...Reflective Paper Daphne Jackson BSHS/345 April 18, 2015 Elaine McCullough "Generational poverty" is defined as having been in poverty for at least two generations. Generational Poverty creates a strong family oriented environment that is a bond that most children refuse to want to break by leaving home. In generational poverty, the players feel that society owes them a living whereas in situational, they often allow pride to keep them from accepting needed assistance. Most of the children that are raised in poverty have a lack of education resulting in a high dropout rate due to frustration in learning, teen pregnancy and other personal problems or situations. Children become possessions to their parents, instead of individuals that should taught the basics and values of life. So, they can feel prepared to move out on their own to achieve success within their lives and the future to come. In most households, older children tend to take care of the younger children; forming a sense of belonging to the family, which can result in the younger kids having a “fear factor” out living life on their own. Many single parents work longer hours to make ends meet, but a sacrifice of the inability to educate their children makes for low test scores in school. This type of situation causes educational boundaries that could cause illiteracy with children wanting to drop out because of anger and depression issues. Poverty can occur in one of two methods. The first is caused by an event...
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...“Changes We Face” Shaneika Andrews 04/28/2015 BSHS/345 Seanee Alexander “Changes We Face” There a number of factors that contributes to the constant change in our communities today. In this paper I will discuss the factors involved to overcome generational poverty, the challenges the aged faced due to lack of employment, changes women face through different stages in life, and my perspective and approach towards different populations. The Effects of Poverty Poverty involves a complex array of risk factors that affect the population in a multitude of ways. The four primary risk factors afflicting families living in poverty are emotional and social challenges, stressors, cognitive lags and health and safety issues. Graber...
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...Reflective Paper Teresa A. Sigler BSHS 345 August 30, 2015 Chelie Byerly Reflective Paper Generational Poverty There is a strong family bond created within the family environment, especially when that family is struggling with generational poverty issues. There is a bond created between the parent and children that is so strong that generally most of the time the children will not break that bond and they will refuse to leave home. A majority of the children that are raised in generational poverty are lacking in several areas of education which is due to an extremely high dropout rate which is due to either considerably high rates of teenage pregnancy, or the student becoming frustrated with trying to learn. Coming from generally from single mother homes where the mother has to take whatever jobs that they can find, which tend to be low-paying and limited to no flexibility in scheduling, make it difficult at best for the mother to provide proper if any kind of structure for their children or for them to spend any kind of quality time with them. The older children that have dropped out of school are treated by the parent more like they are their own possessions now. Instead of teaching them the life skills and the other skills that they will need in order to survive in the real world on their own and to be successful for themselves. Instead, they have them taking care of the younger children so that the parent can go to work and put in more hours. This makes the older...
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...Annotated Bibliography One Keila Montenegro Annotated Bibliography September 4, 2014 BSHS/345 Annotated Bibliography Two Annotated Bibliography Asian American Culture Le, C.N. 2014. "Population Statistics & Demographics" Asian-Nation: The Landscape of Asian America. <http://www.asian-nation.org/population.shtml> (September 2, 2014). Retrieved from: http://www.asian-nation.org/population.shtml on September 2, 2014. This article is great for getting well informed on the diversity of the Asian –American culture in a demographic level. It brakes down the culture to more ethnically specific demographic, and goes o to explain how the Asian-American culture has grown over the years with data from the Census. Linda Nguyen (2002). Characteristics of a Traditional Asian Family. Retrieved from: http://www.coedu.usf.edu/zalaquett/mcdp/Asian%20handout.htm on: September 2, 2014. This article contains a list describing the characteristics found in Asian families; it explains the disciplines, gender differences and so on. The article can be used when researching the characteristics of the Asian- American culture, and understanding the cultural diversity and traditions. Latino-American Minority health (2012). Hispanics or Latino Populations. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Retrieved from: http://www.cdc.gov/minorityhealth/populations/REMP/hispanic.html on: September...
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...Name BSHS 345 Date Instructor MHF Module: Understanding Differences Understanding Differences Worksheet Research a culture from a country that is different than your own. Complete the table below for the culture you chose. Include 50 to 150 words for each response. Culture: Afganistan |Topic |Cultural View of the Topic | |Raising children |Many children are introduced to violence, abuse, exploriation, and negect in Afghanistan. For more than 30 years of| | |war, many of them have been killed (Swanson & Swanson, 2011). Hundreds of children are used as suicide bombers, and| | |are put in harms way daily. According to Swanson & Swanson (2011), “Conflict and political violence force millions | | |of children and their families to flee their homes and as a result displaced families spend years in situations of | | |uncertainty and insecurity” (para. 3). | |Role of genders |Discrimination is common among girls and women. Throughout early childhood, about 70 percent of school-age girls, | | |do not attend school, while 94 percent of girls are not even registered births (Swanson & Swanson, 2011). The men | | |are the...
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...BSHS/345 Week 5 Flexibility Paper Stopping Invidious comparison As we know, comparing one person with others according to their class, race, sex or religion is invidious comparison. It can have negative effect on both the people involved in this act. So, how can we stop this? The foremost thing to do is to understand the fact that everyone is different and accept it. There are always smart, strong and eye-catching people covering the others who are not healthy, rich, less attractive, less able or obese. We should look at people’s strengths rather than their weaknesses. No one is perfect. Comparing yourself with others diverts your own path or even stops it. Rather, you should be looking at your goals and achievements and try to help yourself in getting in a better position. Strategies to avoid vicarious traumatization As human service providers, we always encounter people who suffer and struggle with different problems. Some of the people’s conditions worse than others. When you care about certain people and their problems and feel you could do something, you get caught in vicarious trauma. This is mainly caused by several factors: • Encounter with trauma stories, • Urge of changing or solving someone’s problematic condition, • Absence of signs of progress in a service worker’s client, • Overly identifying with trauma survivors, • The thought of being capable of solving a survivor’s problems...
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...Personal Reflection Paper BSHS 345 August 26, 2014 Personal Reflection Paper Invidious comparison is the act of comparing one person to others according to their class, race, sex, or religion. This act can have a negative effect on people who are aware of it. Growing up in California, where the predominant Hispanic races were of Mexican and Central American origin, I was constantly compared to those Hispanic backgrounds. This was frustrating because I am Colombian and the Colombian Culture is very different from the Central American culture. My mind could not understand why people would compare me to them if I am South American. The traditions, food, music, slang, and even accents were different. American non-Hispanic people would call me, among many other things, a “dirty Mexican” or “wet back.” This was extremely frustrating because neither one of my parents hopped the border nor were they dirty. My young mind did not know how that these people were just ignorant so my frustration turned into anger and total repulsion of races of those other backgrounds and countries. A sense of insecurity and even self-hate would overcome me. I did not want to be Hispanic, I wanted to be white, and I wanted to be accepted. My way of seeing things changed in 2006 when the Immigration Equality Movements became popular. Latino activists would speak at events and in a sense give the people a sense of empowerment and hope. Attending these events made me feel proud of my Hispanic heritage...
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...Personal Reflection Paper Nikia Crump BSHS 345 Seanee Alexander July 6, 2015 Introduction This paper will focus on a personal experience with vicarious traumatization as well as invidious comparison. Will focus on how to avoid vicarious traumatization in your personal/ work life and ways to strategize to avoid this. These will also be strategies that I use as a Human Service professional to avoid traumatiztion as well. How to Stop Invidious Comparison We have to realize that we are all different and no two people are the same in any way, but as humans we have a natural tendency to constantly compare ourselves to others that we may see on a daily basis or those that we see on television. It is normal to do this to merely evaluate the similarities and differences between yourself and others. In today’s society we have turned in to comparison junkies and this is something that starts at birth with comparing babies on who’s the cutest and then it just carries over throughout the years into adulthood. * We have to learn that comparing ourselves with others is a bad habit and is a sign of low self esteem. Today’s society does project flawlessness within everyone nowadays and that is an untruth, because no one is perfect. *Understanding that everybody is different because that’s just how we are and how we were meant to be. Everyone is born different even with twins, they may look alike, but they have different mindsets, different experiences, and...
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...Personal Reflection Paper By: Heather Bennett Course: BSHS/345 Due: 9/7/2015 Instructor: Rina Wallace Invidious comparison and vicarious traumatization are two things that everyone will experience in their lifetime. I can personally say that I have experienced both of them many times in my lifetime and still struggle with them to this day. In this paper I am going to explain how both of these can be damaging not only to you but to everyone who is involved. I’m going to talk about an event in my life that I have experienced, ways to stop invidious comparison, strategies that I personally use to avoid vicarious traumatization in my own life, and if those strategies will work to ensure that I will avoid vicarious traumatization as a human service worker, and what other strategies I could develop that would be helpful to avoid vicarious traumatization. In my lifetime I have compared myself to others so much that it has damaged my confidence, one instance that stands out to me was when I was going into Jr. high school. My family didn’t have a lot of money to buy me those nice clothes that everyone else wearing and I found myself comparing what I wore to what everyone else had. I was so hard on myself I would pretend to be sick just so I didn’t have to go to school. I got so self conscious about it that every time I heard anyone laugh or seen someone whispering I thought it was about me. I was so busy focusing on the fact that everyone had better things then I did...
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...Overcoming Generational Poverty Diana Rojas BSHS 345 August 12, 2014 Therese, DaSilva, LSSW Overcoming Generational Poverty Generational poverty is poverty passed down from generation to generation. Parents pass it down to their kids, and they received it from their parents. A vicious cycle can only be broken by raising above the current situation. In order to rise one must work and gain a greater income, if any, than what is currently being dealt with. It is a common truth that you can work yourself out of poverty. As easy as that sounds, many times this is almost impossible to achieve. Personal barriers that may harm success are stress, low self-esteem, isolation, and inadequate parenting competence. One can go into urban cities, rural areas, and ghettos and see the impoverished or underprivileged situations that many people live in today. The question often asked is; why do people live and think the way they do? Can they not move or get a better job? The sad truth is that for many people moving on does not come with ease. The factors for which many stay in the situation they are in is endless and often quite complex. Many times people face poverty because they lack the means to move up in life. This barrier often times comes from lack of education. In many areas instances, children never even make it out of high school because their presence is needed to work and help the family survive. Seniors are often faced with many challenges which lead them to fall into poverty...
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...Personal Reflection Paper BSHS/345 November 10, 2014 Personal Reflection Paper Invidious comparison and vicarious traumatization are two very real concepts in life. However, when working in the human service field, both concepts must be controlled to avoid negative outcomes. This paper will describe two concepts and how each has played a part in my life. The first concept of discussion is invidious comparison. The second topic of discussion will focus on vicarious traumatization. Aside from how both concepts have affected me personally, I will examine strategies that can help me avoid vicarious traumatization as a human service worker. The first concept of discussion is invidious comparison. According to Merriam-Webster (2014), invidious comparison is defined as “tending to cause discontent, animosity or envy”. In other words, invidious comparison is when a person compares themselves to others by class, religion, sex, and race. While this concept occurs to everyone, and seems to be a normal part of human nature, negative ramifications such as poor self-esteem, depression, and stress may result if not directed in the correct manner. The concept of invidious comparison is one I can relate to well. For many years, I used to compare myself to those who had more money that I did. While I am ashamed to admit how shallow I was, this comparison brought me into a state of depression. It was during my depressed mode that I realized that I needed to take control of...
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...Reflective Paper Marcy L. Ortiz BSHS/345 July 23, 2014 Ms. Tucker The identification of the complex factors involved in overcoming generational poverty can be difficult because each case has its own special needs. While the challenges the aged face when there is lack of access to employment, women face dilemmas that keep them from obtaining proper work to take care of their families. The perception of these issues must be changed to one of understanding and change. Our world deserves a chance to move in a positive direction, and in order to do that we must begin with ourselves. Only then can we provide proper help to those in need and in unfortunate circumstances. Generational poverty is when a family has at the most two generations that have been produced in poverty (Robyn E. Blummer, 2013). Adults and children that are raised in this type of poverty have a mindset of mere survival. There are many challenges that occur in the life of an individual who is dealing with poverty. Emotionally, a child or adult may feel that he or she may never amount to anything that life can only be living to the minimal. Societal challenges, a child may be discriminated against at school for not having all the supplies he or she may need, therefore being called names, or being judged by teachers. Adults and children who live in poverty deal with stressors such as where the next meal is going to come from or how a bill is going to be paid. Adults and children who live...
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...Reflective Paper BSHS/345 Suzanne Reed Professor: Dr. Tristram Jones Introduction There are so many factors that can happen to anyone that encounters difficulty in life. Certain issues can occur to special populations, how they affect the clients is what matters in these reflections of this paper. The particular groups that are going to be encountered in this reflection are generational poverty, older adults, and women. Complex factors involved in overcoming generational poverty Generational poverty is a serious issue among some of the population. When a student graduates high school impending the thought of college they might run into a multitude of different issues. How to pay for college is a major situation, sometimes families are financially able to send their child to school, but in some occasions not. In this scenario, the young adult must gather on how they are going to live and somehow go to college. Some young adults make rational decisions, and others make devastating financial decisions that put themselves into a severe hardship, leading to generational poverty. The issue of social support plaques quite a few young women and men when they walk out into society without a plan of action. The lack of emotional, tangible, informational, positive and negative support can cause horrible life altering decisions among this class of society (UOP, 2011). By making decisions to go to school, the young adult then leads to issues of...
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...Annotated Bibliography BSHS/345 Diversity and Special Populations Annotated Bibliography Arab Culture: Learn about Arab etiquette and protocols. (2004). In Planet Egypt online. Retrieved from http://www.planetegypt.co.uk/samoora.shtml This article discusses the difference between Arab, Middle-Eastern and Muslim people. The author talks about the region in which a person is from, as well as language and religion is what determines which group one would identify with. The history and cultures of Arabic people are provided in this article. Cacho, L. M. (2001). Asian Americans. University of Hawaii Press The article discusses the relationships between Asian Americans and their families. The author explains how they have to deal with certain stereotypes in order to succeed in a place where they are Americans, but still considered to be foreigners. The article is a good resource for understanding how Asian Americans feel in a country where so many barriers are placed upon them. Caroll, S.R. (1994, December). Why poor black children succeed or fail. Chicago Tribune. Retrieved from http://www.chicagotribune.com/africanamericancultue The conceptual article begins with the broad discussion about African American culture. It projects today’s youth and the inconsistency of what Americans idolize as equality in school systems. It discusses the present’s findings of family and individual studies that factor in the high and low achieving African-American students...
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...UNIVERSITETI I SHKODRËS “LUIGJ GURAKUQI’’ FAKULTETI EKONOMIK DEGA: FINANCË - KONTABILITET TEMË DIPLOME INVESTIMET E HUAJA NË SISTEMIN BANKAR Foreign investment in the banking system [pic] Pedagogu udhëheqës: Msc. Rozafa (Alibali) RISTANI Punoi: Kristjana KRONAJ Qeshor 2013 FALENDERIME Ky punim është zhvilluar në kuadrin e mbylljes së studimeve të mia pranë Departamentit të Financë-Kontabilitetit në Fakultetin Ekonomik të qytetit të Shkodrës dhe është rezultat i një pune të gjerë kërkimore gjatë këtij viti të fundit. Prandaj gjej rastin të falenderoj së pari familjen time që më kanë shoqëruar në çdo hap të jetës sime. Ishin ata që me ngrohtësine e tyre më kanë ngritur sa herë që rrëzohesha. Më kanë ndihmuar në formimin e karakterit tim, duke më këshilluar në çdo zgjedhje që unë bëja, më kanë motivuar për të ndjekur studimet e larta dhe falë tyre unë jam këtu ku jam sot. Një falenderim të veçantë ia dedikoj profesoresh Rozafa Alibalit për gatishmërinë dhe ndihmesën e saj në zhvillim e kësaj teme. E natyrisht nuk mund të lë pa përmendur edhe shoqërin time që m’i ka bërë më të bukura vitet shkollore. Faleminderit të gjithëve. TABELA E PËRMBAJTJES • Hyrja................................................................................................................................fq3 • Përmbledhja ekzekutive .................................................................…...
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