COMMUNITY CARE

Care Practice in Community

Care Practice in Community

Introduction

The word community means a group of people living together having similar needs. For the progress of any country, it is necessary that each member of every community should prosper. This whole scenario needs certain steps to take at each level. As a human being everyone has certain rights to live a happy and prosperous life. For it, he or she have some basic requirements. Maslow's hierarchy gives the best idea in this regard. It is comprised of five basic attributes which involve self actualization, esteem needs, belongingness and love needs, safety needs, biological and physiological needs. According to him if these all needs are fulfilled, a person can easily live a contented life. Although some of the members of society are not able to fulfill all such needs and the require care so that they should not feel inferior from other members of the community. There are certain care centers which provide sufficient care, according to the age groups. I am a care provider at the youth center, so I target the teenager group. In my opinion, the lack of sex education at school level results in early pregnancies and sexual and mental diseases.

Discussion

Target Group

The target group which I chose is the teenager. The ages between thirteen and nineteen years are the most sensitive period of life, and the person who are within this age limits needs a special care as this is the phase of life in which one is transforming to an adult from a kid. During this age children assimilate internal and external phenomena into one system. Their level of cognitive complexity is also more involved. It is the age when children feels the lack of knowledge and natural desire influence with one factor that is lack of self respect to perform a sexual act and younger pregnancies. Binding in pre mature relation is very crucial in sexuality education intended to encourage the self protective awareness among children. Biologically the sex hormones are begins to stimulate and penetrate the bone growth. This is the natural phenomena exist in human before two years in females. This is one of the important phase of human life when they need to develop the knowledge in teens especially in girls about the growth of their breast and menstrual cycle and removal of pubic hairs in parts of the body. In boys, the education is a need to know the genital growth and ejaculation. It is the human physiology that when the blood of the human gets warmer they desire to have sex to satisfy their sexual need. The physical changes are the natural phenomena and differences in sexuality. The young girls are more concerned with their beauty affairs and body texture. While the boys are more concerned about their health, height and muscles enhancement.

Reason for Selecting Teenagers

The reason for selecting this group is that I work in a youth centre. Between the ages of 14 and 15, the physical and biological development phenomena ...