Instructions– Responds to the instructor. Response posts include information, i

Instructions–
Responds to the instructor. Response posts include information, insights, and questions to facilitate meaningful dialogue. Integrates evidence from required readings and module’s lesson to support discussion. Sources are credited using APA style.
Title: Describing the Sample
Discussion Prompt#1
Initial Post Instructions
Select the specific program in the Templeton Family Services from Module 1 for which you would like to eventually focus your program evaluation efforts. Identify the specific variables in one of the EXCEL files that will be relevant to describing the sample. Provide a description of two of the relevant variables. Your description of the two characteristics should demonstrate use of appropriate univariate statistics. The presentation should include two charts or tables that are appropriate to the data that you are describing.
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Hi ,
Excellent work on your post. Taking your post one step further, when we conduct univariate analysis, we look at the range of the values and the central tendency of the values. You would not graph them the way you did for age. What would the range and central tendency be for your Templeton program variables? For your gender graph, you do not tell us what percentage of males and females make up the entire pie. Please add them. Also, you needed to create two graphs or charts, but you only included one. Please add the second for education levels.
Best, Professor J
Title: Title: Social Work Approaches to AIDS in Developing Nations
Discussion Prompt#2
Watch the Video “AIDS: The Woman’s Story.” As a social worker, how would you respond at the individual, group, family, and community levels? What policies are needed at the organizational level?
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In targeting mezzo and macro-level systems in your community to reduce discriminatory practices and reduce stigma, your recommended strategies were well described, such as “collaborate with community leaders, traditional healers, educators, women’s grassroots groups, and other stakeholders to advocate for social change. We would work together to launch anti-stigma campaigns through local media, workshops, and community dialogues to educate on HIV facts and reduce discriminatory attitudes”.
Your post reminded me of a community program used by a religious group to address these concerns. Maman (2009) document an initiative using religion and church-based supports in addressing the issue on the role of religion in HIV-positive women’s disclosure experiences and coping strategies in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. Working with a church leader who aided the women in acceptance of their diagnosis, church created support groups, and church leading forward in educating the community and families was remarkable (the church leader went with the women to support them as they told their families about their diagnosis). This single intervention reduced rejection, offered support in managing the reactions, and helped the women not feel so isolated and ashamed. In Thailand, another study (Liamputtong, et al., 2012) found group work to also be effective.
Question: Do you think that this strategy would be effective in the US today?
-Dr. Josiah-Martin
Reference
Liamputtong, P., Haritavorn, N., & Kiatying-Angsulee, N. (2012). Living positively: the experiences of Thai women living with HIV/AIDS in central Thailand. Qual Health Res. 22(4), 441–51.
Title: Capacity Building
Discussion Prompt #3
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Hello Students,
The lack of international social workers and other human service professionals may be the biggest challenge to scaling up mental health services in response to humanitarian crises in developing nations. Because the number of social workers at the front line of humanitarian work overseas is so small, the possibility of compassion fatigue (CF), burnout, and secondary traumatic stress (STS) is high. Social work is not just a career; it is a calling for those who choose to join the profession. Social workers fully comprehend that being a member of a helping profession means putting one’s own psychological, emotional, and sometimes even physical health at risk. Active listening skills are essential to good social work practice. For clinical social workers and case managers, the act of listening to the client’s lived experiences exposes the social worker to vicarious traumatization.
To provide the best services for clients, social workers must solicit as much information as possible about the client’s background, identified stressors, support systems, and available resources to generate the best treatment plan. Unfortunately, the details of the client’s personal history can “take an emotional toll that compromises professional functioning and diminishes quality of life” for social workers (National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN), 2019, para 1). We bear witness to our client’s lived experiences, which can be traumatic, sad, and heart-wrenching, resulting in vicarious traumatization (VT). Regardless of the population we serve, social workers will experience some form of work stress. Thus, social workers working with traumatized clients in developing countries will experience VT, including compassion fatigue (CF), burnout, and secondary traumatic stress (STS).
Question to all
Please review the assignment details and contribute to the discussion as it is outlined. In addition, what are some prevention and coping strategies that social workers can use to alleviate vicarious traumatization symptoms?
-Dr. Josiah-Martin
References
National Child Traumatic Stress Network (2019). Secondary Traumatic Stress.