...specific disease patterns, unusual presentations of symptoms, and above all, unique communication and management challenges. This can make working with adolescents difficult. However, with the right skills, practising medicine with young people can be rewarding and fruitful. These skills are needed by everyone who works with young people in the course of their work. As a young person enters adolescence, their parents are still largely responsible for all aspects of their health. By the end of adolescence, health issues will be almost entirely the responsibility of the young person. The challenge is to maintain an effective clinical relationship while the health responsibilities transfer from the parents to the young person.person. Figure 1 Specialised clinical communication skills are needed to take an accurate history, bearing in mind new life domains not applicable to children (sex and drugs) and adding communication and engagement of the family to the standard adult consultation. Physical examinations of adolescents require consideration of privacy and personal integrity as well as requiring additional skills such as pubertal assessment. For effective treatment of illness in adolescence, doctors need to know about adolescent development if they are to manage adeptly issues of adherence (compliance), identity, consent and confidentiality, and relationships between young people and their families. Evidence...
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...What I See As The Biggest Challenges Young Adults Face Today? There is several challenges young adults face in today’s society. As adults we all know how tuff it can be to leave home and be out on our own. You are solely responsible for yourself. Some will go to college and others will go straight into the workforce. No matter what choice we make, as young adults there will be challenges we will face due to choices we make. As a society and/or community we need to ask ourselves what can we do to prepare our children for life without someone taking care of them. Young adults are going to struggle with responsibilities. We need to teach them the difference between wants and needs. For example: Jane has an exam for school tomorrow morning but there is a party tonight. She may want to go to the party however the responsible thing is to stay in this time and study. She is going to need her degree to help her get a good paying job and going to the party is not going to be benefit anything but her social life. Understandably you need a social life but at the same time learning to determine when is the appropriate time to socialize is key. Another struggle young adults have is finances. For many the cost of school, credit cards, car and just living will lead to a major debt. I believe if we show them how to budget wisely it will help them stay out of a financial bind. Having a simple budget plan will help them see where their money needs to go and what they have left to do...
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...client’s characteristics that affect therapy outcome. Psychotherapy and Older Adults Resource Guide Introduction Since about 1990, changes in the Medicare reimbursement system have allowed psychologists to provide services to older adults with Medicare coverage. These changes, in combination with managed care and market place changes have made older adult clients attractive as a client population to increasing numbers of psychologists and other mental health service providers. As the Baby Boomers become older adults over the next several years, one can expect both the need and the demand for mental health services to increase: Need is likely to change because Boomers have higher prevalence of depression and other mental disorders than do the GI Generation and Depression era cohorts; Demand may change because Boomers have typically been psychologically minded and relatively high consumers of mental health services. Key questions in thinking about working with older adults concern whether psychological interventions can be expected to work with older adults. If they work, are adaptations from work with younger adults necessary? In this resource page, research bearing on both of these questions is summarized. Does therapy work with older adults? Before turning to psychological interventions, which are the main focus of this resource guide, it should be noted that psychological assessment with older adults is more specialized than are interventions. The higher prevalence of the dementias...
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...Young adults must learn that life is full of obstacles and challenges, like dealing with school, work, and family. Sometimes those challenges can have devastating effects on young adults minds and bodies. In order to overcome life's challenges young adults need to learn how to manage time, how to manage stress, and how to be flexible. I had to implemant each of these skills at the same time when I suddenly had to move into a new home. Unfortunatlely, I was evicted from my home in September, 2010. My children's father and I seperated; therefore I couldn't pay the rent. I knew the eviction was coming, but I was not ready to face the consequences. I was now a single mother, with two children and no where to live. I knew I had to do something and do it quick. With this in mind, I began looking for a home when the eviction was finalized. I had a place in mind that I had called about two months prior to my eviction, when I realized that my children's father and I would possibly be separating. I called the woman back in regards to the home I had inquired about before. It just so happens that the home was available and ready to move into. She said, "If you can come up with the first months rent and the security deposit by the end of the week, the house is yours." I borrowed money for the security deposit and the rent, but now I had to find a way to move into this new home within a one week time frame. During the second week in September, 2010 I began moving into my new home, with...
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...the end of WWII. The combination of high oil prices and competition from foreign manufactures effected companies such as Chrysler and Ford. The beginning of WWII, the automotive industries received ten million dollars in war efforts. With the great depression, it brought blue collar working class to white underclass status. The unemployed white underclass used to work in the automotive industry and made decent money. The automotive industries were not located in the cities, but in rural towns like Duluth, Minnesota and Portland, Maine. There was no reason for blue collar class people of Lakeside to attend school. Their education level did not exceed the tenth grade. With no extended education, it made the white underclass underemployed. Parents told their sons to not waste their time with school and come to work in the automotive industry as young as 14 to 15 years old. The girls were told to go to college to find a husband (Lecture). Today, American car parts are being manufactured overseas. In Flint, Michigan the majority of people made parts and worked on the assembly line. It went from fifty people working on the assembly line to just having three people making sure the machines were working properly (Lecture). The economy once driven by industry is now lead by technology. The parts that were made in the white underclass’s town were now being outsourced due to cheaper labor. Chrysler dealership was notorious for their layoffs of over thousands of employees. The race riots...
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...There is several challenges young adults face in today’s society. As adults we all know how tuff it can be to leave home and be out on our own. You are solely responsible for yourself. Some will go to college and others will go straight into the workforce. No matter what choice we make, as young adults there will be challenges we will face due to choices we make. As a society and/or community we need to ask ourselves what can we do to prepare our children for life without someone taking care of them. Young adults are going to struggle with responsibilities. We need to teach them the difference between wants and needs. For example: Jane has an exam for school tomorrow morning but there is a party tonight. She may want to go to the party however the responsible thing is to stay in this time and study. She is going to need her degree to help her get a good paying job and going to the party is not going to be benefit anything but her social life. Understandably you need a social life but at the same time learning to determine when is the appropriate time to socialize is key. Another struggle young adults have is finances. For many the cost of school, credit cards, car and just living will lead to a major debt. I believe if we show them how to budget wisely it will help them stay out of a financial bind. Having a simple budget plan will help them see where their money needs to go and what they have left to do whatever they want with or for anything that pops up. Planning for...
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...The Fourth Demography Forum 6 and 7 May 2013 (Brussels) Employment, Social Affairs & Inclusion The Fourth Demography Forum Table of Contents Introduction ...................................................................................................... 3 Opportunities for young adults ............................................................................ 4 Improving the work-life balance .......................................................................... 5 Enabling people to be active longer ...................................................................... 6 Successful inclusion of second-generation migrants ............................................... 7 Regions in rapid demographic and economic decline and inequalities within regions ... 8 Investing in Europe's demographic future - how the SIP will support the drive towards extending Europe's demographic dividend ............................................................ 9 Conclusions .....................................................................................................10 May 2013 2 Employment, Social Affairs & Inclusion The Fourth Demography Forum Some 320 participants attended the Forum opened by Commissioner Andor. This report was drafted by the Forum organisers on the basis of the delivered speeches. Any possible errors or omissions are to be imputed to the Forum organisers Introduction In his welcoming speech, Commissioner Andor underlined our duty to...
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...Understanding Diversity to Create Successful Libraries A Review of Literature Veronica Espinoza SLIS 5000 Dr. O’Connor University of North Texas August 5, 2012 Abstract Within our country, the diverse users who visit libraries and seek information services from their librarians are many. Within the 21st century dynamic demographics are creating diverse communities which bring significant challenges in our library systems. In order to target the needs of diverse users, librarians and information professionals are taking on a multifaceted approach. This approach requires librarians to provide a variety of quality information services to diverse users while advocating diversity standards. The manner in which diverse users will be best served by librarians will fall upon the understanding and employment of four relevant criteria. The advocacy of successful programs and community support systems, diverse collection development, implementation of guidelines and legislation, and targeted diversity training for librarians and staff are all needed in order for librarians to adequately serve those diverse user population groups within their library communities. Introduction In the information field, librarians are taking important steps to stay relevant and effective to those users living in a 21st century environment who require information services. The makeup of users however, is a fluid reality...
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...What I see as the Biggest Challenge Young Adults Face Today Zig Ziglar believes that “sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful” (Junttila, 2010) but will young people in this 21st century be able to succeed considering the myriad of challenges they face on a daily basis. The problems faced by young people today are more than usual. We’ve heard time and time again that the youth is the future? Is this really true, considering the weight of their problems? They are riddled with obstacles which serve to hamper their future. Three of the biggest challenges young adults face today in my opinion is unemployment, lack of role models and obesity. Persons between the ages of 16-24 face multitude of problems. One can only imagine. Let’s take a closer look at youth unemployment. Unemployment is defined as the situation where an individual is willing and able to work, but for some reason is unable to find work. A study carried out in the United States, stated that young people are nearly three times likely to be unemployed than the rest of the population, this is the largest gap in twenty years. The study also went on to say that the number of people aged 16-24 who are not in full time education or employment has increased a great deal. Over the last quarter it has increased by 8000 youths with 498 000 in that age group without a job (Invincibles, Seeberger & Adair, 2015). There is another study carried out in the Caribbean by the Caribbean Development...
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...ways throughout a lifetime and in all cultures. There is a marking or a celebration of times that are considered to be a special period of growth, a period of separation from the past and a transition or journey forward to a new stage of life often involving a challenge to change and become new, to mature or move into a different period of growth. These times are celebrated with rituals or ceremonies that include whole communities. A mythologist named Joseph Campbell “put forward the idea of a threefold rite of passage called the monomyth”. He used it in hero roles in legends and myths to illustrate how it applies to humanity as well. A rite of passage included three parts, separation, initiation, and reintegration. It had to do with the coming of a time to separate oneself from family, friends, old ways, or an old life. It is a time when one separates themselves from everyday surroundings and society and takes a ‘sacred voyage’ or journey to a special place, a sacred place. This place is often where one endures hardships or tests that cause a person to think about all they have learned and have been and who they really are and intend to be. This stage is often called the initiation and is marked by a challenge or struggle. It is a time of overcoming, a time of accomplishment and at its end one emerges a changed person returning to their daily existence. They are reintegrated into society in a new way, a new person. An example of a rite of passage here in the...
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...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 poverty due to large loans from schooling and credit challenges from taking on too much-unsecured debt to pay to survive. When this generation, making the decision to go to school can be a lifelong issue, when the young adult makes bad calls on how to financially support themselves it can cause greater issues in later life. The...
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...college is a big step for adult learners. There are so many obstacles that impair the adult learners. There are family, full time employment and other related activities. There are a lot of time and effort put into the adult learner’s decision to return to school. Even the most brilliant students will find it difficult to return to school due to the lack of self confidence in the ability to comprehend the learning styles of the teacher. Many times the teaching style is new or different to the adult learners because so much time has passed since they were in the classroom. Adult learners learn best by self-directing with their own learning techniques (Clapper, 2010). The adult learners have many life experiences that can be applied in the classroom. Most often the adult learner learns best by hand on situations, by life experiences, current and former employment. Educators find it difficult to teach some adult learners because they have their own way of wanting to be taught. When learning in the health care profession, educators are constantly looking for ways to help the adult learner grasp the coursework. The adult learners have acquired talents in their former employments. The adult learners are sure of the health care profession when they choose to go back to school. Educators have developed Simulation Centers to help the adult learners appreciate going back to school (Knowles, 1984) Educators realize that the adult learners learn in a different...
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...One social problem facing young adults is moving from the primary household away to college. This represents a dramatic shift in the lifespan. Teenagers vary on the developmental spectrum in relation to physical, psychological, and socioeconomic status. Racial minorities also face specific challenges when moving away from families. Adolescence into young adulthood highlight changing familial systems, and its relation to identity formation, independence, and academics. Young adulthood is a time of rapid change and growth during the human lifespan. Children graduate high school, and choose to work or continue on to college. They may see college as a necessity, while others find hard work will yield success. However, more persons are under the assertion that young adults should continue past secondary education. Solution The cost of tuition for students has risen greatly within the last ten years. Many students spend forty-thousand dollars or more to earn a bachelor’s degree. Students are left with large debt in the form of student loans. Many graduates have struggled to find work at their educational level since the Great Recession. Numerous entry level positions require a bachelor’s degree with years of working in a specific field. As social workers, we should denote this precedes fair wages and economic justice. This particularly affects minorities whose access to higher education and monetary funds can be lower than caucasian majorities. That is not to say...
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...The biological changes for adolescence transitioning within young adulthood is a harmonious and reprehensive period, however it brings physical and psychological challenges. This preliminary maturity stage adapts adolescence within a position of being responsible and conquering the world, so it’s extremely imperative for young adults to understand to think responsibly and make mature decisions. Physical development changes within young adulthood bring acne, voice change, hair growth within the pelvic area, enlargement of the internal and external reproductive organs, and breast enlargement. Social development within young adulthood brings personality development which allocates a strong desire for the adolescence to be socially independent by obtaining the following employment, car, housing etc. The principal’s values, morals and respect are needed for young adults to effectively and responsibly evaluate circumstances to determine a plausible decision of what’s right and wrong. Respect is a principal that should have been taught during childhood, however it’s critically that one adult have been instilled with this element because if fosters with how to be considerate and thoughtful towards themselves, others and situations. Discipline is also a critical factor as well this concept aids young adults how to appropriately conduct themselves within hostile circumstances and within society. There are also various theories within the changes of adulthood to name as...
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... I currently provide direct service to young adult’s between the ages of 18 and 20 years old who suffer from severe mental illness. These young adults are currently Wards of the State of Illinois and are close to “aging out” of the Child Welfare System. They currently reside in an Independent Living Program where they receive specialized support to help them transition from a residential treatment center into the community. The program 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...
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