already have. Piaget thinks that his stages represent broad ways of thinking. Piaget described four distinct periods of cognitive development (sensorimotor intelligence‚ preoperational thought‚ concrete operations‚ and formal operations). The sensorimotor intelligence period begins at birth and ends at about 24 months. Piaget called it sensorimotor intelligence because infants learn through senses and motor skills. This two year long period is broken down into six stages. Children create their own understanding
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Running Head: ACCOUNTING Accounting Latoya Bullock Bryant & Stratton College Comm150 Instructor Santella 06/09/2013 What is accounting? Known as the “language of business‚” accounting is the system of analyzing and verifying summarized business/financial transactions and reporting their results. Accounting is more than just adding numbers and being good at math. Accountants have to “ensure that financial records are accurate and that taxes are paid properly on time.” (Bureau
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in Kirk‚ 2007) “Professional competence is the habitual and judicious use of communication‚ knowledge‚ technical skills‚ clinical reasoning‚ emotions‚ values‚ and reflection in daily practice for the benefit of the individual and community being served‚”. Practising professional competence as defined by Epstein and Hundert (as cited in Kirk‚ 2007) demands an inherent knowledge of both my strengths and weaknesses: being self-aware. A proper evaluation of my competence level in practice demands a high
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Social Competence – Case Study Case 1 –playing computer games The frequency of playing computer games is inversely proportional to social competence. The people‚ who are addicted to computer games‚ lack of social competence. Nowadays‚ the children love to sit in front of the computer and play computer games. It gives children little time to interact with the other people so that they learn few social skills. It affects their relationship with their friends and parents. Also‚ some
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ABSTRACT The cultural competence approach has grown significantly in the North American human service professions. The reliance of social workers on cultural awareness to block the influence of their own culture in the helping process entails three problematic and conflicting assumptions‚ namely‚ the notion of human being as cultural artifact‚ the use of self as a technique for transcending cultural bias‚ and the subject-object dichotomy as a defining structure of the worker-client relationship
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Competence & Negligence Scenario 1: You work for a criminal defense attorney who is arrested outside of the courthouse on charges of inhaling nitrous oxide. He was at the courthouse for a pretrial hearing on a cocaine case. After the hearing‚ he returned to his car. He apparently passed out after inhaling as many as 14 canisters‚ stepped on the accelerator of his car and careened in reverse into a parked car. Nitrous oxide is commonly called laughing gas and induces a mild euphoria. The incident
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Herb Batista Jr. Assignment 1: Cultural Competence Today‚ cultural diversity is becoming more of the standard among social and work settings. Understanding culture is essential for relating to others outside of our own social norms‚ giving us the ability to interact within their social context rather than our own social boundaries. In order for us to understand this idea of culture we must become culturally competent. Cultural competence is best explained as a set of behaviors‚ viewpoints‚ and
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Amy Wilds EC107 Reflective Statement of Competence I Competency Statement I - To Establish and Maintain a Safe‚ Healthy Learning Environment To establish and maintain a safe‚ healthy learning environment I model safety practices and healthy routines in an environment that supports development and growth in these areas. My goal is to provide a clean healthy environment that meets each child’s physical needs. Making sure the classroom and playground are clean and safe at all times reduces the number
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1. Which models of cultural competence described in this chapter work best for you? How might you use one or more of them in your clinical setting? This week’s reading is definitely an eye-opener. Before this class‚ I was somewhere between Milton Bennett(1993) model of continuum in cultural competency stage 2( defense/protection) and stage 3(minimization). Though‚ I was aware about cultural differences‚ I would always attempt to investigate the similarity between mine and other cultures. The author
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STAGES OF LABOUR Before you actually get into it‚ you might want to know what labour is? Well‚ labour is a series of events that bring about the opening up of the cervix (opening of the mouth of uterus) descent of the foetus and finally the delivery of the baby and the afterbirths. It is divided in to four stages: 1st STAGE It is the beginning of labour. It commences with the onset of true pain and uterine contractions‚ which bring about gradual opening up of the cervix. The opening of cervix
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