Consider sociocultural issues in a counselling case study. Introduction In this assignment I will provide a fictional case study of a counselling client with issues relating to fear and sadness and then consider how their individual problems might be located in the social context in which the clients are embedded. The case study will clearly focus on sociocultural issues‚ such as culture‚ race‚ gender‚ sexuality‚ etc. It will look at how useful it can be to recognise how important sociocultural issues
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CHEM 1660 BETTER LIVING THROUGH CHEMISTRY Part III Addiction Dr. Susan Y. LIANG Email: ytliang@hkbu.edu.hk Office: FSC 702B Opium – Catholicon or Toxin • Evidence suggests that more than 5‚000 years ago the properties of opium were known in the Euphrates River (幼发拉底河) delta. • Around 330 B. C.‚ Alexander the Great took opium to Persia and India‚ from where cultivation slowly spread eastward and reached China in about the 7th century (唐朝). 13th century‚ India The opium poppy
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Darlene Sledge Fundamentals Of Research Writing January 23‚ 2008 I. Introduction This qualitative research will investigate how addiction effects the psychological and physical functioning of daily life. Psychological functioning is the cognitive and behavioral characteristics of an individual and how they work. This research relates to counseling. The field of counseling looks at methods that will engage an individual with personal issues and how they cope on daily basis
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The sociocultural environment encapsulates demand and tastes‚ which vary with fashion‚ disposable income‚ and general changes‚ can again provide both opportunities and threats for particular companies (Thompson‚ 2002; Pearce and Robinson‚ 2005). Over-time most products change from being a novelty to a situation of market saturation‚ and as this happens pricing and promotion strategies have to change. Similarly‚ some products and services will sell around the world with little variation‚ but these
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these understandings on addiction to social care practice. The word “addict” originates from Roman law where an individual is compelled to his or her creditor place of payment of debt (Ross et al‚ 2010). As Dunnington states that addiction is defined a number of different ways. Addiction is defined as a “brain disease” personifies by “compulsive use of drugs” this definition comes from the Institute of Medicine (2011). The National Institute on Drug Abuse defines addiction as a “chronic‚ relapsing
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people who would say addiction is not a disease but a choice. Those people are looking at it in an object manner without even scrapping the surface of the true issue. Daniel Akst‚ a writer from New York’s Hudson Valley‚ wrote that‚ “Addiction is voluntary rather than compulsory” (Akst). While indeed the first act of engaging in drug use is voluntary the spiraling downward effect is caused by addiction taking over a person’s brain. Mr. Netherton implies in this statement‚ "Addiction is a crutch word that
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China is the most populous country in the world‚ with its population of 1.3 billion people making up more than one-fifth of the world’s total population. 20.4% of the population is under 15 years old‚ 71.7% is between 15 – 64 years old and 7.9% is above 65 years old based on the year 2007. The breakdown of male and female is shown in appendix 3. It is also one of the most densely populated countries‚ though inhabitants are unevenly distributed‚ with more in the east than in the west and more in rural
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mystery of addiction remains. Our forbears‚ scientists‚ professionals‚ user’s‚ family‚ friends and society in general still struggled to grasp concepts of addiction. What causes it? Is it inherited‚ psychological‚ a social
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To summarize‚ Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory is based on children’s learning and embedding upon their cultural environment. It’s central focus is the show of “information and cognitive skills from generation to generation” (Rathus (2016) pg. 238). In details‚ Vygotsky wants to focus on how the child interacts with adults can affect her cognitive skills. In this theory‚ there are two main concepts‚ which are the zone of proximal development (ZPD) and scaffolding. ZPD is referred to the amount of
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9. The Sociocultural Tradition Dr. Martin Morris‚ Communication Studies‚ Wilfrid Laurier University Saved on: 3/10/09 1:30 PM Printed on: 3/10/09 1:31 PM Introduction Reading 27. G.H. Mead‚ “The Social Foundations and Functions of Thought and Communication” The principle which I have suggested as basic to human social organization is that of communication involving participation in the other. This requires the appearance of the other in the self‚ the identification of the other with the
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