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Topic: This week you covered a large number of inherited metabolic diseases. These diseases are summarized in Table 7-1 of your textbook. In many cases, these diseases will require specific lifestyle changes to prevent the illness (many times the modification of diet). As a nurse, it is critical that you can deliver appropriate lifestyle and dietary information to the patient (of parents of the patient) that has been diagnosed with one of these metabolic disorders. Your assignment this week is to pick one metabolic disorder and create a document that introduces the disease to the patient (and the patient stakeholders) and outlines appropriate lifestyle choices that addresses the metabolic disorder.

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Length should be 1500-1750 words, not including the title and references pages (typed, 12 point font, double spaced).
Include these subheadings in your paper: Summary of ____________ (Insert name of the metabolic disorder that you picked), Potential Problematic Nutrients and Foods, Example Diet
Support your content with at least (4) citations. Make sure to reference the citations using APA writing style for the presentation.

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What does Erickson mean when she refers to ‘Sites of Shame as Sites of Resistance’ in her title?

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CHOOSE ONE

Part 3: Case Studies (Due in Topic 7)

Directions: Read the case studies below regarding therapeutic interventions. Select ONE and write a 200-500-word response explaining how you would handle the situation as a facilitator. These are designed to help you analyze how you may use therapeutic interventions in future groups you lead such as the one you have developed in this course. Use the textbook, and any other scholarly resources to support your responses. Include at least two scholarly articles beyond the textbook or course readings.

Case Study 1:

This is week 3 of a therapeutic group for cancer patients and the members are beginning to engage with one another. Two patients in particular, Gigi and Anna, have seemed to dominate the group discussions, mostly with feedback of positive results from activities they have incorporated into their daily lives. The discussion suddenly turns when Gigi shares her renewed faith in God has uplifted her and helped her cope with her cancer diagnosis. Anna cuts Gigi off, saying, “Clearly there is no God or none of us would have cancer.” The group erupts in a debate, all speaking at the same time. Anna then commands the floor, turns to the facilitator, and asks, “Do you believe God exists?”

Reflection Question:

How would you respond to Anna's question utilizing therapeutic intervention to regain control of the group? Include the required scholarly references as you explain your response.

OR

Case Study 2:

This is week 7 of a closed-group for anger management. Brian begins the group, reporting his boss yelled at him in front of all his coworkers for being 5 minutes late. Brian states he excused himself and went to the bathroom. “I lost it,” he states. Brian reports he destroyed the bathroom stall door and the paper towel dispenser. Brian states, “On the one hand, I feel proud of myself for practicing self-control by not hitting my boss. However, I’m disappointed in myself for losing my temper and damaging property.” The group was silent and remained silent for a full two minutes.

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Who is primarily affected by air pollution and how? 

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What are the negative health effects caused by air pollution? 

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What are the primary causes of air pollution? 

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What are the effects of air pollution on the environment? 

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Definition of air pollution 

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-minimum of three credible sources with in-text citations and a references page (APA) or works cited page (MLA)
-APA or MLA formatting and research documentation style
-grammatically correct academic/formal English
-minimum of four pages (not including the references or works cited pages)
-include a thesis statement at the bottom of an introduction (information below); it should not be a topic. Note the difference between the two.
-The thesis should restate the topic, and it should include a purpose and stance. A writer should be able to cut this sentence out from the essay, hand it to a stranger, and the stranger should be able to identify the writer's topic and stance/purpose.
use a third-person point of view. This means writers should not use variations of the following: I, you, we, us, our, etc.
Instead, replace them with nouns.
Wrong: We should consider implementing more technology in the field of nursing.
Correct: Administrators and healthcare leaders should consider implementing more technology in the field of nursing.
NEVER ever mention the assignment/paper/essay/project in the text of the report.
Wrong: This report will explain...
use proper MLA OR APA formatting consistently.
include research and utilize in-text citations and a works cited (MLA) or references page (APA) to listed all sources used within their writing.
use paragraphs strategically in an organized fashion.

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Please respond to the following: 

Colleague 1
While sexual transmitted infections(STI) or Sexually transmitted disease(STD) affects people all over the word some curable while others are not such as Genital Herpes, HIV/AIDS. While overtime since the 80's it caused a huge uproar and many people were confused but the increase of numbers over time. Some people who contract HIV have symptoms such as anxiety, depression, anger, helplessness, guilt, and isolation. Therapist can react different depending on their expertise dealing with disease versus if you have an therapist that is new to disease they may be more prone to being judgmental. Therapist may not realize it but they can have a huge impact on clients weather it's positive or negative. If a therapist has a homophobia for example, therapists may react to clients who they perceive to be responsible for their HIV infection with moralism or indifference (Hoffman, 1996). Historically, persons with HIV have been stigmatized heavily in the United States, because of both the contagious nature of HTV and the fact that already marginalized groups tend to be overrepresented among individuals with HIV (i.e., gay men, intravenous drug users, and ethnic minorities; Hoffman, 1996). 

Secondly, a positive way a therapist could counsel a patient who has HIV/AIDS is to educate them ask if he/she would like to attend informational sessions at a local health department, etc be able to be a positive tool for those clients because many will be angry for a long time. Cannot be romantically involved with someone, they will be afraid to tell others, and will more than likely be depressed. giving someone a reason to live for is an honor and duty. Also, maybe finding groups like AA or groups with a commonality of HIV may help some people instead of one on one counseling.

references

Hayes, J. A., & Erkis, A. J. (2000). Therapist homophobia, client sexual orientation, and source of client HIV infection as predictors of therapist reactions to clients with HIV. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 47(1), 71–78. https://doi-org.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/10.1037/0022-0167.47.1.71




COLLEAGUE 2

COLLAPSE
HIV/AIDS is looked at by society from a negative perspective. Being told that you are positive for HIV/AIDS can be detrimental to one's health. Someone who is experiencing being positive for HIV may continue their life as if nothing has happened, search for information, or find it difficult to accept. Although it may not appear to be noticeable an HIV client can be suffering mentally, physically, and emotionally after receiving the news. 

It is important that professionals are knowledgeable about the disease before working with clients who have HIV. Before working with a client to conduct screening, assessments, or treatment planning, professionals should sort through their own personal attitudes and experiences that they have to work with HIV-infected clients (SAMAH, 2015 ). The professional should also have information about the client's cultural background as the comfort level will vary depending on the client's beliefs. 

Working with HIV-infected clients can mentally and emotionally drain professionals. Professionals must be able to prepare to work with a client by learning to value diversity, adapting to diversity, and being very knowledgeable in the client's culture to make culture appropriate decisions to help assist the client (SAMAH, 2015). For example, the professional should help the client as an individual first before looking at the individual based on being a product of their culture. 

In order to provide clients with quality service professionals must first do self-assessment work to ensure they’re staying committed to the ethical guidelines. 



Center for Substance Abuse Treatment. Substance Abuse Treatment for Persons with HIV/AIDS. Rockville (MD): Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (US); 2015. (Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP) Series, No. 37.) Chapter 7—Counseling Clients With HIV And Substance Abuse Disorders. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK64930/

Horan, S. M. (2016). Further understanding sexual communication: Honesty, deception, safety, and risk. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 33449–468.

Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

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Does equating status with authority cause confusion? Why or why not?

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As a professional nurse, what are some ways in which you are able to reach out to members of the community who do not have access to healthcare reform?