...2013, p.270). This negative behavior of the economy leads businesses to be tough in such cases. Furthermore, companies reducing costs strategy affected on the employees mind negatively (Nelson & Quick, 2013, p.270). The emerging effect of the high recession caused people’s stress level much higher. The negative responses of organizations like declining number of employees, lack of management support, decreasing compensation plan, holding same salary structure have created work related stress among the employees in the period of recession (Nelson & Quick, 2013, p.270). The great recession to be enhanced demands on the employees which in turns declined employee’s recreational time that created bitterness in the working place. The employers of the companies were running out of solutions at that tenure of recession. Many laws like Yerkes-Dodson law can be helpful to understand the impact of the great recession on people’s stress levels at work. Although, economic recession is a regular phenomenon in the economy that does not mean employees have to take the stress against the recession all the time. The employee of an organization can avoid stress in the working place by himself through several ways. The most significant way is to think positive whatever barriers come in front of him. Additionally, employers can help their employees in terms of reducing organizational stress through implementing some techniques on the working area. 1. How has the Great Recession...
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...emergencies, a rapid response is critical to survival. But attributing the problem to public stupidity is inaccurate and of no value in correcting the problem. In reality, people are simply exhibiting natural tendencies. Why don't people respond to alarm systems? There are several reasons. In this essay, these reasons are divided into two main categories: Alarm signals as sources of information. Other reasons why people do and don't respond apart from the information-value of alarm signals. Alarm signals as a source of information. In order to understand why people fail to respond to alarm signals, we need to look at the information-value of alarm signals. By information-value, we mean the degree to which an alarm signal is useful in reducing uncertainty. Stated differently, how useful is an alarm signal in helping people achieve good situation awareness? One problem is that people may fail to recognize that a signal indicates the need to immediately evacuate a building. Recent code revisions address this problem by mandating a "temporal code three" signal....
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...The delivery of mental health nursing has considerably changed over the last twenty years, in 1988 the world’s first survey was conducted which focused on how common mental health problems were among 12 to 25year old’s. The survey estimated that approximately 15% of young people had suffered from a mental illness and of that only a quarter had presented to a mental health service. The circumstances of young people can make them more susceptible to poorer health outcomes, factors can be influenced by social and cultural. Moving forward to now, there’s been substantial changes in people’s understanding of mental illnesses and how care should be delivered. This essay will analyse the changes and impacts of clinical and psychosocial outcomes of...
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...Communication anxiety: Name: Tutor: Institution: Date: Abstract Communication essentially refers to passing of information from one party to another. There are generally two forms of communication. The verbal and the non-verbal communicatiuion. Verbal communication is basically the spoken or written means of communicating. On the other hand, non-verbal communication refers to those acts, gestures or suggestive body movements that relay information without spoken words. The importance of communication cannot be overstated. In every sphere of life, good communication plays a cruicial role in ensuring starndard if not outstanding performance as well as sustainability. Success in virtually all endevours calls for good communication. For a healthy family setup, communication between the parents and the children has to be efficient. In business, good communication is vital for smooth running of every organization. Despite the known facts about the heavy significance of good and effective communication, since the 19th centuary communication apprehension has been persistently a ruccuring hindarance that has never been fully addressed. Families have fallen apart as a result of barriers to communication. Employees have lost their jobs to communication anxiety. Organistation have fallen to the ground due communication breakdown. Students have registered low grades attributed to communication anxiety. Communication apprehension is now established as the biggest...
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...Abstract: Alcoholism is a disease more prevalent in adult men and teenage females. There are many symptoms of alcoholism. Alcoholism is a disease that has no one course of development. Alcoholism is treatable with detoxification, rehabilitation and maintaining sobriety. Prevalence Rates: According to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), 16.6 million adults ages 18 and older, 7 percent of people this age, had an alcohol use disorder in 2013. This includes 10.8 million men, 9.4 percent of men this age, and 5.8 million women, 4.7 percent of women this age. About 1.3 million adults received treatment for an AUD at a specialized facility in 2013, 7.8 percent of adults who needed treatment. This included 904,000 men, 8 percent of men in need of treatment and 444,000 women, 7.3 percent of women who needed treatment. According to the NIAA 697,000 adolescents ages 12–17, 2.8 percent of this age group, were estimated to have had an alcohol use disorder. This total includes 385,000 females 3.2 percent of females in this age group and 311,000 males 2.5 percent of males in this age group. The NIAAA estimated 73,000 adolescents, 44,000 males and 29,000 females, received treatment for an alcohol use disorder in a rehabilitation facility in 2013. Symptoms: • Had times when you ended up drinking more, or longer, than you intended? • More than once wanted to cut down or stop drinking, or tried to, but couldn't? • More than once gotten into situations...
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...responsible for the death of his family. At the end, Andrew became mentally ill himself for refusing to accept reality. This is the story of the Movie “Shutter Island” which is an example for what is called “Defense Mechanisms” and how they have a huge effect on our lives. Due to the fact that everyday people are faced with problems, stress, conflict and emotional pain, the mind needs to be protected against these painful feelings. As a result, “Defense Mechanisms” play an important role during these times in order to protect the mind from Stress and Anxiety by “unconsciously” denying reality and refusing it. Although Defense Mechanisms have positive side that they protect the individual against painful thoughts and experiences but using them without awareness can be destructive. “Defense Mechanisms” were researched by Sigmund Freud who’s an Austrian neurologist who became well known as “Father of Psychoanalysis”. Freud defined “Defense Mechanisms” as people’s unconscious behavior to cope with distress and anxiety; in other words they are ways that people use “unconsciously” to escape from painful experiences which they do not want to deal with or think about. Freud identified some types of “Defense Mechanisms” that can be used by a person while trying to defend himself against...
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...Analyzing Psychological Disorders Alexa A. Perivolotis PSY/240 June 20th. 2014 Psychological disorders affect more people then we realize. Someone you know could be silently suffering and you would have no idea. Diagnosing and treating mental disease is tricky because it can present itself in so many different fashions and at different stages in people’s lives. Many different areas of the brain play a role in mental disease. Each day we learn more and more about the physiological and the biological relationship of mental disease that goes on in the brain. This knowledge helps to better diagnose and treat patients. Hopefully one day we will know enough to be able and determine an individuals risk for these diseases from a simple blood test or scan. One mental disease suffered by many is Schizophrenia. This disorder present’s itself with both positive and negative symptoms. A positive symptom is classified as something that represents excess or distortion of normal function. This includes symptoms like delusions, hallucinations, incoherent speech or thought, inappropriate affect (failure to react with appropriate emotion to positive or negative events), or odd behavior such as repeating tasks or remaining motionless. Negative symptoms are classified as something that represents reduction or loss of normal function. These symptoms include affective flattering which is the reduction or absence of emotional expression, alogia or reduction of speech, avolition or reduction...
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..."Cyberbullying impacts on the wellbeing, schooling, family and peer relationships of many young people. The current study of 548 young Australians revealed that cyberbullying is a group phenomenon most prevalent during the transitional ages between primary and secondary school. It takes on many forms and shows an overlap in roles between 'bully' and 'victim'. Despite the serious emotional impacts of cyberbullying, over a quarter of victims did not seek support from others, which highlights the need for more information and support to be given to young people to encourage them to speak out." (Youth Studies Australia, Vol. 29, No. 2) Cyber Bullying leads to self esteem problems, children being aggressive or antisocial, or even suicide. It has...
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...early symptoms of an eating disorder (Elliot & Pederson, 1995). Thus, it is the purpose of this paper to examine how the events of Diana’s life in conjunction with psychological components contributed to her development of bulimia nervosa. Biological Component Eating disorders like bulimia are a significant public health problem for individuals across the lifespan (American Psychological Association, 2012).More important, the biological explanation of bulimia derived from the concept of multiple causality, suggests symptoms of eating disorders are heavily influenced by non-genetic factors and often co-occur with other disorders (Hansell & Damour, 2008,p.302). For example, in the case of Princess Diana, who was plagued with anxiety about her body (Triggs, 2011), bulimia...
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...Through the modification of cognitive-affective processes, mindfulness-based stress reduction is believed to alter emotional responding. Goldin and Gross examined the MBSR-related changes in the brain and in behavior of emotional reactivity and regulation of negative self-beliefs in individuals with social anxiety disorder. Sixteen participants with social anxiety disorder engaged in a mindfulness-based intervention which included a weekly 2.5 hour small-group session for eight sessions, one half-day meditation retreat and CDs to support formal practice at...
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...Informative exploration essay on yoga can help provide better health Introduction Although yoga has only become popular in recent years it has a rich and long history that is not less than five thousand years old. Even then it still remains unknown when exactly the practice began. A review of various literature insinuates that in ancient times people’s desire for health, need for self understanding and long life gave birth to yoga, a mental and physical exercise which has ever since spread to many parts of the world. What Yoga is The word ‘yoga’ essentially means to yoke or join together’ and thus the exercise is meant to harmonize the functions of the mind and body and result to an individual’s general well being and wellness (Monro, 1997, 215-21). The yoga system is built and supported by meditation, simple postural exercises, relaxation and breathing practices. Yoga exercises are designed and developed to appropriately put pressure or strain on the body’s glandular systems consequently increasing their efficiency and an individual’s total health. The body on the other hand is perceived as the primary instrument that allows people to evolve and work and therefore the yoga student is required to treat it with immense respect and care. The breathing techniques are supported by the assertion that breath is unarguably the source and basis of life for the human body. Therefore breathing practices...
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...decided to do plastic surgery based on different reason, their purposes are eventually similar, to look more Caucasian. Especially for American born Asian Americans, they suffer more between Asian culture and American culture. Plastic surgery might be an appropriate procedure for them to assimilate into the American culture. While Asian Americans are relying on plastic surgery to gain their assimilation into the mainstream, Asians in Asia want to look more westernized because of the ideal beauty they are looking for in the ‘white’. Asians are looking for the beauty more in westernized recently. They want to look better; beauty means so much to them. When talking about beauty, obviously it’s referring to female. Gender plays an important role here because according to a research group, 91 percent of plastic surgery patient were women, only nine percent were men. (Plastic Surgery Demographics) When plastic surgery is being mentioned, it is being referred to cosmetic surgery, to look more beautiful. As a result, the focus of this topic will be mainly on analyzing Asian American women’s story behind plastic surgery. Class status is also an important criteria in this topic. Plastic surgery is an expensive spending to make ones look better. Usually, Asian Americans who are in the middle class or above would have the budget for them to take this action. However, lower class Asian Americans would suffer much more if they want to have a plastic surgery. What plastic surgery does is...
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...Academic Press, 1998). 1 I. II. III. IV. Sources of Self-Efficacy Beliefs Efficacy-Mediated Processes Adaptive Benefits of Optimistic Self-Beliefs of Efficacy Development and E xercise of Self-Efficacy Over the Lifespan Glossary Affective Processes: Processes regulating emotional states and elicitation of emotional reactions. Cognitive Processes: Thinking processes involved in the acquisition, organization and use of information. Motivation: Activation to action. Level of motivation is reflected in choice of courses of action, and in the intensity and persistence of effort. Perceived Self-Efficacy: People's beliefs about their capabilities to produce effects. Self-Regulation: Exercise of influence over one's own motivation, thought processes, emotional states and patterns of behavior. Perceived self-efficacy is defined as people's beliefs about their capabilities to produce designated levels of performance that exercise influence over events that affect their lives. Selfefficacy beliefs determine how people feel, think, motivate themselves and behave. Such beliefs produce these diverse effects through four major processes. They include cognitive, motivational, affective and selection processes. A strong sense of efficacy enhances human accomplishment and personal well-being in many ways. People with high assurance in their capabilities approach difficult tasks as challenges to be mastered rather than as threats to be avoided. Such an efficacious...
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...Supporting individuals with Dementia Legislations which govern work with of individuals with Dementia Enduring Power of Attorney Act An enduring power of attorney is a legal agreement that enables a person to appoint a trusted person – or people – to make financial and/ or property decisions on their behalf. It is an agreement made by choice that can be executed by anyone over the age of 18, who has full legal capacity. ‘Full legal capacity’ means that the person must be able to understand the nature and effect of the document they are completing and the nature and extent of their estate. An enduring power of attorney cannot be made by another person on behalf of a donor whose capacity might be in doubt due to mental illness, acquired brain injury, cognitive impairment or Dementia. It can be operational while the person still has capacity but may be physically unable to attend to financial matters. The benefit of the ‘enduring power of attorney’ is that unlike an ordinary power of attorney; it will continue to operate even if the donor loses full legal capacity. However, it does not permit an attorney to make personal and lifestyle decisions, including decisions about treatment. The authority of the attorney is limited to decisions about the donor’s property and financial affairs. To cancel (revoke) the ‘enduring’ power of attorney the donor must have full legal capacity. The revocation must be made in writing. If the donor has lost capacity, an application must be made...
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...mental, or emotional strain or tension, and a situation, occurrence, or factor causing this. The word “stress” actually comes from a Latin word meaning, “distress.” Stress affects everybody in the society. Today, more people suffer from stress than ever before. The pace of life is stressful in itself. People expect to manage the major life changes and crises without the network of support that previous generations relied upon. For some, stress may not be related to specific events, but may have developed in early childhood as an anxiety response to difficult situations. This response may have been carried into adult life as the characteristic way of dealing with difficulties. One in every four people seeks treatment for stress at some time in their lives. While some workplace stress is normal, excessive stress can interfere with employees’ productivity and impact employees’ physical and emotional health. Signs of stress can be seen in people's behaviour, especially in changes in behaviour. Signs and symptoms of excessive job and workplace stress are feeling anxious, irritable, or depressed, loss of interest in work, problems sleeping, fatigue, trouble concentrating, muscle tension or headaches, stomach problems, and social withdrawal. Situations that are likely to cause stress are unpredictable or uncontrollable. Stress may be caused by time limited events, such as the pressures of examinations or work deadlines, or by ongoing situations, such as family demands, job insecurity...
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