...Central Oregon Community College Nursing Program NUR 206 Fall As Provider of Care Nursing Care of Clients with Mental Illness MENTAL HEALTH BOOK REPORT PROJECT Authors over the centuries have given us vivid descriptions of the workings of human minds. Some of the most impressive descriptions of the struggles of people with a mental illness are recorded in the works of writers who either struggle with mental illness themselves, or have grown up in homes dominated by the waxing and waning of mental illness. Others simply employ their skills to articulately portray the emotional and psychological anguish and insights associated with mental illness. For this project you are to read a nonfiction book with a mental health theme, with a biography or autobiography of someone with a mental illness, or family members dealing with the mental illness of those they love. As you read the book, make assessment notes: 1. How does the mental illness play out in the life of the character? The Reimer's were married in 1964. Not long after they married Janet gave birth to two healthy twin boys whom they named Brian and Bruce. It would be only eight short months following the joyous arrival of the boys that the Reimer's would encounter the most difficult of circumstances that any parents could ever face. When Mrs. Reimer noticed that the boys seemed to be having difficulty urinating she became concerned. After speaking to the family doctor, Janet was urged to take the twins...
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...Robin Warrick Girl interrupted The symbolic “parallel universe” of mental illness that Kaysen describes gives us insight into the all-consuming nature of diseases of the mind. Afflictions of this sort are, in the author’s view, as encompassing as a physical disability, a life of crime, or even death. Georgina’s life enters the parallel universe without any warning when a “tidal wave of blackness” sweeps over her. This frightening description of the sudden and unpreventable onset of profound depression sets the stage for the memoir’s exploration of Kaysen’s own struggles. She notes that even from within the parallel universe of illness, one is aware of the reality left behind. Kaysen and the other patients are trapped in more than one kind of parallel universe. Behind the barred windows of the hospital ward, the girls are conscious of the events taking place in the world around them but are unable to participate. In this chapter we learn that Susanna is depressed, when the doctor puts her in the cab he asked her what she did and she replies that she is sad. I feel that Susanna is just overwhelmed and lost control of everything, I think that at one point everyone gets overwhelmed by things in their life. Also Kaysen’s interaction with the doctor sheds light on both the reality of Kaysen’s illness and the chilling consequences of a medical establishment too quick to pronounce someone ill. Kaysen puts up little resistance to the doctor’s hurried diagnosis, even when he draws...
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...Running head: MORE THAN HORMONES Teen Pregnancy: More Than Just Raging Hormones Amberette Kennard Psychology 101 Professor Greg Harmling 05/10/2011 Teen Pregnancy: More Than Just Raging Hormones A young girl gets ready to leave for school. She brushes her teeth, combs her hair and picks out an outfit. She gets dressed and takes one final look in the mirror before heading out. She stares at her midsection, anxiously trying to adjust her shirt. It’s getting harder and harder to hide…soon everyone will know... Despite a one-third decline since the early 1990s, the United States still has the highest rates of teen pregnancy and birth among comparable countries. In 2008, the U.S. teen birth rate was 41.5 births per 1,000 girls age 15-19. By way of comparison, the U.S. teen birth rate is nearly two times higher than the United Kingdom (26.7 per 1,000). (The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, 2010) Teen pregnancy has been the leading topic of many U.S. talk shows, news programs, documentaries, and movies. Its appearance in so many mediums demonstrates that there is a fascination with and strong desire to understand the problem of teen pregnancy in the United States and the constant search for a solution. There have been many studies on the physical causes of teen pregnancy such as rising hormone levels, the adolescent brain’s transition, and more. Although there has been...
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...between people. With more of us jumping on the social media bandwagon, we should reflect on whether social media has really satisfied the deep-seated human need for connection, or instead made us even more detached from one another. Social media has constraints that limit the subtleties in a conversation, resulting in the lack of quality bonding between people. Although we interact with more people on a broader array of subjects within a shorter span of time, engaging in social media is a physically solitary act. This virtual preoccupation translates into real consequences; participants in meetings or lectures are so busy tweeting about the proceedings that the chairperson or speaker is rudely ignored. Family gatherings are constantly interrupted by messages and news updates from mobile phones. Online comments and posts are tersely exchanged, often without consideration of the impact on readers. In contrast, a face-to-face interaction demands more attention and takes time to unfold. It is also a tactile experience involving eye contact, gauging tone of voice, and exchanging handshakes. Admittedly, social networking protocols, or Netiquette, infuse some human elements and nonverbal communication by utilising characters and emotion icons, or emoticons. These ensure that constructive and friendly interactions are developed and maintained. But Netiquette is a double-edged sword as it adversely impacts language use. With the...
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...needs. (Edelman, 2010, Chapter 6 &7) I have had the privilege of interviewing the Varcela family, who is a Hispanic family which consist of Mom, Dad, and 2 kids, who are twins a boy and a girl. Dad (42) who works in construction work, Mom (38) is a surgical scrub tech; the children are 9 years old, in the 3rd grade. The data that is collected came from open-ended questions that were asked by myself. This information was then used to formulate a nursing diagnosis, also to show the audience how the families live their lives, and how they deal with the struggles of life, health concerns, beliefs, values, activity’s, and relaxation. Values and Health Perception While assessing the Varcela family, they have very strong spiritual beliefs in the Catholic religion. They valve each other as family and not just the immediate family but the extended family as well, because mom has a host of sisters and brothers, cousin, nieces, and nephews, so family Is very important for her. They are all in pretty good health, the children both are healthy kids, they were full term babies, mom states, “ she could lose a couple pounds, “ but otherwise healthy, no smoking or drinking in the home. Dad is also healthy; he goes to the doctor yearly for his annual physical exams, he exercises quite regularly. Mom reports that her mother and sisters are slightly obese and suffer form hypertension, so she wants to prevent any of this from happening to her. Health perception with this family is very important;...
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...religious garments in the class room. I am required to consider the feasibility and implications of such a policy for the school. Background: As a health care professional I have worked for many years with professionals of various ethnic groups, and got to know their families through social occasions. More recently my home town was selected for the relocation of refugees from Serbian Kosovo conflict. Most of the refugees have made Baltinglass their permanent home; subsequently their children attend local schools. All of them are of the Muslim persuasion. I have observed some of the teenage girls practice the tradition of covering their hair. It has not posed any problems, generally accepted by all. Deeply appreciated I would imagine by teachers looking at some hair styles and colours they are faced with in Modern day Ireland. Methodology: * Reading report on Luton Borough Council 13 February 2004. About a two year legal wrangle with no outcome of benefit to the person in question, re wearing of religious garments in school. * Reading through the “The other side of the veil”; North African women in France response to the Headscarf affair. * Interview with my neighbours who are refugees now settled in my hometown....
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...The Real Ebonics Debate What Should Teachers Do? By Lisa Delpit The "Ebonics Debate" has created much more heat than light for most of the country. For teachers trying to determine what implications there might be for classroom practice, enlightenment has been a completely non-existent commodity. I have been asked often enough recently, "What do you think about Ebonics? Are you for it or against it?" My answer must be neither. I can be neither for Ebonics or against Ebonics any more than I can be for or against air. It exists. It is the language spoken by many of our African-American children. It is the language they heard as their mothers nursed them and changed their diapers and played peek-a-boo with them. It is the language through which they first encountered love, nurturance and joy. On the other hand, most teachers of those African-American children who have been least well-served by educational systems believe that their students' life chances will be further hampered if they do not learn Standard English. In the stratified society in which we live, they are absolutely correct. While having access to the politically mandated language form will not, by any means, guarantee economic success (witness the growing numbers of unemployed African Americans holding doctorates), not having access will almost certainly guarantee failure. So what must teachers do? Should they spend their time relentlessly "correcting" their Ebonics-speaking children's language so that it might...
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...What Do You Say After You Say Hello? By, Eric Berne Book Review by Suresh A M, I semester, MBA, JSSCMS Eric Berne was a psychoanalyst who became well known in the 1970s for his system of "transactional analysis", the transactions in question being mostly those between a young child and its parents. He proposed various structures for this relationship based on the roles parent/adult/child that every person plays and presents life stories as scripts that can be good or bad. This book is considered by many to be Eric Berne's sequel to Games People Play. Although Berne published other books since Games People Play was released in 1964, most of those works were oriented towards those trained in psychotherapy and not towards the individuals who made Games People Play a two-year bestseller. The book is his last book completed just before his death in 1970. Berne's bad luck was that he wrote the book in 1970 when psychology was going through a bad patch with a flood of bizarre systems appearing. The good gets lost with the bad and transactional analysis now tends to be labeled as an outmoded California fashion related to Freudianism. In the preface he says that the book is "primarily intended as an advanced textbook of psychotherapy, and professionals of different backgrounds should have no difficulty in translating into their own dialects the short and simple annals of transactional analysis. No doubt some non-professionals will read it too, and for that reason I have tried to make...
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...How Does Fitzgerald Show the Importance of Society in the Opening Chapters of The Great Gatsby? The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel penned by F. Scott Fitzgerald, who was an American novelist and short story writer. The tale of The Great Gatsby is set in a modified version of the Long Island and New York City area of the USA, with correlations to The Hamptons. Throughout the opening chapters of the novel, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses a vast amount of characters, motifs and themes to show the importance of society. These can vary massively but all appear to imply how corrupt society was in the 1920s. He also shows how the innate social standing of people defines and limits them for the rest of their lives. Fitzgerald portrays the 1920s as an era of decayed social and moral values, evidenced in the cynicism, greed, and empty pursuit of pleasure seen within nearly all of the characters. Capital is one of the main focuses of the novel, and it becomes apparent that throughout the tale, it defines not only their social standing, but the level of respect which they receive along with how they are interpreted by others in the novel. Fitzgerald begins the novel with an introduction from the narrator and one of the main protagonists, Nick Carraway. Carraway fought in the First World War, which we later find out he fought alongside Gatsby, giving them some form of common ground to base a ‘friendship’ upon. The novel initially begins with a poignant message from the father of Carraway; “When...
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... Comparison of Research Designs Template The following seven tables are part of a template that will guide you through the comparison of research designs assignment. The tables include: • Descriptions of basic research designs. • Types of basic research designs. • Main characteristics. • Followed steps. • Appropriate usage. • Purpose statement and sample questions. • Associated research paradigms. This template directs you to portions of the course text, Educational Research: Planning, Conducting, and Evaluating Quantitative and Qualitative Research (Creswell, 2008). Each table includes chapter numbers and page numbers to guide you to the most relevant sections of the text book. Reference Creswell, J. W. (2012). Educational research: Planning, conducting, and evaluating quantitative and qualitative research (4rd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. Descriptions of Basic Research Designs Develop an original and concise description of each research design. The appropriate sections of the Creswell text are listed to guide you; however, the end product should be your own paraphrase. Each description should be about one to three sentences in length. The first part of the chart has been completed for you as an example of how to proceed. You can leave it in the first cell and consider it to be part of your assignment. |Research Design |Creswell Text |Description ...
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...License Notes Thank you for downloading this free ebook. Although this is a free book, it remains the copyrighted property of the author, and may not be reproduced, copied and distributed for commercial or non-commercial purposes. If you enjoyed this book, please encourage your friends to download their own copy at https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/katepolicani, where they can also discover other works by this author. For more information about Kate Policani, please visit http://katepolicani.com Thank you for your support. CHAPTER 1 At first I think Mistress could have loved me as a daughter. I think she wanted to, planned to. She did love me at first. My young heart bonded to her because she loved me. I tried so hard not to change. I tried so hard it hurt. But I couldn't hold it back for long. Horror at my hideous form killed all her love for me. But her disgust didn’t kill my love for her. I don't remember my life before I came to Mistress. I know I did not come to be when I first looked in her face, but I can remember nothing else of my life. She named me Lyneth on that day. A sore blow struck me later when she saw my ungodly form and hardened her heart against me. I suppose I was fortunate she didn’t kill me or turn me out. But she kept me. Though her rejection tortured me, I preferred it to isolation. She never called me by the name she gave me after that. She only called me “Girl”. My world was within the inn and the stable, and the wood behind them. Even though...
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...Group 5-1 Group 5 Professor John Paul Vitug English-1 3 August 2015 Fraternities and Sororities: Secret Society While researching Fraternity I found that Fraternal orders practicing secrecy have been known to exist for thousands of years, as far back as the Egyptian Mystery Schools in 1500 BC before it is a kind of organization that is allied to the Catholic Church. The development of modern fraternal is now stretched out especially on college campuses. It is divided into groups namely: social, service, professional and honorary. It is known in the society as organization that exerts a physical force so as to injure or abuse a person or a group of people associated or formally organized for a common purpose. However many people are still engaged to join fraternities because they think about the advantage that can give them benefits for their own sake, for short for them it is worth it. Our goal in this paper is to show why many people are being addicted in being a part of this kind of organization even if they know what are the negative issues involved here. To achieve this goal, we’ve arranged our paper into five categories; Theories about the topic where we have the motivation theories and how frat started in the Philippines, Current issue about the topic, Analysis about the issue, Conclusion where we involve all information that we gathered and References. Group 5-2 THEORIES ABOUT FRATERNITIES MOTIVATION Theories About Human Motivation. What is there about human being...
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...CHAPTER 2 REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE AND STUDIES This chapter discusses foreign and local that can be attributed in the success of this undertaking. Difference and similarities with the previous studies are presented in this chapter. The following researches and studies greatly influence on the conduct of this study; the researchers have made consideration in drawing the final conclusion in the study. Foreign Literature Facebook is an evolutionary technology of the 21st century that changed social relationships, provides opportunity for individuals to share their ideas and opinions, and establishes and maintains relationships with others. Facebook allows a user to create a profile, display personal information, upload pictures, access other users profile, display personal information, accumulate friends, and interact with friends via messages and gifts. An average time of 30 minutes to 2 hours is spent on Facebook daily. Only recently are studies beginning to examine the effects of Facebook on physical, mental, and family health. Current studies conducted in college campuses reveal that Facebook can cause similar symptoms to drug addiction, effect familial systems and patterns contribute to upper respiratory infection, cause feelings of loneliness, depression, and narcissism, and can lead to less body satisfaction and worse time management according to Kalpidou, Costin and Morris (2011). Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg and his roommates at Harvard University and...
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...was a masterpiece. School was my passion and my parents couldn’t have been any more proud of me. As soon as I'd get home from school, I’d run straight up to my room and finish all of my homework and study for the next quiz to come up. To me, it never got boring. I’d do it all night until there was nothing left to study anymore. Eighth grade was coming to an end soon, and my parents came into my room to talk to me one night (as I was going through flash cards for Spanish). My mother began by saying, “We’re so proud of you, and all the hard work you put into your schooling. You’re father and I wish we had as much enthusiasm for our assignments as you when we were your age, but…” “You need to live a little son!” My father interrupted. “High school is just around the corner, and we’re very worried that you’re going to miss out on the best four years of your life!” I stared at the both of them blankly for a moment....
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...ONE NIGHT @ THE CALL CENTER —CHETAN BHAGAT [Typeset by: Arun K Gupta] This is someway my story. A great fun, inspirational One! Before you begin this book, I have a small request. Right here, note down three things. Write down something that i) you fear, ii) makes you angry and iii) you don’t like about yourself. Be honest, and write something that is meaningful to you. Do not think too much about why I am asking you to do this. Just do it. One thing I fear: __________________________________ One thing that makes me angry: __________________________________ One thing I do not like about myself: __________________________________ Okay, now forget about this exercise and enjoy the story. Have you done it? If not, please do. It will enrich your experience of reading this book. If yes, thanks Sorry for doubting you. Please forget about the exercise, my doubting you and enjoy the story. _____________ The night train ride from Kanpur to Delhi was the most memorable journey of my life. For one, it gave me my second book. And two, it is not every day you sit in an empty compartment and a young, pretty girl walks in. Yes, you see it in the movies, you hear about it from friend’s friend but it never happens to you. When I was younger, I used to look at the reservation chart stuck outside my train bogie to check out all the female passengers near my seat (F-17 to F-25)is what I’d look for most). Yet, it never happened. In most cases I shard my compartment with talkative aunties,...
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