“Gross National Happiness” is a Bhutan Government plan that evaluates the country progress not considering the gross enhancement, supposing that earning more money will make people happier –in the whole sense of the word-, but according to the Psychological Well-being that people have in their lives. So, they propose to replace “Gross National Product” for “Gross National Happiness”, as a real, effective and representative way for making public policies, and making a better country.
To achieve this objective, they’ve made many researches in Bhutan people, assisted for Harvard and other universities researchers, obtaining results as the next ones I’ll comment:
- “Social support available when having problems”: This indicator evaluates the grade by which people, when have any kind of problematic situations -so they feel sad, worried and eager, and because of that they need a person near to help them-, they feel these person (or those people) are there. In this graph, most of those polled declared to feel social support available “some of the time” (57, 86%), meanwhile almost one third (30, 89%) of the sample said to feel it “most of the time (the happiest or even healthiest people, and just an 11, 25% of the polled ones answered “none of the time".
“Frustration”: This variable describes when people feel unable to reach the goal they’ve proposed their selves and for which they’ve made an effort. In this case, surprisingly a 40 % of the polled ones said they “never” felt frustrated (almost half of the sample), and just a 5% answered to feel frustrated “often”. On the other hand, most of people admitted to have feelings of frustration “sometimes” (56%).
viernes, 25 de septiembre de 2009
jueves, 3 de septiembre de 2009
Article: "My mother doesn't seem to believe that my brother sexually abused me"
Taken from http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/sep/03/private-lives-sexual-abuse
In this article, we're talked about a real -and absolutely terrible- case in which a woman, who's now about to have her first friend, was sexual abused by his older brother seven years ago, and to make it worst, she was also abused by her father. She hasn't wanted to tell us her name for protecting her privacy. When 7 years ago, her father died, she told her mather what her dad did her, but hid her mother the truth about her brother. In that time, the mather became very upset and did not react very well. Now, as she's married, she's got the courage to tell her mother her most terrible secret, but she -the mother- didn't react as the daughter expected, and constantly asks her about dates, etc., in a process in which she's had to remember again her trauma, something very distressing obviusly, and insulting too. Although she understands her mother's position, she feels too bad, and doesn't now where it is going to finish.
This singular and horrible case is too much interesting to me, because gets me close to the Clinical Psychology -the Psychology area which I'm interested in the most-, and allows me think about the strategies to help this woman, thinking of those people's special characteristics that have made the events to happen. The main reason why I chose the career of Psychology was my aspiration to use these knowledge as a tool for helping people, to understand and to explain people's behaviors -and strange behaviors-, and surely when I work in a Clinic I'll see some cases like which I've told about here.
In this article, we're talked about a real -and absolutely terrible- case in which a woman, who's now about to have her first friend, was sexual abused by his older brother seven years ago, and to make it worst, she was also abused by her father. She hasn't wanted to tell us her name for protecting her privacy. When 7 years ago, her father died, she told her mather what her dad did her, but hid her mother the truth about her brother. In that time, the mather became very upset and did not react very well. Now, as she's married, she's got the courage to tell her mother her most terrible secret, but she -the mother- didn't react as the daughter expected, and constantly asks her about dates, etc., in a process in which she's had to remember again her trauma, something very distressing obviusly, and insulting too. Although she understands her mother's position, she feels too bad, and doesn't now where it is going to finish.
This singular and horrible case is too much interesting to me, because gets me close to the Clinical Psychology -the Psychology area which I'm interested in the most-, and allows me think about the strategies to help this woman, thinking of those people's special characteristics that have made the events to happen. The main reason why I chose the career of Psychology was my aspiration to use these knowledge as a tool for helping people, to understand and to explain people's behaviors -and strange behaviors-, and surely when I work in a Clinic I'll see some cases like which I've told about here.
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