...| Challenges of Graduate Studies | AJS 501 | | Richelle E Atkinson | 10/21/2012 | This paper explains three challenges that the student faces during their current graduate studies and list 3 strategies to overcome those challenges. | As a non-traditional graduate student I am sure to face challenges as I further my education and career, so attempting to accommodate a career, a child, and education is challenging for anyone. Amongst many challenges I face as a single mother in this difficult society obtaining my Masters degree has added different set of challenges to be face with one common goal to accomplish. The three challenges I believe I will face as a student during graduate studies includes being a single mother, holding a full time job, and being a student. The first challenge as a graduate student is my responsibilities as a single mother to an eleven year daughter and her busy schedule. My daughter is currently in the sixth grade in which she is at the age where she is attempting to figure out where she fits in the equation of adolescence. As a very protective mother it is my responsibility to guide my daughter and show her the love she deserves. As a juvenile probation officer, it is very difficult to overlook the society our children are being faced with. I experience daily situations of parents being unable to attend to their children due to their busy schedule whether it’s a full time job or other children within the household. Motherhood...
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...Dual Relationships and Boundaries Danyé Levi Psych 545 September 30, 2013 Kristi Collins Dual Relationships and Boundaries Scenario: A close friend of yours is having difficulty with her teenage daughter. She knows you are a psychologist who specializes in adolescents. She asks if you would be willing to see her daughter for a few sessions to straighten her out. Dual relationships are any situation that may contaminate a doctor-patient relationship from a second relationship whether it is related to business, financial, romantic or social (Segen's Medical Dictionary, 2012). Traditionally, this type of relationship has been deemed unethical in the field of psychology (Nickel, 2004). Many believe it is unrealistic to expect therapists and counselors to avoid all dual relationships (Pope & Vasquez, 2011). Others believe that multiple relationships are harmful and should be avoided at all time to avoid dilemmas down the road (Nickel, 2004). Patients may feel more comfortable with seeking treatment from a therapist they know already from a preexisting relationship and therefore see no ethical issue with consulting with them. Patients may believe that their other relationship with the therapist will not be compromised and that the therapist will be more nurturing and attentive because of their preexisting relationship. A therapist may believe that a client will be more receptive to their advice because of their preexisting relationship and heed their opinions and accept...
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...better life for me and my two daughters. Every day, I do my very best to be a role model for my daughters. I teach them to be strong, independent, confident, and ambitious women. We have done well since my divorce, but I am lacking a proper education. I want to show my daughters the importance of a good education, hence I am applying to Texas State University. I was born and raised in Germany. After I graduated high school, I went to a vocational school and earned a certificate in office management. I worked as an office administrative assistant in the telecommunications industry, then as a translator at the local government office. Shortly after, I fell in love with a U.S....
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... 2014 Sharlie Hazen Introduction Making ethical decisions in the field of psychology can be very difficult especially when you are in the business of counseling. You have to worry about your client’s crossing that boundary while trying to escape a dual relationship. For instance, the scenario that was chosen by our group consist of a close friend of yours is having difficulty with her teenage daughter. She knows you are a psychologist who specialize in adolescents. She ask if you would be willing to help her daughter for a few sessions to straighten her out. You ask yourself, what should be done during this current situation. For one, the therapist and the client’s mother are friends. The client’s mother may be become too dependable on the therapist to fix the problem. In this paper, we will find the best approach for a dual relationship. Ethical issues involving dual relationships will be examined to clarify and analyze the relationship that the therapist and the client’s mom have. Therapist face many challenges in everyday life and in this paper, we will discuss challenges one may face in professional psychology. Concept of Dual Relationship When a therapist engages in more than one relationship with a client it is then classified as a dual or multiple relationship. If a therapist assumes a secondary role with a client like that of an employer, teacher, family member, family friend, sex partner, or business associate to name a few it is also considered to be a...
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...Penelope’s archery challenge and the King’s/Princess’s tasks both fit the Suitors’ Contest archetype, which upon completion, proves the heroes’ worthiness of the “prize” that they have been seeking for the majority of their adventure. The Suitor’s Contest archetype is present in The Odyssey when the suitors are told that they must complete a near impossible challenge. Penelope proposes a challenge of stringing and shooting Odysseus’s bow, and promises to “join [her] life with” whomever can complete it (Homer 1252). The challenge fits the Suitors’ Contest almost perfectly, with the task being highly difficult and the prize being Penelope’s hand in marriage. The purpose of the Suitors’ Contest in The Odyssey is to show that the hero (Odysseus)...
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... As I get older and talk with more highly motived individuals, one thing I can recognize is they all have goals in life. Ken Blanchard stated, “All great performance starts with the setting of goals (GCU, 2013). With that being said, I thought deeper into what I wanted out of life, and what I needed to do to achieve this. In addition, I am now able to apply my knowledge of SMART goals, and identify my developmental level with each goal to reveal my motivation and competence (Blanchard, 2010). Applying this I am going to first explore my personal goal of spending more quality time with my eight year old daughter, discuss my educational goal of earning a 4.0 GPA in my graduate program, and my professional goal of becoming a University Development Manager for my company. As a single father, I’m continually noticing my quality time diminishing with my 8 year old daughter. Between my job that needs my attention in the day and night, being in Graduate school, cooking, cleaning, and helping her with her homework, I’m finding that there are not enough hours in the day to spend time with her on a personal level. I used to spend approximately 15 quality hours a week with her. Now I’m lucky to get 4 hours in a weeks’ time. She’s still a straight “A” student, but I can tell she is wanting more time with her daddy, and it hurts me not to have enough time to give her. When looking into my developmental level of this goal, I can definitely say that I’m a D1 (low competence, high...
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...the creative process. Thinking creativity is thinking outside of the box, using your imagination and having originality. To keep the creative process simple there is stages to the creative process. The first stage is searching for challenges; usually challenges are not hard to find they come in the form of issues and problems that need to be solved. Everyone has problems and issue throughout their daily actives that need to be addressed. The Second stage is expressing the problem or issue, this is realizing the issues or problems exists and then start thinking of the multiple ways to solve the issues. The third stage is investigating the problem or issue; an individual will start gather information and data to help solve the problem or issue. Throughout these processes one might be gathering new information or uncover old information to help with investigating. The last stage is producing ideas, an individual needs to have enough gathered information and ideas to be able to decide what and how to solve the problem or what action needs to be taken. This is the stage that brings everything together to make the action happen. One of the biggest challenges that I am facing on a personal level is trying to have my teenage daughters follow rules and directions without having to ask them more than once....
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...The most significant challenge that I had to face is being a parent of a deaf child with other disabilities such as having mild mental disability and ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. My daughter was born on March 4, 1998. It is a very hard thing to have to deal with simply because it takes time and effort along with help from different avenues. When I first learned that she as deaf was on the second day in the hospital they took a hearing test. Deafness runs in my family. It first started out with my sister being deaf. When I first found out that she was completely deaf it was very hard for me to grasp. I thought of everything in the book why she might be deaf from me drinking alcohol to having problems with abuse in previous relationships. It took me 5 years to actually let it sit in that it wasn’t about me. It was something that happened in life. The other challenge was to tell her father who was incarcerated that he had a deaf child, he said,” None of my other kids are deaf so this baby is not mine” It hurt for him to tell me that. It made me even doubts it more. The steps that I have taken to address this challenge was to get help with myself first by learning about the deaf community, to learn American Sign Language and get counseling for me. It is hard learning sign languageb you have to be dedicated and it takes a while to learn. I am trying top learn sign lanugage every chaqnce that I get. It is hard and time consuming but once you practice you can use...
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...the reasons why he falls, is so he can pick himself back up. They say a dog is a man’s “best friend.” In this case, Enzo has certainly earned that title. Denny and Enzo instantly clicked from the moment Enzo was picked from the litter. Although the time they shared wasn’t much, Enzo managed to extremely impact Denny’s life. Enzo in his weakened state, states “with every bit of strength I have in my body, I wrench myself to a standing position. Through my hips are frozen and my legs burn with pain; I hobble to the door of the bedroom” (310). Enzo, who is referring to be in deep pain, causes a huge challenge for Denny who sees his best friend suffer and struggle every step of the way. As soon as Denny’s life starts to improve, he realizes that sooner or later it will relapse due to Enzo’s condition. Denny is losing the only thing that has stayed constant through the challenges he has faced, Enzo, and when the time came, he was forced to let go. Denny was heartbroken, however, he knew Enzo was no longer suffering and believes he is in a better...
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...Nurse Manager Interview Questions This is a highly time sensitive search, so your timely response to this questionnaire is appreciated. Keep in mind that your answers will be evaluated for content as well as for style of communication. 1. Give an example of a care delivery challenge in your current position and describe what you did to address it? What were the results of your efforts? All of the patients on my unit in my former position were in the beginning and mid stages of Alzheimer’s with one or two very alert ones. The challenge was keeping the more alert residents from rapid mental decline. The key in maintaining the resident’s dignity is providing an environment where they can participate in their level of care, frequent interaction with family members and maintain consistency with the same caregivers. 2. Describe the characteristics and qualities you look for when hiring care givers? Why are these important to you and how do you assess for them? Kind, caring, compassionate, patient, ability to communicate clearly, prior work experience would be some of the qualities I would look for in caregiver applicants. 3. Tell me about a time you helped resolve a particularly difficult customer issue. How did you handle the situation? What was the outcome? I cannot recall any one particular situation however I have interacted with angry family members that had an unresolved issue with other staff during the week and he or she was venting to me...
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...In this first stage, the hero, or the character has a realization or this unhappiness with their regular world that the conditions that they are in currently are just not good enough, and that makes them want to leave the ordinary world into a world of unknown and filled with challenges in order to achieve their goal. As previously stated, Jing-mei has a constant feeling that she couldn’t live up to her mother’s expectations. This quote by June illustrates how much she feels that she can’t live up to her mother’s expectations, “Why don’t you like me the way I am? I’m not a genius! I can’t play the piano. And even if I could, I wouldn’t go on TV even if you paid me a million dollars!” (136). This constant feeling causes her to have a distaste towards her mother and her methods. But after numerous incidents, June realizes how much her mother truly loved her. This quote by Suyuan is when she gives her daughter the green jade, which June takes care of ever so carefully, “This is young jade. It is a very light color now, but if you wear it every day it will become more green” (208-209). When Suyuan says this statement, she is implying that the green jade is Jing-mei, although she isn’t perfect or very well knowledgeable, over a period of time, she will grow wiser and she will become a more successful person. This is the moment in which...
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...Grossman University of Florida Abstract This paper analyses the novel Eat Cake by Jeanne Ray and how the characters in the novel use a variety of occupations to deal with complex life issues as well as every-day challenges. The relationship between health and the use of occupations is explored and examples from the novel are used throughout to support the link between health and wellbeing, and occupation. This paper also explores the different sociocultural views of “occupation” and how these relate to the characters in the novel. Eat Cake: A Book Analysis In the novel Eat Cake, Jeanne Ray cleverly and humorously captures the day-to-day issues of one family’s life during a couple of trying months. Ray develops and describes each character in such a way that one can identify with each character and his or her struggles. The story is centered on Ruth Hopson whose roles are those of wife, mother, and daughter. We also meet her recently unemployed husband Sam, teenage daughter Camille, her mother Hollis, her estranged father Guy Nash, and Guy’s occupational therapist, Florence Allen. Ray describes how each character utilizes everyday occupations to help each deal with the stresses and challenges that life brings their way. Ever since childhood, Ruth has found the baking of cakes to be an extremely soothing and stress relieving activity and as such she occupies herself daily with baking cakes. She constantly bakes...
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...Imagine gushing blood from eyes being gouged out of one’s head, poisoning one’s own sister, fathers turning their backs on their own sons? These are some of the horrible outcomes of a few characters in Shakespeare’s play, King Lear. They are rapidly thrown into a world of strife. King Lear’s most favored daughter, Cordelia, has been driven away by Lear himself, not to mention Gloucester is betrayed by his bastard son, Edmund. Then Lear is sent out into a storm by his two older and selfish daughters. The list just flows on. But what is it that causes these pathetic consequences? The answer is the impact that society has taken on these individuals. By reading some of Shakespeare’s previous work, it is almost no surprise that there will be tragedy...
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...Thesis: The challenges of being a single parent include managing finances, responsibilities and resources The challenge of being a single parent has become harder over time. The fact is that over time things have changed but not for a single parent. Statics show that there has been a steady rise for five decades and that the births to unmarried women has crossed a threshold. An example of this would be, a single mom that can’t provide day care for her child because her income is not enough to pay the bills and day care. The challenges of being a single parent include, managing finances, responsibilities and resources, their work is never done nor are their struggles. One of the challenges a single mom has raising her son and daughter would be getting up at 4am taking 3 buses to transport her children to her mother (who lives on the other side of town). Spending 2 hours getting there and another 3 buses and a hour and a half getting to work. There is a limit on everything she does because she does not have the opportunity to get an education, she has to work and provide for her family. Pawning valuables to make ends meet when money is short, living from pay check to pay check. Child support is another challenge for a single mom when the children’s father does not work, all the financial responsibility is on the single parent. Another challenge to a single mom is that because she is a woman, to keep from being taken advantage of, she will pay more money for rent to keep...
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...Cinderella Ate My Daughter by Peggy Orenstein, addresses the princess stereotypes, unattainable body images, and pressures to be perfect that girls face throughout childhood and into adulthood. By narrating the story through her own experiences with her daughter, Daisy, Orenstein discusses the way marketers narrow girl's’ options by focusing on pink, princesses, and perfection. In order to understand the challenges and pressures girls encounter, Orenstein talks with mothers of other daughters and psychologists, travels to Disney, American Girl, the New York Toy Convention, a glitz pageant, and a Miley Cyrus concert, and researches classic fairy tales, the evolution of dolls, television shows, and websites. After learning about all things girl,...
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