Week 3 Discussion

“Desire, compassion, meditation”  Please respond to two of the following question sets:

Why is meditation a central practice in Buddhism? Why might a non-Buddhist choose to take up the practice of meditation?

Define the meaning of “desire” as understood through The Four Noble Truths of Buddhism. Recall a time when you acted or made a decision based upon desire in the Buddhist sense. Explain how your life would be different if you had not made that decision or acted on the basis of your desires in that moment.

What is the importance of compassion and wisdom in the Buddhist religion? Give one example of a compassionate act based in wisdom.

What causes and solutions can you think of regarding the problem of human suffering according to Buddhism?  Can suffering be entirely avoided in this life?  If so, what are some of the steps one might take to reduce or eliminate suffering in their life?

 

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Option #1: Highly Competitive Industry

Complete the following:

• Based upon this week’s readings, analyze an article published within 60 days prior to the term that deals with a highly competitive industry.
• Analyze the factors driving change in the industry. Are there potential changes due to globalization or technology that might alter this industry? And if so, what are they?

Requirements:

• Your paper should be at least 2 pages in length and must conform to the CSU-Global Guide to Writing and APA Requirements.
• Include a supply-demand graph.
• Incorporate at least two scholarly references that are not required readings for this module. The CSU-Global Library is a good place to find these references.

 

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Imagine you have been asked to write a research-based blog post for a human resource management website.

Write a 700- to 1,050-word blog post that includes the following:

• Discuss one of the major personality theories and how this theory is used to conduct assessment.
• Discuss what stood out to you about personality assessment practices.
• Reflect on current research trends that utilize this information and how the interpretation of these findings may vary across cultures.
• Create three insightful questions based on the readings that your audience may also be wondering, and provide responses from the research you have reviewed in relation to this topic.

Include a minimum of three credible, peer-reviewed sources in the blog post.

Format the citations in your blog post consistent with APA guidelines.

 

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I have three assignments that I have to do but I haven’t had time to get them done. I need help please. 1. Using the CSU Library, research an article related to common injuries that occur among EMS professionals. Your review should be at least two pages in length (not including the reference page) and written using APA guideline. In your review, you will: – Determine which of the four basic concepts for reduction of probability of accident and harm most closely applies – Identify strategies for risk mitigation that might have been employed to prevent or minimize the injury or injuries 2. You are the Risk Manager for your EMS organization. You have been asked to consider what type of threats might necessitate that your agency have established altered standards of care. To successfully complete this assignment, you must: – Review the Institute of Medicine (IOM) six recommendations to follow for developing crisis standards-of-care protocols and – Write a paper that includes your thoughts on what challenges you may expect to encounter and barriers that you may need to address for meeting these six recommendations. Your paper should no less than two full pages, not including your reference page 3. For this assignment, you are to read the provided article about the 2005 Train Wreck and Chlorine Spill in Graniteville, South Carolina. The article illuminates the issues of small town capacity to handle no evacuation and hazardous materials. This article can be accessed at http://www.dot.gov/highlights/disaster-recovery/train-wreck-and-chlorine-spill-graniteville-south-carolina – Apply what you learned about the leadership theories described in this unit, to discuss the rebuilding efforts to restore the town to its condition before the wreck. For example, which theory or theories do you think were applied? Were they effective? – Using the concepts in the managerial (leadership) grid on page 44. Discuss the leaders concern for people or concern for production. How did the leaders handle these two areas? What concern more evident in one area than in the other? Include which area you believe the leader behavior in this incident aligns to in the grid. – Summarize your response in a minimum two page word document. To supplement your discussion and support your conclusions, you may use information from reputable, reliable journal articles, case studies, scholarly papers, and other sources that you feel are pertinent. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations

 

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Analyze Research

Activity Description

Product Quick Look:
Develop a chart that analyzes a search for three peer-reviewed journal articles, one book chapter, and one other scholarly resource.

One page written reaction paper regarding the process of finding each of the three items required (journal articles, book chapter, and other scholarly resource).

Skills Builder 1:  Understanding Information Literacy
Review the Northcentral Information Literacy Tutorial (link found in the Weeks resources) to become familiar with information literacy, and to test your information literacy skills. Keep notes on the important points you discover there; these will be useful both in preparing assignments in this course, and in your other coursework at Northcentral.

Skills Builder 2:  Effective Searching

In this week’s activity, you will begin to develop your online library search skills which will enable you to tap into the rich resources in the Northcentral Library. The Library’s collection includes extensive holdings in scholarly articles and book chapters–all the information you’ll need to do your coursework and research. While it may take some practice to get used to doing online library searches, you’ll find that the results you get far surpass anything you could get from just searching the Internet. Library resources tend to be more authoritative, current, reliable, and accurate than resources gleaned from an Internet search. With Library searches, you can set your search options to find full text articles (not just abstracts or summaries), limit your search to a certain time frame, and with some databases you have the option of setting up a personal account where you may permanently save resources and searches for future sessions You can also create an online database using RefWorks to store your research materials. For more information on RefWorks, see the Student Orientation page in the Library.

Therefore, carefully complete the tutorials, follow the directions for searching, and think positive thoughts! Start with the Northcentral Search like an Expert tutorial (link found in the Weeks resources) to find out how to get started with Library searching.

Skills Builder 3:  Selecting a Topic

It is time to determine the topic related to the profession of Marriage and Family Therapy you may want to pursue for this assignment. You can find some ideas for topics here:

MFT Clinical Updates

Additionally, you may want to view the library tutorials on Finding a Research Topic and Preparing to Search (link found in the Weeks resources).

NOTE:  You will use the sources here for the other assignments; so please select a topic in which you are interested; or one that was related to why you chose to pursue your degree; or one that is related to your professional “passion.”

Remember that the professional identity of a Marriage and Family Therapist is based on the foundation of Systems theory. http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/systheor.html Thus, while selecting a topic think of it in relational rather than individual terms. For example, if you are interested in further exploring bullying, think how this behavior can be understood from multiple perspectives (the bully, the person who is being bullied, the respective families, etc.) and how the behavior can be understood by multiple parties involved (e.g., consider different experiences and how they change while the person is at school, at home, interacts with their own peers, or interacts with the figures of authority, such as parents or teachers).

To complete this assignment, it might be helpful to review and search articles in the following Journals:

• American Journal of Family Therapy
• Families, Systems, and Health
• International Journal of Narrative Therapy
• Journal of Couple and Relationship Therapy
• Journal of Family Psychotherapy
• Journal of Family Therapy
• Journal of Feminist Family Therapy
• Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy
• Journal of Marital and Family Therapy
• Family Process
• Journal of Systemic Therapies 

Additionally, choose a narrow topic as you will be using these articles to write an essay in week 9. For example, if your topic is PTSD in military, to narrow it, find articles related to one aspect of this subject, such as play therapy for kids with a parent experiencing PTSD from being in the military, how the PTSD affects the service members and their families, or what kind of family-based interventions are recommended as treatment options for the PTSD related to deployment. More specifically, are you interested in a certain demographic – race, age range, gender, type of service/branch? Are you curious about specific interventions? Do you want qualitative results (stories/experiences) or quantitative (statistics/numbers)? Research helps you narrow and/or broaden your search based upon these types of questions.

Mastering the art of an effective search takes practice and by doing this assignment, you will be off to a good start. Don’t plan on learning this all in one day, but take a few days to practice and you should find yourself becoming increasingly comfortable with searching. If you have any trouble, or need assistance, you can contact the Library by using the Ask a Librarian page.

For this assignment, you will conduct a search for resources in your chosen topic area. Be sure to start at the Databases or Find an Article page in the Library for the scholarly articles and the Find a Book page for a book. Locate three peer-reviewed journal articles, one book chapter, and one scholarly resource (website or other resource). Begin by creating a chart (a general example has been provided below) and list the resources you find. You can use a Word table, and then include it with the write-up described below so that you will submit one document to complete this assignment.

Example:

Topic: Student Engagement

Article Citation/Book Chapter/Scholarly Resource (website)	Database/Website	Keywords	Search Limiter	Issues Improvements in Database/Website Searching Skills
Clouder, L., Broughan, C., Jewell, S., & Steventon, G. (2012). Improving student engagement and development through assessment: Theory and practice in higher education. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.	EBSCOhost – contains various source types, allows one to save searches in a folder, etc.	portfolio assessment; higher education	Scholarly/Peer Reviewed Date range 2007-2013	Keywords were too broad and produced too many results. Need to work on refining keyword searching.

The columns of the chart are as follows:

• Column 1 – an appropriate citation (APA form) for the resource (article, book, other) you discovered in the library
• Column 2 – provide the name of the database you used AND briefly describe the subject content, resource types, etc.
• Column 3 – list the keywords you used in your search
• Column 4 – list any search limiters such as full text, date, peer-reviewed, etc. that you used
• Column 5 – provide a note about issues that arose and how you can improve your searching skills

Then, conclude your assignment with some general responses to the following questions:

• What is a database?
• How useful was each database for you?
• What about your experience was most confusing or frustrating?
• What important journals, key scholars, or new ideas did you discover from your search?
• What is your one take-away for conducting future searches?

Skills Builder 4:  Learning to Synthesize

One of the important skills that you will learn during your graduate studies is the ability to synthesize the learned material. This skill will allow you to create a foundation for your knowledge, to develop an ability to convey your thoughts to your instructors and ultimately to your clients, and to notice any gaps that you might want to cover later through your work as MFTs. For example, if you are working with a couple facing infidelity, you might be able to search for the current literature, convey it to your clients, and see what important aspects you will need to address during the session.

To start building this skill and in preparation to your 9^th assignment for this course, please read about the importance of synthesis at http://www.greececsd.org/district.cfm?subpage=943

Then use the example of the table presented on the website to address important aspects that your learned in each article. Please use one table for all the articles, as it will help you to see the important convergent and divergent points across the articles and ultimately answer the following questionHow might all of the articles tie together in forming a research question (e.g. – “I am curious about the impact/influence of….on….”)?

Length: 3-4 pages (the chart on one page and a 1-2 page summary of your experience and the second chart of the 4^th page)

Your paper should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts that are presented in the course and provide new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your response should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards. Be sure to adhere to Northcentral University’s Academic Integrity Policy.

 

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