addiction and compulsion are ambiguous at present‚ mental health practitioners commonly use the terms to describe a “lack of control over erotic impulses”. So defined‚ sex addicts or sexual compulsives are people who feel driven to engage frequently in nonnormative sex‚ often with destructive consequences for their intimate relationships and occupational roles. Mental health professionals differ‚ however‚ in how they conceptualize a lack of control over erotic impulses. Some classify it as an addiction
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Professional Ethics “Nurses represent the largest group of health care professionals” (Sarikonda-Woitas & Robinson‚ 2002‚ p. 72). Professional nurses are accountable for his or her ethical conduct. Medical professionals have a legal and ethical responsibility to deliver safe‚ quality care taking into account the patients’ individual needs and allowing self-determination. The nursing codes of ethics are formal statements guiding professional conduct and informing the public of the nursing professions
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pap1639x_ch01.qxd 5/22/02 8:25 PART ONE Page 2 About Child Development As you reenter the realm of childhood‚ this time with an adult’s eyes‚ Part I of this book can serve as a map or guide. It traces routes that investigators have followed in the quest for information about what makes children grow up the way they do‚ presents routes for studying child development‚ points out the main directions students of development follow today‚ and poses questions about the best way to
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different factors‚ such as age‚ culture‚ and certain life events. Rita comes from a working class society and has been undergoing stress from her family and cultural environment. This film demonstrates some conflicts between her normative age-graded influences and nonnormative life events. Under the influence from her working-class environment‚ Rita has to leave school at a young age‚ gets a job‚ and then become married. At the same time‚ her age-cohorts (contemporaries) were still receiving education
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imprinting? What are critical and sensitive periods (what was the point of the video clip!)? What does the terms plasticity mean in reference to development? What is the difference between normative and nonnormative influences on development and what is an example of each? Be able to define normative age-graded and normative history-graded influences. What is a cohort and how could cohort effects influence development? 3. What do genotype-environment interactions suggest? What are passive‚ evocative
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the differences of legal and ethical decisions as "morally ordinary" and "extraordinary" treatment related to the provision of assisted nutrition and hydration‚ particularly for patients in a "permanent vegetative state" (p.894). Metaethics is a nonnormative ethic that attempts to describe the implication
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PYC2602 - Summary of A child’s world - Papalia et al Cpts 1‚2‚3 THE STUDY OF CHILD DEVELOPMENT: BASIC CONCEPTS THE STUDY OF CHILD DEVELOPMENT: THEN AND NOW • Child Development: Scientific study of processes of change & stability in human children. • Quantative change Change in number/amount eg height‚ size of vocabulary‚ frequency of communication tends to be continuous • Qualitative change Change in kind‚ structure & organization Discontinuous Marked by the emergence of new phenomena that cannot
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Concepts of Age and Demographics: The _____________ perspective views people as if they are machines. Mechanistic. From the mechanistic perspective‚ people are viewed as reacting automatically to physical forces‚ as behaving in predictable ways‚ and as being a sum of their parts. The ____________ perspective views people as developing‚ maturing‚ and changing over time. Organismic. From the organismic perspective‚ people are seen as maturing and changing as they progress through set development
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adulthood Throughout the entire life cycle 2. By age 50‚ many people need reading glasses or bifocals to improve their vision. This physiological change is a good example of a: A B C D Nonnormative life event Multidirectional influence on development Normative age-graded influence on development Nonnormative age-graded influence on development 3. If people today decide to marry and raise children‚ they do so later in life. In the 1950s‚ it was common for people to marry and have children
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it. 4. What is meant by: age-graded influence‚ history-graded influence‚ non-normative influence? Events that are strongly related to age and therefore fairly predictable in when they occur and how long they last are called age-graded influences. History-graded influences explain why people born around the same time-called a cohort- tend to be alike in ways that set them apart from people born at other times. Nonnormative influences are events that are irregular: They happen to just one person or
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