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2. ABS 200 ASH Course Tutorial ABS 200 Entire Course ABS 200 Final Guide (Ash) • 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 • 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?&

3. ABS 200 ASH Course Tutorial ABS 200 Week 1 DQ 1 What is Applied Behavioral Science (Ash) ABS 200 Week 1 DQ 2 Values and Ethics Guiding Generalist Practice (Ash) • 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. • • Discuss the types of career directions that an individual may follow and which are of most interest to you personally and why, including any applicable personal example. • • How does this fit with your understanding of the term “science”? How are “science” and “behavioral science” the same and how might they seem different? • 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. • • Discuss the types of career directions that an individual may follow and which are of most interest to you personally and why, including any applicable personal example.

4. ABS 200 ASH Course Tutorial ABS 200 Week 2 Critical Thinking Evidence Based Practice (EBP) and “Person-In-Environment” (PIE) (Ash) ABS 200 Week 2 DQ 1 Empowerment (Ash) • 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? • • Review the articles about Evidence-based practice and the Person-In-Environment Perspective and Classification system. • • What is EBP (Evidence-Based Practice)? • 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. • • Discuss how the understanding of this focus intersects with working with diverse groups and populations, particularly those who are oppressed. • • How can a focus on strengths enable an individual, group or other system to cope with adversity and survive? Please respond to a minimum of two of your classmates. 

5. ABS 200 ASH Course Tutorial ABS 200 Week 2 DQ 2 Theories on Groups (Ash) ABS 200 Week 3 DQ 1 Types of Groups (Ash) • 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? In 250 – 300 words, discuss your rationale for selecting this theory and the concepts of the theory that make it seem most relevant to your understanding. Support your comments with a minimum of one reference from scholarly sources and respond to a minimum of two of your classmates. • 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. What kinds of variables might act as barriers to the successful outcomes of this group? What factors might work to empower the group to achieve its goals? Please use 250-300 words to discuss this topic, and include a minimum of one scholarly reference. Respond to a minimum of two of your classmates. 

6. ABS 200 ASH Course Tutorial ABS 200 Week 3 DQ 2 Organizations and Power (Ash) ABS 200 Week 3 Step One of Final Paper (Ash) • 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? What is power and what does it have to do with the goals of the organization? What are the pros and cons to the ways in which power is distributed within and between groups and organizations? Please discuss in 250-300 words, and include one scholarly reference. Respond to a minimum of two of your classmates.  • 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. Before you begin Step One, please consult the complete instructions for the Final Paper which can be found in Week Five of your online course or in the “Components of Course Evaluation” section of this guide.

7. ABS 200 ASH Course Tutorial ABS 200 Week 4 DQ 1 Neighborhoods and Communities (Ash) ABS 200 Week 4 DQ 2 Community Building (Ash) • 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. Your post should be 250-300 words and include one scholarly reference to support your comments. Please respond to a minimum of two of your classmates.  • 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. Discuss how these principles are either working or not working in the PBS report about Haiti’s rebuilding efforts. Discuss this topic in 250-300 words, supporting your comments with a minimum of one scholarly reference. Please respond to a minimum of two of your classmates. 

8. ABS 200 ASH Course Tutorial ABS 200 Week 5 DQ 1 Global Issues (Ash) ABS 200 Week 5 DQ 2 Social Advocacy and Justice (Ash) • 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. What are the pros and cons to the way we give aid, or apply behavioral science principles to such countries as Haiti? In 250 – 300 words, discuss the statement: “Global problems are everyone’s problems.” Support your discussion with a minimum of one scholarly reference and respond to a minimum of two of your classmates.  • 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 • . 

9. ABS 200 ASH Course Tutorial For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com