Common Age-Related Health Issues & Spiritual Care
Common Age-Related Health Problems
Problems in Women
Dyspareunia: Painful intercourse can be caused by vaginal dryness, tumors, or infections. Vaginal infections are common. Uterine prolapse can also occur. Tumors of the cervix, uterus, and ovaries are more prevalent in old age.
Treatment options to delay and diminish age-related changes:
- Hormone therapy during menopause.
- Topical estrogen (ovules).
- Vaginal lubricants.
Problems in Men
Impotence: It is crucial to diagnose whether erectile dysfunction is organic
Read MoreLaw and Psychology: Understanding the Intersection
Why Two Worlds Destined to Connect?
- Because there is no shadow of a doubt that the differences between these two fields of knowledge are extremely significant and, at first glance, seem insurmountable:
- Law: A positive, rational science that deals with legal facts and objective reality. It is the set of rules aimed at regulating human behavior, prescribing behaviors, and ways of conflict resolution; interrogation and testimony.
- Psychology: An empirical science that deals with human drama and the reality
Understanding Group Dynamics in Social Research
The Influence of Group Dynamics
Individuals belong to primary and secondary groups (family, workgroups), and their participation is often subject to the group’s norms and values. The group can influence its members’ perspectives, sometimes differing from those outside the group.
Groupality and Individual Behavior
Groupality demonstrates that people are not entirely autonomous. Our actions are influenced by group interactions, even when they appear independent.
The Group in Social Research
Current research
Read MoreBrain Function: Memory, Sleep, Cognition, and Aphasia
The Importance of Forgetting
- Retrieve information/memory: To bring back, to remember information.
- Retrieval of information: The process of getting information back.
- The brain can’t keep holding onto everything; it doesn’t have the capacity to keep every piece of information.
- Dredge up: To ruminate.
- Ruminate: To think carefully for a long time.
- To shut memories out: To avoid thinking about those memories.
- To shut memories down: To avoid thinking but remember later.
- To forget on purpose: To forget things
Psychomotor Development and Perception in Children
Psychomotor Development: Concept and Components
Concept: Evolution of the subject to perform actions and movements, as well as the mental representation and consciousness of them. It includes both external components (action) and internal components (representation).
Body Schema
Elements of the body schema include the mental representation of the body, the possibilities of movement, and spatial constraints.
Laterality
Lateral predominance in executions. Association of movement coordination and progressive
Read MoreUnderstanding Sexism, Prejudice, and Social Bias
Key Concepts in Prejudice and Discrimination
- In-group: A social group to which a person psychologically identifies as being a member.
- Out-group: A social group with which an individual does not identify.
- Cultural Stereotypes: Collective views of social groups.
- Social Categorization: Classifying people into groups based on similar characteristics.
- Primary Social Categories: Close-knit groups, typically small