Individuals with personality disorders often find it difficult to overcome the enduring patterns of thought and behavior that they have thus far experienced and functioned with in daily life. Even when patients are aware that personality-related issues are causing significant distress and functional impairment and are open to counseling, treatment can be challenging for both…

Module Two is all about self-justification, conformity, and compliance-related behaviors. What are the social-psychological processes associated with our tendencies to justify our actions, behaviors, and feelings? Is conformity good or bad? Why do people conform to group pressure? Why don’t bystanders always come to the aid of victims of injury or crime? How do our…

Inevitably, mistakes will be made by executives, department heads, and team leaders over the course of the lifecycle of any corporate initiative or project. Based on what you have learned about conformity / groupthink and self-justification, what strategies might you, as a leader or project manager, employ to help your team avoid costly mistakes?

With respect to the types of behaviors potentially induced by a state of cognitive dissonance, Aaronson (Chapter 3 Self-Justification) points out the following: People are capable of rational, adaptive behavior, as well as dissonance-reducing behavior. What are the behaviors (and limitations) associated with protecting our egos through dissonance reduction? Why might it be very important…

Part A For each research question below, write a hypothesis, define the best type of research (descriptive, correlational, or experiment) to use, and explain how you would design the necessary study. Your explanation needs to be thorough enough to demonstrate understanding of the research methods discussed in this module’s readings. The first one has been…

1. Freewrite on the negative and positive effects of social media, Use this writing for the development of your essay. 2. Take a stance. Decide if you will argue whether social media has a negative or positive influence.Do not arguefor both. Choose your audience. 3. In the Introduction, develop a thesis statement that you will…

Use Erikson’s Stages of Development as a theoretical framework and analyze the character’s life journey in reverse. This project is made up of six parts. You will work on a section each week and bring it all together at the end. Below are instructions for Part III. · For each of the last four stages…

During this course, you will complete a journal each week where you will work on one aspect that will help you prepare for the course and reflect. This journal will allow you to capture new ideas from knowledge gained and record your thoughts throughout the course. It will also give you an opportunity to record…

Prior to beginning work on this discussion forum, read Chapter 1 in your text. There are five scenarios in Chapter 1 of your text, detailing roles and functions of human service professionals. Choose one of the five scenarios and compare the counseling and case management functions in the scenario. · Determine what case management aspects…

SLO: Analyze biological, cognitive, and socioemotional developmental processes for middle adulthood, apply developmental psychological content to real-life situations to include individual differences, beliefs, values, and interpersonal relationships, and develop critical thinking skills. According to the World Health Organization, breast cancer is the most common cancer among women worldwide, and the American Cancer Society estimates that…