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The Importance of Identity in Sexual Health
Published in Naomi M. Hall, Sexual Health and Black College Students, 2022
As progress has been made in the identity and identity development fields, an expansion to include various aspects of identity have been pursued by researchers. Each person has various identities that can be used to describe them, but some will be more salient than others based on the socially generated norms of the society in which they live and function. At times, individuals are asked, even expected to prioritize one identity over another. Some identities are going to be more prominent in certain environments based on whether it is seen as privileged or oppressed. For example, identifying as Black at an HBCU may be seen as privileged because most students enrolled also identify that way. However, identifying as same-gender-loving may be interpreted as an oppressed identity as only a minority of students will also describe themselves that way. If a student is not secure in their sexual orientation identity (or any salient identity) it creates a situation where they will be less likely to successfully navigate the stages of development and more likely to experience the negative consequences.
Pre- and Post-Evaluation Significance of Group Support Structures
Published in Sarah F. Kurker, Effective Group Therapies for Young Adults Affected by Cancer, 2021
Developmentally young adults are trying to identify who they are independently from their family of origin. Because of the demands of cancer treatment, young adults often are challenged by this because of the nature of becoming more dependent on their parents or caregivers as they go through treatment. Therefore, it is a secondary challenge for young adults to navigate their personal identity development. While losing control of choices, surviving the physical effects of treatment and becoming more dependent in a time when they should be less dependent on their family is a key component of group. Because of this, it should be noted that “knowledge sharing and communications are needed throughout the transition from cancer care into community care. AYA survivors are likely to need developmentally appropriate psychosocial care as well and extensive follow-on surveillance” (Dahlke, Fair, Hong, Kellsedt, & Ory, 2017). Being aware, as a clinical social worker, of what each young adult can address in the moment is key to proving the most effective support. Some young adults deal with and process these issues positively during treatment while others are unable to process till after because they are in survival mode. Balancing what the young adults and the group can handle is a skill that the facilitator constantly processes. The therapeutic work that can be accomplished individually and within a group demands constant reflection by the facilitator. Evaluation can be a tool to help social work facilitators with this process.
Conclusion
Published in Roger Ellis, Elaine Hogard, Professional Identity in the Caring Professions, 2020
There are several features of Programmatic Assessment that could improve any curriculum. First is the idea that assessment should be considered as a learning and teaching programme in itself (Van der Vleuten et al., 2012). This is radical notion since assessment is often seen as no more than a necessary pendant to the main elements in the curriculum rather than a programme in itself. Second, and following on from this, the students should be encouraged to learn from their assessment results and guided to see how these results can enhance the development of their PI. This process of identity development should be supported by an individual mentor who helps the students to learn from assessment results and their experience of them.
Language skills and interpersonal trust in adolescents with and without mental illness
Published in International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2023
Angela Clarke, Tanya A. Rose, Pamela J. Meredith
The focus of this study was adolescents aged between 16 and 18 years, which represents the senior school cohort (grades 11 and 12) in Australia. This phase of mid- to late-adolescence is characterised by substantial social challenges, including individuation from parents (Ballarotto, Volpi, Marzilli, & Tambelli, 2018) and expansion of social networks (Lee, Jolles, & Krabbendam, 2016). This period coincides with the start of legal driving age in Australia, so adolescents’ with driving licences may have increased freedoms. Mid- to late-adolescence is also characterised by identity development, as biological, social and psychological changes stimulate young people to consider their place in society (Arnett, 2015). Unsurprisingly, difficulties with identity development can lead to social-emotional difficulties in the transition to adulthood (Potterton et al., 2022). The magnitude of these challenges makes this phase of adolescence important to research.
A Double-Edged Sword: Dual-Identity Centrality and the Health of Asian American Sexual Minority Individuals
Published in Journal of Homosexuality, 2023
Taken together, these results offer new and practical opportunities for health promotion efforts among AASMI. Two factors—outness and (dis)comfort in one’s racial community—along the pathway from dual-identity development to health among AASMs may act as fruitful points of intervention for professionals working to improve the population’s health and wellbeing. Mental and physical healthcare providers working with AASMI should help encourage their dual-identity development but must be cautious of the potentially detrimental health effects of this process via discomfort in their racial/ethnic community. Interventions may be productive in fostering alternate forms of support for AASMI that are outside their racial/ethnic community, and/or helping forge more intimate relationships between AASMI and their family members, relatives, or close friends who exist within that community. Such efforts may help to mitigate the harmful effects of dual-identity development among AASMI by limiting the discomfort they experience in their racial/ethnic community. Conversely, given that the positive health effects of greater dual-identity centrality manifest via increased outness among AASMI, efforts promoting outness among the population may help improve their health and wellbeing. Health professionals working with this population should help foster their outness, in particular, as they encourage dual-identity development. Helping cultivate outness among AASMI may not only increase their health but may also buffer the negative health implications of discomfort in their racial/ethnic community.
Love across the life span in cultural and transcultural perspectives
Published in International Review of Psychiatry, 2023
Claude-Hèléne Mayer, Elisabeth Vanderheiden
In this special issue, the authors explore love across the life span in various contexts. Thereby, identity development is a dynamic process in which individuals develop a complex understanding and unique view about themselves (Erikson, 1950). The development of one’s identity is influenced by various factors, such as by personality traits, values, up-bringing, relationships, but also socio-cultural group membership or environmental factors (Mayer & Barnard, 2015). This special issue studies love in different phases and areas of life as well as fields of action. The editors and authors aim at providing new insights into love from diverse cultural, psychological, psychiatric, and pedagogical perspectives. This special issue includes empirical, theoretical, and conceptual articles on love from theoretical and applied prospects, and thereby adds to expand the discourses on love in the context of meaning-making and identity development in cultural and transcultural perspectives. In the following, an overview on the articles published in this special issue are given.