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What is the effectiveness of interventions addressing child maltreatment (including sexual abuse, physical abuse, neglect and emotional abuse) within institutional settings in the low-Middle income countries?

Child maltreatment

What is the effectiveness of interventions addressing child maltreatment (including sexual abuse, physical abuse, neglect and emotional abuse) within institutional settings in the low-Middle income countries?

Write a 5-page, double-spaced paper describing a famous Psychologist and his or her influence on psychology. Discuss his or her work, theory, research, and/or influence clearly. On the first page of your paper, write the name of the psychologist who you will be describing and then go right into the body of the paper.

Describing a famous Psychologist and his or her influence on psychology.

Write a 5-page, double-spaced paper describing a famous Psychologist and his or her influence on psychology. Discuss his or her work, theory, research, and/or influence clearly. On the first page of your paper, write the name of the psychologist who you will be describing and then go right into the body of the paper.

* You should use at least 3 sources for your information; one source could be your OER textbook for the class. You may use online articles about the psychologist, a book, or a journal article.

* On the 6th page of your paper, please make sure to reference your citations. You may use the style of referencing you have learned (e.g., MLA or APA, for example). If you want to know how to reference using APA, google—APA style 6th edition and you should see a link for “Purdue OWL; APA Formatting and Style Guide.” Click on that and follow instructions for referencing your citations.

How are cadmium, lead, arsenic and the chemotherapeutic agent cisplatin destructive to the Sertoli cells in the male reproductive system?

Medical Toxicology

How are cadmium, lead, arsenic and the chemotherapeutic agent cisplatin destructive to the Sertoli cells in the male reproductive system?

Write a one-page reflection about Chibbi’s workshop. Briefly summarize the workshop and discuss how Chibbi uses poetry to share his story. What did you learn about sharing your own story through this workshop? For an extra 20 points added to your grade, write a poem inspired by one of the prompts Chibbi shared in the workshop.

Paper & poem

Familiarize yourself with Chibbi’s work by watching “Lost and Found: An Oral History”

Register and attend Chibbi’s live Zoom poetry workshop at 2pm or watch the recording of the workshop which will be posted on this page by the end of the day on

Write a one-page reflection about Chibbi’s workshop. Briefly summarize the workshop and discuss how Chibbi uses poetry to share his story. What did you learn about sharing your own story through this workshop? For an extra 20 points added to your grade, write a poem inspired by one of the prompts Chibbi shared in the workshop. Include your poem in the submission.

video of the recording link-

Explain how neurotoxicants from our environment affect neurodifferentiation of neurons and glial cells.

Medical Toxicology

Explain how neurotoxicants from our environment affect neurodifferentiation of neurons and glial cells.

Provide a DSM-V diagnosis, noting the criteria and what you ruled out. Provide a treatment plan reflecting goals, objectives, and activities Conceptualization: Utilizing at least one theoretical basis, provide a conceptualization of the case including etiology and present understanding of the client’s difficulties.

Case Vignette, Diagnosis and Treatment Plan

The client is a 44 year old Jewish white male who is coming in to therapy due to of his two year relationship with his 32 year old girlfriend. He appears quite distressed, and says he just can’t take the pain, and is crying intermittently throughout the session. He appears younger than his age and is dressed casually in a t shirt and shorts and doc martin boots. He is oriented x 4, is above average in intelligence and the mental status reveals no organic or psychotic process. His mood is depressed and his behavior is agitated. In attempting to respond to the client during the initial interview, the client says he is not done talking and stops the therapist from speaking. He also indicates that he wishes that he had come to therapy a year ago with his girlfriend and that would have saved the relationship. He indicated that his girlfriend wanted someone who was more responsible with his life.

The client’s history reveals that he is a freelance graphic artist and works mostly under table as he has not filed taxes in over ten years. He spends most of his time playing volleyball on the beach, salsa dancing in the evening, and computer games. He lives in a run down studio apartment, his car is 13 years old and in bad need of repair and he makes just enough money to cover his bills. His father holds an inheritance for him from a relative where he can request $500 a month if he wants to, often getting into arguments with his Dad to get more money. His mother passed away when he was 21 years old due to cancer and he has one younger sister who is 42 years old, who lives in another state and they have a conflictual relationship because she believes their parents indulged him and she got the short end of the stick. He attended college but never finished, short 3 classes. His work history reveals that he has held a number of jobs but has difficulty holding on to them as he starts out as their best employee and then eventually gets fired as he doesn’t perform. The client has never been married and most of his relationships last about 6 months. He has been in therapy for brief periods of time but has never sustained after 2 or 3 sessions.

The client requested that be able to tape record the sessions so that in his long drive to therapy that on the way home he could listen to them.
Provide the following information in your papers:

Diagnosis: Provide a DSM-V diagnosis, noting the criteria and what you ruled out.

Treatment Plan: Provide a treatment plan reflecting goals, objectives, and activities Conceptualization: Utilizing at least one theoretical basis, provide a conceptualization of the case including etiology and present understanding of the client’s difficulties.

Treatment: Provide a response how you would work with this patient, different interventions and techniques you would use, difficulties in working with this client, and transference and counter-transference issues

Describe the strategy of the two companies in the Indian market by applying the analytical tools we covered on the module including Strategy Diamond model and a SWOT Analysis. Explore the various means of segmenting the customer base and identify the most effective way.

Business Analysis and Consulting

Assessment 2: Business Project
Part 1: Introduction
You are given a business case study of Amazon and Alibaba, two companies that dominate eCommerce in their home countries and some foreign territories. To continue their growth paths and satisfy investors, both need to expand overseas. Because of its size, the Indian market looks attractive to both companies. Whilst Amazon and Alibaba have enjoyed great success in the Western world and in China respectively, the Indian market contains some specific and unique economic and social factors which could prove challenging. The case study explores these issues and examines whether Amazon or Alibaba is a better fit for India. The case study includes both numerical and nonnumerical information.

Part II: Instructions
Drawing on the case study you are required to write a 2,000word project in which you should demonstrate engagement with the concepts covered during the business
analysis part of the module and that you can make practical use of these concepts. You should also apply your own reasoned view of what you have been taught and that you can make your ideas clear in the way you present them in the project.

Content
Conduct a thorough review of the case study and use the tools and analytical frameworks covered in the business analysis part of the module to examine Amazon’s position relative to Alibaba in the Indian market and answer the following questions:
1. Describe the strategy of the two companies in the Indian market by applying the analytical tools we covered on the module including Strategy Diamond model and a SWOT Analysis
2. Explore the various means of segmenting the customer base and identify the most effective way.

What was Nadella’s diagnosis of the problems at Microsoft? Discuss Nadella’s approach to address the problems and reposition Microsoft? While drawing upon the case study and secondary sources from the last quarter of 2019 – first quarter of 2021, how would you describe Nadella as a leader? How effective has Nadella been as Microsoft’s leader?

Case Study – Satya Nadella at Microsoft: Instilling a growth mindset

Instructions: Assignment Brief

If you are unable to locate an organization, you can base your assignment on the following case study: (Read the case study – Satya Nadella at Microsoft).
Having read the case study, you will need to answer the following five questions:
1. What was Nadella’s diagnosis of the problems at Microsoft?
2. Discuss Nadella’s approach to address the problems and reposition Microsoft?
3. While drawing upon the case study and secondary sources from the last quarter of 2019 – first quarter of 2021, how would you describe Nadella as a leader? How effective has Nadella been as Microsoft’s leader?
4. While drawing upon the secondary sources from the last quarter of 2019 – first quarter of 202, discuss the challenges he has faced as a CEO and outline the challenges you expect he will face in the near-term horizon (next 12 months)?
5. What is the prevalent mindset in the organisation you most recently worked? What can you learn from Nadella about instilling a learning culture?

Define the topic of your study and provide any background information that helps your reader to understand the topic. Explain your reason (perspective) for reviewing the literature on this topic.

Mental Health Stigma

Worksheet 7: Literature Review Outline

Instructions: This worksheet was designed to help you create an outline of your Literature Review that is due at the end of this semester (for more information about this assignment, please see the document named “Literature Review Assignment Information” in the files section of Canvas), as well as the Panopto video named Literature Review Assignment Information Video also located in Canvas. In the current worksheet, I would like you build the outline you will use to complete the final assignment. Below you will see a description of each section, and then you will fill out the bolded sections. After submitting this assignment, I will give you feedback that you will be able to use to complete the final version of the literature review.

 

  1. Introduction: The introduction is used to establish the context of your review to the reader. To establish the context, it is important to do the following in this opening paragraph:
    1. Define the topic of your study and provide any background information that helps your reader to understand the topic.
    2. Explain your reason (perspective) for reviewing the literature on this topic.
    3. State your inquiry question for this review.

Critically evaluate the uses and limitations of the financial statements in relation to decision making. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the nature and purpose of the three major financial statements including accounting conventions that underpin these statements.

Business Finance and Accounting

AIMS
• To provide understanding of the key roles played by financial managers and accountants in helping corporations make effective investment and financing decisions.
• To provide you with knowledge and understanding of finance and accountancy within the wider context of global corporations and their goals.
• To provide you with a supportive environment which enables you to become highly proficient at solving accounting and finance problems.
• To encourage you to acquire deep analytical skills which you can apply to real world finance decisions.
• To know what financial information is for and how it is controlled by government, the stock exchanges and other institutions.
• To give you an ability to understand current financial issues from a theoretical and an applied perspective.
• To give you the opportunity to understand the specialist skills accountants use that are relevant for the financial manager.

INTRODUCTION
Managers across the world depend upon a team of professionals to provide them with knowledge and specialised information. Key members of this team include the financial manager and the accountant. Understanding the framework of business finance and accounting principles means you develop skills and knowledge essential to becoming a skilled leader in the managerial marketplace. This course gives you the opportunity to explore business finance principles and conventions including understanding risk and return, financial statement analysis and the calculation of key metrics used daily by global corporations. These skills are key to engaging and following the justification for real investment and financial decision making put forward by your colleagues and business partners.

Programme Learning Outcomes
The Business Finance and Accounting course covers the following learning outcomes:
1.1 Understand the principles of investment and financing decisions that are made by financial managers and accountants and be able to apply these principles to practical problems.
1.2 Critically evaluate the uses and limitations of the financial statements in relation to decision making.
1.3 Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the nature and purpose of the three major financial statements including accounting conventions that underpin these statements.
1.4 Be able to calculate future values and present values and understand the time value of money.
1.5 Demonstrate how to value bonds and stocks using applications.
1.6 Be able to use net present value to analyse key problems that involve competing real investment projects, using the concepts of risk, return and the opportunity cost of capital
1.7 Develop a reflective approach to an understanding of key concepts in finance through using personal development and career experiences to create a narrative.
1.8 Intellectual skills relating to;
a) Location, extraction and analysis of data from multiple sources, including acknowledging and referencing sources;
b) Numeracy, including the processing and analysis of financial and other numerical data and the appreciation of statistical methods;
c) Using contemporary information and communications technology for the acquisition, analysis and communication of information.
1.9 Communication, including the presentation of quantitative and qualitative information in a form appropriate to the intended audience.
1.10 An ability to understand current financial issues from a theoretical and an applied perspective.

STUDY HOURS
This is a 15 credit course which corresponds to 150 hours of guided learning time. Each course is made up of eight weeks of learning. Guided Online Directed Learning Online activities provided in your learning path. 80 Guided Independent Learning Self-directed, independent study which includes 70 research, reading learning materials, communicating
with your tutors and fellow students, and fulfilling assessment requirements.

SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT
You will carry out two assessments for this course, which will cover the learning materials you study. Along with your summative assessment submissions, you are requested to submit a Turnitin similarity report. This would ensure that the work that you have submitted is your own and that your writing complies with all academic conventions
requested at this level of study. Both assessments should be submitted by Friday 12 midday (UK time) in Week 8 of this course.

LEARNING OUTCOMES COVERED
Submission Requirements:
• A 2,000 word Analytical Report (+/-10%)
• A Turnitin Similarity Report
For the analytical project you are required to select two companies from the same sector that are listed on the FTSE 100. You may select any two companies from a sector of your choice. Your analytical project should outline the real investment goals of your selected companies and offer a summary analysis of their financial position through an examination of the financial statements. Using measures of corporate performance, effectively compare and contrast the two companies. You may also refer to other companies in the same sector when making your comparisons.

Key Specifications and Requirements
You may use any of the materials and tools introduced on the course but must:
• Discuss goals and real investment decisions of a corporation.
• Evaluate financial statements.
• Give evidence of knowledge on methods for measuring corporate performance.
• Include an interpretation of financial ratios.
• Analyse financial ratios and liquidity.
• Include an interpretation of the cost of capital.
• Include an interpretation of market value and book value.
• Present data in a clear and precise manner.
• Set your work out as a report with an abstract and titled sections.
• Ensure that you compare and contrast your findings, and show evidence of evaluation.
• Label any diagrams used (eg. Figure One), give the diagram a title and credit the source.
• Make use of graphs and charts to support your analysis.
• Use Harvard referencing appropriately and accurately.
• Write 2,000 words (+/-10% not including references).

Grading Criteria
Your analytical project assessment should display the following criteria:
• Your ability to source and use a variety of types of material.
• Your ability to analyse key financial information in a concise and clear manner.
• Your ability to compare and contrast and reach objective and impartial conclusions.