A person who has a borderline personality disorder is often insecure of himself. His self-identity or self-image often changes rapidly. He may view himself as evil, or sometimes feel like he does not exist at all. This unstable self-image may lead to frequent shifts in jobs and friendships, and changes in values and goals. A borderline personality disorder can affect personal relationships because it can make you idealize someone at one moment and then dramatically swing to hatred over minor misunderstandings.
Social Competence: Childhood to Adolescence Social competence is defined as “the ability to achieve personal goals in social interaction while simultaneously maintaining positive relationships with others over time and across situations” (Rubin & Rose-Krasnor, 1992). It does not typically emerge fully until a later age meaning immaturity is often displayed by young children, but they also have the capability to display maturity. Maturity or immaturity can be observed through specific characteristics such as emotional regulation, perspective taking, distributive justice, displaying of empathy, communicating with peers, social problem solving, prosocial behavior, and gender-role stereotyping from an early age and serve as indicators for adolescent social competence. Summary Emotional Regulation One characteristic of a socially competent adolescent is the capability for emotional regulation. Emotional regulation is when a person utilizes strategies “to adjust the intensity or duration of [their] emotional reactions to a comfortable level so [they] can accomplish goals” (Berk, 2009, p. 407).
Depression in Older Adults Anjeli Patel ORG 6300 - Instructor: Kristin Ballard July 4th, 2011 Depression in Older Adults Personalities consist of many different characteristics that make up our individuality and dictate how we will interact with our environment and the people in it. In older adults, personalities tend to become more agreeable and open. Nevertheless, although older adults may appear to be happier than younger adults are, they still have to face aging. They could potentially have more health problems. They will have to retire from their jobs, which could result in the loss of social contacts.
Generalized Anxiety Disorder BEH/225 All of us worry about things occasionally. Financial stress, illness, or loss of a spouse can cause us to fear the unknown. There are aspects of life that we cannot always control, and that in itself can be a scary thought. Sometimes, it may feel like the “what ifs” of life, the things we cannot control, begin to consume our thoughts. Most of us may feel this way periodically, when the fear or worry is justified.
Negative stereotypes can have harmful consequences for the quality of life of older adults and can also result in a major loss to society. With increases in life expectancy as well as reduced infirmity, many adults are aging well, but negative stereotypes of aging may put society at risk for losing the contributions of these vital and knowledgeable people. The potential individual and social effects underscore the need to understand the content of aging stereotypes in terms of their accuracy and applications. It is especially important to understand how negative stereotypes exacerbate poor performance in areas in which decline is real. That is, beliefs that memory is bad in old age can reduce motivation when increased motivation is needed
A person may have to get a new job or quit work altogether. The sufferer may also have to pay for some kind of care which they might need. The issue of work needs to be discussed with the employer so he or she can acknowledge the difficulties which the sufferer faces on a daily bases. Multiple Sclerosis can impair the victim both physically and mentally. It can be more daunting and self-esteem crushing that a person has the possibility of losing their ability to function independently as a result of an illness that affects their mind.
This essay is going to discuss what is meant by the term social context and how society today and its services benefit families in this term. It will identify relevant skills, principles approaches to the assessment process, explore the stages of this process and how these key services and findings from the article will help benefit the family in a social context. It will explore the findings of Morawska et al 2011 on his research on parenting programmes and culturally diverse families and if the findings from his research were valid. The term social context refers to the social and physical setting in which people live in or where something develops. This can include the culture in which an individual lived or was educated in as well as people or organisations they interact with.
Ageism is the practice of prejudice and discrimination against older adults. Ageism influences the presence of diversity because older individuals in career fields can lose their jobs or be replaced with people that are younger, cheaper, and may have updated knowledge older individuals don’t possess. For example, we are in a technology driven world older career individuals would have to learn and adapt to the changing technology. The loss of a job would also mean the loss of many benefits such as health insurance. Finding affordable health insurance is much harder when you are older due to pre-existing conditions or lifestyle habits.
This uncertainty and instability the world has to offer will cause many to stumble and relapse and their hope for a better way of life shattered. Recovery homes or sober living houses (SLH’s) as also referred to, are a solution to help individuals transition successfully back into the community. This paper will provide characteristics of individuals whom are addicted, address issues of lack of funding for treatment facilities, and discuss the necessity for recovery homes in communities as a solution to relapse prevention to help promote the
These alternatives may be work, personal beliefs, values, love and those with the economic resources can explore alternatives in education. However in trying out all the possibilities, young people may change career paths, study and work part time, or interrupt study to travel. As a result of these experiences, young people’s attitudes and values broaden. Being exposed to multiple perspectives encourages development of a more complex self-concept that includes awareness of their own changing traits and values over time and enhanced self-esteem. Together, these changes contribute to advances in one’s identity.