...Rose’s Story Reaction Paper Caroline “Carrie” Thompson St. Louis Community College Rose’s Story is a minimally edited manuscript of a woman – author Wanda “Rose” Bibb – who repeatedly faces challenges of the social work system. The book shows the significant need for reforms and revision of policies within the social work system. This book chronicles Bibb’s life in her words from the 1940’s to December 1985. Rose’s Story is often a reading supplement in many college human service courses to understand the client's perspective. Early life got off to a bad start. At a young age, Rose was in one foster home after another. She never was adopted or lived in a permanent home. Despite having some family connections, they prove no better. One foster home was the home of her stepmother. They treated her like a house slave than a guest or resident. Her stepsister Julia wanted her to clean the house and care for the kids. As children, Julia was physically abused to Rose and never thought of everyone expect herself. Rose’s stepsister is a selfish person. Rose expresses the experience she went through even as an adult. Julia was the stepsister from hell. Rose's romantic and sexual relationships with men were unsuccessful. At age 15, she endured a rape which left her considerably psychologically unstable. However, by high school graduation, she found happiness and security with her sweetheart with whom she was about to marry. That joy proved short-lived, unfortunately, when her fiancé...
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...very prevalent and growing issue. Memory loss and dementia are increasingly prevalent issues that affect older adults and their spouses (McClive-Reed 2010). Due to the fear that surrounds dementia in older patients, a prognosis could lead to a diminished sense of self and reduction in the quality of life, not just for said patient but also for the families or caregivers. In order to better understand dementia and those who suffer from it, let’s look at potential strategies and challenges to engage dementia clients, how to conduct a biopsychosocial assessment of dementia clients, and take ethical consideration into account in respect to a single client that I have chosen, EP. EP is a sixty-nine year old African American female who was previously diagnosed with dementia as well as depression. I met EP after she was admitted to the short-term involuntary psych unit at the hospital to which I am employed as a mental health associate, making me one of her immediate caregivers. She was admitted after proving to be a danger to herself during screening, where it became known that the patient stopped taking appropriate dosages of her medication and became unable to appropriately care for herself as a result. When EP is doing well with her medications, she is able to live a very independent and healthy lifestyle, but this lasts only temporarily as this is not the first time that she has been admitted here. Her independence is very important to her. EP was born and raised in lower- middle...
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...Abraham that tells the story about urban healthcare by following the life of a family living at Chicago’s North Lawndale neighborhood for one year, known as the Banes’ family. Even though this novel focused on telling the readers about urban America’s health care system, we still can see and learn about the family values and trajectories of this Banes’ family when we were reading this book. It is because, the author illustrate this story through one’s family narrative. An analysis of this family’s experiences and trajectories can be best determined by using the life course perspective and also by using the conflict theory. Life course...
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...Paul Farmer and Health Care Paul Farmer is an American anthropologist and physician and also the main character of Tracy Kidders book Mountains Beyond Mountains, a book telling the true story of Farmer’s life and passion of treating people with infectious diseases. In the story Farmer strives to treat people in Haiti from mainly tuberculosis and other diseases, he has a dream of creating a better life for these people and to create a more universal health care system for those who cannot afford the necessary treatment that is needed to overall keep these people alive. Tracy Kidder in his book appears to take the side of Farmer, painting a picture to the reader of a man who has done only good in his life and seems to care more for others wellbeing than himself, “I can't sleep. There's always somebody not getting treatment.” (Paul Farmer, 24). It is obvious Farmer cares for others but you are only shown and told view points from those who have received his generous care and much of his gifts. At times throughout the book Farmer seems to express his anger at companies here in America claiming that recourses that we have should be put to better use around the world and not fought over due to money and who can pay for what. The market system to him is a serious problem that is cause many people around the world to receive no treatment and all and eventually causing preventable deaths in areas of serious poverty. His health care idea can seem radical at times, some of his ideas...
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...PSYCHOLOGY IN THE CONTEXT OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE • What is ‘psychology’ and why is it so important in the context of health and social care? • What do we mean by ‘health’ and why is psychology central to the effective delivery of health and social care? • What are the main approaches to psychological thinking and research? • Who are psychologists and what do they contribute to the promotion of health and well-being? Introduction This chapter emphasizes the importance of psychology in the context of health and social care. For many years, psychology and the other social sciences were viewed by the medical profession as ‘soft sciences’, interesting but unimportant. With the advent of research into the links between physical and mental states in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries it is now possible to demonstrate that psychology can make a fundamental difference to physical as well as mental health. In this chapter, we explore the nature of psychology and its relevance to health and social care. We outline the different schools of thought and methods of inquiry in psychology. We seek to distinguish between psychology as an academic discipline and popular notions of psychology, and identify professionals whose practice is mainly concerned with the application of psychology. In order to show how psychology can be applied to health and social care, we introduce a family scenario whose characters appear in examples throughout the book. What is psychology? Psychology...
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...When looking over the topics of choice, one book stood out among the rest. The ethical dilemma was clearly spelled out for anyone to see. Things are not always what they seem to be, they are not often black and white and at times require that we take our time to really examine our choices and how we come to reach them. Although there are many ethical dilemmas within the content of the story and some may be very hard to pin down, finding just one specific health care ethical issue to talk about can be considered a daunting task. First we must understand that the word ethics means different things to different people and that in reality its very definition can describe their own version of moral philosophy. It is conceivably much harder to understand the issues between what is right and what is wrong, the problems that may exist between ethics and morality, one’s integrity and the many existing belief systems. It is not as simple as black or white or what constitutes good behavior as oppose to bad. We must remember that one man’s poison may be another’s choice of practicing healing methods. We must remember that we live in world that has vast cultural belief systems, ethical values, and religious beliefs, therefore we must practice our western medicine without inflicting any due harm on our patients. It is with mindset that choosing the one correct health care ethical dilemma becomes almost impossible when choosing to tell the story of young Lia Lee. There are ethical dilemmas...
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...The Outsiders Book/Movie Comparison S. E. Hinton's story "The Outsiders" is a story the examines two different social groups in high school back in the 1960's. The book was such a big hit around the world that Francis Ford Coppola decided to make a movie out of it. When making the movie Francis didn’t want to leave out the little details that made the movie unique. There are many similarities and many differences between the book and the movie. My goal is to examine those similarities and differences and to look at the meaning behind the small details in the book and in the movie. One of the first similarities between the book and the movie was the 1960's setting. The book and movie both use old cars and the way the characters dress to express the story's 1960 setting. In both the book and movie the Socs drive new Mustangs and Corvairs, but the greasers drive old fixed up cars. "The Outsiders" book and movie both have a blue Mustang that is driven by the Socs. The Mustang represents fear and danger in the Greasers eyes, because whenever they see the Mustang coming they know something bad is about to go down. for his little brother, and that he wants Ponyboy to succeed in life. Another relationship represented in the book and the movie is between Johnny and Dally....
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...Book Report Info Sharon Kaufman, a professor of medical anthropology at the University of California, San Francisco, used an ethnographic process to approach her subject. She spent two years studying three California hospitals by immersing herself in the hospital culture. She followed, observed, and interviewed nurses, physicians, therapists, patients, family members, social workers, and others while trying to understand the factors that led to the prevailing practices. She was particularly interested in how hospitals organized dying as a result of acculturated behavior that was regarded as normal and unproblematic by practitioners who did not understand the origins of the behavior. She discovered how hospitals shape medical practices, how shared medical rhetoric frames decision making about dying patients, and how cultural factors determine the way death occurs in the hospital and even which patients are considered to be dying by physicians and nurses. Kaufman was particularly intrigued by patterns of social behavior. She observed that today death usually is orchestrated by professionals in hospitals and no longer is waited for, a transition that has markedly shortened the “waiting time” for dying. She found that hospital procedures and bureaucracy produced the imperative to “move things along,” mandating that health care professionals expedite decision making and produce the conditions for death. She identified “pathways” for moving things along, such as heroic intervention...
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...aging and decline will be discussed in relation to Jean’s physical and mental health and her dementia. Richard’s role as Jean’s primary caregiver will be studied through...
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...1 An introduction to counselling Introduction Stories of counselling Paula’s story: coming to terms with trauma Myra’s story: being depressed Matthew’s story: everything is getting on top of me Laura’s story: finding the right counsellor What is counselling? Defining counselling The relationship between counselling and psychotherapy Counselling and other helping professions The diversity of theory and practice in counselling The aims of counselling Counselling as an interdisciplinary area of study A user-centred definition of counselling Conclusions Chapter summary Topics for reflection and discussion Key terms and concepts Suggested further reading Introduction Counselling is a wonderful twentieth-century invention. We live in a complex, busy, changing world. In this world, there are many different types of experience that are difficult for people to cope with. Most of the time, we get on with life, but sometimes we are stopped in our tracks by an event or situation that we do not, at that moment, have the resources to sort out. Most of the time, we find ways of dealing with such problems in living by talking to family, friends, neighbours, priests or our family doctor. But occasionally their advice is not sufficient, or we are too embarrassed or ashamed to tell them what is bothering us, or we just don’t have an appropriate 2 An introduction to counselling person to turn to. Counselling is a really useful option at these moments. In most places, counselling is available fairly...
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...subsist. Poverty is a high time when millions are living with a minimum wage below the poverty line, groveling for food and cloths. Poverty is all around the world and the number of people who starve increase every day. Living only with the minimum wage, it leads to a lot of health problems and lack of education. Doomed to extremely destitution, many women are forced to forsake their children even while there are infants. Penury is the main reason of women to abandon their children because of the hardness to nurture them. It mostly affects people in cultures with poor social welfare systems who are not financially capable of taking care of their babies. It is really mirthless and overwhelming for a mother to abandon her child, but the severe conditions let her no other option. Some of these infants meet their demise while they are discarded at the mercy of fate. In the book Birthmother: Women who have relinquished babies for adoption, Merry Jones talks about stories of different opinions and views of mothers who are force to leave their babies behind. Because of the misery women are force to leave their infants for adaption with the only hope someone capable will be able to nurture and to provide them a better life. They are devoted to sacrifice the family happiness and the moments of joy spent together. Living under the poverty line is not something a mother will choose for her baby, therefore choosing to leave the infant in an asylum might enhances the opportunities of the baby...
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...American politics. They articulated their ideas about how families have changed and how social and economic circumstances affected and reshaped families. Similarly, the authors of the Growing up is Harder to do argue that the past early adulthood had much more responsibility than today’s early adulthood because of the social and economic change that has happened. My understanding of both the ideas, “social and economic” are the two things that gave women their own financial independence, and let the present early adulthood without thinking the responsibility...
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...The character Johnny from the book, The Outsiders is courageous because he helped his friends out through all the hard times. On top of that, he sacrificed his life for children while saving them in a burning church. The book The Outsiders, written by S.E Hinton, tells the story of 14 year old Ponyboy Curtis. According to him, there are two types of people in the world, the Greasers and the Socials. The story follows Ponyboy and his gang of “Greasers through the conflicts with social separation and conflict by rich kids called “Socs.” “He had big black eyes in a dark tanned face; his hair was jet black and heavily greased and combed to the side.” is a quote that Ponyboy said on page 11, which shows that Johnny was courageous. In the beginning...
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...“See Poverty… Be The Difference!” by Dr. Donna M. Beegle is an inspiring and information filled book. The book consists of Dr. Donna M. Beegle’s life story, facts about poverty, her theories on poverty, and how people should treat people poverty. She writes based off her experiences growing up in poverty and how it affected her and her family. She later got out of poverty by getting an education and went to school and got her doctorate. She had many obstacles getting out of poverty and getting acclimated into middle class society. Dr. Donna M. Beegle grew up in poverty and wanted everyone to know what it is really like for people living in poverty and what is wrong with the help the government gives to people currently. In her conclusion...
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...Catalysts act on obstacles an individual faces which assists in overcoming personal and social boundaries. This is significant as it induces growth and transitions which bring new insights and understandings about themselves, others and the world around them. The bildungsroman novel “The story of Tom Brennan” written by J.C Burke and the speech ‘From Death Row To Law Graduate’ by Peter Ouko both follow the transitions of young men who face personal and social boundaries, challenging beliefs and attitudes of both protagonists and the situations they are in resulting in growth and new perceptions. An individual’s personal and social boundaries have an impact on the perceptions of themselves, others and the world around them. The ‘Story Of Tom Brennan’...
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