The summative assignment for this course is to write a Final Paper on a topic area that allows you to focus on a dimension of group activity relevant to the field of human services.

Requirements for this assignment are specified very broadly, enabling you to define your topic narrowly or broadly. These are as follows:

• Identify a topic area that defines management group activity relevant to human services.
• Summarize what is known and what has been researched in the field surrounding your topic of choice. Include reference to two or three of the most current and important issues, questions, or debates that are guiding practice and research.
• Select one of the issues, questions, or debates identified in the previous bullet and provide focused analysis of this subtopic, providing discussion of why the subtopic is important and evaluating the most prominent positions argued.
• Support all analysis and argumentation with relevant theory, argumentation, evidence, and research provided in the course and outside sources.

Your paper:

• Must cite and integrate no fewer than eight scholarly sources that were published within the past 6 years. No more than two sources published more than 6 years in the past may be cited and integrated if they are recognized as seminal works (classics in the field).
• Proper APA format required, including cover page, citations, and reference page.

Kádár, Magor E, PhD, habil. (2017). Introduction to profiling: The process of reading of nonverbal signs. Journal of Media Research, 10(1), 70-87. Retrieved from https://search-proquest-com.proxy-library.ashford.edu/docview/1929685850?accountid=32521

Künecke, J., Wilhelm, O., & Sommer, W. (2017). Emotion recognition in nonverbal face-to-face communication. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 41(3), 221-238. doi:http://dx.doi.org.proxy-library.ashford.edu/10.100…

Marono, A., Clarke, D. D., Navarro, J., & Keatley, D. A. (2018). A sequence analysis of nonverbal behaviour and deception. Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology, 33(2), 109-117. doi:http://dx.doi.org.proxy-library.ashford.edu/10.100…

Rotar, C., PhD. (2013). Nonverbal communication. Journal of Media Research, 6(1), 71-72. Retrieved from https://search-proquest-com.proxy-library.ashford….

Soukup, P. A., S.J. (2019). Nonverbal communication. Communication Research Trends, 38(1), 3-47. Retrieved from https://search-proquest-com.proxy-library.ashford….

Talley, L., & Temple, S. (2015). How leaders influence followers through the use of nonverbal communication. Leadership & Organization Development Journal, 36(1), 69-80. Retrieved from https://search-proquest-com.proxy-library.ashford….

Tecau, A. S., & Tescasiu, B. (2015). Nonverbal communication in the focus-group.Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Brasov.Economic Sciences.Series V, 8(2), 119-124. Retrieved from https://search-proquest-com.proxy-library.ashford.edu/docview/1768395572?accountid=32521

Vegrichtová, B. (2018). Nonverbal communication of prison subculture through criminal tattoo symbols. Academic and Applied Research in Military and Public Management Science, 17(3), 179-186. Retrieved from https://search-proquest-com.proxy-library.ashford….