This study will provide contribution to the field of psychology by gaining insight of the experience of being an African American teen father. This study will allow the African American teen fathers to share their interpretation of their experience as a father. Based on challenges experienced by adolescence during the adolescence stages identified by Erikson earlier work adding parenting to the equation could be a challenge. The field of psychology is a very unique science that explores the human behavior. The use of psychological research provides evidence on behaviors to eliminate depending on common sense or assumption.…
Hannah Arrant Renee Celeste HIST 1302 3A1 23 February 2017 Griffin’s Plight Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin was awarded by Anisfield-Wolf for bringing to light the dark racial injustice in the Southern culture. This autobiography takes place in the deep south during the mid-twentieth century. Griffin is an experienced writer and slightly notorious with his previously published work The Devil Rides Outside, which was surrounded with controversy and banned in Detroit, Michigan.…
s a 38-year-old black woman, married, mother of one teenager. She was referred by her regular physician, she was evaluated during a normal routine checkup at her local doctors and finding out that she is HIV Positive. She was a short, stocky woman, dressed in khaki pants and a white blouse. Her hair was all over the place. She didn’t have on any makeup or any gloss of such.…
The patient is 65-year-old female who presents to the ED complaining of fever, chills and shaking. The patient is known to have multiple sclerosis with a neurogenic bladder for over 10 years. She has had an indwelling Foley in place. She is known to have hypertension.…
The author revealed images of Blacks depicting a social rejection. In order to help Black children make sense of this cruel racial rejection, parents need to teach their children how to psychologically deal with these situations. Some black children can response to this treatment has defensive. In Lisa Kian research of physiologic responses to racial rejection among young African Americans she discovered the following, “..automatic response is presumed to be evolutionarily adaptive, in that individuals typically shut their eyes quickly and forcefully in order to protect themselves from negative experiences and potential threat” (p.165). This defense mechanism may not work all the time, teaching a child about their identity is vital.…
Some of the symptoms are; hematuria, frequent urination, dysuria, spasms of the bladder, nocturia, nausea/vomiting, fever, chills, tenderness of the bladder area, flank pain, oliguria, and foul smelling urine. Symptoms for pyelonephritis are similar but are more severe and may cause long term side effects. Cystitis occurs in the bladder or the urethra, but if the infection spreads, the kidney can suffer damages as well. Women are more likely to develop cystitis than men are but men can get it also. To diagnose cystitis doctors will ask the patients a list of questions regarding their symptoms and do a urinalysis and or a urine culture.…
Southern woman suffrage became a beacon that would change the politics of the United States forever. Southern women had to grapple with their own racial politics to gain the support of African American women for women's suffrage (Gilmore, Gender and Jim Crow). African American women had taken the active role of teaching their community about American citizenship, and the pride of their race. African American women saw the women's suffrage as another step of pushing the racial divide (Goodstein, A Rare Alliance). While most white suffragists didn't see gaining the support of African American women the same way, white suffragists realized that they needed African American women to push for their own rights.…
Stigma of an African American Woman Many African American women experience prejudice because of the color of their skin, which can result in a feeling of hopelessness and shame. To comprehend African American lives of women social workers need to study the pain, embarrassment, challenges, rejection, and pursuit of individuality African American women have to go through on a daily basis. African American women in America have always had to struggle with offensive suppositions about who they are as well as negative characterization by the public (Harris, 2011). Therefore, it is important to educate the community on the type of prejudice African American women face in their own environment.…
Abstract As of today, elders are living longer and have more active, healthier lives. Over 77 million baby boomers turning the age of 65 at a rate of 10,000 per day, the United States is experiencing historic growth in the 65-plus demographic (NCOA, 2012). But it also studies have been shown that African American elders are a lower life expectancy than other races. Even though African Americans have a lower life expectancy it has been shown that African American elders confident about what the future holds for them with health and also happiness.…
I have felt many pressures, race is such a big problem among black people but as community can get over the hump of being pressured into a few stereotypes. From my own personal experience being a young black man growing up in many places of black being the majority such as Detroit, Chicago, New York I felt an amazing amount of comfort around these areas. Once I move down to La Vernia Texas, being enrolled into an all white school with a lot of Mexicans and the only black people could only fit on a bench in a hallway that we called “The Black Bench” in high school, I attended La Vernia school district for 7 years from 4th grade all the way to 10th grade in high school. My first encounter with this whole move, and experience this new…
The subject I decided to write about is depression among African Americans and how it has become a huge concern yet it is still stigmatized in the black community. Mental health is not restricted to one particular race, ethnicity, socio-economic background but cultural background and historical history can cause depression to be expressed and deal with differently especially among both black males and females. Depression is vastly misunderstood in the black community and often confused as emotional angst. Education about depression and destigmatizing mental health issues will go a long way to lessen the fears and stigma that surround it. To be able to understand depression better the three factors I will focus on in this paper is culture,…
Angelica, I agree with you that there is a lot more information needed to determine the diagnosis in this case and one thing to consider is whether his past medical history of hypertension, inguinal hernia, allergies, and social characteristics would contribute to his current condition leading to the release of a milky substance from his penis. An additional set of subjective and objective information would be needed like an analysis of the discharge from his penis, and blood tests for STD. A more in-depth history on his inguinal hernia may also be needed to determine if it still can cause problems. Among the information presented, inguinal hernia would be the second most significant as severe cases of it can cause infections but in the patient’s…
Primary Positions The History of Mental Health Issues in the Black Community Mental illness among African-Americans has been present since Africans were first brought to the colonial south as slaves. In 1812, the father of American Psychiatry, Benjamin Rush, observed a disorder among Africans which caused them to become insane soon after entering slavery (Rush, 1812). He called this disorder Negritude. “The only cure,” he wrote in his journal Medical Inquiries and Observations Upon the Disease of the Mind, “was to become white,” (1812).…
On clinical evaluation it was found that patient was moderately built and nourished and had normal vital signs. Patient was then referred for ultrasound. USG of the Liver, Pancreas, GB, Left kidney, and Spleen were normal. Right kidney was not seen in right renal fossa, RIF and in LIF. USG of bladder was normal.…
The history of African Americans has always been limited in many school systems creating an ignorance to many people on the construction of this race. To truly understand why a race of people do things you need to know their history and where they came from. The African American Experience is often considered one of the most interesting pieces in history. Africa, the world’s oldest populated area and also considered the beginning of humanity was comprised up to 10,000 different states and groups with distinct languages and religions. The country of Egypt was a huge contributor to the development of Africa and other world civilizations and was the land of mathematics and problem solving.…