Assignment: Behavior Determinates

Assignment: Behavior Determinates

Behavior Determinates assignment: In this evaluation, you will ascertain the possible determinates of his or her behavior given what you have learned about the influences on a child. These include factors such as family, peers, school, and community. You will review what type of role he or she may be playing in the family as well as in the school based on these dynamics. Keep in mind that this is an assessment of an individual in a community and not an introspective psychological type of assessment. Support your answers with information cited from at least two peer-reviewed academic sources and your textbook.

• Choose a case study from the list provided, if you have not done that already.
• Present the case by explaining the child’s behavior in light of your understanding of the ecology of the child. Give special attention to the following behavior determinates:
  • Family and social environment
  • Economic circumstances
  • Health care access
  • Physical environment and safety
  • Behavior
  • Education
  • Health
  • Apply your knowledge of these indicators to explain possible determinates of various aspects of the stated behaviors in the case study.
• Given your understanding of the ecology of the child, of the family, and of socialization, identify the top three areas that seem to be the most influential in this child’s behavior. Support your answer with professional information from the text and two peer-reviewed research articles.
• Review the role this child plays in his or her family and how that correlates with the expressed behavior.
• Analyze the different theories of macrosystem and microsystem influences.  Include parenting orientation and parenting style and how that impacts children. Then apply the theory that might best fit your selected case study.
• Review the role this child plays in his or her school and peer group and how that correlates with the expressed behavior. Analyze the impact of the school and the peer group as a socializing agent. Also, identify the key areas of impact of both in this case study.

Requirements

Write a 6–8-page paper (in addition to the title page and references page) in Word format. Apply APA standards to citation of sources, including use of in-text citations and full references. Academic sources could include your textbook, required readings for this module, or academic journal articles found online.  Make sure you write in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrate ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; and display accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.

By the due date assigned, deliver your assignment

Grading Criteria Maximum Points for Behavior Determinates

Presented the case by explaining the child’s behavior in light of students’ understanding of the ecology of the child giving special attention to: family and social environment, economic circumstances, health care, physical environment and safety, behavior, education, and health. Applied knowledge of these indicators to explain possible determinates of various aspects of the stated behaviors in the case study.

24Given their understanding of the ecology of the child, the ecology of the family, and the ecology of socialization, chose the top three areas that seem to be the most influential in this child’s behavior and supported their answer with professional information from the text and the two peer-reviewed research articles.28Reviewed the role this child plays in his or her family and how that correlates with the expressed behavior.

24Analyzed the different theories of macrosystem and microsystem influences including parenting orientation and parenting style and how that affects children; then applied the theory that might best fit this particular case study.28Reviewed the role this child plays in his or her school and peer group and how that correlates with the expressed behavior.

24Analyzed the impact of the school as a socializing agent and identify the key areas of impact in this case study. Analyzed the impact of the peer group as a socialization agent and identify the key areas of impact in this case study.28Writing StandardsOrganization (12)
Usage and Mechanics (12)
APA Elements (16)
Style (4)44Total:200

ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE CLASS

Discussion Questions (DQ)

• Initial responses to the DQ should address all components of the questions asked, including a minimum of one scholarly source, and be at least 250 words.
• Successful responses are substantive (i.e., add something new to the discussion, engage others in the discussion, well-developed idea) and include at least one scholarly source.
• One or two-sentence responses, simple statements of agreement, or “good post,” and responses that are off-topic will not count as substantive. Substantive responses should be at least 150 words.
• I encourage you to incorporate the readings from the week (as applicable) into your responses.

Weekly Participation

• Your initial responses to the mandatory DQ do not count toward participation and are graded separately.
• In addition to the DQ responses, you must post at least one reply to peers (or me) on three separate days, for a total of three replies.
• Participation posts do not require a scholarly source/citation (unless you cite someone else’s work).
• Part of your weekly participation includes viewing the weekly announcement and attesting to watching it in the comments. These announcements are made to ensure you understand everything that is due during the week.

APA Format and Writing Quality

• Assignment: Behavior Determinates states that Familiarize yourself with APA format and practice using it correctly. It is used for most writing assignments for your degree. Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud for APA paper templates, citation examples, tips, etc. Points will be deducted for poor use of APA format or absence of APA format (if required).
• Cite all sources of information! When in doubt, cite the source. Paraphrasing also requires a citation.
• I highly recommend using the APA Publication Manual, 6th edition.

Use of Direct Quotes

• I discourage overutilization of direct quotes in DQs and assignments at the Masters’s level and deduct points accordingly.
• As Masters’s level students, it is important that you be able to critically analyze and interpret information from journal articles and other resources. Simply restating someone else’s words does not demonstrate an understanding of the content or critical analysis of the content.
• It is best to paraphrase content and cite your source.

LopesWrite Policy

• For assignments that need to be submitted to LopesWrite, please be sure you have received your report and Similarity Index (SI) percentage BEFORE you do a “final submit” to me.
• Once you have received your report, please review it. This report will show you grammatical, punctuation, and spelling errors that can easily be fixed. Take the extra few minutes to review instead of getting counted off for these mistakes.
• Review your similarities. Did you forget to cite something? Did you not paraphrase well enough? Is your paper made up of someone else’s thoughts more than your own?
• Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud for tips on improving your paper and SI score.

Late Policy

• The university’s policy on late assignments is 10% penalty PER DAY LATE. This also applies to late DQ replies.
• Please communicate with me if you anticipate having to submit an assignment late. I am happy to be flexible, with advance notice. We may be able to work out an extension based on extenuating circumstances.
• If you do not communicate with me before submitting an assignment late, the GCU late policy will be in effect.
• I do not accept assignments that are two or more weeks late unless we have worked out an extension.
• As per policy, no assignments are accepted after the last day of class. Any assignment submitted after midnight on the last day of class will not be accepted for grading.

Communication

• Communication is so very important. There are multiple ways to communicate with me: 
  • Questions to Instructor Forum: This is a great place to ask course content or assignment questions. If you have a question, there is a good chance one of your peers does as well. This is a public forum for the class.
  • Individual Forum: This is a private forum to ask me questions or send me messages. This will be checked at least once every 24 hours.

Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices in Parenting
according to Assignment: Behavior Determinates The first component of the committee’s mandate—to identify essential parenting knowledge, attitudes, and practices that are linked to pleasant parent-child interactions and the healthy development of children aged birth to eight—is addressed in this chapter. The chapter also discusses research findings on how core parenting knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors alter depending on the children’s and parents’ individual traits, as well as the situation. The chapter opens with identifying desired outcomes for children, which are commonly mentioned in the research literature and are used to guide federal, state, and local initiatives to improve children’s health and well-being. It then goes over the basic information, attitudes, and practices that have been found in the literature as being most strongly linked to good child development, relying mostly on correlational and experimental investigations. The family system is next briefly discussed as a crucial source of additional parenting determinants. A summary finishes the chapter. The committee’s examination of the effectiveness of solutions for increasing parenting capacity in later chapters of this report is based on the basic knowledge, attitudes, and practices described in this chapter, as well as contextual elements that affect parenting.

CHILDREN’S DESIRED OUTCOMES
The group began by identifying desired outcomes for children in order to discover the key characteristics of core parenting knowledge, attitudes, and practices. Identifying these outcomes helps researchers, practitioners, and policymakers establish investment priorities, develop policies that foster success, advocate for the adoption and implementation of appropriate evidence-based interventions, and use data to assess and improve the effectiveness of specific policies and programs.

Within and across various domains of development, child outcomes are intertwined. They are the product of early good and supportive interactions with parents and other caregivers, and they are improved by them. These early contacts can have a long-term ripple effect on development over the course of a person’s life, as the function of one domain of development influences the function of another over time. “Effectiveness in one domain of competence in one time of life provides the scaffold on which later competence in newer emergent domains develops… competence begets competence,” Masten & Cicchetti (2010, p. 492) write. The committee determined that the following four outcomes are critical to children’s well-being based on the literature. While the committee’s focus was on early children (ages 0-8), these outcomes are essential for all children.

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