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This week, you will examine various substance abuse counseling techniques and methods and determine their effectiveness in working with particular clients. You also will consider treatment planning and gain practice in creating a treatment plan that best addresses the needs of a client.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this week, you should be able to:
� Compare substance abuse counseling techniques and methods
� Apply substance abuse counseling techniques and methods to a case study
� Develop a substance abuse counseling treatment plan
� Analyze ethical and legal considerations related to the treatment of substance abusers and clients who are addicted

Explain how current legislation and sector skills standards influence organizational policies and practices for promoting and maximizing the rights of users of health and social care services
Analyse factors that may affect the achievement of promoting and maximizing the rights of users of health and social care services
Analyse how communication between careworkers and individuals contribute to promoting and maximizing the rights of users of health and social care services
Explain factors that may contribute to loss of independence, non-participation and social exclusion for vulnerable people
Analyse how organisational systems and processes are managed to promote participation and independence and choice against the care provider’s duty to protect

Section 1 Title: Induction & APT & Online communication/etiquette
Demonstrate your enthusiasm to connect with the initial sessions at Coventry University. Reflect on your induction process but also your initial meetings with your Academic personal tutor? How do you feel this may support your overall learning experience? Reflect on the virtual environment and how a professional approach to academic communications is important?

Section 2 Title: Learning Styles & Reflective Practice
In what way do you learn best? Consider reflecting on your Honey & Mumford learning style. What learning style do you have?

You may choose to use your results from the self-directed study exercise on p.57 of the Cameron text book provided, to reflect on. How are you developing your learning styles to make your learning more effective?

Demonstrate your understanding of reflective practice – Use personal examples to help illustrate your understanding. Are you making time for ‘reflective practice’? What questions are you asking yourself to reflect on your experience? You might choose to give an example of how reflective practice has helped you to learn something.

Section 3 Title: Internationalisation & developing Cultural awareness
Working with peers (other students) is a key area to developing diversity in working groups and an excellent learning opportunity. You have had the opportunity to work with other students many from differing geographical &/or cultural backgrounds. Reflect on what you have learnt. (You may want to give specific examples in your portfolio). Reflect on the positive learning that this has had on your university journey so far and detail how you plan to further develop your cultural awareness through planning.

Interview questions:

1.Do you want to know the basics information about your end-of-life care?

2. Do you want to know information about how long you have to live?

3. Do you want to control your own end-of-life care?

4. Do you think quality of life is more important to me than quantity in regards to medical care?

5. Are you worried that I’ll get overly aggressive care when you get older?

6. Do you want to be living independently or in nursing facility?

7. Do you want your loved ones to know everything about my health” ?

10. In your culture, how might the use of opioid pain medicines to treat chronic pain typically be viewed and what additional treatment your using?

1. What demands have been served by “othering” people of color from certain ethnic groups, Middle East and Muslims, and other marginalized groups throughout U.S. history?

2. How can an awareness that current policies and practices are informed by dominant culture characteristics help us to better understand inequality today and help us craft more effective policies?

3. What policy changes do you see as necessary in our criminal justice system? How might these changes impact inequality on the basis of race and ethnicity in the United States?

Women should have a choice and leniency to opt in and out of work as they please…
Paper details

Op-Ed Writing Assignment (persuasive argument) with 750-800 words

(Can Read 2 articles: The Opt-Out Revolution by
Lisa Belkin and the Opt- Out generation wants back in by Judith Warner)

Make a clear, timely, single point – you should be able to summarize your argument in 1-2 sentences.
2) Show, don’t tell – make an immediate hook and demonstrate to your readers what’s happening, not relying simply on
discussion.
3) Make readers care – you need to make a clear, persuasive appeal as to why your audience should care about what
you’re writing about.
4) Provide an alternative, don’t just criticize – use your (limited) words to suggest a mindset, course of action, policy
change, organizational shift, or something else that your readers can do to alleviate, assuage, or assist in the process of
dismantling whatever problem you may have identified in your piece.
5) Demonstrate your expertise and relate-ability – use your expertise to make a case for your argument without relying
on jargon or specific vocabulary that a smart, generalist reader (who hasn’t taken your same course-load) could
understand.

‘Counselling and stress management training have useful roles to play, but rather than focusing exclusively on what the organisation can provide for the employee to help them cope with stress, organisations would be well advised to consider what the organisation can do to eliminate or reduce workplace stressors.’
‘Work-related stress is a serious problem and the Health and Safety Executive’s (2003/04) survey of self-reported work-related illness indicated that more than half a million individuals in Britain were experiencing work stress at a level that was causing them ill-health.
‘The causes of stress are varied. Perhaps the most commonly cited cause is a lack of time or an excessive workload. Lack of time may stem from responsibilities at home, at work, or a combination of both. But other triggers are possible. Working too much, fear of accident or injury, poor interpersonal relationships with co-workers or supervisors, or the threat of layoff or job loss can all be sources of stress in the work environment.’
4.‘Our analysis confirms a relationship between occupational stress and attitudes towards organizational change. Almost all occupational stressors were related to negative attitudes to change…. Lack of a socially supportive environment, as expressed by bad work relationships, was found to be the strongest predictor of negative attitudes towards change…. Another issue is the administration of appropriate human resource functions, such as training. Employees need to feel adequately trained and informed especially during change because effective communication reduces fear and uncertainty and, therefore, resistance to change.’
5.‘Learning about how employees view the causes of their stress can often lead to the development of effective solutions. Gathering information from employees can be done informally either individually or in small group meetings…. Just making an effort to assess the problem signals to the employees that the management values their wellbeing. These actions can improve morale and reduce stress even before the implementation of any formal measure.’
6.‘From a recent study by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Paoli, 1997) it appears that 28% of over 15,000 European workers report that stress is a work-related health problem.’

Identifies which Organizational Development strategy should be used to address the problems in the organization and provides supporting evidence and details for strategy by referencing all relevant module readings and relating prior experience.
Takes on the role of a consultant, proposing next steps to resolve issues; the rationale for these steps is thoroughly and thoughtfully explained. Ideas are fully developed in a manner that is fresh and engaging. Details are included that bring the scenario to life.
Offers an opinion on whether or not a different form of communication should have been used and provides supporting evidence and details by referencing all relevant module readings and relating prior experience.
Establishes a timeline for resolving issue that is realistic and supported by traditional conflict resolution strategies as discussed throughout the course. Time line is detailed and clearly articulated.

Please answer these two Questions separately
1-Bargaining/Negotiation Experiences

Most of us confront formal or informal bargaining or negotiation situations periodically in our professional lives. Briefly describe an experience with bidding or negotiation in a business setting. No divorces, please.) How did you select a bidding strategy? How successful were you in getting the outcome you sought?

2- Auction& Bidding

Discuss a personal or business auction or bidding situation with which you are familiar. 1) What information did you need and how did you try to obtain it? 2) How did you try to estimate the goals and strategies of your opponent(s)? 3) How might you have done a better job of managing your role in this process?

1) Taking into account the characters in The Glass Menagerie , explore the themes of either “Reality vs. Non-Reality” or “Escapism” in Tennessee Williams’ play. In a thesis-centered essay, choose a specific argument around these themes and analyze our desires to fall into this “world.”
While you will be analyzing Williams’ work, your thesis should be centered on a current issue.
or;
2) Explore the theme of “Nostalgia” (a mixed feeling of happiness, sadness, and longing when recalling a person, place, or event from the past, or the past in general) in The Glass Menagerie. We know the play is called a “memory play” by Tom. To what extent do we cling to the past and is this “story” accurate? Why do we live in “memory”? What can be accomplished? Is this healthy or not? Using The Glass Menagerie as a basis for your argument, write a thesis-centered paper exploring these themes.