Instructions for Assignment: Malingering and Addiction in the Treatment of Sleep Disorders
You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part, and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly.
Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in, and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.
Use a standard 10 to 12-point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.
Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.
The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting a hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print it out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.
ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE CLASS
Discussion Questions (DQ)
- Initial responses to the DQ should address all components of the questions asked, including a minimum of one scholarly source, and be at least 250 words.
- Successful responses are substantive (i.e., add something new to the discussion, engage others in the discussion, well-developed idea) and include at least one scholarly source.
- One or two-sentence responses, simple statements of agreement or “good post,” and responses that are off-topic will not count as substantive. Substantive responses should be at least 150 words.
- I encourage you to incorporate the readings from the week (as applicable) into your responses.
Weekly Participation
- Your initial responses to the mandatory DQ do not count toward participation and are graded separately.
- In addition to the DQ responses, you must post at least one reply to peers (or me) on three separate days, for a total of three replies.
- Participation posts do not require a scholarly source/citation (unless you cite someone else’s work).
- Part of your weekly participation includes viewing the weekly announcement and attesting to watching it in the comments. These announcements are made to ensure you understand everything that is due during the week.
APA Format and Writing Quality
- Familiarize yourself with APA format and practice using it correctly. It is used for most writing assignments for your degree. Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud, for APA paper templates, citation examples, tips, etc. Points will be deducted for poor use of APA format or absence of APA format (if required).
- Cite all sources of information! When in doubt, cite the source. Paraphrasing also requires a citation.
I highly recommend using the APA Publication Manual, 6th edition.
Use of Direct Quotes
- I discourage the overutilization of direct quotes in DQs and assignments at the Masters’ level and deduct points accordingly. Assignment: Malingering and Addiction in the Treatment of Sleep Disorders
- As Masters’ level students, it is important that you be able to critically analyze and interpret information from journal articles and other resources. Simply restating someone else’s words does not demonstrate an understanding of the content or critical analysis of the content.
- It is best to paraphrase content and cite your source
LopesWrite Policy
- For assignments that need to be submitted to LopesWrite, please be sure you have received your report, and Similarity Index (SI) percentage BEFORE you do a “final submit” to me.
- Once you have received your report, please review it. This report will show you grammatical, punctuation, and spelling errors that can easily be fixed. Take the extra few minutes to review instead of getting counted off for these mistakes.
- Review your similarities. Did you forget to cite something? Did you not paraphrase well enough? Is your paper made up of someone else’s thoughts more than your own?
- Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud for tips on improving your paper and SI score.
Late Policy
- The university’s policy on late assignments is a 10% penalty PER DAY LATE. This also applies to late DQ replies.
- Please communicate with me if you anticipate having to submit an assignment late. I am happy to be flexible, with advance notice. We may be able to work out an extension based on extenuating circumstances.
- If you do not communicate with me before submitting an assignment late, the GCU late policy will be in effect.
- I do not accept assignments that are two or more weeks late unless we have worked out an extension.
- As per policy, no assignments are accepted after the last day of class. Any assignment submitted after midnight on the last day of class will not be accepted for grading.
Communication
Communication is so very important. There are multiple ways to communicate with me:
- Questions to Instructor Forum: This is a great place to ask course content or assignment questions. If you have a question, there is a good chance one of your peers does as well. This is a public forum for the class. Assignment: Malingering and Addiction in the Treatment of Sleep Disorders
- Individual Forum: This is a private forum to ask me questions or send me messages. This will be checked at least once every 24 hours.
Also Read:
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Insomnia Response Sample paper
Introduction
Hi Sara, as you have promptly identified, the patient is experiencing insomnia, which is the inability to obtain sufficient or good quality sleep. Often, insomnia is characterized by patient’s inability to sustain sleep, difficulty falling asleep, getting up too early and feeling fatigued, inability to concentrate, and irritability over the day. The causes of insomnia vary but are largely attributable to psychiatric conditions such as mood and anxiety disorders (Patel, Steinberg & Patel, 2018).
Your idea of using questions to develop the best treatment plan for the patient, through time evaluation of the period that insomnia has been experienced, we can be able to categorize insomnia as acute or chronic. It also promotes understating of the aggravating factors. One needs to evaluate the patient’s sleep habits and for how long the patient has been taking sertraline, an antidepressant that may have the side effect of insomnia.
I have also found your idea that a support system to the patient is of great importance as many people of this age depend on their children and caretakers to meet their needs. The support system provides answers to the patient’s change in mood and behavior or whether she is still recovering from the bereavement, as well as the likely continued abuse of illegal substances. She will need support if she is depressed since it is associated with an increased likelihood of comorbidity, physical illness, and suicide leading to premature death.
Further, your differential diagnoses that include complicated grief due to prolonged emotional responses to the loss of a husband is plausible. However, it is also important to assess for drug-induced insomnia such as sertraline and antidepressants as they “cause activation of serotonergic 5-HT2 receptors and increased noradrenergic and dopaminergic neurotransmission,” (Riemann et al., 2017). Diagnosis should be carried out using Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression, Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), and Geriatric Depression Scale (Riemann et al., 2017)
In my opinion use of Mirtazapine has great advantages to the patient in the improvement of patient insomnia episodes as it does not have anticholinergic or cardiovascular system side effects. The use of Trazadone in place of sertraline has also been effective since it reduces insomnia episodes. Provide the patient with a follow up 1-2 weeks to ensure compliance by the patient (Gandotra et al., 2018).
References
- Patel, D., Steinberg, J., & Patel, P. (2018). Insomnia in the Elderly: A Review. Journal Of Clinical Sleep Medicine, 14(06), 1017-1024. https://doi.org/10.5664/jcsm.7172
- Riemann, D., Baglioni, C., Bassetti, C., Bjorvatn, B., Dolenc Groselj, L., & Ellis, J. et al. (2017). European guideline for the diagnosis and treatment of insomnia. Journal Of Sleep Research, 26(6), 675-700. https://doi.org/10.1111/jsr.12594
- Gandotra, K., Chen, P., Jaskiw, G., Konicki, P., & Strohl, K. (2018). Effective Treatment of Insomnia With Mirtazapine Attenuates Concomitant Suicidal Ideation. Journal Of Clinical Sleep Medicine, 14(05), 901-902. https://doi.org/10.5664/jcsm.7142
