Category: Psychology

PLEASE NO CHAT GPT OR AI TO COMPLETE THIS ASSIGNMENT
PREVIOUS FILES FROM INITIAL PROPOSAL AND ASSIGNMENT RUBRIC WILL BE ATTACHED BELOW

Overview
For this assignment, you will practice your diagnostic decision-making skills to prepare you to handle complex, comorbid cases. You will also include multiple diversity factors as you discuss how they ethically inform your approach to the diagnoses, differential diagnoses, and treatment of the person. Lastly, you will learn to be an effective consumer of the research literature as you work to incorporate diversity factors in your diagnoses and treatment.
Use the following resources as you complete your diagnoses:
DSM-5-TRLinks to an external site..
ICD-11 for Mortality and Morbidity StatisticsLinks to an external site..
Instructions
Consider the following case as you write your assignment:
Person E is an adult who works from home for the Department of Defense to analyze geographical patterns in aerial data of other countries. Person E likes working from home to have less sensory overload than working in person. Person E has always liked order and prefers doing activities in a certain sequence. When Person E was a child, they recall having thoughts about needing to turn the lights off and on seven times before going to bed and doing other behaviors and sequences of seven, such as brushing teeth, brushing hair, folding clothes, et cetera. Also as a child, Person E felt different from the other children. Smiling, laughing, and other social exchanges seemed very difficult for Person E. Friendships were and continue to be very challenging for Person E. Sometimes, Person E would take to rocking back and forth to soothe themselves. Person E continues to have unwanted, anxious thoughts about the need to carry out activities in sequences of seven. Person E gives in to the urge to do activities in a series of seven, because that seems to be the only thing that reduces the anxiety from such thoughts.
Provide a diagnostic formulation for Person E and include the following:
Choose a gender for the person in the case.
Identify a name for the person in the case and select diversity factors.
Include at least two diversity factors from the areas of race, socioeconomic status, religion, age, nationality, sexual orientation, disability status, and military status.
Be sure to select two different diversity factors from the ones that you selected in the previous week.
Develop a primary and secondary diagnosis with a rationale for why one diagnosis is primary.
Using a biopsychosocial approach, justify the diagnostic reasoning for both the primary and secondary diagnosis.
If more information is needed for a diagnosis, then state what that information is and why it would be helpful in your diagnostic decision making.
Develop a differential diagnosis for both the primary and secondary diagnoses.
Discuss how the diversity factors ethically inform the diagnosis and treatment for Person E.
Include at least one scholarly source in your discussion of diversity factors for the person in the case.
Additional Requirements
Your assignment should also meet the following requirements:
Written communication:
Apply the standard writing conventions for the discipline, including structure, voice, person, and tone.
Address the appropriate audience, using familiar, discipline-specific language and terminology.
Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and respectful of the diversity, dignity, and integrity of others, consistent with expectations for stakeholders in the psychology profession.
Format: Use the Evidence and APALinks to an external site. section of the Writing Center for information on how to format resources and citations in current APA style.
Length: 3–5 typed, double-spaced pages of content plus title and reference pages.
Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.

Use question 17 to answer the questions on the last page of the document using the article listed and attach a copy of the article with the completed questions. Use references in APA format.

For the Module Two Worksheet, you will identify two journal articles for each of the tests used in the final project vignette you have chosen from the following list:
Vignette One PDF
Vignette Two PDF
Your research should focus on finding resources that support these topics:
Specific aspects of the tests, such as why the test was developed
Reliability
Validity
Ethical considerations
Normed reference groups
What useful information the test provides us

Question:
How do biological, cognitive, and environmental factors interact to influence the development and manifestation of anxiety disorders, and what evidence-based psychological interventions are most effective in addressing these disorders?
Key Points to Address:
Biological Factors:Role of genetics and family history in anxiety disorders
Neurochemical imbalances (e.g., serotonin, GABA, cortisol)
Brain structures involved (e.g., amygdala, prefrontal cortex)
Cognitive Factors:Dysfunctional thought patterns and cognitive distortions (e.g., catastrophizing, black-and-white thinking)
The role of attention biases and overestimation of threat
Impact of early learning experiences on cognitive schemas
Environmental Factors:Role of childhood trauma, neglect, and adverse life events
Influence of cultural norms and societal pressures
Impact of ongoing stressors (e.g., work, relationships)
Psychological Interventions:Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): mechanisms and efficacy
Exposure therapy: applications and limitations
Pharmacological interventions: anti-anxiety medications and their impact
Role of mindfulness and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Emerging treatments: virtual reality therapy, biofeedback
This question requires an understanding of multiple dimensions within psychology—biological, cognitive, environmental, and therapeutic—and offers a platform to explore current research and best practices.

For this assessment, you will create a research proposal centered on a testable research question and hypothesis, substantiated with peer-reviewed research. In the following course, Research Methods II, you will actually conduct research around your research question, guided by your proposal. You are required to use your Southern New Hampshire University classmates as your research participants, so keep in mind when creating your research question and proposal that the topic must be approachable and able to be answered by your colleagues. You are prohibited from using anyone outside of Southern New Hampshire University for your study.
Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:
Problem Statement: Describe the general topic you will address and its importance and relevance to real-world issues.
Literature Review: In this section, you will use existing research on your subject and draw conclusions for informing your research proposal.
Summarize existing, applicable research in the field around your topic, utilizing peer-reviewed sources.
Identify the different research designs that have been used to generate knowledge on this topic, and describe how they differ.
Differentiate between the research designs for their advantages and disadvantages in addressing the research questions, providing specific examples from the research.
Evaluate the appropriateness of the research designs to the research questions, providing justification for your assertions. Which design seems most appropriate in addressing the question and why?
Summarize what is unknown or uncertain about your topic, synthesizing applicable existing research.
Discuss the appropriateness of the data analysis procedures used in the literature as they relate to the American Psychological Association’s principles and standards. Consider the assumptions made and presentation of data.
Research Question and Hypothesis
Create a testable research question based on your research about the topic.
Create a testable hypothesis based on your research question and research about the topic, explaining the extent to which the research supports your hypothesis.
Describe the variables that will be measured and manipulated in your study, and explain the selection of variables. Specifically, what independent and dependent variables will be used to test your hypothesis?
Proposed Methodology
Outline whom you plan to use as participants and how many participants you will need, providing justification.
Describe the materials (such as surveys) that will be used in your study and why these materials are most appropriate for your proposal, justifying claims with resources.
Describe the procedures you will use to collect your data and how these will appropriately address your research question.
Discuss the ethical concerns involved in your study and the steps you will take to remedy them. Consider who will be studied, what risks they will be exposed to, and what steps will be taken to maintain their responses’ confidentiality and obtain informed consent.
Data Analysis Plan
Explain what procedures you will use to prepare your raw data for analysis. If you have open-ended questions, how will they be coded? If you collected responses to multiple survey questions, how will the data be aggregated for analysis?
Propose general analytical procedures that you will use to analyze your data, and explain how these procedures will help obtain valid and reliable research results.
Describe which descriiptive statistics that could be obtained from your data would be most informative in answering your research question and why.
Discuss how your proposed data analysis methods are ethical and aligned with the American Psychological Association’s principles and standards.
Anticipated Results: What do you expect the results of your study to be, and how do your expected results complement or contradict the results in previous literature?

Chapter 9&10 chapter summary in your own words. Please make sure to be specific when it comes to both chapters. There are parts of each chapter I will not cover. As such, use the course PowerPoint slides posted on Brightspace in the “Course Materials/Presentation Slides” tab as I guide to identify which parts of each chapter to read and summarize.
To get 8 out of 8, be sure that for each concept or term listed on the course PowerPoint slides, you read summarize those specific parts of the chapter.
Please refrain from copying the information from the class PowerPoint slides or typing up my lecture notes from class and submitting them for homework.
assignments should be based on your independent reading of the textbook, not the course slides or my lecture notes.

This assignment is worth 34 points. Please take your time and make sure you answer each question to the best of your ability.
To view the document containing the assignment instructions, click on: “Psych 2301 Project Document.”
To submit your project click on the “Project Assignment (click here)” link above, and then attach the Microsoft Word document with your answers into the Blackboard using the link under “Attach File”, then click submit.
I recommend simply typing your answers into the correct sections of the document with the instructions after downloading it, then submitting it to save some time not having to create a new Word document.

This assignment will cover the required articles for the week, so please be sure to have read those before starting this assignment. It may be helpful to have the articles open while writing this paper or to write down notes while reading the articles beforehand. This assignment addresses course outcomes 1 – 5 and module learning objectives 1-4.
You are required to write a 1 page reaction paper on your thoughts while reading the assigned articles for the week. You could write about what you found interesting, what surprised you, discuss how the content relates to the readings for the week, or relate the article content to your previous knowledge. Do not simply tell me what’s in the articles, I have read them already.
Formatting: This should be written in Microsoft Word and requires the correct formatting. Specifically, this assignment needs to be at least 1 complete page double-spaced. You are required to write in 12-point times new roman font. You do not need to list your name, class, or date at the top of this paper. Please only include a centered title “Reaction Paper Module 1”, and then begin your paper below. There should be no extra spacing between the paragraphs, or under the title, beyond the original double spaced format. While grading is mainly based on content, there should be minimal grammatical mistakes so that the paper is legible. Points will be deducted if the paper is too difficult to read.

Take one (gender, age, race, sexuality,disibility, or weight) of the Implicit Association Tests (IAT) at the Harvard University website. A link is provided https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html
The essay should be 750-1000 words and address the following:
-Examine how attitude is formed.
-Discuss how personal implicit biases can form understandings at a local, national, or global level.
-Analyze the strengths/weaknesses of the IAT as a research tool
-Reflect on your personal results from the IAT.
USE THREE-FIVE scholarly sources to support your thinking