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ABS 200 Week 1 DQ 1 What is Applied Behavioral Science
ABS 200 Week 1 DQ 2 Values and Ethics Guiding Generalist Practice
ABS 200 Week 2 DQ 1 Empowerment
ABS 200 Week 2 DQ 2 Theories on Groups

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ABS 200 Final Guide

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Focus of the Final Paper
Select a short video from the list below about a specific social problem such as:
Poverty 1. Retrieved on July 7, 2010 from http://www.youtube.com/watch?&
Poverty 2. Retrieved on July 7, 2010 from http://www.youtube.com/watch?&
Poverty 3. Retrieved on July 7, 2010 from http://www.youtube.com/watch?
Crime. Retrieved on July 7, 2010 from http://www.youtube.com/watch?

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ABS 200 Week 1 DQ 1 What is Applied Behavioral Science

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What is Applied Behavioral Science? Review the video, Science Can Answer Moral
Questions, readings in Chapter 1, and the power point slides. In a 250-300 word
post:
Describe your understanding of the field of Applied Behavioral Science including an
overview of the generalist perspective of practice.

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200 Week 1 DQ 2 Values and Ethics Guiding Generalist Practice
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Values and Ethics Guiding Generalist Practice. Review the readings in Chapter 2, and
the power point slides.

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ABS 200 Week 2 Critical Thinking Evidence Based Practice (EBP)

and Person-In-Environment (PIE)
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Critical Thinking: Evidence Based Practice (EBP) and Person-In-Environment
(PIE). In a 3 to 4 page paper:
Review Critical thinking, as described in the text.

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ABS 200 Week 2 DQ 1 Empowerment

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Empowerment. Watch Why to Believe in Others and in 250 300 words, supporting
your comments with scholarly references,
Discuss Empowerment and Empowerment Theory, The Strengths Perspective, and
Resiliency and why this focus is a vital concept in the Generalist Practice.

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ABS 200 Week 2 DQ 2 Theories on Groups

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Theories on Groups. Of all the theories discussed in Chapter 3 (field, social exchange,
learning psychoanalytic, systems, empowerment, and feminist), which one helps
you understand best how groups function?

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ABS 200 Week 3 DQ 1 Types of Groups

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Types of Groups. Select one of the types of groups: Task group, Team, Treatment,
Support, Committees, etc., giving an example of how it functions, its purpose,
goals, and relevance to the individuals that participate in the group.

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ABS 200 Week 3 DQ 2 Organizations and Power

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Organizations and Power. Discuss the dynamics and concept of power in

organizations, for example, are they gender-based, is power at odds with the
provision of services, and does politics or cost enter in?

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ABS 200 Week 3 Step One of Final Paper

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Step One of Final Paper. The Final Paper is due at the end of the course (Week Five).
In order to ensure that you have time to write a good paper and receive sufficient
guidance from your instructor, an outline is to be submitted this week.

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ABS 200 Week 4 DQ 1 Neighborhoods and Communities

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Neighborhoods and Communities. What does it take to make a community? What is
the difference between a neighborhood and a community?

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ABS 200 Week 4 DQ 2 Community Building

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Community Building. Watch the PBS report titled, The Economy of a Tent City. What
are the primary principles involved in community building?

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ABS 200 Week 5 DQ 1 Global Issues

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Global Issues. Whether by natural disaster or economic issues, poverty remains an
issue in other countries such as Haiti.

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ABS 200 Week 5 DQ 2 Social Advocacy and Justice

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Social Advocacy and Justice. Select one of the three video segments on social
advocacy and fighting for social injustice:
Bill Clinton on Rwanda
Majora Carters Tale of Urban Renewal
Peter Gabriel Fights Injustice with Video

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