...Case Study: Cultural Identity and Mental Health: Differing Trajectories Among Asian and Latino Youth By: Kenneth Calhoun Purpose of Study The purpose of this study was to try and figure out if the cultural identity and their ethnic group affect Asian and Latino youth when they come to the U.S and if mental health plays a part in any of it. The two populations (Asian & Latino) are the fastest populations growing today (Passel, 2011). The adolescence stage is very important because this is when the youth develop and find their identity. The study was conducted over a 3-year period in order to get the outcome. The end focus is that will the somatic and depressed symptoms increase or decrease between the two. Methodology The study was based on 171 Asian and Latino youth that dealt with two generations dealing with young women. The way the generations were determined were by if you weren’t born in the United States then you were considered first generation. Those considered to be second generation, were based on if you had at least one parent that was born outside the United States. The First generation consisted 60% Asian and 53% Latino. The youth in the study were recruited through schools where there was a high immigrant rate, in better terms schools that were high in diversity. Consent from principles, teachers, students and parents are helped in deciding on the youth participating. The average age of both 40 Asian and 57 Latino youth women were 15-years old....
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...Did you know that Latino students are the ones who struggle with anxiety the most? While there are a lot of students who struggle with anxiety, especially Latino/a students, they tend to struggle the most due to holding onto old family concepts and avoiding the problems and the help they receive, and in some cases having to be a first generation student and struggle with getting comfortable in a new environment. This paper will demonstrate that the biggest factor in Latinos struggling with anxiety is family and avoiding the problems that they have and the help that they receive. The solution that I would propose would be to require schools that have a significant number of Latino students to form groups during and after school where they can open up about their problems. Making sure that Latino...
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...The couple separated because of violence; they had gotten into an argument and he pushed her. His ex-wife stated OG’s depression had gotten worse over the past week. The patient said he suffered from blackouts and he couldn’t remember things that had happened. On September 21, 2011 he was arrested while working in Las Vegas for using technology to lure a minor and was in jail for 11 days. The patient said he blacks out and did not remember the incident and woke up in jail. In October of 2011 his physician NP Brantman, prescribed him trazodone, Abilify and Seroquel. He was admitted for suicidal ideation and major depression. Hispanics for the most part believe that health is a gift from God. The majority of Hispanics practice some form of Catholicism, with an increasing percentage of Pentecostalism as a diverse and complex movement within Christianity and illness is seen as a wrong doing or punishment from God. Some Hispanics believe that the prevention and treatment of illness is accomplished with prayer or wearing religious medals, others believe that evil...
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...Some studies focus on an individual’s perceptions of violence in society, others deal with perceived personal risk and some deal with the degree of fear of being victimized. This results in many cultivation analysis of fear often not discussing the same things at all. From a cultivation perspective, television is likely to educate people about social lessons and what the world is like, but not necessarily effect ones perceptions of their own personal reality, where many influences and everyday non-mediated influences may play a stronger role. Shrum has documented and extended the dominant understanding of cultivations cognitive mechanism which is the heuristic reception and processing of messages which makes heavy viewers of television inclined to depend on messages to form their own ideas of the world. Mental shortcuts used while processing television messages are likely to make heavy viewers depend on those messages while forming judgements about the world, based on frequency, distinctness and how recent the...
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...resources, and encourage the transfer of youth to the adult criminal justice system. The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act follow a series of federal protections, known as the "core protections," on the care and treatment of youth in the justice system. The four "core protections" of the act are, the Deinstitutionalization of Status Offenders (DSO), Sight and Sound separation, Jail Removal, and Disproportionate Minority Confinement (DMC). The "DSO" and "Sight and Sound" protections were part of the original law in 1974. The "Jail Removal" provision was added in 1980 in response to finding youth incarcerated in adult facilities resulted in "a high suicide rate, physical, mental, and sexual assault, inadequate care and programming, negative labeling, and exposure to serious offenders and mental patients." The "DMC" requirement was added in the JJDPA in 1992. Literature Review The compliance of states towards the requirements of the JJDP Act is monitored by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. As of the year 2000, the...
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...and the number of uninsured peoples falling just as rapidly due to the affordable care act, perceptions of patients, health, and care are important. The baseline of uninsured people in America is continuing to drop. From 2013, white citizens have dropped 5.3% from 14.3% in March of 2015 while African Americans have dropped 9.2% from 22.4% and even more impressive, is the Latino numbers dropping from 12.3% from the original 41.8% (___) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation). With these staggering changes in the amount of people being insured and seeking medical services, the preconceptions we have of patients just two short years ago is drastically different than before. “Doctors’ preconceptions and assumptions inevitably play an important part in the diagnostic process, but it is not just in the one-on-one diagnostic encounter that preconceptions affect medical interpretation.” (____) Some of the assumptions in this case start with Nurse Karing calling Dr. Cural and the doctor assuming that he had further knowledge on his patients than his nurse. He calls the nurse incompetent and is assuming this on the idea that he has a higher intelligence than her and asserting his power over the nurse. The nurse then assumes that Dr. Cural is right as he seems to be very in touch with his patients and that she was simply over thinking it. Mental models, whether shared or held individually, are “psychological representations of real, hypothetical, or imaginary situations”...
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...African American students along with Latinos were suspended in disproportionate numbers in comparison to white students. They were more likely to drop out or be kicked out, making them less likely to graduate, therefore limiting future career options as stated by eric.ed.gov which was published on March 2000. These are ordinary teenagers, people like you and me, who have never had the chance to have a proper education all because of institutional racism. This can also be seen in the mental health issues of those who are discriminated against. Kareem’s research indicates that children of colour have experienced many different ways of discrimination within education institutions. Her studies revealed that “the youths have been discriminated against in 23 different ways, including being racially profiled or called offensive names.” This resulted in them showing signs of depression. A study conducted by the British Journal of Psychiatry in 2002 showed that suicide rates went up due to mental health issues and increased particularly in African...
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...Latino Teen Pregnancies By Jennifer Mick June 19, 2012 Cindy Sessler NUR/542 Latino Teen Pregnancies There are many family types that can be considered high-risk. When dealing with these high risk families it is important to not make assumptions, get to know the members of the family, identify family strengths and needs, and implement a plan that has the most benefit the family and can accomplish the best outcomes. Teen pregnancy, especially in the Latino/Hispanic community is on the rise and higher than most other ethnicities and races. This paper will discuss teen pregnancy as a high risk family type, will address common health problems and mortality data for this family type, and will identify three to four health promotion and disease prevention objectives that are applicable to this family type. Summary of Health Profile In the 1990s, in the United States, teen pregnancy and birth rates were on the decline. Data obtained from 2006 indicated that teen pregnancy rates were back on the rise. Latina teens, teens who are in the foster care system, and those who belong to gang groups are populations with a high rate of teen pregnancies. There are many downsides and negativities associated with teen pregnancies such as lack of education, they are more apt to live in poverty neighborhoods, are more likely to be on welfare and public assistance, and more likely to be in poor health. In 2004 teen pregnancy cost...
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...JOURNAL OF SEX RESEARCH, 51(6), 696–710, 2014 Copyright # The Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality ISSN: 0022-4499 print=1559-8519 online DOI: 10.1080/00224499.2013.772086 ‘‘Becoming Bold’’: Alcohol Use and Sexual Exploration among Black and Latino Young Men Who Have Sex with Men (YMSM) Matt G. Mutchler Department of Sociology and Urban Community Research Center, California State University–Dominguez Hills; and Community-Based Research in Education Unit, AIDS Project Los Angeles Bryce McDavitt Department of Sociology and Urban Community Research Center, California State University–Dominguez Hills; Community-Based Research in Education Unit, AIDS Project Los Angeles; and Clinical Psychology Division, Pacifica Graduate Institute Kristie K. Gordon Department of Sociology and Urban Community Research Center, California State University–Dominguez Hills; Community-Based Research in Education Unit, AIDS Project Los Angeles; and Department of Criminal Justice, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa Alcohol use is correlated with unprotected sex, which may place young men who have sex with men (YMSM) who use alcohol with sex at increased risk for contracting HIV. However, little is known about how this link develops. This study used qualitative interviews to explore how alcohol became associated with sex and sexual risk among YMSM. We purposively sampled 20 Black and 20 Latino YMSM (N ¼ 40), ages 21 to 24, who used substances (alcohol, marijuana, and crystal methamphetamine)...
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...Diabetes, breast cancer, and tuberculosis are three important health concerns issues in the United States and in other parts of the world, but let’s be clear about this, there are several other important health issues affecting our people that have very significant importance. My criterion for selection is the United State, English language, and no specific age group. Diabetes as we know is when the body fails to produce enough insulin, which then causes sugar to build up in your blood. Diabetes affects over 25.8 million people, which is 8.3% of the U.S population, of that 18.8million people are diagnosed and 7.0 million undiagnosed. Among U.S. residents aged 65 years and older 10.9 million, or 26.9%, had diabetes in 2010. About 215,000 people younger than 20 years had diabetes (type 1 or type 2) in the United States in 2010. About 1.9 million people aged 20 years or older were newly diagnosed with diabetes in 2010 in the United States. Type I diabetes was previously called insulin dependent mellitus or juvenile-onset diabetes. Type I diabetes develops when the body’s immune system destroys pancreatic beta cells, the cells that produce insulin that regulates blood glucose. To survive, people with this type must have insulin delivered by injection or pump. This type normally strikes children and young adults, but may occur at any age according and type I diabetes accounts for 5% of all diagnosed cases of diabetes. Risk factors can be may be autoimmune, genetic, or environmental...
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...Low Income Living Arrangements and Child Development Alzier Johnson-Gomez Housatonic Community College May 12, 2014 Abstract This study was conducted by researchers at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and the University of Chicago by E. Michael Foster and Ariel Kalil; it was published in the November/December 2007 issue of the journal Child Development. It used longitudinal data from approximately 2,000 low-income families, in order to compare the development of children living only with their mothers with children in other arrangements (those living with their biological fathers, in blended families, and in multigenerational households) to determine the effect of living arrangements on the children’s cognitive achievement and emotional adjustment. Instead of comparing children in different family arrangements at one point in time, the researchers addressed how children and their families change over time. Allowing them to consider whether and how a child’s emotional and intellectual development changes after there has been a change in family structure. The study found that in general, children’s performance on developmental assessments changed very little after their mothers married. The absence of a relationship between family structure and children’s outcomes suggests that there is as much diversity within families of a given type as there is across families of different types. This distinction implies that policies like income support that seek to improve...
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...Economic and Political Events and How It Relates to Human Service Trends Team B BSHS/305 July 24, 2014 Jill Raichel This paper will convey economic and political events to recent trends in the human services field; also we will be identifying demographic trends that influence future needs in the delivery of human services. The team will concentrate on Military serving in foreign lands, distresses home owners Military and the Support of a Nation One of the major trends that affected the east coast Human Services professionals is the Terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 better known as (9/11). Without a doubt Americans everywhere will always remember the tragic events that took place on 9/11 at the World trade Center and the Pentagon. “The loss of lives and property on 9/11 was not large enough to have had a measurable effect on the productive capacity of the United States even though it had a very significant localized effect on New York City and, to a lesser degree, on the Washington, D.C. area” (Woodside & McClam, 2011, pg.? ) . The act of violence of 9/11 changed many lives and brought back many memories such as the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole, DDG 67 on 12 OCT 2000. As a result every day is a recap of how life has changed with longer lines at airports, concrete barriers, a greater police presence in cities, and increased emphasis on biological weapons research. The attacks on 9/11 has affected the work of human service professionals in a major way, encountering...
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...RUNNING HEAD: CULTURE AND PARENTING Culture and parenting Introduction Parenting is the first and likely most important mechanism through which culture is reproduced (Cauce, 2008). Every child is born into a certain circumstance and learns through interactions with the surroundings. Parents are generally the first and key people in a child’s life, so it should come as no surprise that parenting has influences on the development of children’s temperament, which later impacts their school performance. This article is going to explore how parenting varies among different ethnic groups including Asian Americans, African American, Latinos, and European Americans. More specifically, what factors should be included when considering the parenting characteristics of a unique ethnic group and what implications might they have for schooling today. Theories Two of the modern theories that are concerned with cultural influences on human development are Vygotsky’s Sociocultural Theory and Ecological Systems Theory proposed by Urie Bronfenbrenner. First, Vygotsky’s theory defined culture as the values, beliefs, customs, and skills of a social group. His Sociocultural Theory focuses on how culture is transmitted to the next generation. According to Vygotsky, social interaction – in particular, cooperative dialogues with more knowledgeable members of society – is necessary for children to acquire the ways of thinking...
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...The U.S. Census Bureau Field Data Collection Project: Don't Count on It IT/205 February 28, 2013 The U.S. Census Bureau Field Data Collection Project: Don't Count on It Answer the following questions in 200 to 300 words: • How important is the FDCA project for the U.S. Census Bureau? How does it impact decision making and operational activities? The collection of the census is very important and needs to be done correctly. According to Laudon (2011),”is use to determine allocation of congressional seats, allocation of federal assistance, and realignment of the boundaries of legislative districts within states.” (p. 413) • Classify and describe the problems the Census Bureau faced in implementing its new wireless data collection system. What people, organization, and technology factors caused these problems? The Census Bureau has very serious problems when implementing the new wireless data collection system. The people involved in this process, the census bureau and the Harris Corporation, did not properly communicate what specific information would be needed to get these systems working correctly. Not using certified program managers and highly qualified executives for these kinds of projects is a bad decision on the federal government’s behalf. Which is why the Harris Corporation, did not get an accurate description of the types of handheld devices to use or the technical requirements of the census. The Harris Corporation did not have much...
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...Running head: CULTURAL COMPETENCE AND HEALTH CARE Cultural Competence and Health Care with Hispanic Populations Kristina Hernandez Our Lady of the Lake University Laredo Specialty Hospital (LSH) is the only 60-bed facility designed to provide specialized long-term acute care, including intensive care, for patients who require team to heal from catastrophic injury or illness. LSH believes that any recovery is an emotional experience. Therefore, they strive to provide patients with a healing and nurturing environment through their caring and supportive team to maximize recovery and regain independence. The population served at LSH includes patients who have a medically complex condition and require more intensive services than found in other post-acute settings, such as skilled nursing facilities. The physicians that comprise the clinical team are knowledgeable of the acute care setting of a traditional hospital and, therefore, possess the clinical expertise to treat a variety of medical conditions. The mission of Laredo Specialty Hospital is dedicated to improving the patient’s quality of life for those suffering from injury or chronic illness whereas the vision is to provide state of the art care, thus, being recognized as a center of excellence for acute long term care services. LSH values the following...
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