...Fetal Well –being High risk pregnancy not only place mother at danger but also fetus requires close monitoring as well. Maternal with high risk pregnancies increases the rate of fetal morbidity and mortality. It is very crucial to monitor for fetal well-being when maternal is prone to have high risk pregnancy. For example, the gestational age is expected to be smaller for a maternal with preeclampsia. This is directly related to fetal hypoxia and malnutrition, due to maternal vasospasm and hypovolemia. In some cases it may result in premature birth (London, Ladewing, Ball, & Binder 2007). Other conditions that are considered maternal with high risk pregnancy include maternal age less than 16 or greater 35, chronic illness such as diabetes, hypertension, and heart disease etc. The purpose of fetal monitoring is early detection of a fetal at risk which may require an early intervention for maternal and fetal safety. Fetal monitoring is one way of testing fetal well-being as defined by London et al. (2007) as, “Clinicians now generally agree that vigorous fetal activity provides reassurance of fetal well-being and that marked decreased in activity or cessation of movement may indicate possible fetal compromise (or even death) requiring immediate follow up” (p.294). The purpose of fetal monitoring is to prevent injury of the fetus from impaired oxygenation. It is very important to evaluate well-being, maturation and size of the fetus for planning the timing of the birth...
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...Basic concepts in Positive Psychology ‘Subjective well-being’ is basically how people feel about their life and the quality of it. It is a mixture of a person’s feelings and emotions aligned with how that person feels about where they are in life. Most people have an ideal of where they want their life to be and what they want to accomplish. ‘Subjective well-being’ is a combination of affect balance, which has to do with emotions, feelings, and moods and life satisfaction, the way we feel about the quality of our life and the things we have accomplished. This is measured by individuals being honest in tests, studies, and surveys. The only way to judge one’s ‘subjective well-being’ is to find out from that person and ask them the questions needed. I feel that having a machine that causes us to always be happy no matter what the situation is would make us inhuman. This ideal of happiness would fall under the hedonic concept of happiness. This would cause people to have little regard to what is going on around them. You would have no sadness, fear, frustration, and anger which would be great for a while, but we would lose our humanity. The eudaimonic concept of happiness comes from within us. It is a sense of happiness and fulfillment by what we accomplish in life. Things like having a good job, family, reaching goals we have set for ourselves, having a plan for our life and achieving what we want through hard work. There are days I would love to be hooked up to an ‘experience...
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...This essay will define stress and stressors. It will also explain the how stress can affect an individuals and outline and evaluate the at least two models of stress. It will explore how stress can be measured and outline and evaluate two models of stress and stressors. Stress is a pressure or force exerted on an object according to engineers and physicians (Gross r,Mcilveen r and Cooligan2000). Lazarus and folkman (1984) define stress as “a pattern of negative physiological states and psychological response occurring in a situation where people perceive threats to their well-being which they may be unable to meet” (Grossr,Mcilveen r and Cooligan 2000). There are different views of stress. Stress as a “stimulus” which means it is applied to the person or stressor and it is in the environment. This relates to the engineering model of stress identified by Cox (1978)(blackboard).secondly stress is seen as a “response”, the body identifies stress as a reaction made within the body(Blackboard).Selye 1956 defines stress as “the non-specific response of the body to any demands made upon it” this relates to the physiological model of stress(Blackboard). Finally stress is viewed as an interaction, in this view stress is seen as a transaction between environment and the individual and this relates to the “transactional model of stress” (Blackboard). The ability to cope with stress and the meaning people give to stressors will define the stress experienced (Blackboard).How people react...
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...Gratitude and Well-Being Philip C. Watkins Eastern Washington University Content This chapter attempts to review the research that speaks to the relationship between gratitude and well-being. Considerable evidence shows that gratitude is associated with emotional and social well-being, and experimental work has provided promising evidence that gratitude causes enhancements in well-being. I propose that gratitude supports well-being because it amplifies the good in one’s life. Gratitude and Well-Being Gratitude is the most pleasant of virtues, though not the easiest…. Gratitude is a mystery, not because of the pleasure it affords us but because of the obstacles we must overcome to feel it. It is the most pleasant of virtues and the most virtuous of pleasures. -Comte-Sponville (2002), p. 132 At a recent convention a colleague asked me, “Why is gratitude so great?” His question came about while discussing the many virtues that seem to result from gratitude (Watkins, 2004; Watkins, Van Gelder & Frias, 2009; Wood, Froh & Geraghty, 2010). In this chapter I will seek to answer this important question. In pursuing this goal I will first attempt to define gratitude and I will present several ways of assessing this emotion and virtue. I will then review the research that speaks to the issue of whether gratitude is all that “great.” Third, I will explore the “how” of gratitude; I will suggest several mechanisms that might help explain how gratitude...
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...Living a Satisfying Life: Does Meaning in Life and Subjective Well-Being Play a Role? Lakeya Keys St. Leo University Fundamentals of Psychology/PSY 161 February 24, 2013 Dr. Shannon Farris Abstract In this paper, I will review an article done on the study of subjective well-being and its relationship with meaning in life, and if having these two things lead to a more satisfying life. In this study, the researchers employed a descriptive-predictive design in order to measure the correlation between the two variables. Researchers studied nine hundred and sixty nine college students, from different colleges in the Philippines. Three measures were administered to the students: the Meaning of Life Questionnaire, Satisfaction with life scale, and the Positive Affect and Negative Affect Scale, to aid in the study. The results of this study show a correlation between meaning in life and subjective well-being. The positive relationship between these two variables, produced and overall satisfaction in living. Living a Satisfying Life: Does Meaning in Life and Subjective Well-Being Play a Role? College students run into many challenges in their everyday life. The pressures of maintaining good grades, keeping up with their social calendars, studying, and other responsibilities begin to pile up. By conducting this study, researchers were able to conclude, that by having meaning in life, students were overall satisfied with their lives. (Santos, Margramo Jr., Ouan Jr., Paat, Barnachea)...
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...CAREGIVERS AND THEIR WELL BEING Organization: Topical General Purpose: To inform Specific purpose: I would like to inform my audience what it involves to be a caregiver and the affects on their quality of life. Central Idea: To really understand the needs of a caregiver and the affects of their loved ones trauma on their quality of life, we must learn the role of the caregiver, the impact the trauma has on their lives, and the resources out there to help prevent a diminished quality of life. Introduction I. I. Attention Getter: I remember the day I got the news about my husband’s injuries. All I could think was “is he alive? Will he be ok? What can I do to help him get back on his feet?” Nothing prepared me for what would follow or how my life would take a backseat. II. II. Relevance: According to the Family Caregiver Allegiance, evidence shows that most caregivers are ill prepared for their role and provide care with little or no support, while suffering from poor health themselves.1 III. III. Credibility: As a caregiver myself, I have learned to readjust to the new life my husband and I have acquired. With help, I’ve realized how much of the tragedy had affected me and my health and the necessary steps to take and better myself so I can continue to provide him quality care. IV. IV. Central Idea: To really understand the needs of a caregiver and the affects of their loved ones trauma on their quality of life, we must learn the role of the caregiver, the impact the...
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...A centre for the homeless: Can I stay in, or return to, my home? It is important to check whether you have the right to remain in your home. This may be the case if your landlord tries to evict you without following the correct legal procedure or after a relationship breakdown. Even if you have already left, you may be able to return if you still have the right to live there. If you leave your accommodation when you don't have to, or do not return when you have the right to, it could affect any right you may have to get help from the council. Try to get advice before leaving, if possible. Back to top Can the housing department help me? Local councils have specific legal duties towards homeless people. To find out what sort of help you might be entitled to, use our emergency housing rights checker. If any person who is homeless or threatened with homelessness approaches the council for help, it has to provide them with advice and assistance. Some people are also entitled to accommodation from the local council. You are entitled to emergency accommodation if the council believes you fit certain legal criteria. To meet these you must be: * eligible for assistance * legally classed as homeless * in priority need. Each of these terms has a special legal meaning. If you are aged 16 or 17, you are normally entitled to housing and support from social services. In most cases it will be social services that have to take responsibility for finding you somewhere to live...
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...The Holocaust 1933 What is a Holocaust? Holocaust is a Greek word that means to “sacrifice by fire.” In 1933 the ruler Adolf Hitler came in power of Germany, and formed a Nazi Party and the Holocaust began. Adolf Hitler had brainwashed many of his German followers into believing that they were superior and the Jews people and others were inferior race of people. During the course of time the Nazi’s hunted out with prosecution and killed over six millions of people not only the Jews, but also the Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and other Germans that were physically and mentally disabled. Over a period of time the Nazi Party spread amongst the rest of Europe and other countries. Many prisoners of war were murdered or died of starvation, disease, neglect, or maltreatment. Later, the Nazi regime established concentrated camps and ghettos for the prisoners. The reasons for the concentrated camps and the ghettos were to monitor and control the Jewish population. Many were exploiting into forced labor camps. During the invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, the Order Police officials moved behind Germany lines to carry out and mass killing against Jews, Roma, and Soviet state authorities were carried out. The mass killing killed over a million Jewish men, women, and children. In conclusion, the outcome of the Holocaust left many people died and unaccounted. Many of the displaced survivors 700,000 were relocated in Israel, 136,000 Jewish were moved to Europe...
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...Morals and Well Being Consequentialism is the belief that the results of one’s behavior are the ultimate basis for any judgment between the rightness and wrongness of that behavior. A consequentialist believes that a great outcome or consequence is based on a morally right act. Consequentialism is often described in the English saying, as “the ends justify the means,” which means that is an aspiration is morally significant, any approach to succeed is acceptable. Social contract theory is based on the idea that moral or political obligations are dependent on an agreement between them to create the society that they live. The theory highlights how men live in a state of nature that is not ideal. However, in order to improve lifestyles men...
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...Income Inequality and Economic Well Being Income inequality is prevalent in the entire economic global economy with its effects clearly visible in form of differences in pay scales, distribution per household etc. The economic well-being is not measured in the terms of income alone, but also by other factors such as satisfaction levels, education standards, quality of life etc contribute towards well-being. The causes of the income inequality broadly fall into two categories: the market forces and the institutional forces. The market forces includes the technological advances and the increased trade, making the highly educated and more skill work force more productive thus increasing their wages whereas the institutional forces like deregulation leading to decline of unions and stagnation in the minimum wage in the recent years. Despite the fact that the level of income distribution has become skewed over the decade, the quality of life, due to various advancements has improved. Better quality products can be purchased at lower prices, which in-turn has improved the standard of living over the past decade. It is a common fact that the richer are happier than the poor. But well being is a matter of perception as well. People asses their well being by comparing their past and current circumstances, and by comparing their current standard with that of others. The Easterlin Paradox, which was developed by Richard Easterlin,, states that “although at some point in time richer...
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...Health and Social Care Activities for health and well being Introduction The unit requires me to manage an activity in a health and social care environment which will benefit an individual or a small group of service users, the activity will allow me to work on my communication skills with contrasting age groups. With the activities I have designed I would have to take into account the physical, intellectual, social and emotional side of each child. For this I will be visiting Woodend Preschool where I will be holding an activity to evaluate the children's skills and assessing how well we communicate between each other, by the way our body language comes across. Before making my final decision about the activity, I will have to take into consideration the skills each child has, the facilities, safety implications, equipment and time. Also I have to plan, improve and evaluate my activity; I have also made samples for each of my activities. The preschool and early school years are also full of changes, from three to five the child’s motor skills, language, thinking and social development change dramatically. A01- Suitable Activities and Reasons for Choice I have created a range of activities that would be suitable for Pre-schoolers aged between three to four, at this point in their life the child's development is important, it is a time where the child’s world will be dominated by fantasy and vivid imagination. Hopefully the children will be able move around confidently...
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...The Wellbeing of Counseling Professionals Mariah Shields Bolf Liberty University Abstract The of this intention paper is to help shed light on the issues that can affect a counselor’s wellbeing and impair their ability to counsel clients. When dealing with clients who have experienced sever traumatic life experiences counseling professionals can begin to face emotional issues of their own. Understanding and recognizing how this happens, why it happens and ways to effectively combat it when it does are an important aspect of being a professional counselor. The Wellbeing of Counseling Professionals Pray, eat right, exercise, get plenty of sleep, take time for yourself and talk to someone. Six common and well know key pieces to dealing with the daily struggles of life, they help control stress and reduce anxiety. But what if you are the one that people turn to when they need to talk, to share distressing life experiences and are seeking understanding and compassion. Caring for the needs of others can quickly over shadow the needs of caring for ones self, what are the consequences of this and how can we as counselors maintain healthy lives so that we may serve others to the best of our abilities. In order for a counselor to be effective in the help that they give to their clients they must offer a more vulnerable side of themselves during a session. This is extremely important in helping the client feel safe and allows them to see the counselor as someone...
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...The Overall Well Being of Children LeTeya M. Scott HS5318: Scope of Human Services Capella University TABLE OF CONTENTS Contents of Paper 3-9 References 10-12 The topic of Child Welfare has a plethora of issues and problems that can be addressed to better serve the victims and families. In the Child Welfare profession, one of the biggest misconceptions is the agency wants to permanently remove children from their families and because of this many times Child Welfare workers receives constant ridicule and backlash for carrying out their job duties. In order to properly protect children, Child Welfare workers require a substantial amount of support from other local agencies, state and federal governments. Often in time, when working with families dealing with maltreatment, the individual committing the maltreatment has no idea that what they did was wrong. It is during the removal of the victim(s) and the court hearings where the perpetrator gains insight on what was wrong. In some situations, maltreating parents and guardians simply need help with learning how to cope differently with what is sometimes determined to be misguided anger. Research shows that if a parent or guardian has maltreated a child in the past they are likely to continue the maltreatment if there is no form of intervention and parents or guardians who were maltreated against as a child are likely to maltreat against a child. In the grand scheme of things, if there were programs geared to help...
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...Partnership Patterns: Instability of an Adolescent’s Well-Being Brooke Ayo South Louisiana Community College Review of the Partnership Patterns: Instability of an Adolescent’s Well-Being Heather J. Bachman University of Pittsburgh The article I chose to research, Low-Income Mothers’ Patterns of Partnership Instability and Adolescents’ Socio-emotional Well-Being, is an excerpt from the Journal of Family Psychology. This article was written and published online on February 27, 2012 by Heather J. Bachman and Rebekah Levine Coley. The article researches and summarizes how being a low-income mother with an instable partnership truly affects an adolescent’s well-being and mindset as he or she grows older. This study is described as an investigation of “the association of family structure and maternal partnership instability patterns with adolescents’ behavioral and emotion well-being among urban low-income families” (Bachman, p263). Being born and raised in a broken family with an instable income really takes a toll on adolescents. I, personally, can say I know what it is like to be in this situation. Ever since 1980, many families in the United States have experienced a massive change in the structure and stability of family structures (Bachman, pg 263). The research done for this article is on how adolescents act out within different family types. For example, are teenagers more affected by being raised by a single parent rather than both parents...
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...earlier stage should be aborted. It results that the existence of one person should counted as overpopulation, and it is good for human to extinct. In the introduction, Benatar first claims that his argument can be applied to all sentient beings, but his focus will be on humans. In the part subtitled “Who is so lucky”, Freud's claim that there is no good or best for the non-existent people elicits the 'non-identity' problem, which will later be solved. By speaking about the 'never-existent' which refers to nothing, Benatar is using this expression as a convenient term to mean those possible but non-actual beings. In Chapter 2, Benatar firstly claims that the expression 'a life worth living' should be specified as either 'a life worth starting' or 'a life worth continuing'. Then he tries to explain why coming into existence is always a harm by the asymmetry of pleasure and pain: (1) the presence of pain is bad, (2) the presence of pleasure is good, (3) the absence of pain is good, (4) the absence of pleasure is not bad unless it implies a deprivation. The first two points are evident, but (3) and (4) are controversial. The 'non-identity' problem can be raised against (3), since (3) can be interpreted as the absence of pain is good for the nonexistent being. Benatar replies that (3) claims that “this absence is good when judged in terms of the interests of the person who would otherwise have existed” (2006: 31). However, this reply is still problematic since it implies a...
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