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Description The threat of public stigma, as well as self-stigma, can prevent individuals from receiving the mental health treatment they need. In this Assignment, you analyze the influence of stigma on experiences with and treatment of mental illness. Submit a 3-page paper that addresses the following: Briefly explain Corrigan’s model of the stages of stigma and his recommendations and hierarchy about recovery. Explain whether Delle’s experience follows that model. Use specific examples to argue your perspective. If you agree, identify which stage of recovery Delle is in. Analyze Delle’s reports about his own experiences with both types of stigma. Provide specific examples, and in your analysis consider the following questions: Does one type of stigma predominate in his talk? Which of Delle’s personal values or beliefs were challenged by his internalizations about his own illness and help-seeking? What strengths does he exhibit? What was the primary benefit of his diagnosis? Do you think his experience would be different if his culture was different? Explain why or why not. What strengths does he exhibit? What was the primary benefit of his diagnosis? Do you think his experience would be different if his culture was different? Explain why or why not? To prepare: Watch the TED Talk by Sangu Delle and then review the readings for this week. Focus on Delle’s examples illustrating Corrigan’s model about the stages of stigma and the hierarchy of disclosure. Consider Delle's experience against that model. REQUIRED READINGS Paris, J. (2015). The intelligent clinician's guide to the DSM-5 (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Oxford University Press Chapter 4, “What Is (and Is Not) a Mental Disorder” (pp. 54–69) Pillay, S. (2010, May 3). The dangers of self-diagnosis: How self-diagnosis can lead you down the wrong path [Blog post]. Retrieved from https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/debunking-myt... Campbell, R. D., & Mowbray, O. (2016). The stigma of depression: Black American experiences. Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social Work, 25(4), 153–269. doi:10.1080/15313204.2016.1187101 Corrigan, P. W., & Rao, D. (2012). On the self-stigma of mental illness: Stages, disclosure, and strategies for change. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 57(8), 464–469. doi:10.1177/070674371205700804 REQUIRED MEDIA Laureate Education (Producer). (2018a). Psychopathology and diagnosis for social work practice podcast: Diagnosis, self-stigma, and mental health [Audio podcast]. Baltimore, MD: Author. TED Conferences, LLC (Producer). (2017). There’s no shame in taking care of your mental health [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.ted.com/talks/sangu_delle_there_s_no_s... OPTIONAL RESOURCES Corrigan, P. W. (2007) How clinical diagnosis might exacerbate the stigma of mental illness. Social Work, 52(1), 31–39. doi:10.1093/sw/52.1.31 Johnson, J. L., Oliffe, J. L., Kelly, M. T., Galdas, P., & Ogrodniczuk, J. S. (2012). Men’s discourses of help?seeking in the context of depression. Sociology of Health & Illness, 34(3), 345–361. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9566.2011.01372.x Muralidharan, A., Lucksted, A., Medoff, D.,?Fang, L. J., & Dixon, L. (2016). Stigma: A unique source of distress for family members of individuals with mental illness. Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research, 43(3), 484–493. doi:10.1007/s11414-014-9437-4 Tsang, H. W. H., Ching, S. C., Tang, K. H., Lam, H. T., Law, P. Y. Y., & Wan, C. N. (2016). Therapeutic intervention for internalized stigma of severe mental illness: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Schizophrenia Research. 173(1-2), 45–53. doi:10.1016/j.schres.2016.02.013 Document: Suggested Further Reading for SOCW 6090 (PDF)

Description One way to inform the public about an intervention program is through the use of billboards. You will be creating a two-billboard campaign that aims to get the word out about your intervention program. For this assignment: Select a target population within Sentinel City. You can assess Sentinel City by clicking the link below this assignment. Select a public health issue and provide an overview of the issue and its importance and any barriers that may affect the target population of interest. Design two types of culturally competent intervention strategies that are appropriate for the health issue you selected. Create two different billboards that reflect the selected intervention strategies for your public health issue. Include these billboards after you have written steps 2 and 3. Please be creative with these billboards. You can use Word or any program that can help you create billboards. You can draw them, use graphics or images, or anything else to get your intervention strategy out to the people. Submit a one page explanation of the meaning behind the billboard, target audience, main message and describe the importance of cultural competencies in association with action goals for each billboard in addition to what you have for items 1,2,3. You cannot use a current slogan/campaign/image; your message must be original. Sentinel City 3.0: https://sentinelworld.healthcarelearninginnovations.com/home

Description After carefully selecting a central symbol in Alice LaPlante’s Half Moon Bay, how has the symbol informed your reading of LaPlante’s work? *3.5 pages of your very best sentences u? At least three outside sources. Research, remember, is your friend. u? An introduction paragraph that grabs the reader’s attention, provides necessary background, and focuses your readers’ attention to the thesis. Remember, my dear hearts, your thesis is the simple answer to the writing question. Right? u? Body paragraphs that have a single “point”, information, and explanation. Remember, summary is not explanation. Explain what you think. u? A conclusion that wraps up your essay, so your reader is satisfied. u? A cover page that will include the format requirements and a creative title. You can, if you wish, include artwork on your cover page; it would suggest effort. u? An MLA 8work cited page and parenthetical citation. color can be used symbolically in Half Moon Bay? Consider LaPlante’s description of Alma, “…Despite her [Alma] dark hair and skin, her eyes are a strange blue-green, very intense” (La Plante 67). Consider LaPlante’s description of Edward, “He [Edward]

Description This module’s content focuses on the nature of race relations in the United States and globally. Write a 2- to 3-page paper (500 to 825 words) in APA format in which you use sociological theories of social stratification to explain race relations domestically and internationally. Be sure to compare the social stratification system in the United States to that of at least two additional countries in your paper. Cite and use at least one additional outside source for this paper. Your paper must address the following: 1. Drawing upon the Module 4 materials and one outside source, explain how the stratification system is different between the United States and at least one other country. Be sure to use concepts from your reading in your response. 2. Based upon your understanding of the stratification system in the United States, examine why inequality impacts some racial groups (ethnic minorities, for example) more than others. For example, is it because of racism or some other form of discrimination? Explain. 3. Provide and analyze one important example of the impact economic inequality has on one racial group in the United States. For example, how do the rates of crime and unemployment, levels of education, and amount of income differ for African Americans in comparison to the larger population? 4. Finally, describe what you think are the implications of achieving a truly “color-blind” society in the United States. For example, how do we, as a society, achieve a careful balance in which we recognize and appreciate ethnic differences on one hand, but still have a unified American population? Reading Material. Read Chapters 9, 10, and 11 in Griffiths, Keirns, Strayer, Cody-Rydzewski, Scaramuzzo, Sadler, Vyain, Bry, and Jones, Introduction to Sociology. Hobson, M. (2014, May 5). Color blind or color brave? [TED Talks].

Description Why and how do tourists develop and/or resort to stereotypes while traveling away from their home environment? Why are stereotypes often inaccurate? Why are stereotypes helpful? Why are stereotypes dangerous? How can we modify and/or eliminate stereotypes?Your answer must be a minimum of 700 words and maximum of 1000 words. If you were the President of the San Diego Tourism Authority, how would you go about evaluating satisfaction levels of tourists visiting the region? Which technique of satisfaction measurement would be the most adequate? Describe this technique? Why should international tourist complaints not always be used in assessing their vacation satisfaction?Your answer must be a minimum of 700 words and maximum of 1000 words.

Description Discussion: Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Gender Expression Think about the moment in which you became aware of your sexual orientation. Do you recall making a conscious choice to be gay or straight? Some believe that gender identity and sexual expression is a choice, or more likely, that “people choose to be gay.” The counter to that belief is that one does not “choose” his or her sexual orientation; it simply is. This week you consider how people’s reactions to someone’s gender identity or sexual orientation impacts his or her environment and experience. When adolescents question their sexual orientation or gender identity, they encounter various reactions from individuals in their environment. For this Discussion, consider how people’s reactions to someone’s gender identity or sexual orientation may impact his or her environment and experience. BY DAY 3 Post your answer to the following question: How might potential reactions to an adolescent’s questioning of their sexual identity, or gender role, impact their social environment, behavior and self-esteem? As social workers, what role can we play in assuring the best outcomes for these adolescents?

Description The purpose of this assessment is to demonstrate your understanding of why ethical frameworks are necessary in professional practice and to illustrate your understanding by developing your own ethical framework to provide a rationale for ethical decision making. The assessment will be composed of two parts: Part 1. Design the framework – here you need to identify, and then bring together, the essential components of an ethical framework into a form which provides a structure to guide information gathering about any case and which offers a process to follow by which case-related information can be evaluated with a view to making decisions. Part 2. After completing Part 1, describe an imaginary, or real, case scenario which needs a management/treatment question answered. Use the details of the case to work through your ethical framework to show how it could be used to gather and collate relevant information so that an appropriate ethical answer to the case can be found. In order to complete the assessment, you will need to review how ethical frameworks are composed (and why) and understand their purpose and how they are used. Do not copy a framework directly from the literature as your answer to Part 1. However, you will need to provide the rationale for how your ethical framework is composed and how it could be used, so you need to reference the literature to provide this information as well as to illustrate ethical principles. As this is not an essay, but the presentation of the assessment should be in a report format and be structured with main section headings, subordinate headings (sub-headings) and bullet points where necessary. Start with an introduction, then a main body and a short conclusion.

Description Part 1 My research topic is Food insecurity for recipients of government subsidies ex food stamps) Consider the research topic you are developing for your Major Assignment 1. Review Chapter 3 of the Ravitch and Carl text and use Table 3.1, page 69 to help you create a rationale using the questions as your guide. Review Chapter 3 of the Ravitch and Carl text and specifically use pages 70–76 to create a positionality memo to reflect on your relationship to the topic. Review the Fundamentals of Qualitative Research Methods: Developing a Qualitative Research Question media program as a guideline to help you create a research question. By Day 3 Transform your notes from your preparation work into four paragraphs and briefly explain in your post the following: The research purpose of your inquiry The rationale Issues of positionality The research question Part 2 To prepare for this Discussion: Review the Learning Resources and the Fundamentals of Qualitative Research Methods: Developing a Qualitative Research Question video and consider the basic guidelines for qualitative research design. Review the qualitative research article you found and identify each of the components of the research design and consider what is present and what is missing. Identify what the authors did to document positionality, reflexivity, and bias. Transform your notes from your preparation work into three paragraphs and post the following: A brief statement of the purpose and primary research question the article addresses An assessment of how thoroughly the research design was presented, including what was missing An assessment of the extent of the researcher’s presentation of positionality, reflexivity, and bias Be sure to support your main post and response post with reference to the week’s Learning Resources and other scholarly evidence in APA style.

Description The Course Capstone Project involves evaluating a public health program that addresses a public health problem in your community. The project is sustained throughout the course. You are expected to complete work on your Course Capstone Project each week and meet regularly with your learning team for peer feedback. Read Chapter 36, Section 5. Developing an Evaluation Plan of the Community Tool Box from the University of Kansas Center for Community Health and Development. Your tasks this week are to: Develop an evaluation plan to address the following evaluation questions: How well was the program planned and implemented? How well has the program met its stated goals and objectives? What effect has the program had on its target audience? What effect has the program had on the community? Did any unintended consequences occur that undermined the success of the program? Consider the following evaluation methods: Process measures that measure how well the program was implemented Outcome measures that measure the program results An observational system to monitor the program in action Write a summary of your evaluation plan that describes: The stakeholders you would need to work with and answer to when performing and presenting the evaluation A summary of the program being evaluated The program’s objectives and goals A logic model to synthesize the program elements to ensure it meets its intended purpose 3–5 metrics that would be used to determine whether objectives, goals, and other desirable outcomes have been met Discussion of the evaluation methods appropriate for the program 

Description For this assignment, imagine you are exploring the possibility of creating a program to address childhood obesity in your diverse community. You are seeking the support of potential funders and community stakeholders for the program and plan to present them with information that may help in their decision. Read “Racial Disparities in Obesity Treatment Among Children and Adolescents.” Write a 175-word (½ page) needs statement that defines the problem, describes the implications of the problem, and identifies the gaps in your community for stakeholders and potential funders of a childhood obesity program. Describe existing childhood obesity programs that may serve as an example for your community. Clearly identify the gap or problem within a specific community. Use data and comparative statistics to provide an overview and snapshot of the prevalence of childhood obesity across various racial and ethnic populations in the United States. Describe socioeconomic factors that influence racial and ethnic differences in childhood obesity. Describe biological and cultural factors associated with racial and ethnic differences in childhood obesity. Note: It would be advantageous to reference and review "Chapter 7: What Needs Fixing? The Needs Statement"  for ideas and inspiration in order to prepare your needs statement. Ensure that your needs statement: Uses language that is easily understandable by your target audience Focuses on one main issue Consists of short, concise paragraphs Provides a case for sustainable action