Essays on Psycho

BYOD also commonly referred to as bring your own device refers to a policy where organizations allow employees to use their personally devices to access company information and applications. Keyes refers to the policy as a psycho-technical phenomenon in an attempt to understand the practical application of the concept psychologically. It help elaborate and analyze the social and economic problems that might be caused by BYOD policy (Keyes, 2013). Calling the idea a psycho-technical phenomenon help people understand the implication the policy can have on any organization. Psychological analysis of the policy is important as IT departments are being ...

Nantsupawat, A., Nantsupawat, R., Kulnaviktikul, W., & McHugh, M. D. (2015). Relationship between nurse staffing levels and nurse outcomes in community hospitals, Thailand. Nursing & health sciences, 17(1), 112-118. The study examines the relationship that exists between the staffing levels of nurses and the subsequent nurse outcomes whereby the study was conducted in various community hospitals in Thailand. According to the author understanding the various factors that influence nurse outcome especially job dissatisfaction as well as emotional exhaustion could enable policy makers as well as hospital administrators in developing strategies to enhance the satisfaction of nurses and minimize emotional exhaustion ...

Incorporating Professional Standards in Counseling

Incorporating Professional Standards in Counseling

Introduction

As an aspiring professional counselor, I am fully aware that my success in the practice totally depends on my ability to implement the profession’s standards for ethical behavior. The successful implementation of the standards depends on the incorporation of models for ethical behavior into counseling and psychotherapy, for example, Kitchener’s principle ethics model (Urofsky, Engels, & Engebretson, 2008, p. 67). The model was developed by Childress and Beauchamp, and it acts as the cornerstone for the development of the professional ethical codes for practicing counselors. The Psychotherapy and Counseling Federation of Australia (PACFA) ...

It is 1987 in New York City, and the audience is introduced to our main character, Patrick Bateman, who appears instantly as an intellectual, wealthy, young, playboy, who plays investment banker by day and serial killer by night. The dichotomy of this film is that the viewer is dealing with what seems to be an upper-class, possibly narcissistic, young man in the prime of his life with a beautiful fiancé and plenty of women willing to be with Patrick who do not acknowledge the engagement Patrick has with another woman. Then, on the other hand, you have a man ...

Child Labor

The child labor issue exists in the whole world, both in industrialized and in developing countries. Experience has shown that child labor causes serious and sometimes irreversible damage to the physical and psycho-social development of children. Consequently, their primary socialization can be considered as complete one. Mostly children, who are getting involved into gob routine, are the representatives of vulnerable social groups, low-income families or single-parent families, both in the countryside and in the city. In order to discuss this topic broadly, it is essential to focus on particular subfields as: culture of poverty, moral theories and sociology of ...

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Introduction

Adolescence is a developmental period of individuals aged 13-19, which has its own peculiarities to distinguish between childhood and adulthood. Adolescents’ brain is not fully matured and is still subject to rapid development, which explains specific changes in youths’ reflecting and behavior. Spear (2013) supports this idea by claiming that “adolescent-typical ways of thinking and behaving appear in part neurobiologically based” (p. 11). In this regard youths’ social life relies on their perception of self-identity formed through family relations and peer networks in school and out of school. ...

Bicycle Thieves, also referred to as The Bicycle Thief is a film that tells the story of a father seeking to find a bike that has been stolen throughout Rome. The film has often been considered to be one of the most well-respected in the neorealism genre. Specifically, because of its depiction of harsh realities of life post World War II, and its effects on the conditions and psyche of individuals. A horror thriller masterpiece, Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho is noted for its distinctive subject matter and for spawning what is considered to be an extremely successful subgenre of the ...

Inductive Thematic Analysis

Introduction Drug crimes are increasingly becoming a major concern on both local and global fronts. Current research (Braun and Clarke, 2012) suggests that the thematic analysis of important data sources such as sentencing remarks would facilitate the efficacy of available strategies in these crimes. The purpose of this assignment is to analyse the themes that comprise the societal understanding of the occurrence and penalties of drug-related crime. The researcher uses information from seven courtroom sentencing remarks from Adelaide, Southern Australia. This inductive thematic analysis identifies overarching themes that are evident across all seven documents. The themes include “gender and ...

Ageing and Mental Illness

The older members of the population are increasing, with recent indication that people who are over 60 years old are growing in number in the past years. This social phenomenon can be attributed to the advancement in medical technology that provided for the people’s health and well being. With better technology and medical attention, older people can enjoy their advanced years, and can still be valuable members of the society, not only in their capacity as family members but also as active contributors in the workforce. However, while there are older people who enjoy good health, there are ...

Research Methods Sp2016

Abstract The dominance of commercial technological innovation in the context of modern society has resulted in a form of technological dependence for some individuals, causing them to pay less regard to aspects of the physical world. Technological innovation has assumed a noteworthy role in the flow of our daily lives, such as through the methods we employ to maintain interpersonal connections. Numerous individuals are included in a matrix of connections facilitated by technological innovation and an increasingly digitalized culture; however, the vast amount of these affiliations can leave individuals the global community feeling subjectively void. The effects of technological ...

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Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) develops because of exposure to a traumatic experience. According to the Institute of Medicine (2012), the vital element of PTSD is the development of the characteristic symptoms that follow exposure to extreme traumatic stressors, including personal experiences. For an event to cause PTSD, it has should have had an actual or implied dire injury or near death experience to the victim. Such events could also threaten one’s physical and psychological integrity. The most common traumatic events happen during military combat, hostage situations, violent assault, torture, terrorist attacks, and disasters. While PSTD is most common ...

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Studies documenting substance abuse have shown that it is deadly. Studies done in these areas have shown a trend in the abuse of substance among the youth. Substances such as marijuana, alcohol and cannabis are continually being abused by the youth. Tobacco consumption by youth is yet to be mitigated. The government, has in some cases, not helped the situation but has served to escalate the crises by making potent substances available to users without regulation. The objectives of this research are to analyze the opinion of researchers I this field and their opinions on the matter at hand. ...

Introduction

Information, it is argued, is power. When patients are misinformed about chemotherapy handling, they imagine worst case scenarios; they expect over-blown worst case scenarios. A lot of side-effects are imagined and as a consequence, anxious patients undergo loss of control over their disease-causing psycho-social effects as hopelessness (Sauer & Voss, 2012). Furthermore, acute care nurse practitioner’s role is imperative in the management of psycho-education, imparting skills and cognitive resourcefulness required by patients during the crisis period. The quality of life, which is described as the general well-being with a strong relationship to the patient’s health perceptions and ability ...

Maslow proposed a theory of self-actualization, according to which the human individual maturity is reached in the implementation of the personal potential. Thus, personal growth and self-actualization are the criteria of mental health. Psycho-social stage accompanied by a crisis that is a turning point in human life arising as a result of reaching a certain level of psychological maturity. Any crisis is a challenge, leading the person to personal growth and overcoming life's obstacles. Specific person decides on the next phase of the life cycle for a given stage of development of evolutionary task. “We viewed personal growth in ...

Discussion of the crisis issues associated with the Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami Disaster in 2004

Management in crisis is a tough enough situation. However, the horrific onslaught of a suddenly unexpected tsunami literally crashing dramatically upon one’s doorstep is simply unthinkable. The inconceivable occurred in Indonesia, when the Aceh-stimulated earthquake stirred the violent killer waves in 2004 costing the lives of 127,000 people, roughly half a million injured – leaving behind potential scores of disease-prone epidemics and mourning of loved ones (Pascapurnama, Murakami, Chagan-Yasutan, Hattori, Sasaki & Egawa 2016). One international journalist and helper in the aftermath of the Indonesian Indian Ocean Earthquake Tsunami disaster, Bill Nicol, in his book Tsunami Chronicles, described the ...

In the automobile industry, there are several manufacturers of the different brands, makes and models of the vehicles used by almost anyone globally. Different people require different vehicles that suit their needs. These vehicles are brought for a purpose; depending on the consumer needs. This consumer needs vary geographically, demographically, psycho-graphically and in terms of customer behavior . Each of these factors can be broken down further into smaller segments. This is a diverse market with different needs and qualities. Marketing using the same strategy would be detrimental. A form of marketing therefore has to be devised to take advantage ...

The issue of feminism in the film industry is a common topic for controversial discussions. Many writers are more popular than others because of the ways in which feminism surfaces as the driving force behind their presentations. Feminism can be classified as a social movement that has created an enormous impact on culture of film, the theories of films and the critical reviews of films. A number of films represent the myths that reveal ideas on women and their femininity. In addition, there are films that speak to men and their masculinity. The issues of representation and spectatorship form ...

‘American Psycho’ and ‘The Killer Inside Me’ are often described as psychological dramas. People tend to like the suspense and the unsettlement that these movies cause. However, these movies also contain tons of blood, very visual violence against women and sexual abuse. Do these films appeal to our vicious side that we are not allowed to express because of the social and cultural norms? Are we still animals with the need for blood? Why do we get excited about something as disgusting and cruel as these films? It would have been expected to cause moral outrage but the films ...

A theory is a set of interrelated propositions that are used in guiding practice or explaining certain phenomena. Theories in the nursing profession play a crucial role in this regard. Theories help in explaining phenomena and organizing knowledge in the nursing practice. Additionally, theories help in predicting, explaining, prescribing and describing some aspects in the nursing profession. Through these roles, the theories provide guidance to the profession and help in improving practice and patient outcomes. This paper thus aims at describing, evaluating and discussing Katherine Kolcaba’s theory of comfort.

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The theory of comfort is a mid-range theory that ...