1. ABS 497 Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com

2. ABS 497 Entire Course For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com ABS 497 Week 1 Assignment Community Change ABS 497 Week 1 DQ 1 Fabian's Story ABS 497 Week 1 DQ 2 Doug's Story ABS 497 Week 2 DQ 1 Parenting Styles ABS 497 Week 2 DQ 2 Ethnicity and Learning Theory ABS 497 Week 3 DQ 1 Suicide ABS 497 Week 3 DQ 2 Development Theories

3. ABS 497 Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com ABS 497 Week 1 Assignment Community Change For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Community Change. Write a two- to- three- page paper (excluding title and reference pages) that identifies a probl em faced by your community. Discuss how a model of community chan ge could be implemented to improve the problem. 1. Describe six features of your community (e.g., cultural make up, size, and locality). 2. Define the problem (e.g., obesity, environmental pollution, teenage p regnancy, graffiti, truancy, gangs, drugs, child labor, or insufficient educ ational programs) and explain why the problem is detrimental to the co mmunity.

4. ABS 497 Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com ABS 497 Week 1 DQ 1 Fabian's Story For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Fabian’s Story. Read Fabian’s story in the “Human Behavior and Com munity Macro Systems: Sociopsychological Perspective” section of yo ur textbook. Briefly describe the sociopsychological perspective and co mpare it to at least one other perspective the book discusses. How can the sociopsychological perspective be used to understand, and perha ps solve, Fabian’s issue? Is there another perspective that would offer a better solution? Explain your answers.

5. ABS 497 Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com ABS 497 Week 1 DQ 2 Doug's Story For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Doug’s Story. Read Doug’s story in the Human Ecology Perspective se ction of your textbook. Respond to the ethical questions that follow. To what extent is economic inequality fair? Did Doug have the right to ven t his anger in such a violent manner? What, if anything, could be done to improve Doug’s economic and ecological status?

6. ABS 497 Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com ABS 497 Week 2 DQ 1 Parenting Styles For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Parenting Styles. Briefly describe the different parenting styles discuss ed in this week’s readings. How could they impact cognitive and social development? Identify the style that your parents applied to you, or the style you appl y to your children. What do the readings say about the effects of this p arenting style on cognitive and social development? Is this evidence supported by your own experiences?

7. ABS 497 Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com ABS 497 Week 2 DQ 2 Ethnicity and Learning Theory For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Ethnicity and Learning Theory. Select an ethnic group from your textbo ok, or outside readings, and discuss how the application of learning th eory may vary according to the cultural beliefs and values of this group. Based on the research, justify why you think specific learning techniq ues could be used by your chosen ethnic group

8. ABS 497 Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com ABS 497 Week 3 Assignment communication PowerPoint Presentation For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Communication PowerPoint Presentation. Develop a 10- to12-- slide PowerPoint Presentation designed for training the staff at a local high school. The PowerPoint Presentation should focus on strategies t hat promote communication skills among adolescents. Students are encouraged to approach the assignment creatively, addin g graphics, visuals, charts and/or graphs to their work. Slides should b e designed to address the selected topic clearly and concisely. Each sli de should be developed with professional presentation style (e.g., bull eted items in brief statements rather than complete sentences). Notes should complement the slides and provide details useful to the speake r if an oral presentation were to be given. Creating the PowerPoint Presentation

9. ABS 497 Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com ABS 497 Week 3 DQ 1 Suicide For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Suicide. Chapter 7 of the textbook discusses adolescent suicide. Selec t a group that could be considered a minority (e.g., Hispanics, homose xuals, or students with learning disabilities) and discuss the potential s uicide risk for this group. What factors may make them more or less lik ely to attempt suicide than other groups? What support can be given to individuals and/or groups to decrease suicide attempts? Rely on rese arch findings to answer these questions.

10. ABS 497 Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com ABS 497 Week 3 DQ 2 Development Theories For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Development Theories. Select either Kohlberg’s theory of moral develo pment, Gilligan’s theory of moral development, or Fowler’s theory of fai th development. Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of your select ed theory. Which stage of your selected theory, do you think that you ar e currently experiencing? Provide examples to reinforce your answer.

11. ABS 497 Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com ABS 497 Week 4 Assignment Cover Letter For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Week 4 - Assignment Professional Cover Letter and Resume Cover letters and resumes are recommended, and in some instances required, for job applications. If you want to stand out from other candidates, it is recommended that you write professional cover letters and resumes specifically tailored for each position you apply to.

12. ABS 497 Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com ABS 497 Week 4 DQ 1 Leadership Theories For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Leadership Theories. Briefly compare and contrast the leadership theo ries presented in Chapter 8 of your textbook. Select a historical figure (living or dead) who has been a leader. Use o ne of the theories to explain the successes and failures of the leader you selected. What type of leader does your hist orical figure exemplify?

13. ABS 497 Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com ABS 497 Week 4 DQ 2 Problems of Adolescence For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Problems of Adolescence. Describe a major problem often experience d by adolescents (e.g., anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, or delinque ncy). What are its likely causes? How is the problem typically treated? Identify alternative treatments that could be more effective. Rely on res earch evidence to support your viewsv

14. ABS 497 Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com ABS 497 Week 5 DQ Macro Social Systems For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Macro Social Systems. Outline the three macro systems theories discu ssed in Chapter 12 of your textbook (functionalism, conflict theory, and interactionism). Describe how each of these perspectives would explai n the macro system problem of crime and delinquency. Which approac h do you support the most? Explain your reasoning.

15. ABS 497 Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com ABS 497 Week 5 Final Paper (Alcohol Abuse) For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Final Paper To complete the following final paper, go to this week's Final Paper link in the left navigation. Final Paper Focus of the Final Paper

16. ABS 497 Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com ABS 497 Week 5 Final Paper For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Final Paper To complete the following final paper, go to this week's Final Paper link in the left navigation. Final Paper Focus of the Final Paper Imagine that you are a researcher and are conducting a study to invest igate a community problem. Using behavioral research principles, sele ct a macro systems problem to investigate (there are many suggested i n the textbook, e.g. domestic violence, homophobia, sexual abuse, deli nquent gangs) and design a study to solve this community problem.

17. ABS 497 Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com