Ethical and Professional Issues in Psychology Testing

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Ethical and Professional Issues in Psychology Testing

Prior to beginning work on this assignment, please read the required textbook chapters and articles for this week.

Create a PowerPoint presentation with 16 to 20 slides (not including the title and reference slides) entitled Ethical and Professional Issues in Psychological Testing. Your presentation must provide 2 to 3 slides for each of the required topics and include appropriate citations of your referenced sources. Separate reference slides, which follow APA formatting guidelines for a References page, must be included at the end of the presentation. You must create your own template and organize your presentation in the sequence provided. Do not use a font smaller than 20 pt. You are encouraged to insert relevant figures and graphics. Make sure to appropriately cite any images you use. If you include a table or figure from a journal article, cite it according to APA guidelines. The notes section of each slide must include the text for oral comments you would make while presentating the materials to a live audience.

References must be cited according to APA guidelines as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. For assistance with creating a visually engaging and readable presentation, you may review Garr Reynolds’s tips for creating presentations (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site..

The presentation must cover each of the following topics in the order presented below.

The Ethical and Social Implications of Testing

  • Provide an overview and brief evaluation of the ethical and social implications of psychological assessment.

Professional Responsibilities

  • Describe the responsibilities of both test publishers and test users.

Testing Individuals Representing Cultural and Linguistic Diversity

  • Analyze and describe issues related to the testing of cultural and linguistic minorities.

Reliability

  • Explain the common sources of measurement error and how measurement error can impact reliability.

Validity 

  • Create a diagram or figure to compare the types of validity discussed in the textbook.
  • Describe the extravalidity concerns related to testing.
  • Review the articles by Fergus (2013), Kosson, et al. (2013) and Mathieu, Hare, Jones, Babiak, & Neumann (2013). Analyze the information presented in these articles on factor analysis and describe how it is used to validate the constructs of the instruments.

Clinical Versus Statistical Prediction

  • Compare clinical and statistical prediction of mental health decisions based on the work of Ægisdóttir, et al. (2006) and Grove & Lloyd (2006).

Application One: An Ethical and Professional Quandry

  • Select one of the Ethical and Professional Quandries in Testing from Case Exhibit 1.2 in your textbook and describe the ethical issues specific to the scenario you selected. Include an analysis of the relevant principles from Standard 9 in the APA Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
  • Taking on the role of the psychologist or counselor in the chosen scenario, describe how you might respond to the challenge you selected and provide a brief rationale for your decision.

Application Two: Evidence-Based Medicine

  • Summarize Youngstrom’s (2013) recommendations for linking assessment directly to clinical decision making in evidence-based medicine.
  • Elaborate on each of Youngstrom’s recommendations by providing practical examples that illustrate the relevance of the recommendations in a clinical setting.

Application Three: Selecting Valid Instruments

  • Create a research hypothesis or brief clinical case scenario in which you must select an instrument to measure intolerance for uncertainty.
  • Use the information in the Fergus (2013) article to support which measure to use.

The presentation

  • Must consist of 16 to 20 slides (not including title and reference slides) that are formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site..
  • Must include a separate title slide with the following:
    • Title of presentation
    • Student’s name
    • Course name and number
    • Instructor’s name
    • Date submitted
  • Must use the assigned chapters in the course text, Standard 9 from the American Psychological Association’s Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct, and the 3 required peer-reviewed articles assigned for Week One.
  • Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
  • Must include separate reference slides formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

Carefully review the Grading Rubric (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.

 
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What impacts the prenatal process of development?

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Review the following articles regarding early-school-age play and how play during this stage of the lifespan can influence an individual’s future career choices.
Do Children’s Toys Influence Their Career Choices?
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Do Children’s Toys Influence Their Career Choices?
After reading the article, address how play can influence an individual’s career later in life. Refer back to your own childhood play. Did it influence your career path? If so, how?
After watching What We Learn Before We’re Bornand Infant Mental Health, you will be answering the following questions within YouSeeU. You may participate in this activity until you feel comfortable with your response.
Answer the following questions:

  • When does learning begin?
  • What impacts the prenatal process of development?
  • How important is the prenatal process? Why?
  • How is infant mental health shaped?
  • What can be done to improve mental health in infancy?
 
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Develop a Professional Development Plan

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Develop a Professional Development Plan.

Question description

  • PLEASE FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS UNDERLINED BELOW:!!!
  • MY MAJOR IS MASTERS OF NURSING WITH SPECIALIZATION IN EDUCATION.

To complete:

  • Utilizing Microsoft Word, begin by formatting the paper in correct APA (i.e. title page, double space, Times New Roman size 12 font, headers, page numbers, headings).
  • To ensure that all content required is included in the paper, review Week 5 Professional Development Plan assignment rubric and the Professional Development Plan example.
  • Write your PDP using scholarly writing, correct grammar, and proper APA citations. Review the APA Basics Checklist: Citations, Reference List, and Style to make sure that your citations are correct. This document should represent your best professional effort.

To prepare:

  • Review the information on the Program of Study (POS) and Professional Development Plan (PDP) presented in this week’s Learning Resources.
  • Review the Week 5 Assignment Rubric presented in this week’s Learning Resources.
  • Develop your Professional Development Plan (PDP) following the example presented in the Learning Resources and the assignment grading rubric criteria. Ensure that all content required is included in paper.

Assignment: Application:
Professional Development Plan

The Program of Study (POS) for your specialization and the Professional Development Plan (PDP) help you to become familiar with the courses you will take, when they will be completed, and how the degree program fits into your overall academic and professional goals. For this Assignment, you write a Professional Development Plan to submit to the Week 5 Assignment submission link.

Throughout your degree program you will create a professional portfolio. In each course, one Assignment will be designated for inclusion in your portfolio. This portfolio provides a rich opportunity to evidence your growth as a scholar-practitioner. For this course, your PDP will serve as the artifact for your Portfolio.

Week 5: Looking Ahead

Stephen Covey is credited with promoting the imperative to begin with the end in mind. As you start your Master of Science in Nursing program, you are asked to consider how your program of study will help you to achieve your long-term goals.

In this week of the Foundations of Graduate Study course, you reexamine the professional and academic goals you identified in Week 1. You then create a Professional Development Plan to guide your progress through the MSN program. Doing so not only allows you to articulate how you will stay current in the complex and rapidly evolving field of health care, it also provides an opportunity to apply the principles of scholarly writing introduced in previous weeks of this course.

Reference: Covey, S.R. (1989). The 7 habits of highly effective people. New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster Inc.

Learning Objectives

Students will:

  • Develop a Professional Development Plan

Learning Resources

Note: To access this week’s required library resources, please click on the link to the Course Readings List, found in the Course Materials section of your Syllabus.

Required Readings

View the Program of Study (POS) Template appropriate for your specialization located at the Walden Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) Forms site: http://inside.waldenu.edu/c/Student_Faculty/Studen…

Casey, D., & Egan, D. (2010). The use of professional portfolios and profiles for career enhancement.British Journal of Community Nursing, 15(11), 547–552.

Note: You will access this article from the Walden Library databases.

Throughout your degree program you will build a professional portfolio. Review this article, and consider what sort of artifacts you would like to include in your portfolio.

Smith, L. S. (2011). Showcase your talents with a career portfolio. Nursing, 41(7), 54–56. doi:10.1097/01.NURSE.0000398641.62631.8e

Note: You will access this article from the Walden Library databases.

 
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How might employee use of social technologies impact the rest of the setting? How might it impact the care given to patients?

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uestion description
Discussion 1: Social Technologies in the Workplace
As a nurse manager, it is imperative to understand how social technologies can impact productivity, peer-to-peer relationships, and patient safety within the workplace. Collaborating with HR to understand policies and the organization’s expectations related to the use of social technologies allows nurse managers to more effectively and appropriately integrate today’s social platforms while mitigating the occurrence of inappropriate behaviors.
For this week’s Discussion, your Instructor will assign you to one of the scenarios below. You will then use that scenario to investigate the social, ethical, and legal ramifications of social technologies.
Scenario Four: The environment in your critical care unit has always been somewhat hectic. However, over the last few months, the morale in your unit has noticeably deteriorated. You learn that nurses have begun to share mass e-mail chains complaining about unfair scheduling treatment. As the nurse manager, you have always tried your best to schedule staff fairly and even allow them to switch their shifts when personal problems arise. Since your effort to talk with staff individually does not seem to be working, you decide to hold a town hall meeting to openly discuss these issues. As you prepare the meeting announcement, you notice e-mails from your hospital administrator, chief operating officer and director of human resources. All are wondering why their inboxes have been inundated with e-mails from upset nurses in your unit. How do you respond to these e-mails? Furthermore, how should you address this situation to improve the morale of your unit?
To prepare

  • Review this week’s Learning Resources, focusing on the appropriate and inappropriate use of social technologies in the workplace.
  • Conduct further research on the social, ethical, and legal issues that result from inappropriate use of social technologies both inside and outside work hours.
    • For example, what laws protect the privacy and free speech of employees? How can workplaces legally safeguard themselves from various social technology issues such as defamation, misrepresentation, or misuse by individual employees? Of what legal ramifications, such as patient privacy and confidentiality laws, should managers be aware?
  • Reflect on the scenario to which you have been assigned.
    • How might employee use of social technologies impact the rest of the setting? How might it impact the care given to patients?
    • As the nursing manager who oversees the employee(s), what strategies (if any) would you employ to effectively address this situation?
  • Consider the social technology policies of your past or present workplace.
    • With regard to employee use of social media, do you believe the workplace policy is effective? Why or why not? As a nurse manager, could you use this policy to effectively address the behaviors in your assigned scenario?

Note: Before you submit your initial post, replace the subject line (“Week 11 Discussion”) with “Review of Case Study ___” identifying the number of the case study you were assigned.
Post an explanation of the possible social, ethical, and/or legal ramifications of your assigned scenario. Explain the policy your current or past workplace has on the use of social technologies and how effective you believe the policy is. If your workplace does not have a policy, explain what the accepted practices or expectations are for your setting. Has lack of policy led to any problems? Support your responses by referencing authentic examples from the workplace and this week’s Learning Resources as appropriate.
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Integration of Nursing Informatics Skills and Competencies

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INTEGRATION OF NURSING INFORMATICS SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES

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Integration of Nursing Informatics Skills and Competencies

Reflect on your own practice. Explain how much informatics you use in a shift or day of work.

I can recall when paper charting was utilized in every hospital until most recently.  When I heard that all hospitals were being mandated to go to computerized charting, my friends and I were not very happy because it meant we had to change. Nurses love repetition, don’t we? I can recall the countless hours of electronic health record training and the time it took to get things worked out. Today, I can’t even imagine how we worked without the computer. It is amazing how much easier technology has made our work in the nursing profession.

For our second discussion question this week, please reflect on your own nursing practice. Please explain how you utilize informatics during your shift, or, in your workplace. Please critically think!  We are using technology in our nursing practice even when we are unaware. In addition to computerized charting, we have automated vital signs monitors, feeding pumps, IV pumps, and I am sure you can think of quite a few other pieces of technology! How much informatics are you utilizing in your personal daily nursing practices?

 
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Describe how counselors-in-training in general can proactively identify when counseling services would be beneficial and how this can support their preparation for becoming professional counselors.

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Gatekeeping

Counselor educators and supervisors are seen as gatekeepers for the profession, ensuring that learners who graduate from their programs are competent to provide counseling services to the public. In many graduate counseling programs, attending personal counseling sessions is a requirement. Counseling is also frequently required in situations where learners are demonstrating problem behaviors and have been placed in a remediation program.
Describe how counselors-in-training in general can proactively identify when counseling services would be beneficial and how this can support their preparation for becoming professional counselors.
Support your ideas with references to specific ethical standards and to a minimum of one peer-reviewed article. You may consider optional articles from this unit. Follow current APA style and formatting guidelines in your post.

Response Guidelines

Respond to the initial discussion posts of two other learners. What reactions do you have to the ideas the learner has presented? Include examples from your own experience to support your perspective, and raise questions to continue the dialogue.

Learning Components

This activity will help you achieve the following learning components:

  • Learn how laws apply to credentialing, certification, and licensing of counseling professionals.
  • Learn about the different types of professionals a counselor may work with.
  • Determine the proper application of APA formatting requirements.
  • Develop communication appropriate for professional counseling settings.
 
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Evaluate the most common relapse triggers.

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Discussion—Relapse and Pain

One of the largest hurdles in recovering from a substance use disorder does not concern getting sober, but rather, staying sober over time. Relapse is a constant threat; clients are consistently battling against their triggers to remain sober. Additionally, many recovering users suffer from pain, sometimes due to the initial conditions that led them to use, or from conditions developed through their chronic substance use.
Keeping this in mind, respond to the following questions:

  • 1.Evaluate the most common relapse triggers.
  • 2.Analyze at least two relapse prevention strategies.
  • 3.Explain how pain causes complications in preventing relapse in sober clients.
  • 4.Hypothesize the risks and benefits in sober clients using pain medication as prescribed to help manage their pain.

Using information from the textbook, lecture materials, and other scholarly resources, write your initial response in approximately 300–400 words. Please be detailed oriented.

 
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biogeochemical cycles

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NO PLAGARIZING

In this module you have thought about populations, biogeochemical cycles, ecosystems, biomes, the importance of factual evidence, as well as climate change. You also approached viruses from the viewpoint of a nonliving to living interaction. In this final assignment, you will think like an informed citizen. The reintroduction of wolves has been a hot topic in mountain communities, but in your activity you will think about reintroduction of grizzly bears. It is a topic that has been discussed by national park rangers, citizens, wildlife groups, and even tourists. However, you should write your essay from the position of an informed citizen. Feel free to perform more research, as well as use the material provided to write your essay. The questions at the end of the reading passage will help you shape your essay. Welcome to the real world because, as a citizen, you will help make these decisions. It is up to you to make good ones.

Instructions

  1. Read the case information.
  2. Using the questions at the end of the information as a guide, write an essay (300-500 words) on why or why not grizzly bears should be reintroduced to the Bitterroot ecosystem.
  3. Submit your essay to the Module 5 Assignment: Should Grizzly Bears Be Reintroduced Into the Bitterroot Ecosystem? dropbox.
 
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IDENTIFY A NURSING THEORY THAT HAS INFLUENCED YOUR VALUES AND GOALS.

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IDENTIFY A NURSING THEORY THAT HAS INFLUENCED YOUR VALUES AND GOALS.

The purpose of this task is to develop a working knowledge of nursing theory, nursing ethics, and professional accountability and apply these concepts to your professional clinical practice. You will be required to think about real-life scenarios and how they relate to nursing codes in your professional practice.

Requirements:

Your submission must be your original work. No more than a combined total of 30% of the submission and no more than a 10% match to any one individual source can be directly quoted or closely paraphrased from sources, even if cited correctly. Use the Turnitin Originality Report available in Taskstream as a guide for this measure of originality.

You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides detailed criteria that will be used to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by more than one rubric aspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevant portions of the course.

A.  Identify a nursing theory that has influenced your values and goals.
1.  Explain how nurses apply the identified theory from part A to implement excellent nursing practices.
2.  Discuss how the identified theory from part A fits your professional practice.

B.  Identify the contributions of two historical nursing figures in the nineteenth or twentieth century.
1.  Compare the differences in contributions of the two historical figures identified in part B.
2.  Describe how the contributions of the two historical figures influence your professional nursing practice.

C.  Explain the functional differences between the State Board of Nursing and the American Nurses Association (ANA).
1.  Define the roles of these two organizations.
2.  Explain how these two organizations influence your nursing practice.
3.  Explain the requirements for professional license renewal in your state.
a.  Discuss the consequences of failure to maintain license requirements in your state.
4.  Compare the differences between registered nursing license requirements in a compact state versus a non-compact state.

D.  Discuss the functional differences between the Food and Drug Administration and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (see the web links below).
1.  Discuss how the two regulatory agencies influence your professional nursing practice.
a.  Describe your role as a patient advocate in promoting safety when a patient has requested to use an alternative therapy.

E.  Discuss the purposes of the Nurse Practice Act in your state and its impact on your professional practice.
1.  Discuss the scope of practice for a RN in your state.
2.  Discuss how your state defines delegation for the RN.

F.  Apply each of the following roles to your professional practice:
•   a scientist
•   a detective
•   a manager of the healing environment

G.  Identify two provisions from the American Nurses Association (ANA) Code of Ethics (see web link below).
1.  Analyze how the two provisions identified in part G influence your professional nursing practice.
2.  Describe a nursing error that may occur in a clinical practice (e.g., clinical setting, skills lab, or simulation).
a.  Explain how the ANA provisions identified in part G can be applied to the error discussed in part G2.

H.  Identify four leadership qualities or traits that represent excellence in nursing.
1.  Discuss the significance of the four leadership qualities identified in part H in the nurse’s role as each of the following:
•   a leader at the bedside
•   within a nursing team or interdisciplinary team
2.  Identify how your work environment impacts the following:
•   nursing leadership
•   decision making
•   professional development

I.  Acknowledge sources, using APA-formatted in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.

J.  Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.

RUBRIC:
A. https://lrps.wgu.edu/provision/124909813

A nursing theory that has influenced the candidate’s values and goals   is identified.

A1. https://lrps.wgu.edu/provision/124909813

The explanation of how nurses apply the selected theory in part A to   plan excellent nursing practices is logical.

A2. https://lrps.wgu.edu/provision/124909813

The discussion of how the theory from part A fits the candidate’s   professional practice is relevant, and it accurately addresses the identified   theory.

B. https://lrps.wgu.edu/provision/124909185

The contributions of 2 historical nursing figures in the nineteenth or   twentieth century is identified.

B1. https://lrps.wgu.edu/provision/124909185

The comparison accurately addresses the differences in the   contributions of the 2 historical figures identified in part B and is logical   and well supported.

B2. https://lrps.wgu.edu/provision/124909269

The description of how the contributions of the 2 historical nursing   figures have influenced the candidate’s nursing practice is accurate.

 
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Cultural Differences: Kayin’s Case

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Cultural Differences: Kayin’s Case

Professionals must work with families to understand cultural and linguistic characteristics specific to each child. This is critical in determining whether a child’s experiences are typical of someone coming from a different background as opposed to a true disability. These issues can be complex as exceptionalities are seen across cultures as well.
Review the following scenario:

Kayin is an eight-year-old boy in the third grade. His teacher, Mr. Bledsoe, has been very concerned about his problems with reading. He also has difficulty socially, and seems withdrawn, with few, if any, friends. Kayin avoids eye contact with most people, but this is more pronounced with adults. He also becomes very frustrated at times, crying and ripping up his work.
Kayin has been enrolled in the same school since kindergarten. However, Mr. Bledsoe knows that his family is originally from Nigeria and they return every summer to visit family. Although Kayin’s parents speak English fairly fluently, they have a pronounced African accent. Mr. Bledsoe remembers learning that it is an act of respect to avoid eye contact with adults in some cultures, but he cannot remember whether this is true of Nigerian culture.
Mr. Bledsoe has been hesitant to raise the possibility of a disability because he does not know how much of Kayin’s struggles can be attributed to growing up in a bicultural and bilingual home or to Kayin’s own personality.

Using the module readings, the Argosy University online library resources, and the Internet, research cultural differences related to children with exceptionalities. It may also be useful to consult CultureGrams in the online library for more information on cultures in Nigeria.
Reflect on your readings and respond to the following:

  • What steps should Mr. Bledsoe take to address Kayin’s challenges?
  • What professionals might he include to help Kayin?
  • What further information does Mr. Bledsoe and his colleagues need to best help Kayin? Where can he find this information?
  • How should Mr. Bledsoe approach the issue of cultural differences with Kayin’s parents?
  • What ethical dilemma(s) might Mr. Bledsoe face when considering the values, beliefs, and behaviors common in the culture of Kayin’s family within the context of the general American culture?

Write your initial response in 300–500 words. Apply APA standards to citation of sources.

 
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