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San Fernando Valley Community Mental Health Center, Inc. http://www.movinglivesforward.org 1. The type of prevention is: Secondary Prevention a. This agency provides secondary prevention to its cliental because it primarily focuses on a high-risk population: people with serious emotional disorders, severe and persistent mental illness. 2. The main functions of this agency are to: ease clients into everyday life by helping them reach their highest potential, offer individualized and…

In this paper I will answer one question, what is my cultural identity? This includes a lot of different feathers such as family, religion, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, and more. I believe that everything I have done, seen, said, and been through in my life has helped to shape my personality into the individual I am today. “Cultural identity is considered a special case of social identity pertaining to the ideals and values of the cultural in-group with which the person identifies…

“Dear Mr. Laughlin, It has been suggested by Professor Irving Fisher of Yale that I write you concerning a suggestion which I made to him that sometime during the International Birth Control Conference there be a round-table discussion between the Eugenics group and the friends of Birth Control… “ Margaret Sanger, Sanger Letter (E-1-1), Truman State Special Collections, March 13, 1925. The connection between American first wave feminism and the eugenics movement, at first glance seems unusual.…

This assignment will cover an explanation on how the following 6 situations would use different psychological approaches. The explanation will consist of the examples of the behaviour/feelings displayed by the person, then how would the identified psychologist explain that behaviour, and finally how would I or someone who work in a health and social care environment would deal/challenge that behaviour. Behaviourist The situation from this psychological perspective is ‘An indivual who has a…

Over the past decade exome sequencing has become a very useful tool in genetic testing. While there are many other methods used for genetic testing, exome sequencing has many advantages over them. Much like any other method, exome sequencing has a few practical limitations. Though this type of sequencing is a fairly new method, more recent research has found it extremely beneficial in aiding with genetic disease diagnosis as well as cancer studies. Through the analysis of exome sequencing,…

Good Muslim, Bad Muslim, which is written by Mahmood Mamdani in 2004, discusses the aftermath of September 11, 2001. When this event occurred, Mamdani was in New York where he experienced the event and had seen how people viewed Islam as a political identity. Mamdani begins with modern violence, as he gives a critique of the cultural interruption of politics. Furthermore, he argues about how we should find an alternative way of thinking about the politics of Islam surrounding 9/11. He argues…

The generation known as the Millennials, are most often perceived as a highly disadvantaged and targeted group. There are many factors that contribute to the perception of this particular group some of which, are very saddening and truly unfair for the Millennials, and I am sad to say that I am part of that generation. The way that I, along with many other people see it, is that most of the problems the Millennials are dealing with today, have been the results of failure from the previous…

At first glance, we see Elle Woods and we think that she is just a stereotypical blonde, who only thinks about her looks, what she wears, and when she is going to get married, but Legally Blonde does a great job showing how a woman can still look good while still being a strong and independent woman. Legally Blonde is a movie about a college woman that was majoring in fashion until her boyfriend breaks up with her and then she decides she is going to Harvard Law and become a lawyer. Legally…

Schizophrenia is on the most prominent psychotic disorders in our society today. The National Institute of Mental Health states the 1% of the United States population has Schizophrenia, with the caveat that Schizophrenia may often be undiagnosed. Demographically there is no indication of difference of diagnosis based on ethnicity or gender. Schizophrenia symptom begin to manifest typically between the ages of 16 through 30. The symptoms will manifest earlier in men than women, and typically will…

At 15, Aristotle Mendoza has found himself to be lonely and apathetic. He has built walls around himself, separating him from his family and social life. He wants to learn about his older brother, his father is distant, and he feels like he’s nothing more than the family mascot. He considers himself to be apart from other kids his age, and he can’t seem to connect with anybody, similar to how I felt up until 9th grade. During the summer of his 15th year however, he meets Dante Quintana. Often…