...PSY 425 Week 5 Individual Article Review To Buy This material Click below link http://www.uoptutors.com/PSY-425/PSY-425-Week-5-Individual-Article-Review Peer-reviewed articles appears in an academic journal or periodical in which scholarship relating to a particular discipline is published. Scholars within the field have reviewed these articles prior to publication, thus the name, Peer-Reviewed. Academic journals serve as forums for the introduction and presentation for scrutiny of new research, and the critique of existing research. Content typically takes the form of articles presenting original research, as well as comments or reviews of previous articles/research, and book reviews. Academic or professional publications that are not peer-reviewed are usually referred to as professional magazines. Peer-reviewed journals and articles can be located through the University library and Google Scholar. When trying to determine if your reference is an article, remember that all journal articles will have an author and a publication date. If you are unable to locate an author or publication date, then chances are very good that you are looking at a website that is being maintained by a certain individual or organization and not a peer-reviewed article. • Research 3 – 5 peer-reviewed journal articles related to how drug abuse affects families when one or more adult members are addicted to illicit and/or prescription drugs, and the various treatment options available to addicted...
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...Article Review University of Phoenix MGT/426 Managing Change in the Workplace May 13, 2013 Article Review The article titled “Putting the positive in change creates an inspired work team” discusses the steps needed to take in order to implement change. For example the article discusses the benefits to realizing the need for change, the benefits of setting goals when implementing change as well explaining why change is good and the positive values which both businesses as well as individuals will gain when undergoing change. The article utilizes an example of using preregistration techniques in order to cut back on customer feedback within the United states. The author of this article discusses the importance of team leaders and managers being proactive within the workplace. The author explains that in order to effectively manage the change within a business or organization managers and leaders’ need to remain active within the process. Remaining active and honest with all employee’s will help in ensuring that all individuals within that particular area within the organization are on the same page and provides the individuals with a sense of accomplishment. The author makes it a point to explain to the readers as to why change is positive and how presenting the correct attitude when contemplating or implementing change will have the ability to either create a smooth running change process within...
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...The Use of Prayer and Scripture in CBT Article Review Liberty University Summary The article entitled “Use of Prayer and Scripture in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy” discusses the use of prayer and scripture in a Christian view of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (Tan, S. 2007). The article also discusses the expansion of cognitive Behavior Therapy to include Mindfulness Based Cognitive Behavioral therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (Tan, S. 2007). The article also discusses implicit and explicit integration in therapy (Tan, S. 2007). The article begins by discussing the research behind Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (Tan, S. 2007) . The article states that it is the most empirically supported therapy treatments(Tan, S. 2007) . Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to treat many psychological illnesses (Tan, S. 2007). The author points out that that empirically supported therapy relationships and empirically supported principles of therapeutic change have also played an important role in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy research (Tan, S. 2007). The article goes on to discuss the history of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (Tan, S. 2007). The history can be divided into three generations (Tan, S. 2007). The first generation included traditional behavioral therapy (Tan, S. 2007). The second generation included Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (Tan, S. 2007). The third generation includes relatively contextual approaches (Tan, S. 2007). These approaches...
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...The overall purpose of the article is to gain a better understanding behind the attitudes and personal opinions of having a smoke-free campus. It continues to go into more specific depth regarding a smoke-free campus such as the most effective way to initiate and retain a smoke-free campus. Within this pool of knowledge, it will show some of the main reasoning behind why people that smoke want to keep a campus from becoming smoke-free and will also show people urges behind wanting a campus to become smoke-free. This will give two fully biased views from both complete opposites (a smoke-free campus versus a smoking campus.) Some of the bigger issues that Cho and DeVaney wanted to evaluate the motives behind the college students. This includes the variety of thinking and learning methods, reasons behind their actions, and meanings that give the students their urges towards these actions. By doing so, it will assist in understanding the motives, attitudes, and urges on a deeper level by evaluating “why” they want what they want, and “why” they did what they did. Another issue that the authors wanted to acknowledge is the college students’ reactions as well as their actions. They wanted to understand how the students would react to a change in the smoking policy at their college and what they would do to fix it if they did not like it or how they would help enforce the policy if they did like it. Cho and DeVaney conducted their research in two types of methods: field observation...
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...Article Review Samantha ******* HCS/457 March 29, 2014 Jean Ha Article Review Obesity is a common disease now in the United States, but it is one of the main diseases here in the Coweta County communities. The Piedmont Newnan Hospital has conducted an assessment which addresses these needs and ways to help the people in the community to get healthier. Obesity problems within the community has been going on well over ten years, but with the new technology and community leaders, plans have been put into place to gather information and start making changes happen. A main concern that leaders have in the community is the ability to make people continue to live a healthy lifestyle rather than going back to their old ways. After a yearlong of research along with two-way meetings the Piedmont Newnan Hospital that is located in Newnan, GA completed a community health needs assessment. After the assessment was conducted, the team created implementation plans in the Coweta County community. Sarah Langly, CEO of community benefits at Piedmont Newnan Healthcare, stated “What we found was not surprising and is similar for many communities. Each community is dissimilar as far as prioritizing those needs and where Piedmont can have the most impact by working alongside existing community groups.” Health facts on the public and collaboration between community stakeholders, leaders, and district council permitted Piedmont management to determine the main concerns...
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...Journal Article Review: Use of prayer and scripture in therapy Liberty University Use of prayer and scripture in therapy Summary Effectively integrating psychology and theology has been an ongoing endeavor for many Christian therapists who wish to be ethically sound in their therapeutic practices and yet honor the use of the Holy Spirit as the ultimate Counselor and Comforter. Use of prayer and scripture in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy is a study that focuses specifically on the efficacy of the use of prayer and scripture within the Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) model. While CBT is more than 30 years old (Tan, 2007, pg. 101), it has been “expanded to include mindfulness and acceptance-based therapies” (Tan, 2007, pg. 101). The author bases his article on the findings that there are a minimum of 10 outcome studies providing empirical support regarding the efficacy of “religiously-oriented or spiritually-oriented CBT with religious clients” (Tan, 2007, pg. 102). The article describes the author’s development and use of an ethical and appropriate approach to utilizing prayer and scripture within a Christian modality of CBT. The author has used this approach in a variety of settings including hospital, college, and private practice. The key points to his Christian approach to CBT very briefly include the emphasis of agape love, dealing adequately with past issues, the possibility of demonic involvement, use of alignment with God’s word, focusing on problems with...
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...Article Review Silvia Arambula MGT 426 December 7, 2015 Robert Sell Article Review Learning Organization is an organization that acquires knowledge and innovates fast enough to survive and thrive in a rapidly changing environment. Learning organizations (1) create a culture that encourages and supports continuous employee learning, critical thinking, and risk taking with new ideas, (2) allow mistakes, and value employee contributions, (3) learn from experience and experiment, and (4) disseminate the new knowledge throughout the organization for incorporation into day-to-day activities (BusinessDictionary.com, 2014). The main difference is that organizational learning has focused on observation and analysis of the processes of individual and collective learning within organizations, whereas the literature on learning organizations is action oriented and geared towards applying specific diagnostic and evaluative methodological tools that can contribute to identifying, promoting and assessing the quality of learning processes in the organization (Wathne, 2012). Article Summary There are many significant factors of an efficacious business organization at the currently evolving, shifting and vigorous global business setting, one of these significant factors are organizational learning and institutionalization of the learning organization. It is worth taking that one of the crucial components of an organization is its employees and the commitment and loyalty of its employees...
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...Consumer Psychology Article Review Annie Pettigrew PSY322 May 10, 2014 Chawn Williams Consumer Psychology Article Review “Consumer psychology is a specialty area that studies how our thoughts, beliefs, feelings and perceptions influence how people buy and relate to goods and services. One formal definition of the field describes it as "the study of individuals, groups, or organizations and the processes they use to select, secure, use, and dispose of products, services, experiences, or ideas to satisfy needs and the impacts that these processes have on the consumer and society"." Professionals in this field look at things like the decision making-process, social persuasion and motivation to help understand why shoppers buy some things but not others. In this overview of the profession, learn more about what consumer psychologists do and where they work (About.com, 2014).” In the article, The Consumer Psychology of Brands, the consumer judgment of brands is discussed. The article shows a model of brands that includes practical studies such as brand categorization, brand affect, brand personality, brand symbolism and brand attachment. “The model below shows the difference between three levels of how a consumer engages (object centered, self-centered, and social) and five process (identifying, experiencing, integrating, signifying and connecting). The article concludes with research ideas to test the model using both standard and consumer-neuroscience methods. ("The...
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...BINDURA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY NAME MATAIRE MUNYARADZI COURSE TITLE DEVELOPMENT POLICIES AND PLANNING COURSE CODE DG 420 PROGRAMME BACHELOR OF SCIENCE HONOURS IN DEGREE IN DEVELOPMENT STUDIES LECTURER DR I MBERENGWA ASSIGNMENT TITLE ARTICLE REVIEW: AN ANALYSIS OF THE IMPACT OF THE FAST TRACK LAND REFORM PROGRAMME ON DISASTER MANAGEMENT IN ZIMBABWE: A CASE OF VUNGU RURAL DISTRICT (2000-2009) BY: CHIEDZA KIMBERLEY CHABHONGORA, CRISPEN HAHLANI AND PERCYSLAGE CHIGORA (2010) TITLE: An analysis of the impact of the fast track land reform programme on disaster management in Zimbabwe: A case of Vungu rural district (2000-2009). PROBLEM: The fast track land reform program (FTLRP) in Zimbabwe did not adequately address disaster management and environmental sustainability. The process was chaotic and failed to meet the real needs of the people but in fact strived to achieve political agendas. The FTLRP was poorly planned because there was no supportive infrastructure and systems that were meant to assist the newly resettled famers. As such production on the farms dropped significantly leading to the farmers engaging in other livelihood activities which were detrimental to the environment and which increased the vulnerability of the people to drought. OBJECTIVES: • To analyze the implications...
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...Health Care Experience Dolores Williams HCS/212 December 8, 2014 Theresa McClelland Health Care Experience The article “Refocusing Medical Education in the EMR Era” by Natalie Pageler, Charles Friedman and Christopher Longhurst, discusses the importance of proper training for health care professionals. It suggests ways in which to enhance the performance of the caregiver/operator along with improving patient care through the use of technology. This review will discuss some of the changes, good and bad that technology has brought into the workplace. Technology in the Workplace The implementation of the electronic health record has changed the way in which health care is delivered in facilities all over the United States. The difficulty of using computerized systems is, in fact proving to be a bit of a challenge to get clinicians to use and document in this form. With written notes, the documentation was brief and to the point. The electronic record requires more documentation during and after visits. Because of the increased workload, the providers wait until the end of the day to document which could lead to mistakes. The computer has caused the interaction between patient and provider to be less meaningful in the sense that the provider has their back turned to the patient during the visit. These computer systems are not user friendly and they cause irritation and frustration when trying to retrieve patient information such as lab test results. In addition, there...
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...Article Review HRM 599-Benefits The article I have researched for this article review was written according to the New York Times was about “how a small business owners have problems with unemployment claims and one owner who was surprised when an unemployment claim came across her desk by an employee who had quit more than a year before (Mount, 2011)”. Her company who had hired the employee after the employee’s company had went out of business then that owner rehired the employee after his business became booming again then he went out of business which left that employee unemployed so the owner of the company was responsible for the unemployment claim. Since the owner’s account was put into deficit that threatened her unemployment insurance tax rate even though the employee had voluntarily left her company. The owner felt that this claim shouldn’t be right and that she would be afraid to hire anyone else. Another employer unknowing of the law hired and then fired an employee without proper documentation leading to the employee obtaining unemployment benefits in which they learned their lesson and had no trouble since they filed the proper documentation. With the current economy in the condition it is in and at the unemployment rate at the time of the article at 9 percent which is really high, smaller businesses don’t understand how the unemployment insurance premiums are computed. With the system it varies by state to state but the owner’s should understand the...
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...Article Review HCS/457 June 13, 2013 Article Review A leading community health concern throughout the Upper Cumberland of Tennessee is diabetes. The Diabetes Center at Cookeville Regional Medical Center offers informative education about diabetes. The background provides the ability to educate patients and family with the skills needed to self-manage his or her health. Patients with diabetes can expect to live a full and productive life, however; changes in lifestyle and diet are necessary. The Diabetes Center focuses on teaching patients the proper ways of making the alterations easier so as to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Community Health Issue for Nashville Diabetes has and always will come into the general category of a serious health issue throughout the United States. However, the disease is particularly problematic in Tennessee (Sanders, n.d.). The state holds the sixth highest position in the country that pertains to what percentage of individuals suffering with diabetes compare to that of the general population (Sanders, n.d.). As a result of the mortality rate brought on by diabetes-related deaths, Tennessee ranks the 10th highest in the United States. In 2007, statistics showed signs that 11.9% of the entire adult population living in Tennessee has developed and is living with diabetes (Sanders, n.d.). Affects on Community The residents of Tennessee are progressively sensing, and experiencing the effects of diabetes. A remarkably...
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...University of Phoenix Material Article Review Format Guide MEMORANDUM UNIVERSITY OF PHOENIX DATE: TO: FROM: RE: Bumgardener, L. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://gbr.pepperdine.edu/2010/08/reforming-corporate-america/ ARTICLE SYNOPSIS This article discusses the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and how it was formed. Sarbanes-Oxley Act is named after U.S. Senator Paul Sarbanes (D-MD) and U.S. Representative Michael G. Oxley (R-OH) who sponsored it. Under the guidelines of Sarbanes-Oxley Act, top management must now individually certify the accuracy of financial information. The need of this act came about after the markets crash in 1929. Congress began looking into corporate fraud in the 1930’s and began the Securities Act of 1933. This law was viewed insufficient; in just one year congress passed the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. This was viewed to be good enough until corporations began to get caught in fraud again like, Enron in 2001. So, in 2002 the Sarbanes-Oxley Act was passed to help get a handle on new corporate fraud. LEGAL ISSUE The article pointed out how a business practice of the late 90’s and early 00’s lead to stricter federal regulations and auditing. Enron for one was borrowing money to cover loss and hiding funds in offshore accounts; this was all too raised their stock value. Sarbanes-Oxley Act is the response to this type of businesses and helps the government to keep a handle on it. MANAGERIAL PERSPECTIVE Discuss how the legal issues affect...
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...Monopoly Market An Article Review Mahesh Shrestha Amberton University This article review was prepared for ECO6140.E1 -Managerial Economics, taught by Professor Dr. Benjamin Thompson. Monopoly Market Monopoly states a condition where a company or a firm serves or owns entire or mostly all the market with its produced goods or services and there are no close substitute to them. It is a structure or a situation where one corporation serves most of the marketplace. Where there is monopoly there is an absence of competition which often results in higher prices. Where monopoly exists, there is a regulation for a firm which sells the only product to exploit on the monopoly position by limiting output and charging the high price which would be above minimal cost. The point that a firm is the single seller of a good in a marketplace clearly gives that firm highest market power than it would have if it competed against other firms for customers. A textbook gives an example of utilities companies, such as electric or water companies. They are local monopolies in that only one utility offers service to a given neighborhood. (Baye, Michael; Prince, Jeff, 2013) There might be various companies which offer the similar services, but they don’t compete against each other. When one thinks of monopoly, one usually envisions a very large firm which needn’t be the circumstance, however: the applicable thought is whether there are other firms selling close substitute or not in a particular...
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...The article I chose to review and analyze was “Teaching Business Communication: Past Present and Future”, by Bertha Du-Babcock. This article talks about the art of teaching business communications in the past, present and in the future. The author talks about taking the fundamentals from the past and modifying them accordingly to use them in the present. There are many areas where these practices are more specifically designed toward native English speaking students, and to be used in the American business community. This offered a somewhat limited perspective on communication. The author also shares her opinion that the teaching of business communication is in transition at this point. Globalization is causing major changes to the way people communicate, and this would have an obvious effect on the ways teachers convey the topic. Where as communication has in the past been geared toward the American business climate, now communication transmissions undergo translation into many different languages and many different countries, cultures and communication dynamics. This has an obvious effect on the construction of the messages conveyed today. The author talks about some of the challenges faced by business communications teachers. Also new mediums of communication have emerged. Electronic communication has taken precedence over traditional mediums, making communication instant, sometimes thoughtless. The author discusses how she has modified her teaching style to accommodate...
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