Mental Health Services

As a consumer of mental health services, which type of therapy would you prefer if you did not care much to talk about your problems? If you were suffering from a phobia? If you had recurring nightmares since childhood? If you wanted to improve your marriage?

This posting addresses issues as they relate to human motivation.

These tasks are modeled along with research links: a. Choose one of the theories on the attached word document and describe how this theory would and would not be applicable if applied to two or more workplace situations drawn for personal experience (real or made-up). b. In the case in which the selected theory was not ...continues

Discuss how prejudice and discrimination differ when it involves coworkers and family.

Social psychology looks at how the individual functions as part of a social group, including families, peer groups, and larger groups that support ethnic or national identity. In this presentation, you will relate two different examples from family, work, that demonstrate how behavior differs according to the social situation. ...continues

Insights about job discrimination.

How can employee's know when they are being discriminated? why is job discrimination bad? and what should employee's do if they suffer from discrimination in their work environment?

Operant Conditioning is modeled.

Is there a situation in personal (such for a student) or work life that would respond well to operant conditioning? What re-enforcers would you use?

Right to Die

Is Will's request to reprogram the morphine machine justified by an ethical right to decide the course of his own death? Do patients have the right to request that physicians help them die? If so, under what conditions is a physician obligated to deny this request? What circumstances require a physician to agree to help a p ...continues

Ethical issues surrounding palliative care are noted.

Is it ethically acceptable to provide aggressive palliative care that is likely or even certain to hasten a patient's death? What ethical ideas inform your perspective on this issue? Under which conditions is it appropriate for a physician to deny a patient's desired palliative treatment? For example, is it ethically acceptab ...continues

Law - Euthanasia

The laws that deal with the issue of euthanasia (physician assisted suicide) and self-induced suicide differ across country and state. The ‘ethical right to decide the course of a person's own death' often does not include the right to end your life, but rather the right to withhold treatments, life supports, and the likes,(with ...continues

Goals of therapy are examined.

What is the difference between positive and negative reinforcement? Is there a definitive difference? These questions are considered.

Language Acquisition

Do you agree more with Chomsky’s perspective that language is acquired through innate ability (language acquisition device), or Skinner’s perspective that language is a learned behavior that gets conditioned and reinforced?