This stage is represented by seven types of conservation, which are number, length, liquid, mass, weight, area, and volume (Huitt, 2003). All of these have a lot to do with during school and what we learn. We start learning how to identify numbers and understanding how to reverse simple equations and operations. I remember in second grade, we always did mad minutes, and I would always be the first or second person done in my class because math came easy to me. To this day, I still like helping people out with math because I enjoy it. At the end of second grade, my brother was in sixth grade, so he was able to babysit me after school while my parents were still at work. One day when we got home, I had my hair up in a ponytail, and some of …show more content…
I started going on runs about every night, and I started to eat healthier. I did not really tell anyone that because I knew they were just going to say, “Oh my gosh, you do not need to!!” I really did not care at that point. I weighed around 120 at that time, and I can agree that I was skinny, but apparently I just did not feel good enough about myself. Some people started to notice that I was getting skinnier because people were asking, “Are you anorexic?” No, I am not. Now in females, anorexia usually starts during late childhood or adolescence. The true definition of anorexia nervosa is having an eating disorder, wanting to lose weight by self-starvation, and having a distorted body image (Fujisawa, 2015). That was not me. Yeah, I did lose some weight. In fact, I ended up losing 15 pounds, but I never starved myself. Once I found that I was too skinny, I stopped caring so much. Usually people that are anorexic, they cannot control their bodies, but for me, I could control it. It was a choice I made, but after noticing how weak I became, I knew I had to build myself back up. It did not take me much longer because I gained it all back within a year or
Anorexia is a psychiatric disorder that is most common in young women. Those who suffer with anorexia have a fear of gaining weight and have an inaccurate portrayal of their own bodies. They see themselves as being fat, even though they are already thin to begin with. They are willing to go to extreme measures to lose weight, but the only outcome is a severely unhealthy body weight. To achieve the weight they want they will either starve themselves or do a tremendous amount of exercise.
Anorexia is not a choice to be made. It is brought on by many pressures to be thin and it clouds one’s ability to see herself/himself as she/he really is, which is usually dangerously thin. Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder. Sufferers starve themselves and have extreme weight loss. When starving themselves, anorexics may suffer from terrible hunger pains, but feel rewarded when they can make it through a certain time period, usually a day, then work up to two days and so on.
Anorexia nervosa, more commonly known as anorexia- an emotional and medical disorder, generally is the lack of food consumption due to a constant fear of gaining weight, an objection to preserve or control a healthy body weight, and a mentally distorted body image. This primarily begins with ones misery with their body. You start to block out everything in your life (school, work, friends, and hobbies) and mainly focus on meals and what should or shouldn’t be consumed. The thing that mainly diagnoses one as anorexic is the simple fact that "... No matter how skinny you become, it's never enough." People diagnosed with this eating order are often in denial and see no wrong doings when they could potentially reach a state of health the body cannot maintain and die.
Many people attempt, and succeed, to maintain a weight that is abnormal in their age and height. To prevent gaining weight, anorexics may starve themselves, go on an unhealthy diet and/ or exercise excessively (Mayo Clinic 2012). Background Information and Cause Anorexia nervosa usually begins in adolescence, but can develop at any time throughout one’s life. It essentially affects adolescent girls and young adults as their hormone levels and physical body begins to change during puberty. Even though most females are affected by this eating disorder, there is a small percentage of men that have experienced anorexia.
This paper aims to highlight an incident in theatre where environmental pressure has the tendency to lead to human error thereby compromising the patient’s safety. To reflect and critically analyse the situation, human factors, theories, guidelines and national policies that govern a theatre environment so as to improve the practice, raise awareness and prevent adverse event thereby improving patient safety in theatres.
Thinking that I was strong minded and never looking at the negatives, ones suspicions changed my whole mind setting. After an endless wait in the mournful waiting room of the hospital, my name was called. The nurse brought us to Dr. Yazay's office where he confirmed his suspicions, and so began my life with scoliosis. Since the age of eight I have been swimming. I was a competitive swimmer for nine years, and now had to deal with a life without the activities I felt defined my identity. The treatment for my scoliosis involved wearing the most uncomfortable thing in the world which was a brace. With several restrictions on my physical activity, I had an abundance of free time on my hands.
The intention of this written essay is to demonstrate an understanding of my views on reflection and the issues surrounding reflective practice. It is based on nursing skills that I used during my practice placement, most importantly reflecting on the professional value of privacy and dignity.
Most of you probably already know what anorexia is, however in case you don't anorexia is basically a disease involving self-starvation. Anorexia victims have a very low "ideal" weight. It might begin as a normal diet carried to extremes, reducing their food intake to a bare minimum. Rules are made of how much food they can eat in one day and how much exercise is required after eating certain amounts of food. With anorexia, there is a strong almost overwhelming fear of putting on weight and they are preoccupied with the way that their bodies look. Anorexia sometimes involves use of laxatives, diet pills, or self-induced vomiting to lose or to keep weight off (http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/diseases/facts/anorexianervosa.htm). Anorexics may show symptoms such as extreme weight loss for no medical reason. Also, many deny their hunger, chew excessively, choosing low calorie foods and exercising excessively (http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health).
“Cognitive development refers to how a person perceives, thinks, and gains understanding of his or her world. Cognitive development is the construction of thought processes, including remembering, problem solving, and decision-making, from childhood through adolescence to adulthood.”(Cog.) J is in Jean Piaget’s preoperational stage of development because he is still learning how to conserve. I observed this when I completed my math interview with J. When I showed him two clay balls he agreed that they were the same size, but when I flattened one of the balls he believed they had a different mass because they looked different. He shows some signs of being close to understanding of conservation of numbers. I set up two equally spaced rows of counter and J told me that the two rows were the same. Then I spread out one row to look longer. At first, J said that the longer row contained more counter, but when I asked him how he come to that conclusion he counted each row and realized that they had the same amount. J was able to show me his thought process and solve the problem by applying math skills that he already
It was the last Saturday in December of 1997. My brother, sister, and I were chasing after each other throughout the house. As we were running, our parents told us to come and sit down in the living room. They had to tell us something. So, we all went down stairs wondering what was going on. Once we all got down stairs, the three of us got onto the couch. Then, my mom said, “ Well…”
Reflective practice is significant for nurses for a number of reasons. The three main reasons why reflective practice is crucial for nurses are explained below (Caldwell & Grobbel, 2013). Firstly, nurses are accountable for giving care to the best of their capability to patients and their families. Therefore nurses need to concentrate more on their knowledge, skills and behaviour to make sure that they are able to provide best quality care to the patients they are caring. Reflection also helps nurses to recognize their strengths and weaknesses both professionally and personally, thereby assisting in making an assessment of their own working practices. Reflective practice allows nurses to share good practice with colleagues and thus assists each other in developing a supportive team, and thereby
The term reflection means the examination of personal thoughts and actions. For nurses this means focusing on how they interact with their colleagues and with the environment to obtain a clearer picture of their own behaviour. This means it is a process in which a nurse can better understand themselves in order to be able to build on existing strengths and take appropriate future action (Somerville, 2004). Reflection is a way to bring your own intuition along with empirical knowledge together. Reflective practice in nursing is guided by models of reflection. Reflective practice model serves as a framework within which nursing or other management professions can work. Reflective practice model is also a structural framework or learning model that serves the purposes of a profession and is particularly applicable to health related professions. Reflective practice enables practitioners to learn to value themselves as significant people with values and feelings that are important factors in giving care. Whilst reflective practice allows the nurse to recognise the value of their experiences, they may also need support to work through a difficult situation. This is where reflection aids nurses in dealing with these challenging experiences (Johns, 1995). Reflection on experience offers nurses the opportunity to reflect on caring in practice in ways that its nature can be understood, where the skills necessary for effective caring can be developed and most significantly, where the values of caring for people can be highlighted, both to the individual nurse and the world in general (Johns 1996)
Children’s from this stage remain egocentric for the most part but to begin to internalize representations. (Piaget, 1999). Concrete operational stage is children to age seven to eleven. They develop the ability to categorize objects and how they relate to one another. A child’s become more mastered in math by adding and subtracting. If a child eat one brownie out of a jar containing six. By doing the math there would be 5 brownies left by counting the remaining brownies left in the jar because they are able to model the jar in their
As I sit here and reflect on how my education and work life experiences have prepared me for my future in the workplace; I truly become overwhelmed by the amount of things that I have learned and experienced. Like many others these experiences has influenced, motivated, and driven me to make the choices I have made. The good, the bad and the ugliest of them all have helped me to become the person that I am today.
Psychology deals with the study of mental processes and a variety of behaviors. In order to fully comprehend ourselves, we need to understand the causes of our behaviors and our outlook on life. Habits and behaviors have positive and negative effects in our life. When we know ourselves and learn about our unique personality, we can develop and pursue goals. Psychology also helps us to understand other people and the differences of people. Gaining this knowledge can improve the relationships and enhance our communication skills. Throughout the psychology course I gained knowledge in various areas, and the topics that impacted me the most included: the introvert, anxiety disorders, stress management, self discipline and how to develop strong relationships.