ABS 200 Entire Course For more course tutorials visit ABS 200 Week 1 DQ 1 What is Applied Behavioral Science ABS 200 Week 1 DQ 2 Values and Ethics Guiding Generalist Practice ABS 200 Week 2 DQ 1 Empowerment ABS 200 Week 2 DQ 2 Theories on Groups

ABS 200 Final Guide For more course tutorials visit Focus of the Final Paper Select a short video from the list below about a specific social problem such as: Poverty 1. Retrieved on July 7, 2010 from Poverty 2. Retrieved on July 7, 2010 from

ABS 200 Week 1 DQ 1 What is Applied Behavioral Science For more course tutorials visit What is Applied Behavioral Science? Review the video, Science Can Answer Moral Questions, readings in Chapter 1, and the power point slides. In a word post: Describe your understanding of the field of Applied Behavioral Science including an overview of the generalist perspective of practice.

ABS 200 Week 1 DQ 2 Values and Ethics Guiding Generalist Practice For more course tutorials visit Values and Ethics Guiding Generalist Practice. Review the readings in Chapter 2, and the power point slides. In words, supporting your comments with scholarly references, please summarize the professional values and ethics that guide the Generalist Practice.

ABS 200 Week 2 Critical Thinking Evidence Based Practice (EBP) and “Person-In-Environment” (PIE) For more course tutorials visit Critical Thinking: Evidence Based Practice (EBP) and “Person-In-Environment” (PIE). In a 3 to 4 page paper: Review Critical thinking, as described in the text. What does it have to do with science? Review the articles about Evidence-based practice and the Person-In-Environment Perspective and Classification system.

ABS 200 Week 2 DQ 1 Empowerment For more course tutorials visit Empowerment. Watch Why to Believe in Others and in 250 – 300 words, supporting your comments with scholarly references, Discuss Empowerment and Empowerment Theory, The Strengths Perspective, and Resiliency and why this focus is a vital concept in the Generalist Practice.

ABS 200 Week 2 DQ 2 Theories on Groups For more course tutorials visit Theories on Groups. Of all the theories discussed in Chapter 3 (field, social exchange, learning psychoanalytic, systems, empowerment, and feminist), which one helps you understand best how groups function? In 250 – 300 words, discuss your rationale for selecting this theory and the concepts of the theory that make it seem most relevant to your understanding.

ABS 200 Week 3 DQ 1 Types of Groups For more course tutorials visit Types of Groups. Select one of the types of groups: Task group, Team, Treatment, Support, Committees, etc., giving an example of how it functions, its purpose, goals, and relevance to the individuals that participate in the group. What kinds of variables might act as barriers to the successful outcomes of this group? What factors might work to empower the group to achieve its goals?

ABS 200 Week 3 DQ 2 Organizations and Power For more course tutorials visit Organizations and Power. Discuss the dynamics and concept of power in organizations, for example, are they gender-based, is power at odds with the provision of services, and does politics or cost enter in? What is power and what does it have to do with the goals of the organization? What are the pros and cons to the ways in which power is distributed within and between groups and organizations?

ABS 200 Week 3 Step One of Final Paper For more course tutorials visit Step One of Final Paper. The Final Paper is due at the end of the course (Week Five). In order to ensure that you have time to write a good paper and receive sufficient guidance from your instructor, an outline is to be submitted this week. Before you begin Step One, please consult the complete instructions for the Final Paper which can be found in Week Five of your online course or in the “Components of Course Evaluation” section of this guide.

ABS 200 Week 4 DQ 1 Neighborhoods and Communities For more course tutorials visit Neighborhoods and Communities. What does it take to make a community? What is the difference between a neighborhood and a community? Who has the power in communities? Examine the significance of power in communities, who has it and why. Your post should be words and include one scholarly reference to support your comments. Please respond to a minimum of two of your classmates.

ABS 200 Week 4 DQ 2 Community Building For more course tutorials visit Community Building. Watch the PBS report titled, The Economy of a Tent City. What are the primary principles involved in community building? Describe what is meant by enhancing a community’s strengths and what kinds of efforts would be involved in working toward positive change. Discuss how these principles are either working or not working in the PBS report about Haiti’s rebuilding efforts.

ABS 200 Week 5 DQ 1 Global Issues For more course tutorials visit Global Issues. Whether by natural disaster or economic issues, poverty remains an issue in other countries such as Haiti. Watch The Aid Dilemma video and discuss whether you think that our efforts, though well intentioned, are doing what we intend. What are the pros and cons to the way we give aid, or apply behavioral science principles to such countries as Haiti? In 250 – 300 words, discuss the statement:

ABS 200 Week 5 DQ 2 Social Advocacy and Justice For more course tutorials visit Social Advocacy and Justice. Select one of the three video segments on social advocacy and fighting for social injustice: Bill Clinton on Rwanda Majora Carter’s Tale of Urban Renewal