...Social Development Research Psy/202 August 28, 2013 The article that I chose is titled: What’s going on with young people today? I chose this article because it provided an interesting theory of how sociological changes have influenced and delayed the transition into adulthood. The article begins with explaining the lengthening process to adulthood over the past several decades, and what challenges the youth of today face transitioning into adulthood, noting that these challenges change to meet the social realities of the era. For example it was not uncommon for youth to leave home in the fifties at a young age to pursue work opportunities while they were plentiful. It was considered normal to encourage young adults to do so and social expectations of the time reinforced that need. This transition soon fell by the way side when economic and employment uncertainties arose in the seventies leaving young adults to reconsider their living arrangements, educational investments, and family formation. Next the article took a look at changes in the core timing shifts in the new transition that lengthens the time it takes for youth of today to leave home, complete school, enter the workforce, marry and have children. The authors Settersten and Ray go on to state that the stress of today’s new agenda for attaining independence leaves many families overburdened as they support their children for extended periods of time...
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...emphasizes on building self-sufficiency, problem-solving skills, educational and employment development skills to prepare them for emancipation. Most lack education, housing, medical insurance, and are deficient in adaptive and social skills. They have a history of chemical dependency and an extensive involvement in the criminal justice system. Many of these young adults were stripped of family support upon entering the Child Welfare System and continue to carry past traumas of maltreatment and being removed from their homes. They are also aging out without being without being linked with adequate resources and the continuity of support services. The rescores and support system will end abruptly and they will have to quickly adapt to adulthood alone. I selected Young Adults with Severe Mental Illness as my community focus because I discovered that they face significant adversity after they age out of the Child Welfare System. As a result of being abused or neglected as a child, these young adults have spent the first 21 years of their life separated from their biological family, bouncing from one placement to another and changing schools every few years; never really given the opportunity to develop any secure attachments, are forced to function in this world alone. After working hands on and reviewing comprehensive literature on young adults with...
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...In the article “Suffering, Selfish, Slackers? Myths and Reality about Emerging Adults”, Jeffrey Jensen Arnett defines early adulthood as the time of instability and identity crises, even as it is rarely a time of despondency or collapse. She also theorizes that emerging adults are self-focused but not selfish and also have mixed feeling about becoming an adult. When reading this article, I definitely think that there are costs and benefits to becoming an adult. Not all adolescence is in a storm and stress idea of being at war with the parents and the world. This really depends on what environment they grew up in and how much the parents nurtured their child rather than supported but challenged their child. The cause of “war” with the parent...
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...Do your relatives ever wonder how would their life would be if they went to college? College opens up many opportunities and paths for us high school students and it will provide the necessary knowledge for when you want to work for a certain job. Many would agree that if an opportunity is given to you, you should take it. To always strive for big things like going to college because you shouldn’t give up if you think you won’t make it. The value of college is transitioning into adulthood, having more job opportunities, and being able to earn more money. In this essay, those three topics will be discussed. Starting off with transitioning into adulthood, college helps you prepare for the real world. It allows you to have more responsibilities....
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...Later Adulthood Development Report Christina Burgess BSHS/325 August 30, 2015 Laura Cobb Later Adulthood Development Report “As of 2005, there were about 37 million Americans age 65 and over. By 2030, the number is projected to be 72 million- a 100 percent increase in 25 years, compared to a 30 percent growth in total population during the same period” (Zastrow & Kirst-Ashman, 2010, pg. 643). During later adulthood, marks a new era in living life to its fullest. Many older adults tend be happier than ever during this phase in their life. Even though later adulthood have more health issues as they age, it is a time in a person’s life to reflect upon the life they have lived because of the use of retirement, transitioning from work to retirement, and the social policies to protect them. When an individual enters later adulthood, they then begin to go through different changes in their role and their social position in our society. In many other parts of the world, transitioning into later adulthood is a sign of wisdom and a mark of status. However, later adulthood is stereotyped into being "an awful life stage that is erroneous, and sadly is a factor in older adults' being treated as "second-class citizens" by some people who are younger" (Zastrow & Kirst-Ashman, 2010, pg. 588). Moreover, many older adults are very healthy and remain to have an active lifestyle while many still think, feel and act as if they were still in their 50’s. Society tends to respect later...
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...Later Adulthood Development Report Holly Regan BSHS/325 February 9, 2015 Mary Carlisle Later Adulthood Development Report Thank you for your interest in discussing whether our facility can meet your loved one's needs and the changes they will be facing in later adulthood. Aging and the process of reaching later adulthood consumes a significant portion of an individual’s life and is different for each person. The process of aging is called senescence which is bodily changes that accompany aging (Zastrow & Kirst-Ashman 2010). There are numerous changes that happen during the aging process. Decreased vision and hearing abilities, changes in appearance, senses begin to deteriorate, teeth start losing calcium, skin becomes weaker and thinner, and the individuals psychomotor and intellectual functioning begins to decrease. During this phase of aging the senses are less active resulting in diminished skills and speed. In later adulthood, there are role and position changes that occur in conjunction with health care and accessibility stages. Because the aging process happens at different times and rates than others, there will be changes in interpersonal relationships such as marriage, family, and peer relationships transitioning from working into retirement. Everything slows down when an individual ages thus creating the effect of many social policies. Another factor in later adulthood is suicide in the male population. Suicide in later life is a global public health...
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...situations with their families and having to decide what they know is right and making the choice to do the right thing or wrong thing. 2. One of the weaknesses of Hard Choices in my opinion is the story telling how these three individuals are struggling of entering adulthood but what are their flaws that they are hiding. Does not tell how they handle situations under pressure. The story was engaging enough. 3. I would like the story of Hard Choices go into a lot more background information about the three individuals and their family lives. 4. What makes the Initiation into Adulthood so strong because the story deals with children growing into adulthood and learning how to make their own decisions and views on adulthood and forming there on identity into society and standing up to what he or she believes. “ At an early age, the main focus in a child’s life is his parents”. Initiation into Adulthood, LIT, pg. 24. (2012). Kirszner & Mandell 5. One of the weaknesses of Initiation into Adulthood in my opinion would have been nice to touch more on background of Eveline. To me that was more of a weakness. 6. Two necessary revisions with Initiation into Adulthood would be to expandable of...
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...One of the many aspects social workers deal within child welfare is foster care. Social workers dealing with foster care youth are to participate in bringing that child to permanency by the time they become eighteen. The child welfare system hopes to rejoin children with their families. Unfortunately, this is not a choice and the social worker must help the youth in transforming to adulthood and teach youth the skills needed toward emancipation. Developing skills to help foster youth prepare for adulthood and be independent once they leave care is now the responsibility of the social worker. Mainly, social workers want to transition the youth out of foster care by equipping them with the educational skills needed for their future (Jones,...
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...Adulthood has many aspects that you can look at, but I chose to look at the approach from a social perspective entering adulthood. There were times when I looked to feel wanted or accepted in social environments becoming an adult. The article opens with an example of a young woman going to class in college for the first time. Like the young woman, when being exposed to a new environment I look forward to meeting new people. There were social rejections I dealt with when I moved from one state to another during my teen years after high school. Not only did I have to adjust to another social environment, I looked forward to being accepted. The article spoke of me when it said “….approach motivation in social situations might be primarily associated with self-confident and relaxed behavior.” The article is encouraging with what I know about myself and informative on preparing my children for the changes they will face from adolescence to adulthood. The information will help with life directions taken when my children are faced with social problems and the way they deal with them transitioning into adulthood. I transitioned well at my age changing social environments, and I hope to inspire my young to do so as well. One thing I will let them know is that the way you were perceived in high school, you can’t look to continue with that perception leaving that social environment. This article will also help prepare you with avoidance measures that may arise depending on how you are...
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...Bobsie Skelton Skelton 1 Phil Chamberlin, M.A. ENC 1102: Composition II 10 November, 2014 Transitioning A rite of passage marks a significant transition in a person’s life. A person is transitioning from one stage to another, as from childhood to adolescence and then to adulthood. In America different celebrations are considered a rite of passage like: Baptism, High School Graduation, College Graduation, Engagement, Marriage and many more. Each culture has their own rite of passages that are celebrated at different times of a person’s life. In Sharon Olds “Rite of Passage” and Judith Ortiz Cafer’s “Quinceanera,” the reader is given a view of transitioning from childhood to adulthood, from the eyes of a boy’s mother and the eyes of a young girl. A girl’s entrance into womanhood and eligibility for marriage is celebrated in the Latin community with her Quinceanera. Traditionally, it is celebrated on a girl’s fifteenth birthday and a very exciting and anticipated event. In this poem, the reader gets the impression that the girl sees this transition into womanhood more as a burden than a celebratory event. She had to put away her dolls in a chest she will carry with her when she marries. By having to put away her dolls, it symbolizes the end of her childhood and the dolls don’t come out of the chest until she can give them to...
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...After leaving the adolescence stage, entering into young adulthood, I was not prepared mentally to handle adult duties. Therefore, the stage called emerging adulthood happened prior to me entering adulthood. Many feel they stepped they’re way into adulthood by the end of their 20’s or early 30. During this period, changes took place in educational paths, jobs, love partners, and identity. Also, many people make changes their majors several times, and after graduating enter graduate school which delays settlement into the desired career path. Since young adults are always on the move, they move in and out of homes and resident halls. Due to unsettlement in career and being on the move, results in delay marriage as well. However, not every young adult in the world goes through this process of emerging adulthood. Many young adults in non-western countries have no emerging adulthood. They enter marriage, parenthood, and lifelong work early. In low income families, young people do not finish high school or are unprepared for college, and are less likely to leave home, therefore emerging adulthood is nonexistent. Emerging adults also begin too to build intimacy and trust in relationships that will last a lifetime. However, individuals in emerging adulthood think of intimacy in a different way than in the past. Emerging adults have created a new shift during the period of adolescence and young adulthood in which they are more open to and accept uncommitted sexual activity during...
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...Youth in the foster care system repeatedly undergo multiple transitions before they reach adulthood. These transitions often create substantial amounts of stress and can intensify emotional and behavioral problems. With more than 29,000 young people exiting the foster care system each year, research has shown that these young people are frequently unprepared for their lives after foster care through findings of high rate homelessness, incarceration, unemployment and school failure (Greenen & Powers, 2007; U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2010). Furthermore, research also shows that less than 55% of youth who had exited foster care obtained jobs in the future that paid above the poverty line. Unfortunately, the young people aging...
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...resources we have to prepare our students for transitioning. This article was very informative, especially when it comes to better understanding what we as special educators need to do to better prepare our students for transitioning. The article states that, “The key to successful transition planning and instruction is transition assessment.” I believe this is where a majority of the special education teachers lack when it comes to preparing to transition their students. In the article, it talks about the demands of the 21st-century workforce and how it requires local education agencies to prepare students with disabilities for college and career readiness by providing instruction and services to assist youth in attaining positive post school outcomes. The transition assessment process provides guidance for using transition assessments to guide instruction and determine appropriate services for youth with disabilities. Since our nation is becoming more diverse, important...
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...This research paper discusses a published article titled, Major Depression in the Transition to Adulthood: Risks and Impairments that reports on the effects and risks of major depression in the transition to adulthood. It also explores the factors that cause depression in adolescents, such as poor quality of family life that includes neglect and emotional, physical, and sexual abuse within the family, which can have a profound impact on a child’s mental health and well-being. Health factors and illnesses can also contribute to depression. There are studies included that discuss the links between the effects and these harmful activities. These effects include psychosocial impairments in early adulthood, including poor overall functioning, interpersonal...
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...The tense of the story, the use of repetition, and the emphasis on the meaning of life creates a young character’s thoughts as he transitions into adulthood. “That time in our driveway, by the brook” (1) immediately sets the time to the present tense and the subject to a memory. Through the use of flashback, Oates is able to show how the character has developed from that point in the past to the present. Also from the first sentence, it is apparent that the speaker, Judd...
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