Young Adults’ Security Perceptions: Troubling, but an Opportunity for the Response Field

Abstract While today’s young adults are often vilified as hypersensitive and narcissistic, it is important to understand how the life experiences of the current generation of 18- to 25-year-olds has shaped their worldviews. This research indicates that growing up in the post-9/11 world has exposed them to a reduction in liberty, increased prejudice and mistrust, and a general sense of fear and insecurity. However, it has also helped them understand that disasters can impact anyone, and instilled a strong belief that people should help each other in times of need. These are characteristics that emergency managers and response professionals should view as strengths to be capitalized on among entry-level hires are who drawn to the field.

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A Journey Not Walked Alone: Who are the Influential Adults Identified by Catholic-Raised Young Adults during their Religious Identity Development?

Journal of Youth and Theology ◽

10.1163/24055093-bja10001 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 19 (1) ◽

pp. 4-24

Author(s):

Danielle Vaclavik ◽

Kelly Velazquez ◽

Jakob Carballo

Keyword(s):

College Students ◽

Young Adults ◽

Grounded Theory ◽

Identity Development ◽

Religious Identity ◽

Crucial Role ◽

Growing Up ◽

Adult Type ◽

Future Studies ◽

Catholic College

Interactions with adults may play a crucial role in youths’ religious identity development. However, who these adults are and how they are influential is under explored. Twelve Catholic and twelve former Catholic college students were interviewed about their experiences growing up Catholic focusing on influential adults. Interviews were analyzed using modified grounded theory. Adult type categories were identified. Implications and future studies are discussed.

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Psychotic disorders in young adults with perinatally acquired HIV: a UK case series

Psychological Medicine ◽

10.1017/s0033291720004134 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-7

Author(s):

I. Mallik ◽

T. Pasvol ◽

G. Frize ◽

S. Ayres ◽

A. Barrera ◽

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Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Young Adults ◽

Young People ◽

Case Series ◽

Psychotic Episode ◽

Published Data ◽

Growing Up ◽

Term Care ◽

Perinatally Acquired

Abstract Background Increasing numbers of children with perinatally acquired HIV (PaHIV) are transitioning into adult care. People living with behaviourally acquired HIV are known to be at more risk of psychosis than uninfected peers. Young adults living with PaHIV face numerous risk factors; biological: lifelong exposure to a neurotrophic virus, antiretroviral medication and immune dysfunction during brain development, and environmental; social deprivation, ethnicity-related discrimination, and migration-related issues. To date, there is little published data on the prevalence of psychotic illness in young people growing up with PaHIV. Methods We conducted a retrospective case note review of all individuals with PaHIV aged over 18 years registered for follow up at a dedicated clinic in the UK (n = 184). Results In total, 12/184 (6.5%), median age 23 years (interquartile range 21–26), had experienced at least one psychotic episode. The presentation and course of the psychotic episodes experienced by our cohort varied from short-lived symptoms to long term illness and nine (75%) appear to have developed a severe and enduring mental illness requiring long term care. Conclusion The prevalence of psychosis in our cohort was clearly above the lifetime prevalence of psychosis in UK individuals aged 16–34 years, which has been reported to be 0.5–1.0%. This highlights the importance of clinical vigilance regarding the mental health of young people growing up with PaHIV and the need to integrate direct access to mental health services within the HIV centres providing medical care.

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PBR3 THE HEALTH-RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE EXPERIENCES OF YOUNG ADULTS WITH SICKLE CELL DISEASE: A QUALITATIVE ASSESSMENT

Value in Health ◽

10.1016/s1098-3015(10)62363-7 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 7 (3) ◽

pp. 316

Author(s):

SR Mehta ◽

DY Mayhew ◽

JM De Leon ◽

AG Hartzema ◽

R Lottenberg

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Young Adults ◽

Sickle Cell Disease ◽

Life Experiences ◽

Qualitative Assessment ◽

Health Related Quality ◽

Cell Disease ◽

Related Quality ◽

Health Related

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“A Life in Paradox”: Experiences of Young Adult Stroke Survivors

10.31235/osf.io/7hdej ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Rudolf Cymorr Kirby Palogan Martinez ◽

Migliore H. Macuja ◽

Paul Remson Manzo ◽

Sarah J. Bujawe

Keyword(s):

Young Adults ◽

Conflict Resolution ◽

Young Adult ◽

Family Involvement ◽

Life Experiences ◽

Phenomenological Approach ◽

Levels Of Analysis ◽

Individual Experience ◽

Stroke Survivors ◽

The Family

This study, rooted on phenomenological approach, explored the experiences of post-stoke young adults. Seven (7) participants were gathered as co-researchers and were selected thoroughly based on the following criteria: 1) They are Filipino who had stroke at the age of 15-35 and 2) They are able and willing to articulate, participate, and share their life experiences. Further, the experiences of the participants were gathered and enhanced through the following methods: 1) Interview, and 2) Storytelling. Subsequently, three levels of analysis were done ensuing the process developed by Martinez (2013), grounded on interpretative phenomenology. Through the process of reflective analysis, three themes have emerged and are as follows: (a) “Sometimes, what is forbidden is pleasurable”: Dilemma of Needs and Wants(b) “I accepted it... my family is still accepting it”: Centrality and Ambiguity of the Family(c) “I become feeble but stronger”: Resilience in VulnerabilityThe themes represent a recurring pattern among the lives of the co-researchers from having the desire to change their old ways and habits but acting otherwise. Further, these patterns are reflected in the positionality of their family as both a burden that reminds them that they have a disease yet serves as the main reason they continue to fight. This also mirrors how they view stroke as something that defeated them but in the process taught them resilience in life. The insight of a “life in paradox”, then serves as the central essence of the study.Insights from the study suggest that the experience of the co-researchers is more than an individual experience of conflict resolution but a phenomenon of family’s contextualization. Studies that explore compliance among post stroke young adult as well as family involvement in rehabilitation is then suggested.

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IN VIA VERITAS. IRINA BOGATYREVA

Voprosy literatury ◽

10.31425/0042-8795-2018-2-54-65 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 54-65

Author(s):

M. Lebedeva

Keyword(s):

Young Adults ◽

Young Adult ◽

Emerging Adulthood ◽

Common Ground ◽

Growing Up ◽

Adult Readers ◽

Keen Interest ◽

Russian Author ◽

The Subject ◽

Psychological Studies

In this review of the novels and stories by the contemporary Russian author I. Bogatyreva, winner of numerous literary awards, including The Student Booker 2016, the critic highlights the principal motifs of her plots, including the motif of travel, pilgrimage, and the search of a certain human common ground: be it age, philosophy, or nationality. The paper also examines the chronotope and the writer’s use of mythological allusions, which permeate both her historical and modern day-based novels, only to conclude that ‘emerging adulthood’, a term from the psychological studies of young adults, is the most apt way to describe Bogatyreva’s prose. That the writer maintains keen interest in the subject is not only because of her role as ‘a real master of innovation in young Russian prose’ (quoted from the blurb on the cover of her prize-winning novel Kadyn), but due to its relevance for contemporary young adult readers, themselves in search of their models growing up and their future destiny.

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Accompanying the Path of Maternity: The Life History of a Colombian Doula

The Journal of Perinatal Education ◽

10.1891/j-pe-d-20-00038 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 30 (3) ◽

pp. 145-158

Author(s):

Daniel F. M. Suárez-Baquero ◽

Jane Dimmitt Champion

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Life History ◽

Life Experiences ◽

Health Inequities ◽

Growing Up ◽

Central Theme ◽

Care Experience ◽

Health Care Experience ◽

History Of ◽

Women's Role

Doulas have fundamentally improved the health-care experience of pregnant women internationally. Women who recognize the importance of not being alone during pregnancy have embraced this role for centuries. However, less is known about doulas practicing in countries experiencing health inequities like Colombia. Miller's methodology and Atkinson's interview domain was used to answer the question “What life experiences led a Colombian woman to become a doula?” A central theme emerged, “A calling from within: Growing up to accompany the transition from woman to mother.” The path to becoming a doula evolved from life experiences involving health inequities, and a sense of femininity, maternity, and the women's role in rural Colombia.

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Risky Play and Growing Up: How to Understand the Overprotection of the Next Generation

Pseudoscience ◽

10.7551/mitpress/9780262037426.003.0007 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair ◽

Ellen Beate Hansen Sandseter ◽

David Ball

Keyword(s):

Young Adults ◽

Life Experience ◽

Real Life ◽

Early Years ◽

Illustrative Case ◽

Self Awareness ◽

Growing Up ◽

Change Perceptions ◽

Current Spread ◽

Risky Play

Much of the development of children, young people, and young adults is determined by opportunities for play and “real life” experience in their early years. This is not, as some believe, an optional or frivolous luxury, but an essential life experience for development of character, skills, self-awareness, and competence. Yet in recent years, evidence shows that opportunities for this at all ages have diminished in both quality and quantity in many countries. The reasons for this are multiple and complex, but one factor has been a drive to create a low risk or even risk-free society via the application of newly developed techniques of risk assessment and science-based methods of risk control. However, the health benefits of these public safety initiatives might have much less effect than people might believe and could, overall, be harmful through their prohibitions. We conclude that more research into the nature of risky play and risk exposure through teenage years and into adulthood is necessary, but tentatively propose that we need to also consider the possible effects of irrational overprotection. In addition to the conventional play setting, the current spread of trigger warning and safety rooms will be considered as an illustrative case affecting young adults. Rather than avoidance and consolidation of negative metacognitions about lack of control and vulnerability one needs to convey how science suggests that exposure or interventions to change perceptions of vulnerability may be more beneficial.

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