Teen Relationship Abuse.

Who knew that abuse in teen relationship was so apparent. According to the article, teens everywhere are being abused by their boyfriends all around the country. “We are identifying teen dating abuse and violence more than ever,” said Dr. Elizabeth Miller, an assistant professor of pediatrics at the School of Medicine at the University of California, Davis, who began doing research on abuse in teenage dating relationships nearly a decade ago. The boyfriends of the abused victims always start off as being courteous and caring. Then their behavior started to become more dominant and protecting. After a while, they start to become abusive. Some times things can end in the worse by death. Or other times the girls can escape from their abusive boyfriends.


http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/04/us/04abuse.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&em

Aww I'm going to miss psych...

AP Psychology have been fun. I like learning about... well just about everything except the whole brain and neuron part. I thought everything that we learned was interesting. I think my favorite was either the social psychology unit or the abnormal psychology section. My favorite activity was watching those movies or making that brain out of playdoh. Playing with that playdoh reminded me of childhood, so now I play with it quite often. For some odd reason I loved them. They were weird and dramatic but fun at the same time. Even though I learned a lot from the notes, they can't compare to the amount of fun that I had when we watched those movies. I wish that I could say that the diagramming and stuff similar to that should be left out, but that is not going to happen. I don't have any suggestions about what could be added because I like my AP psych experience.

You wanna know MY personality?!?

In the Jung Typology Test they asked you a lot of social questions. I am ENFJ, which means that I am moderately expressed extrovert, moderately expressed intuitive personality,very expressed feeling personality, and moderately expressed judging personality. Which is kind of true for me. I am really emotional and a bit of an extrovert.

In the Hogan's Big Seven Test, they asked you questions about how you are in social situations and how you handle things. In this test I score High on Ambition, which mean that I am easy to approach. I scored high on Sociability, which means that I am talkative and animated. I scored high on Likability, which means that I am very sympathetic. I scored medium on Prudence, which means that I procrastinate. I scored medium on Adjustment, which mean that I am stable under stress but I also have an emotional side. I scored high on School Success, which means that I like the break new habits. I also scored high on Intelligence, which means that creative and imaginative. I found these results to be actually kind of true because I do see myself this way. I think that the procrastination and the emotional side are the most true.

In the Well Being Test, they asked you questions that involved how satisfied you are with your life and testing your self esteem. I scored average Satisfaction with Life, Self-Efficacy, the Capacity with Power categories. I scored high in the Overall Self Esteem category. I didn't know this about me.

In the attractiveness Quiz, I scored high on the trendy, happy, seductive looking men. I think this is hilarious that I am attracted to seductive happy men. Wow.

I also did that Attachment Style Quiz. They told me that I am secure and that people with secure attachment levels relatively enduring and satisfying relationships. It says that I am comfortable with sharing my emotions with my partner and that I tend not to suffer from depression.

So I'm your hamster now??

Between my teeth

Average: 2.2

Jillie Poo!!!

Hey Jill!

I've missed you. I also miss being back home. Dorm life is crazy. My room mate is such a pig, she always leaves the cap off the toothpaste and forgets to hang up her towel when she is done. It drives me crazy. She also seems like she has a problem leaving things around. She's not the cleanliest person in the world. She isn't very organized either. That also drives me crazy. I just want to clean up her mess for her.

I'm not doing to well in English class right now. We had a project and I didn't get to finish in time because I was trying to make it perfect. In history we had a group assignment and one of my group members didn't agree with the way that I wanted to do the work. That really irritated me. I can't believe they override me and did it there way anyway. We got into a big argument about that.

I've gotten even more organized though. I've started making a to-do list, and a have-done list. It's great. Well I have to go clean up.

Bye.

Case Study 2: Hannah, age 55, was in a major car accident 20 years ago during a cross country trip. Ever since, she has been unable to drive on major highways. Although she does drive, she goes to great length to travel only on back roads and scenic routes. She is able to go where she wants but it often takes her much longer to get there than it should.





I believe that Hannah is suffering from Chronic Post traumatic Stress Disorder. Because the accident happened 20 years ago and she is still unable to cope means that disorder is chronic and not acute. Post traumatic Stress Disorder effects people that have been in an extreme life-threatening experience. And like Hannah, they take extreme measures to avoid the feelings or places that they associate with their accident. During the cross country trip,20 years ago, Hannah must have had that accident on a highway. And now in terrible fear of another life-threatening accident on the highway, she avoids them.

My treatment for Hannah is that I highly recommend that she sees a therapist for post traumatic stress disorder. That is the only was that she will be able to cope with the accident. And soon one day she will overcome her fear of highways.

Meera Popkins and Schizophrenia

Meera Popkins, a Broadway star that played in "Cats", "Miss Saigon" and, "Starlight Express", was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1997. Accustomed to perfection, she soon slipped down to nothing. She soon began to be rejected from the theater and lost everything. Without a house or a car, she soon began to lose her confidence and spirit. With her hopes down, she soon became depressed because of her schizophrenia.

Knowing that she had to fix everything that had gone wrong, she began to fire up a drive from deep within herself. She started a waitress job and slowly started to date again. Her spirits shot up when she was accepted for a job with a dinner theater that was doing a Christmas show. After they had accepted her the AMDA accepted her too and she started working for shows like "Annie", "Once Upon a Mattress", and others.

After she was accepted by the AMDA, he life started again on its up rise. I think schizophrenia is a severe psychological disorder that can severely alter your lifestyle. It may cause you to think less clearly, but there are people like Meera Popkins that learn how to alter this aspect of their life.

http://www.schizophrenia.com/ami/cnsmr/creative.html