COPING & ADJUSTMENT
Adjustment Issues
Personal Journal
The author of this response is asked to offer a journal of personal reflection and observations about the author's life up to this point from several different perspectives. It will be described how well the author has adjusted as it relates to four overall dimensions. Those dimensions are adjusting to life in terms of subjective well-being, diversity, contexts and thinking critically, the balancing of life priorities including home, work, school recreation and family, the developing of the author's identity including self-esteem, self-concept, ethnicity and/or gender and coping with stress via means of social support, multiple coping strategies and/or self-control. While the author of this report has more than a few things that could have done and handled better than they were, the totality of the author's life reflects a decent amount of balance and solid outcomes.
Analysis
As it relates to subjective well-being, diversity and so forth, the author of this report is not really focused on that sort of thing as diversity factors and the social contexts that seem to be forced on people are largely a waste of time. Indeed, what makes people who they are is often defined through racial or gender prisms. While race, gender and other personal traits are certainly not irrelevant, that is largely due to society being ham-handed, if not obtuse, about that subject and the author has learned over the years to tune out the noise and banter that clouds the airwaves every day.
As for the balancing of work, school, recreation and so forth, it can be hard to keep all of those proverbial balls in the air. However, many people do it every day and they tend to do it well. The author of this report certainly thinks that inclusion in that group is a given based on results garnered thus far. Balancing school and work in particular, let alone family being thrown in the mix, can be quite hard. The author has learned full well that planning out one's life course in advance rather than making silly mistakes saves a lot of time, aggravation and money as opposed to bungling one or more of the above. When it comes to self-esteem and self-image, the author of this report would refer again to the points made in the first part of this response, that being that the author's self-esteem and identity is not tied to diversity-related or personal traits in general. There is so much more to a person than all of that and those items are usually (but not always) irrelevant. Of course, when speaking about conditions and outcomes like illegal immigration, the current unrest in Ferguson, MO and so forth, race, gender and other personal traits are certainly on the lips and tongues of those speaking of it and there is good reason for this. Finally, the author is able to cope quite well as the amount of family and friend support that is available is off the charts. Self-control is a huge part of living a purposeful and proper life as becoming unhinged and out of control with life choices including those pertaining to relationships of all sorts, family and so on is less than wise and should be avoided.
Conclusion
The author has learned full well that pouring one's faith and priority into foolish endeavors and foolish people can literally set one back for months to years at a time. It is not always welcome by many to point out where life choices matter greatly in terms of outcomes. However, there is also credence to the "garbage in, garbage out" saying whereby people only mimic and do what they know. However, this society is so information-rich and pervasively filled with context that this excuse is becoming more and more hard to say with a straight face.
Adjustment Examples & Solutions
The author of this report has been asked to seek out two examples on the National Public Radio (NPR) website regarding people with adjustment and coping issues. Indeed, the author readily found two stories from the last month or two that relate to precisely those sorts of issues. One pertains to a working single mother growing up in poverty and the other relates to a soldier who came back from Afghanistan and was unable to communicate normally with regular people in regular situations like he was able to do...
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