he Unit 9 Assignment challenges you to apply the three major theoretical perspectives of sociology to analyze the effects of population changes on the environment. For this Assignment, you will write a 3 to 5 page essay with the following elements:

1. 1. An introduction that describes the forces behind population change.
   2. A discussion of the effects on the environment when population change results in urbanization.
   3. An analysis of the effects of effects population change from the structural-functional, social-conflict, and symbolic interaction approaches.
   4. A summary that reviews the major points of the paper and offers one suggestion for further study on the issues related to population change and the environment.
   5. Citations from at least two references. You may use the course materials as references for this Assignment.

The essay should be written in a logical, coherent, and organized manner using APA formatting and citation style. Include a title page, 3–5 pages of written text, and a Reference page.

Submit your completed Assignment to the Unit 9 Assignment 2 Dropbox by the end of the unit.

Risk assessment is the process of forensic mental health professionals for determining the risk that a sex offender presents to the community at large.

Tasks:

Using resources from the professional literature, research risk assessment tools used with the sex offender population. The literature may include online library resources, relevant textbooks, peer-reviewed journal articles, and websites created by professional organizations, agencies, or institutions (.edu and .gov).

In a 3- to 4-page paper in a Microsoft Word document, address the following:

• Identify two reasons that a forensic mental health professional would be called to complete a risk assessment for a sex offender.
• Explain why risk assessment measures are widely used with the sex offender population. What do assessment measures hope to achieve?
• Describe two types of risk assessment instruments or methods utilized with the sex offender population. What is the research support for utilization of these instruments?
• Discuss the reasons that a sex offender is compared to other sex offenders when conducting a sex offender risk assessment.
• Identify one or more specific risk assessment measures utilized for female sex offenders.

Using the CogLab CD accompanying your course textbook, complete the levels-of-processing experiment and create a report on the experiment.

In your report, write a brief introduction of the experiment explaining the levels-of-processing framework. Next, in the Methods section, describe the process that you followed to complete the experiment. Make sure to include enough information so that others can also perform the same experiment successfully.

Finally, describe the experimental results in all the three conditions. In addition, identify the condition where you performed the best and the worst. Provide a rationale explaining why the results differed in all the three conditions. Summarize your report, including answers to the following questions:

• Were the results in accordance with your expectations? Provide a rationale to support your answer.
• Did anything about the experiment surprise you? If yes, what?
• What factors would influence the results of the levels-of-processing experiment?

Name your report: SU_PSY3002_W6_A2_LastName_FirstInitial.doc.

Submit your report in a Microsoft Word document to the W6: Assignment 2 Dropbox by Week 6, Day 6.

Cite any sources you use using APA format on a separate page.

This exercise will help you become more proficient at recognizing, translating, and evaluating if and and statements. In this assignment, find two examples for the exercise; translate the claims of the example into symbolic form; identify an if or an and statement; then assess it.

Note: Translation and assessment are tools we use to categorize statements. Therefore, you will not be penalized if, through translation and assessment, you learn a statement that appeared to be an if or an and statement is a statement of another type.

The completed assignment must contain the original claims, your translation of the claims into logical form, and your assessment of the statement in logical form. The original examples should be three to five sentences in length.

Your assessment should include answers to the following questions:

• Is the set of claims an argument?
• Is the original claim (when translated) an if . . . then or and statement?
• Did the translation of the original claims reveal the statement was a different kind of statement than you originally believed?

You must cite the source of information you use in your argument appropriately. Apply current APA standards for editorial style, expression of ideas, and format of text, citations, and references.

• Assessment: Specific Resources, Instruments, and Observations

Introduction

This unit will focus on how counselors assess their clients during the initial stages of the counseling process. How will you gather the information that will assist in describing the client’s presenting issues; current level of functioning; strengths and limitations; risk factors; characteristic patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving; and possible areas for focus in the counseling process? Much of this information may come from a structured initial interview or biopsychosocial assessment, which frequently occurs during the first intake session. Counselors also use more formal types of assessments in early sessions, such as a mental status exam, depression/anxiety inventories, symptom checklists, or other self-report measures.

Having familiarity with the range of assessment instruments and processes available to counselors and understanding when they can be used to produce reliable and valid information to assist in the counseling process are important parts of professional development. Your site supervisor can discuss your current fieldwork site’s approach to assessment and may also be able to provide more information about the way other agencies or practitioners in your area approach using methods to assess clients, track their progress, and evaluate therapy outcomes.

Objectives

To successfully complete this learning unit, you will be expected to:

1.      Review various assessment tools designed to address specific disorders.

2.      Identify the strengths and limitations of assessment tools.

3.      Gauge the effectiveness of selected assessment tools in soliciting client data and facilitating interaction.

4.      Discuss cultural characteristics that impact the selection and application of assessment tools.

I have selected the Beck Depression Inventory for this paper.

Utilize one or more specific methods of assessment with a client you are working with at your fieldwork site. Ask your site supervisor to assist you in selecting an assessment that is appropriate for your client and that is currently used at your site (such as the Beck Depression Inventory, Beck Anxiety Inventory, mental status exam, biopsychosocial assessment, ecomap, genogram, or another developed assessment instrument).