I want to digress for a moment and discuss a personal situation with my classmates regarding this week’s assignment. Last year my daughter was treated by our family physician for anxiety with Xanax. She later became addicted to it, abused it, and ultimately overdosed. She spent 30 days at Hazelden a rehabilitation facility for teens, and several months in outpatient care and still sees a psychologist for her anxiety. She is sober and currently in college. I felt it important to let you know about this, because this week’s assignment on Culturally Competent Health Communication made me reflect on my daughter and think about the internet as a venue for teens to get help. I choose to look at the information as though high school freshman, thru the eyes and heart of a teen, trying to get help, for myself a friend or family member. I am breaking a cardinal rule of anonymity in A.A. and Ala-Non by disclosing that my “qualifier” is my daughter. I would request that should you ever happen to meet me and she is with me that her anonymity be protected. It was a very difficult time in her life that she does not like to talk about. All her life she will be in recovery but she chooses to look forward, not back. She has given me permission to write the above statement. It is her personal health journey and even though I am her parent, it not my right to disclose her addiction without her permission
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I knew I wanted to locate a website on addiction and treatment specifically for teens and college age (young people) audience. A website that was straight forward that would lead young people to their local hospital, addiction treatment center, or Narcotics Anonymous or similar support grou...
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...cial media to communicate and having Facebook and Twitter type icons may promote engagement. This website, while informative tries to be too encompassing, less can be more.
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The center combines a safe housing environment with structured educational programs that incorporate the philosophies of Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous. Alcoholics Anonymous is the original self help group founded on principles that provide support and encouragement for recovering alcoholics. New members are encouraged to work with a spon...
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The 21st century is the era of technology and modernization. Through extremely efficient and rapid communication systems, businesses are being conducted across the globe from one single point of command and coordination. Through strong and reliable networks, it is very easy for a person to be in one corner of the world in the morning and in the other corner in the evening. Processes are becoming more and more effective and efficient and the world is coming closer as if it were a global village. This phenomenon is called globalization.
However, for those who did not get the privilege to experience a good environment growing up due to drug addicted parents and guardians should not lose hope. Such is also the case of adolescents who were introduced to drug abuse and feel hopeless in life. Programs such as the Adolescents Substance Use Disorders Services Program, aim to ensure hope and quality life for every broken child and adolescent. If left unattended and ignored, this children could end up on the wrong side of the law hence spend their adult life behind bars or far must worse remain unproductive all through their lives. It would be hazardous to ignore these children hence the urge to ensure all government officials in every state and the world at large to participate in a program that would not only increase the number of healthy adolescents but also the number of reliable adults in future. Drug addiction and abuse are cases that have brought down the economy of many countries all over the world due to unproductive adults who are deep into the act hence the need for it to be
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In health and social care effective communication a key skill all professionals should have when working with families, carers, children and young people. Having this skill helps to build trust it can also encourage the individual to use the services. Effective communication is essential when trying to establish and maintain relationships and it is a process that involves listening, questioning, responding and understanding. However there are many barriers that can effect how effective the communication is a few examples of these barriers could be: language, personality, visual or auditory impairment or a disability. In order to over come these barriers there have been many advances in the strategies that can help in situations where the communication is not effective, a strategy is a method or a plan that can help someone or something succeed in achieving a goal or result.
research on healthcare practices in a culturally diverse setting has established the importance of cultural awareness, competence, and diversity for healthcare workers.
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Substance addiction is becoming an epidemic. While some people can quit using a substance without any help, most people need help to their recovery. Narcotics anonymous is an important support group for our society. There are many different narcotic anonymous programs to join that have meetings throughout the week. The members of the support group all share one thing in common, they suffer from different types of chemical dependency. Members help each other because they have the same problems and worries that everyone in the room has. Though they may be struggling with different stages in their life, for the most part, they all relate to what each is going through. Just as AA, NA focuses on the 12-step program. The members of
Cultural competence in health care provision refers to the capacity of health care systems to offer good care to patients and accommodate employees, who have diverse beliefs, behaviors, and values to meet their cultural, linguistic, and social needs. It comprises of policies, attitudes, and behaviors that integrate to form a system that can operate efficiently in cross cultural conditions. Healthcare organizations look at cultural competence from two major viewpoints. Firstly, it is a tool to enhance patient care from all backgrounds, social groups, languages, religions, and beliefs. Secondly, it is a tool that strategically attracts potential clients to their organizations and, hence, expands
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