ABS 200 ASH Course Tutorial / abs200dotcom

1. ABS 200 ASH Course Tutorial / abs200dotcom

2. ABS 200 ASH Course Tutorial ABS 200 Entire Course ABS 200 Entire Course • ABS 200 Week 1 DQ 1 What is Applied Behavioral Science • ABS 200 Week 1 DQ 2 Values and Ethics Guiding Generalist Practice • ABS 200 Week 2 DQ 1 Empowerment • ABS 200 Week 2 DQ 2 Theories on Groups • ABS 200 Week 2 Critical Thinking Evidence Based Practice (EBP) and “Person-In-Environment” (PIE) • ABS 200 Week 3 DQ 1 Types of Groups • ABS 200 Week 3 DQ 2 Organizations and Power • ABS 200 Week 3 Step One of Final Paper • ABS 200 Week 4 DQ 1 Neighborhoods and Communities • ABS 200 Week 4 DQ 2 Community Building • ABS 200 Week 5 DQ 1 Global Issues • ABS 200 Week 5 DQ 2 Social Advocacy and Justice

3. ABS 200 ASH Course Tutorial ABS 200 Final Guide ABS 200 Week 1 DQ 1 What is Applied Behavioral Science • Focus of the Final Paper • Select a short video from the list below about a specific social problem such as: • Poverty 1. Retrieved on July 7, 2010 from http://www.youtube.com/watch?& • Poverty 2. Retrieved on July 7, 2010 from http://www.youtube.com/watch?& • Poverty 3. Retrieved on July 7, 2010 from http://www.youtube.com/watch? • What is Applied Behavioral Science? Review the video, Science Can Answer Moral Questions, readings in Chapter 1, and the power point slides. In a 250-300 word post: • • Describe your understanding of the field of Applied Behavioral Science including an overview of the generalist perspective of practice.

4. ABS 200 ASH Course Tutorial ABS 200 Week 1 DQ 2 Values and Ethics Guiding Generalist Practice ABS 200 Week 2 Critical Thinking Evidence Based Practice (EBP) and “Person-In-Environment” (PIE) • Values and Ethics Guiding Generalist Practice. Review the readings in Chapter 2, and the power point slides. In 250- 300 words, supporting your comments with scholarly references, please summarize the professional values and ethics that guide the Generalist Practice. • Critical Thinking: Evidence Based Practice (EBP) and “Person-In-Environment” (PIE). In a 3 to 4 page paper: • • Review Critical thinking, as described in the text. • • What does it have to do with science?

5. ABS 200 ASH Course Tutorial ABS 200 Week 2 DQ 1 Empowerment ABS 200 Week 2 DQ 2 Theories on Groups • Empowerment. Watch Why to Believe in Others and in 250 – 300 words, supporting your comments with scholarly references, • • Discuss Empowerment and Empowerment Theory, The Strengths Perspective, and Resiliency and why this focus is a vital concept in the Generalist Practice. • Theories on Groups. Of all the theories discussed in Chapter 3 (field, social exchange, learning psychoanalytic, systems, empowerment, and feminist), which one helps you understand best how groups function?

6. ABS 200 ASH Course Tutorial ABS 200 Week 3 DQ 1 Types of Groups ABS 200 Week 3 DQ 2 Organizations and Power • Types of Groups. Select one of the types of groups: Task group, Team, Treatment, Support, Committees, etc., giving an example of how it functions, its purpose, goals, and relevance to the individuals that participate in the group. • Organizations and Power. Discuss the dynamics and concept of power in organizations, for example, are they gender-based, is power at odds with the provision of services, and does politics or cost enter in?

7. ABS 200 ASH Course Tutorial ABS 200 Week 3 Step One of Final Paper ABS 200 Week 4 DQ 1 Neighborhoods and Communities • Step One of Final Paper. The Final Paper is due at the end of the course (Week Five). In order to ensure that you have time to write a good paper and receive sufficient guidance from your instructor, an outline is to be submitted this week. • Neighborhoods and Communities. What does it take to make a community? What is the difference between a neighborhood and a community? Who has the power in communities? Examine the significance of power in communities, who has it and why.

8. ABS 200 ASH Course Tutorial ABS 200 Week 4 DQ 2 Community Building ABS 200 Week 5 DQ 1 Global Issues • Community Building. Watch the PBS report titled, The Economy of a Tent City. What are the primary principles involved in community building? Describe what is meant by enhancing a community’s strengths and what kinds of efforts would be involved in working toward positive change. • Global Issues. Whether by natural disaster or economic issues, poverty remains an issue in other countries such as Haiti. Watch The Aid Dilemma video and discuss whether you think that our efforts, though well intentioned, are doing what we intend.

9. ABS 200 ASH Course Tutorial ABS 200 Week 5 DQ 2 Social Advocacy and Justice • Social Advocacy and Justice. Select one of the three video segments on social advocacy and fighting for social injustice: • • Bill Clinton on Rwanda • • Majora Carter’s Tale of Urban Renewal • • Peter Gabriel Fights Injustice with Video

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