PSYC 212 General Psychology

Select and view one of the following Ted Talks on needs addressed by human service professionals (HPSs), including social workers and mental health counselors: Depression (Links to an external site.) Disability (Links to an external site.) Childhood Trauma (Links to an external site.). Answer each of the following question sets:

 

Part A. What is your relationship to the topic of the Ted Talk you selected? Why did you select it and why does it interest you?

 

P art B. What did you learn while viewing this Ted Talk? How has your perspective grown or changed? Do you think the topic deserves more acknowledgement and/or discussion in society today? Why or why not?

 

Part C: Now that you've completed the reading and video viewing required for this module, what do you think about "job satisfaction" in relation to your career goal as a human services practitioner? How how has personal experience played a role in pursuit of this goal and
where does your enthusiasm for it stand today?

 

2: Program Planning 29 29 unread replies. 29 29 replies. Directions As you learned in Unit 1, agencies run various "programs", which combine to meet all or part of the "mission" of an agency. For example, Planned Parenthood offers the following programs:

 

Women's Health Services, Men's Health Services, Pregnancy Prevention Community Education, and STDScreening. Each of these programs meets all or part of Planned Parenthood's mission:

The Program Outline must read as actionable, which means the "goal" of the program is clearly stated and the objectives, which is another word for "activities", are specific. How, exactly, the program will run can be seen from the outset.

Directions: After reading Chapter 3 of the textbook and reviewing PP3, watch Dan Pollotta's, The Way We Think About Charity is Dead Wrong:
https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pallotta_the_way_we_think_about_charity_is_dea d_wrong Terms to know for the video include: Gross domestic product (GDP) (a monetary measure of the value of all final goods and services produced in a period (quarterly or yearly)); Overhead (expenses/all costs on the income statement except for direct labor, direct materials and direct expenses. For example, overhead expenses include accounting fees, advertising, insurance, interest, legal fees, labor burden, rent, repairs, supplies, taxes, telephone bills, travel
expenditures, and utilities; Risk capital (funds used for high-risk, high-reward investments).

According to Pallota, what are the five problems with the way non-profits are run and restricted today? Second, do you find this argument compelling? Specifically, do you think non profit organizations are too restricted in the ways they are permitted to use funding? If yes, how so? If no, why not?