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1. A colleague who has witnessed a child being abused states, “I don’t think it’s any of our business what people do in the privacy of their own homes.”

a. What would you be legally required to do?

b. What are your ethical responsibilities?

2. You successfully convinced your colleagues to assess routinely for abuse, and now they want to know how to do it. How would you go about teaching them to assess for child abuse? Intimate partner abuse? Older adult abuse?

3. Jonah, 18 years of age, is brutally beaten and sexually assaulted by an unidentified male as he makes his way home from a party in an unfamiliar part of town. He is found semiconscious by a passerby and taken to the emergency department. Jonah has bite marks on his neck; extensive bruises around his head, chest, and buttocks; and has sustained a cracked rib and anal tears.
Ms. Santinez, a nurse and rape counselor in the emergency department, works with Jonah using the hospital’s sexual assault protocol and evidence collection kit. Jonah appears stunned and confused and has difficulty focusing on what the nurse says. He states repeatedly, “This is crazy, this can’t be happening … I can’t believe this has happened to me … Oh, my God, I can’t believe this.”

a. What areas of Jonah’s assessment should be given highest priority by Ms. Santinez and her staff while he is in the emergency department?

b. Identify what Jonah’s recovery might look like as a survivor of sexual assault. What resources are available to him?

c. If Jonah does not wish to report the sexual assault to police, would you still complete the examination?

 

 

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Our emotional, psychological, and social well-being are all parts of our mental health. It influences our thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. Additionally, it influences how we respond to stress, interact with others, and make good decisions. 1 Every period of life, from childhood and adolescence to maturity, is vital for mental health. Poor mental health and mental illness are not the same things, despite the fact that the phrases are sometimes used synonymously. Even if they may not have a mental disorder, a person can have poor mental health. A person with a mental disease may also go through phases of good physical, mental, and social health. Both physical and mental health are crucial aspects of overall health.

If this is all a hoax though, what happened to astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee that burnt to death in the simulation? Conspiracy theorists have an answer for that too. They were executed. Not formally, but rather that the “accidental” fire ignited in the simulation was set on purpose. One of the biggest advocates for this theory is the family of one of the victims: Gus Grissom. Grissom was an open critic of the space program, and both his wife and son believe that at the very least, NASA has and is holding from them information about what really happened. Conspiracy theorists take this idea much further and say that government officials purposely set the fire to silence critical Grissom before he learned, or before he could have told too much to the public. For their evidence, conspiracy theorists cite the mysterious circumstances around the fire, the lack of investigation details released, and the fact that the pod that they died in is now forever locked away in a military facility and cannot be investigated.

Those beliefs, or at least some aspects of those beliefs are held by somewhere near 10% of the nation. But why? Conspiracy theories are always fun to think about, but why do Americans actually believe their government would or could pull this off? An article from the Smithsonian tries to offer some answers. They suggest that it is mainly young people who believe the conspiracy theory because they were not around during the time of Apollo. Another factor that make young people the most skeptical are the plethora of websites sites throwing out the conspiracies, that young people can access easier than ever before.

The most convincing point the article makes however, and the one that I relate to the most, is the growing distrust of the government. After government scandals like Watergate and the Lewinsky Scandal, we have become so distrusting of government and politicians that I for one think the government is capable of almost anything. This distrust in my generation has led to theories like the idea that 9/11 was an inside job and maybe has caused a rise in belief in theories like the moon landing hoax.

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