market has caused a financial crisis which has greatly impacted employment and wages. Studies show that poverty can impede a child’s ability to learn. Poverty is one of the causes of children’s social, emotional, and behavioral problems. The literature supports the correlation of poverty and academic success. Children living in poverty struggle academically due to several factors such as a lack of basic needs. They also tend to…
that is child friendly. “From a basic office setting for working with children, it is helpful to have floor space and a large tablet and drawing tools like crayons or markers” (Adler-Tapia, 2008, p. 39). The authors are pointing out that when working with children it is important to have a room that is kid friendly. In addition, having a room that allows a child to be creative is important to the therapeutic process. Some therapist might have a hard time doing EMDR on children because they have…
Target article: Green, R.E., Krause, J., Briggs, A.W., Maricic, T., Stenzel, U., Kircher, M. et al. (2010). A draft sequence of the Neandertal genome. Science, 328, 710-722. This study created a draft sequence of approximately 60% of the Neanderthal genome based on nucleotides from three individual Neanderthal samples (Vindija Neanderthal fossils Vi33.16, Vi33.25 and Vi33.26). The study differs from previous attempts to examine Neanderthal DNA as it examines mitochondrial DNA, Y chromosomal…
Sexualization of Breasts and Confidence Another cultural consideration is the sexualization of breasts, affecting personal body image, attitudes of public breastfeeding, and internal measures of the confidence of infant feeding decisions. Breasts specifically play a role in being part of a woman’s idealized view of her sexual body, and it is this sexualized view of breasts that can undermine breastfeeding (Johnston-Robledo et al., 2007). Objectification theory “postulates that, in a culture that…
As found in the review article I selected, “Diagnosis and Classification of Graves ' Disease,” sweating, quivering, intense hammering of the heart, and noticeable weight loss, are seen as results of the high metabolism (Menconi et al., 2014). The body’s reaction to the…
In order to find results, the researchers examined couples in their 3rd year of marriage and identified 2 forgiveness dimensions: retaliation, or revenge after a wrong-doing, and benevolence, or the desire to do good to others. The researchers discovered that “husbands ' retaliatory motivation was a significant predictor of poorer wife-reported conflict resolution, whereas wives ' benevolence motivation predicted husbands ' reports of better conflict resolution” (Finchan, Beach, & Davila, 2004,…
This article is titled “Perceptions of harm from secondhand smoke exposure among U.S. adults, 2009-2010”, and it was written by Judy Kruger, Roshni Patel, Michelle Kegler, Steven D. Babb, and Brian A. King. The authors firstly explained that secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure causes heart disease, stroke, and lung cancer in nonsmoking adults and suden infant death syndrome, middle ear infections, and severe asthma in children. As well, this has caused more than 41,000 deaths among US nonsmokers.…
This paper examines published articles to explore the different types of mental disorders including Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa and Binge eating. An evaluation has been placed to view the exhibition criteria of the mental disorder. The articles suggest treatments, causes and variant hypothesis as well as information regarding the eating disorders. Differences between Anorexia, Bulimia Nervosa, and Binge eating have also been explored. In context eating disorders are a dysfunctional…
employee has the ability to focus on both exploitation and exploration. In fact all the above paragraphs mention that ambidexterity is essentially the ability of the organisation or business unit to pursue both exploration and exploitation. Many literatures throw light on the ways in which the contradictory tension between the two paradoxes is reconciled within a single business unit. There are four ways to reconcile these tensions as cited by J.J.P.jansen2. They are i) accepting the paradox…
In a city with more than 8.4 million people, access to quality healthcare becomes an issue. One of the issues that patients face is health disparities between various races, ethnicities, gender and even body weight. Health disparities are gaps in the quality of health and health care that mirror differences in socioeconomic status, racial and ethnic background, and education level. These disparities may stem from many factors, including accessibility of health care, increased risk of disease…