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1-6 Journal: From Issue to Persuasion English Composition 2: SNHU
ENG 123
Professor Kleisch
01/03/2022
Jennifer Elmore
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My first article is “Goal Setting to Support Mental Wellness Among Adolescents with Disabilities and Co-Occurring Mental Health Needs”, and in the article they talk about the needs of children and adolescence with intellectual disabilities and mental health disorders. People with
disabilities have a greater risk of developing metal health disorders as they mature into adolescents. They have a harder time communicating, making friends, they have lower self-
esteem, and have issues getting needed services. Having an IEP or aid in school could greatly give children, and adolescents the advantage they need to improve themselves academically and give them confidence. The issue remains that educators lack the knowledge, and resources to further contribute to the disabled adolescents. Since school systems lack funding for IEP’s, they’ve put in place “goal setting as a mental wellness strategy”, that can help keep the brain occupied. This strategy is used in schools by counselors, teachers, principals, and at home by parents and other legal guardians. You make a grid, a check list, or whatever helps your mental health more. This strategy even taught educators how to better teach students how to problem-
solve, prioritize, multi-task, and helped build their confidence. Students were asked to keep track
of their progress, and how they felt they were doing. They could use their phones, watches, tablets, or create a schedule, a check list, or journals. Whichever method the student felt was best. I chose this topic since I am pursuing psychology and have my own disabilities and mental health disorders, I related to the topic well. Overall, students, adolescents, and educators felt more confident with this method. My second article is “Can We Help Addicts Become More Autonomous? Inside The
Mind of An Addict”. Under the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical
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Manual of Mental Disorders, addiction is a disease and therefore considered a mental disorder. It
is more respectful to say, “person with an addiction” or “person with an alcohol dependence” than saying “addict” or “alcoholic”. An addict (that is what they are) are people too, they have feelings, they cry, sleep, and eat. The only difference between a codependent person, and a neurotypical person is that the codependent or (neurodivergent) person has a chemical imbalance. They are chemically and clinically sick. Society has made us believe that the word addiction is automatically associated with drugs, alcohol, but caffeine is addictive, and so is gambling. Someone who gambles gets the same dopamine signals as someone on cocaine, it’s not the same, but why are we judging one person’s high over the other? When an addict is coming down, they experience withdrawals which include sweats, chills, aches, pains, fever, hallucinations, puking, and more. When in that vulnerable state they are at a cognitive level of an
adolescence, they cannot think rationally, they are autonomously impaired. You can avoid the withdrawal if you slowly get off the drug of choice, rather than quitting cold turkey. I chose this topic because it focuses on addiction, and rather or not it’s a choice. I grew up with drug addicted
parents and can also relate to the topic from a child’s perspective. Overall, why would you judge one person’s addiction choice when we’re all addicted to something, it may not be what we desire, but we all have something. I would argue that teachers, counselors, IEP’s, need more training. Why would you work harder for extra resources when an IEP is specialized in the disabled, and mental health? The idea of journaling is fantastic, but I believe the adolescence needs additional assistance. Every child should have access to an IEP, or extra assistance, if the school doesn’t offer them in your special needs program, then you’re in the wrong school. An IEP is crucial in the development of disabled children and adolescence. They teach academic successes, self-regulation, and stress
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relievers that are crucial to everyday life. People with disabilities have a higher chance of mental health disorders because they lack social skills, have low self-esteem, and struggle academically. Disabled youth even struggle with self-harm, and need the extra assistance from counselors or family. Arguing that addiction is a choice, or a disease could be never ending. The fact remains that scientifically it is a disease, and there are many types of addiction. Gambling, caffeine, drugs, alcohol, etc. The DSM-IV defines substance abuse as a mental disorder. You choose to start the drug, but you physically cannot stop the drug without severe withdrawals. The withdrawals include, hallucinations, sweats, chills, aches, pains, shakes, puking, and more. It’s also shown that slowly stopping the addictive behavior a little bit at a time, until you’re off the substance can help the withdrawal symptoms. I argue that addiction is a disease and needs medical treatment. Being addicted to something is having a chemical imbalance, and gambling gives the same dopamine signals to the brain that heroin does. My target audience for my first chosen article is adolescents, teachers, counselors, IEP’s, parents, and legal caregivers. Each of these people can benefit from my topic because they can learn how to better equip themselves to handle disabled, and mental health l disorders. Leaning more about this topic can greatly improve their chances of understanding different disabilities, and mental health disorders. For my second topic, the target audience could be, addicts, children of addicts, parents of addicts, family of addicts, and mental health professionals. The article can teach others that addiction is a disease, and give you the correct path to go down. It gives different examples of addiction, and the dopamine signals it gives you. Anyone can find helpful information about addiction in that article.
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References CAN WE HELP ADDICTS BECOME MORE AUTONOMOUS? INSIDE THE MIND OF AN ADDICT, MERLE SPRIGGS, Volume 17 Numbers 5–6 2003, for englishcomp 2.pdf
Goal Setting to Support Mental Wellness Among Adolescents with Disabilities and Co-
Occurring Mental Health Needs, Grace L. Francis , George Mason University, Jodi M. Duke, George Mason University, Megan Fujita, George Mason University, and Alexandra Raines, George Mason University, for englishcomp2.pdf