1. TRAUMA‚ SEXUAL TRAUMA & COUNSELLING 1.1 DEFINING STRESS‚ CRISES & TRAUMA Stress • A strain we feel at different times/in different situations • Set of external forces impinging on the person (unemployment‚ crime‚ etc) • Set of psychological & physiological reactions (racing heart‚ sweating palms etc) • Can be opportunity for growth - The spark that pushes us into action • The extent to which an individual experiences stress depends on the event‚ together with the individual’s personality
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Personal Response on Sexual Identity You go through your life making choices and decisions but not thinking of exactly why you were making the choices that you made. Before this class I just figured that I mad the decisions I made because it was what I wanted at the time. Since I have taken this class I have found that the decisions that you make are based on what is called a value system. According to Rathus‚ Nevid‚ and Fichner-Rathus (2011)‚ the value system has to do with legalism
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The topic of sexual orientation is a private and touchy subject because in relation to gender it is not an easy thing to identify. Alfred Kinsley’s conclusion that very few individuals can be classified as exclusively heterosexual or exclusively homosexual‚ is accurate with today’s society and the way people identify their attraction. There are three basic types of sexual orientation that people recognize: Monosexual‚ polysexual‚ and asexual. Monosexual refers to the well-known labels gay (men attracted
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Sexual Ideologies Between College Students of Both Genders California Baptist University Abstract Sex has lost most of its emotional connection and has become a recreational activity in the last several decades among college students. Research studies show that female college students tend to have the most emotional connection with sex compared to male college students. Due to the social and biological aspects of sex and the differences between both genders‚ males view sex
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book makes a calculated approach to address the fate of queers in the hands of gay rights activist. He turns his readers from the belief that gay marriage rights solve the problem of queers. During the first chapter‚ he seeks to explain about sexual shame. Sexual shame he claims is used to incriminate and discourage things that at private morality look just right. He goes further to define normalcy as just a common statistical range. He then claims that by this definition then we are not compelled to
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1CA1 Philippine Literature A Critical Analysis of Sexual Politics by Kate Millett Rebellion /rɪˈbɛl yən/ n. An act or a show of defiance toward an authority or established convention. How exactly does a rebellion begin? Do people with the same beliefs suddenly gather around and decide they that want to overthrow authority? Does a strong-willed‚ gifted leader call upon followers to help make real his or her endeavors? Or is it simply an inevitable occurrence that takes place at any given moment
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verbal threats and the behaviour of harming yourself. (Kristalyn Salters-Pedneault‚ PhD) There are many theories of aggression‚ namely: Frustration-Aggression Theory Social Learning Theory Instinctive-Aggression Theory Relative Deprivation Theory Cue-Arousal Theory Excitation-Transfer Theory Deindividuation
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Anxiety and Arousal: Effects on performance In sports and games an athletes performance can be influenced by many factors both physical and psychological‚ what makes the difference if all athletes are in their peak physical condition‚ many believe that the difference is psychological factors. These factors can be such things as stress‚ anxiety and arousal. These 3 psychological areas can have both positive and negative effects on an athletes performance. Arousal Arousal is the condition
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Sexual Objectification of Women and the Effect on Women Everywhere you turn‚ there are magazine covers‚ movies‚ reality TV shows that portray woman in a sexual light. When was the last time that we as a society sat down and realized the effect that this is having on young girls‚ teens and even grown women. The portrayal of women as sexual objects in these and many other types of media have greatly affected the mindset of society. What affects has this had you ask? There are there main effects that
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Efficacy of Sexual Offender Treatment: Juvenile Sexual Offenders with Mental Health Diagnosis Lynetric Rivers Liberty University Abstract Juvenile sex offending has been on the rise over the past ten years. Juvenile sex offenders are best described between the ages of 12 and 17 years old. It has often been thought the percentage of sexual disorders in relation to juvenile sex offenders have been low. It is very possible they have simply been misdiagnosed. Dr. Fong describes hypersexual
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