Laura is a very successful businesswoman in the high-stress high-powered world of corporate finance. She has been referred to you by the company’s employment assistance program. Laura presents herself as a no nonsense business professional. She is frank and honest about the events that has brought her to your office. Laura tells you that although she tells herself that she will only have one or two glasses with dinner, she usually finishes the whole bottle. “About five years ago I started having trouble sleeping and started to take a tranquilizer (5 mg Valium?) I normally take one or two pills every two to four times a week to help her sleep through the entire night.” In the morning, she drinks at least 3 to 4 cups of coffee daily, even on the weekends. She noticed that her sleeping problems developed around the same time her Dad died. He was only in his early 50’s and they were very close. His death hit her hard and she says she wanted to give in to a big depression. However, she fought it and lost herself in her work. She makes it a point to work out at least three times a week in the morning before going to work. In addition to the above medications, Laura is also prescribed Xanax? as needed for panic attacks and diet pills (amphetamine congeners) to control her weight, a problem she had since she was a child. Over the last year she has become more reclusive. She can barely make it to business dinners and after-work functions. Lately however, she has noticed that she has been steadily increasing her use of wine. Before, she would only have a few glasses with dinner but now “....more often than not I finish off the bottle before going to bed. I just can’t seem to stop. A lot of times I will come home and tell myself that I’ll only have one glass and no more but by the time I go to bed, the bottle is empty and I’m deciding whether I should open another or not. I never used to drink to excess or take anti-anxiety medication before. Now I can’t seem to stop drinking or taking these ‘downers’ at social events. I can’t seem to control when I take them and things are happening that I’m not too happy about. Of course, the alcohol adds to my weight problem which then causes me to take more of my Redux. Then I have to increase my Xanax to calm my nerves and also take my Valium to make sure I get a full night’s sleep. It has become a very vicious circle. All this has been going on for about a year but last week put the “cherry on the pie.” Laura tells you that last week she was to meet the firm's top client at a business luncheon. She could not get out of bed that morning. It took all her willpower to get up and get dressed. As it was, she was still 20 minutes late, "which is inexcusable." She was so nervous and sick she had to excuse herself in the middle of her presentation. In the bathroom, she took another Xanax? to calm her nerves. Then at the luncheon she could not stop herself from ordering several glasses of wine and had to be assisted to her car after the meeting was over. "My client spoke to my boss and staff and then canceled his account with me. The next day I met with my boss and he recommended (ordered) I make an appointment with our EAP program (or be terminated.) I’m really scared. Work is all I have. I can’t afford to blow it. Do you mind if I smoke?"Case Questions (provide a detailed response to each question based on the information provided and your reading of the text and film.1. What would your initial assessment of Laura be?2. What would you say Laura’s main drug of choice is and do you think she will need to be placed in a detoxification program to address this problem?3. Based on Laura’s emotional situation and the medications she is taking, what if any dangers do you need to be aware of?4. Based on the information Laura has given you who would you need to contact to advise them of Laura’s situation and what would you need from Laura to make these contacts?5. If Laura’s boss calls your office to find out how Laura is doing how would you respond to his inquiry? What are his rights to know if Laura did keep her appointment with you?6. What possible dual diagnosis issue(s) might Laura have and how would you do to confirm this possibility.7. Are there any other issues that you feel may need to be addressed in this case?

Please watch library tutorial #1, video tutorial #2, and video tutorial #3 (Links are at the bottom).  These tutorials are linked to at the top of the list of Content items for this week.  The tutorials are designed to demonstrate some searching strategies when finding articles through OneSearch, a research tool that allows you to search on many databases at one time. After you have watched the tutorials, please complete the following tasks.  Post your responses to this conference thread. Let us assume you work for a company that is hiring more and more employees of the Generation Z generation. Your supervisor has asked you to conduct research on issues regarding employees from Generation Z.  For example, she mentions that Generation Z individuals may have different expectations of the work environment from those of workers from older generations.  In addition, she mentions that Generation Z has different habits with regard to their use of technology than workers from older generations exhibit. The instructions you have been given by your supervisor are quite broad.  But let us assume that this is the directive you have been given. For this reason, you will conduct a very general search on Generation Z and their work or technology habits.  You are not quite sure how to focus the topic, but you know that you would like to pursue this general topic and focus it later. 1. Using the strategies discussed in library video tutorial #1, search on some terms and find four articles on this topic.  Your search can be quite broad at this stage.  Try to use some search phrases that require that you use quotation marks, as the video demonstrates. Please write the topic on which you searched and the search terms you used to search on it.  2. Again, using the strategies from library video tutorial #1, for the four articles you found, please write titles of the four articles and the journals in which they appeared.  You don’t have to cite anything in APA format, or anything of that nature.  Just post the titles and the journal names.

Creating the Literature Review Section During Weeks 2 to 6, you will create the Literature Review section of the research proposal. This week, you will develop the Literature Review section. Use the following guidelines: Find at least two articles each Week 2through Week 6 on the selected topic using the South University Online Library databases (EBSCOhost or ProQuest) only. Your textbook, Wikipedia, or any other Web source will not be accepted for this assignment. Write a short summary (one to two paragraphs) for each article. Write a brief analysis (one to two paragraphs) for each article and relate each analysis to your course and textbook readings. For each of the documents provide some insight into to gender/cultural diversity issues that may or may not impact the study being reviewed. WEEK 9 Homeschooling Proposal IRBIn this assignment, you will be provided a proposal. Click here to download the proposal.Read the proposal, and then, acting as a member of a college IRB asked to approve this study, identify any ethical concerns you have. Write your concerns in a report in a 1- to 2-page Microsoft Word document and make at least three suggestions to reduce the possibility of risk and harm to the participants WEEK 10 In Week 1 through Week 9, you should have been working on each section of the proposal. This week, you will collate all these sections and create the final draft.Make sure your research proposal adheres to the following structure: Title page Abstract (see APA guide for format) Introduction Literature Review Methodology Discussion and Conclusion