Title: High functioning autism in adults, a personal perspective
Author: Steve
Date Published: 2011
Why Relevant and Summary: A high-functioning autistic man gives his perspective on living with autism. This is relevant because it touches upon theory of mind (subtly) and connects it with autism.
How This Influenced My Thinking: This video was powerful to me because Steve was able to express his perspective on the world even though he says he does not understand other people's perspectives… I really liked the way he described it.
Credibility of Source: High (personal account)
Author: No Author
Date Published: December 7, 2011
Why Relevant and Summary: This blog is very helpful because it explains the Bronfenbrenner's Theory in detail. It also gives examples of the five different concepts and applies it to adolescent's behavior.
How This Influenced My Thinking: This blog helped me make the relationship between the five stages not only a child's perspective but in an adolescents perspective.
Credibility of Source: I wouldn't call this blog very credible but it gives good examples of the five concepts of the theory.
Title:Visual Habituation and Dishabituation in Preterm Infants: A Review and Meta-analysis
Author:Michael Kavšekand Marc H. Bornstein
Date Published:2010
Why Relevant and Summary: Gives great detail regard habituation and dishaituation through a cognitive perspective and neurological perspective. Scientific.
How This Influenced My Thinking: This gave a very in depth description of these terms and even compares these techniques across the life span.
Credibility of Source: high
Title: My Autism and Me
Author: "tordajav"
Date Published: Nov. 12, 2011
Why relevant and summary: This is a great short video/ documentary narrated by a young girl diagnosed with Asperger's named Rosie. She is very knowledgeable and gives a beautiful perspective.
Title: Becoming 'parent of your parent' an emotionally wrenching process
Author: Mindy Fetterman, USA TODAY
Date Published: February 1, 2008
Why Relevant and Summary: This article is relevant to the topic of caring for an elderly parent as the experiences that one may have when caring for an elderly parent are discussed throughout this article. This article has a real life perspective of people going through the motions of caring for and making decisions for their elderly parents. Times of caring for the parents were described in depth from the perspective of the adult caregiver. This article gives a great outlook on the emotional roller coaster that the adult caregiver goes on and how this affects her deeply.
How This Influenced My Thinking: This article made me really think about how difficult it would be to care for an elderly adult that is affected by dementia or Alzheimer's disease. Having to make the decision to put your parent in a home that offers better care than you can must be a devastating heart wrenching decision that must be made .
Credibility of Source: no
Title:Disengagement Theory
Author:No Author-Boundless
Date Published:N.D
Why Relevant and Summary:It clearly explains the theory of disengagement in older adults.
How This Influenced My Thinking:It helped me to understand where older people are coming from more personally.
Credibility of Source:Fairly credible
Title: Zone of Proxiaml Development
Author: Heather Coffey
Date Published: n.d.
Why Relevant and Summary: Talks about teaching techniques from a vygotskian perspective
How this influenced my thinking: I was confused as to how to translate the theory into a teaching method but this article cleared it up.
Credibility of source: UNC School of Education
Title RN Mental Health Nursing:
Author:ATI
Date Published:2010
Why Relevant and Summary: Gave me great insight through a nursing perspective of the symptoms of ADHD
How This Influenced My Thinking: great information on the condition known as ADHD as well as treatment.
Credibility of Source: High
Title:The Impact of Divorce on Young Children and adolescents
Author:Carl Pickhardt
Date Published:12/19/2012
Why Relevant and Summary:This article gives a child's perspective on divorce and how it may affect them directly and all of the ways it affects them
How This Influenced My Thinking:It gave me a better detailed account to what specifically a child may feel and need.
Credibility of Source:Very
Author: Carl Pickhardt Phd
Title: Raising child with divorce
Date: Dec 19 2011
Why Relevent and Summary: Gives exensive overview of how to deal with a child who has to deal with divorced parents. Also discusses how adolescents deal with divorce versus small children
How This Changed My Thinking: I did not know there were certain ways you can approach your children regarding this matter that can maybe help through this harsh process
Credibility of Source: i thought it was a credible source. psychology website and written by a Phd author
Title: Everything You Wanted To Know About Puberty
Author: Steven Dowshen
Date Published: October 2012
Why Relevant and Summary: Discusses changes that happen in puberty along with what influences each of these changes. It is laid out very simply so it is easy to understand
How This Influenced My Thinking: There were some details that I didn't even know and was interesting to read about how the body works together in this chain of events.
Credibility of Source: This website is very credible and the author is an MD
Title:More tha a funny word
Author: the Nemours Foundation
Date Published:2013
Why Relevant and Summary: This is a great overall summary of puberty ad adresses the changes that occur during this time in everyone's lives. this wesite is specifically aimed for teenagers so it is easy follow and yet very informative.
How This Influenced My Thinking: Gave me great perspective on the types of changes that occur during puberty and the way it is worded and writte made me feel like i was 16 again being reassured that what i am feeling is totally natural.
Credibility of Source: high. its a .org
Title: Kohlberg
Author: Saul McLeod
Date Published: 2011
Why relevant/summary: This goes over the different levels and stages of kohlberg's moral reasoning theory. Explains an exaple he used for determining moral reasoning (Heinz question).
How this influenced my thinking: This further explained what each stage resembles morally. this showed me one of the examples from his research, and how each group resoinded to it. this gave me firther depth into the stages. (at least from another perspective)
Credibility: Saul McLeod has written quite a bit of information around psychology and development. Simply Psychology website. has citations and references.
Title: Changes During Middle Adulthood
Author: Kendra Cherry
Date Published: ND
Why relevant and summary: The article goes into great depth about the changes faced during middle adulthood. The artilce also gives an out side of the box perspectice as well. Very informative.
How this influenced my thinking: This gave me a new perspective to middle adulthood that I had not had previously.
Credibility: Psychology based website. Valid information.
Title: Creating a Strong and Satisfying Marriage
Author: Janet A Clark, Sharon J Leigh
Date Published: May 2000
Why Relevant and Summary: It discusses the characteristics needed for a happy and satisfying marriage, how to attain those, common areas of conflict, the importance of managing conflict, tips on how to resolve those conflicts, and tips on how to keep a marriage happy and healthy
How This Influenced My Thinking: It was very informative, I thought it had some very good points. Most of it is common sense but it really puts it in perspective and lays it out for you
Credibility of Source: Seems pretty credible
Title:Pros and Cons of Assisted Living Communitites
Author: Katrina Wells
Date Published: May 30, 2009
Why Relevant and Summary: This gives pros and cons of assisted living communities/facilities from perspectives of the adult who needs care.
How This Influenced my thinking: Backed up what i already believed to be true of assisted living communities, as my granparent lived in a senior community.
Credibility: "Katrena Wells is a RN in NC with 17 1/2 years of experience in oncology, an educator since 1995, and has taught exercise classes since 1999"
Author: Creative Commons
Title:Activity Theory
Date Published:n.d.
Summary and Why Relevant: this article discusses the difference between activity theory and disengagement theory. I discusses in depth what activity theory is and how it influences a healthier, happier aging process for the elderly.
How this Influenced My Thinking: It gave me a better understanding as to why it is important for the elderly to stay in contact with the outside and how it can add years to their life just by talking and interacting with other people.
Credibility: credible
Title: Activity Theory
Author: Boundless
Date: N.d.
Why Relevant and Summary:This article is relevant to the topic because it defines what the Activity Theory.
How this influenced my thinking: It helped me understand the way this theory works and demonstrates it.
Credibility: I think it is credible because it shows many different sources that were sited.
Title: A Mom's Guide to Toddler Discipline
Author: Stephanie Wood
Date Published: N.D.
Why Relevant and Summary: Provides different tips and methods with which to discipline a toddler...how to stay in control and keep your sanity when parenting a toddler. Identifies what to expect and how to react.
How This Influenced My Thinking: Gave me some tips that are practicable and will be useable if I were to have children, or when interacting with children of that age.
Credibility of Source: Parenting.com; from perspective of an experienced mother.
Title: Help With Autism, Asperger's, & Related Disorders
Author: Barry K. Morris
Date Published: 2008
Why Relevant and Summary: Does a nice job in explaining autism, Asperger's, and related disorders. It identifies means for classification and diagnosis, associated characteristics and tendencies; what to expect from someone with one of these diseases.
How This Influenced My Thinking: Educated me about autism, Asperger's, and related disorders... helped me to see from another perspective life with this kind of disorder.
Credibility of Source: Pretty credible and valuable.
Title: Caregiver Lives Rerouted Yet Enriched By Aging Parents
Author: Sarah LeTrent
Date Published: December 11, 2012
Why Relevant and Summary: Provides actual accounts of experiences with caregiving for older relatives/parents. Identifies all the hassles that can come with taking on the responsibility but also recognizes all the rewards and the enriching, meaningful experience it can be.
How This Influenced My Thinking: It forced me to look at the situation--caregiving for an elderly parent/parents-- from both perspectives. I was able to understand how it affects both the children and the parents and able to understand the pros and cons.
Credibility of Source: CNN News-- pretty credible.
Title: How people make their own environments: a theory of genotype → environment effects
Author: Sandra Scarr and Kathleen McCartney
Date Published: April 1983
Why Relevant and Summary: This is relevant because it goes into much further detail about the genotype → environment effects theory compared to the book. This article proposes that a child's genotype can "directly affect its rearing environment," which is a point that was not as explicit in the textbook. Overall, this article emphasizes a greater role of genotype influence in the process of human development.
How This Influenced My Thinking: This influenced my thinking by taking on a more opinionated perspective on the genotype → environment effects theory. The class textbook takes on a very objective approach to explaining, and this article takes it a step further by adding onto it. Although this article is outdated, it still provided me with a new train of thought. I found this to be an interesting article, but at times, hard to read.
Credibility of Source: Very good (though outdated).
Title: Nature vs. Nurture Revisited
Author: Kevin Davies
Date Published: 04.17.01
Why Relevant and Summary: We are studying this concept this week and it is the focus of our short critical thinking essay. It is a great article about the findings of the Human Genome Project that analyzes and lists the reason why we should take very seriously the role of environment into human development.
How This Influenced My Thinking: It has given me a different perspective on how I see disease, illness and good health.
Credibility of Source: It is published on NOVA, and the author is a doctor of genetics.
