...Wellbeing Introduction The literature provided for this assignment will critically explore the relevance and the application of the concept of wellbeing within my organisational setting. My organisational setting is a Further Education College based in Cardiff, South Wales. My role in this institution is to deliver education and training in the vocational trade of plastering. Cardiff is now a diverse and multicultural city and many of the students that attend our college evolve from different social, economic and religious backgrounds as well as having variable capabilities. As a provider of education and training, it is important that we implement policies and procedures that meet the needs of the community by promoting inclusion and addressing inequalities. Every student is treated as an individual and we strive to eliminate discrimination and overcome the disadvantages that exist in society these days that have treated some groups less favourably than others. My duty as an educator is to provide my learners with a positive learning environment and to support their wellbeing by providing challenging, interactive and good quality learning experiences. Wellbeing The psychology of wellbeing has been studied since the times of Aristotle, for two millennia, man has sought the highest good for himself, happiness. The notion of happiness remains vague and multifarious, yet every human being searches for it. However, how to define and obtain happiness has and continues to be a...
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...humans enhance the natural human capacities with the help of technology – either making sure that the human can enhance mind, body or intellect in any form. Transhumanism is to fundamentally revolutionaries what it means to be human by the help of technological advancements. It approves the use of current and future technology that can bring about beneficial societal change, and strives for a point where we can finally be satisfied with the way things are. Transhumanism is seeing as something farfetched and easily countered as science fiction, yet a fact is that we are already transhumans. We are already integrating more with technology, living longer with the help of science, communicating through and gaining information with the help of technology. Immortalize; As the technology becomes more and more advanced. We will be able to achieve immortality. To achieve immortality, you have to turn your brain into a computer; you have to upload your brain to a computer. There are a few consequence, for example, you lose your entire body. However, there are also some good things about it, if you uploaded your software to the internet, you could be everywhere and nowhere at once. A person, who has uploaded to a computer, would still be a person. Because you would still have all your memories from when you were a human. To become immortal this way, we would not have problems with materials, as food. We would not ran out of materials. Post genderism; Postgenderism is a social, political...
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...“Sam Harris: Science Can Answer Moral Questions” Critique Paper Sam Harris began his argument by saying, “The separation between science and human values is an illusion,” adding “facts and values seem to belong to different spheres. This is quite clearly untrue. Values are a certain kind of facts. They are facts about the well beings of conscious creatures.” What is he trying to convey? Based on what he said, values are also facts about how people like us try to live a good life. If he considered values as facts, does it mean our moral values were created based on science facts? Or do scientific facts are based on moral values? We cannot say that a belief to be objectively true can be considered as a fact. He even pointed our ethical obligations towards the rock or insects. First of all, ethics concern is the morality of social beings. Since when can we talk to a rock and hurt it? He then justified that, “If culture changes us, it changes us by changing our brains. And therefore whatever cultural variation there is in the way human beings flourish can at least in principle be understood in the context of a maturing science of the mind…” I probably I agree with him in this one. People change because the people around change. But does it make it scientific? That our brains control our ethical actions? Brain controls our actions and we reason out using our brain but acting according to our ethics what make us morally right or wrong. We live our lives base on our ethics and use...
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...[Name of the Author] [Name of the Instructor] [Date] Possible Health Concerns for Children Born To Overeating Mothers Executive Summary Increased using up of new energy-intense, nutrient-poor foodstuffs with very high sugar and saturated fats level, merged with reduced exercises, have led to corpulence rates that have increased three-times or more since 1980 in North America, Eastern Europe, the UK, the Pacific Islands, the Middle East, Australasia and China, as said by the UN-backed World Health Organization (WHO). A recent research reveals that Obesity in pregnancy causes a tremendous danger to the wellbeing of the unborn infant. Infants of overweight mothers are born as pre-diabetics or with severe birth imperfections that can cause kidney or heart disease, besides other troubles. These issues much strengthens in the age group 1year to 10 years. Overeating in pregnancy can have significant and numerous precarious health impacts on an unborn infant.[1] In this research paper, I have analyzed several factors of obesity in pregnant mothers that lead to health issues for their unborn infants and it will affect them through their lives. I have conducted a comprehensive interview with Executive Director of “The Consumer Wellness Center”, Mike Adams, who in detail describes the dangers associated with obesity in mothers and its effects on their children. Further a latest about the issue has been analyzed with a recommendation to mothers on how they can avoid this...
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...Clinical practice problem A survey of the nursing literature shows that supporting medical nurse staffing guarantees quality nursing watch over patients and has been a progressing test for attendant directors and executives. Inability to guarantee adequate numbers and empathetic medical attendant staff has been shown to adversely affect tolerant fulfillment and results. The medical nurse staffing issue is not restricted just to guarantee sufficient quantities of staff that are being lost in the intense consideration settings because of workaholic behavior, burnout, sympathy exhaustion and wounds; the attendant staffing issue additionally incorporates the effect to patient consideration and to the nursing work power when empathy and caring is truant and the negative impacts this has on both the patient and the medical attendant. Customary systems for tending to medical nurse staffing issues with monetarily based enrollment and maintenance arrangements have not determined these issues; be that as it may, applying the theory of human caring to the issue of attendant staffing gives critical knowledge and arrangements that can help supervisors, executives and associations to enhance the conveyance of consideration, bolster medical attendants as a profitable asset and enhance tolerant results. The deficiency of qualified nursing experts is frequently connected with the interest for nursing staff. To be sure, medical attendants speak to clinics' biggest work cost, containing the...
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..."What Is Hypnosis?" Describe the psychological and physical aspects of hypnosis and discussthe role of relaxation in Hypnotherapy . Throughout time Hypnosis has been labelled with various definitions, and by some has been seen as mystical and weird. However, as advances have been made in science there has been a slow but significant switch in opinion regarding the aspects of Hypnosis. The American psychologist Clark Hull said of hypnosis,"All sciences alike have descended from magic and superstition, but none have been so slow as hypnosis in shaking off the association of its origin" (Clark Hull, Hypnosis and suggestibility, 1984). Hypnosis is now recognised as a medical therapy with evidence of improved wellbeing in its participants. In a nutshell, hypnosis is when a subject agrees to undergo hypnotherapy, and if suggestible, can be putinto a trance state where the subconscious mind can be unlocked and the conscious mind takes a back seat for a while causing the subject to become completely relaxed. During this phase the mind is more open to positive suggestions. For Hypnotherapy to take place the individual undergoing the therapy needs to be suggestible. This means that the client is not only willing to participate in the therapy, but also has belief in the treatment and its possible positive results for them. Several experiments have been carried out to substantiate this theory, for example by Solomon Ash. In his study a willing subject was asked to participate in what...
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...From a young age, I have always shown an increased interest in science. More specifically, discovery and experimentation. I did not want to sit down in a class and learn of something through secondhand methods, I wanted to experience what was being taught. Sixth grade was the first time I took a designated science class. The class was labeled as an introductory science class, meant to cover most aspects of science, but the teacher focused mainly on biology and earth sciences. My love for biology took root and continued to grow as I had some of the best teachers guiding me. In the middle of my seventh-grade year, my cousin was diagnosed with Otahara Syndrome at just six weeks old and had to have emergency brain surgery before more of his brain...
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...high blood pressure is the biggest reason and factor which causes stokes. The 50 percent of strokes that occur are due to some blockage called the ischemic stroke. It also increases the chances of bleeding occurring in the brain which is called the hemorrhagic stroke (Willmot, Leonardi-Bee, & Bath, 2004). Having a high blood pressure puts a lot of pressure and strain on the blood vessels throughout the body which includes the ones which lead to the brain. Due to which, the heart has to work hard in order to make sure that the blood circulation keeps on going. This strain that occurs damages the blood vessels which make them harder and narrower. This condition is called atherosclerosis. This makes it more likely that the blockage will occur which causes a stroke or transient ischaemic attack which is also called the mini stroke (Chobanian et al., 2003). On some very rare instances, the extra strain causes the blood vessels to get weak and burst inside the brain which causes bleeding into the surrounding tissues. This is called as a hemorrhagic stroke. The common symptoms of having a stroke include severe headache, confusion, losing coordination, losing vision, feeling numb or weak. The symptoms depend on the amount of damage which has been done to the brain. A stroke often leads to physical disability. It is possible for people who have had strokes in their life to recover the abilities that they lost over time but this is not always the case and sometimes strokes can lead to...
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...LAYLA Evaluate the claim that the soul is distinct from the body. The claim that the soul is distinct from the body must be rejected on the grounds that our identity, consciousness and reality (soul) is bound and shaped by sense experience. Any reference to a separate metaphysical entity that moulds our individuality is contrary to experience and our mind/soul, as we know it, is the product of the functioning of the brain, a physical thing. As a dualist Plato maintained soul and body are separate entities, the former being immortal whilst the latter mortal. Plato’s understanding of the soul is deeply rooted in his concept of the Forms, arguing that the soul is both ‘simple’ and essential to obtaining knowledge of the Forms. For Plato, the body is an impediment to obtaining true knowledge, a ‘source of endless trouble’ and subject to change, therefore an unreliable guide to truth. The chariot analogy is used to demonstrate the conflicting nature of the body and soul. The soul is compared to a chariot driver attempting to control two horses that pull in different directions, the mind and body. The body consists of desires and emotions that distract humans from the basis of existence, truth. Kenny uses an example of a young child throwing a tantrum to illustrate the disharmony between the soul and body. The desire that causes the tantrum is driven by irrationality, as is the human body. Plato uses the argument from knowledge to substantiate the claim that the body and soul...
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...influences for infants in order to supply them with a better future. Recommendations for future research and unanswered questions in infant mental health are made in response to the need of support of caregivers and the society. The news article, Infant mental health: Giving children the best head start, emphasizes the importance of the first 1000 days of an infant’s life (2015). Adulthood is shaped and impacted by our early experiences (D’alton, 2015). Professor Kevin Nugent is an expert of early child development, specifically in child behaviour and development, and parent-child relationships (D’alton, 2015). Nugent presented what he describes as a “revolution” in scientific understanding of the capacity of the brains of babies; the development of the brain is more vulnerable to environmental influences which have a longer term impact than once thought (D’alton, 2015). Research evidence...
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...injuries or cancer to continue doing the things they enjoy instead of cringing from horrible pain. They also allow comfort for those close to passing and help others heal after surgery. Despite the benefits, millions of prescription pain medications are being over prescribed and misused, creating an epidemic of addicted individuals and causing thousands of deaths each year. There are two types of painkillers: narcotic opioid drugs and over the counter medications such as aspirin and ibuprofen. Aspirin works by going to the site of the pain and blocking pain signals from being sent to the brain. Although we may still have an injury, our body isn't letting our brain know it. Opioids work in a similar manner by blocking pain signals to the brain; however, they also alter the way the pain feels to the brain. This can translate to a feeling of euphoria, reduced inhibitions and a feeling of wellbeing. It is these feelings that drive people to misuse opioids. According to a 2010 study by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, approximately 7 million people in the United States -- or 2.7 percent of the population -- annually abuse prescription drugs (SCIUTO, 2013). Prescription painkiller overdoses killed nearly 15,000 people in the US in 2008. This is more than 3 times the 4,000 people killed by these drugs in 1999 (Injury Prevention & Control, 2011). Whether the medication is taken for a legitimate illness or illegitimately by someone who is using it for non-medicinal purposes...
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...Pay It Forward Wendy Easton March 12, 2012 PSY 490 Radha S. Shanker, Ph.D. Pay it Forward Philosophers for centuries have debated if a prosocial act regardless of the degree of generosity or unselfishness the act may appear on its surface exists genuinely altruistic (Kowalski & Westen, 2009). People who volunteer to work at the local food closet may do so based on a genuine desire to help other people or to assist in alleviating a personal anxiety. I believe altruism exists and will provide a personal example to support this belief. In addition, I will explain further altruism, how it relates to psychology, and to personal, professional, and social responsibilities, and its effect on the future of psychology. Personal Experience Summary My life as I perceive it exists busy; consequently, I reside perpetually behind schedule. However, I do make time to drop food and personal hygiene items off and visit with the managers of the local food bank the first Wednesday of every month. The individuals and families that enter the building are each gracious and grateful for the food and other products offered. I have never witnessed any person display embarrassment for the need for assistance, in fact, I had not thought about that emotion until this assignment. Each person I have encountered either dropping off or in need have resided authentically friendly and appreciative. Genuinely, I do not believe that any person possesses expectations. Consequently, I do believe...
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...Stem Cell Research in Human Transplantation [Name of the Writer] [Name of the Institution] Abstract Skeletal Bone Marrow that is decimated by disease, chemo, or radioactive emission can be refurbished by utilizing stem cell transplants. For certain infectious ailments like leukemia, aplastic anemia, certain inherited body-fluid infections, and some infections of the immune cell, and the stem cells in the skeletal bone marrow do not effectively function the way that it is intended to function. The stem cell is subjected to immunity issues where the recipient body site does not accept the donor cells. This paper will look to enquire the benefits to following stem cell research in human transplantation. Stem Cell Research Introduction Unique functional cells such as for example, a red blood cell start out originally as unspecialized cells known as stem cells. These stem cells have the uncanny ability to keep separating through division and multiplying in culture to produce specialized cell for a specific bodily function. In the context of normal human development, they are best described for their diversity, adaptability and longevity. As the laws of biology dictate, a human being is formed when a sperm cell fertilizing a female egg cell to produce a zygote. The zygote is already specialized in the fact that it is on the way to the formation of a whole individual. Furthermore the zygote, also known as the fertilized egg is tot potent that simply...
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...these needs, things like food, air, water, etc., must be provided. For example, to satisfy hunger, one would need to provide food. If the food is not provided, the person’s glucose level will become lower, they will probably suffer nausea, lightheadedness and low energy levels since the physiological needs are responsible for pushing the individual’s organism into action. Without the satisfaction of the physiological need, it is possible that the individual’s physical wellbeing would be negatively affected (Deckers, 2010). On the other hand, although psychological needs like physiological needs center around the notion of a deficit, the psychological requirement actually stems from a desire or a point of gratification that the individual has set for him or herself. For example, a person who desires a promotion will only satisfy his or her psychological needs after obtaining said promotion. If they do not receive the promotion, their esteem may be affected and negatively impact their psychological wellbeing...
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...as a teaching faculty or in an R & D department of an industry. With the enthusiasm and the predilection to science, I started my bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. In my childhood, my father used to help me to study mathematics and science, the way he used to explain the scientific terms of my textbooks, enthralled me, created an inclination to do something by myself. How by using...
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