Response to intervention

Influences of Trauma on Children: The Significance of Resources and Interventions in Healing the Wound from Loss to Resilience (2) The influence of trauma on children is a growing problem in our society; thus, creating an issue that needs careful consideration and thorough management of health care and social service providers. In dealing with those issues, experts from various disciplines look at the significance of resources and interventions in helping children heal the wounds encountered…

fixed ratio schedule of reinforcement determines how many responses should be completed to produce the reinforcer, and provide a high rate of responding for the high rate of reinforcement (p.306). For example, establishing a FR 4 means that reinforcement will be given after the fourth correct responses. The variable ratio schedule of reinforcement means that the behavior analysts provides reinforcement after a variable number of responses (Cooper et Al, 2007,…

uses an individual’s perception and description of an experience to promote an understanding of that experience. The importance of patient and family understanding cannot be understated, as it is an invaluable asset to nurses’ understanding and intervention. Problem, Purpose and Hypothesis The problem was a large percentage of those diagnosed with lung cancer had advanced disease at the time of diagnosis with concomitant physical and psychological symptoms such as breathlessness, fatigue,…

Conceptualization Concept #1: Family Schema Sergio reported that he has problems with his anger and he tends to blow up easily just like his father. What I see is that Sergio thinks that being angry and blowing up is what it seems to work with everyone. Sergio saw his father the same way by arguing and getting angry to the point that it caused him to have a heart attack; it is a family belief that someone should always be extremely angry to be able to deal with people. Sergio’s father moved…

behavioural principles such as Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA). Baer, Wolf, & Risley (1987) defined ABA as “the systematic application and evaluation of principles behaviour analysis to the improvement of specific behaviours.” Learning, stimuli, responses, consequences, positive reinforcement, negative reinforcement, punishment, and extinction are the terms and principles that often used in ABA. According to ASHA, the techniques used in this analysis including prompting, cuing, modelling,…

each of the following questions: 1. Which video did you watch and what ideas presented in the video were most important to you? I watched the video, Differentiating in Math using computer games. I found myself relating to the immediate feedback response time and it seemed so much easier to get the immediate feedback from the computer verses having to wait for the teacher to give students the feedback they need. My students would sometimes become impatient waiting for me to give them feedback…

fluid he is consuming as well as taking notice of what his body is telling him. By ensuring that he is getting 2-3 liters of fluids per day A. L. reports decreased thirst, improved facial appearance, less headaches, and a lighter urine color. Interventions will continue to be implemented for the next month along with health logs in order to assess patient’s progress towards…

risk youth. Although, I believe it’s a good idea to use prevention programs targeting at risk youth at schools, I do acknowledge it comes with complications. In the reading by Scileppi in Prevention et al. (n.d)., it is brought up that in early intervention used in schools, leads to too many false positives. Identifying youth as “at risk”, labels them in a way that might bring negative consequences. It can lower the youth’s expectations for themselves, as well as lowering the expectations…

the comparison group who is not receiving any treatment (Kampf, Löffler, & Gastmeier, 2009). The intervention and comparison group will go through an intake which is when we gather medical history, basic patient information, and list of medications currently being taken. Next, both groups will take a survey to see what they already know and do not know about diabetes and management. Then the intervention group will start to implement the new ways to care for their diabetes, which they will be…

realm of international relations and politics. This essay will contend that a cosmopolitan approach, emphasising the way in which ethical duties transcend the nation state, is justifiable, especially exemplified in the issues of immigration and intervention. However, this essay will also suggest that the application of cosmopolitan ideals in these areas can give rise to actions whose ethics and moral righteousness are highly debatable, exposing a communitarian argument. Two ethical frameworks…