Without your own understanding of the purpose of suffering, crisis responders cannot truly offer emotional and spiritual care in disasters and provide comfort and direction to others in their suffering and pain. Your own understanding of the biblical teaching on the topic of suffering is...
Select a research article related to the study of leadership. Read it and prepare an overview and critique using the following outline. You will share an overview of your article and involve the class in a discussion as well as any critical assessment (yours or...
For this assignment, you must find a current example (from within the past two years) that clearly relates to one of the dominant philosophies influencing social work, as discussed in classes two and three (Modernism, Structuralism, or Post-conventionalism). You may select an example from various...
Create a detailed timeline or storyboard showcasing the key moments in the character's life journey, working backward from their death to their birth. Each stage of the character's life will be visually represented, accompanied by annotations or descriptions highlighting important events and developmental milestones. Use...
This assignment requires that you explore a key aspect of organizational development ( Lewin’s Change Model) within a large business setting, and prepare a substantive outline detailing the program that you intend to design, develop, implement, and maintain for the benefit of the organization identified....
Research and analyze a public figure's social media conflict and create a presentation that tells their story and explains social media's impact on the conflict. To do this, create a 10 slide PowerPoint presentation in which you use text and visuals to support your narrative....
Individuals with personality disorders often find it difficult to overcome the enduring patterns of thought and behavior that they have thus far experienced and functioned with in daily life. Even when patients are aware that personality-related issues are causing significant distress and functional impairment and...
Module Two is all about self-justification, conformity, and compliance-related behaviors. What are the social-psychological processes associated with our tendencies to justify our actions, behaviors, and feelings? Is conformity good or bad? Why do people conform to group pressure? Why don’t bystanders always come to...
Inevitably, mistakes will be made by executives, department heads, and team leaders over the course of the lifecycle of any corporate initiative or project. Based on what you have learned about conformity / groupthink and self-justification, what strategies might you, as a leader or...
With respect to the types of behaviors potentially induced by a state of cognitive dissonance, Aaronson (Chapter 3 Self-Justification) points out the following: People are capable of rational, adaptive behavior, as well as dissonance-reducing behavior. What are the behaviors (and limitations) associated with...