This course concludes with a look at advertising and the culture of consumerism. You will have the opportunity to choose a product or service and highlight how you have seen it being advertising.You will also have an opportunity in this assignment to explain your thoughts regarding how media affects culture and how you can continue developing your media literacy.Choose a product or service from these examples:Fast foodClass of consumer productPersonal careAutomobileResearch the Internet to analyze how that product or service has been advertised.Prepare a 15- to 20-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation in which you investigate the role of advertising in a culture of consumerism. Be sure to discuss the following:Who determines ethical standards for advertising?In what ways has advertising affected American culture?What are the key persuasive techniques used in consumer advertising? Illustrate with specific examples, explaining how each technique works.Discuss some of the critical issues that may arise from the following areas:Children and advertisingAdvertising in schoolsHealth and advertisingPolitical advertisingFind one example of a commercial that strikes you as particularly creative and appealing:What are the elements that are unusual?What is the target group of the commercial?How does the commercial appeal to consumers?Why do you believe this commercial to be effective in brand name recognition?How are ethical standards met (or pushed to their limits)?Include detailed speaker notes and images that support your content. Each slide should have 3 to 4 bullets of text which are a high-level overview of what's included in your speaker notes. You may write the speaker notes in the notes section of your selected presentation tool or in a separate Word document. List any references on the last slide.

Managing Boundaries in the Helping ProcessTOTAL: 5 pages double spaced with references and in-text citations. Follow the instructions carefully!Part 1:Managing boundaries is an everyday reality faced by human service professionals, particularly those who live and practice in small communities. Helpers who work in rural communities may have greater challenges in dealing with multiple relationships than those who work in urban areas. In 3 pages, explore the issues below. Please use APA subheadings and title the sections scenario 1, 2, and 3. Your response should include a minimum of four scholarly sources, one of which must be the National Organization of Human Services Code of Ethics.Scenario 1:A human service professional discovers that all of her bank accounts are at the local bank where a client works as a teller. This client has access to the human service professional’s financial information and may be able to ascertain who the human service professional’s other clients are in town when checks are deposited.Scenario 2:A human service professional sees one of his clients at the local grocery store. The client is with one or more other persons. The human service professional, who is mindful of confidentiality, must decide how to respond. If he doesn’t acknowledge the client, will the client feel snubbed? On the other hand, what if the human service professional approaches the client to say hello and the client doesn’t want others to know that he or she is working with the human service professional?Scenario 3:A human service professional has been invited to a dinner party hosted by a friend. She is not aware of the fact that the friend’s son is dating one of her new clients, who also attends the party. Upon seeing her client at her friend’s party, the human service professional must decide how to respond. This scenario can be taken in a number of directions. For example, what if the client has concerns with the human service professional’s friend because the son constantly complains about him/her? What if the client identifies as being gay and is romantically involved with the friend’s son, but his parent (the human service professional’s friend) does not know that he is gay? There are several more possibilities as well.Part 2:Increasingly, clients or former clients want to become “friends” with their human service professional via the Internet. For helping professionals who are considering using Facebook, a host of ethical concerns about boundaries, dual relationships, confidentiality, and privacy arise. In 2 pages, please summarize what you would do in this situation. Your response should include a minimum of four scholarly sources, one of which must be the National Organization of Human Services Code of Ethics.Provide appropriate citations and references for any information you use in this paper. For help with citations, refer to the Plagiarism Guide found in Kaplan Academic Tools. For additional writing help, visit the Kaplan University Writing Center and review the guidelines for research, citation, and plagiarism.

Forensic AssessmentFor this assignment, you will conduct Internet research on the Elizabeth Smart kidnapping trials. In brief, Smart was abducted at the age of fourteen from her home in Utah. Over nine months later, she was found with her kidnappers, Brian David Mitchell and Wanda Ileen Barzee (now deceased). During Mitchell's trial, consideration was given with respect to whether he was competent to stand trial. The legal standard for "competence to stand trial" has not changed since the US Supreme Court decision: "Our challenge is whether [the defendant] has sufficient present ability to consult with his lawyer with a reasonable degree of rational understanding, and whether he has a rational as well as a factual understanding of the proceedings against him" (Stafford, 2003).While conducting your research, pay particular attention to the information you obtain regarding her kidnapper Mitchell. Based on your research, address the following:Describe Mitchell's profile. Describe some of his personality traits, and explain what you learned about his mental state at the time of the trial.Explain how you would proceed with assessing Mitchell's competency to stand trial. Analyze the considerations you would make, and based on your analysis, explain whether you think he was competent to stand trial.Describe your views about Mitchell's competency compared to the criminal justice process and how it measures competency. Analyze and explain whether there are any discrepancies or conflicts between these views. Additionally, for this assignment, you will explore how clinicians determine competency to stand trial. To prepare, you may read the following articles from the Internet or the South University Online Library: Heilbrun, K., Hawk, G., & Tate, D. C. (1996). Juvenile competence to stand trial: Research issues in practice. Law and Human Behavior, 20(5), 573–578.Lipsitt, P. D., Lelos, D., & McGarry, A. L. (1971). Competency for trial: A screening instrument. American Journal of Psychiatry, 128(1), 105–109.Zapf, P. A., &Roesch, R. (2000). Mental competency evaluations: Guidelines for judges and attorneys. Court Review, 37, 28–35.After reviewing the articles, address the following:Explain how clinicians determine competency. Identify the factors that clinicians consider when determining competencies.Explain what is considered the standard for determining whether a person is competent to stand trial.Describe some of the reasons evaluators must separate the developmental stages from the psychopathological causes of competence.