...(Lifespan Development) PSYCH 500 Week 1 Individual Assignment Current Issue in Life-Span Development Paper Select a current issue in the field of life-span development. You may choose an issue that has directly affected your personal development or an issue of personal interest. Prepare a 700- to 1,050-word analysis of your selected issue. Include a description of the issue and its connection to significant concepts, distinctive features, and critical periods in life-span development. Examine any controversies associated with your issue and summarize in your analysis how the issue has enhanced or hindered the study of life-span development. Format your paper according to APA standards. PSYCH 500 Week 4 Individual Assignment Developmental Case Study Complete the Developmental History Case Study, located on the student Web site. PSYCH 500 Week 6 Learning Team Assignment Life-Span Development Portfolio Presentation Resources: Life-Span Development Portfolio Instructions Prepare a 10- to 15-minute oral presentation accompanied by 7-10 Microsoft® PowerPoint® slides illustrating your Life-Span Development Portfolio. Online Campus students will submit a 7- to 10-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation with speaker notes. PSYCH 500 Week 6 Learning Team Assignment Life-Span Development Portfolio Resources: Life-Span Development Portfolio Instructions Compile the results of the interviews your Learning Team completed for issues relevant...
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...Life Span Perspective Paper SGJ PSY/375 May 28, 2012 Life Span Perspective Paper Lifespan perspective is obtaining the knowledge of changes that occurs during human development. Development begins at the moment conception has started in the mother’s womb to death. According to Smith “The first and obvious element is change - that development involves movement from one state to another. Lifespan is simple the different stages that humans go through as their life develop over the years. The perspective of lifespan is understanding the changes that occurs in the different stages of development. There are five characteristics of development. They are: 1. Multidirectional (changes occur in all and a straight line) 2. Multicultural (cultural differences have an affect even intercontinental) 3. Multicontextual (life is affected by many context including family, history, and environment) 4. Multidisciplinary (scientific disciplines including psychology, biology, and education) 5. Plastic (an individual traits can be altered at any point in development) As I have stated lifespan is from the time of conception to death of a person development and growth. The perspective is in relationship to humans development is a lifelong changing experience. The theories of lifespan development can be viewed in Freud, and Piaget study on the subject. With Freud and Piaget influences of a person life is nature and nurture. A person’s lifespan began as a fetus, which develops...
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...Current Issues in Life-Span Development Many issues arise when discussing Life-Span Development. One issue that I take a personal interest to is Anorexia Nervosa. Anorexia Nervosa also known as Anorexia is an issue that many people are affected by at some point in their lives. Many people associate this disease with women however; anorexia also affects males as well. While anorexia tends to affect more women than men it appears approximately 10% of individuals diagnosed that are men (Wikipedia, n.d). Anorexia can lead to death if an intervention is not put in place. I tend to take a personal interest in anorexia I was personally affected by anorexia growing up. When growing up I watched my mother as she attempted crazy diets to make sure she was staying thin. I was also put on diet pills and many diets as a child. I even had a doctor who told my parents that I was just going to be heavy my entire life and there was nothing they could do. Between being told I was going to be heavy and being teased about my weight growing up by my parents, brother and cousins this lead me to take drastic measures to lose weight. I stopped eating and if I did eat it consisted of eating gummy bears. Eventually I became so weak and sick that my family had to have an intervention. Eventually I became better until I left and went to college and it started all over again. I had to move back in with my parents to overcome not eating once again. Now I am healthily but this is something I...
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...Guest Editorial Leading specialists review current developments in pediatrics. Immunization: An Update Tina Q. Tan, MD S ince 1796, when Edward Jenner first inoculated 8-year-old James Phipps with cowpox to protect him against a related virus, smallpox, a multitude of effective vaccines have been developed and licensed to protect against a growing number of viral and bacterial diseases. The development and use of vaccines has been heralded as the number one greatest public health achievement of the 20th century, and is one that has had significant global impact. The wide-spread use of vaccines in the population has resulted in the eradication of smallpox; elimination of polio in the Americas and many other areas of the world; and control of the transmission and spread of diseases such as tetanus, diphtheria, measles, mumps, rubella, varicella, Haemophilus influenzae type b, pneumococcal disease, and a host of other infectious diseases. Through the global initiatives of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and The Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI), many of the current childhood vaccines that are readily available in the US are now being made available to children in resource-poor countries and are having a major impact on infant and childhood morbidity and mortality. This special issue on immunization contains articles that highlight the importance of vaccination across the life span; discusses the complex process by which vaccines are developed...
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...Impact Of Stress On Employee Productivity, Performance And Turnover; An Important Managerial Issue Subha Imtiaz* and Shakil Ahmad** Stress is a universal element and persons from nearly every walk of life have to face stress. Employers today are critically analyzing the stress management issues that contribute to lower job performance of employee originating from dissatisfaction &high turnover ultimately affecting organizational goals and objectives. How stress affects employee performance, managerial responsibility, & consequences high stress are basic aims of the study. The universe of the study is Rawalpindi/Islamabad; the target population is employees (medical officers and house officers) in main health/medical organizations of the universe. Field study was conducted with questionnaire as the primary data collection instrument. Data was analyzed using statistical techniques with SPSS Version 16. The factors affecting stress were identified; personal issues, lack of administrator support, lack of acceptance for work done, low span over work environment, unpredictability in work environment &inadequate monetary reward. Analysis showed immense support for negative relationship between stress and job performance; greatly affected career change over (-.323**) and job satisfaction (.285**), errors in treatment (-.332**), knowledge (-.787**). The results showed that with every unit; increase in personal dilemmas, decrease in financial reward, decrease in influence over work environment...
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...Mission Trinity College of Nursing and Health Sciences provides a quality higher learning environment preparing competent practitioners for health-care professions. Continuous quality improvement guides the educational process as students prepare to deliver culturally congruent health care, perform as responsible citizens within the global community and seek avenues for life-long learning. Our Goals Program goals for each department in the College derive from the philosophy of the College and the domain competencies, as follows: Knowledge • ability to examine and explain phenomena • ability to construct and organize knowledge • ability to integrate and synthesize knowledge • ability to apply quantitative and qualitative concepts Proficiency • ability to solve practical problems • ability to collaborate with multiple disciplines • ability to communicate effectively • ability to practice competently and skillfully in a changing health-care environment Culture Care Values • ability to preserve/maintain cultural identities • ability to accommodate/negotiate diverse life ways • ability to re-pattern/restructure health-care delivery methods • ability to apply ethical and legal principles to health care The Associate of Science in Nursing Program (ASN) is a two-year program of study combining didactic and clinical nursing courses as well as general education courses. The Program prepares beginning nurses who function...
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...MIDLIFE: A TIME OF CRISIS OR THE NEW PRIME OF LIFE EPSY 5460 Introduction The concept of a “midlife crisis” has been a well-known way of describing a time of stress and difficulties that may occur during middle adulthood. This study discusses views of the concept of midlife crisis in the past and the present. It will also compare and contrast Carl Jung, Elliott Jaques, Erik Erikson and Robert Peck’s view of middle age development. One of the most popular contradictions in society has been whether middle age is a peak period of life or the beginning of a downward slide. Many people change careers at midlife. Is this change because of a decrease in self-esteem or because one wants to find a new outlook on life and greater satisfaction? This paper will argue that middle age is not a time of loss and crisis but of new possibilities and fulfillment. The most common view of a midlife crisis has been a male in his 40’s who leaves his wife for a younger woman and runs off in a sports car; or a woman in her 40’s or 50’s that gets a face lift, breast lift and tries to reinvent herself. These views have been promoted in magazines, television shows and movies. Our society as a whole has promoted youth and beauty as one of the most important things in life. The purpose of this study is to provide information contrary to this popular belief. This paper proposes that the knowledge and confidence that comes with age is actually more important to most middle age people than physical...
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...In early August 2015, I relocated to Jacksonville to embark on my Masters in Clinical Mental Health Counseling (CMHC) at the University of North Florida (UNF). This marked a definitive step in my career transition process. Approximately three years ago, several life and work related events converged which caused me to re-evaluate my life. Personal triggers included - turning 50, my husband’s health issues and his post-retirement life-style change and my mother’s retirement and her subsequent move to Jacksonville. At work, I was charged with the assessment of Obamacare and the implementation of the Health Exchange for Medicaid products; areas which I oversaw. I was also selected by senior executives at the corporation where I was employed to participate in the Executive Leadership Program for America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP). Despite having been certified from the prestigious program and recognized by internal and external entities as a leader and subject matter expert in my field, I was becoming increasing disenchanted at work. I was not able to break the “glass ceiling”. Those at the executive levels were (and are) mostly white males. Minorities (non-whites, non-hetero males and females) were already in place. There appeared to be no need to admit additional “tokens” to fulfill an appearance of diversity at the upper echelons. When I evaluated the impact of Obamacare, I predicted the need for substantial downsizing due to automation and projected revenue...
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...Lindenberger (eds.), Understanding Human Development: Lifespan Psychology in Exchange with Other Disciplines. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers. 1 Karl Ulrich Mayer, 2002 The sociology of the life course and life span psychology - diverging or converging pathways? 1. Introduction In the last twenty to thirty years both life span psychology and the sociology of the life course have experienced a great and long take off with regard to theory building and conceptualization, methodological advances and empirical studies. Within sociology, but also partly in demography, economics and social policy studies, a cohort and life course perspective, event history analysis and microanalytic longitudinal data have become almost predominant (Mayer 1990, 2000; Riley et al. 1994). Baltes et al. (1999: 473) note, for instance, that life span psychology became more prominent due to, among other reasons, “... a concern with life span development in neighboring social science disciplines, especially sociology. Life course sociology took hold as a powerful intellectual force.” At the beginning of this development there were great expectations that the disciplines involved in this “life course turn” - especially life course sociology and life span psychology - would not only grow together in a parallel trajectory, but that there would be co-evolution in the direction of a truly interdisciplinary or even transdisciplinary paradigm on human development. Volumes such as the one edited...
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...consider the strategies and theories related to talent management, examples and a business case for a talent management strategy.“Talent management is the systematic attraction, identification, development, engagement, retention and deployment of those individuals who are of particular value to an organisation, either in view of their high potential for the future or because they are fulfilling business/operation critical roles”.(CIPD, 2012). This strategy aims to develop plans that attract high quality external candidates as well as the identifying and retention of the internal workforce, getting the optimum balance between external and internal candidates is difficult, some firms prefer to use their existing workforce as this helps drive individuals to increase their skills and increases work satisfaction, however concentrating on a narrow internal group of candidates alienates the possibility of high calibre external candidates who can inject new ideas into the organisation.(Beardwell & Claydon, 2010). The Company needs to have a clear talent management strategies and recognise its strategic importance to the organisation whilst acknowledging the difficulties of talent management in a world of different expectations by employees. Employees and employers no longer expect jobs will be for life and the younger Generation Y workers expect to change jobs more frequently to enhance their careers. (Hautem, Andres, 2010). Generation Y employees, (people born after 1978) are...
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...Developmental reasons for current law John Smith American University Developmental reasons for current law It’s not every day that the issue of child prosecution is brought up. However, after the shooting of a young girl in a grade school library by her fellow six year old class mate, it is an issue that is brought under scrutiny. Was the young boy responsible for the consequences or is he exempt by his young age? According to the U.S. law the boy is legally free from blame. Many would respond to this in rage and call for social justice; however, when deeper studies are made in the field of psychology and a somewhat basic understanding of cognitive childhood development is gained, one will come to realize that a boy of that age is neither legally liable for his accidents nor capable of criminal intent. The reason this law is in practice is because popular studies show that proper understanding of consequences are inhibited by the immature limbic system, emotional regulation, aggression control, and a weak grasp of morality. The limbic system is the area of the brain that is associated with the control over emotion. In a child under seven, the brain capacity has not reached its height. For example, myelination, the process by which axons are coated with a fatty layer causing faster brain triggering, are extremely slow in comparison to someone who is still only 16 (Berger, 213). The book mentions that the child’s impulses are “uninhibited” and their limbic system could...
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...very crucial in shaping our personalities.There are however other factors that were very crucial to the same. The most important of them all is culture. Culture is one of the most influential factors and is the values, beliefs and norms shared by a specific group of individuals. The way we behave and live in the society is influenced by our culture thus having a great impact in our personality development. This is evident with most people hailing from the same area have many similar personality traits (Kohler E, 2002). As a child I was naïve and always made several mistakes in life. Sometimes I would even try to do something I had been warned not to do just to know the reason for been denied that chance. Trusting individuals was a problem as the people I was open to were my parents and some close relatives. This trait has changed over time and nowadays I have close friends with whom I can share my troubles with within my age group. I have been able to establish strong intimate relationships and trust my partner. Another personality that has changed with time is ignorance to important issues at school and home too. This goes in hand with being more responsible. Joining school was hectic to me and didn’t like doing my assignments or taking responsibilities back at home. I felt this like a burden am not supposed to take care...
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...Introduction to Organizational Psychology Liz Warren University of Phoenix PSY/435 Amanda Major June 27, 2011 Organizational Psychology Organizational psychology is the empirical study of the human side of industries (Spector, 2008). The science of organizational psychology differs from other disciplines of psychology because it is not centered on the individual, but rather how the individual and work place affect each other. The evolution of organizational psychology provides insight into current methods used today in organizational structures. The actions recommended by organizational psychologists originate from research founded on the scientific method (Spector, 2008). The evidence and statistics obtained through rigorous scientific investigation cause organizational psychology to be a unique discipline. Evolution of Organizational Psychology Hugo Munsterberg and Walter Dill Scott are considered founders of organizational psychology as they were both experimental psychologists and professors who applied psychology to industrial problems (Spector, 2008). The investigation of organizational efficiency and job performance in the 1880’s led to Frederick W. Taylor’s scientific management theory, which inspired the segregated study of organizational psychology (McCarthy, 2002). Taylor is...
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...Shahira Turner BSHS /305 CLIENT PAPER 8-3-2014 Eric H. Erickson, a psychoanalyst and expert in adult development, designed the “eight stages of man” model. It is one of many perspectives that is used in human development (Erickson, 1963). (1) According to Erickson, during a person’s life span systemic changes will arise from the time of birth until death, and although we all go through the same developmental stages, individuals experience these stages in different ways. The development of man may be influenced by social context in our lives. Such as home, family and community or an individual may be influenced by personal characteristics of values, traits or childhood experiences. Traditional stages change as society changes and many problems that individuals experience are due to problems of living. But when it comes to individuals who have very serious problems that are not caused by problems of living, it is necessary to classify their problems into identification perspectives. The perspectives are situational, societal or environmental influences that require immediate action and may be long or short termed. Individuals can be subjected to a series of environmental difficulties of a natural disaster such as fire, flooding or earth quake, they may also be subjected to a societal influences such as being homeless due to loss of employment or they may suffer from situational influences of being a victim of a violent crime. Most individuals may have multiple problems and...
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...transformations in these countries? Did they manage to increase their citizens’ happiness in this process? To give an answer to these questions I used data from Candidate Countries Eurobarometer (2001-2004), Standard Eurobarometers (2005-2007), and World Bank Development Indicators. Developments in average national happiness have been compared with the economic (GDP, optimism concerning the level of living) and political (satisfaction with democracy) trends on the same time span. In all the studied societies, trends were positive after 2001. Eastern European countries showed higher increases in GNI per capita and also life satisfaction than in the rest of European Union. Those who started with lower levels increased more, strongly suggesting a possibility of convergence. A non-economic factor, satisfaction with democracy, mediates the influence of GNI on life satisfaction. Overall, access of Eastern European countries in European Union seems to be a success story, from both economic and non-economic points of view. However, the economic crisis may change the prognosis, raising the issue of sustainability of growth in happiness levels. Keywords: subjective well-being; economic development; Post-socialist countries; GDP JEL: D31, D60, I31, O52, P2 Ten of the post-communist countries entered EU in 2004 and 2007. Citizens of these states are the poorest and, with some exceptions, the unhappiest in the EU. Specialists vary according to the prospects...
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