Research: Evaluating Practice

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  1. What is subjective well-being (SWB)? How has it been measured in past and in your SSD?
    What is correlated with high/low levels of SWB?
  2. What is self-care (SC)? Who has high/low levels of self-care? Why is self-care important and
    how is it linked to SWB?
  3. What types of SC behaviors are ways that SWB can be improved?
    Baseline
  4. An operationalization of the self-care behavior that will be targeted for change
  5. Presentation of the behavior that will be targeted (describe what it looks like for client)
  6. Baseline PANAS score (pre-intervention) (1 week retrospective, 1 week real time)
    Intervention
  7. The worker is responsible to help create an evidence-based action plan that will help the
    client complete the self-care behavior operationalized in the first paper. Client and SW
    agree on plan.
  8. The client will track the self-care behaviors on a daily basis for one week. This log, as well as
    a second PANAS will be returned to the worker as directed in syllabus.
  9. The intervention results should be described in the paper and should also be graphed in
    comparison to those taken at baseline. The graph should show the PANAS results;
    instructions so doing so are posted on Blackboard.
  10. Be sure to include a discussion of factors other than your intervention that may help explain
    the results reported by your client (are there other factors that may have resulted in the
    outcome?).

Follow-up

  1. The follow-up results of both the self-care behaviors and the third PANAS results will be
    described in the paper. You will create One graph that will show the self-care behavior at
    the three time points, along with the results for the PANAS at all three time points.
    Instructions for doing so will be provided.
  2. Describe the follow-up survey that was used and defend the construction of your follow-up
    survey. In the appendix include your follow-up survey.
    Conclusion
  3. Revisit your hypothesis that improved self-care will result in improved SWB. What did you
    find out about your hypothesis regarding this client?
  4. Be sure to include a discussion of factors other than the results regarding self-care that
    could influence SWB (or satisfaction with life).
  5. Connect your findings back to the larger literature on the topics that you have explored –
    self-care and SWB.
    See the colored calendar at the end of this syllabus for a schedule of the SSD assignment.

Self Care Problem- Social media
Goal was to use social media less on a daily bases.

Reason: Partner realized they used social media to much and would often find themselves comparing themselves to other people.

Intervention: Don’t touch phone 30 min after wake up, 30 min before bed. No more then 3 hrs total social media time per day. Read, podcast, or meditate throughout week instead of going on phone.

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Dante Alighieri played a critical role in the literature world through his poem Divine Comedy that was written in the 14th century. The poem contains Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. The Inferno is a description of the nine circles of torment that are found on the earth. It depicts the realms of the people that have gone against the spiritual values and who, instead, have chosen bestial appetite, violence, or fraud and malice. The nine circles of hell are limbo, lust, gluttony, greed and wrath. Others are heresy, violence, fraud, and treachery. The purpose of this paper is to examine the Dante’s Inferno in the perspective of its portrayal of God’s image and the justification of hell. 

In this epic poem, God is portrayed as a super being guilty of multiple weaknesses including being egotistic, unjust, and hypocritical. Dante, in this poem, depicts God as being more human than divine by challenging God’s omnipotence. Additionally, the manner in which Dante describes Hell is in full contradiction to the morals of God as written in the Bible. When god arranges Hell to flatter Himself, He commits egotism, a sin that is common among human beings (Cheney, 2016). The weakness is depicted in Limbo and on the Gate of Hell where, for instance, God sends those who do not worship Him to Hell. This implies that failure to worship Him is a sin.


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God is also depicted as lacking justice in His actions thus removing the godly image. The injustice is portrayed by the manner in which the sodomites and opportunists are treated. The opportunists are subjected to banner chasing in their lives after death followed by being stung by insects and maggots. They are known to having done neither good nor bad during their lifetimes and, therefore, justice could have demanded that they be granted a neutral punishment having lived a neutral life. The sodomites are also punished unfairly by God when Brunetto Lattini is condemned to hell despite being a good leader (Babor, T. F., McGovern, T., & Robaina, K. (2017). While he commited sodomy, God chooses to ignore all the other good deeds that Brunetto did.

Finally, God is also portrayed as being hypocritical in His actions, a sin that further diminishes His godliness and makes Him more human. A case in point is when God condemns the sin of egotism and goes ahead to commit it repeatedly. Proverbs 29:23 states that “arrogance will bring your downfall, but if you are humble, you will be respected.” When Slattery condemns Dante’s human state as being weak, doubtful, and limited, he is proving God’s hypocrisy because He is also human (Verdicchio, 2015). The actions of God in Hell as portrayed by Dante are inconsistent with the Biblical literature. Both Dante and God are prone to making mistakes, something common among human beings thus making God more human.

To wrap it up, Dante portrays God is more human since He commits the same sins that humans commit: egotism, hypocrisy, and injustice. Hell is justified as being a destination for victims of the mistakes committed by God. The Hell is presented as being a totally different place as compared to what is written about it in the Bible. As a result, reading through the text gives an image of God who is prone to the very mistakes common to humans thus ripping Him off His lofty status of divine and, instead, making Him a mere human. Whether or not Dante did it intentionally is subject to debate but one thing is clear in the poem: the misconstrued notion of God is revealed to future generations.

 

References

Babor, T. F., McGovern, T., & Robaina, K. (2017). Dante’s inferno: Seven deadly sins in scientific publishing and how to avoid them. Addiction Science: A Guide for the Perplexed, 267.

Cheney, L. D. G. (2016). Illustrations for Dante’s Inferno: A Comparative Study of Sandro Botticelli, Giovanni Stradano, and Federico Zuccaro. Cultural and Religious Studies, 4(8), 487.

Verdicchio, M. (2015). Irony and Desire in Dante’s” Inferno” 27. Italica, 285-297.

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