Keys of Suicide

My Blog is also about mental health and what that is all about. Todays post will be about Human Services topic about Adolescents and the challenges they might go through. I will be focusing in one one thing in that is scary that needs to be talked about more than less.  

During Adolescents is a time period were many kids go through a transitional phase. Understanding what they want to do in life Many kids decide to go to some kind of college or university. Then their are those some who want to go to a certain branch of the military. Basically, the adolescent stage is very developmental. With being a Adolescent again there are some challenges they can go through.  

Suicide ( second leading cause of death.) 

This is a model called the pimp model. A model that most people follow who are considering suicide. 

Plan

Intent

Mean 

Pros ( meaning what is good about there plan.) 

- Teenage girls are more likely to attempt. Most teenage boys complete suicide.  

- sometimes though people talk openly about wanting to die. 

Psycho-social factors and Risk Factors 

- hopless

- Gun

- or knowing someone who did complete suicide  

- As a key watch for the markers of suicide or the lack of sometimes. 

Then a dear friend of my mind also writes a blog that I want you to check out. He wrote about this very topic but in a whole different way. Go and Check it out. Here is the link to the blog post.

https://blindinjusticeblog.wordpress.com/2017/07/25/chester-benningtons-death-needs-to-be-a-call-to-help-not-demonize/

Laws and Protection

Today, I am going to write about some laws that protect people who might have mental health or special needs. When You are hired for a job you can voluntarily give that you have a disability.  You have to disclose if you have a record as if you were ever arrested. Then there some states that require you to disclose your sexual orientation such as if you are gay or straight. Today, I will be focusing in on the laws that protect a lot with people who have a disability or some kind of mental health. I will be focusing on a brief summary of only three laws. 

The first law is about  (HIPPA) Health insurance portability and accountability Act of 1996. That is were health professional of any sorts can not tell anyone one about your health care or mental status at all. The exception to that if you give them permission to tell certain other people. Usually it needs to be written consent. Then they need to be even more on the alert with files on the computers.

The second law is about (FERPA) Family Education Rights and Privacy Act. That is were your school records are sealed. If your in college and mom asks if your grades and you do not have to give them to her because of this law.

The next law is called (IDEA) Individuals with Disability Education improvement ACT. Under this law everyone has an equal opportunity to get education. Under this law I am able to get extended test or quiz time when I need it. Sometimes I accept or sometimes I do not.

Do not Hide.

Today I went to a training offered by my school called Diversity in Education. I was in one session today. A women was speaking about how she has schizophrenia. There is no cure for it. She said that "I am not a monster." Just someone who can not turn off their nightmares even when I am awake.  I am student here who just needs a little extra help through life.

She said that she is a student here at The Pennsylvania State University. Who decided to start a student group called Students with Schizophrenia. She researched to see if their was anything across the country but their was not anything. She starting here own organization and told her I would love to join her. She told me it is going to start in the fall semester. I will be looking out for that when the time comes. One thing that stood out that she said not every person who has schizophrenia is the same who experience it.

for people who do not know what Schizophrenia here the signs and symptoms. This is just a guide and their not just one guide to it. Again, remember their is no cure for it.

Schizophrenia 

1. Delusions 
2. Hallucinations
3. disorganized speech  
4. Disorganized Speech 
5. Negative symptoms ( Such as extreme upsetting  moods)

Why in the world do we have to be silent about who we are as people. We have to be understanding, learn and educate people. People who have disabilities are just like you and me. We are not monsters but just like you and me.

Watch the video I posted about this women. she is true and powerful.

Identity

I am back and ready to blog again. I was of for awhile because of semester break and going on starting a new semester. I was dealing with somethings but ready to get back into action. I am ready to get back to into action. This time a around I will be blogging actually every Saturday instead of every Sunday. I am still counting my series in culture of disability everything here goes well with the series.

In school this semester I am taking a class called Introduction to Rehabilitation and Human Services. It is basically a class were I learn what I can do in the Human Service filed. This past Tuesday we talked about identity, multiculturalism and acceptance.  First we have to understand some basic concepts. 

Multiculturalism: 

• individual, group and universal dimension of existence
• Universal and culture - specific strategies 
• Individualism and collectivism 

Etic or Universal Approach:

counseling approach that holds that all loci of identity or shared circumstance are essential to the formation of cultural identity. 

Since knowing these things think to you do this activity by yourself. Think about the strongest identity you have as person. I am doing this activity giving examples through my own life. 

1. Race - White 
2. Gender - Male 
3. Sexual orientation -  Gay 
4. Social Economic status - Working class 
5. Nationality -    United States of America 
6. Ability/Disability - Learning disability and hard of hearing 
7. Religion - Christian 
8. Age - 21 
9. Body Type - fair 
10. Job - Wage worker and Full Time undergraduate college student    
11. Location - Northeast Philadelphia 
12. Individualism/ collectivism - Individualism 
13. Rural/ urban - Urban 

Disability Culture in New York City

So I’m going to preface by saying that, while I do live in New York City, I do not have a disability. Therefore, I am looking at disability culture in New York City from the outside looking in. I hope this will be a helpful perspective to all of you, my readers.

Anyway, I think that we must start by defining what disability culture is before explaining what disability culture is like in New York City. As such, for the purpose of this writing, I will go with the Encyclopedia Britannica definition of disability culture: “the sum total of behaviours, beliefs, ways of living, and material artifacts that are unique to persons affected by disability.”

One belief that exists with many disabled people I know in New York is that institutions do not come close to adequately serving people with various kinds of disabilities (physical ones too, but other kinds of disabilities as well). From the schools and how they do (or don’t) address children with educational special needs, to wheelchair accessibility issues in many places (including the subways in New York), there is a general belief among many disabled people in New York City that not nearly enough is done to address the needs of disabled people. This belief is a part of disability culture in New York City.

Since institutions fail to properly provide for people with disabilities, they need to work very hard to compensate for the fact that they’re disabled in an ableist world. One example of that would be with the subways: since the subways in New York are notorious for their lack of wheelchair accessibility, people in wheelchairs need to meticulously plan out their trips so that they can travel. An example like the subways demonstrate that in New York City, part of disability culture is encountering systems which are inadequate, and finding things for themselves which do work.

However, these negative circumstances, while they are a part of disability culture in New York City, should not be the only thing about disability culture in New York City, or even the thing which hopefully defines disability culture in New York City. No, the thing that I hope can define disability culture in New York City (at least from the outside looking in) is the deep desire to have the same opportunities that people without disabilities have. Those opportunities don’t exist, but there is a desire for those opportunities to exist.

I am sure that there is much more to disability culture in New York City, and that there is quite a bit I’m missing here. Hopefully, one day, someone (either on Joe’s blog or in another place) can fill in some of the gaps left by able-bodied me. But what I’ve written above are just a few things I’ve noticed about disability culture in New York City.

By: 

Brendan Birth 

What is Disability culture?

This is a movie on youtube called Sound and Fury. This is a live example about disability and culture. Mainly about the deaf community. Recommend watching it. I choose the picture it reminds up were are all able not disabled.

Today you as the reader as going to learn  some concepts some concepts when it comes to disability culture order to understand next weeks post written by my friend Brendan Birth who lives in New York.   He is going to talk about what Disability culture is like and what he thinks about it.

In my post this week you will learn some new concepts and reiterate some old concepts I wrote before. Before I began I began I could write 20 pages or more on this subject? I am going to teach you some concepts and words that stand out the most. Then apply it to and give examples of what the mean.

Think about this when you thinking about what culture is.
Disability Etiquette: a way of interacting with people with disabilities which demonstrates respect and consideration. 
Keys:
- first person language
- being okay with differences
- have all something to contribute
- have people the way you want to be treated.
- want all the same basic stuff.

At first let me tell you what what culture means in the most broadest sense. "A fluid system of leaned beliefs values and traditions  principles and guides for behaviors that are shared among a particular group. " How how people hold themselves in a particular group. An Example of that is many deaf people are proud to be deaf and use sign language. A lot of those people do not want to make way for them to hear because they are to proud to be who they are as people.
What is visible:
- age
- race
- Gender
- Language
This what is the most truest when it comes to culture and what you can point out in people. To me gender is becoming harder. Sometimes it is harder to point out if this person is Female or male or something. Since understanding a little bit about culture. Language is powerful and the way we use words is to as people.

Person First language: is putting person first before the disability. An example of that is Justin has Autism. It is not saying that Justin Autistic. It all depends on the person. If the person can speak for themselves ask what their preference is. Sometimes people are to say they have a disability and some are not. It sum it up it is all about preference. 

What to think about when it comes to the end of the post.

Golden Rules:
- Let them be their own advocates.
- Put yourself in their shoes

Types Of Disabilities and how people with disabilites deal with it?

Since you have gotten a view of what special needs are from my last post by reading a paper I wrote on this very subject. You have a basic understanding of what a disability is and what a special needs people are. As a refresher a disability is a physical or mental condition that limits a persons movements sense or activities. Again, for me I am hard of hearing. I have trouble on some level. To help with that I wear hearing aids to help with amplifying the sound so I can people better.
Today is going to be the many categories that deal with what  disabilities are and what stages of a response to a disability. Then going to understand the acceptance of a disability of a scale. Sometimes this is commonly used. People with disabilities as an acronym which is PWD is how it is used. 
Categories of a Disability 

1. Physical Disability 
2. Intellectual/Development 
3. Cognitive 
4. psychiatric   

Acceptance of a disability scale 
- Developed in 1971 as a way to determine the characteristics of what makes a person with a disability accepting of his/her disability.

1. Focus on certain individual values 
2. DE-emphasis on Physique 
3. containment of disability 
4. Stop comparing self to others' assets. 

Stages of response to a disability 

1. shock
2. denial 
3. depression 
4. anger
5. acceptance. 

At the end just let the person with special needs just be themselves and just be their for them. It is okay to not understand at first. Being their sometimes just means  the world to them. 

P.S I am going to write about what person first language and what disability culture is. That will be introduction to something. My very dear friend is going to write about what disability culture is like where he lives in New York. That will be the week after when I give my introduction to the ideas he is going to write about.