Prior to beginning work on this assignment, read the following resources:

• Chapters 5 and 6 in your textbook
• Assessment of Depression: Which are the Prominent Mental Health Instruments in Research Studies?

Review the overview and product detail information about the following assessments:

• Battery for Health Improvement 2
• Eating Inventory
• Millon Behavioral Medicine Diagnostic
• Quality of Life Inventory

In addition, research at least two peer-reviewed journal articles tosupportyour presurgical psychological evaluation plan based on the medical procedure you select below.

For this discussion, you will develop a presurgical psychological evaluation plan. Select one medical procedure from the list below.

• Chronic pain control procedure
• Deep-brain stimulation for Parkinson’s disease
• Gender transitioning or gender affirming surgery
• Organ transplant
• Reconstructive (plastic) surgery
• Reversal of gender transitioning or gender detransitioning surgery
• Spine surgery
• Stem cell and bone marrow implantation

To successfully complete this discussion, include the following:

• Identify which medical procedure you selected at the top of your initial post.
• Create a one- to two-paragraph fictious client scenario pertinent to the medical procedure you selected. Include relevant demographics (e.g., age, gender, languages, ethnicity, family status, education, socio-economic status). Copy the scenario directly into the discussion forum in your initial post.
• Create a list of culturally appropriate, ethical tests, and assessment procedures you would recommend for determining whether to recommend the client for the medical procedure. Be specific about what the tests measure and address the following question:
  • What types of test results would lead you to recommend or not recommend the client have the medical procedure at this time?
    • Copy this information directly into the discussion forum in your initial post.
  • Include APA-formatted in-text citations and a reference list to scholarly sources in the written portion of your post.
  • Create a 2- to 3-minute video or audio explaining to your client why you are recommending each test or assessment procedure. Attach a transcript of your recording in a Word document. Your transcript does not need to include citations and references unless you refer to specific sources in your recording. For guidance on creating your video or audio presentation use the University of Arizona Writing Center resource, Presentation Tips. Use the resources below as a guide for your video or audio recording options.
    • Recording a presentation in Zoom.
      • Zoom Quick-Start Guide
    • Recording a presentation in Canvas.
      • Canvas Video Submission Instructions
    • Recording a presentation in Screencast-O-Matic.
      • Screencast-O-Matic Quick-Start Guide
    • If you choose to use another recording tool for your submission, please follow the guide instructions to upload an audio file or MP4 video file into your classroom using the same steps. If you save your video to an external site (e.g., YouTube), you may submit a link; however, it is your responsibility to ensure that the permissions allow the video to be viewed from the link. Videos that cannot be viewed will result in a zero for that portion of the requirement.

If you choose to have your webcam on for your video, refer to the resource, Web Recording Do’s and Don’ts for guidance on producing a quality webcam video.

Accessibility Statement: If you have a disability that impacts your ability to successfully participate in this or any other course activity, please provide your instructor with your authorized Accommodation Request form from the Office of Student Access and Wellness so that they can discuss and arrange an alternative plan with you.

Prior to beginning work on this discussion forum, read the following resources:

• Chapters 5 and 6 in your textbook
• Qualitative Clinical Mental Health Program Evaluation: Models and Implications for Counseling Practitioners and Educators
• Assessment of Depression: Which are the Prominent Mental Health Instruments in Research Studies?

For this discussion, you will develop an assessment plan for diagnosing and monitoring treatment effectiveness for a fictious client and a plan to evaluate the effectiveness of a mental health intervention program. Select one scenario from List A and one from List B.

List A: Individual Assessment Plan Scenarios (Select one scenario from this list.)

• Alberto (age 50, cisgender male, Cuban American, bilingual Spanish- and English-speaking): Alberto was referred for a psychological evaluation due to reporting difficulty sleeping, nightmares and flashbacks after a near-fatal car accident that occurred 3 months prior. Alberto is single, never married, and has no children. His parents moved to the United States when he was 3 and subsequently became U.S. citizens. Immediately after graduating high school, Alberto served in the Air Force and was wounded during a gear-up landing. He received an honorable discharge after serving 3 years. He reports having a “comfortable” relationship with his “fiancé” of 8 years. Alberto is height-weight proportionate, has an athletic build and exercises regularly.
• Emily (age 28, cisgender female, Irish American, monolingual English-speaking): Emily was referred for a psychological evaluation due to reporting depressive symptoms and relationship difficulties. Emily has been married and divorced twice and is currently separated from her third husband. She has four children ages 12, 9, and 2. The 12-year-old twins were fathered by a neighbor in his 40s who sexually abused her. The 9- and 2-year-olds were fathered by Emily’s first and second husbands, respectively. Each of Emily’s husbands and most of her boyfriends complained about her being moody and manipulative. Emily claims to be a “social drinker.” She is approximately 40 pounds overweight, but she does walk for 30 minutes three times per week.
• Joycelyn Maria (age 15, cisgender, African American and Mexican American, monolingual English-speaking): Joycelyn was referred for a psychological evaluation due to reports of a sudden drop in her grades (from all A’s to Cs and Ds). Her maternal grandmother (Maria), who lived with the family, recently died subsequent to a stroke. Joycelyn refuses to allow the family to remove her grandmother’s belonging and insists on sleeping in her grandmother’s bed to feel her close. Prior to her grandmother’s death, Joycelyn had an active social life at school and volunteered at her church in the youth ministry. Her weight is within normal limits for her age and height, but she has lost fifteen pounds due to diminished appetite. A maternal aunt calls her “flaca” (“skinny”).
• Mark (age 37, transgender male, identifies as “Caucasian,” precise ancestry unknown, bilingual English- and German-speaking): Mark was referred for a psychological evaluation due to reporting anxiety and increased self-medication with opioids. Mark transitioned from female to male at the age of 25 and reports no concerns related to gender identity. He was prescribed opioid pain medication after breaking his leg 5 years ago when he reportedly tripped and fell down the stairs. The medical report stated his injury was more consistent with being pushed than an accidental fall but Mark insists, “My absentmindedness caused me to not attend to what I should have been attending to and caused me to end up at the bottom of the stairs.” Mark is not concerned about the opioid use; however, he agreed to an evaluation when his partner gave him an ultimatum after finding several prescription bottles for the pain medication with names other than Mark’s. Mark’s weight is within normal limits for his age and height, but his partner insists he should lose ten pounds. Mark routinely exercises 4 or 5 days per week, accompanying his partner to the gym, although he does not enjoy working out.

List B: Program Evaluation Scenarios (Select one scenario from this list.)

• Anxiety Management Skills Treatment group for adults
• Art Therapy group for children who have been sexually abused
• Cognitive Behavioral Skills group for adolescents with ADHD
• Dialectical Behavior Therapy group for adults diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder
• Eating Disorder therapy group for adolescents
• Effective Communication for Couples program for adults

To successfully complete this discussion, your post must be at least 600 words and include the following:

Part 1: Individual Diagnostic Assessment Plan

For Part 1 of this discussion forum,

• Create a list of tests you would recommend for determining an appropriate DSM-5 diagnosis for the client based on information provided in the scenario you selected from List A.
• Include a one- to two-sentence justification for each test with an in-text citation to a scholarly source. Your list must include at least one valid, reliable, and culturally appropriate psychological test for each of the following categories:
  • Intelligence (Individually administered test only)
  • Achievement (Individually administered test only)
  • Objective Personality test (Select one of the following: NEO-PI-3, MCMI-IV, MMPI-3 or MMPI-A)
  • Projective Personality test
  • At least three additional tests relevant to the client’s specific symptoms (e.g., anxiety, attention, depression, eating disorder, relationship difficulties, substance abuse, traumatic stress)

Part 2: Therapeutic Assessment Plan

For Part 2 of this discussion forum

• Identify at least one assessment procedure you would recommend as a therapeutic assessment for the scenario you selected from List A.
• Include a one- to two-sentence justification for each measure with an in-text citation to a scholarly source. Be specific about the desired outcome of using the assessment as a therapeutic intervention.

Part 3: Treatment Effectiveness or Outcomes Assessment Plan

For Part 3 of this discussion forum,

• Identify at least one test or assessment procedure you would recommend for monitoring treatment effectiveness for the scenario you selected from List A.
• Include a two- to three-sentence justification for each measure with an in-text citation to a scholarly source. Be specific about which symptoms you are monitoring and how you will determine the effectiveness of the intervention.

Part 4: Program Effectiveness Assessment Plan

For Part 4,

• Identify at least one test or assessment procedure you would recommend to monitor the effectiveness of the program you selected from List B.
• Include a two- to three-sentence justification for each measure with an in-text citation to a scholarly source. Be specific about which symptoms you are monitoring and how you will determine the effectiveness of the intervention.

Part 5: Ethical Issues

Compare the ethical and professional goals and responsibilities in diagnostic assessment, therapeutic assessment, outcomes assessment, and program assessment.

Your company is developing software for the company’s client, a Fortune 500 company. You and your project team are actively involved in the program development. You are finalizing the relational database that is about to be designed. Your client insists that you develop a relational database that stores related data in tables and includes primary keys, foreign keys, and other design aspects.

They also want to store ZIP codes in the address data. Create a 1- to 2-page document using Microsoft® Word for your client. Detail the following: With your client planning to use ZIP codes with every address in the table, discuss its implications on the 1NF, 2NF, and 3NF rules. Describe during which stage of the software implementation are these detailed design specifications likely to be implemented. Explain your reasons.

Your client also wants you to use at least three programming tools in program development. After carefully evaluating several programming tools, you and your team suggest source code control, development environment, and refactoring tools for programming. Create a 1- to 2-page document using Microsoft® Word for your client.

Detail the following: Provide a rationale for suggesting source code control, development environment, and refactoring tools used in programming. Describe 3 basic pros and cons of using development tools in programming.

Be sure your week 4 is an older adult and set up the interview if you have not already. Who is an OLDER adult? What age?

week 4 interview essay is set up the same way as week 2. Get your person early! It’s very important that you select a person that is an older adult.

I’ve had some students in the past select a 25 year old etc and that is missing the purpose of the essay and doesn’t earn many points.

Look at your text to select the correct age for older adult. This is just a friendly reminder

Write a short (50-100-word) paragraph response for each question. This assignment is to be submitted as a Microsoft Word document.

1. Define negotiation as it applies to patient education.
2. Explain how the change in the patient’s status through the years has affected patient education.
3. List the pros and cons of negotiation.
4. Describe the general conditions that would be included in a patient contract.
5. Discuss old age and the baby boomer.
6. List several generational, religious, and cultural differences between the 30-year-old health care professional and the elderly patient.
7. Explain some of the barriers to patient education of the elderly and discuss their special needs.
8. List ways to best approach patient education of the elderly.
9. Discuss some cultural and religious beliefs about death that you have encountered.
10. Explain why it is important to discuss death and dying with the elderly patient and what the impact is on all involved.
11. Explain how to teach a patient with a life-threatening illness.

You have been hired by the Regional Real Estate Company to help them analyze real estate data. One of the company’s Pacific region salespeople just returned to the office with a newly designed advertisement. The average cost per square foot of home sales based on this advertisement is $280. The salesperson claims that the average cost per square foot in the Pacific region is less than $280. In other words, he claims that the newly designed advertisement would result in higher average cost per square foot in the Pacific Region. He wants you to make sure he can make that statement before approving the use of the advertisement. In order to test his claim, you will generate a random sample size of 750 using data for the Pacific region and use this data to perform a hypothesis test.

Prompt
Generate a sample of size 750 using data for the Pacific region. Then, design a hypothesis test and interpret the results using significance level α = .05. You will work with this sample in the assignment. Briefly describe how you generated your random sample.

Use the House Listing Price by Region Spreadsheet document and the National Summary Statistics and Graphs House Listing Price by Region PDF documents to help support your work on this assignment (files provided).

Hypothesis Test Setup: Define your population parameter, including hypothesis statements, and specify the appropriate test.
Define your population parameter.
Write the null and alternative hypotheses.
Specify the name of the test you will use.
Identify whether it is a left-tailed, right-tailed, or two-tailed test.
Identify your significance level.
Data Analysis Preparations: Describe sample summary statistics, provide a histogram and summary, check assumptions, and find the test statistic and significance level.
Provide the descriptive statistics (sample size, mean, median, and standard deviation).
Provide a histogram of your sample.
Describe your sample by writing a sentence describing the shape, center, and spread of your sample.
Determine whether the conditions to perform your identified test have been met.
Calculations: Calculate the p value, describe the p value and test statistic in regard to the normal curve graph, discuss how the p value relates to the significance level, and compare the p value to the significance level to reject or fail to reject the null hypothesis.
Calculate the sample mean and standard error.
Determine the appropriate test statistic, then calculate the test statistic.
Note: This calculation is (mean – target)/standard error. In this case, the mean is your regional mean (Pacific), and the target is 280.
Calculate the p value.
Note: For right-tailed, use the T.DIST.RT function in Excel, left-tailed is the T.DIST function, and two-tailed is the T.DIST.2T function. The degree of freedom is calculated by subtracting 1 from your sample size.
Choose your test from the following:
=T.DIST.RT([test statistic], [degree of freedom])
=T.DIST([test statistic], [degree of freedom], 1)
=T.DIST.2T([test statistic], [degree of freedom])
Using the normal curve graph as a reference, describe where the p value and test statistic would be placed.
Test Decision: Discuss the relationship between the p value and the significance level, including a comparison between the two, and decide to reject or fail to reject the null hypothesis.
Discuss how the p value relates to the significance level.
Compare the p value and significance level, and make a decision to reject or fail to reject the null hypothesis.
Conclusion: Discuss how your test relates to the hypothesis and discuss the statistical significance.
Explain in one paragraph how your test decision relates to your hypothesis and whether your conclusions are statistically significant.