PPT Assignment:

PS360 Abnormal Psychology – Week 7 Assignment 2

Maltreatment of the Elderly

If you turn on the news, you will often hear stories of child abuse and domestic violence. However, the maltreatment of the elderly is less heard of. As you have learned, neurocognitive disorders affect people more when they are older. Those disorders, combined with old age, leave many individuals susceptible to abuse.

Assume you are presenting at a mental health symposium. Develop a 5-7 slide PowerPoint presentation with speaker notes discussing the concept of elder abuse. In particular, what forms it can take and how it can be prevented. In your presentation, you should provide a news story as an example of elder abuse.

You will need to do some outside research for this presentation. Provide at least one credible outside source besides your textbook and the news article. Make sure to cite all of your sources on the last slide.

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Writing Assignment:

Describe a behavior you engage in, analyze it in terms of the three term contingency, explaining the relationship among the discriminative stimulus(S-D) – behavior – outcome (reinforcer), and how this relationship would be different with S-Delta as the antecedent stimulus condition, vs. S-D. Post a minimum of 300 wds.