Cultural Impact on Human Behavior

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1 Cultural Impact on Human Behavior Stephanie A. Flores College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Grand Canyon University CNL 509: Counseling the Culturally Diverse Dr. Hailey Martinez December 6th, 2023
2 Cultural Impact on Human Behavior Introduction The purpose of this assignment is to discuss the film, “Love is all you need?” by K. Rocco Shields (2021). The film depicts a young adolescent female, Ashley, who lives in a culture where the social norm is for women/women and men/men to be together. Throughout the film we see the internal conflict and turmoil Ashley faces because she does not fit in with the societal norms of sexual identity. The short film shows Ashley’s attempts to normalize what she is feeling and the negative reaction she receives from her peers. She attempts to internalize her feelings to fit in with her peers but is met with ridicule and extreme forms of bullying for being heterosexual. The film ends with Ashley being faced with unrelenting bullying and her struggle to cope with her identity and the bullying, her solution is to end her life by cutting her wrists to escape her pain. Personality Formation, Psychological Difficulties, and Help-Seeking Behaviors Personality formation begins in early adolescence and is formed in social relationships. Raufelder, et al., (2021) describes how social environments are crucial for adolescence personality formation and developing their sense of self. In one portion of the short film, while Ashley is struggling with her sexual identity, she attempts to normalize her feelings among her peers by suggesting that during a game of “house” she and one of the boys present could play mother and father. Ashley was struggling to understand her feelings towards the opposite sex and for her, this was a help-seeking behavior because she wanted to feel normal and validated that what she was feeling wasn’t weird or out of the ordinary. She was immediately met with ridicule and name-calling by her peers. Raufelder, et al., (2021) goes on to explain how identity and personality formation are constantly shaped by social feedback from the environment that
3 children and adolescents grow up in. This is important to Ashley’s personality formation because it taught her to suppress and internalize anything outside of cultural norms to fit in with her schoolmates. Throughout the film it is shown that Ashley faces multiple psychological difficulties for her feelings towards the opposite sex, many of which come from her interactions with her classmates. She is socially isolated from her peers because of her being “different” and is a target for extreme bullying in the form of having her head shoved into the toilet, physical harm, and verbal abuse. It is because of this treatment from her peers that Ashley begins to experience depression and anxiety as well. In regards to help-seeking behaviors, I believe the first indication of this behavior from Ashley was when she attempted to normalize and seek acceptance for her feelings through a game of “house” with her friends. Additionally, I believe that two instances within the film contributed to Ashley avoiding help seeking behaviors with her internal struggles from the adults in her life. The first instance being when the teacher saw the children shoving her head into the toilet and her teacher had remarked that he wasn’t going to call her parents because her peers had punished her enough and mentioned that if she simply dated a girl, her peers wouldn’t resort to bullying. The second instance that aided in Ashley avoiding help-seeking behaviors was when it was revealed to her mother that she had gotten a part in the school play “Romeo and Juliet” and she explained the love story of William Shakespeare and a duchess and the story was his love story to her. Her mother immediately discouraged her from participating in the play and told her that drama classes were for boys and not girls. The result of all of this feedback from her peers, her teachers, and her parents made Ashley feel isolated in her struggles and unable to seek out help from anyone within her life. Counselor Dispositions for LGBTQIA+, Sources of Bias, and Treatment Methods
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