Assignment 2: Applying Behavioral and Cognitive Behavioral Therapies
Codrina is a 40-year-old, divorced, white female seeking counseling at a community mental health center. She is seeking counseling because she has been depressed, unable to sleep well and has lost her appetite since the sudden ending of her marriage one month ago. Before leaving, her husband told her that he did not love her any longer and doubted whether he ever did. He told Codrina that he had felt lonely and distant from her for the entire three years of their short marriage. He now questions whether she is even capable of feeling love for another person.
Codrina was raised in an orphanage and her childhood years were characterized by isolation, hunger and scarcity. She describes spending many days just staring at the wall and rocking back and forth. After she left the orphanage at 16 years of age she worked in odd jobs and was in and out of abusive relationships with men for a few years until she met her husband about four years ago. She lived with him for six months before they got married. Even from the start she had a difficult time trusting him or any man for that matter. She showed little interest in sex, never cried, rarely laughed and had a very subdued mood most of the time. In the second year of her marriage, Codrina discovered that her husband was having an affair with a woman he worked with. Instead of being upset, she was almost relieved because it seemed to take the pressure off of her to engage in sexual intercourse with her husband. Out of guilt, he finally told her about the affair. Upon hearing his confession, Condrina showed no emotion and didn’t even ask him to end the affair. From that point forward her husband spent few nights at home and one month ago announced he was filing for divorce. Now, in addition to her insomnia and poor appetite she is neglecting her self-care to the point that she is being shunned by others who come in contact with her, which deepens her sense of isolation. She’s coming to therapy to see if you can help her before she loses all hope that she can regain control of her life.
Assume that you are a cognitive behavioral therapist and have agreed to work with Codrina. Using principles and techniques from Beck’s Cognitive Therapy (CT), respond to the following questions:
From a cognitive behavioral perspective, state at least three assumptions that you would make about the origin of Codrina’s behavioral problems? Be specific and detailed in your response.
Describe at least two goals that you, as a cognitive behavioral therapist, would have for Codrina in therapy. Give a thorough rationale for each goal bringing in terms and concepts from CT.
How might your goals differ from those that Codrina might have coming into therapy?
Identify at least two cognitive distortions that Codrina might be experiencing. State each one and provide evidence from the information given about her life that would support each cognitive distortion you have mentioned.
What CT techniques or methods would you use to achieve the goals mentioned in question 2?
As a CT therapist, what would be your desired outcome for Codrina be as a result of your work with her?
Submit your response to the M4: Assignment 2 Dropbox by Wednesday, May 18, 2016. Your paper should be at least 1000 words. Your paper should be double-spaced and in 12 point, Times New Roman font with normal one-inch margins, and should follow APA style for attributing sources. It should include a title page with a running head and a reference page.
Assignment 2 Grading Criteria and Respective Point Value
Maximum Points
Stated three assumptions from a cognitive therapy perspective about the origin of Codrina’s behavioral problems.
15
Described in detail two concrete and specific goals for Codrina from a cognitive behavioral perspective that a therapist might have for a client.
10
Explained how a cognitive therapist’s goals for his or her client might differ from the client’s goals in this situation.
15
Stated two cognitive distortions and provided supportive evidence from the case study to substantiate the choices.
15
Described at least two techniques or methods a cognitive therapist would use to achieve their stated goals.
15
Described the desired outcome of therapy for Codrina.
10
Wrote in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrated ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; displayed accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
20
Total:
100
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If you were to develop your own integrated approach to family therapy, which models would you tend to draw from? Which aspects would you make central to your theory of family therapy? Identify the key concepts that you find most valuable from the various theories. Also identify the basic techniques from the different approaches that you are most interested in studying
Requires 2 references with dates no later than 2010
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The following questions require you, among other things, to estimate the stock price for Coupons.com, and provide the analysis as requested. You will need to use “Sources of Financial Data” listed in Course Content[1]to obtain the necessary financial info/statements for Coupons.com. Identify its peer companies and obtain pricing and financial information for them. For some parts of the exam you might already have numbers from the Midterm. Don’t forget to make adjustments in response to my feedback comments, if necessary.
Choose several peer companies for Coupons.com and justify your choice. Choose several valuation multiples and using comparable ratios of peer companies (as we did in Project 2 and discussed in Conferences) and Coupons.com financial information from prospectus, estimate the company’s stock price on March 6, 2014. It is required for this question to list your major assumptions and properly reference sources of information that you used in your calculations.
Using the same peers and industry data, please estimate Coupons.com ‘s WACC Show all your data used for calculations. Again, please state all your assumptions and sources of information.
Coupons.comwent public on March 7, 2014. How do your relative valuations compare to the company’s IPO price (what was the IPO price)? How do they compare to its first trading day opening and closing prices (what were these prices)? If your valuations differ from observed prices, can you briefly forward any possible explanations?
In June 2011 SMALLCAP World Fund, Inc. acquired 3,276,690 series B preferred shares at a price of $13.73 per share. According to the Coupons.comIPO prospectus, at IPO the each series B share will be converted to 1 (one) common share. If SMALLCAP World Fund, Inc. participated in IPO and could sell some of these shares at the IPO price, what would be its annualized rate of return on this investment? You may assume the investment date to be exactly 33 months (11 quarters) earlier, or use the XIRR function – – one solution is enough! Did SMALLCAP World Fund, Inc. sell any shares at IPO in reality? Why/why not?
The following information is for pedagogical purposes only and unlike earlier questions does not deal with real situation. There are rumors that Coupons.com has a three year agreement with a major mobile network, according to which Coupons.comhas a right to advertise coupons to users of this network by paying annual fee of $50 M at the beginning of the year. Once usage starts, it cannot be terminated until the end of the contract, but the start can be postponed. The current estimate is that if the company uses the network this year, its revenues will be $60 M in today’s dollars. Each year revenues can go up 20% or down 15% in comparison with the previous year. If the risk-free rate is 5%, what should the company do? Please provide as many details as possible in your explanations and support them by numbers.
Make sure to justify your responses by using the available data/info and carrying out any needed and relevant calculations.
Whole Foods Market CEO John Mackey prided himself on founding a company that offered nutritious products and con- tributed generously to all manner of charities (see Figure 18-10). Mr. Mackey founded the company as a 25-year-old college dropout, in Austin, Texas. When he and his co-founder (his 21-year-old girlfriend) were evicted from their apartment for stor- ing food products in it, they decided to live at their small health foods store. Because it was zoned for commercial use, there was no shower stall, so they bathed using a water hose attached to their dishwasher. Thus was born the world’s foremost purveyor of healthy produce. As Whole Foods increased its market share and became the nation’s largest natural and organic grocer, its reputation as a model for corporate behavior grew as well. With 270 locations in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, Whole Foods Market produced all manner of wholesome produce—seafood, grocery, meat and poultry, bakery, prepared foods and catering, beer, wine, cheese, whole body, floral, pet products, and household products. The company was consistently ranked among the most socially responsible busi- nesses and placed second on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s list of Top 25 Green Power Partners. For many years, Whole Foods and its socially responsible CEO could do no wrong. Right up until CEO Mackey’s “secret blogging life” was exposed. “Rahodeb, Is that You?” On July 20, 2007, The Wall Street Journal reported that CEO Mackey was, for at least seven years, using the pseudonym, “Rahodeb” (an anagram of his wife’s name, Deborah), to post to Yahoo! Finance forums opinions criticizing rival supermarket chain Wild Oats Market. The Journal reported that both the Federal Trade Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission were investigating. The anonymous CEO’s postings painted a bleak future for Wild Oats Market, while predicting a bright one for Whole Foods. An early Rahodeb posting posited the following: “I think it is highly unlikely a conventional supermarket chain will buy OATS. Why not? What does OATS bring to the table? “Good locations? No. For the most part they have poor real estate (based on the stores that I have seen). Their stores are also on average quite small—not the size stores that supermarket chains want to operate. Anyone that buys OATS is taking on huge operating lease liabilities from this poor real estate. OATS has many underperform- ing stores that should be written off.” Another Rahodeb posting proclaimed in 2006: “The writing is on the wall. The end game is now under- way for (Wild Oats) . . . Whole Foods is systematically destroying their viability as a business—market by market, city by city.” In another 2006 posting, Rahodeb warned: “Bankruptcy remains a distinct possibility (for Wild Oats) if the business isn’t sold within the next few years.” Anyone reading these dire anonymous warnings about the future of Wild Oats might have found it inconceivable that any company in its right mind would ever be interested in buying Wild Oats. Who would be that gutsy or ignorant? The answer was a shocker. Rahodeb Makes His Move What Rahodeb aka Mackey didn’t reveal in the anonymous post- ings was that his company, Whole Foods, planned to make an offer to buy Wild Oats. In February 2007, Whole Foods announced it intended to do just that at an aggregate price of $565 million—not bad for a firm that had been knocked so vociferously by the anony- mous blogger. Four months later, the Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit to block the proposed $656 million sale, on antitrust grounds, that it would hobble competition and increase prices to consumers. Whole Foods Market CEO John Mackey took the unusual step of initiating a blog on the subject to explain his opposition to the FTC’s stance. Papers filed by the FTC revealed that for several years, CEO Mackey posted highly opinionated comments under the pseudonym “Rahodeb” on the Whole Foods Yahoo! investment message board, raising serious legal and ethical questions. Additionally, the Securities and Exchange Commission began an investigation of the Mackey secret postings. Whole Foods responded to the FTC complaint by saying its CEO posted comments under an alias “to avoid having his com- ments associated with the company and to avoid others placing too much emphasis on his remarks.” Nonetheless, the company also decided to launch a board investigation of the postings and to restrict its CEO and other senior officers from posting future industry-related thoughts on the Internet. And CEO Mackey, himself, mounted his own defense on his own blog, bashing the FTC and stating: “The views articulated by rahodeb sometimes represent what I actually believed and sometimes they didn’t. Sometimes I simply played ‘devil’s advocate’ for the sheer fun of arguing. “All of rahodeb’s posting also need to be understood in the context of the time that they were written. Because the competitive market has evolved so much in the last 5 years, older postings mean far less today than they did when they were written.” The FTC–Mackey/Whole Foods battle raged on for two years when, in 2009, the government settled with the company, forcing Whole Foods to sell the Wild Oats brand and 13 functioning stores, in order to keep another 19 outlets. As a postscript, the SEC concluded in 2008 that it had decided to take “no action” on the anonymous CEO Web postings. Questions 1. What are the ethical implications of the CEO’s anonymous postings about the competition? 2. Would Mackey have been better off signing his name to the postings? 3. If you had been public relations director at Whole Foods, what would you have advised the CEO as to his Web postings and his blog?
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Describe the product subject to recall, including the recall date, recall number, and the reason for the recall.
Analyze whether the manufacturer would be liable for negligence if the product had not been recalled and had caused harm to a consumer.
Discusses the following in relation to the product recall:
Duty of Care
Standard of Care
Breach of the Duty of Care
Actual Causation
Proximate Causation
Actual Injury
Defenses to Negligence
Analyze and apply a relevant consumer protection statute identified under “Consumer Protection” in Chapter 8 of your text in conjunction with the product recall that you have identified.Must address the topic of the paper with critical thought.
Submit a four- to five-page paper (not including title and reference pages). Your paper must be formatted according to APA style as outlined in the approved APA style guide and must cite at least three scholarly sources in addition to the textbook. This paper must have internal citatio a and include no plagerized materials.
Carefully review the Grading Rubric for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.
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Assignment 2: Discussion—Appropriate Communication
Using appropriate language that will achieve the intent of communicating with employees as well as other internal and external stakeholders is an important part of a leader’s or manager’s effectiveness. Knowing what to say, and how to state it in an appropriate manner, can make the difference between communication that succeeds or fails.
Read the following blog posting and provide feedback on its level of effectiveness. Consider that you have to send this message yourself. How would you write it if you had to follow the “language of leaders?”
It has come to my attention that many of you are lying on your time cards. If you come in late, you should not put 8:00AM on your card. If you take a long lunch, you are not supposed to hide that and sign like the lunch took only one hour. I will not stand for this type of cheating. I simply have no other choice but to institute an employee monitoring. Beginning next week, a video system will be installed in the building with cameras monitoring all entrances, and entry and exit times will be logged every time you use electronic key cards to enter or leave the premises.
Anyone arriving late for work or returning late from lunch more than three times will have to answer directly to me. I don’t care if you had to take a nap or if your family had to go shopping. This is a place of business, and we do not need to be taken advantage of by slackers who are cheaters to boot.
It is too bad that a few bad apples always have to spoil things for everyone.
Due on Saturday, February 13, 2016, .
Write your initial response in 300–500 words. Your response should be thorough and address all components of the discussion question in detail, include citations of all sources, where needed, according to the APA Style, and demonstrate accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation
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Read the scenario presented in Chapter 6 Problem #2 (at the end of the chapter): While you were visiting London, you purchased a Jaguar for £35,000, payable in three months. You have enough cash at your bank in New York City, which pays 0.35 percent interest per month, compounding monthly, to pay for the car. Currently, the spot exchange rate is $1.45/£ and the three-month forward exchange rate is $1.40/£. In London, the money market interest rate is 2.0 percent for a three-month investment. There are two alternative ways of paying for your Jaguar.
a. Keep the funds at your bank in the United States and buy £35,000 forward. b. Buy a certain pound amount spot today and invest the amount in the U.K. for three months so that the maturity value becomes equal to £35,000.
Analyze the alternatives presented and make a recommendation on purchasing the Jaguar. Be sure to provide support for your recommendation – why do you prefer the stated alternative? What are the advantages of the alternative that you have selected?
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a $90 pair of hiking boots was on sale for $81. What was the percent of decrease?
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