You are nearing the end of your time in the MSW program. Now it is time to see how you can bring all of your theoretical knowledge together in a critically thought out document. The focus questions typed below will be your guide (12 questions). Pick 8 of the questions to address. While answering‚ make sure to use critical thought‚ class materials and other sources that you have used during your time at WKU to develop your theoretical knowledge. 1. How does change occur? Change is fundamental
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Borges October 18‚ 2014 Mind & Body Dualism I am going to argue for dualism‚ that mind and matter are two different things‚ one physical and one non-physical. Dualism is the theory that mental and physical or mind and matter are fundamentally diverse from each other. In philosophy‚ Dualists indicate the radical difference between mental and physical. Dualists oppose the idea that the mind is the same as the brain‚ and also oppose the idea that the mind is entirely a result of the brain
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Mind-Body Debate Philosophers have been debating for centuries the relationship between the mind and the body and whether they are separate entities‚ or if they are one. This is known as the mind/body problem. If the mind being our consciousness and the body being our brain is separate parts‚ do they relate to each other or work together? If they are one‚ do they depend on each other? The idea that the mind and body are one is called monism. The idea that the mind and body are separate is called
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"You Are What You Eat" There are many reasons I believe that you are what you eat. When assessing an obese individual you would now that they have a nutritional problem. Likewise when you look at a frail underweight individual they may have a nutritional problem as well. Your health depends on what you eat. Weather an individual is obese‚ underweight‚ recovering from surgery or has a debilitating disease a balanced diet has a significant role in good health. A well balanced diet according to Lutz
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Assess needs of clients with alcohol and/or other drug issues Project 1 Toby is a 33 year old man with AOD issues. While ‘high’‚ the drug he uses affects his entire body‚ from blood pressure to heart rate. Toby uses cocaine to ‘amp up’ his body‚ increasing his blood pressure‚ metabolism and reducing his ability to sleep. Toby also drinks alcohol excessively which causes him to fluctuate between aggression and depression. Toby’s marriage broke up last year
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The mind/body problem is the problem of specifying the relationship between the mind and body. Before further explanation of this issue‚ it is important to fully understand each term as it is being used throughout this paper. The mind‚ as I will call it‚ is representational of the consciousness of an individual. This is to say that the part of a person which determines will and choice‚ the experiences and sensations are collectively referred to as mind. The body‚ at times more specifically‚ the brain
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Goal achieving is something that you absolutely must do if you wish to fulfill your potential as human being. Goals enable you to do the work you want to do‚ to live where you want to live‚ to be with the people you enjoy‚ and to become the kind of person you want to be. People don’t set goals because they are afraid they might fail. In fact‚ the fear of failure is probably the greatest single obstacle to success in adult life. It can hold you back more than any other psychological problem
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Mind vs. Body In this paper I will argue that the mind is better known than the body. There are two main reasons I can say this according to Rene Descartes: meditation 1 all I know is that I don’t have knowledge and meditation 2 I know that I exist because I think. In my first argument I will explain according to Rene Descartes that all I know is that I don’t have knowledge. Rene Descartes starts to write some meditations‚ I am going to defend my first argument with meditation 1. In mediation
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Is the mind independent to the body? The mind body problem is a philosophical problem that is concerned with the relationship between the mind and the body‚ whether the mind exists independently of the body or whether the mind and body are one substance. There is a vital difference between the mind and the body some would say‚ meaning that the mind is held responsible for mental elements such as pain‚ euphoria‚ desire‚ purpose‚ belief and kindness whereas the body is responsible for the physical
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topic 2 this week. The topic is Discuss how buffers help to regulate body pH. The pH level in the blood is maintained by the kidneys and the lungs. The pH level on the blood should be at 7.4. In order for the kidneys and lungs to maintain this pH level it affects the buffers in the blood. The buffer is a substance that is resistant to the change in the body’s pH level. Basically the buffers can make an acid or base less potent and try and neutralize it so the body is not overly acidic or basic. When
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