The idea of dissecting one’s life into various systems is not something that is thought of every day. When clients present with maladaptive behaviors, an understanding of their ecosystem can help the Human Services professional recognize the origin and purpose of the behavior. This recognition can help lead to behavioral change for the client.

The assignment this week has two parts:

• Interview someone regarding their ecosystems and the interactions they have had within these systems. Ask about individual dynamics such as health or age, close personal relationships including family and friends, networks between their relationships such as their work or social groups, and their community. Submit your question list in a Word document to this drop box for review.
• Once the interview is completed, you will write a reflective analysis of their findings in a 2-3 page paper. The paper should include conclusions based on the interviewee’s patterns of behavior and give possible suggestions of ways to make behavioral changes. Make sure to maintain the anonymity of the person interviewed. The paper will be submitted in Module 05.

Prior to completing this discussion, read chapter 7, Piaget’s enduring contribution to developmental psychology, and On major developments in preschoolers’ imagination. Using Piaget’s theory of cognitive development, you will continue to build your Community Center Proposal by identifying an activity and a toy for one of the rooms in your center that promotes cognitive development. You can choose any of the five rooms for this discussion, but the activity must be focused on the cognitive milestones of your chosen age group and must be clearly tied to Piaget’s theory. So your activity might be focused on object permanence for infants, conservation, transitivity, or decentering for middle childhood, or deductive reasoning for adolescence. Then think about what kinds of educational toys would promote cognitive development in this age group and, again, tie the selected object to a specific milestone. You must use at least one scholarly source in either your activity or your toy entry. Here are two examples providing you a model of how to approach this discussion and how to build the elements of the rooms in your Community Center.

EXAMPLE OF AN ACTIVITY:
Cognitive Development Activity for Infant Room: Peek-a-boo.
One of the activities we will incorporate into the infant room is Peek-a-boo. This is a game where the caregiver hides himself from the child (covering the child’s eyes or hiding behind a chair, etc.) and then appears again by uncovering the child’s eyes or coming out from behind the chair. Another variation of this would be hiding a treasured object under a scarf and then revealing it again. One of the milestones of the first year of life is the development of object permanence. Object permanence occurs when an infant grasps that something (an object, a person) still exists even when the infant cannot see it. This is a concept from Piaget’s theory of cognitive development and is one of the developmental tasks of the sensorimotor stage. Newborns do not have a sense of permanence. When they cannot see you, you do not exist for them. During the first year of life, they slowing learn that objects and people continue to exist even with they cannot be seen (Mossler, 2014). Playing Peek-a-Boo is one way to foster the development of object permanence. Infants usually delight in seeing someone appear and then hide, only to reappear. This activity will support the cognitive development domain and also the psychosocial domain because of its interactive nature.

Mossler, R. (2nd ed.). (2014). Child and Adolescent Development. San Diego, CA: Bridgepoint Education.

EXAMPLE OF A TOY OR OBJECT:
Cognitive Development Object for Adolescent Room: Board Games involving strategy and problem solving.
In the Adolescent Room, we propose having a collection of board games that require logical thinking and problem solving. Adolescence is the beginning of more sophisticated thinking. Children in this age group move from concrete operations to what Piaget calls formal operations. They are becoming capable of deductive and hypothetical reasoning (Mossler, 2014). Games like chess, Battleship, and checkers all require players to engage in this kind of thinking. Another game that can be used is the game of CLUE. This game supports the development of prepositional logic and requires players to think hypothetically (Neller, Markov and Russell, 2006). These games will not only promote cognitive development, but will further support psychosocial development because of the required interactions.

Mossler, R. (2nd ed.). (2014). Child and Adolescent Development. San Diego, CA: Bridgepoint Education.

Neller, T., Markov, Z., & Russell, I. (2006). Clue deduction: Professor Plum teaches logic. Retrieved from http://cs.gettysburg.edu/~tneller/papers/flairs06….

Guided Response: Resp

Assignment 1: Retrospective Analysis
of Personality
Due Week 9 and worth 220 points

Assignment 1: Retrospective Analysis
of Personality
Due Week 9 and worth 220 points

In this assignment, begin by taking
a retrospective look at your life history, to discuss which aspects of your
personality have remained consistent and which aspects of your personality have
changed over time. Then, analyze the roles of nature and nurture in
shaping your personality. Subsequently, discuss possible sources of
inaccuracy and bias in any retrospective analysis. Finally, discuss the
reasons why systematic scientific studies are considered more valuable than
individual accounts. 

Write a three to four (3-4) page
paper in which you:

1. Reflect on your life history and discuss which aspects
   of your personality have changed over time and which aspects have stayed
   consistent.
2. Based on your retrospective analysis, describe the
   roles of nature and nurture in shaping your personality. Reflect on your
   justification for distinguishing between nature and nurture. 
3. Discuss the possible sources of bias and inaccuracy
   whenever a person looks back on their past history. Be sure to discuss
   factors related to memory and factors related to cognition. 
4. Describe why the science of psychology places more
   emphasis on results based on scientific studies than it does on personal
   experience and anecdotes.

Your assignment must follow these
formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font
  (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; references must follow APA
  or school-specific format.  Check with your professor for any
  additional instructions.
• To keep this essay short and manageable, your only
  sources for your paper should be your own experience and the Webtext. For
  this reason, APA citations and references are not required for this
  assignment.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the
  assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title,
  and the date.  The cover page and the reference page are not included
  in the required page length.

The specific course learning
outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Relate psychological concepts to real-world situations.
• Describe the major theories of personality development,
  learning, memory, cognition, consciousness, development and social
  psychology.
• Use technology and information resources to research
  issues in psychology.
• Write clearly and concisely about psychology using
  proper writing mechanics.

Case Analysis: Jamie Hubley

Keeping your specialization area in mind, provide examples of how you might increase the cultural appropriateness of a counseling theory, technique, or intervention at an agency, practice, or school so that they promote the optimal health and well-being of sexual minorities.

In your analysis of the counseling role, think of the purpose and role it serves in carrying out an organization’s mission in prevention, education, conflict resolution, intervention, consultation, and advocacy. Use the story of “Jamie Hubley, Gay 15-Year-Old Ottawa, Canada Teen Commits Suicide, Cites Depression, School Troubles” in conjunction with the resources you explored to support your strategies and ideas.