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Assignment 1 (A)-Biopsychosocial

Often, across our life spans, humans experience many unique things that shape development and provide the context of who they become. These influences may include the parent-child relationship and may occur within our social networks, within the family context, and among our communities. These influences can have a lasting impact on us biologically, psychologically, and socially. Recognizing that relationships are central to the human experience, the “bio-psycho-social” approach is important to understanding and promoting lasting change. It is also useful in helping people understand influences that have shaped their development. People seeking to help themselves better manage life problems may integrate the use of this comprehensive approach.

For this Assignment:

You develop a biopsychosocial assessment of yourself and incorporate influences in your life span as they relate to family, extended family, culture, and social systems. The goal of this assignment is to assist you in gaining self-awareness and insight into your own background, including experiences that have shaped your development as an individual as well as structural self-reflection to achieve a deeper understanding of who you are as an individual.

Submit a 5- to 7-page paper in which you:

• Explain aspects of human behavior that were important in shaping your life situation and issues.
• Explain how potential biological, psychological, and social issues may have affected development over your life span from birth to present day.
• Apply a life span theory such as Erickson, Freud, Piaget, Kohlberg, or Fowler to the development across your life span.
• Describe three strengths you feel you have acquired over your life span.
• Assignment 1 (B) : Final Assignment
• Think back to the start of this course. How have you changed as a result of learning about diversity and the mechanisms of power, privilege, and discrimination?What privileges do you have? Because of intersectional identities, you may hold privilege with one identity (e.g., gender), but lack privilege with another identity (e.g., class). Consider each identify separately and try to parcel out the effect of each identity on your experience. How can you use your power to advocate for other groups?For this Assignment, you integrate concepts that you have learned throughout the past 10 weeks. In addition to engaging in self-reflection, you apply concepts from the course resources and seek out additional literature in order to inform your continued development of cultural competence.To Prepare, watch the self-reflective Video Journal entries you made in Weeks 2–9.
  

  By Day 7

  Submit a 3- to 4-page paper in which you do the following:

  • Use the following identity categories when responding to the assignment points:
    • Age
    • Ability
    • Religion/spirituality
    • Ethnic/racial identity
    • Socioeconomic status
    • National origin
    • Sex
    • Gender identity and expression
    • Sexual orientation
  • Identity two ways in which you either hold privilege or lack privilege for each identity category.
  • Identify two strengths associated with the identity you hold in each category.
  • First, discuss each identity separately and then briefly discuss the intersectional nature of your identity.
  • Support your analysis with citations to class resources.
  • Explain how your values, biases, and judgments toward diverse groups have been challenged or confirmed during this course.
    • Describe what you learned through your self-reflective Video Journals.
    • Identify any areas that may need continued growth.
  • Provide two strategies for continuing to develop your multicultural competence and support ideas with at least 2–3 peer-reviewed scholarly articles.