...Though it is very apparent how social media has provided a big impact in ways that benefits the people by means of networking , the more darker and cynical side to which social media brings still widely remains hidden under the cover for many people to see. Mental illnesses are one of the more closely related issues that arise among social media users that cause serious and to some cases even life-threatening problems. Moreover, with the age of technology reaching its prime allowing just about anybody with a gadget as small as a mobile smartphone with the capability of going online, the access to social media cannot as easily be prevented as one would think. With all of us being the human beings we are, influence is a weakness we all have...
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...In 2006, Megan Meir was the victim of cyber bullying which led to her suicide. The mother of a former friend of Megan created a fake social network account under the name of Josh to monitor Megan online. The mother became friends with Megan, but Megan only thought it was just a boy that she knew from school. After a while, everything went from sweet talk to verbal abuse. Terms such as" Megan is a slut. Megan is Fat" were being posted all over the social network by the mother. Devastated by all this bullying, Megan was found hung in her bedroom closet a few days before her fourteenth birthday. After the death of Megan, they found out it was the mother of her former friend who was behind this cyber bullying. Megan's Father, Ron Meir stated, "That's the biggest tragedy of this whole thing. An adult did this." Living in the 19th century, everything we do is revolved around the Internet. Nowadays more than 50% of people can’t go a few hours without going on the internet since they have developed smartphones that bring it right into the palm of our hands which makes it harder for parents to monitor their kid’s internet behaviors. Basically whatever you do is connected to the Internet, from talking on the phone, video chatting and texting. But most people do not realize that there are consequences, which relates to all of the above if not taken certain measures and precautions that would lessen the risk of such threats that might arise while using Internet. Don’t get me wrong, the...
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...It’s safe to say everyone wants a life similar to the ones of the characters on the popular television series Friends – close friends living together in the big city, enjoying life and experiencing the many new stages that come along with it. While a lifestyle similar to that is probable in our daily lives, one must realize the crucial effect childhood friendships have on their adult life and to their mind’s social and emotional development. In layman’s terms, without close friendships growing up, it is nearly impossible for an adult to obtain and flourish intimate friendships similar to those found on Friends. It is important for children to have interpersonal relationships with their peers so that they can develop emotional compatibility, volunteer intimacy with another person, and discover the significance of empathy and sympathy. The first reason friendships are crucial among children is because it allows them to develop and share emotional compatibility. It is difficult for a teenager to identify with a young child in the same way that it is difficult for an adult to relate with a teenager; differences in knowledge, maturity, and life experience create a hindrance, a hypothetical brick wall, between the two people that leads to a lack of emotional compatibility. However, when children of the same age interact with one another, they have mutual feelings, which allow them to effortlessly understand one another’s reality. While they might not sit around and have in-depth discussions...
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...family members | 6 | b) The story from the vantage point of the family position in the family life cycle | 7 | 4. Question 4: First-order cybernetic description | 9 | 5. Question 5: Second-order cybernetic description | 12 | 6. Reference | 15 | Ecosystemic Assignment no: 3 PYC4808 UNIQUE NO: 536936 QUESTION 1 Three-generational genogram of the Bird family Mavis’ stepmom Mavis’ stepmom John’s mom John’s mom Family A (John’s family) Family B(Mavis’s family) Mavis’s father Mavis’s father Mavis’s mom Mavis’s mom ? ? John’s father John’s father Alex Alex ? ? B.F’ Mom B.F’ Mom S S B2 B2 Alexandra (John' stepbrother Alexandra (John' stepbrother John (45yrs) John (45yrs) B3 B3 B.F B.F Mavis (42) Mavis (42) Howard (50yrs) Howard (50yrs) Weak relationship April (15yrs) April (15yrs) KEY : Male: Female: Marriage: Divorce: Relationship abuse: Moved to: Foster home: S: Mavis’s sister B1: Mavis’s brother number 1 B2: Mavis’s brother number 2 B.F: Mavis’s best friend Mavis’s deceased friend : B.F mom : Best friend’s mom Weak relationship: _ _ _ Affected: alcoholic: QUESTION 2 Ecomap of the Bird family John’s dad John’s dad Mavis’s brother Mavis’s brother Mavis’s dad Mavis’s dad Mavis’s stepmom Mavis’s stepmom John’s stepdad John’s stepdad Mavis’s best friend Mavis’s best friend John’s stepbrother John’s stepbrother Mavis’s sisiter Mavis’s sisiter Mavis’s mom ...
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...Social Development Research Psy/202 August 28, 2013 The article that I chose is titled: What’s going on with young people today? I chose this article because it provided an interesting theory of how sociological changes have influenced and delayed the transition into adulthood. The article begins with explaining the lengthening process to adulthood over the past several decades, and what challenges the youth of today face transitioning into adulthood, noting that these challenges change to meet the social realities of the era. For example it was not uncommon for youth to leave home in the fifties at a young age to pursue work opportunities while they were plentiful. It was considered normal to encourage young adults to do so and social expectations of the time reinforced that need. This transition soon fell by the way side when economic and employment uncertainties arose in the seventies leaving young adults to reconsider their living arrangements, educational investments, and family formation. Next the article took a look at changes in the core timing shifts in the new transition that lengthens the time it takes for youth of today to leave home, complete school, enter the workforce, marry and have children. The authors Settersten and Ray go on to state that the stress of today’s new agenda for attaining independence leaves many families overburdened as they support their children for extended periods of time...
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...Grown-Up Adolescent Adolescence can be described as a period during which a young person develops from a child into an adult. This period can be a time of both disorientation and discovery. During this transitional period, many issues of self-identity and self-independence arise where they have to make tough choices regarding social life, sexuality, etc. Most of the time, teenagers want to surpass this period quickly and want to be an adult; nonetheless, they are unware of the responsibilities that come with being an adult. A prime example is the protagonist, Connie, in Joyce Carol Oates’ short story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” in which Connie wants to be a grown-up without facing responsibilities that emerge during adulthood. Through the character of Connie in the short story, Oates explores how the archetype Over-Reacher recurs throughout time....
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...theories according to B.F Skinner, Mccrae & Costa and Carl Rogers compliment the idea that chronic illness will impact the individual’s ability to keep a positive self-esteem and develop socially and autonomously through adolescents. We will look into the specific factors that are impacted by chronic illness’, how exactly they relate to the responses of adolescent individual, how it affects their relationships with families and medical staff, and identify ways in which we can promote positive development despite the burden of a wide range of chronic illness’. For Adolescents and young adults, gaining autonomy is essential which is imposed while enduring management of a chronic illness. Obviously with illness’ such as cancer, Sickle cell disease, Cystic Fibrosis and asthma; the vulnerability involved with daily activities directly affect ones confidence in behaving in line with social norms. As S.Morgan states these chronic illnesses ‘require constant monitoring and strict adherence to a medical regimen, with little room for the risky behaviors and experimentation that is often a part of peer relationships at this stage’ (Morgan, Davies, Palmer, & Plaster, 2010; Sawyer, Drew, & Duncan, 2007). This peer relationship stage is crucial in...
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...December 3, 2013 Instructor Candice Murray Title: Emotional Challenges are the Biggest Challenges Youngest Adults Face Today A. General Purpose: To inform B. Specific Purpose: To inform my audience about the causes and effects of the most prominent emotional challenges young adult face. C. Central Idea: To inform my audience about the causes and effects of the most prominent emotional challenges/problems young adults face by first looking at single households, by second, reflecting on low self esteem due to bullying and certain environmental factors and by third, looking at the trying time youth have in forming their own identity and purpose in life despite outward pressures. I. Introduction A. Growing up in a single parent household has been found to cause emotional challenges for young adults. B. Having low self esteem due to the environment and/or bullying by peers is also a source of the emotional challenges that young adults face. C. Discovering who they are, where they want to go in life, and having the personal strength of character to make that certain dream a reality in a world of adult pressures/expectations and peer pressure is a turbulent process that has shown to be an emotional challenge for young adults. II. Body of Presentation A. Growing up in a single parent household has been found to cause emotional challenges for young adults. 1. About 6 out of 10 children who live with only their mother are living near or below the ...
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...different stages of love during early and middle adulthood described by. Psychologist Elaine Hatfield: there is compassionate love and passionate love. Compassionate love involves feelings of mutual respect, trust and affection, while passionate love involves intense feelings and sexual attraction. The Evolution of Social and Intimate Relationships Relationships during early adulthood can be a series of emotional and social changes. It often involves balancing intimacy and commitment with independence and freedom. According to Erikson, young adults face the controversy between intimacy and isolation. To solve this conflict, the individual wants to maintain a sense of independence while still having intimacy. A major task in early adulthood is to find a partner that is similar in age, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, education, and other attributes. Romantic love is found but has strong components of sexuality and infatuation, sexual desire is the most important ingredient. As for friendships, women have more close friends and the friendships involve more self-disclosure and an exchange of mutual support. Friendships are very important during this time of life....
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...person’s ability to function in daily life. Many have tried to figure out the reasons for mental illnesses. All of these reasons have been looked at and thought of for thousands of years. The biological perspective views mental illness as a bodily process. Where as the psychological perspectives think the role of a person’s upbringing and environment are causes for mental illnesses. Researchers estimate that about 24 percent of people over eighteen in the United States suffer from some sort of common mental illness, such as depression and phobias. Studies have also shown that 2.6 percent of adults in the United States suffer from some sort of severe form of mental illness, such as schizophrenia, panic disorders, or bipolar disorders. Younger people also suffer from mental illnesses the same way that adults do. 14 to 20 percent of individuals under the age of eighteen suffer from a case of mental illness. Studies show that 9 to 13 percent of children between the ages of nine and seventeen suffer from a serious emotional disturbances, that disrupts the child’s daily life. Major depression is a severe disorder. Symptoms include withdraw from family and/or friends, weight loss, sleeping problems, frequent crying, fleeing helpless, delusions, and hallucinations. This disease is usually diagnosed during adolescence; parents may notice grades dropping, poor self-image, troubled social relations, and suicidal acts. ...
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...Charlene Vazquez Comm11 4-16-18 How online identities are influenced by online anonymity Social media is considered an interaction between groups or individuals that share common or new ideas amongst people worldwide. There is a significant impact of social networks on young people. Children are being manipulated by networking sites such as Facebook, accessing them through via cellphones that has become the most important thing in their lives. By this method this form of communicating is wildly spread amongst peers, parents and others. There is less utilization on a face to face conversation which lacks interpersonal skills. So now that we know what social media is, Do you know who you are? Do you want to be someone your not? Do live a life that is not yours? Are you a person who shares your reality? If you have answers for these questions then you should become aware of what identity management is. Identity management according to article (putting your best cyber face forward by Stephanie Rosenbloom Jan. 3, 2008) is more like impression management where people either pick the image they want to be or have a certain audience they feel the need to entertain. Where young adults and even teenagers are getting the wrong message. It’s really not about all fun and games and just looking good or better than your friend it is more deep as it impacting your future such as getting a job or just maintenance of your image, Since you still are held up to a conservativeness for...
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...understands the changes that occur in development. Freud and Piaget have very different theories of lifespan development. Freud’s theory is a basis of id, ego, and superego, whereas Piaget’s is a cognitive development that occurs over a person’s lifetime. Nature and Nurture are more than perspectives in lifespan development they influence how and who a person will be. Lifespan development is the time from conception to death as a person develops and grows; the perspective in relationship to human development is lifelong, and theories of lifespan development can be seen in Freud, and Piaget, while the influences of a person life is nature and nurture. What is Lifespan Development A person’s lifespan begins as a fetus and as it develops and grows for nine months in the womb becoming a person either male or female will continue through stages in a his or her life. The study of human development is a science seeking to understand how humans change over their lifetime (Berger, 2008). The changes a person goes through as he or she grows can be linear-gradual, predictable, steady, but normally they are none of these. The common stages are birth, infancy, adolescence, adulthood, old age, and the ending death. To define lifespan development is also to mention that humans in their lifetime learn to communicate, to work, love, learn from relationships. All of these developments go into the perspective of development. Lifespan Perspective of Development Lifespan perspective is in...
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...to be transformed into the sex object/pin-up girl to resemble her counterparts in the movie. One being her best friend Rhi and the other Marianne, both whom which throughout the entire movie are always in very short skirts and/or extremely revealing tops, especially Rhiannon. Nonetheless, the one normal, dressing female in the movie, Olive, is then in turn forced and presented as a skank, a whore, and a home wrecker. Although one of the central themes of the movie is the loss of virginity, there are no sex scenes and it does displays a witty, contemporary, modern day spin on Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic novel, The Scarlet Letter. Moreover, the message depicted throughout the movie is that an innocent, little white lie can get blown out of proportion and that teenagers in general are concerned of how others perceive them in their day to day lives. The movie starts off with Olive being portrayed as a virginal, down to earth, average high school student with no cares in the world but is hastily transformed into the slutty female character very commonly used throughout Hollywood films to depict females nowadays. When a little white lie about losing her virginity meant for her best friends ears only gets out of hand and spreads across campus like wild fire, Olive's persona is transformed into the school whore and is labeled as "easy". With that, her quiet innocent life is altered and takes a turn for the worse. Even though this is just another teen movie representing Hollywood...
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...longer a scary word," says Ottawa-based sex therapist Sue McGarvie, "It's been normalized." Teen pregnancy is up partly because there is less of a stigma associated with teen pregnancy since there is more of a “cultural permission” to be a younger mother. The rise is also partly due to the portrayal of celebrity teens and television shows such as “16 and Pregnant,” which give teens the idea that “having a baby is the new handbag.” As the rise of teen pregnancy shows rise, so do the teen pregnancies in America. It is saddening to watch the young women and men on these shows idolized and being made to be celebrities of our society. Though MTV holds to the fact that they are trying to expose the struggles of teenage sex, in reality, they are making these too young mother and fathers to be stars. When the victims of not practicing safe sex are plastered across the cover of People, for their "hardships," the reverse effect is given. These television shows give teenagers the idea that they could become famous for getting pregnant while glamorizing teen pregnancy, and it falsely portrays how teen pregnancy really is . 16 and pregnant is a show that airs on MTV every week. It shows the emotional journey of pregnant 16 year olds from the doctor’s appointments to fights with the baby’s daddies. Dr.Drew helps the world get an eye opening look into the real issues of being a teen parent.The show normally starts out in the girls last two months of the pregnancy...
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...Socialization (or socialisation) is a term used by sociologists, social psychologists, anthropologists, political scientists and educationalists to refer to the lifelong process of inheriting and disseminating norms, customs and ideologies, providing an individual with the skills and habits necessary for participating within his or her own society. Socialization is thus ‘the means by which social and cultural continuity are attained’.[1][2] Socialization describes a process which may lead to desirable, or 'moral', outcomes. Individual views on certain issues, such as race or economics, may be socialized (and to that extent normalized) within a society. Many socio-political theories postulate that socialization provides only a partial explanation for human beliefs and behaviors, maintaining that agents are not 'blank slates' predetermined by their environment.[3] Scientific research provides some evidence that people might be shaped by both social influences and genes.[4][5][6][7] Genetic studies have shown that a person's environment interacts with his or her genotype to influence behavioral outcomes[8]. | | edit] Theories Socialization is the means by which human infants begin to acquire the skills necessary to perform as a functioning member of their society, and is the most influential learning process one can experience.[9] Unlike other living species, whose behavior is biologically set, humans need social experiences to learn their culture and to survive.[10] Although...
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