Writing Homework Help

For this extra credit assignment you will select a topic from one of the 12 topics listed below. Students will locate a video online which will enhance the learning is this class. Videos can come from SAMSHA, NIH, NIMH, YouTube, TedTalks etc.

Requirements:

1. Provide the URL link for the video
2. Provide a complete APA formatted citation
3. Write a brief (3 or 4 sentences only) description of the resource
4. Videos must be in the public domain
5. Videos must be no more than 5 years old – i.e. the published date is after 2016
6. Accessible for anyone with the link
7. Length of video should be between 10″ and 30″. Could go up to one hour
8. Videos must be from a credible source. Videos from SAMSHA will be credible, what I don’t want is a video from youtube from “Uncle Ralph”

Students will choose from list below. No more than 2 students can do the same topic so post early, In the subject line of your post indicate which topic you will be doing for extra credit. Topics are available on a first come first served basis.

I would prefer only student per topic but if you insist, No more than 2 students can do the same topic, so post early and in the subject line of your post indicate which topic you will be doing for extra credit. Topics are available on a first come first served basis. The choices are numbered for your easy reference.

1. Motivational Enhancement
2. Ethical and Legal Issues in Counseling
3. The Major Substances of Abuse and the Body
4. How Change Occurs – The wheel of Change
5. Disease Concept of addiction.
6. Behavioral theory of addiction.
7. Sociocultural Theory of addiction.
8. Assessment and Diagnosis
9. Best Treatment Setting
10. Treatment Planning
11. Group Treatment in the Continuum of Care
12. Family Treatment,
13. Retaining Sobriety: Relapse Prevention Strategies
14. Working with Selected Populations
15. Working with Diverse Cultures
16. Prevention
17. Behavioral Addiction

QUESTION 2

Respond using at least 70 words, to this opinions.

Jennifer

America’s heathcare industry has been incredibly innovative in providing cutting edge services as private companies compete for profits. Lives are saved by the latest technology every day and more and more people are surviving once deadly acute and chronic conditions. It’s so convenient to have the medical technology today to save us from the consequences of our everyday risk-taking and unhealthy lifestyles: STDs, cancers, heart disease, diabetes, COPD, accidents, violence – you name it, we got a cure. In fact, it is so much easier to pop a pill than to forego that cheesecake, run around the block, or quit drinking that we don’t bother giving up our guilty pleasures anymore. After all, we’re living sick longer than our ancestors lived well just 2-3 generations ago.

Public health officials have campaigned for decades for individuals to take on more healthy lifestyles in order to prevent the conditions listed above. They argue that our lifespan will extend and our healthcare costs will decline. In fact, they are most likely absolutely correct. However, they are speaking to the masses, not individuals. Most people want their healthcare and financial decisions personalized and based on their immediate needs, not propaganda from unknown researchers with an audience of unknown conditions. In order to reach the masses, you would need the masses to have access to personal care in order to make an impression. This is something that is very costly, and would probably increase overall healthcare costs to the people who are currently seeing a primary care physician, either in overall healthcare inflation or taxes.

Additionally, with the extended lifespans comes exorbitant personal costs. Many retirees don’t have retirement funds of their own to last their entire retirement. They end up relying on their social security check, public funds for shelter and medical expenses, or live with family members. The longer they live, the more burden they may feel like they are making on society. So many people may not be incentivized by living longer.

Personally, I do believe that overall personal preventitve care is important and believe that in the long run we can make adjustments to afford longer lifespans. But in the meantime, public policy to support the lifestyle of the elderly and frail and provide medical care access to the lower-income would need to catch up to the intentions of the public health officials before we see the effects of their campaigns for preventitive health services.

CLAUDIA

Respond using at least 70 words, to this opinions.

The different ideologies and approach between public health and clinical medicine has created separation between them with debates and discord that prevent from effective strategies for communities based care and preventive services. This has occurred for decades. Some of the reasons for this are the identification of public health by practicing physicians with governmental bureaucracy, the linking of the care of low-income populations with welfare, the focus of physicians toward individuals, and the custom of being paid only for active therapy.

About 3% of US health care spending is devoted to public health activities. This is due to the lack of interest from the public as the role of public health is not recognized or seen, therefore, it is not politically attractive.

Physician’s education that have their attention and focus on individual patients and not on the population. In addition, specialized, sophisticated technology have taken the interest and focus on physicians, leaving behind opportunity for education on the core topics and concepts of population health.

Doctors against the establishment of preventive and curative medicine centers. They were opposed to public treatment of the sick and were afraid of be taken from their physician’s role if extension of the boundaries of public health took place. They feared that public health agencies were expanding into activities they believed were rightfully their own.

Interest groups have the perception of public health as a “socialized medicine” in a negative light as they presume is a social change that represents an unjustified intrusion of government into the lives of private individuals.

Little funding for research or practice for public health promotion or disease prevention.

Lack of public health training and leaders with skills in leadership, management, and negotiation.

Lack of health insurance companies that can reimburse providers for preventive services in general and behavioral counseling in particular.

MARSHA

Respond using at least 70 words, to this opinions.

We can play a part in blocking and becoming a hinderance for preventive services to be effective, when it comes to our attitude and behavior towards personal perceptions, measures, regulations, polices, political affiliation, gender, cultural, and much more. We all are participants consciously and unconsciously, when it comes to preventive services, the services can only be as effective, if only every one of us, do our part in collaboration to promote, inform, educate, and participate, by being our brothers’ and sisters’ keeper, consuming these services and participating in those measures, to help prevent any actions against contagious and communicable diseases and viruses. We all can play a part in blocking and becoming effective preventive agents, when it comes to health care, in more ways than we can ever imagine. When it comes to barriers to effective preventive services, we must begin with our cognitive perceptions and behaviors towards our social constructive lifestyle, environment, and the positive and negative connotation surrounding those aspects, on one’s life and surroundings.

To answer the above sentences, there are many barriers to preventive services, from humans, socio economic status, environment, cultural aspect, to political influences, all the way down to one’s race. Color or creed. Humans can be their own enemies and barriers, based on their cognitive and behavioral attitude towards others. For example, many preventive services are not accessible to those who may be in rural and poor inner cities, of poor socio-economic status and many not be able to consume and take advantages of many preventives’ services, because of money and location. During 180, in Chadwick England, morbidity and mortality rates were high based on the locations and environmental conditions, according to chapter 11 of our textbook. Moreover, right here in the United States experiences unsanitary conditions in the city, of poor living conditions, and socioeconomic status. This is a case where the rich lived and the poor died, because they lack the resources and accessibility to preventive services and good health care. With regards to England and the United States, their goal was not about humanitarian aid nor for the wealth and the health of their people, but rather an economic and commercial standpoint. In other words, for profit and money gain. According to chapter 11, England and many other countries including the United States especially early federal public health were driven by economics and business aspects and not the welfare of the healthcare of the population at large, especially those living in improvise conditions and below the socio-economic ladder. Theses were the population most vulnerable and susceptible and prune to contagious and communicable diseases and virus.

Now let us look at who is really pulling the strings, when it comes to barriers to effective preventive services, the political big dogs. Congress and political leaders are great influence in the health care industry. It is as effective with the influence of its connection with the government and political decision involvement or making decision, as mentioned in chapter 11, on page 428. The Quality of our lives and how those services is issue and to whom they are accessible to, depends on the people in charge and organizations.

Barriers to preventive services can be a person’s attitude towards the health care industry, whereby, their personal choice for home and natural remedies. Many people do not believe in seeking assistance from hospitals, doctor’s etcetera, they preferred home remedies, such as herbal medicines and a holistic approach to their health care needs and necessities.

Social factors nor norms, such economic circumstances, discrimination by race, ethnicity, gender or sexual orientations, and the growing population, economic and social problems, against the unemployed, where certain laws were bias. Certain laws were geared towards able-bodied people and their families given aid only exchange for their labor. As new industrial society factories and more developments of Urban environmental structures develops, creating new health exposure to higher health risks and challenges through industrial and environmental pollution. The more the population grew in numbers, the risk of over crowing of towns, health risks and the probability of diseases were more prevalent among those over crowed, unsanitary, congested areas.

Another barrier obstacle to preventive measures is the opposition to and cooperation within the health care industry among the public health care, according to chapter 11. The medical professionals rallied from a philosophical and economic standpoint, as they advocated against public treatment of the chronic and ill population, for coordination of preventive and curative medicines. The physicians were against disease screening and primary care services, that were focus on the population at the lowest level on the socioeconomic ladder, as reflected in chapter 11, on page 446, of our textbook. The opposition of private and public opposition on medical issues, when it comes to health care services, can evoke barriers to effective communication.

The ultimate barrier to preventive services is money, funding for “: Research or practice, for healthcare promotions or disease prevention.” This is in contract to large sums that finance the research in and practice of remedial medical care, as expressed on page 447, in our textbook.

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