Stress and Coping 

You are a recent immigrant who has moved to the United States to attend a U.S. university. Your family has never been to the United States, and you are excited to tell them all about it, in particular the fundamentals of the U.S. government you are learning about in one of your courses.
Compose a 3-page letter to your family in which you outline the fundamentals of the U.S. government. Be sure to include the following:
A brief explanation of the Constitution and its purpose.
A brief explanation of two American ideals (e.g., democracy, liberty, equality, justice, freedom, or opportunity). This should include a definition and your understanding of what those ideals mean to the average U.S. citizen.
A current event (from the last 6 months) that serves as an example of one of the two ideals you chose to explain. This will be the current event you selected in the Searching for Current Events About American Ideals activity in Week 4.
A constitutional liberty that has benefitted/affected you as a student or a citizen in the United States. For example, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a federal law that prohibits employers from discriminating against employees on the basis of sex, race, color, national origin, and religion. Title VII also applies to private and public colleges and universities, employment agencies, and labor organizations. So if you chose this one, in your letter you would identify this constitutional liberty and how it applies to you specifically.
At least one quality reference cited using the Strayer Writing Standards. This should be the current event article you selected in the activity in Week 4.

It is important to promote the professional role of the nurse to provide health promotion and disease preventive care. Collaborating with other health care professionals and consumer groups in the community in redesigning health care can help meet the goals for Healthy People 2020.Refer tohttp://www.healthypeople.gov/to open the Healthy People 2020 home page.Develop a PowerPoint presentation (15-20 slides) with accompanying speaker’s notes and citations.For help designing PowerPoint slides refer to the Create Your First Presentation PowerPoint tutorial located on the Microsoft website:https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Create-your-first-presentation-ac88d138-a7a0-402c-b5a5-812641e59c8e?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=USIn the presentation address the following:APA format is required for essays only. Solid academic writing is always expected.

Assignment 2
Functional Assessment
***Don’t freak out at the amount of reading – I’m
just outlining a case for you here. Your answers
will actually take very little time. 
Breathe….breathing is good. I’ve highlighted the
actual questions in yellow.
Background
Joey is a seven year old boy with global developmental delays in a combination kindergarten/daycare
program. His teachers have called you in because he has begun to exhibit some disruptive behaviours in the
center and they need your help to figure them out. You agree to conduct a functional assessment.
A. Indirect Assessment:
Interview with Staff
Who is present? Other children, but I would say mostly other boys, and a variety of teachers. We
haven’t noticed that it is more or less likely to happen with one teacher.
Where does the behaviour occur? In the block room, up until yesterday, then it happened in the art room.
When does the behaviour occur? Only during free play time. Sometimes we’ve noticed that Joey is trying to get
the attention of the other boys and they are ignoring him, sometimes we’ve noticed
that the children are busy playing and the room is really quiet, not much action going
on, and sometimes one of Joey’s block structures has fallen over and he seems
frustrated.
Do any other behaviours occur just before? Other than him running to the shelf, we haven’t observed any other
behaviours.
Is there any time when the behaviour doesn’t occur? If Joey is involved in playing with a teacher or another
child, it tends not to happen…although once or twice it still did when his structure fell
over.
Can you specifically describe the behaviour for me? Joey runs to the right side of the block shelf, inserts his right
arm up to his elbow, so that his hand is touching the back of the shelf, and he runs along
the shelf pushing hundreds of blocks to the floor while yelling and laughing.
What happens immediately following this behaviour? A staff member immediately approaches him and tells
him that it isn’t okay to knock all the blocks off the shelf and now he has to pick them all
up. Then he is instructed, with the staff helping, to start stacking the blocks back on the
shelf. Thankfully, the other children join in as well, so the job gets done more quickly.
Does he ever get removed from the situation? Oh no, we believe it is important for him to fix what he has
dismantled.
***Question One: Come up with a plausible hypothesis for Joey’s shelf-clearing behaviour. Remember to list all
likely antecedents, behaviours and consequences.
B: Direct Observations: Here are a number of incidences recorded during direct observation
 Obs 1: Joey asked Daniel to play, Daniel said no, he wanted to play by himself. Joey ran over to the shelf
and cleared all of the blocks off, quietly finishing then sitting down. There were no teachers present, but
Daniel came over, told Joey he had to pick them up and Daniel and Joey cleaned up the blocks together.
 Obs 2: Joey playing with Daniel and Justin. Justin laughed and knocked the structure over. Joey yelled at
Justin, then ran to the shelf, yelling and clearing the blocks off. Mary, the teacher, ran in, told Joey he’d
have to clean up, and so Justin, Daniel, Mary and Joey cleaned up the blocks.
 Obs 3: Joey playing by himself in the blockroom, with teacher Mary present. Joey’s block tower fell over,
but he just shrugged and began building it again.
 Obs 4: Daniel using a block that Joey wants for his structure, Daniel said no when Joey was prompted by
Mary to ask for it. Joey ran to shelf and silently cleared all the blocks from the shelf. Mary told Joey he’d
have to clean them up, and Daniel, Joey and Mary cleaned the blocks up.
 Obs 5: Justin, Eric and Sam in room with Joey. Joey kept putting a block where the others didn’t want it,
so they kicked him out of the game. Joey went over to the block shelf, but just selected some other
blocks and began building them himself.
*Question Two: Using an ABC checklist, record the data for the five observations above. Remember to add in any
new antecedents and consequences that come up.
Obs 1 Obs 2 Obs 3 Obs 4 Obs 5
Antecedents
Behaviours
Consequences
*Question Three: Does the data from the direct observation match the information received from the indirect
assessment? What is your next step?
*Question Four: What kind of treatment might make sense, given the data? Give a brief outline of what you
might try and why it might work.