Life Regard Model

Miranda is what I can describe as a regular, maybe even stereotypical, sixteen-year-old teenager. She goes to school, she mediates between best friends that are growing apart, she’s angry at her mother for limiting her from doing the things she wants to do. She worries about prom, boys, and studying for math tests. But of course, all that changes when the asteroid hits the moon. Miranda changes from defiant teen, sneaking out of the house to go for a swim in the pond and sulking over why her younger brother Jon gets all the good food, to understanding that she will do whatever she must to make sure that her family–even if it is just one of them–will survive.

Defining hope can be equivocal and yet it is commonly associated with a particular experience. Hope reflects an individuals moral values, it is required for human survival; hope is often needed when there is a sense of uncertainty for the future (Tanis & DiNapoli, 2008). In healthcare, hope is described as one of the most important concepts associated with spirituality; without it everything else seems to loose its value. Therefore, hope instigates positive adjustment during the dynamic process of recovery (Tutton, Seers, & Langstaff, 2009).

HIV/ AIDS affect African Americans at a higher rate than any other race (White, Asian, and Hispanic). With African Americans making up approximately 13 percent of the U.S. population, in 2014, they made up almost half of all new HIV/AIDS cases; 44 percent. African American men accounted for 73 percent of new HIV/AIDS cases, and of that 43 percent of African American men were heterosexual (CDC 2014). Since heterosexual African American men don’t equate to the larger population of HIV cases as compared to African American men who have sex with men, these heterosexual men are virtually invisible in the theoretical and empirical psychological HIV/AIDS literature (Bowleg, 2004, p.166).

The results from this study formed three themes which included anticipatory fear for suffering of others, feeling unconnected or connected, and learning from others. (Schellenkens & Jansen, 2015, pg. 1815-1818). What was discovered was that the participants went through a stage where they feared facing other clients dealing with the same disease before the study began. Throughout the study, the participants felt more connected with and supported by other which resulted in learning from each other

In my vulnerable population paper I referenced the HIV population and the struggles they go through. It is my experience that has shown me that al lot of times it is difficult to get the patient to open up and convers about what they are feeling about this horrible diagnosis. Some of them like my aunt have dealt with it for so long that it becomes easy for them to mask how they feel. I would like to suggest out of sense of resilience they have learned to suppress their

Have you ever wanted to do an activity, but it has too many obstacles that you have to face? Life is unpredictable and anything can happen at any given moment. But how will you act the next time life gives you a roadblock or a challenge? In the texts “The Explosion,” “We Beat The Street,” and the multimedia clip October Sky, roadblocks happen quite often, and the sources show how individuals are ready to overcome them in order to achieve their goals and blueprint. In “The Explosion,” Homer faces not having support from his father and brother. While, in “We Beat The Street,” the three doctors face having to grow up in a community where whoever surrounds you is your friend/family. However in the multimedia clip October

image, and quality of life in HIV disease: A pilot study. Applied Nursing Research 77(4), 292-6.

Levi is a 35-year-old man who is HIV positive. He works as an auto mechanic. Levi learned he was HIV positive 10 years ago and has since been on medications that have successfully stopped the progression to AIDS. He has been able to maintain being fairly health physically although the disease has began to have a more serious toll on his emotional well being. Levi has begun to withdraw from much of any social interactions, he has also avoided telling his family about his illness and avoids interactions with most of his friends. He has been able to obtain a

Atlanta, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C. are often highly ranked U.S. cities that have the highest HIV and STI infection rates in the country. And I conducted HIV and STI research and/or coordinated screening and prevention initiatives in these locations. These experiences are invaluable because I experienced other’s implicit bias during discussions of sexual health interventions and data collection processes. Furthermore, the lack of cultural competency became evident when engaging at-risk communities. As I have lived and worked within these communities, I thoroughly understand the many of the social complexities that barr clients from receiving necessary resources and I am open to learning more about additional confounding variables that impact community

When he first found out about his HIV positive status, he did not know what to do. Jose’s first reaction was to deny his diagnosis. Denying his diagnosis was a coping mechanism for him. He went for several months without accepting his diagnosis. During that time he started drinking a lot more and the relationship with his father got worse. He distanced himself from his mother and brothers.

Patient centered healthcare and self-management are founding principles of ”The patient participation in productive teams” project. The type of structural change, which the chronic care model suggests, calls for a close collaboration with the patients and their organizations. The development and establishing of new types of health services presumes patient involvement, and we hope through “Patient participation in Productive Teams” to provide essential information to the practice field at the same time as we deliver detailed information about the chronic care model to the patients’ organizations.

Greene (2008) chapter eight explains how the social worker utilizes the client’s history and narrative when deciding on the best intervention to use and also to inspect where in the client’s system or history it is right to intercede. The main objective of social work interventions are to recognize, resolve, or reduce problems occurring from an disproportion between, individuals, families, groups, and their environment (Greene, 2008). The ability to independently age in place requires an appropriate match between a person and the environment, or Person-Environment fit.

Illness uncertainty is a cause of a persistent and all-encompassing mental anxiety for people existing with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), and basically changes how well they live and their coping ability with the disease. Social support or the lack thereof is a precursor of uncertainty in illness according to the Uncertainty in Illness theory. In 2013, a cross-sectional correlational study was conducted by Moosa, Mayam, Narges, and Fatemeh to examine uncertainty in 80 people living with HIV and how it related with social support in Iran. The outcome proved the theory and confirmed a high level of illness uncertainty in people living with HIV and a negative correlation amid apparent social support and illness uncertainty (Sajjadi, M., Rassouli, M., Bahri, N., & Mohammadipoor, F. 2015). In another study done by Deimling, Musil, Moore, Schneider & Wonghongul, on 2000 breast cancer survivors. The survivors

Firstlife is a fantasy novel similar to our world where there are two after life's: two heavens and one hell. Gena Showalter has built a world which lets her show us a side to the human mind which we don’t look at very often. This twisting and turning plot shows how quickly a person's point of view can change when we learn something we didn’t know before. Characters are stuck in a world where there next life will be decided on which “heaven” they chose sign their allegiance to, and they are polar opposites of each others.

Satisfaction with life is oftentimes highly correlated with happiness, but it is not by inherently the same as happiness. One may be satisfied with one’s life outcomes or satisfied with external factors, without being very happy. Once discovering a satisfaction with life rating, one may be able to determine if satisfaction with life is something one can control, and if it is, one may be able to maximize one’s life satisfaction. For instance, if one is typically not searching for a mate, and he or she scores low on this scale, one may be more willing in the future to seek a partner if he or she knows that statistically speaking, people with partners are more satisfied with his or her life.