the appointment (for example, "Sales brunch"). start, a tuple consisting of two integers representing the start time of the appointment. The first integer represents an hour in 24-hour time; the second integer represents a number of minutes. For example, the tuple (10, 30) would represent 10:30 am. end, a tuple similar to start representing the end time of the appointment. The __init__() method should create attributes name, start, and end, and use them to store the information from the parameters.

overlaps() method Define an overlaps() method with two parameters, self and other, where other is another Appointment object. This method should return True if self and other overlap and False if they do not. Be sure to return a boolean value rather than a string. Note that two appointments overlap if the start time of one appointment occurs between the start and end times of the other appointment (including if the start times are equal), OR the end time of one appointment occurs between the start and end times of the other appointment (including if the end times are equal) For this assignment, if the start time of one appointment is equal to the end time of the other appointment, the two appointments are not considered to overlap. Hints Assuming you have two values a and c such that a is less than c, you can determine if a third value b is between a (inclusive) and c (exclusive) with an expression like this: a <= b < c When Python compares two sequences (such as tuples), it compares each item in the first sequence to the corresponding item in the second sequence until it finds a difference. For example, given the expression (10, 4, 12) < (10, 5, 1), Python first compares 10 to 10. Because they are the same, Python then compares 4 to 5. Because 4 is smaller than 5, Python stops comparing and the expression evaluates to True: (10, 4, 12) is considered less than (10, 5, 1) in Python. A boolean expression such as a <= b < c evaluates to True or False. You don’t need to put it inside a conditional statement to return a boolean value. In other words, instead of this: if a <= b < c: return True else: return False you can do this: return a <= b < c

Docstrings Write a docstring for your class that documents the purpose of the class as well as the purpose and expected data type of each attribute. For each of the methods you wrote, write a docstring that documents the purpose of the method as well as the purpose and expected data type of each parameter other than self (you never need to document self in a docstring). If your document returns a value, document that. If your document has side effects, such as modifying attributes or writing to standard output, document those as well. Be sure your docstrings are the first statement in the class or method they document. Improperly positioned docstrings are not recognized as docstrings by Python.

Using your class You can use your class by importing your module into another script. Below is an example of such a script; it assumes the Appointment class is defined in a script called appointment.py which is located in the same directory as this script. use_appointment.py from appointment import Appointment def main(): """ Demonstrate use of the Appointment class. """ appt1 = Appointment("Physics meeting", (9, 30), (10, 45)) appt2 = Appointment("Brunch", (10, 30), (11, 00)) appt3 = Appointment("English study session", (13, 00), (14, 00)) if appt1.overlaps(appt2): print(f"{appt1.name} overlaps with {appt2.name}") else: print(f"{appt1.name} does not overlap with {appt2.name}") if appt1.overlaps(appt3): print(f"{appt1.name} overlaps with {appt3.name}") else: print(f"{appt1.name} does not overlap with {appt3.name}") assert appt1.overlaps(appt2) assert appt2.overlaps(appt1) assert not appt1.overlaps(appt3) assert not appt3.overlaps(appt1) assert not appt2.overlaps(appt3) assert not appt3.overlaps(appt2) if __name__ == "__main__": main()