Essays on Belmont

Part 2: framework for curriculum evaluation

Part 3: Curriculum analysis Strengths and weakness of the current curriculum Strengths The current curriculum is primarily geared towards ensuring a student-oriented instructional platform. Therefore, most of the tenets basic to a sound and efficient curriculum are inherently embedded. For instance, the standard of the curriculum tally and align with those stipulated in the state of Georgia's department of education. The content is also keenly and appropriately customized to meet all the student’s requirements as per each grade and level. Weakness The primary weakness that the curriculum creates to my students is in reading since the curriculum is ...

The concept of parens patriae is a Latin term that can loosely be translated to mean “parent or guardian of his or her nation or country”. In a broad context, the term parens patriae is applied to imply that the state has the power to take the role of parents or guardians for the citizens who cannot provide for themselves. Such people may include the disabled, destitute and children. It is worth noting, therefore, that this concept empowers a judge, when necessary, to take action and make decisions that may change the situation and location of child support, or ...

Homework

What is the Nuremberg Code and what are the important parts of the code? How can this code protect research participants? The Nuremberg Code are a list of ethical principles for research that is conducted on humans. The Codes came as a result of the trials of the Nazi doctors that performed experimentation on prisoners in concentration camps during WWII. The trials took place in Nuremberg Germany and were held by the United States. Dr. Leo Alexander submitted a list of 6 defining terms for legitimate medical experiments and research. They were adopted by the Counsel for War along ...

Incorporating Professional Standards in Counseling

Incorporating Professional Standards in Counseling

Introduction

As an aspiring professional counselor, I am fully aware that my success in the practice totally depends on my ability to implement the profession’s standards for ethical behavior. The successful implementation of the standards depends on the incorporation of models for ethical behavior into counseling and psychotherapy, for example, Kitchener’s principle ethics model (Urofsky, Engels, & Engebretson, 2008, p. 67). The model was developed by Childress and Beauchamp, and it acts as the cornerstone for the development of the professional ethical codes for practicing counselors. The Psychotherapy and Counseling Federation of Australia (PACFA) ...

After analyzing the company’s strategy, structure, environment, culture, conflict and power relations, one find out that many things need to be put in place in the firm, in concern with these areas to enable the firm to be a market leader again. The first problem at the Printzhof Press is that the leadership structure is relaxed, and the leaders are not willing to push their employees. Most importantly, the HR manager needs to be a full strategic partner in transforming the department. The leader can achieve this factor by using the contingency effectiveness approach, which mainly relies on ...

Individual Case Analysis of Apple Inc

Many companies operate in the mobile phone industry. One firm that many people around the world know and recognize to be the best in this industry is Apple Inc. The company is known to be market leaders in the sector in which it operates. The firm has a range of products, which include Smartphones such as the iPhone range of products, headphones, Mac computers and laptops among others. Those clients who have used products from the firm speak highly of them. On the same note, most people know that Apple’s products guarantee client satisfaction and are of high ...

Final Test

Explain in general terms the process of DNA replication. The replication of the DNA starts when the double helix unwinds. Each of the two strands serves as the template using which the new DNA double helix strands are formed. The different bases on each of the two strands are then matched in order to form a new set of two strands. Each of the new strands partners with the parent strand to form a double helix (Roth 26).

Prophase – Chromatids are joined at the centromere. Spindle formation occurs. The separation of centrioles occurs in animal cells (Tobin and Jennie ...

The Belmont Report was created in 1978 in response to the issues that were made evident from the Tuskegee syphilis experiment, and aimed to provide a number of guidelines to ensure the safety of human subjects during biomedical research (Sims, 2010). The purpose of the report is to protect humans that are involved in medical, nursing, and scientific research by giving guiding ethical principles about how to protect these subjects. The Belmont Report has three main principles, which are “respect for persons, beneficence, and justice” (Sims, 2010, p173). There are also three main practical approaches that should be used ...

Ethical dilemmas are surely inevitable components of the counseling profession. Throughout their careers counselors are facing with various complicated moral choices that unconditionally need the common sense and profound reflection. Before taking any serious decisions, every counselor should take into consideration that the same ethical standard could differently manifest itself in a variety of everyday situations. Those dilemmas are aimed to test counselor’s reserve and prove that definitive resolution will surely eventuate far beyond the office door. Of course, it is very useful to have the appropriate resources, knowledge and skills while confronting any ethical dilemma. However, more ...

The pay ratio of an average CEO to that of an average worker in America has been on the rise since 1980. The disparity was not so much in the 1980s and ‘90s since the ratio stood at 47 and 107, respectively. However, between 1980 and 2000, the ratio sharply increased, hitting its peak at US$ 525 in the year 2000. From 2000, the ratio has reduced but with a smaller margin, standing at US$ 311 in the year 2013. The situation, however, hasn’t changed significantly for average factory workers, especially men, whose pay per hour has almost ...

The three basic codes of ethical guidelines that protect humans in biomedical research studies are: 1) respect for people (they are treated autonomously and they are protected), 2) beneficence (they are treated ethically and protected from harm), and 3) justice (no burden is imposed and a general understanding of equality is applied). These principles are outlined in The Belmont Report (1979). In the early 1970’s it was ascertained that the protection of human participants in medical research was (and continues to be) very important because people need to be fully aware of their legal rights when they give ...

Media has impact on the lives of people, especially on children who are still developing their personalities. Media affects people in many ways and can lead to violence as well. Many young people commit mass murders if they are exposed to violence on television, but on the other side, television programs reflect reality so this relationship is reciprocal. Violence in the media has effect on the behavior of people in reality and it influences the way they speak and shapes their notions about the world. People often identify themselves with what they see on television which is why the ...

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is recognized as a common neurodevelopmental disorder among children; in the United States, the prevalence is thought to be between 5 percent and 11 percent of children ages 4 through 17 in 2011 or approximately 6.4 million children (American Psychiatric Association, Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder ; CDC.gov, Attention-Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder). Kessler places the adults with ADHD at 1 percent to 6 percent of the population (Kessler 717). A meta-analysis of 32 published research articles concluded that when children met the full diagnostic criteria for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, 15 percent continued to show symptoms at ...

There are differences on the correctional systems in different countries. For instance, some countries openly advocate for death sentence while others do not. For instance countries like Mozambique, Cape Verde, Namibia, Angola and south Africa have abolished death sentence for all crimes. Others which enable death sentence are In the US crime, for which the death sentence can be imposed include; murder related to smuggling of foreigners, murder as a result of a drug shoot-out, killing a congress member, murder associated with the transportation of explosives, among others.

Death sentence in the US serves two main purposes; “retribution” and “deterrence” ( ...