In this essay, I will review a documentary film by James Houston, Let’s Talk About Sex. I compare the cultural attitudes and approaches between the youth in America and the youth in Netherlands, namely that sex happens. I contrast the cultural attitudes and approaches to sexual discussion based on different...
Sexual abuse is one of the most traumatic experiences one can undergo. It is no wonder that in the case of Beth and Don an incident of sexual abuse in Beth’s life had the ability to severely impact their marriage. It is important when working with this couple to help...
Most people rely on their friends to have a good time and to get through the bad times. Friends can make our lives better in hundreds of ways, big and small. Despite this, a bad friend can also have an impact on our lives. Bad friendships have been shown to...
“The Cosby Show” 2. How the Cosby Show depicted family: What is the family structure? The family structure of the Cosby Show was a nuclear family which included two parents, a mother and a father, and five children. Later, as the show progressed, some extensions of the family were added...
There are many parents and kids that have hard relationships. In Jerome Weidman’s “My Father Sits in the Dark,” he explains that bad communication is the main reason for why parents and kids don’t understand each other. Weidman shows this in the relationship between a dad and son in this...
Continuing education can have a wide variety of meanings. It can mean working professionals who take formal courses or it can also include working professionals who attend workshops and seminars (Dymock et al., 2013). Within the field of health services administration continuing education is essential. In particular there exists a...
In The Unwritten Rules of Social Relationships, both Temple Grandin and Sean Barron discuss their distinctly different journeys from childhoods of severe autism to both attaining what they, and society, would consider a successful adulthood. The reason for this book is to provide assistance to parents, carers, teachers and others...
In this day in age, I feel that sexuality and types of families have greatly expanded. Sexuality includes lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, and heterosexual individuals, as well as other newer modern terms such as pansexual and gender queer. Some people also prefer to not be labeled at all in terms of...
The Social Penetration theory was developed in 1973 and focuses on the concept of self disclosure. As such, relationships deepen only when members of said relationship reveal increasingly more intimate details about their inner lives with one another through disclosure. One can think of this theory almost like an onion....
