...pregnancy it is also going to explore why this epidemic has a possible psychological trigger. Dr. Erik Erickson discusses in his theory if “identity crisis” that an individual must go through eight stages in life successful in order to understand their true identity. While all of the eight stages are important only five will be discussed for this paper. While many of us may believe that there is no reason for a teenager to get pregnant because they should just know better, Dr. Erickson’s theory gives a deep perspective into the psychological effects that can affect a child at different stages of life. This paper is also going to explore what other sources maybe responsible for the teenage pregnancy crisis being so far out of hand. Teen Pregnancy and Who Is To Blame? Statistics show that every year over 750,000 teenage girls will get pregnant. (Services, 2005) More than 2/3 of the teenage girls that get pregnant will not graduate for high school and unmarried pregnant teens account for 24% of the unwed mothers in our country today (Services, 2005) While I don’t think many of us will argue that with statistics like this, we have to figure out why this epidemic is so far out of control. To do this we have to be able to look at it from a psychological approach like Dr. Erik Erickson did in his book that he wrote about “Identity Crisis”. The chapter in his book titled, “The Eight...
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...Image control is vital to organizations if a firm is observed by its investors to be accountable for an event it facilitated, executed, arranged, encouraged, or allowed to transpire, the company’s persona will be smeared and needs to be reestablished. Benoit’s concept of appearance establishment provides an outline to examine a firm’s resolutions to negative publicity and how the firm’s image is restored as a result of the responses. A beneficial solution to analyzing image restoration offers can be found through the transmission of various research areas in Benoit’s Theory. What are the results of the Erickson et al. study? How useful are the results for managers and leaders? Findings in Erickson et al. study show that corrective actions are utilized by management approximately 87% of the time. It also discovered that 35 firms out of the 133 companies with quantifiable disadvantages use different image restoration communication strategies which result in non-corrective action responses for 49 firms. Scapegoating is the most commonly exercised method with as good of intentions as the next. Organizations that use these tactics show that management does not want to assert responsibility. These useful results allow establishments to recognize that communication strategies arrange for perception into management’s replies to the weaknesses interior supervision and its use of remedial action to circumvent prospective catastrophe. It gives the opportunity to see what they are doing...
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...511 CASE Can This Relationship Be Saved? The Midwestern Medical Group’s Integration Journey Introduction 5 On a snowy January evening, the Midwestern Medical Group (MMG) management team held a retirement party for Judith Olsen, MMG president. During the evening, Olsen reflected back on the years she had worked for MMG with mixed feelings about her experience. Over the course of their eight-year integration This case was written by Rhonda Engleman and Jisun Yu under the supervision of Professor Andrew H. Van de Ven of the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. We also appreciate the editorial assistance of Julie Trupke and useful comments of Gyewan Moon and Margaret Schomaker. We gratefully acknowledge Stuart Bunderson, Shawn Lofstrom, Russel Rogers, Frank Schultz, and Jeffery Thompson who assisted in collecting data during this eightyear longitudinal study of MMG’s integration journey. The case was prepared to promote class discussion and learning. It was not designed to illustrate either effective or ineffective management. Used with permission from Rhonda Engleman. both05.indd 511 11/11/08 11:37:27 AM 512 C A S E 5 : M I D W E S T E R N M E D I C A L G R O U P ’ S I N T E G R AT I O N J O U R N E Y journey within the Midwestern Health System (Midwestern), the MMG management team experienced many encouraging moments, achievements, and successes as well as many struggles, disappointments, and conflicts. She was scheduled to meet with the board chair...
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...Columbus day is the day we celebrate the discovering of america. Why do we celebrate Columbus when he did not even step foot on North America. In reality, the Nomads were the first people in America. If we wanted to celebrate a white guy why not Viking explorer Leif Erickson who came 500 years before Columbus. Also, when Columbus landed in the new world he did some horrible things to the natives who lived there. So why do we celebrate such a controversial day? Christopher Columbus sailed to many places but never North America. He landed on many caribbean islands, an island called Hispaniola, south america's coast, and central america. You may be thinking well he still proved the earth was round. Sorry that's incorrect many scientist figured this out long before he sailed and wrote several books about it. According to Valerie Strauss he even owned a copy of one of the books and new very well that the earth was round. The first people to “discover” America were the nomadic tribes who crossed over the land bridge made by the iceage in the Bering Strait. They traveled from Asia into what is...
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...Psychosocial Development (Chapter 12) What are some components of the adolescent’ search for identity? Erickson believes that cognitive development enables them to construct a theory of the self because as adolescents they have a “kind of maturational malice” that is vital to a process that builds on achievements of early stages. What are examples of immature thoughts? Here are several. Trust, autonomy, initiative and industry lay the groundwork for coping with challenges of adulthood; however an identity crisis is seldom fully resolved in all of these factors in the short time of adolescence, as issues concerning identity come up again and again throughout adult life. What is the psychosocial conflict of identity vs Identity confusion and the resulting virtue of fidelity? It is explained as becoming a unique individual adult with coherent sense of self and valued role in society. Identity crisis is based on Eriksson’s life experience. His struggle and confusion caused him to find any identity the leading him to the immigrant status as his identity where he saw and experienced many things that he struggled with and worse yet decided to change and have news thoughts and actions that he had to consciously considered successful in his identity to himself. An adolescent who resolves the identity crisis satisfactorily develop the virtue of fidelity according to Erickson men do not find real intimacy or are capable of such a thing until he has achieved a stable identity, whereas...
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...When you consider ageism, you think about people being labeled as other's sees fit. It's just another term to judge or deny people of their humanity. When you think about people in their late adulthood what comes to mind? Some may think about gray hair, saggy skin, dentures, and a wheelchair. So my question is why? According to (Palmore, 2005, p. 90) “Ageism is a social disease, much like racism and sexism” in that it considers people as part of a category and not as individuals, creating “needless fear, waste, illness, and misery.” The more people grow and develop, they will learn that aging must go on. Promoting health and wellness As you age, the rate of your heart slows down, making the blood vessels in the arteries stiffen that cause the heart to work harder to pump blood. There are many ways to promote heart health. You can start by making physical activity a daily routine. When your body is in motion, it prevents high blood pressure, so blood vessels want to stiffen. Eating a balanced meal and getting the proper amount of rest are also important. To mitigate the adverse effects of aging, stay socially and mentally active to prevent memory loss. According to Alzheimer’s Association 2015, eighty-one percent of people age seventy-five in older declines in memory. Doing things to challenge your mind like playing Sudoku or chest are ways for older individuals to stay sharp and up to date. The Importance of Relationships Once you entered into the late adulthood, the idea...
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...Description of the Ethical Issue In a technological world protecting patients’ information has become harder and harder to maintain. Todays new threat is social media. According to Elizabeth Scruth, et. al, (2015) social netweorking is one of the most common types of social media being used (para. 5). We live in an era where social media is being used as our own personal journals. Everyday personal experiences and the happenings of our day to day lives are constantly being posted on social networking sites like: Facebook, Allnursing.com, and LinkedIn. Unfortunately some nurses have “posted up” patient information as way to let off steam, seek advice on what to do for a patient’s care or to talk about the events of the work day. When patients are admitted into the hospital they disclose their information to all who are involved in their care; they trust that information will only be revealed to those involved in their care. Nurses do not have the right to disclose patient information on the interent according to Vicki Lachman (2013) this includes discribing patients by nicknames, and patient identifiers such as: room numbers, diagnosis or their conditions (para. 10). As nurses we have a duty to “…maintaining privacy (protecting them[patients] from undue intrusion), and confidentiality (by the discreet management of information about themselves [patients] that they share with us)” (Price, B. 2014). Stake holders, hospitals, nurses, the patient and their families all...
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...general public, for example, among government, among communities and especially among individuals. Working together in larger numbers can have its positive or it’s negative on an organization. Such shared efforts require focus within the organizational or promote interdependencies. From my reading of “8 ways to build collaborative teams” by Gratton, L., & Erickson, T. J. (2007), the two factors that this learner is going to discuss assigning leaders who are both task and relationship oriented and supporting a strong sense of community and its impact it has on obesity. Assigning the right team leaders who are both task and relationship oriented are important elements for leader to successfully lead a society. “Some people have suggested that relationship-oriented leadership is most appropriate in complex terms, since people are more likely to share knowledge in an environment of trust and goodwill, while others have argued that a task orientation the ability to make objectives clear, to create a shared awareness of dimensions of the task and to provide monitoring and feedback is most important” Gratton & Erickson, 2007, p. 9). Having the right team leader, clearly make a significant difference in any organization. Obesity is considered to be the primary responsibility of society. We can deduce this from an important statement: “Citizens find legitimacy in dealing with their ‘personal’ and ‘social’ realms, which include their choices for particular consumption patterns...
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...when several behaviors cause impairment in a person’s life. The individual can’t function successful in many areas of his/her live. According to Santrock, psychoanalytic theories define development as unconscious and strongly affected by emotions. For the psychoanalytic theorists, in order to understand the development, it is necessary to analyze the symbolic meaning of behavior and the inner workings of the mind. They agree that experiences in early childhood with the parents play an important role during development (Santrock, 2011, p. 22). According to Freud, development is sexual motivated and a child goes through five psychosexual stages: oral, anal, phallic, latency and genital. Freud believed when the need for pleasure at any stage was overly satisfied or not satisfied at all, resulted in psychological disorders (Santrock, 2011, p. 23). According to Erickson, development happens throughout life. His developmental theory has eight stages. These are: trust vs. mistrust, autonomy vs. shame, initiative vs. guilt, industry vs. inferiority, identity vs. identity confusion, intimacy vs. isolation, generativity vs. stagnation, and integrity vs. despair. At each stage individual is confronted with difficulties that needs to be resolved. Erickson believes these crises are characterized by both vulnerability and potential. As stated by Erickson the outcome of the crises determines the course of the development. The more failure an individual experiences during resolving a crisis...
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...DEVELOPMENTAL TASK Erik Erickson (1902- 1994) Erickson’s stages of psychosocial development Erik Erickson believes that people continue to develop through out life. He describes eight stages of development. He believes that ego is the conscious core of the personality. Erickson envisions life as a sequence of levels of achievement. In each stage, the person confronts and hopefully masters new challenges. Each stage builds on the successful completion on the earlier stages. The challenges of stages not successfully completed may be expected to reappear as problems in the future. Stage of Development Ideal Task Important Events Justification Infancy (birth- 18 months) Trust Vs. Mistrust Learning to trust others Feeding Developed Trust -In this stage mouth is the center of gratification according to Freud, and the mother should satisfy the baby’s needs through feeding -He developed trust because he was appropriately weaned. He was introduced with milk formula in exchange of his mom’s milk to satisfy his oral gratification Toddler ( 18 months- 3 years) Autonomy Vs. Shame and Doubt Self control without loss of self-esteem. Pride in self: assertion of will in the face of danger. Toilet Training Developed Shame & Doubt - In this stage anus and rectum are the centers of pleasure. Erickson believe that learning to control one’s body functions leads to a feeling of control and a sense of independence. -He developed shame & doubt because he was scolded...
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...“The Millennium” 1000 Year Reign of Christ A Report Presented in Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Course Bibl 450-B09 By Rodney Courson Student ID # L03489834 February, 2011 Table of Contents INTRODUCTION…………………………………………………………………..….3 AMILLENNIALISM…………………………………………………………………....3 The Origin of Amillennialism………………………………………………….…4 The View of Amillennialism’s Strengths and Weaknesses……………................4 POSTMILLENNIALISM……………………………………………………………..…6 The Origin of Postmillennialism……………………………………………….….7 The View of Postmillennialism’s Strengths and Weaknesses…………………….8 PREMILLENNIALISM………………………………………………………………..…8 The Origin of Premillennialism……………………………………………………9 The View of Premillennialism’s Strengths and Weaknesses………………………9 CONCLUSION……………………………………………………………………………10 BIBLIOGRAPHY…………………………………………………………………………11 INTRODUCTION In the world of Christianity, there seems to be numerous debates on several topics of interpretation of Scripture. One of those debates is the interpretation of the millennial reign of Jesus Christ mentioned in Revelation 20. Many Bible students throughout the history of the church have been very divisive over the fact of this chapter being interpreted from a literal viewpoint or symbolically. With all the debate among the Bible students, there seems to be three distinctive views in which they view the millennium from an amillennialism, postmillennialism, and the premillennialism interpretations. In order...
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...12 clay tablets and found in the ruins of Ninevah. (Parkash, 2006) But today I am going to discuss how the history and myth of Bigfoot has its place in American culture along with key individuals and certain events that force some people to believe that this so called Wildman is not just a myth. Leif Erickson was the first person to have an encounter with the monster in 986 AD long before Christopher Columbus arrived. Leif describes it as “horribly ugly, hairy, swarthy and with big black eyes.” (Parkash, 2006) It is argued that he just saw Native Americans but the Norse were extremely hairy themselves so why would they mention the Natives as hairy. Native Americans throughout time have had their own believes and stories on the subject. Explorers in the new world recorded the Indians attitudes and beliefs for their Big Brother (Parkash, 2006) which I believe started many ideas and fears for our own culture. According the New World Encyclopedia (2009) even our own President Theodore Roosevelt has a published encounter told to him by a mountain hunter in 1893. If the President of the United States says something it must be true. In my opinion, Teddy Roosevelt and Leif Erickson had a pretty big role on the impact of Bigfoot into the American culture. However, the Native Americans role may have been even more influential. Yes, Teddy and Leif are two big names but the Indians had the masses. I can only imagine going from tribe to tribe and hearing similar stories. I believe they...
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...accepted that death is inevitable. Senescence, primary aging and secondary aging each take place at this stage, but perspective, quality, and joy of life is still relevant. Eric Erickson, psychologist, defines the late adulthood stage—ages 55 or 65 to death, basically as adults assessing what their lives have cultivated throughout its development. Erickson’s theory of the final stage of development sequence is “integrity versus despair” (Berger, 2008). According to Berger, Erickson proposes in this eighth stage that the two opposing forces reference: Life brings many, quite realistic reasons for experiencing despair: aspects of the present that causes unremitting pain; aspects of a future that are uncertain and frightening. And, of course, there remains inescapable death, that one aspect of the future which is both wholly certain and wholly unknowable. Thus, some despair must be acknowledged and integrated as a component of old age. (2008, p. 680) For some, late adulthood and the end of life stage can be disparaging. Many struggle with the aspects of death, fearing its inevitable approach especially if illness has befallen them. They may consider their failures overall more so than the triumphs and hardships they had to contend with resulting in victories. Harder offers more insight from Erickson:...
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...called, I don't know if I would report them”: Student-athletes' thoughts, feelings and anticipated behaviors on blowing the whistle on doping in sport, there is evidence that systematic doping encourages young athletes to “blow the whistle” on doping, yet these young athletes thoughts, feelings, and anticipated behaviors in reporting wrongdoing of this kind are unknown, hindering its promotion (Erickson, Backhouse & Carless, 2017). A qualitative method was used throughout this study to determine student athletes anticipated behaviors relative to blowing this whistle on performance enhancing drug use (Erickson, Backhouse & Carless, 2017). The results of this study concluded that many young athletes are reluctant to blow the whistle on doping which has the potential to protect both the doping athlete and whistleblower. This also reduces the presence of performance enhancing drugs in sport. The findings of this study serve to stimulate debate and discussion within anti-doping efforts regarding the possibility of confrontation being encouraged as an effective deterrent to sport doping (Erickson, Backhouse & Carless,...
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...goals as a nurse is to build a trusting relationship with my patients and promote the patient’s sense of control in order to attain quality, holistic health. These goals are very similar with my ACC students. As I assist in teaching them how to reach their potential as a future nurse, I want us to trust each other, and I want them to be autonomous in researching answers themselves to provide quality care. My nursing care before this class was more focused on evidence-based practice since I did not consciously incorporate theory into my bedside practice. This personal framework paper will review my personal values, beliefs, and nursing philosophy in relation to my bedside nursing practice and medication assistant position. I will describe Erickson, Tomlin, and Swain’s Modeling and Role Modeling Theory (MRMT) and how it applies to the nursing metaparadigm and my nursing practice. I will further compare and contrast the theory of Modeling and Role Modeling to my philosophy and approach to nursing, and describe a situation in which my framework could have been applied. Philosophy Empiricism is a philosophy that views reason, predictability, and explanation are key to knowing the truth and proving why a phenomenon occurs. Knowledge and beliefs are obtained through evidence and experience. Observations through experiences serve as facts,...
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