Preservation Self Interest

In the Zimbardo’s The Stanford Prison Experiment; however, the ‘guards’ and ‘prisoners’ were placed in the same facility and were face to face on a daily basis unlike the Milgram experiment. The ‘guards’ would tell the ‘prisoners’ jokingly to do something, however the ‘prisoners’ would do what they were commanded to do to try to hang on to their identity. (Zimbardo 393) By the end of the experiment most ‘prisoners’ showed increased stress levels in the ‘prisoners’ within days, some ‘prisoners’ could not handle the stress induced and had to be released early. The ‘guards’ were equally changed do to the scenario they were put in. One journal of the ‘guards’ showed how a passive person became a person shoving food down another person’s mouth and locking them up in solitary confinement (Zimbardo 389-399).

In the experiment, people were picked randomly and one as a teacher and one as the student. They were told to take a quiz and give electric shocks of increasing intensity as punishment if the student can’t answer. During the experiment, many people were concerned as someone can be heard shouting but only a few people who decided to stop and stick to their morals. But the others kept on going because they were just following orders from a superior (Milgram 77). "The Stanford Prison Experiment” by Philip Zimbardo, is about an experiment that was made to understand the roles people play in prison situations. For the experiment, Zimbardo converted a basement of the Stanford University psychology building into a mock prison. The participants were told to act as prisoners and guards. It was planned to be a two-week experiment but was forced to shut down in 6 days, all because of people quickly getting into their roles and started acting like the real prisoners and guards (Zimbardo 104). To compare both experiments, although they differed vastly in design and methodology, the point of both experiments was to observe how far an individual would go in inflicting increasing pain on a victim. Also how people obey under authoritative circumstances, when given power or different roles, however the writers differ in the seriousness of the fight for individuality and the use of reality.

The EEG results are used to determine where sensors will be attached, to earlobes, or even hair to transmit thoughts through a transducer. The patient then must complete "tasks" by thought utilizing the appropriate brainwaves depending on the individual goal or disorder of that subject.

Electronic monitoring is a device that allows Justice Officers and officials to ensure an offender is at a certain location when 65 required to be there. The use of the monitoring device is becoming more popular as a way to control and supervise offenders within the community to ensure citizens are safe. In the mid-1960 a Harvard Psychologist Robert Schwitzgebel developed the first electronic monitoring device. The device was intended to provide an inexpensive alternative for offenders than incarceration or within the justice process. Even though the device was patented in 1969 it didn’t start coming into effect until the 1980’s. It’s used by courts to track the location of offenders that are under surveillance or restricted to certain areas.

EMDR consist of 12-15 sessions and information is gotten about the client history, establish rapport, and explain the treatment. The therapist then asks the client questions about visual images of the trauma, the client’s emotional and physiologic reactions to the trauma, unhelpful self-representations, and helpful self-representations (Briere & Scott, 2013). More so, the purpose of EMDR is to reduce the effect of negative emotions or disturbing memories. EMDR engages the client in a two-sided stimulation (i.e. hand taps, eye stimulation by following the movement of an object or audible voices (Briere & Scott, 2013; Eka,

Safeguarding is define in all the policies as activities for protecting children from maltreatment; but also preventing impairment of children’s health or development; ensuring that children grow up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care; and taking action to enable all children to have the best outcomes.

Utilitarianism is a practical doctrine that is widely accepted in modern society’s economics, politic, and ethics. Utilitarian is driven by the pursuit of happiness. For a utilitarian, everything that will be helpful in the pursuit is considered good. In utilitarianism, an action is good or evil based on its consequences on the happiness of an individual and the happiness of the community. Similar to other doctrine, utilitarianism is not without a flaw. Bernard Williams, in his paper Utilitarianism and Integrity, voices his primary concern in regard to utilitarianism by providing two concrete examples to demonstrate how utilitarianism is only concerned about the consequences of the action and not about the means used to get there. Williams argues that utilitarianism fails to acknowledge the integrity of a person because the ultimate goal of utilitarianism is to produce the greatest happiness overall.

ECT is done in cases where it is necessary or when it is the best option available. It provides quick and notable alleviations of harmful symptoms of various mental disorders. It is often used in cases of the elderly who cannot deal with the symptoms associated with anti-depressants, people who would rather undergo ECT than medication, and those who have successfully had ECT in the past. It is also

In the Stanford prison experiment, several young men were treated as if they were arrested and imprisoned; additionally, some of the men from the same age group were treated as correctional facility officers with full training because that somehow simulated a trained professional in the same setting. Additionally, “researchers” felt the need to prevent any movement whatsoever of the prisoners, something that does not happen in a prison environment as it is torture. In actuality, Phil Zambardo hired immature young adults to torture other young adults while he is so deprived of any mortal barometer that he failed to halt it. Psychologists have somehow concluded that his bemusing conclusions somehow reflect average human behavior in a prison environment. (McLeod, S. A. 2016)

The proper relationship between the individual's interests and the common good is a delicate balancing act that political philosophers such as Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Sophocles have tried to define. For philosophers such as Socrates and Plato, the common good trumps the individual interest when those interests interfere with what they believe is right for society as a whole. For others like Aristotle and Locke, a consensus on what the common good is must be defined within the reality that individual interests exists; meaning, they cannot be completely discarded for the good of society. I believe that in a free society, where the common good to doesn't have to be forced upon its citizens, the common good should impose upon the

Torture (Latin torquere, “to twist”), in law, infliction of severe bodily pain either as punishment, or to compel a person to confess to a crime, or to give evidence in a judicial proceeding. Among primitive peoples, torture has been used as a means of ordeal and to punish captured enemies. Examination by torture, often called the “question,” has been used in many countries as a judicial method. It involves using instruments to extort evidence from unwilling witnesses.

The medical evaluation done on each individual helps determine the location in which the inmate will be housed. This is a safety measure for inmates due to that they are placed in the appropriate cell. Inmates are also given an identification wrist band which is documented in the system in order to identify the individual, however, their fingerprints are scanned into the system which helps to better identify the individual.

Shannon, very nice post. I am pleased to see that EFCT interests you. I also find it interesting. I enjoyed the use of EFCT with trauma clients. Can I ask your opinion on how you feel about EFCT only useful in couples and not families? This was part of Dr. Bradley interview that I found interesting to me. So, I thought perhaps you may be able to shed some light on that for me. I have seen EFCT focusing on the emotional needs of the individual and how it impacts their relationship. I believe your discussion highlighted the focus of EFCT and how you would use it appropriately.

The rationale for ECT is to provide relief from the signs and symptoms of mental illnesses such as severe depression,

Global Positioning Anklets used in conjunction with other methods such as risk assessments and cognitive behavioral treatment. The use of these anklets acts more of a sanction against the offender and servers to improve cognitive behaviors so that they can become a functioning member of society. The use of these devices and other forms of electronic monitoring are currently a large part of probation. In 2004 over 20% of offenders on probation were on electronic monitoring. (Gable 1) That number has increased over the last ten years. Forms of electronic monitoring are now the go-to item as far as sanctions against offenders.