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Certain elements of treatment planning for clients experiencing life transition and developmental issues may be easier than others. For instance, it may be obvious that a breadwinner’s job loss is the major concern facing a family. The more difficult part may be crafting clinical and treatment formulations for this issue that explain how it affects the clients, what needs they have, and how you, as a helping professional, plan to intervene (Sperry, 2005). As you examine life transition and developmental issues in this week and the next, use your theoretical orientation to conceptualize the scenarios presented and plan theory-based interventions.

For this Discussion, consider a brief case history of a couple or family (this can be one with which you are familiar or a fictional couple). Begin to conceptualize the couple’s or family’s problem through your theoretical orientation and identify interventions that you might use. Search the Walden Library for articles that might be used to justify the interventions you selected.

By Day 5

Post a brief description of the couple or family case. Explain the theories and theory-based interventions to couples and families experiencing life transition and developmental issues you will apply to this case. Then,

  • Develop and justify treatment plans for the fictional couple or family experiencing life transition and developmental issues.
  • Conceptualize the couple’s or family’s problem through your chosen theoretical orientation.
  • Design a treatment plan including short- and long-term goals

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In all likelihood, developmental and life transition issues will form the core of your work as a couple and family practitioner. These issues are those that couples and families typically encounter through common day-to-day living and may include being newly married, having a child, or sending a youngest child off into his or her own adulthood. They also may include common stressors, such as divorce, job loss, or death of a family member, just to name a few. Individuals across all cultures experience developmental and life transition issues in one way or another, and you will likely find yourself sitting across from a couple or family experiencing a similar life event to one you have encountered in your own life.

Despite the universality of many developmental and life transition issues, you should still keep in mind that there is no one way to experience a divorce, death, or job loss, nor is there one way to clinically encounter and assist a couple or family experiencing such issues. Different theoretical orientations may suggest different ways for addressing various scenarios, and you may have to modify your chosen theoretical orientation to work effectively in your professional practice.

For this Discussion, choose one life transition or developmental issue, and consider how you might modify your theoretical orientation and/or infuse interventions from other theories in order to address this issue.

By Day 3

Post a brief description of the life transition or developmental issue you selected and your chosen theoretical orientation. Then, explain how you might modify the theory-based interventions of your chosen theoretical orientation to work effectively with client(s) experiencing the issue you selected. Finally, explain the significant aspects of the life transition or developmental issue that influence how you would modify the application of your chosen theoretical orientation.

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The last element of the strategic plan consists of constructing the technicals. The technicals element includes items such as developing strategic goals, strategies, leading indicators of success, and performance targets. The technical elements represent the executable part of the strategic plan. As you begin to develop the technical elements, consider the goals related to internationalization and alliances.
To prepare:

  • Review Final Project: Developing a Strategic Plan –Part 2: The Technical Elements media in the Weekly Resources.
  • Review the results of your environmental scan and consider strategic goals that your agency might implement.
  • Think about how the organization might leverage globalization and alliances in its strategic goals.

By Day 7

The Assignment (2–3 pages):

Developing the technical elements for your Capstone Project will be a two-part Assignment. The first part will be completed and submitted in Week 7. The second part will be completed and submitted in Week 8.

For this Assignment in Week 7:

  • Develop your strategic goals (at least three). The goals must address the following:
    • Address issues such as globalization and how those issues might impact the strategic goals of the agency, organization, or community.
    • Identify potential alliances.
      • Identify opportunities for alliances with other agencies or organizations.
      • State why the alliances are important.
  • Develop strategies for implementing goals. You must identify at least two strategies for each identified goal.
  • Address issues of accountability. You must establish how and who will monitor the execution of the strategic plan. Describe how you will address accountability for each of the following: 
    • Describe how your leadership will be held accountable for execution of the strategic plan.
    • Discuss the following aspects of accountability for employee:
      • Identify who will be responsible for executing specific aspects of the strategic plan.
      • Explain how employee accountability will be tracked.
    • Client and stakeholder accountability:
      • Describe the clients’/stakeholders’ roles in accountability.
      • Discuss actions that will be taken to continually and actively engage the clients/stakeholders in ensuring accountability related to executing the strategic plan.

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Throughout history, groups of people have received mistreatment that has little to do with who they are as people and more to do with their age, gender, socioeconomic status, skin color, or physical disability. People who face such challenges are more at risk for developing mental health and other life problems. Such problems might include substance abuse, trouble with law enforcement, and homelessness. Human services professionals may be motivated to assist such groups in addressing the challenges they face; however, helping may be difficult because of mistrust, cultural stigmas, and institutional barriers. Whatever the difficulties, social change agents, leaders, and advocates in the human services professions must find ways to help disadvantaged and vulnerable groups face challenges.

To prepare:

  • Select a disadvantaged or vulnerable population, and reflect on the challenges people within this population might face in society. This population can be local, regional, or from another country.
  • Select a code of ethics that might be applicable to this population, and identify specific guidelines that might guide your work with this population. 

With these thoughts in mind:

By Day 4

Post a brief description of the disadvantaged or vulnerable population you selected. Then, explain three of the greatest challenges this population faces, as well as the influence that addressing each of the challenges might make in the lives’ of members of this population. Finally, identify a professional code of ethics and explain two guidelines from within that code that might pertain to working with this population. Be specific, and provide examples to illustrate your points.

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Week 1: Current Goal in health services position

Week 3: What part of the team are you?

Week 4: Comment on technology

Week 6: Thoughts on strategic planning

Week 7: Current thoughts on your area of interest

Week 8: Impact of cost/finances

homework assignment

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Read Case Study 10-2, “Must a Union Process a Grievance of a Nonunion Employee?” on page 463 of your textbook. Then, answer the questions provided. 

  1. What are nonunion employee rights under the LMRA? 
  2. What is meant by the union’s duty of fair representation? 
  3. When has the union met its obligation of fair representation? 
  4. Has the union in this case met its fair representation obligation? Explain. 

Your response to these questions should be a minimum of 1 page in length. Use APA format to cite and reference all quoted and paraphrased material, including your textbook. Please be sure to include your reference list on a separate page.

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Project

The project assignment provides a forum for analyzing and evaluating relevant topics of this week on the basis of the course competencies covered.

Introduction

Developing a feedback-rich environment is a process that exceptional leaders must set forth for optimal team performance. As a leader, you want to improve the level of feedback provided to and received from your staff.

Tasks

Begin by reading the following article:

You are to develop a plan to implement a feedback-rich environment within your organization. You may use your current organization (healthcare or not). In developing your plan, be sure to include the following:

  • Describe the feedback setting before establishing the feedback initiative.
  • List the type(s) of feedback techniques that will be used (at least two).
  • Describe how you will establish shared competency language.
  • Explain why increasing feedback is important to the organization (how it aligns with organizational goals).

To support your work, use your course and textbook readings and also use the South University Online Library. As in all assignments, cite your sources in your work and provide references for the citations in APA format.

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Introduction

Mentoring has been proven to be vital in the development of most healthcare leaders. This discussion is designed to explore your exploration of mentoring relationships.

Tasks

Discuss your mentoring needs and desires for a mentor. In doing so, be sure to include the following:

  • Would you desire an informal or a more formal relationship?
  • Ideally, who would you target as a potential mentor?
  • How would you use your time effectively between meetings?

To support your work, use your course and textbook readings and also use the South University Online Library. As in all assignments, cite your sources in your work and provide references for the citations in APA format.

Your initial posting should be addressed at 500–1000 words

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Project

The project assignment provides a forum for analyzing and evaluating relevant topics of this week on the basis of the course competencies covered.

Introduction

Much of stimulating creativity and cultivating adaptability calls for an open-minded leader. As you continue to develop as a leader, you will be tasked with developing a culture that promotes creativity and adaptability.

Tasks

Read the following articles along with this week’s lecture and the associated chapters:

Using these articles and other resources, develop a plan to create a culture where creativity and adaptability is embraced. In doing so, be sure to address the following in your plan:

  • The four aspects of stimulating creativity
  • The three fundamental skills involved in cultivating adaptability

How you plan will provide opportunities for upcoming leaders.

To support your work, use your course and textbook readings and also use the South University Online Library. As in all assignments, cite your sources in your work and provide references for the citations in APA format.

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Please read from your textbook case from chapter 8 “Talent Management at CalleetaCO”

Prepare a PowerPoint presentation analyzing/summarizing the case and answer the following questions:

1) What are the key business issues facing Jan?

2) In what ways are CalleetaCO’s HR operations contributing to the company’s success and how do these contributions support the company’s strategic goals?

3) Describe whether each of John’s proposed changes will hinder or help CalleetaCO achieve a sustainable competitive advantage?

4) How would a balanced scorecard help Jan explain the value of her HR talent approach?

You will present this extra credit assignment during next week’s virtual class on Monday, October 19th.

Slides should be anywhere between 7-10 slides.