After reading "Coping with Stress: An Ethnography of Firefighters” I believe Rubenstein completed an ethnography. Through his use of observation and the interviewing of an informant‚ the author gained insight into how some firefighters deal with stress. Rubenstein faced a few challenges: he couldn’t observe or experience the major causes of stress on firefighters. He couldn’t ride with the firefighters to a call or have firsthand observations of a fireman’s actions inside a burning building. He
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Prior to losing somebody‚ we intermittently go through the thought process of anticipating the loss. We recognise that losing someone is a line in the circle of life‚ that the possession of the person’s presence and cognisance is impermanent. In pre-empting the loss of a person‚ we try to be optimistic. We count our blessings and are thankful that the person is still with us right now. We try to “enjoy the moment”. Sensing the ethereal nature of human relationships‚ compounded with stories of
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Nursing diagnosis: Ineffective coping Patient: 48 year old male admitted for alcohol dependence. Medical history includes anxiety‚ bipolar‚ PTSD‚ and hypertension. Pt had one suicide attempt in 2001. K+ at 3.2 upon admission. Pt claims his dependence on alcohol began when he was in the Air Force. He lives with an alcoholic partner who depends on him for housing. He was considering going to live with his mother after rehab. Nursing Diagnosis: Ineffective coping related to inadequate social
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Assessment Task Sector Skill Council and Professionalism Journal Michael Prosser 30th May 2012 Total Words 1669 My role in the lifelong learning sector In my position as a workshop trainer at Deerbolt young offenders’ institute‚ the education I deliver for The Manchester College as part of their Offender Learning is supported‚ monitored and shaped by various professional bodies. The purpose of these bodies or sector skills councils vary however
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understand normal and abnormal stressors in the family‚ major and minor arguments and disagreements within the family‚ family interactions with each other‚ the family’s capability of their psychosocial resources‚ and coping behaviors (Patterson‚ 2002). With the Family Stress and Coping Theory‚ it allows therapists and social workers to better understand the weaknesses in a family’s resiliency. If for some reason services are needed for the family‚ having a better understanding at where the weakness
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Coping: How People Deal with Stress? Whether caused by schoolwork‚ traffic‚ or the job‚ stress is an inevitable phenomenon that is seen daily in the human life. Stress is not always bad. In small doses‚ stress is a good thing. It can energize and motivate a person to deal with challenges. But prolonged or excessive stress is “a negative emotional state occurring in response to events that are perceived as taxing or exceeding a person’s resource or ability to cope (Hockenbury & Hockenbury‚ 2001)
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that the coping strategies an individual uses might be relative to the stages‚ or phases‚ of a stressful situation. The researchers stated that a more solution focused coping strategy could be used in the beginning stage of a stressful situation followed by a more emotional coping strategy (Carver & Scheier‚ 1994). Carver and Scheier also identified the use of more negative coping strategies like denial‚ disengagement from the stressor‚ and the use of alcohol (Carver & Scheier‚ 1994). Coping strategies
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The Things They Carried –Coping Mechanisms to Survive During the Vietnam war‚ soldiers were not exposed to the traditional coping mechanisms of our American society‚ as illustrated in Tim Obrien ’s The Things They Carried. These men were forced to discover and invent new ways to deal with the pressures of war‚ using only their resources while in the Vietnamese jungle. It was not possible for any soldier to carry many items or burdens with them‚ but if something was a necessity‚ a way was
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Three Stages of Coping with a Mentally-ill Relative Having a mentally-ill family member affects the quality of life in the family in different ways depending on how well the family is coping with their relative’s illness. According to the authors of the article Effects of Mental Illness on Family Quality of Life‚ family members go through three distinct stages when coping with their relative’s mental illness. Although families can experience each stage in any order or time‚ generally the first phase
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SOCIAL SKILLS TRAINING AND ITS INFLUENCE ON BEHAVIORAL PROBLEMS OF SELECTED TEENAGERS IN CITY SOCIAL WELFARE COMPLEX‚ LUCENA A Research Proposal Submitted in partial fulfillment Of the requirements for the subject English IV Presented to the Faculty of the BASIC EDUCATION DEPARTMENT‚ St. Anne College Lucena‚ Incorporated By: Chelsy Ann C. Herrera Annalyn K. Reyes John Moises G. Villapando Jules Amiel A. Durante 2011 Statement of the Problem This study will investigate
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