Ms. Lindsey 2014-2015 Speech Syllabus Hello students! We are going to have a great semester in Speech! This syllabus is to provide you with some guidance into how I expect the class to go during your time this semester. Below are my expectations for this course. It is a required course and you cannot graduate without passing this class. I hope you all do your best and work hard! According to national surveys‚ fear of public speaking ranks among Americans’ top dreads‚ surpassing fear of illness
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considered absences. Participation: MANDATORY. Completion of all On Line work and participation in all classroom activities are necessary to pass the class Make-up speeches cannot be allowed: Time scheduling is too constricted to allow it. Speech outlines will NOT be accepted late. All major speeches must be completed on the scheduled day‚ to pass this class. Assignments: All other assignments must be on time to get full credit. Plagiarism: Policies on cheating and plagiarism will
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Jonathan Rueff July 8‚ 2013 I felt I was well prepared for my first speech‚ I knew my research very well and felt like my arrangement and flow throughout the speech was well organized. If I had to change a couple of things I would definitely change my emotional approach. I felt like I didn’t change my tone of voice. I think that was the case because I was nervous coming into my speech and towards the end I was more comfortable and I started to change my voice and my emotional approach was better
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Want to learn more about Post Traumatic Stress Disorder? More known as PTSD. With this information I am going to provide for you will know a lot more about PTSD than you have before. The more you know the better you will understand the infected. You could help people that were diagnosed with this horrible disease. And get the concept of how they are living. WWII was a lot different from other wars they used bigger field weapons and bombs‚ which made soldiers have a greater risk of dying and seeing
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as Delayed stress reaction in which an individual involuntarily reexperiences emotional‚ cognitive‚ and behavioral aspects of past trauma (Zimbardo‚ Johnson‚ Weber‚ 2006). The article I read about PSTD discussed the difference in the prevalence of PTSD symptoms in firefighters that work in the United States and Canada (Corneil‚ Beaton‚ Murphy‚ Johnson‚ Pike‚ 1999). The side effects of PSTD can have a negative effect on my performance level at work and social interaction level at home. If I have an
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what is now referred to as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The symptoms of PTSD usually appear within three months of the trauma‚ but sometimes the disorder appears later. Unrecognized PTSD is common and may be an important factor in treatment-resistant depression‚ violent behavior‚ and an increased rate of suicide. Several brief screenings for PTSD have been developed to use in the primary care. The research regarding the PTSD is ongoing and typically involves an examination of both environmental
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Post-Traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) affects many different people in different ways. Along with post-traumatic stress disorder often comes a co-morbid aspect that patients see as coping mechanisms for the post-traumatic stress disorder that they know little about. Post-traumatic stress and alcohol/substance abuse addiction often find themselves closely related due to the vast amount of individuals who use alcohol or other substances to treat the symptoms of PTSD. When a patient takes on substance
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and following the treatment process‚ which are the Clinician Administered PTSD Scale (CAPS) and the PTSD Checklist (PCL). The CAPS is given to guide researchers in making a current diagnosis of PTSD‚ examine a lifetime diagnosis for PTSD‚ and assessing PTSD symptoms over the past week (Weathers‚ 2013). The PCL is given to monitor military personnel symptom change before and after treatment and an overall screening for PTSD (Weathers‚ 2013). The Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV (SCID) is given
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individual suspected in having PTSD would need to meet certain criteria in order to be officially diagnosed with PTSD. An evaluator would need to use a combination of observation‚ ‘checklist’ type tests‚ and a psychological evaluation including extensive background information based on the event that is supposed to have caused the PTSD. The testing criteria would need to include a construct that could weed out other possible causes for the distress that could dismiss PTSD as the cause of distress like
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evaluated it’s utility as an adjunct to psychotherapy for the treatment of PTSD. To evaluate the effects of MDMA-assisted therapy for the treatment of resistant and chronic PTSD‚ Oehen‚ Traber‚ Widmer and Schnyder (2013) conducted a pilot study to test the safety and efficacy of this treatment. First‚ Oehen et al. (2013) briefly outlined a current neurocircuitry model for PTSD. Oehen et al. (2013) stated that individuals with PTSD experience exaggerated and uncontrolled fear responses in the amygdala
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