Fall 2014, Term 1 Media & Hype The zombie apocalypse may be a debated phenomenon. However, that doesn’t mean the world isn’t ending. That is, according to United States media at least. Flip through channels on your television, navigate your newsfeed on Facebook, or share what’s trending on Twitter, and you’ll understand that if ISIS won’t destroy America, Ebola will finish the job. What’s perhaps even more frightening is that a vast majority of Americans; educated, practical, and rationally
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INTRODUCTION Psychosocial is a result of psychology and sociology Psychosocial development is how a person’s mind, emotions, and maturity level develop throughout the course of their lifetime. Different people will develop psychosocially at different speeds depending on the biological processes and environmental interactions. People living with HIVAIDS have specific psycho social issues they deal with. It is important to understand that the mind and the emotions have impact on their immune system
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Before beginning this course, I had many misconceptions of child maltreatment. Miller-Perrin and Perrin (2007) states, “Annually, parents are the perpetrators in approximately 80% of the substantiated cases, with mothers the most likely perpetrators in physical abuse and neglect cases and fathers the most likely perpetrators in sexual abuse cases” (p. 9). My prior understanding was that fathers were often the physically abusive perpetrators and other family members or strangers were the sexual abusers
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For nurses, who routinely face stress inherent to their roles as care providers, mindfulness training seemingly offers an ideal, adaptive solution. Mindfulness positively improves mood and promotes self-care, serving the nurse’s obligation to maintain their own well-being and personal health (American Nurses Association [ANA], 2015; Zeller & Levin, 2013). Attending mindfulness sessions also reportedly improves nurses’ performance, enhances situational alertness, and reduces employee injuries (Zeller
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a range of potential reactions one can have when engaged in assisting someone who is traumatized by an experience. Clinicians need to gauge what are healthy and normal responses when hearing another person’s trauma and what is considered as “compassion fatigue” or “secondary traumatic stress” or “vicarious traumatization” or “secondary traumatic stress disorder or countertransference. When exposed to this type of trauma, people need to identify and deal with their own emotional reactions and how this
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12 stress management tips for mental health social workers by Simeon Brody on 27 February , 2012 in mental health Mark-Drinkwater-029.jpgby Mark Drinkwater, a mental health social worker and Community Care practice adviser 1. Identify the cause of your stress The first step is to identify the cause of your stress. Take a few deep breaths and try to think about what is making you feel that way. Only then will you be in a position to tackle the causes and see what you might be able to change
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4-MAT Book Review Jayne Kelley Liberty University In his book Dr. Wright begins by reciting a personal dilemma from the time when he was a youth pastor at his church. Throughout the book, he uses a Christian perspective on counseling reciting scenarios from his life to demonstrate the different concepts of counseling. Dr. Wright uses these situations. To teach the proper responses, to different crisis situations. When reading these situations, he wants us to “consider two important questions:
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Evidence Based Practice: “Stress nurses face caring for palliative care patients?” Regina Nelson Governors State University Abstract Palliative Care Nurses are at risk of experiencing stressful situations related to symptom management and death. The aim of this paper is to critically examine the current stress nurses face caring for Palliative Care patients. Four Nursing Journals and one Psycho-Oncology were reviewed. There was strong evidence to support that nurse’s experience stress caring
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Examples of this challenge occurred many times in my own career. Watching a dying patient gasp for each breath while begging me to allow him to smoke with his family caused me to question my sense of caring and ethical practice. Despite his extreme fatigue, Mr. Y. faintly smiled at me as I entered his room to begin my evening shift with his initial assessment. A 40 pack-year history of smoking and a lifetime manual job separating various types of sandstone at a stone quarry contributed to his chronic
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physical symptoms, disrupting daily life with fatigue, loss of appetite, and sleep disturbances. Importantly, grief is not confined to the death of a loved one, but extends to other profound losses, including the dissolution of relationships, job loss, or declining
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