Learned helplessness

such as learning about corporations that wanted to segregate education based upon economic status. After the initial shock, I wondered where I had been for the last decade? I was embarrassed and horrified at the prospect that I had not heard or learned about many of the issues I was reading about. Even now as I reflect over this program, I can’t say why I felt that way I did in the beginning, my only conclusion is that it was just fear it self that was holding me back. However, within the first…

During this time, I would always remember how I had stared numbly into the ripples of my dad's shirt as a fifth grader. I could never forget that feeling of helplessness, but with repeated reflection, I began to understand this moment in a different way. Given her circumstances — raised by an abusive, alcoholic father and a neglectful mother; involved in several dysfunctional relationships with controlling men;…

some inmates do not cope will with imprisonment, and that traumatic event encountered in prison may result in 9 maladaptive response including emotional disorders (Adams,1992; Bonta and Gendreau 1987; Guthrie, 1999). Now they want to add that learned helplessness while being in prison is linked to PTSD, we are stretching that too far, it is called institutionalized. If someone is locked up for years and forgets how to make certain choices, that is only a consequence to his earlier…

main core principle of strategic inquiry. Through strategic inquiry, teams could focus on student learning and access to instructional content, and know more about what students really need to improve. Also, belief of teachers are changing from a helplessness to confidence. In additional, with the explicit…

similar loss. It provides a sense of empathy for those who have not had such an experience. Naiee sees himself as weak because he cannot save his mother. This is another human emotion felt that brings feelings of self-doubt, low self-esteem, and helplessness when a loved one is dying. The younger brother is racked with…

Checklist 90-R and the Trauma Symptom Checklist (TSC-40) was also administered. There is indication of significant depressive experience as indicated by the score on the BDI-II (moderate depression), NEO-PI-3, and the PAI. Thoughts of worthlessness, helplessness, and…

opportunity for counseling and therapeutic services. She was referred to me because I offer very low cost services on a sliding scale in a facility that runs much like a clinic for mental health services. From Ms. Weiss’ referral information, I learned that Ms. Jones is an HIV positive, teenage mother of two who is struggling to find a way to support her children on her own while also being able to remain in her alternative school program at least until she can achieve her GED. During our…

In regard to working this profession, I’ve discovered a new-found awareness of focus and understanding. If there’s anything that I’ve learned from my aunt, it’s that the patients she works with are undergoing a difficult situation and I must be the one in control to guide them through this process. It is a long and exhausting road for them, you must be the one to help them understand the illness, what they and you can do to ease the pain and create a plan for them so they may live a healthier…

Child poverty is about more than just money – it’s multidimensional. For children, poverty means being deprived in crucial aspects of their lives such as nutrition, health, water, education or shelter. The effects of low socioeconomic status often persist long into adulthood and is both harmful to the person themselves as well as to society. Ending child poverty is important to break the cycle of future generations. Child poverty is a devastating and pressing issue that affects children of all…

When Jamison was the young age of ten, he and his five other siblings watched in the back seat of their car, as their mother’s ex-boyfriend shot their mother right in front of them. 19 years later Jamison can still recall looking at his dead mother, “slouched over and blood coming from her ears”, and trying to do the best he could to keep her alive. Jamison and his siblings did not talk about the tragic event with each other and not even their therapist, and kept all their emotions to themselves…