Pam Stenzel, a world renowned speaker, tackles the issues that most are afraid to speak on, the consequences of sex outside of marriage. Stenzel speaks to over 500,000 teenagers per year on this topic. Stenzel speaks from a place of familiarity and her passion is to educate as many young people that she can on the topics of sex, love, and relationships. A product of rape, Pam teaches that one can achieve no matter what type of situation that they may come from. She encourage individuals to think of the emotional and physical consequences that one will endure if they participate in sex outside of marriage.…
Sarah Koenig’s podcast, “Serial” became a popular podcast in 2014 with over 40 million downloads, according to Apple. It is a week by week story that is about a murder case in 1999. The summary of the case is one seventeen year old, Adnan, murdered his ex-girlfriend, Hae, and multiple people were involved with the case along with multiple different perspectives. Sarah Koenig is a journalist, and she wrote for a newspaper in Baltimore which is why she was asked to take a look at the case. Podcast listeners follow her through her journey of interviews of the former suspects, possible witnesses, lawyers, and even Adnan Syed himself.…
This project was quite hectic and very doleful to say the least. The Unchained project consisted of many smaller projects that us students needed to finish during our humanities period or at home. On occasion working with a partner or two to really familiarize ourselves with one another and to finish the projects assigned to us faster. The projects were about human trafficking and the harsh reality of our world. One of the many projects that we needed to complete was the Unchained Podcast.…
Unlike Gottman, earlier socialist and psychologist focused on mate selection; the personality of who marries who, where and whether an individual flourishes or not. Gottman looked at the bigger picture, what ways to make the relationship thrive. When taking a look at “The Love Lab,” and comparing Nathan Ackerman, a psychologist for both family and couple therapy, he took a shift towards aiming family therapy in order to create clinical approaches to clinical problems. As family and couple therapy psychologist would put it, "two neurotics can be happily married,” (Ackerman, 1982). In the end, whether we believe or follow Gottmans study or not, we must understand there is so much more to making a relationship.…
“Political intersectionality is a form of structural intersectionality that addresses sexism, racism, class exploitation or homophobia in policy-making processes and policies. It indicates how inequalities and their intersections are relevant to political strategies.” Oftentimes the LGBT struggle for human rights is observed independently from the struggle of race, gender, disability, religion, and class. “Beyond Same-Sex Marriage” addresses political intersectionality and queerness by directing our attentions to the fact that people from all these groups exist within the LGBT community as well. There are a number of people with intersectional identities who are forced to endure distinctive patterns of tyranny, discrimination and exclusion.…
The children have the right to develop an identity as they established their emotions, watching the affect, cognitive and personal’s link established in the relationship between the father and the mother. This relationship is the warp where it cradles and consolidates its future affective maturity. The child lives with only homosexuals have no experience, learn, or feel the existing gender differences between men and women. Rather, learn something false and unnatural.…
I. Purpose: The Marital Satisfaction Inventory-Revised (MSI-R) was designed to assess the nature and extent of conflict in multiple dimensions of a relationship both for couples who are married or live together (Western Psychology Service, 2016). It can be utilized to assess both traditional (heterosexual) and nontraditional (gay, lesbian, queer, etc.) couples from a wide range of socioeconomic and educational backgrounds (Means-Christensen, Snyder, & Negy, 2003). It is used to evaluate the strengths and weakness of a relationship. Additionally, it was designed for counselors to utilize with clients in or who are considering couples therapy (Western Psychology Service, 2016).…
Case Vignette Bill and Leslie, both African American and in their mid 30’s, married for 7 years, came in to counseling to work on their marriage. Bill is an attorney working approximately 70 hours a week while Leslie is the director of consumer services for a large telephone company. They have 2 children ages 3 and 5. Bill has another child from his prior marriage, in which he rarely has any contact, but pays child support. Leslie is very supportive of the situation..…
Steve and Cindy are a typical premarital couple that encompass some strengths and some growth areas, and they are relatively realistic about their relationship. The PREPARE/ENRICH couple typology shows Steve and Cindy as being a “conflicted” couple (see Figure 1.1). As a conflicted couple, Steve and Cindy have some strength areas in spiritual beliefs, roles and responsibilities and family and friends. The growth areas are financial management, leisure activities, communication and conflict resolution to name a few. The Relationship Dynamics section of the Facilitator’s Report indicate a relatively low assertiveness for Steve and Cindy.…
Lying everyone does it and “studies show that the average person lies several times a day. Some of those lies are bigges although this may be true more often than not, the lies we tell are little white lies” (psychologytoday.com). Serial podcast is an online series where host Sarah Koenig talks about real life news in a story like format each season. Season 1 deals with the 1999 case against Adnan Syed convicted with murder of his then ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee and 17 years of age. With his conviction based solely off of sketchy word of a said accompless Jay Wilds one must wonder if he is telling the whole truth and nothing but the truth.…
Essay #3: Gender Compare and Contrast Newly Married couples often have relationship issues relating to gender specific conversations and emotions which can lead to really bad and unhealthy relationships. Luckily there are guidance counselors to solve these problems. But what advice should these counselors give to their clients and what articles would be best suited for situations such as these? There are 2 really informative essays I have read, “His Talk, Her Talk” by Joyce Maynard and “Man to Man, Woman to Woman” by Mark A. Sherman and Adelaide Haas, that would be best to share with couples all over the world. “His Talk, Her Talk” by Joyce Maynard is based on the authors own personal experience with how the conversations between male and…
The couple both then sought out to have quiet alone time regardless of how tired they may be but they’re rather sacrifice their own selfish needs to please their partners desires to have a strong physical intimacy connection. In the journal article Attitudes on marriage and new relationships: Cross-national evidence on the deinstitutionalization of marriage by authors Judith Treas, Jonathan Lui, & Zoya Gubernkaya stated “Demanding intensive communication and emotional intimacy, marriage must meet expressive needs, not just functional requirements to maintain the family” (Treas, Lui, & Gubernkaya, Year). As an experienced and deep-rooted marriage emotional intimacy and intensive connectivity are strong factors that can lead to a long-lasting and healthy marriage. For a couple that has been married for seventeen years one can only imagine how a couple can keep strong communication skills and emotional…
When people think of long-term relationships, they tend to think of the traditional marriage. They picture a man and a woman who are married and eventually start a family. While the traditional marriage is still an important long-term relationship, they are other types of relationships that have their own unique benefits. In today’s society there is the tradition marriage, same-sex marriage, polygamous couples, and cohabiting couples. Each type of relationship has benefits for the couple such as married couples earning more money, polygamous couples have a higher level of freedom, or cohabiting couples avoiding the stress and pressure of marriage and commitment.…
Forbidden Children Since the beginning of the creation of humanity, God had his own plan for all of his creation. Men and women were deliberately created with a variety of characteristics and uniqueness so that they can complement each other and unite to form families. A good concept of a family essentially can only be formed if there is a father, a mother, and a child in that family (Farr 165). This concept is likely to be designed such this way so that all members of the family can run their roles in both their family and society properly.…
Each of us always wants to love and be loved. However, sometimes the Creator born people without giving them the right to choose the gender as they want. We always think that love is a combination of man and woman. However, today, love exists between the same sex. They also have the desire as usual, there is a longing for home and family.…