Biological and Environmental Factors Affecting Adopted Children from Developing Countries

Biological and Environmental Factors Affecting Adopted Children from Developing Countries

Biological and Environmental Factors Affecting Adopted Children from Developing Countries

Adoption is a process where a person or family takes over the right of raising a child through legal means from the previous guardians. Adoption of children from developing countries to developed countries falls under international adoption, which is in itself adoption across national borders. Usually, adopting kids from developing countries is a laborious process. The potential parents make numerous trips overseas to complete the legal process, which involves a licensed adoption agency as well as many government agencies from both countries.

Bioecological theory on Human Development

The bioecological theory by Bronfenbrenner states that human development goes through complex interactions among biopsychosocial human beings and that individual’s objects, symbols and systems within the individual’s proximity. When a child is removed from his previous environment to a new one, his body will have to adapt to fit well in the new adaptation. Biological differences between the child and the adopted parents mean that the child will grow differently in some aspects. He will however adapt slowly with time. This is evidenced in children who are adopted from families where they were many and shared everything to an environment where he/she practically has his own room and shares nothing. They will tend to feel lonely in their new environments, before getting used to it.

Usually, kids from abusive, neglectful homes find it rough in their development. For example, an African child who is dark skinned in color being adopted by a white Caucasian family will feel like a sore thumb due to his color pigmentation. In addition, the child will tend to develop either faster or slower depending on the country of origin. Such factors will greatly influence a child’s development and his physical growth. The child will have to take a while before catching up with the rest of his peers, or will develop much faster at the new country.

Behavior Modification Therapy for Depression. Interpersonal Psychotherapy

Behavior Modification Therapy for Depression. Interpersonal Psychotherapy

Behavior Modification Therapy for Depression: Interpersonal Psychotherapy

Abstract

The last few years have demonstrated the need for an evidence-based practice in psychology, especially in relation to social interventions. Both sociologists and psychologists have looked into various theoretical and practical strategies for treatment of patients suffering from various clinical conditions. Epidemiologic data illustrates that depression, a common condition for adults, is one of the most demanding and debilitating disorders in terms of treatment. The recurrent nature of depression requires an effective, evidence-based social work intervention strategy to prevent the reoccurrence of the disorder. Several types of interventions have been identified in treating depression with the most perceptible intervention method being interpersonal psychotherapy. Accordingly, the effectiveness of interpersonal psychotherapy as treatment for depression makes it the most preferred social intervention strategy for depression.

Key Words: Depression, Interpersonal Psychotherapy

Introduction

Proper medical management of depression has proved to be a difficult task, with most patients suffering from depression having a hard time recovering from the disorder. Statistics on depression illustrate that over 2 million adults in America are diagnosed with depression annually. The number of patients who succumb to this disorder is even higher, with most depression cases resulting to mortality. For that reason, a number of empirically supported treatment options have been developed to help curb the effects of depression on patients. Treatment for depression ranges from a combination of medication to psychotherapeutic interventions, with most of the cases involving the use of both (Thase & Friedman, 1999). These treatment options have been widely practiced all over the world, with the choice of treatment depending on the effectiveness of treatment. However, because of the different patient responses to treatment, researchers have not identified one specific treatment method for depression. For that reason, psychologists and other medical practitioners are forced to pick one treatment method for their patients. Accordingly, two main treatment options have been identified as the most effective social intervention strategies for depression.

These treatment interventions include interpersonal psychotherapy and behavioral cognitive therapy. These two social intervention strategies have been accredited with effective treatment of depression. More specifically, interpersonal psychotherapy fares well in the treatment of depression, as compared to other treatment for the disorder (Thase & Friedman, 1999). This treatment intervention has a delayed effect on depression, which is good for treating the recurrent disorder, thus preventing a relapse of depression. In addition to this, interpersonal psychotherapy can work for both acute depression to severe depression, thus its effectiveness in treatment.

This paper examines interpersonal psychotherapy as a social intervention strategy for depression. The paper draws attention to the theoretical foundation of this social intervention and quantity and quality of literature available on this intervention. In addition to this, the paper also looks into the intervention techniques used in interpersonal psychotherapy, as well as, the effectiveness of the intervention on patients.

Interpersonal Psychotherapy

Interpersonal psychotherapy is a social intervention strategy that is primarily focused on the patient’s social roles and interpersonal relationships (Stuart & Robertson, 2003). It is a short but highly effective treatment option for problems related to social functioning, especially when treating psychiatric problems such as depression. With interpersonal psychotherapy, medical practitioners explores the patients’ issues with other people, as a way of identifying the causes of depression in the patients. The goal with this intervention strategy is to identify and modify interpersonal problems for the reduction of depression in patients. As an intervention strategy, interpersonal psychotherapy involves three main phases, all of which are designed to reduce the effects of depression on the patients, if not stoppage of depression. The first phase of interpersonal psychotherapy involves the exploration of the patient’s interpersonal problems. The therapist takes full charge of this phase, and the strategy here is to identify the possible social problems that have resulted to the patient’s depressive state. This will help build a history of the patient, which is necessary for the identification of possible social problems. The second phase of this treatment involves allowing the patient to talk about his social problems, as a way of identifying the patient’s perception of the causes of depression (Thase & Friedman, 1999). Accordingly, the patient leads this phase, and the main goal in this phase is to encourage change. Throughout this stage, both the therapist and the patient are expected to maintain focus for the treatment for better results during treatment. The last phase of interpersonal psychotherapy involves the participation of both the therapist and the patient, and it involves the identification of the achievements during training. Because it is a short term intervention treatment strategy for disorders such as depression, interpersonal psychotherapy usually involves a number of sessions, in most cases 20 sessions, with the focus of these sessions being the identification of the causes of depression in patients.

Theoretical Foundation

Interpersonal relations and events are not the immediate causes of depression, but the interpersonal component of the disorder makes it an issue that demands the use of interpersonal psychotherapy for treatment. In terms of the theoretical foundation of this social intervention strategy, interpersonal psychotherapy is primarily designed to address interpersonal issues. Theoretically, it is founded on the belief that interpersonal relationships and events affects individuals in a number of ways, and for that reason, could be the cause of depression. These interpersonal events range from interpersonal roles transition, conflict, and even cases of complicated grief. These events may lead to depression in patients, thus the need for interpersonal psychotherapy as an intervention strategy (Thase & Friedman, 1999). Interpersonal psychotherapy assumes that a severe psychosocial stressor, coupled with inadequate social support is likely to lead to depression in individuals. This, therefore, implies that, unlike popular belief, difficulties in interpersonal relationships may be concomitant factors for the occurrence of depression in patients. According to Stuart and Robertson, this social intervention strategy has two main theoretical targets (Stuart & Robertson, 2003). At the outset, interpersonal psychotherapy draws on interpersonal conflict and transition in the patient’s social setting. This aims at improving communication, as well as, readjusting the patient’s expectation during and after the intervention. In addition to this, interpersonal psychotherapy facilitates proper utilization of social support networks for crisis management (Stuart & Robertson, 2003). In essence, interpersonal psychotherapy focuses on the treatment of current and existing issues, as opposed to, developmental issues.

Literature

There exists a considerable amount of literature on the use of interpersonal psychotherapy for the treatment of disorders such as depression. Literature on this intervention strategy dates back to the late 1980s proving that this intervention strategy is effective and efficient for patients suffering from depression (Markowitz, 2003). More specifically, literature on interpersonal psychotherapy provides the required information on the effectiveness of this treatment for patients. For example, Arean & Cook compare the use of interpersonal psychotherapy and other paradoxical treatment options for depression, and the findings from this study expound of the use of this intervention treatment by therapists (Arean & Cook, 2002). In terms of quality, the literature on interpersonal psychotherapy as an intervention strategy does not fall short of academic eminence. The information provided regarding interpersonal psychotherapy is based on findings from research studies conducted by professionals or students in the field. This, in turn, illustrates the validity and reliability of the intervention strategy in practice.

Intervention Techniques

Interpersonal psychotherapy involves the utilization of four main techniques of social intervention. These techniques include clarification, supportive listening, communication analysis, and encouragement of affect. Clarification involves the questioning of patients so as to identify and clarify existing emotional problems, as well as, biases. This technique helps the therapist uncover the patient’s existing emotional problems for the identification of causative social problems. Supportive listening, on the other hand, is a technique that involves listening with minimal but meaningful interjections by the therapist. This technique is specifically designed to encourage the patient in identifying the causes of depression, as well as, the necessary procedures for the prevention of this. Communication analysis is a technique whereby the therapists engages the client in various aspects of communication, so as to gauge the patient’s ability to communicate in their individual social settings.

This technique allows the therapist to identify any communication problems that the patient might have, as well as, the different methods of dealing with this. The last and most useful technique of interpersonal psychotherapy is encouragement of affect, which involves the promotion of the effects of this treatment for the patient. Put simply, it is whereby the therapists encourages the patient to engage in the activities suggested during the therapy sessions. This allows the development of a positive attitude for the patient, as well as, encouraging the patient to improve their social relationships. Therapists have the option of choosing the best technique for their patients, and this is usually dependent on the patient’s response to treatment. Once the therapist identifies the patient’s needs, he or she can use one of the above-mentioned techniques to help the patient deal with their depression.

Effectiveness

The effectiveness of interpersonal psychotherapy has been a highlight for a number of individual and aggregated studies and analyses. Accordingly, the efficiency and effectiveness of the use of this intervention strategy for the treatment of depression is of pooled data from various controlled studies of patients suffering from depression. The effectiveness of interpersonal psychotherapy for the treatment of depression has been measured in two main ways, including, as individual treatment, as well as, combination of interpersonal psychotherapy with other treatment options for depression (Thase & Friedman, 1999). All the studies carried out illustrate that interpersonal psychotherapy is the best social intervention strategy for the treatment of patients suffering from depression. For example, in their study on interpersonal psychotherapy, O’Hara et. al., compare the effectiveness of interpersonal psychotherapy as an individual form of treatment for depression against other treatment options (O’Hara et al., 2000).

Conclusion

As a social intervention strategy, interpersonal psychotherapy is the best practice model for the treatment of depression. This assumption bases on the research studies and findings by a number of individuals such as de Mello et al., who tested the effectiveness of this intervention treatment on a number of psychiatric disorders such as neurotic depression and dysthymia. Such findings illustrate the efficacy of this treatment on depression, making it the most preferred treatment intervention for patients suffering from depression.

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Odysseus The Journey

Odysseus The Journey

The Journey

Introduction

Odysseus is the chief character of the novel Odyssey, and it records his homecoming journey since his departure from Troy. Odysseus is seen to be present in the Iliad, but he has a different mission from that of the poem. The story talks about the challenges he encountered on land and sea. The story also gives an account of how he will avenge the honor of his family from the suitors, who are surrounding his house waiting for his wife to choose another man. Through out his journey he is assisted by Athena but to be disillusioned by Poseidon who says that “I will make his journey very difficult because he blinded my son”. Telemachus is the son of Odysseus, and he wants to stop the suitors from taking advantage of his father’s estate. He searches for his father’s news so that they can proclaim their estate. Telemachus and Odysseus journey is similar to some extent because both of them face challenges in their trips.

Odysseus

Odysseus is portrayed as a leader with Homeric character. He is powerful, confident, and courageous, and he wants to achieve glory. Odysseus has a character trait that makes him different from the others since he is extremely intelligent, and this is evident by his calculations before an action. His intelligence and quick thinking helped him in difficult situations that he encountered. His intelligence saves him when he escapes from Cyclops cave, and when he hides the suitor’s slaughters “please play the wedding song for the guests”. Odysseus is remarkably eloquent in his speeches, and he manipulates and convinces the audience (Steinruck, Pp 23). His soft tongue makes many people in the audience favor and agree with him. This is evident when he wins the trust of Nausicca by using a comforting approach when addressing them. Just like other Homeric heroes, Odysseus is striving to achieve glory from the society by the good deeds and he also wants to go home.

He is an adventures person, and this is portrayed by his luxurious life with calypso in an exotic land even though it lasts for a moment. He practices infidelity with Calypso for a short time and realizes he wants to go back home because Calypso does not compare to his wife. He is concerned about his home, and this is evident because he constantly thinks about home while spending time with Phaeacians. Odysseus is torn between the quest of getting home and achieving glory. Most of his time of getting home is wasted by his search for glory. He is troubled when he looses men and time while sacking land. Odysseus is a patient man “I will wait for as long as it takes in these caves” while enjoying milk and cheese (Steinruck, Pp 35). His patience makes him trapped in the cave when the Cyclops returns.

Homeric characters are presented to be static since they are complex and realistic. These characters do not move from their mission and course of work as portrayed by characters in modern novels and stories. However, this rule is broken by Odysseus and Telemachus. Odysseus is consumed by his quest of achieving glory, and this makes him reveal his identity to the Cyclops, thus bringing Poseidon’s anger on him. He is willing to temper his pride with patience at the concluding part of the epic. Even when he is disguised as a pauper Odysseus does not react to the abuse, “I will wait until the traps I have set and loyal people will place me at a suitable position for striking back” (Steinruck, Pp 44).

Telemachus

Telemachus was a child when his father left for Troy. At the beginning of the novel, Telemachus is still growing up. He is encountered with many challenges because he does not know how to protect the land from the suitors. Athena tells Telemachus to fight for his father’s estate as she tells him “you are no longer a child” (Steinruck, Pp 54). He is facing this challenge because he recently became aware of the real intentions of the suitors. Telemachus is told by Athena that his father is still alive and he must make a journey to Pylos and Sparta to enquire about any news of his father. While he prepares to move make his journey to Pylos and Sparta, Athena visits masked as a mentor. She tells Telemachus “your journey will be successful” (Steinruck, 2008). Athena moves to town and assembles a crew to sail with Telemachus on his journey. He is courageous like his father because he takes the open sea with faith that God is on his side. When Telemachus and Athena arrive at Pylos they witness a religious ceremony where dozens of bulls are sacrificed. Telemachus is not good as his father in public speaking and this is evident as he fears to talk to city king. Athena encourages Telemachus by telling him “go and speak to King Nester”. Telemachus is then accompanied by Pisistratus the son of the king to Sparta and the two set out on land. Telemachus resembles his father as he is quickly identified by the queen of Sparta Helen “you are the son of Odysseus” (Steinruck, Pp 60). When Telemachus is told that his father is imprisoned in an island, he returns back to pylos to set sail for Ithaca. He faces the same challenge like his father because the suitors want to ambush him. Telemachus is courageous like his father as he moves alone around southern Greece to learn of his father’s fate. Telemachus is has the skill of impressing host and this is evident as he impresses the host in Ithaca.

Telemachus confronts the suitors and commands them to stop taking advantage of his father’s estate. He takes control of the estate even when Penelope and Eurycleia become angry of his actions. Telemachus is different from his father because he has different talents. He is portrayed as a person with a stout heart, intelligent mind and a little bit of a temper. However, he does not have the skills of speaking fluently and softly as Odysseus. He is a careless man because he leaves the weapons store open and this allows the suitors to take arms. Even if, Odysseus makes mistakes on his course during the epic, he can not afford to make a careless mistake like that of Telemachus. Telemachus is different from his father because he has not inherited his pride. He has not developed perfectly as his father, and this is evident while he tries to string the bow. He nearly does it but not quite and this shows the he cannot match his father’s skills, but he is on his way.

Telemachus and Odysseus journey is similar to some extent because both of them face challenges in their trips. Telemachus wants to be ambushed by suitors while Odysseus is imprisoned in an island by calypso. Both of them are protected by the gods in their journey to reach their destination. Telemachus is different from his father since he does not have the skills of public speaking and convicting a crowd. Although he is courageous like his father, he is not intelligent as Odysseus because he makes serious mistakes. Odysseus has a character trait that makes him different from the others since he is extremely intelligent, and this is evident by his calculations before an action. Just like other Homeric heroes, Odysseus is striving to achieve glory from the society by the good deeds and he wants to go home. Odysseus is torn between the quest of getting home and achieving glory. Most of his time of getting home is wasted by his search for glory. Telemachus is courageous like his father as he moves alone around southern Greece to learn of his father’s fate.

Conclusion

Odysseus has been transformed because of the challenges he experienced throughout his journey. He has learnt not to trust everybody because some people do not have good interest of him in heart. He has learnt this because the people who betrayed his family are those who were close to his father. His journey has transformed in that he has become a patient man and he is focused on achieving his goal. He has learnt to listen to other people advice first before making a decision.

Works cited

Steinruck, Mogn. The Suitors in the Odyssey: The Clash between Homer and Archilochus. New York: Peter Lang. 2008

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Analyze political ideologies Conservatism, Liberalism, Socialism

Analyze political ideologies Conservatism, Liberalism, Socialism

Analyze political ideologies Conservatism, Liberalism, Socialism

Conservatism

Conservatism is one of the political ideologies that most of the states have undertaken as a way of governing their states. According to Eric, David, and Osvaldo (p.23) conservatism is a political ideology that ensures that the indigenous institutions are maintained and supported. Conservatism aims to ensure that there is minimal or any form of change in the societies. With these traditional systems in place, the societies maintain its operations with no alterations to the system. Analysts believe that this form of system is favorable for maintenance of constancy and stability in the state. This system is also a cheaper way of doing things in the state as there is no need to incorporate (Eric, David, and Osvaldo pp.29).

Conservatism advocates for maintenance of existing routines in the society as opposed of inclusion of rapid measures to change the existing routine. Eric, David, and Osvaldo (p.44) argue that philosophers of conservatism aim at ensuring that all economic, as well as political systems are not altered for the creation of an ideal society. Most of the advocates of conservatism argue that with religion and education of indigenous forms of authority is the basis on which conservatism is based. Rational ideas on dealings in the society have a long time been associated with the erosion of conservatism ideologies in the society. Philosophers and analysts of conservatism argue that if the status quo is maintained in society the state is bound to progress. Developments will be evident with the existence of free markets, advocating of human rights and liberties, democracy, and minimal connection to traditional aristocratic and support for specific religion.

The main assumptions of conservatism are that man should be irrational and have no desire of change in the community. Analysts continue to argue, that social strata in the community are completely unachievable and individuals must have total dependence on mores and traditions in the community. Human beings must have total belief in the forces that guide human affairs and must be keen to steer social change in the society.

Conservatism has been applied in many societies to accentuate individual responsibility and inseparability in trade and industry or political sovereignty. Low taxes have been imposed on individuals; justice has been termed as the best form of freedom.

Liberalism

Liberalism is a political ideology that advocates for the provision of human rights and freedoms with no forms of constraints. Liberalism has a strong base on the strong maintenance for comprehensive elucidation of human rights in terms of the right to express one’s view freely, a chance to be of any religious affiliation, ability to take part in the political process and reforms in the state as well as have a right to champion for existence of a capitalist and liberated economy.

Liberalism advocates for societies based on social base and total belief in the human beings’ ability to judge things and ideologies based on human ability to use reason to criticize activities and ideologies. Liberty aims to secure human rights over responsibilities based upon their lives. The rights of the marginalized and minority groups in the society are adhered.

The human race is considered extremely kind and considerate; therefore, human beings are able to live with each other in the society with no conflicts of interest and choice. The human race has been credited with indispensable integrity that is mandatory for thriving of peaceful community. Too much power concerted in one area may raise suspicions in the society. Human beings, therefore, have a right to evolve and fight for what they term as rights and liberties of human beings. Too much regional power must be challenged through the rise of revolution to break the bonds of dictatorship.

Liberalism has been applied in society to advocate for change in the societies. The government must be coerced to provide equal opportunities and prospects for change in the society. There must equal redistribution of wealth in the society and not only reliance on the government dealings but also political and social liberties of individuals.

A liberalist society is one that has pro-planned labor rights that advocate for emphasis of the rights and liberties in the society. The government must have limits on their dealings with its citizens careful not to coerce the citizens into forceful endeavors. Use of force may infringe on the rights and freedom of citizens. Extremist powers in liberalistic states are not given a chance to thrive or concentration of powers on one part of the government.

Socialism

Socialism is a political ideology that advocates for an economic system that allows for all resources in the society as part of the government. All resources must be pulled together for the benefit ever individual in the state. Eric, David, and Osvaldo (p.58) argue that all the business prospects must be managed and properly monitored by the government. The private enterprise must not have a chance of running the state’s property. If the private sector runs the businesses, inequalities and protection of minority groups in the society is likely not to occur. The market processes of governing the market operations have no place is socialist states.

In general, socialism allows for communal ownership and management of various modes of production and equal allocation of goods produced in a state. According to the famous philosopher, Karl Marx, socialism is the intermediate ideology between capitalism and communism. Eric, David, and Osvaldo (p.77) argue that socialism is only achievable through the initiative of proletarian in the society. Unlike other models like capitalism that results into unfair redistribution of resources in the society, socialism ensures that all people acquire wealth in a fair and just manner. Socialism aims at designing an egalitarian society where power and the states resources are shared equally. However, debates have come up on the methodologies of ensuring that there is an equitable distribution of wealth and resources in the society.

Socialization, hence, advocates for nationalization of the states’ resources and the means of production in the society. The state should, also, control all the income generating activities for the purposes of nationalizing all resources in the society for the benefit of all regardless of their background.

Best perspective on freedom and equality

Socialism is the best ideology that societies can advocate for their modes of governance. Society’s modes of distribution of wealth are left for social control factors to take over. In terms of economy socialism ensures that there are collective modes of production for all people despite the backgrounds. This mode, therefore, minimizes the chances of having a society that is not equal. All people are provided with an opportunity of having an equal share of the society’s production methods and results. Through councils that represent workers, all people in the society have a chance of maximizing the chances of acquisition of wealth.

In general, socialism is the best method if a society aims at creating collective a unified means of ownership and management of property. In contrast to capitalism, which has been termed as a self-centered mode, socialism ensures less competition but more cooperation and coordination in contributing towards the societies’ welfare.

Why do some feminists view women as oppressed?

According to Eric, David, and Osvaldo (p.103) Oppression of women is one of the major forms of oppression in the globe today. Majority of women in the globe today end up behaving as a result of various forms of coercion but not from their own free will. Oppression may be embedded in one’s way of thinking, changes in the society my not be a good basis of judgment on perceptions of oppression. Eric, David, and Osvaldo (p.113) continue to argue that the perceptions of men on the place of women in the society has to change. There must be equality between men and women in terms of all aspects of life starting from access to quality education to equal job opportunities to the women.

Social feminists believe that if the roles between men and women are equalized, there is a great likelihood that prostitution that has for a long time been regarded as a profession of women will play no tangible role in society. On the other hand, liberal feminists have a different view on equality between men and women. Based on their arguments, feminists argue that if facts about the undermine of women are brought forward, and then women will be in a better position to fight for their rights on a universal ground. If facts based on research are presented on the place of women and the best place they should have, based on facts, woman may be in a better position to champion for their rights and place in society.

If the standards of women are accepted on a political ground, rather than presumed theories that have no basis, diversity of all people might be achieved. If women claim a higher percentage of political backing, they are in a better position to champion for their rights rather than presentation of ideologies that may not have any tangible backgrounds. Unlike the radical feminists who present ideas on the grounds of perceptions that may have no basics of reality, liberal feminists incorporate all the finer details of women oppression and need to change the perceptions of women as an inferior gender.

Eric, David, and Osvaldo (p.111) indicate the rate at which women are being oppressed in the entire world is of the same magnitude. Women undergo various forms of oppression whilst under the hands of men. Some of the forms of oppression may be extreme based on the ability of the men to acquire the oppression mechanisms. Some women in the society undergo rape, oppression of all forms, degradation, and denial of rights amongst others.

It is from the oppression of these women that the majority of them opt to undertake prostitution as a means of survival in the society. Though there have been heated arguments on women, rape and prostitution, Eric, David, and Osvaldo (p.115) argues that either way, the two are contributors to the degradation of the rights of women as human beings. Men have been regarded as natural oppressors, the reasons why most women have recorded numerous reports of mistreatment whilst at the hands of men.

Women of a radical feminist point of view argue that in as much prostitution may be done out of the will of the concerned female, prostitution is a way in which men find grounds of judging women a lesser human beings who are willing to do anything for their survival. While men find other methods of acquiring income, women demean themselves by taking part in prostitution as a way of survival. These feminists continue to argue that it is from such basis that men find a lee way of oppressing the women in the society.

Myths indicate that men are the stronger sex and should take up the dominating roles in all aspects of life be it in politics, acquisition of job opportunities, and access to quality education among others. From this argument, men believe that they have a right to respond to their sexual urges that are higher than that of women. Other men will claim that it is their right to have a woman under their control if they have to be labeled as real men. Thus, many women go through a lot of aggressiveness from men that ultimately render them an oppressed that survives under the mercy of men. Other men make it completely difficult for women to advance in any forms of life by controlling women’s sources of income and ability to progress.

In contemporary Canada, women have been viewed as lesser beings that have to depend on decisions made by the males in the society. Men have been seen with the urge of completely dominating women as much as they can in all aspects of life. In this regard, women are constrained from conducting roles in the society that might lead to their realization as dominant and successful beings. Whether the form of degradation is on a moral or social aspect, it all sums up to degradation of women.

In contemporary Canada women are inclined to live traditional lives that confine them to the bringing forth and nurturing children. Men have been given an upper hand in the society through the freedom of choice and decision making. The women are clearly an oppressed lot in Canada. They have no ability to take part in key sectors of the society like making decisions or even active participation in politics for fear of overtaking the men.

How can an environmentally sustainable society be best achieved?

The scope of sustainability can either be national, or global, and is related to where Canadians live, and this is according to Eric, David, and Osvaldo (p. 125). Statistics provided by the Canadian government estimate that the urban population is eighty percent of the total population. This means that at the local level is where environment sustainability take place. This is because the lives of most Canadians are presently at the local level as they engage in activities such as shopping, working and living. The reality of making the Canadian society environmental sustainable is achievable. Every community has a role to play in this extremely vital issue.

The environment, society, and economy, are words used to describe the meaning of a society that is sustainable. Furthermore, the authors Eric, David, and Osvaldo define it as the different environmental, social and economic systems that enable society to have life are that are meaningful both in the future and the present. Also, it seeks to ensure that the society is aware that there built, social and natural systems that have to be depended on. The society should be involved in the process of making decisions. In order to become a society that is environmental sustainable, the local government should increase the participation of the society. There are guidelines that exist concerning sustainability issues in Canada.

Will is an essential consideration when the society is to be involved in matters related to sustainability as it needs a consensus. This is because change is affected by barriers that are psychological, bureaucratic and political in nature. The government should offer support that is top-down, and it must be included in the processes that society is involved. Several Canadian jurisdictions that are complex in nature make sure that decision making focuses on the environment. It gives priority to economic and social matters whereby, Canadians will benefit from international considerations and knowledge that is scientifically complex. The process of coming up with a society that is sustainable takes a long time and the government is aware of this fact. In turn, it requires support from other sectors such as citizens, nongovernmental organizations and industry.

The Canadian population is dispersed, and the distances are vast, as well. The country benefits a lot from population growths that are high, northern climate and the exportation and production of natural resources. The latter is responsible for both non renewable and renewable resources through which it supports the Canadian economy. It also has to ensure that all times the health care, transportation and infrastructure systems are well taken care of. The Gross Domestic product of Canada is improved by the contribution of natural resources that are indirect and direct. In terms of percentage, the GDP obtained is between twenty to twenty five percent.

An act created by parliament known as the Federal Sustainable Development provides information required for environmental sustainability. The country’s economic, social and natural resources are responsible for efficient, ecological use. Canada’s government is making sure that the environmental impact is reduced as through its sustainable development goals. The government seeks to ensure that Canadians will benefit from wealth derived from sustainability. It has come up with a program on fisheries that are effective, affordable and science based.

In almost every part of the world, Corporate Social responsibility is a requirement for standard operating procedures. In Canada CSR is in a way mandatory as it contributes to a society that is environmentally sustainable. It ensures that companies participate in activities that are ethical and transparent, also contribute to sustainable development. In turn competitiveness, productivity and innovation are achieved by companies that engage in CSR activities. Other benefits that occur as a result of CSR include branding, improved reputation, excellent society expectations and capital access, among other things. Eric, David, and Osvaldo believe that the practice of CSR will help the Canadian society become sustainable. Furthermore, it motivates other players in the economy especially those who are wealthy to participate in CSR.

The best way possible of obtaining a society that is environmentally sustainable is through educating people. Training, education and public awareness are in line with the economic development that is current will help in achieving sustainability. Different perceptions exist concerning whether it is possible to have a society that is environmentally sustainable. According to the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, the guidelines that exist concerning sustainability are eighteen in number. An example of one of the principles states that those who engage in pollution should pay for engaging in this act. They should face the consequences of engaging in pollution. Consumption and population are the key issues in sustainability. Increases in resource and population usage jeopardize a future that is sustainable, also one that is linked to education. Other factors that it is associated with are resource consumption and fertility rate. Educating women concerning reproductive health reduces fertility rates and thus leads to population growth. By reducing the rates of fertility and reducing the risk of overpopulation, Canada is on its ways in achieving a society that is sustainable. The opposite is accurate for a relationship concerning a resource and education use. Moreover, those who are extremely educated and have high incomes, consume many resources than those who are poorly educated. They latter tend to have low incomes as compared to the former. This means that more educational opportunities increase the threats and barriers to sustainability.

More should be done to ensure that women are well educated as they are the ones who will make the society environmentally sustainable. Education benefits women in many life-altering processes and ways. A woman who is educated acquires a high status and an efficacy sense that is enhanced for women, education has proven to changes their ordinary lives, also how they interact with society as well as maintain their economic status. By educating women, it ensures that their lives are more equitable as well as that of their families. Their ability to participate in decision making in the community is increased and it leads to achieving goals of a sustainable nature.

Canadian citizens have a role to play in ensuring that they have a society that is environmentally sustainable. In order to achieve sustainable development individual citizens can control their actions in an attempt to make progress. The environmental, economic, and social impacts of sustainable development are as a result of decisions made by citizens. The latter must make informed decisions such as reducing pollution, recycling, and waste reduction, as well as water and energy conservation. Other ways through, which they easily contribute to sustainability, is through basic activities such as being healthy, using vehicles that are fuel efficient and even biking. The mentioned activities contribute a lot in achieving sustainability according to Eric, David, and Osvaldo (p.156).

Globalization is defined as the process of ensuring that different parts of the world are connected. The authors seem to believe that, through globalization, the Canadian society can become sustainable. Furthermore, the global economy is not making as much progress as that of the modern state. As a result of technology, people are becoming informed about many issues, which in turn, increase their life’s quality. Globalization brings about communication, and in turn, various products become available to the Canadian society. Terrorism is a problem, which has been brought about by Globalization, and its effects are disastrous. Society cannot be at peace if they are constantly being threatened. Thus, it seems that terrorism affects sustainable development in a negative manner. This is the reason why organizations such as the UN, EU and NAFTA have been formed. They are concerned with global politics that is beneficial to society by making it environmentally sustainable. Membership to these organizations has proven in many scenarios especially those dealing with climate change to be extremely helpful. Thus, more should be done to make the Canadian society be well informed on such issues, through proper education.

In conclusion, it is indeed possible to have a society that is environmentally sustainable. Everyone in the society should step up and ensure that they engage in activities that are sustainable. Women should become informed about the power that they have, and how it can assist society. The government has a role to play in promoting sustainable development as it this is what is expected of it. It should come up with effective regulations and policies that seek to improve the environment. Cooperation between the Canadian government and other interested stake holders should be promoted. These efforts will make the lives of people become well in the futures and the present situation. According to Benjamin Barber, a political scientist from the United States, globalization will help in achieving sustainable development. The society should aim at having a society that is democratic in order to become sustainable. Indeed, a lot needs to be done to make the reality of having a society that environmentally sustainable possible.

References

Mintz, Eric.& David, Close & Osvaldo, Croci. Politics, Power and the Common Good: An Introduction to Political Science. 3rd ed. Toronto, Ontario: Pearson Education, 2011.

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Annotated Bibliography Global Finances

Annotated Bibliography Global Finances

Annotated Bibliography: Global Finances

Emerson, J. (2003). The blended value Preposition: Integrating Social and Financial Returns. California Management: 45. 4, pp 35-51.

Summary:

Capitalism 3.0 as a lot of people refer to it outlines a prospect to break the present structures and develop a framework of accountability which tackles the realities of the world that we stay in. it offers an opportunity to come out of the limits that people have developed by themselves and obtain a common avenue to comprehend the nature of value and strategize it to optimize the value. The article suggests that if we intend to optimize the economic value by developing monetary returns for the investors, people should not anymore be in a position to do it with no consideration of how the business execution plan is affected by the environmental and social factors. And when one intends to attain greater environmental and social justice in the world, they won’t be able unless they comprehend the economics of contemporary investment.

Critique:

Capital markets in general may support any dynamics of non-profit business, however when it gets to social value investment, people have only loans and grants- with limited options for establishing real capital investment to grow ventures which are not precisely creating either economic or social value. The inadequacy of instruments hinders the attempts of the managers considering blended value, either in for-profit social investments which are emerging or within the mainstream corporations to scale their investments.

There are minimal studies regarding how appropriate to approach the establishment of a common single endorsed package of metrics through which to examine the nonfinancial performance aspects of the funds and the organizations.

Implication

The fundamental issues that came across when exploring the world of performance and measurement metrics comprise the absence of consistently effective models and general tools for reporting and measuring economic value and the minimal confidence in the element being measured.

Chang, H-J (2002) Kicking away the ladder: Development strategy in historical

perspective, London: Anthem Press: Global financial Journal, 2, 73-81

Summary:

Currently there is immense pressure on the developing nations to adopt a package of “good institutions” and “good policies” to promote their economic growth. As you would expect, there have been growing concerns on whether these proposed institutions and policies are desirable for the developing nations. Nonetheless, inquisitively, even a number of people who are cynical on the implementation of these institutions and policies to the developing nations appear to take for granted that these were the institutions and policies which were applied by the developed nations at the time that they were developing.

Critique:

The article, on the basis of a careful and detailed analysis of historical evidence, suggest that the matter may not be far from the facts, -developed nations did not reach where they are today through the institutions and policies which they propose to the developing nations. A lot of them aggressively applied “bad industrial policies and trade, for instance export subsidies and infant protection of industry; these practices are actively banned if not frowned upon by the World Trade Organization (WTO) presently. Very captivatingly, the USA and the UK, which a number of us perceive as models of free market and free trade policies, “were the most ardent users of such policies” during the initial phases of their development. In view of institutional establishment, up to the time that they were quite established, the developed nations had a handful of the institutions considered important for the developing nations currently; a central bank, professional bureaucracy and political democratic institutions. In fact, the developed nations had a very low-standard institutions than the current developing nations at comparable development levels

If this is what is on the ground, then aren’t the developed nations, within the disguise of proposing “good” institutions and policies. Which render it hard for the developing nations to apply institutions and policies which had allowed them to economically develop in the earlier eras? List Friedrich, an economist from German who perfected the hypothesis of “infant industry protection”, too argued so. He censured the British advocating for the values of free trade to nations for instance, the USA and Germany as effort to “kick away the ladder” which the UK used to reach to the top.

Highlighting that the claimed “good” institutions and policies proposed by Bretton Woods institutions and the governments of the developed nations has failed to establish the anticipated growth in the developing nations within the last two decades, or more, the articles proposes drastic re-thinking of financial growth strategies.

Implication

The article suggest that, the above indicated historical materials regarding the financial developmental experience of the countries which are developed need to be broadly publicized so that country which are developing can draw informed choices regarding institutions and policies. The other thing is that policy-linked conditions connected to financial aid from the World Bank and IMF need to be radically changed, in view of the fact that a lot of financial policies which are currently considered as “bad” are as a matter of fact not, and that perhaps there could be no “best”.

Martin Wolf, Fixing Global Finance (2008). Politics and Global financial growth’, Development Policy Review, 27(1):5-31.

Summary:

Wolf, the lead economics commentator of the Financial Times, is broadly recognized to be the finest newspaper contributor focusing on global finance presently. Wolf’s expertise, insight and knowledge are highly valuable that one may possibly stay adequately informed concerning the global economy developments by merely reading his Financial Times column on a regular manner. In deed one would seriously recommend an evening reading his column starting from the year 2007 all through to 2010, in series, as an admirable fashion to catch up to speed with the policy and developments debates pertaining to the global financial crisis. From the fall of Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns to the dealings of Basel III and the most recent the IMF lending and voting reforms.

Critique:

Wolf’s 2008 publication is fairly worth reading. He concentrates on how the policies of macroeconomics of fundamental nations (especially the United States and China) have generated “global imbalances” which rest on the heart of the present tensions regarding “currency wars” and exchange rates within the global economy. According to his view point, these imbalances of microeconomics are both prerequisite for the financial weep and the ongoing hindrance to the Great Recession. From the perspective of a political economy, this argument is critical since it shifts out attention far from the fiscal microeconomics (for instance, the swaps of default credits, and mortgage-backed equities and securities) toward serious problems (persistent payment imbalances, exchange rate regimes) that have to be looked into carefully to re-establish the global economy.

Not unexpectedly, this renders Wolf to concentrate much on politics, in his article, Wolf put in practice a well-trained vision for realizing how international relations and domestic politics structure policies of economy and have governments’ constrained willingness and ability to work together at global spheres in tacking the consequences and causes of the financial problems.

Implication

His article on “Fixing the global finance”, too has a tremendously significance introductory section on the “Blessings and Perils of Global Finance” which explores the fundamental tradeoffs confronting nations in a space of financial globalization. This memento of the rationale of fiscal markets, the benefits and costs of global financial flows, and the diverse government policy alternatives accessible to tackle the key issues of financial markets (asymmetric/incomplete information, and ethical hazard) remain vital point of start for structuring arguments regarding policies and politics of global finance.

Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth S. Rogoff, (2009). This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly, Princeton University Press. Review of International Economics 6:163-182

Summary

Probably the most broadly extolled article to emerge from the contemporary global financial crisis, this work is, in a number of approaches, the quantitative accompany to Kindleberger’s stylish anecdote history of financial problems. As a matter of fact I would suggest that Rogoff and Reinhart’s genuine contribution is not this article (which to me is rather difficult to read), yet robust, massive database which they structured and made accessible to the researchers.

Critique

With remarkable care and comprehensive detail, Rogoff and Reinhart have gathered and analyzed the economic characteristics of nations and problems back to medieval Europe and 20th Centaury China. Hence, “This Time is Different” highlights the outstanding similarities of the financial problems over a period of time, cutting across various cases, highly conspicuous is the existence of “excessive debt accumulation” by banks, governments, consumers and corporations. In different sections, the authors also examine multiple kinds of problems (comprising banking crisis, exchange rates issues and sovereign defaults) in an attempt to precisely make clear why and how “This Time” is seldom (if ever) accurately “different”.

Implication

As Singer David puts it in his piece of article, this treasure data trove is simply a point to start for the political scientist; publishing similarities across crisis (even within the robustly detailed manner that Rogoff and Reinhart have done) illustrates neither discrepancy in the frequency, timing, and severity of neither issues nor the grounds why policymakers across the nations and over period of time continually adopt the kinds of policies which result into financial problems. However, “This Time is Different” remains a magisterial involvement to the area which is comprehension for political economists who are interested in the consequences, determinants and responses to monetary problems.

Raghuram Rajan, Fault Lines: (2010). How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy: Princeton University Press, Developmental International Financial Review, 27 (1):5-31

Summary:

Although very much within the “crisis handbook” genre, Raghuram article stands out because of two reasons. One, Raghuram is among the few economists who would genuinely allege to have predicted to global financial crisis, since the evidence delivered by his famous contrarian publication which was presented in 2005 at the Hole Jackson conference.

Critique

Subsequently, Raghuram’s paper is more credible article than very many papers, and as a result more laudable of detailed focus. The second one and perhaps more importantly, Raghuram rapidly moves beyond the “most proximate suspects” (the villains and heroes of the “present history” and “

to focus much more on the fundamental macroeconomic trends. – the missing links of the article’s title- which caused the problem. These comprise: a) growing inequality of income and stagnation of wages in the United States, which propelled the policymakers’ motivation to offer cheaper credit cards (that was issued in the form of lax fiscal policy and subsidized mortgages) so as to sustain the living standards of the middle class. b) the imbalances of macroeconomics between the deficit and surplus nations in the global economy (concerning this see Wolf Martin) and c) strains between the various financial structure models across the nations (specifically between UK/US on one side and Japan/China on the other side.

Implication

Therefore, Raghuram eschews the decent, “magic bullet” descriptions developed by a number of other researchers, alluding instead that there is ample blame move around, with regulators, bankers, economists, households and governments all have certain obligations for creating the present financial crisis. Though this is less fulfilling on one end “blame all is to blame none” it highly in line with the perspective of political economy, whereby the causal effects, variables interacts are conditional and the results in the global economy are rottenly the outcome of a complex policies, array of interests and trends of a period of many years.

References:

Emerson, J. (2003). The blended value Preposition: Integrating Social and Financial Returns. California Management Journal: 45. 4, pp 35-51.

Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth S. Rogoff, (2009). This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly, Princeton University Press. Review of International Economics 6:163-182.

Raghuram Rajan, (2010). Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy: Princeton University Press, Developmental International Financial Review, 27(1):5-31.

Martin Wolf, (2008). Fixing Global Finance. Politics and Global financial growth’, Development Policy Review, 27(1):5-31.

Chang, H-J (2002) Kicking away the ladder: Development strategy in historical

perspective, London: Anthem Press. Global financial Journal, 2, 73-81.

Analysis of the book, A God Man is Hard to Find, by Flannery OConnor.

Analysis of the book, A God Man is Hard to Find, by Flannery OConnor.

Analysis of the book, A God Man is Hard to Find, by Flannery O’Connor.

Introduction

We live in a world that is characterized by good and evil, and as most individuals struggle with being good and performing good acts, others are comfortable exercising evil and performing bad acts. The idea of good and evil is depicted in most artistic pieces ranging from paintings, films, music, and literature. Interestingly, everyone has individual perceptions regarding good and evil, while some draw their ideas from philosophical thought, others base their ideas on religious teachings and practices. One such literary piece is the book, A Good Man is hard to Find, written by the famous American novelist Flannery O’Connor. Influenced by her religious background and her home region, the O’Connor narrates the story of a family who are murdered while taking a vacation trip.

O’Connor is well famed for her emphasis of grotesque stories and characterization, which is considered as being realist, as opposed to, idealist (Connie 74-78). Her literary works were, greatly, influenced by the South, and she uses this setting to bring out her ideas in every literary piece she produces. Accordingly, the author uses her religious background when judging moral and ethical behavior, and for that reason, her literary pieces of work have good versus evil as their central themes. Using morally flawed characters, as well as, presumably morally upright characters, the author presents intriguing stories that capture the interests of her audience at all times (Connie 74-78). More specifically, the novel, A Good Man is Hard to Find, the story is set in Georgia, with the year and time having no explicit definition or designation. The story takes place in two main places: the first place is Georgia, whereas the second setting is on a roadside, more specifically in a ditch. Using these two settings, the author tells the story of how a family was murdered during their trip for a vacation in Florida.

This paper presents a literary analysis of the book, A God Man is Hard to Find, by Flannery O’Connor. The paper provides an analysis of characterization, and point of views as brought out in the novel. The paper also examines how the author uses symbolism, irony, foreshadowing, and similes to elucidate and enhance the theme of good versus evil.

Characterization

In literature, the characters refer to the people in the text, whose story the author is keen on narrating to readers and audience. In view of that, characterization refers to the author’s development and presentation of characters in the novel (Peterson 1). Just like all other writers, O’Connor has employed two main methods of presenting her audience with her characters in the novel, A Good man is Hard to Find. These methods include direct characterization and indirect characterization. With direct characterization, the narrator directly informs readers about the characters in the novel (Peterson 1). This information can range from providing a description of the characters, as well as, the use of names and overt commentary. Direct characterization in the novel, A Good Man is hard to Find, is presented in two ways including an analysis of the characters by the author, as well as, naming. The author gives Misfit his name as an illustration of his personality and life experiences. Indirect characterization has also been utilized for the novel’s story development, and the author allows each of her characters to reveal themselves and their personalities as the story continues. O’Connor manages to bring this out through the provision of details such as, appearance, mannerisms, as well as, speech (Peterson 1). Evidently, two main characters are revealed in the novel including the grandmother and the misfit. Whereas the grandmother is brought out as the protagonist, the misfit is obviously the antagonist in the story. As a character, the grandmother is the focal point of the story, and she because she considers herself as morally upright, she constantly passes judgment to other characters and criticizes their activities. She does not judge her own ways, something that she later comes to regret immediately before her death. The misfit, on the other hand, is the character that seems to lack moral conscience and is constantly in conviction. Observably, the misfit is brought out as the strongest character in the book in relation to disposition, as he possesses characteristics that all other characters do not.

Point of View

The novel, A Good man is Hard to Find, is written from the third person or omniscient point of view. Accordingly, it is the grandmother’s thoughts and point of view that the readers have access to, thus revealing the use of the third person point of view in the novel. In the novel, O’Connor reports the grandmother’s thoughts, as well as, her actions and conversations thus introducing a new point of view namely, the limited omniscient point of view. An example of this is revealed where the author writes “she knew that Bailey would not be willing to lose anytime looking at an old house” (O’Connor 35). This statement reveals to the readers the grandmothers thoughts about her son Bailey. Misfit is the only other character whose actions, and thoughts that the readers are introduced to, thus building on the third person point of view. However, readers get to learn about Misfit’s ideas in the last part of the novel after he has murdered the family. In one of his thoughts regarding the grandmother, Misfit states, “She would have been a good woman,.. if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life” (O’Connor 89). This statement reveals Misfit’s thoughts about the grandmother, as well as, good versus evil.

Symbolism

Symbolism is one of the literary elements that O’Connor has employed in telling the story. In essence, symbolism refers to the process of giving a person, object. or event a meaning that is outside its literal meaning (Peterson 6). Put simply, it is a literary element, which involves the use of representation or imagery. A closer examination of the novel reveals the use of various symbols including grandmother’s hat, Misfit’s car, Toombsboro, the dark forest and the sunless cloudless sky. More specifically, Toombsboro, the town which grandmother and her family pass before their death is used symbolically in the novel. Ideally, Toombsboro is the old plantation where grandmother has memories about (O’Connor, 85). However, the name of the plantation, as well as, the events that take place immediately after passing the plantation reveal something deeper than an old plantation. The name of the plantation suggests doom and misfortune, thus the death of the grandmother and her family.

Irony

O’Connor also employs the use of Irony as a literary element in her novel, A Good man is hard to Find. In literature, irony occurs when one of the characters fails to perceive the obvious (Peterson 5). More specifically, the character fails to understand what the reader and the audience automatically understands when reading the novel. Irony in the novel is demonstrated in the way the grandmother considers herself as a proper and morally upright lady, something that the readers would not consider as true. To the readers, the grandmother actions and thoughts bring her out as a different person from who she think of herself. She is manipulative, she lies and has racist tendencies, and the character sees herself as the opposite of this. However, towards the end of the novel, the character soon realizes that she is not who she considers herself to be but she dies before she can make any changes.

Foreshadowing

In literary writing, foreshadowing is a literary technique where the author uses his characters to foretell the activities that are likely to occur in the novel. Evidently, foreshadowing is O’Connor’s main choice in relation to literary techniques and the author uses the character of the grandmother to foreshadow the tragic developments that occur later on in the novel. An example of the use of foreshadowing is illustrated when the grandmother wears her best clothes and hat for the trip with the excuse that something tragic might happen to the family during the trip. The grandmother states, “in case of an accident, anyone seeing her dead on the highway would know at once that I was a lady” (O’Connor 6).  This statement foretells the death of the entire family in the hands of the Misfit, which occurs in the last section of the book.

Simile

In the novel, O’Connor also utilizes a number of literary devices to tell her story. Evidently, the author makes her words contribute to the effect of the story through the use of similes. The author’s use of similes in the novel both demonstrates her literary skills, as well as, the events taking place in the novel. An example of a simile used in the novel is in the description of the children’s mother. “She was a young woman in slacks, whose face was as broad and as innocent as a cabbage”(O’Connor 24). This simile, illustrate the gullibility and incompetence of the mother, which makes it easy for others to manipulate her.

Conclusion

In her novel, A Good Man is Hard to Find, Flannery O’Connor employs the use of various literary elements, techniques and devices to narrate her story. These literary elements and devices include irony, foreshadowing, symbolism, and similes among other things. Because the central theme of the novel is good versus evil, the author uses these literary elements, techniques, and devices to tell her story. Observably, the author effectively utilized these elements, techniques, and devices to communicate the theme of good versus evil in the story.

Work Cited

Connie, Ann Kork. Critical Companion to Flannery O’Connor. New York: Infobase Publishing,

2008. Print. pp. 74–78.

O’Connor, Flannery. A Good Man is Hard to Find. New York: Rutgers University Press, 1953.

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Analysis of the book, Discipleship Counseling, by Neil Anderson

Analysis of the book, Discipleship Counseling, by Neil Anderson

Book Analysis: Discipleship Counseling

Abstract

In his book, Discipleship Counseling, Anderson examines the significance of discipleship counseling to both the counselor and the counselee. As he presents his ideas in the book, three main themes are brought out including the relationship between psychology and theology, Christ as the ultimate counselor, and the concept of freedom in Christ as a tool for discipleship. These three themes have been the highlight of the book, and the author uses them to pass his message regarding discipleship counseling across. The themes have been used, not only to advise counselors on the approaches towards discipleship counseling, but also as a way of creating understanding on the importance of discipleship counseling.

Key Words: Discipleship Counseling, Psychology, Theology, Freedom in Christ

Introduction

Discipleship and the path towards religious fulfillment have been identified as one of the most complicated processes for individuals today. This is especially so in modern day because of the religious dilution that characterizes society, thus making it hard for people to practice their religions accordingly (Putman & Duek, 2011). Having established this, religious leaders have identified the need for discipleship counseling, which involves providing guidance to individuals regarding discipleship and religion. This form of counseling is much different from secular counseling, as it involves encouraging individuals to live spiritual lives, in accordance with the expectations of their respective religions. Neil Anderson, an author and a religious leader, expounds on this concept in his book, Discipleship Counseling. In this book, Anderson explains the significance of discipleship counseling, as well as, the various approaches towards discipleship counseling.

This paper provides an analysis of the book, Discipleship Counseling, by Neil Anderson. Specifically, the paper examines three themes brought out in the book, as well as, their relationship with the entire context of the book.

Themes

Upon a closer examination of Anderson’s book, it is evident that the author wishes to expound on the concept of discipleship counseling. This includes providing information regarding some of the basic approaches towards the practice. Throughout the book, the author explains some of the concepts and methodologies applied in discipleship counseling, all of which bring are used to build on some themes in this practice. Accordingly, three main themes are brought out in the book including a relationship between psychology and theology, Christ as the ultimate counselor, as well as, freedom in Christ as a contrivance of discipleship.

Relationship between Psychology and Theology

The relationship between psychology and theology is the central theme of the book. This is mainly because the book is centered on discipleship counseling, which is the process of guiding individuals into attaining their full spiritual potential and following the path of Christ (Anderson, 2003). As the author explains, theology and psychology have a close relation, unlike popular belief. Anderson explains that psychology is the study of the human soul, and it is in these souls that faith and religion are ingrained in individuals. Theology, on the other hand, is the study of God and religion, thus explaining the relationship between the two concepts. Accordingly, psychology also embraces human thought and imagination, which is also the root of one’s religious beliefs and practices (Anderson, 2003). Psychology entails an examination of the concept of spirituality, and the significance of this to individuals, something that is part and parcel of theology. As evident from the readings, the entire book examines how psychology can be used to encourage, and in some cases manipulate one’s thoughts regarding their spirituality and religious beliefs (Wade et al., 2007).

As the author explains, cognitive therapy, which is a technique used in discipleship counseling, plays a influential role in shaping one’s beliefs. Human beings lack the ability to control their emotions, but their thought and beliefs can be controlled or manipulated (Anderson, 2003). The author explains that most religious leaders have utilized this strategy to gain discipleship. This, in turn, illustrates the relationship between theology and psychology, and how this is brought out as a theme in the book. Further still, the book examines the role of counseling in human spirituality and religion. As the author explains, most people, especially those that are spiritually oppressed require guidance when it comes to religion. This guidance can be provided either through counselors, or through Christ, which further draws on the relationship between psychology and theology. Being spiritually or mentally oppressed means that individuals are out of touch with their spiritual side, thus requiring the help of another to regain this (Anderson, 2003). Through the help of psychology, individuals have the ability to stabilize their religious wisdom, which further illustrates the relationship between theology and psychology.

Christ as the Ultimate Counselor

Admittedly, this book concerns the provision of counseling for discipleship and throughout the book the readers are introduced to the various approaches in counseling for discipleship. Accordingly, a counselor is defined as a guide: a person who directs another in their path towards spirituality. The author explains that, in most cases, the counselor is usually a human being who seeks to help another in becoming a religious disciple. Though the author describes the counselor as taking the form of a person or a human being, it is clear that Jesus Christ is the ultimate counselor. This can be examined from two main perspectives, Christ as the counselor to the ‘human’ counselor, as well as, Christ as the counselor to the counselee (Anderson, 2003). First and foremost, it is important to understand that for one to be a counselor, he, or she must have achieved the spiritual echelon that they intend their counselee to attain. This means that the ‘human’ counselor ought to have attained this spiritual height, he or she needed to have received counseling from another.

In essence, Christ is identified as the supreme counselor in relation to discipleship (Anderson, 2003). This is because Christ provides the necessary spiritual guidance for these ‘human’ counselors to guide others, as well as, themselves in the path towards Christianity. It is through the help of Christ that these counselors can guide their counselees into achieving the life that they seek in Christ. The author explains that because Christ is not physically present to provide counseling for his believers, the Bible, which is the holy book, explains what Christ expects from his followers. By reading the Bible, individuals are, therefore, guided into the ideal, Christian way of life (Anderson, 2003). Counselors, as well as, counselees get to understand what is expected of Christians, and for that reason, allow them to practice this accordingly.

Freedom in Christ as a Contrivance of Discipleship

The third and last theme brought out in the book is the theme of freedom in Christ, especially in relation to discipleship. Chapters nine through to fifteen elucidate on the concept of freedom in Christ, as well as, the different types of freedoms that individuals can attain. Accordingly, these chapters also reveal an underlying theme regarding discipleship, which is freedom in Christ as a contrivance of discipleship. As the author explains, the journey towards achieving discipleship comes with plenty of demands and sacrifices (Garzon et al., 2009). To attain spirituality and discipleship as required, individuals need to exercise freedom in Christ, which is defined as an encounter with God that is free from unnecessary ties and attachments. In essence, freedom in Christ involves the affirmation of individuals’ identities in Christ, renouncing all lies and deceptions, opting for the truth as presented in the Bible, as well as, the resolution of any personal or spiritual conflict that made interfere with the relationship with Christ (Anderson, 2003).

By adhering to these demands of freedom in Christ, individuals are, therefore, granted the ability to walk as disciples of God. As the author explains, it is only through the freedom in Christ that individuals will have the ability to acknowledge their discipleship to Christ and God. In support of this, the author provides a list of things that individuals need to free themselves including deception, bitterness, rebellion, pride, as well as, habitual and ancestral sins (Anderson, 2003).

Conclusion

Discipleship counseling is a crucial aspect in theology and religious studies. Anderson has successfully managed to explain this concept to interested readers in his book, thus encouraging awareness and comprehension on the practice. Accordingly, the readings in Andersons book reveal three underlying themes, all of which build on the concept of discipleship counseling. Understanding the relationship between psychology and theology, Christ as the supreme counselor, as well as, freedom in Christ as a tool for discipleship enables individuals to engage in discipleship counseling accordingly.

References

Anderson, N. T. (2003). Discipleship Counseling. USA: Gospel Light.

Garzon, F. L. et al. (2009). Lay Christian Counseling and Client Expectations for Integration in

Therapy. Journal of Psychology and Christianity, 28(2): 113-120.

Putman, K. & Duek, A. (2011). Community Psychology, The Church, and Theological

Perspectives: Introduction to the Special Issue. Journal of Psychology and Theology, 39(1): 183-185.

Wade, N. G. et al. (2007). Effectiveness of religiously tailored interventions in Christian therapy.

Psychotherapy Research, 17(1): 91-105.

Analysis of the play, Trifles, by Susan Glaspell

Analysis of the play, Trifles, by Susan Glaspell

Introduction

While the character John Wright, a farmer by profession lies down on his bed to get some sleep, someone sneaks in to his room in the middle of the night and murders him by strangling him to death with a rope (Glaspell 1-24). Minnie Wright, the farmer’s wife is the number one suspect for the murder and the play centers on figuring this out. Composed in the year 1916, the play, Trifles, by Susan Glaspell is a one-act play with John and Minnie Wright as the two main characters. The story is based on actual events that took place in Susan’s earlier years. The play consists of three sequential parts, all of which try to elucidate the events that led to the murder of John Wright.

This paper provides an in-depth analysis of the play, Trifles, by Susan Glaspell. Specifically, the paper examines the themes of patriarchal domination and female identity as brought out in the play by Susan Glaspell.

Trifles By Susan Glaspell

As previously mentioned, the play, Trifles, by Susan Glaspell, is a play centered on discovering the murderer of John Wright. Together with the authorities and a group of friends, his wife Minnie, who is also the main suspect in the case, engage in a search of the house to identify the possible clues regarding his murder. Arguably, the play, Trifles is concerned about the relationship between men and women in society today (Keller 3). The author intends to use this play to communicate the different gender perceptions that individuals have in society and how this has affected their treatment in society. The relationship between men and women is brought out in different ways, and the characters in the play are used to accentuate how the two genders communicate, and perceive each other. The way the search is conducted in the house also shines a light on the relationship between the two genders, as the men dismiss searching female places and women are persisted in searching throughout the house for the discovery of what happened. Accordingly, two main concepts or themes are brought out in the play with regards to the relationship between men and women. These concepts include, patriarchal domination and female identity, and they are used to illustrate how the two genders related to each other in the play.

Patriarchal Domination

The male characters in the play, Trifles, even the deceased John Wright, portray a sense of self-importance, which they use to impose their ideas on the female characters. At the outset, patriarchal domination is brought out in the way the male characters give the female characters their identities by virtue of the relationship between men and women (Keller 11-13). The men do not believe that women can obtain their identity through their own unique personalities and for that reason have to rely on the men to achieve this. Patriarchal domination is also brought out in the naming of each of the characters, especially the female characters. While men maintain their own names after marriage, women are forced to take up their spouse’s names, which illustrates how these men have managed to dominate over women in the play (Keller 11-13). Additionally, the men are looked out to as sources of law and authority, thus building on the concept of patriarchal dominance in the play. The author depicts men as the serious-minded, and law minded individuals, granting them permission to conduct all the investigations regarding the murder of John (Keller 11-13). Additionally, male superiority in the play is so insidious that the men find comfort in disparaging the women’s curiosity regarding the murder. During the play, one of the male characters is quick to state that women are considerably inconsistent and intolerant to involve themselves in important issues (Glaspell 13). Patriarchal domination in the play is also brought out in the way the investigations are conducted throughout the play. Men accord themselves with so much superiority and self-confidence that they believe the only proper investigations that are to be carried out need to be done by the men. For that reason, the conclusion they reach regarding the murder of Wright appears as biased and inconclusive.

Female Identity

Closely related to patriarchal domination, another concept that has been brought out in the play, Trifles, revolves around female identity. Evidently, the female characters have lost their identities to their male counterparts (Keller 11-13). This comes as a result of the pompous male attitude regarding women and their roles in society. Because of this attitude, women have lost their ability to assert themselves, losing their unique identities, and being shut out of making important decisions. For example, in the play, the male characters state that, Mrs. Peters, the sheriff’s wife is married to the law because of the sheriff’s occupation (Glaspell 20). This illustrates how the female characters have lost their identities. However, the female identity is also, in a way, brought out as being superior to that of the men. This is clearly illustrated in the way the women carry out their investigations, as they are keen on finding out everything that may have led to the murder without any disregard like the men.

Conclusion

Glaspell’s play, Trifles, can be argued as being a feminist play. This is because the play is centered on showing the relationship between men and women, with this relationship being brought out as heinous. Men exercise dominance over their women, and for that reason, the women lose their identities in the process (Keller 11-13). In a way, the play encourages women to assert themselves much more for the betterment of their lives.

Work Cited

Glaspell, Susan. Trifles. United Kingdom: Walter H. Baker, 2010. Print.

Keller, Mathias. Symbolic Realism in Susan Glaspell’s ‘Trifles’. Germany: GRIN Verlag, 2007.

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PART ONE

PART ONE

PART ONE

According to the United States Department of Justice Office on Violence against Women, the definition of domestic violence is an example of harmful conduct in any relationship that is utilized by one accomplice to deal with another close accomplice. Many sorts of misuse are remembered for the meaning of domestic violence, they include:

Actual maltreatment that can incorporate hitting, gnawing, slapping, battering, pushing, punching, pulling hair, consuming, trimming, squeezing, and so forth (any kind of brutal conduct caused for the person in question). Actual maltreatment likewise incorporates denying somebody clinical treatment and constraining medication/liquor use on somebody.

Sexual maltreatment happens when the victimizer pressures or endeavours to force the casualty into having sexual contact or sexual conduct without the casualty’s assent. This regularly appears as conjugal assault, assaulting sexual body parts, actual brutality that is trailed by driving sex, physically belittling the person in question, or in any event, making sexual wisecracks at the casualty’s cost.

Psychological mistreatment includes refuting or emptying the casualty’s self-appreciation worth as well as confidence. Psychological mistreatment regularly appears as steady analysis, ridiculing, harming the casualty’s relationship with his/her kids, or meddling with the casualty’s capacities.

Monetary maltreatment happens when the victimizer makes or attempts to make the casualty monetarily dependent. Monetary victimizers regularly try to keep up with absolute command over monetary assets, keep the casualties admittance to reserves, or deny the casualty from going to the everyday schedule.

Mental maltreatment includes the victimizer conjuring dread through terrorizing; taking steps to truly hurt himself/herself, the person in question, youngsters, the casualty’s family or companions, or the pets; annihilation of property; harming the pets; separating the casualty from friends and family; and disallowing the casualty from going to the everyday schedule. Dangers to hit, harm, or utilize a weapon are a type of mental maltreatment.

Following can incorporate after the person in question, spying, watching, annoying, appearing at the casualty’s home or work, sending gifts, gathering data, settling on telephone decisions, leaving composed messages, or showing up at an individual’s home or work environment. These demonstrations independently are commonly lawful, however any of these practices done ceaselessly brings about a following wrongdoing (Yaqub, 2014).

Cyberstalking alludes to online activity or continued messaging that causes significant passionate trouble in the beneficiary.

Violence against women, including intimate partner violence (IPV), is a significant obstruction to the satisfaction of women’s human rights and to the accomplishment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), (Musa, 2019). This is specific the situation in low-pay and centre pay nations, where the commonness will in general be higher. IPV mulls over any conduct inside an intimate relationship that causes physical, mental or sexual mischief to those in the relationship. According to WHO gauges, almost 23% of women aged between 25 and 30 years and more established all over the planet have encountered physical or sexual violence because of an intimate partner in the course of their lives, with significantly higher extents found in Africa and South East Asia.

IPV openness altogether impacts the wellbeing and prosperity of women by expanding the danger of unfavourable results and hazard practices like burdensome manifestations, self-destructive contemplations and endeavours, liquor and medication use, undesirable pregnancies, foetus removals and sexual communicated infections. Women presented to IPV are more averse to get satisfactory antenatal and gifted conveyance care than women who have not experienced abuse. There is likewise developing proof that IPV and kid abuse can co-happen inside families and produce intergenerational effects. Children of moms encountering IPV are under a higher danger of under-five mortality, helpless development and improvement, just as to an expanded danger of executing or encountering IPV against women later in life, (Bacchus, 2018).

Given its inescapable, significant and durable ramifications for survivors and families, I have progressively perceived the pressing need to further develop worldwide approach activity to handle violence against women in the age bracket 25-30. In this unique circumstance, I consider a particular objective on disposing of all types of violence against women and young ladies inside the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development—under the objective of accomplishing sexual orientation equity and enabling all women and young ladies—which I vital believe to be expanding responsibility by states. Notwithstanding the developing global consideration, in any case, there is as yet restricted interest in IPV examination and coordination in estimating progress towards the 2030 SDGs in most low-income and middle-income countries (Loxton,, 2017).

Routine detailing and disaggregated investigations at country level are fundamental to recognize population subgroups that are especially defenceless against IPV openness, helping the execution of designated proof based anticipation and reaction programming. For the current investigation, I assessed ongoing IPV levels across LMICs and imbalances as per family riches, women’s age, women’s strengthening level, polygyny status of the partnership and space of home.

I will gather my data by utilized information from Demographic and Health Surveys, (as my secondary data) led in LMICs somewhere in the range of 2010 and 2017 that incorporated the ‘abusive behaviour at home module’ and evaluated IPV utilizing an organized poll, observing the WHO rules for the direct of IPV research. These rules underline individual educated assent and the significance regarding guaranteeing classification and security to work on the nature of the information and assurance the wellbeing of the respondent. In this manner, women will possibly answer the inquiries on the violence module in the event that the ideal conditions are met. My target group (women aged 25-30 years) who were common inhabitants of the chose family or who dozed in the families the night prior to the overview will be qualified for individual meetings with the full lady’s survey. Given the affectability of the inquiries, I will choose a subsample of women for the violence module (one qualified lady for each family I tend to interview). For the current investigation, my IPV gauges will aim to produce at the nation level by reanalysing the first study information, (Fry, 2017). Test loads will be utilized to adapt to inside family determination and non-reaction, guaranteeing that the abusive behaviour at home subsample will be broadly delegated. The moral obligation regarding the Demographic and Health Surveys lies with the establishments that directed the reviews in every nation; my team and I, hence, won’t need morals endorsement for this review.

The current pervasiveness of my IPV will be characterized by the extent of ever-partnered women aged 25-30 years who will announce to have encountered somewhere around one demonstration of IPV by a current or previous intimate partner in the beyond a year, autonomously of the recurrence. Questions asked to the women will: ‘Did your (last) spouse at any point do any of the accompanying things to you?’ and ‘How frequently did this occur during the most recent a year: regularly, just once in a while, or not in any way?’. The demonstrations introduced to members to evaluate the event of each kind of IPV are summed up in box 1. Gauges will be determined independently for mental, physical and sexual IPV. A consolidated mark of having encountered physical or sexual IPV, or both, will likewise determine the similarity with past distributions on the theme.

Situation for women to assess Event to be assessed Extent of event. Give a rating of between 1 and 5. Where one is the least and 5 the highest.

1 2 3 4 5

Physical violence Twist your arm or pull your hair. Punch you with fist or hit with something that could hurt you Push you, shake you or throw something at you. Slap you. Try to choke you or burn you on purpose. Threaten or attack you with a gun, knife or other weapon Kick you, drag you, or beat you up. Sexual violence Physically force you to have sexual intercourse with him when you did not want to.

Force you with threats or in any other way to perform sexual acts you did not want to. Physically forced you to perform any other sexual act when you did not want.

Psychological violence Insult you or make to feel bad about herself.

Say or do something to humiliate you in front of others. Threaten to hurt or harm you or someone you cared about. Part 2

Program Design Draft

Hypothesis: If we provide other options to victims to access their resources and worker, such as case managers, counselors, etc., during pandemics, then fewer domestic violence cases and more safe victims.

Mission Statement: For victims, the mission is to guide them with all available resources that are available during pandemics, to teach them how safe is the available alternative options, to work with them on the type of electronics that need for this access, to empower the victims with knowledge of how to be safe during state crisis.

Goal: To develop and prepare the alternative ways of accessing services during pandemics and state crises so that Domestic Violence victims could receive their supports, resources, and needs to be addressed.

Objectives-

By the year, increase 25% of alternative ways to communicate to counselors, case managers, and other workers.

By the year, at least 25% of workshops to be available for victims and cases to be worked on during pandemics.

By the year to decrease 50% of domestic violence calls and cases.

By six months, 50% of 100 workshops to have participants and know how to access these programs by Telehealth communications.

Program Plan

Faculty and Staff- (can be either part time/ full time and either in person or virtually)

Program Director/ Assistant Program Director- (Full Time, Virtual and in Person)

Coordinate and supervise the program tasks. To administer, motivate, hire, and train to staff. Create and nurture affective communication within the organization. Initiate and set goals for programs base on the organization strategic objectives. Develop and approve operations and budgets.

Bilingual Preferred

One Program Director, Two Assistant Program Director

Three days virtual, two days in person

Requirements

Master’s degree in social work, human services

Two years or more of managements supervision

Five years or more of managerial experience

Solid knowledge of the overall department function

Education Coordinator- (Part Time, either Remotely or in Person)

The Education Coordinator provides support and assistance, development of educational programs. Duties may include use of electronics communications and technology, preparation of reports and program documentation, develop workshop for domestic violence victims.

Five Education Coordinators

Bilingual preferred

Should choose wether in person or remotely, aware of the change of shift if need to revise more hours

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in social work, human service or related field

One year of work experience in educational setting

Five year of work experience in domestic violence

Work independently on highly complex or strategic assignment

Victim Advocate- (Full Time, Remotely and in Person, Shift Change)

Providing crisis intervention, safety planning, counseling and advocacy. Providing clients with information and referrals to outside services. Assess the urgency of victims needs and seek immediate assistance for those issues affecting victim safety.

Five victim advocate

Bilingual preferred

Requirements

Master’s degree in social work, human service, criminal justice or related field

Five years of work experience in domestic violence

Must have experience providing mental health services.

Social Worker- (Full time & Part time, in person or remotely)

Responsible for managing multiple clients and their individual needs. Developing treatment for clients with mental illness or clients recovering from traumatic events. Address patient concerns and goals while maintaining constant communications with the patients. Develop care plans for patients.

Six social workers

Bilingual preferred

Three full time in person, 3 part time remotely (shift change)

Requirements

Bachelor’s or Master degree in social worker

Valid and current LCSW or LMSW license

Five years of clinical social work experience

Two years or more in working with domestic violence

Ability to make psychosocial assessment and develop and implement care plans

Domestic Violence Counselors- (Full time and Part time, remote or in person)

Promote safety, independence and healing for victims of domestic violence. Provide hotline, counseling, support group, advocacy services. Must be active providing services either by phone, online or in person.

Five Domestic violence counselors

Bilingual preferred

Rotates shift either remote or in person

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree

Two years of experience in working with victims of domestic violence or Telehealth counseling’s

Ability to work in a fast paced environment, assess priorities, handle multiple assignments

Intern/ Volunteer- (Fully Remote)

Will have the unique role of answering questions, debrief difficult calls, chats, coordinating and planning support groups, engagement activities.

Three intern students per semester (150 hours)

Two volunteer worker (6 months, 24 hours per week)

Requirements

Intern must be in any degree program within human service related

Volunteer worker must provide resume, cover letter, letter recommendation

Computer skills knowledge of zoom or Telehealth communications

Must show good time management skills and be responsible

Activities

Faculty and Staff-

Before hiring all faculty and staff would be trained properly to use and have knowledge of using Telehealth communications. How to create zooms meeting, phone calls meetings and chat meeting safely for the victims. All be preparation for pandemics and state crisis.

After hiring all faculty and staff are required to participate in meeting and workshops.

Meetings would be giving three times a month (all meetings would be remotely). Meeting would be an opportunity for workers to ask questions, provide new ideas for the program.

Workshops- as the program is growing, workshops would be held every two months or if new activities or service is added, the worker would be informed. Workshops would be either remotely or in person.

All worker would also be prepared to work remotely during state crisis and pandemics. If any pandemics occur worker would be prepared with phone and computer to be worked from home.

Clients/Victims-

In the program there would be workshops provided to the clients. The workshops would teach clients how to access to all alternatives ways, to reach to their worker or counselors. Also, clients would be provided with technology equipment if necessary. They would have the opportunity to learn how to use each electronics devices.

The workshop would be help at the beginning of each month and the end of each month (If the 1st fall in a weekend the workshop would be held the first Monday of the month and the last Monday of the month). There would be two sections for each workshop. For the beginning of the month the first section would be 9am- 11am in English second section at 1pm-3pm in Spanish in person. For the end of the month would be the same time but through zoom meeting (link would be provided through email or flyers to the client)

-To obtain electronic devices would be giving once a month with referrals from their workers.

For electronic devices workshop would be held in person. The time for these workshops would be from 9am to 12pm on Wednesday’s of the second week of the month. While receiving the devices, the client would have an opportunity to learn how to access the program online, how to set up appointment with their worker either in person or online. Also, they would learn if having emergency how to access to the emergency portal.

Completion-

After each workshops clients would be giving survey giving the program feedback to either know how to maintain or the improvements of the programs. After each client completion goal, they would be asked to speak in either workshop to provide information and how the program was a help to complete their goal and how they survive or write a letter to be giving to other clients.

PART 3

My team and I will present proof on the degree of flow mental, physical and sexual IPV and related imbalances utilizing public review information from LMICs that utilized comparable exploration plan and strategies to evaluate IPV, (Coll,). The discoveries will clarify that IPV against women is inescapable and that disparities in pervasiveness, both between and inside nations, can be tremendous. We will proof the public commonness of mental IPV fluctuation from 6.4% in Comoros (Easter and Southern Africa) to 34.4% in Afghanistan (South Asia), while physical and additionally sexual IPV changed from 3.5% in Armenia (Europe and Central Asia) to 46% in Afghanistan. The disaggregated investigations will aim to uncovered commonness holes more prominent than 20 rate focuses between a portions of the populace subgroups. We will show how less fortunate, more youthful and less enabled women are especially defenseless against experience IPV in many LMICs just as women in polygynous families and those living in country regions.

In any case, that there will be general examples seen from the disaggregated investigations, we will obviously focuses to the applicable crossing points between IPV event with destitution and other sexual orientation disparity indications. Albeit the crossing point among neediness and IPV might be self-evident and has been widely announced in the literature, it is astonishing how outrageous the designing by abundance is for a portion of the nations contemplated. In India, for instance, commonness holes is believed to be between the most extravagant and helpless gatherings of women surpassed 20 rate focuses for physical as well as sexual IPV (12.6% in the most extravagant abundance quintile versus 35.3% in the least fortunate abundance quintile). Our discoveries likewise will aim to show that undeniable degrees of strengthening are reliably connected to bring down IPV openness. However the reasons for IPV are perplexing, the job of sex disparity in cultivating IPV is all around acknowledged and archived in the literature, especially with regards to LMICs where women might encounter seriously confined social and monetary freedoms comparative with men. More engaged women by and large have more command over their own lives and conditions and, subsequently, a lower likelihood of experiencing late IPV as the people who endured misuse might be bound to look for help. Simultaneously, women encountering misuse may likewise have a more prominent probability of underwriting misuse. This could originate from the way that rehashed misuse might decrease a lady’s confidence and subsequently increment her penchant to fault herself for reasons unknown is setting off IPV (eg, consuming the food), (Garcia-Moreno, 2006). Low strengthening may likewise reflect solid local area sexual orientation standards that help spouse beating. From one or the other side, I believe our outcomes support will be the possible adequacy of mediations that will advance women’s strengthening by tending to standards that legitimize wife beating for IPV reduction.

The solid connection among polygyny and violence against women found in the current review will additionally be accounted for in the literature. We will search on explanations as to why there is expansion of IPV in polygynous families.

We will aim at finding if the disaggregated examinations can demonstrate which subgroups of the populace are at higher danger and in this manner most needing mediations, our expected outcomes should be deciphered in consideration to the environmental idea of the investigations played out that are not appropriate to stablish causal connections between IPV openness and the stratifies picked to explore imbalances. Given the cross-sectional nature of the DHS, these overviews are more valuable for reconnaissance purposes than etiological investigations. It is likewise critical to perceive that albeit the variables picked for information disaggregation give a significant evaluation of the weakest gatherings of women with regards to LMICs, there are absolutely other pertinent danger factors that decide women’s weakness to IPV openness that will not be investigated in our review (eg, women living with handicap and transsexual women). Likewise, while a portion of the nations remembered for these information have legitimate acknowledgment of same-sexual orientation marriage, lawful sex progress as well as a legitimately perceived third sex, DHS information are by and large gathered with a supposition that respondents are cis-women partnered with cis-men and in this manner these discoveries don’t represent different connections and may misclassify a few respondents. To the extent we know, the DHS additionally don’t offer variations in information assortment strategies for women with handicaps and, along these lines, this gathering might be under-addressed in our information. This would bring about an underrate of IPV levels since inability has been connected to a higher danger of encountering IPV among women.

We ought to have an alert when practicing while the distinctions in the general degrees of IPV since there will ways be a few women who won’t uncover data on IPV. Subsequently, despite the fact that e will use commonness gauges ordered here, we should permit examinations across settings, which is undeniably significant, they should all presumably be viewed as low-end estimates. Moreover, the degree of under-revealing is probably going to shift with respondent’s qualities just as social and normal practices that underlie the acknowledgment of violence in each setting.

Regardless of the inborn constraints of oneself revealed information and the execution of a violence module in an expansive wellbeing survey, the DHS has been fusing the best ways to deal with investigating violence against women in a morally dependable manner with act-put together normalized questions based with respect to develops that have been approved. Moreover, the IPV pointers assesse will give a moderate relationship the Gender Inequality Index, which will estimates sex disparities in three important parts of human improvement at the nation level—regenerative wellbeing, strengthening and work market cooperation.

The acknowledgment that all endeavors towards accomplishing the SDGs will be restricted without handling violence against women as a focal component of sex disparity sets out an exceptional freedom to fortify the interest in and ability to carry out proof based systems. With the fast expansion in the assortment of populace information on women’s openness to IPV and different types of violence, the foundation of appropriate baselines utilizing dependable information on pervasiveness is fundamental for future observing on abandoning nobody. The current review propels the current information by giving a worldwide display of the commonness of various types of IPV across LMICs, helping the distinguishing proof of the weakest gatherings of women for which mediations ought to be focused on in every country. The observing of progress towards the disposal of violence against women and young ladies will require endeavors for routine information assortment utilizing normalized and precise systems. These will be fundamental to evaluate the genuine effect of avoidance and reaction techniques that have been carried out with regards to LMICs after some time. The SDG 5 on sex equity and strengthening, all things considered, and young ladies incorporates the end of IPV as an objective, however almost certainly, to handle IPV we really want to engage women first with the goal that they feel like they are qualified for a daily existence liberated from violence.

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Management of Employee Welfare

Management of Employee Welfare

Management of Employee Welfare

Wage and work hour protection laws vary from state to state. However, there are a number of protection laws that are the same in all of the United States. One of them is the protection law on unemployment benefits. In the event the employer is the one responsible for the termination, there are specific laws that should be adhered to (Vosco et al., 1). Individuals must have been jobless due to events beyond their power, such as layoffs or dismissals, and must also satisfy state-specific standards in order to be eligible for benefits. Employees generally have access to benefits for up to 6 months, though reimbursements may occasionally be prolonged during difficult economic circumstances.

Another wage and work hour protection law is the family leave. The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) was enacted into law in 1993 (Vosco et al., 1). As an outcome, qualified workers are entitled to up to 3 months of leave without pay each year if they choose to stay at home after child birth or adopting a baby or in the event of a significant sickness for themselves or a member of their family. One must have been employed by the firm for at minimum a year and 1,250 hours in order to be eligible for FMLA payments. The law of employment based discrimination has also become very effective (Vosco et al., 1). The laws forbid employers from discriminating on employees based on gender, age, disability, race, religion and national origin. It states that all employees should be paid and treated the same based on their knowledge, skills and work experience.

Statutory Laws affecting Employee Rights over the Past 50 years

In the last 50 years, there have been a number of changes in the workforce. Employees have been given more rights to give them an easy time at work. Women who previously stayed at home and took care of their families now balance between families and work. The number of people in the workforce over the age of 35 has also increased as from the 1970s (Hofmann et al., 2). There are laws that protect employees against discrimination of age, gender, disability, race and religion. Other significant changes in employee rights laws include the least salary nationally which has been set by the Fair Labor Standards Act at $7.25 per hour, while specific states choose a higher rate. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is responsible for enforcing occupational safety legislation (Hofmann et al, 2). A company and worker payroll tax pays for Social Security benefits.

OSHA Violation in Texas

In February 2022, OSHA cited W.D. Townley and Son Lumber Company Incorporation after investigating since July 2021. This was after receiving a report that an employee had fallen from a stack of pallets (3). OSHA reported that the company lacked energy control procedures, dangerous equipment protection techniques and head protection gear. The company did not also alert OSHA of the accident 8 hours after it occurred. This was violation of OSHA laws which stated that each employer is required to create and maintain working environments that are generally safe, healthy, and free from observable risks that are causing or are likely to cause employee fatalities or significant physical harm (3).

Workers Compensation in Texas

According to Texas workers’ compensation legislation, an illness or injury acquired while promoting or carrying out the boss’s operations is covered, regardless of who is responsible. This includes illnesses sustained during work-related travel (Heyman & Timm, 4). A third party’s criminal act if directed at the worker for a limited purpose unconnected to the job, acts of religion, the worker’s pranks, willful heinous crimes or self-injury, drunkenness from alcohol or drugs informed consent in an off-duty leisure activity, inebriation, or other circumstances not obscured by the insurance. Injury reports must be submitted within 30 days of the incident, the initial impairment rating must be challenged within 3 months of its issuing, and the official documentation for a workers’ compensation claim must be submitted within 12 months of the incident (Heyman & Timm, 4). Those timeframes begin to run from the day the worker should have realized the illness or injury was related to their place of employment if the connection between the two was not immediately evident.