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HHS 460 Week 1 DQ 1 Research Presentation
HHS 460 Entire Course
HHS 460 Week 1 DQ 1 Research Presentation HHS
460 Week 1 DQ 2 Intake Process HHS 460 Week 2 DQ
1 Locating Resources HHS 460 Week 2 DQ 2 Research
Venues HHS 460 Week 3 DQ 1 Canadian National
Health Plan HHS 460 Week 3 DQ 2 Research
Formats HHS 460 Week 3 Final Paper Outline HHS
460 Week 4 DQ 1 Careers in HHS HHS 460 Week 4 DQ
2 Research in Practice HHS 460 Week 5 DQ 1 Ethics
in Research
Research Presentation. Assume you are asked to
present a half hour talk about research in human
services. Since this could cover a vast number of
concepts, you decide to illustrate a basic
research process (steps) and provide a real-world
example taken from your text. One example is
Research in Practice 10.2 (pp. 273) and the
second example is Research in Practice 9.2 (pp.
246). Explanations as to the rational for using a
scientific research method compared to just
providing a theoretical explanation would make
the presentation more valid. In the discussion
address the notion that in so many health and
human services programs,
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HHS 460 Week 2 DQ 1 Locating Resources
HHS 460 Week 1 DQ 2 Intake Process
Intake Process. Often when providing services,
basic intake information is required. The
researcher could, at the end of a given time
period, examine these intake papers and, based on
some need, compute descriptive statistics using
information provided by the clients /
participants. Information such as income, family
make up, and education levels could be used to
compute mean values. However, you may be asked to
configure a study that can be called experimental.
In this discussion forum you are asked to
compare these two formats and identify in what
ways they differ. In order to determine
definitions
Locating Resources. The ability to locate and
utilize information relative to Health and Human
Services is an important component of many health
and human service jobs. Some of the areas
included in HHS programs are Legal/illegal
immigration Poverty Violence in the Media
Unemployment Alcoholism Gambling
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HHS 460 Week 3 DQ 1 Canadian National Health Plan
HHS 460 Week 2 DQ 2 Research Venues
Research Venues. Research can be divided into
three broad areas descriptive, qualitative, and
quantitative. Some researchers subsume
descriptive research (archival) as quantitative.
However, for this discussion, we are considering
it a separate kind, as descriptive research can
fall into either area qualitative or
quantitative. Your assignment for this discussion
is to prepare a 250-300 word post differentiating
qualitative, quantitative, and analysis of
availability data. Identify those attributes that
form the essence of these three research venues.
Respond to at least two of your classmates
postings. Questions that might be considered
What are the differences in types of data /
information among the three venues? What are
the expected outcomes when using each kind? For
Canadian National Health Plan. Research can vary
from highly sophisticated experimental studies to
less rigorous short term investigations. Each
research approach has advantages and
disadvantages. Among the different paradigms you
could use, two of the more common are the
positivist approach and the interpretive
approach (consult pages 39-40 in the text). If
you were interested in determining if the
Canadian National Health Plan was better
(better in terms of care, coverage, and choice of
doctors) then the current United States Health
Coverage Plan (Obama sponsored), which approach
would you choose to make this determination?
Provide a justification to your answer.
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HHS 460 Week 3 Final Paper Outline
HHS 460 Week 3 DQ 2 Research Formats
Research Formats. The research format found in
scholarly journal articles has purpose and
direction. Chapters 2 and 4 in the text provide
information as to the logic and makeup of a
research effort. Parallel to the structure of the
research format is the notion of the scientific
method as a basic approach to solving problems.
Your task is to analyze these two venues,
identifying in what ways they complement each
other, and how each venue is related to the
other. You may want to access outside references
regarding the concepts of research format and the
scientific method. Respond to at least two of
your classmates postings.
Final Paper Outline. The Final Paper will be
the final assignment for this research course.
This paper will be due on the last day of class
in Week 5. Your written assignment for this week
is to do the following Identify the phenomena
you wish to concentrate on within the broad realm
of health and human services. Your references
(should be a minimum of eight), will come from
the databases and reference sources you covered
earlier throughout course assignments. You will
need to create a description of the phenomena
the core issue or objective upon which you will
focus. Identify the components, attributes, and
different segments you will write about in your
discussion.
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HHS 460 Week 4 DQ 2 Research in Practice
HHS 460 Week 4 DQ 1 Careers in HHS
Careers in HHS. The great variety of careers
and occupations within the field of HHS is
growing every year. A review of some of the data
bases in the text will provide opportunities to
search and identify many occupational areas
within different governmental departments and
programs. Searching, for example, the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services website
will result in finding many careers such as
social workers, preschool programs, criminal
justice, counseling, gerontology, and drug and
alcohol treatment. After selecting two different
websites related to HHS, identify two career
areas in the HHS field and do the following
Record the websites or data bases, listing the
careers or occupations given. Prepare a brief
description of the career / occupation.
Research in Practice. Qualitative research in the
past 30 years has increasingly been viewed as
making an important contribution to research and
evaluation. For this discussion, you are asked to
read two Research in Practice articles in the
text. Evaluate and synthesize the contribution
qualitative researched played with regard to
Research in Practice (5.1, pp. 110) and Research
in Practice (12.2, p 338). Your work should
clearly identify the importance of using
qualitative methods and explain in what ways
these methods helped the studies. Respond to two
of your classmates postings
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HHS 460 Week 5 DQ 2 Ethical Implications
HHS 460 Week 5 DQ 1 Ethics in Research
Ethics in Research. Ethics plays an important
role in conducting of research. While the
individual researcher is responsible for his/her
ethical practice, any research sponsored by an
organization, university, or government program
has a review process guided by a code of ethics.
Besides the code of ethics, the Institutional
Review Board (IRB) plays an important role in
monitoring research. Your task in this discussion
is to examine the origins of the IRB and analyze
how the Review Board guides or monitors research.
In your 250-300 word post answer the following
three questions What does the IRB do to
protect a research participant from harm?
Ethical Implications. Assume you were
interested in the issues related to violence in
elementary level school children. You are aware
of the increased incidences of bullying, leading
to serious problems. Specifically, you want to
video tape childrens behavior out of school on
their way home to and from school. You want to
capture, on video, the social interactions that
take place, trying to record behaviors that are
definitely bullying behaviors or could lead to
bullying. So you are focusing on the
perpetration of bullying. For this discussion,
you are asked to identify ethical factors
involved in your proposed research. Your list
would include research issues and ethical
implications beyond the basic informed consent
condition. Respond to at least two of your
classmates postings.
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HHS 460 Week 5 Final Paper
Focus of the Final Paper The Final Paper will
be the final assignment for this course. This
paper will be due on the last day of class in
Week 5. 1) Identify the phenomena you wish to
concentrate on within the broad realm of health
and human services. Your references (should be a
minimum of eight), will come from the databases
and reference sources you covered throughout
course assignments.
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