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In this interactive assignment, you will create a story for children to educate them about psychological assessment. To begin, select a targeted developmental or reading level pre-K through grade 6. Review the elements required for each section of your storybook below. Visit the My Storybook website (Links to an external site.) to familiarize yourself with this technology. Please review the instructions on the home page for Take a Writing Lesson, Build your Storybook, and Keep your Stories by selecting the link for Try it Now. After you create your free account and develop your story book, make sure you select Publish Public so that you can share your story book. You will be provided a link that you can share in the Week Two Interactive Assignment page so that other students can review your story. Do not select “share” or “download” as those require you to pay, which is not necessary for this assignment. As an alternative, you can develop a PowerPoint presentation with a screenshot of each page of your book for each slide. Please contact your instructor if you have any questions. Your username will become the professional author name for your book. Therefore, when you register for your My Storybook account it is recommended that you use the following format for your username: first initial followed by last name (e.g., JSmith). If you receive a message that your username has been taken, it is recommended you include your middle initial (e.g., JASmith). Do not use Internet handles and/or other unprofessional appearing pseudonyms. Review the information in Chapter 5 of your textbook corresponding to the assessments appropriate for the age group you selected and review the Mental Health Assessment (Links to an external site.) (2013) article for examples of information provided to the public about psychological testing. You may choose any appropriate title for your story. Be sure to address each of the following questions in your storybook in an age-appropriate manner: Why is the character in the story being referred for testing? Who will conduct the assessment? What is being measured? How long will testing take? Who will be present during the assessment process? If not in the room, where will parents and/or guardians be while the character in the story is being tested? How will the results be used? Who will have access to the results (e.g., medical doctor, family, the court, teachers), and why? This will vary depending on the character and plot in your story. How will the tests be taken? What will be the outcome of the assessment? How will the information be used? How might this information impact the life of the character in your story? Include content to address any developmentally appropriate fears that individuals of the age group you selected may have. For example, young children commonly associate going to the doctor with getting a shot. Be sure to include all the required material from the instructions above in your online storybook without naming any specific tests in your storybook. Once you have created your storybook, include the link in your initial post. In your initial post, note the age or grade level for the target audience of the story. Briefly analyze and comment on the challenges and benefits related to explaining psychological assessment concepts using language that is developmentally appropriate for children. Compare at least two individually administered tests of intelligence or achievement for the age group you selected. Include in-text citations and references for all sources used.

For your initial post, you will present at least two viewpoints debating professional approaches to assessment used in psychology for your assigned age group. Please see the list below for your assigned age group. In addition to the required reading, research a minimum of one peer-reviewed article from the University of Arizona Global Campus Library on ability testing research at is pertains to your assigned age group. In your initial post, you must Briefly compare and discuss at least two theories of intelligence and the most-up-to-date version of two intelligence tests related to those theories. Analyze challenges related to testing individuals in your assigned age group and describe any special ethical and sociocultural issues which must be considered. Analyze and provide evidence from research on the validity of the tests you selected that supports or opposed using those specific intelligence tests with your assigned populations. Present the pros and cons of individual versus group intelligence testing. Summarize the implications of labelling and mislabeling individuals in your assigned age group as a result of testing and assessment. Last name begins with A through E: Preschool-aged children through age 7 F through J: Children ages 7 through 16 K through O: Adolescents and young adults ages 16 through 25 P through T: Adults ages 26 through 60 U through Z: Adults age 61 and older

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Write a brief essay answering the following prompt (2 pages max): Discuss how trainee readiness, training program structure, and transfer of training can influence the effectiveness of worker training programs in an organization. Must be in APA format, and two pages max with reliable sources. This is for a Masters’s psychology class.

Read one peer-reviewed journal article related to family counseling. Write a 1 page APA formatted paper synthesizing the clinical implications of the research. Before beginning the paper, please confirm the peer-review article you chose. Thanks!! Also, a reference page is needed for the chosen article. Please attach the peer-reviewed article to the paper.

Select two risk assessment methodologies to analyze: one risk assessment methodology for intake process and a different risk assessment methodology for reentry into society. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the risk assessment methodology related to the intake process. Consider the following question in your paper: How does the methodology look at risks related to the offender such as sex, age, criminal history, substance abuse, and behavior health needs? Discuss advantages and disadvantages of the risk assessment methodology related to reentry into society. Consider the following questions in your paper: How does the methodology look at family situations? How does the methodology look at employment possibilities? How does the methodology look at services such as health care and mental health and housing? Cite at least 2 resources using APA format.

Conduct interviews with two individuals who have different cultural backgrounds than your own (using a broad definition of culture). Write a paper discussing the similarities and differences between childrearing attitudes and practices in each of your lives. Some questions you might consider asking: What are some of the things your parents did that you will and will not repeat? What did you like and not like about how you were raised? What were your parents’ parenting influences (if you know)? What other parenting influences will you look to? How were you disciplined? How do you discipline? Is this different from what you planned before you were a parent? What were your parents’ values as parents? What are your values as a parent? What were the most important rules in your household? These questions are just some ideas. You need to create your own interview guide prior to your interviews. Your paper should be 4-6 pages in length. Include your interview guide with your completed paper.

Create a factsheet/advice sheet/pamphlet/infographic for parents or teens related to an issue faced by typically developing children or adolescents who are the children of military members or emergency responders that would be helpful to this population. Include with your factsheet a paper in APA format summarizing the research that informed your factsheet and how you specifically applied research that was not about military members or emergency responders to this population. Your factsheet should be 1-2 pages and formatted in a way to be visually interesting, clear, and appropriate for your chosen audience. Your research summary paper should be 4-5 pages in length, including a required reference page. Include a minimum of three scholarly references including the textbook (Lally, M.,

Step 1 – Post (10 points) In at least 300 spell-checked and grammatically correct words with numbered paragraphs, answer the following: 1. Design a stress management plan for yourself for finals week using the information presented in Chapter 14 on Health Psychology (about one paragraph and including the points below): Start with a description of the triggers: what are the specific stressors that you will likely experience during finals week? BEHAVIOR: Set a goal for yourself for finals week that is specific and measurable (see the section on Motivation and implementation intentions), BODY: Considering the physiological components of stress, develop several specific coping strategies to take care of your body (nutrition, sleep, exercise), MIND: Include how you might change your cognitive appraisal of the stressors – that is, how you could change your thinking about the stressors as one component of your stress management plan, EMOTIONS: Describe how you might use problem-focused coping and/or emotion-focused coping, SOCIAL: Include how you will use social support to help you reach your goal and cope with these stressors, MINDFUL/SPIRITUAL/RELIGIOUS: considering our practice of lovingkindness and gratitude – how can you apply these practices to help you cope during finals week? 2. THROUGHLINE – I invite you to reflect on your progress as a student in this fully online class (about one paragraph), Functionally, how did you learn the material in this online format – what helped you to engaged with the information? Where/how did you tend to disengage? Thinking back on what we learned about having a Growth Mindset – where did you demonstrate grit and determination? Where did you stretch and grow and offer yourself the possibility of “not yet”? 3. What has been working for you in the course or what is something that you find valuable in meeting your educational goals within this course? 4. What has not been working for you or something that has hindered your educational goals within this course? 5. I welcome any appreciations you have for your classmates. You all built a wonderfully supportive learning environment. Please be specific in your reflections on your time together and what you have learned from each other. 6. Please consider how you might incorporate what you learned here into your life? How might you continue to be aware of our evolutionary heritage, our trajectory as developing humans over our lifespan, our neurological foundations of behavior, our personality development, the impact of cultural context and socialization, our thinking processes, and our psychological well-being?

Prior to beginning work on this assignment, please read the required textbook chapters and articles for this week. Create a PowerPoint presentation with 16 to 20 slides (not including the title and reference slides) entitled Ethical and Professional Issues in Psychological Testing. Your presentation must provide 2 to 3 slides for each of the required topics and include appropriate citations of your referenced sources. Separate reference slides, which follow APA formatting guidelines for a References page, must be included at the end of the presentation. You must create your own template and organize your presentation in the sequence provided. Do not use a font smaller than 20 pt. You are encouraged to insert relevant figures and graphics. Make sure to appropriately cite any images you use. If you include a table or figure from a journal article, cite it according to APA guidelines. The notes section of each slide must include the text for oral comments you would make while presentating the materials to a live audience. Presentation notes: If you were to give the presentation live, you would not read directly from your slides. Develop speaker notes to accompany each slide and include the speaker notes in the notes section of each slide. These speaker notes must include the script you would use for the oral comments you would make while presenting the materials to a live audience. Do not save your presentation as a PDF. Upload the PowerPoint with the speaker notes included. References must be cited according to APA guidelines as outlined in the Writing Center (Links to an external site.). For assistance with creating a visually engaging and readable presentation, you may review Garr Reynolds’s tips for creating presentations (Links to an external site.). The presentation must cover each of the following topics in the order presented below. The Ethical and Social Implications of Testing Provide an overview and brief evaluation of the ethical and social implications of psychological assessment. Professional Responsibilities Describe the responsibilities of both test publishers and test users. Testing Individuals Representing Cultural and Linguistic Diversity Analyze and describe issues related to the testing of cultural and linguistic minorities. Reliability Explain the common sources of measurement error and how measurement error can impact reliability. Validity Create a diagram or figure to compare the types of validity discussed in the textbook. Describe the extravalidity concerns related to testing. Review the articles by Fergus (2013), Kosson, et al. (2013) and Mathieu, Hare, Jones, Babiak,