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Discussing alcoholism as a family crisis
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A family institution often faces a cocktail of crisis that threatens to sever the bond that sustains its overall existence. These negative occurrences rarely discriminate on whom to affect but goes ahead to spread their poisonous tentacles to all members of the family. According to medical terms, alcoholism can be defined as a diseased condition that comes into existence due to excessive and uncontrollable use of alcoholic beverages. In a family where by there is an alcoholic, each member may be affected by the alcohol differently. Parental alcoholism can affect the fetus before a child is born. In a pregnant woman, alcohol is carried to every of the mother’s organs as well as tissues, including the placenta, whereby it easily crosses through the membrane that separate the maternal and the fetal blood systems. When a pregnant woman engages in drinking an alcoholic beverage, the alcohol concentration in the unborn baby’s bloodstream is at the same level as her own.
The more severe the drinking problem of the mother becomes during pregnancy, the more severe are the symptoms of FAS in infants. The worst part of it happens when the main pillars of the family, which is the father and the mother, are affected since the effects trickle down to the dependants. In some instances, these crisis gets sorted out thus restoring a family to its former glory and this happens out of a collective responsibility or an individual initiative to tackle the issue at hand. Sometimes, family crisis is related and usually adopt a consecutive trend with events following each other or happening as a result of the existence of one or more situations.
Similar to different systems or units that constitute any other institutions, the family contains individuals whose operations and governance can be described as independent or semi-autonomous. Despite having a central control that is deemed to be the parents, the dependants sometimes resume the independent status either out of becoming of age or being rebellious. About a family being segmented into units that are independent, a crisis can affect a family partially, which means one member of the family, but since all family members are intertwined either out of financial or being related, the effects are felt by the entire unit. There are exemptions in family crisis repercussions analysis, but this depends largely on the basic nature of the situation that a family faces. In some family setups, the members do not hold close ties though related in one way or another and this leaves the victims bearing the blunt of the problem that they are facing by themselves.
Alcoholism can be cited as one of the most conspicuous family crisis that many units face dating back from many generations that have passed. It is a vice that have seen many families undergoing various consequential scenarios as it is associated with other possible vices that form its distributaries. These subsequent scenarios include abusive or violent relationships, broken marriages, bankruptcy, terminal illness, strained resources and possible eventual demise of the victim. The psychological discomfort that is brought about by alcoholism affects those who are not partaking in the addiction since they are usually in their sound mind thus able to take stock of the effects of alcoholism.
An alcoholic finds it hard to realize the intensity at which the practice affects the rest of the members. Addiction is a prerequisite of alcoholism that means that the victim rarely finds himself more sob thus it is always impossible for such individual to realize the painful reality that the rest of the family members are being affected. At this point, it becomes a collective responsibility to salvage an alcoholic family member since seldom does an addict decides to turn around and give up the practice. Alcoholism reduces one to becoming dependent on alcohol in order to do anything. A critical analysis can relate alcohol addiction to low esteem, impaired thinking, and withdrawal syndrome being factors that fuel the urge to take alcohol before carrying out any task or becoming active in any way.
Fighting alcoholism is a gradual process regardless whether it is a collective exercise or a personal decision. Application of preventive measures is usually the best step to take and it can only work when signs of alcoholism are noted in time before the practice becomes fully fledged. Nevertheless, anybody can be relieved of alcoholism but this depends on self willingness to divert from it. Nobody can be compelled to turn around from alcoholism since some of the victims becomes adaptive of the situations that result from it and that includes being hopeless.
In conclusion, alcohol usually affects every member of the family – ranging from the unborn child going to the to the parents. Its far-reaching effects always result in not only serious physical problems for the alcohol drinker, but also result in psychological problems for the other members of the family. The treatment is usually complicated and it often is not completely successful. Even if the alcohol drinker ultimately reforms, the other family members who were greatly affected may not ever recover from all the problems that were inflicted upon them.
References
Berger, G. (1993). Alcoholism and the family. New York: Franklin WattsSilverstein, H. (1990). Alcoholism. New York: Franklin WattsWekesser, C. (1994). Alcoholism. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, Inc.
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Mayara. A. Velazco Valenti
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I am a compassionate, detail-oriented, and meticulously organized individual with experience working in different environments. Also, I am self-motivated with the ability to work under pressure without supervision and maintain the focus to meet and exceed the set goals. Furthermore, I possess outstanding written and oral communication skills. I also possess outstanding interpersonal skills, with the ability to interact with individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds. I am also an innovative and reliable person with a proven ability to achieve set goals while displaying efficient time-management and multi-tasking skills. In the past years, I have been acknowledged by my peers and supervisors for my tenacity and capability to manage the dynamics of a rapidly changing environment gracefully. Besides, I am recognized for integrity, loyalty, and honor. I am currently seeking an opportunity to enroll in a nursing program to develop myself and develop a set of nursing skills to render quality healthcare and touch many people’s lives globally.
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Evidence of the connection Insert injustice and medical condition from the research question
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Would Approaching insert social/environmental injustice as a Public Health Issue Decrease Rates of medical condition caused by injustice for population you will focus on ?
From a Future Nurse’s Prospective
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Westcoast University
Evidence of the connection: Insert injustice and medical condition from the research question In this section you will use evidence to illustrate that the injustice increases the risk for your medical condition. One of the best ways to do this is first find statistics related to your injustice to show that it is a problem. Then you should find a study that links the injustice to the medical condition. You want the study to be original research which means that researchers conducted an experiment and reported their findings. This is different than a review which is a summary of the current information on the topic. Reviews can be helpful though in backing up claims and conclusions that you make on your topic. The writing style is formal and must have fluidity. You need a strong introductory sentence that describes what the section will be about but without vague/weak language and is not painted with too broad a brush. You also need transition sentences and summary sentences. Use credible sources in this part because you cannot make up information. The citations will go after the last sentence with information from that source. Each paragraph must have at least ONE in text citation otherwise this is plagiarism. You should have several paragraphs to ensure organization of content and to help your reader follow your logic. You also need to write formally, meaning NO PERSONAL PRONOUNS (we, our, my or you). This is no place for personal opinions either so the word should cannot be used. Look at my full list of words and phases in my Writing Style handout that make your writing juvenile (get/ing, a lot, huge, big, “when it comes to” to name a few). If you use them I will know you did not look at the videos and are not participating in class. NO QUOATATIONS either. Information needs to be paraphrased and cited correctly in your own words. This is also a form of plagiarism. Look at my example about the decline in bee populations and the peer review rubric for guidance. They are both posted in the announcements. The last sentence in this section should include the three body systems/diagnosis that will be discussed as a transition to the next part of the paper.Body System One: Insert a diagnosis caused by or body system affected by medical condition in research question In this section you will discuss the a medical condition or body system that is affected by your injustice and falls under the medical condition used in your research question. For example, in my paper my medical condition in my research question is chronic disease and in this part of the paper I have one section each for cardiovascular disease, diabetes and stroke. All of which are chronic diseases. You will need to create the same uniformity and cohesion for your paper. Begin this section my defining the medical condition and including rates using statistics (probably from the CDC). After that you will want to include a research study that links this specific body system/diagnosis to your injustice. This may have been one of your articles in assignment 2 and can be copy pasted into this section. For my paper is was how plants that require pollination to produce fruits and veggies help to decrease risk for CVD, DM and stroke. Each diagnosis/body system has its own section and its own study to support the connection. You want to make sure your study used subjects that are members of the population you chose to include as well. All of the writing style and citation formatting is the same as the above section and throughout the paper. Please review to ensure strong academic composition. Body System Two: Insert a diagnosis caused by or body system affected by medical condition in research question In this section you will discuss the a medical condition or body system that is affected by your injustice and falls under the medical condition used in your research question. For example, in my paper my medical condition in my research question is chronic disease and in this part of the paper I have one section each for cardiovascular disease, diabetes and stroke. All of which are chronic diseases. You will need to create the same uniformity and cohesion for your paper. Begin this section my defining the medical condition and including rates using statistics (probably from the CDC). After that you will want to include a research study that links this specific body system/diagnosis to your injustice. This may have been one of your articles in assignment 2 and can be copy pasted into this section. For my paper is was how plants that require pollination to produce fruits and veggies help to decrease risk for CVD, DM and stroke. Each diagnosis/body system has its own section and its own study to support the connection. You want to make sure your study used subjects that are members of the population you chose to include as well. All of the writing style and citation formatting is the same as the above section and throughout the paper. Please review to ensure strong academic composition.Body System Three: Insert a diagnosis caused by or body system affected by medical condition in research question In this section you will discuss the a medical condition or body system that is affected by your injustice and falls under the medical condition used in your research question. For example, in my paper my medical condition in my research question is chronic disease and in this part of the paper I have one section each for cardiovascular disease, diabetes and stroke. All of which are chronic diseases. You will need to create the same uniformity and cohesion for your paper. Begin this section my defining the medical condition and including rates using statistics (probably from the CDC). After that you will want to include a research study that links this specific body system/diagnosis to your injustice. This may have been one of your articles in assignment 2 and can be copy pasted into this section. For my paper is was how plants that require pollination to produce fruits and veggies help to decrease risk for CVD, DM and stroke. Each diagnosis/body system has its own section and its own study to support the connection. You want to make sure your study used subjects that are members of the population you chose to include as well. All of the writing style and citation formatting is the same as the above section and throughout the paper. Please review to ensure strong academic composition. Last sentences need to be a good transition into the next section. You are not writing several separate papers. This is one paper and must show cohesion.Economic Burden: Insert the economic burdens you will discuss
Insert first burden
In this section you will discuss the economic burden of the topic listed above. You need to use monetary values to illustrate the impact it will have on the economy and how it impacts your specific population. Finding studies for this section is useful in making your point as well but not required. All assignments must discuss at a minimum the healthcare cost but there maybe other economic burdens that have resulted because of injustice. For example, the death of the bees will result in lost revenue in the agricultural sector as well and I had to discuss that. If you do have more than one, then you will need to make another subtitle as the one before and it will need to be included in the title in bold as well. Look at my example for correct formatting. All of the writing style and citation formatting is the same as the above section and throughout the paper. Please review to ensure strong academic composition. Last sentences need to be a good transition into the next section. You are not writing several separate papers. This is one paper and must show cohesion References