Adult education

John is a 16-year-old who has recently undergone an intervention to address his violent behavior towards both family and strangers. John now finds himself in a residential treatment home, where he receives group and individual therapy sessions. Throughout this paper, I will examine John’s case through the psychodynamic perspective. The psychodynamic perspective incorporates many ideas from Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theory. The psychodynamic approach focuses on the idea that people react…

I do agree with Dr. Pickheardt’s view on crushes. From personal experience to the article, Adolescence and the teenage crush, crushes are a early form of love, to help the person experience difficulties before going through real love to be more prepared. A crush should not be criticized, for it will help young teenagers develop maturity and encourage them to become who they want to be as a person. This will help broaden their sense of reality. The author speaks about what would happen if the…

Mauro Senesi demonstrates and depicts the extensive contrast that is present in a child and an adult. Mauro Senesi precisely aims towards how they react and deal with change. The two sides are often seen intertwined with conflicts being so they value and view different ethics and beliefs.The child often is at a disadvantage as adults would overpower their viewpoints and adults are often unable to admit change. Within “The Giraffe”, Mauro Senesi enables his story to effectively utilize archetypes…

As attachment researchers have become interested in studying attachment security at older ages, the Strange Situation as the “gold standard” of attachment assessment has remained central. Today researchers developing assessments of attachment for children or adolescents frequently (a) use the same fourfold classification system of the Strange Situation, (b) seek to validate their measures by showing that infants who are securely or insecurely attached in the Strange Situation obtain the same…

In order to foster healthier thoughts and behaviors, it is important for therapists and clients to move beyond the concept of blame. Individuals learn to cope with life’s difficulties the best way that they can, given their circumstances. In this vein, Peled and Sacks (2008) offer a feminist critique that questions the validity of labeling women “codependent.” The codependent characteristics of caretaking and self-sacrifice are taught to women, especially in their roles as wives and mothers.…

An attachment is a special bond we have with the special people in our lives. These people make our day brighter when we see them. These special people may consist of the parents, grandparents, godparents, and even the caregiver. Babies begin to get attached to these special people at the age of six months. John Bowlby created the attachment theory and he believed that babies have an emotional bond with their caregivers (Berk & Meyers, 2016). There are four patterns of attachment development and…

Many of Adorno’s ideas can be recognized throughout The Merchants of Cool’s exploration of youth and popular culture. As addressed by Adorno, standardization, identification, and pseudo-individualization all take form in the growing teenage culture. In the documentary The Merchants of Cool, you can see how standardization is seen throughout the film. It shows how teens are very vulnerable in their quest for what’s considered “cool” in popular culture. Today, the search for being “cool” affects…

Ageism is an identity category which has affected my life, and is a topic I have been able to learn more about through this class. Keri DeJong and Barbara J. Love examine ageism and adultism in our society, and explain how ageism is the oppression of young people and elders as age-based social identity groups, and the ways in which access to participation in society and relationships are organized on the basis of age. Ageism has affected decisions about power, voice, and decision making as a…

Differences Between the Teenage and Adult Brain Contrary to common belief, the teen brain and adult brain are incredibly different. Differences between the two brains include the development or the prefrontal cortex, amygdala, and the striatum. Furthermore, the brain develops from back to front, so the prefrontal cortex is left undeveloped in the teen years. It is extremely important to understand these differences to know why teens behave the way they behave. The prefrontal cortex does not…

Nowadays, people tend to be more independent. Teenagers, specifically view life as a carnival. Erstwhile, they are serious with everything they do, but most times, they find it as a joke, a playground. They break rules and ignore everybody else' s request to fix the mess they made with their lives. Basically, these discontent teens become selfish. They don't care about what other people will think of them and they don't want to listen to the opinion of others. But with everything people do,…