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HHS 460 Entire Course (Ash)
HHS 460 Week 1 DQ 1 Research Presentation HHS 460
Week 1 DQ 2 Intake Process HHS 460 Week 2 DQ 1
Locating Resources HHS 460 Week 2 DQ 2 Research
Venues HHS 460 Week 3 DQ 1 Canadian National
Health Plan HHS 460 Week 3 DQ 2 Research
Formats HHS 460 Week 3 Final Paper Outline HHS
460 Week 4 DQ 1 Careers in HHS HHS 460 Week 4 DQ
2 Research in Practice HHS 460 Week 5 DQ 1 Ethics
in Research HHS 460 Week 5 DQ 2 Ethical
Implications HHS 460 Week 5 Final Paper
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HHS 460 Week 1 DQ 1 Research Presentation (Ash)
Research Presentation. Assume you are asked to
present a half hour talk about research in human
services. Since this could cover a vast number of
concepts, you decide to illustrate a basic
research process (steps) and provide a real-world
example taken from your text. One example is
Research in Practice 10.2 (pp. 273) and the
second example is Research in Practice 9.2 (pp.
246). Explanations as to the rational for using a
scientific research method compared to just
providing a theoretical explanation would make
the presentation more valid. In the discussion
address the notion that in so many health and
human services programs, finding important
information is tied to the need for information
to solve problems. Respond to at least two of
your classmates postings.
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HHS 460 Week 1 DQ 2 Intake Process (Ash)
Intake Process. Often when providing services,
basic intake information is required. The
researcher could, at the end of a given time
period, examine these intake papers and, based on
some need, compute descriptive statistics using
information provided by the clients /
participants. Information such as income, family
make up, and education levels could be used to
compute mean values. However, you may be asked to
configure a study that can be called
experimental. In this discussion forum you are
asked to compare these two formats and identify
in what ways they differ. In order to determine
definitions of descriptive research, you will
need to access the MREL Reference Appendix A.
Your post should focus on differentiating these
two research types and then discuss their
potential contribution to research in health and
human services. Respond to at least two of your
classmates postings.
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HHS 460 Week 2 DQ 1 Locating Resources (Ash)
Locating Resources. The ability to locate and
utilize information relative to Health and Human
Services is an important component of many health
and human service jobs. Some of the areas
included in HHS programs are ? Legal/illegal
immigration ? Poverty ? Violence in the Media ?
Unemployment ? Alcoholism ? Gambling ? Sexual
Harassment ? Criminal Justice
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HHS 460 Week 2 DQ 2 Research Venues (Ash)
Research Venues. Research can be divided into
three broad areas descriptive, qualitative, and
quantitative. Some researchers subsume
descriptive research (archival) as quantitative.
However, for this discussion, we are considering
it a separate kind, as descriptive research can
fall into either area qualitative or
quantitative. Your assignment for this discussion
is to prepare a 250-300 word post differentiating
qualitative, quantitative, and analysis of
availability data. Identify those attributes that
form the essence of these three research venues.
Respond to at least two of your classmates
postings.
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HHS 460 Week 3 DQ 1 Canadian National Health Plan
(Ash)
Canadian National Health Plan. Research can vary
from highly sophisticated experimental studies to
less rigorous short term investigations. Each
research approach has advantages and
disadvantages. Among the different paradigms you
could use, two of the more common are the
positivist approach and the interpretive
approach (consult pages 39-40 in the text). If
you were interested in determining if the
Canadian National Health Plan was better
(better in terms of care, coverage, and choice of
doctors) then the current United States Health
Coverage Plan (Obama sponsored), which approach
would you choose to make this determination?
Provide a justification to your answer. Remember,
your decision is about the research paradigm, and
the subject focus (health care plans) provides
the context. Select the responses of two
classmates, comparing the position you take and
the justification.
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HHS 460 Week 3 DQ 2 Research Formats (Ash)
Research Formats. The research format found in
scholarly journal articles has purpose and
direction. Chapters 2 and 4 in the text provide
information as to the logic and makeup of a
research effort. Parallel to the structure of the
research format is the notion of the scientific
method as a basic approach to solving problems.
Your task is to analyze these two venues,
identifying in what ways they complement each
other, and how each venue is related to the
other. You may want to access outside references
regarding the concepts of research format and the
scientific method. Respond to at least two of
your classmates postings.
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HHS 460 Week 3 Final Paper Outline (Ash)
Final Paper Outline. The Final Paper will be the
final assignment for this research course. This
paper will be due on the last day of class in
Week 5. Your written assignment for this week is
to do the following Identify the phenomena you
wish to concentrate on within the broad realm of
health and human services. Your references
(should be a minimum of eight), will come from
the databases and reference sources you covered
earlier throughout course assignments. You will
need to create a description of the phenomena
the core issue or objective upon which you will
focus.
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HHS 460 Week 4 DQ 1 Careers in HHS (Ash)
Careers in HHS. The great variety of careers and
occupations within the field of HHS is growing
every year. A review of some of the data bases in
the text will provide opportunities to search and
identify many occupational areas within different
governmental departments and programs. Searching,
for example, the U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services website will result in finding
many careers such as social workers, preschool
programs, criminal justice, counseling,
gerontology, and drug and alcohol treatment.
After selecting two different websites related to
HHS, identify two career areas in the HHS field
and do the following ? Record the websites or
data bases, listing the careers or occupations
given.
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HHS 460 Week 4 DQ 2 Research in Practice (Ash)
Research in Practice. Qualitative research in the
past 30 years has increasingly been viewed as
making an important contribution to research and
evaluation. For this discussion, you are asked to
read two Research in Practice articles in the
text. Evaluate and synthesize the contribution
qualitative researched played with regard to
Research in Practice (5.1, pp. 110) and Research
in Practice (12.2, p 338). Your work should
clearly identify the importance of using
qualitative methods and explain in what ways
these methods helped the studies. Respond to two
of your classmates postings  
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HHS 460 Week 5 DQ 1 Ethics in Research (Ash)
Ethics in Research. Ethics plays an important
role in conducting of research. While the
individual researcher is responsible for his/her
ethical practice, any research sponsored by an
organization, university, or government program
has a review process guided by a code of ethics.
Besides the code of ethics, the Institutional
Review Board (IRB) plays an important role in
monitoring research. Your task in this discussion
is to examine the origins of the IRB and analyze
how the Review Board guides or monitors research.
In your 250-300 word post answer the following
three questions ? What does the IRB do to
protect a research participant from harm?
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HHS 460 Week 5 DQ 2 Ethical Implications (Ash)
Ethical Implications. Assume you were interested
in the issues related to violence in elementary
level school children. You are aware of the
increased incidences of bullying, leading to
serious problems. Specifically, you want to video
tape childrens behavior out of school on their
way home to and from school. You want to capture,
on video, the social interactions that take
place, trying to record behaviors that are
definitely bullying behaviors or could lead to
bullying. So you are focusing on the
perpetration of bullying. For this discussion,
you are asked to identify ethical factors
involved in your proposed research. Your list
would include research issues and ethical
implications beyond the basic informed consent
condition. Respond to at least two of your
classmates postings.
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HHS 460 Week 5 Final Paper (Ash)
Focus of the Final Paper The Final Paper will be
the final assignment for this course. This paper
will be due on the last day of class in Week
5. 1) Identify the phenomena you wish to
concentrate on within the broad realm of health
and human services. Your references (should be a
minimum of eight), will come from the databases
and reference sources you covered throughout
course assignments. You will need to create a
description of the phenomena the core issue or
objective upon which you will focus. Examples of
topics (core issues) would include Community
care of mental patients. Discover different
examples of community care and their impact on
mental patients.
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