RIA ELRICA PELAGIO DAYAG

Bachelor of Science in Medical Laboratory Science Level II-B

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Euthenics

1. As a future registered medical technologist, I will raise mental health awareness through
advocating the strengthening of one of the main objectives of the profession, which is the
promotion of health education. Health education encompasses the prevention, diagnosis and
treatment of existing disorders not only physically but also mentally, emotionally and socially.
It promotes activities that can help us on how to prevent ourselves from getting sick, what to do
if you are sick, and what are the things that you need to do to stop the recurrence of such
disease. In the context of mental health awareness that falls under the mental aspect of health
education, you can help people through this health promotion by how? Through prevention -
giving perspective to other people about their actions that can lead to mental issues such as
trauma (ie phobia). By telling them that not all people are the same in terms of experiences that
can make other people react differently to different situations. Through diagnosis and treatment
– by educating people about the different possible treatments and therapies that can help people
with mental disorders. By letting them feel that they can be treated a nd not let them feel
judged about getting treatments amidst the stigma against people with mental disorders. And
last but not the list, by monitoring them until their optimal recovery to assure that they are really
healed. Of course, this should not be only exclusive for those with mental disorders but I will
also use this opportunity to educate many people as much as possible and encourage to share the
knowledge to others so that we can reach as many people as we can.
2. Teenage years is one of the most crucial years in our lives because this is the time that a person
is very prone to committing acts that can lead to lifetime lessons or worse, trauma. This is also
the time that a person is vulnerable because of the fluctuations of hormones that is utilized
during puberty or adolescence stage. Thus, the chances of a teenager to experience mental
health issues is high. With these being said, experiencing COVID-19 pandemic that requires
everyone to do social distancing and self-quarantine, mental health issues are likely to heighten
its chances. However, we can do a lot of things that can help us in protecting ourselves from
these mental issues amidst the pandemic through inculcating in our minds that the things that
the government are requiring us to do is for the betterment of you and your country. We need to
think that we are doing favors to everyone. You also need to refrain yourself from using social
media in a bad way like believing fake news that can definitely increase fear to you and panic to
anyone. We need to be keen in everything we do online because we can’t deny the fact that it is
one of the most done routine during quarantine. You don’t also need to think that you are alone
during these times. You can still talk and share to your friends. If ever that a problem arises,
share it to other people or if you don’t want to, you can just write on your journal or just read
your lessons to divert your attention. Be positive! Always look on the positive side and refrain
yourselves from things that can hurt you as much as possible.
3. Social media is one of the most used platforms for communicating. Hence, making
communication and reaching many people is possible because of the easy access of these
different sites and apps. However, positive always come with negative. A lot of people are also
using the social media in a negative way such as spreading fake news that can cause panic to
other people. As a social media user, you still can spread positivity by counterattacking the
posts that are considered to be fake news in a nice way. You can post using you social media the
real scenario and with explanation that can be understood by the people. You can increase better
awareness on the real situation. You can also help other people on how to determine whether a
news is fake or legit instead of condemning them of sharing a fake news. Additionally, the most
effective way is to refrain yourself from sharing fake news and share only the verified ones. It
should always start in you. Small steps can make a giant leap as they say.
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Bachelor of Science in Medical Laboratory Science Level II-B
9:05-10:30
Euthenics

1. Social institutions
 Family – The family is the first group that a person can associate with. Therefore, it is where
our moral standards are being based. We tend to compare the behavior we see or experience
outside to the behaviors we encounter at home. This is where we start to differentiate what is
right and what is wrong by comparing it with the behavior and experiences we had at home
whether good or bad.
 Peer group – The peer group is one of the strongest factors that can change our behavior. This
is where we tend to seek the feeling of belongingness which leads to us wanting to be always
“in” within the group. Since this is the first social institution outside the family, (we have our
peer group once we learn how to communicate with other people aside from our family) we
tend to seek their approval of you being with their company. This results to your adjustments to
other’s standards just for you to be belonged with them.
 School – The school can affect greatly on the improvement of one’s moral aspect of personality.
The curriculum helps the moral behaviors of the students to improve as well as their sense of
following and compliance. The students are being trained to respect authority, seniors and the
teachers. They are also trained to follow rules and policies of the school like wearing of proper
dress code and hair. They also train the students on the importance of honesty through the ‘No
Cheating’ policy. They can also teach students morals that can’t be taught anywhere.
 Church – The church can affect the behavior of the people by strengthening their sense of
moral right and wrong through the homilies, readings and sharing during church meetings. It
can help the people improve their behavior for the better by enlightening them with the words of
God. The church can also be a vessel of change to those people who are losing hope or lost in
track.
2. Three examples of moral behaviors (the belief of what’s right and wrong)
 Honesty
 Responsibility
 Fairness
(https://study.com/academy/lesson/moral-prosocial-behavior-definitions-examples-of-
classroom-applications.html)
3.Christian View on Morality
Morality for a Christian is the application of God’s laws regarding a person’s private and public
behavior. In his or her seeking to live a moral life, a Christian tries to obey the rules for his or
her personal behavior that have been decreed by God and recorded in the Bible. Throughout
centuries of history these rules have been proclaimed by God’s prophets, like Moses and Isaiah
and Jeremiah, taught by Jesus, interpreted by the apostles, like Peter and Paul, established by
Emperor Constantine, and proclaimed by various popes, theologians, and preachers, like St.
Augustine, Martin Luther, John Calvin, Jacob Arminus, Jonathan Edwards, John Wesley,
Dwight L. Moody, Billy Graham, and other contemporary preacher/teachers within the Jewish-
Christian traditional understandings of what is right and what is wrong.
Jesus engaged in a lot of discussions regarding the laws of God and personal morality with
the lawyers of his people, the Sadducees and the Pharisees. They were constantly challenging him
in regard to his interpretation of some of these laws and why his accepted disciples did not follow
them more fully. In one situation a Pharisee, an expert in these laws, asked Jesus, as he addressed
him as “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” (Matthew 22:36). And Jesus
replied with this answer: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and
with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love
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Bachelor of Science in Medical Laboratory Science Level II-B
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your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments”
(Matthew 22:37- 40.
This really simplifies the rules for morality, God’s laws for moral behavior. Just love God
completely and love everyone else as much as you love yourself. So the moral life is to be lived in
love, and immorality is not living with such love for God and others. A life lived in accord with
these two laws would be a perfect demonstration of morality.
(http://www.christianityetc.org/morality.php)
1. Influences related to human relations:

Individual:
The individual is an important part of the organization and each individual is unique. While
motivating the employees, management should give due consideration to their economic, social
and psychological needs.
Work Group:
The work group is the centre of focus of human relations approach. It has an important role in
determining the attitudes and performance of individual workers.
Work Environment:
It is important to create a positive work environment where organizational goals are achieved
through satisfaction of employees. In general, when employees’ needs are satisfied, the work
environment is termed positive.
Leader:
The leader must ensure complete and effective utilization of all organizational resources to
achieve organizational goals. They must be able to adjust to various personalities and situations.
(http://www.yourarticlelibrary.com/human-resources/human-relations-concept-nature-and-
factors-affecting-human-relations/32395)

2. Examples of Human Relations:

1. Parent-child
Before birth
The Parent-child relation is a special one. Firstly, the relation is cemented by nature. It
contains a bond that goes beyond the bodily interaction with one another; one that is
fundamental to the growth of the baby and the parent. The bond is like no other in the sense that
at the beginning of the relation, the parent and child are one; they both reside in the same body;
the need for belonging for the human organism begins here. Even before birth, the baby can
experience its environment including the physiology of the mother and experience a belonging
in it.
After birth
A parent-child relation is perhaps the highest form of human relation. It involves the
enjoyment of the other, as it is, without necessary seeking to change it. It also features an
interesting form of respect and empathy; one of speaking the language of the other; a mother
speaks to a child in a simplistic manner so that the child can understand, a child tries on his
parents shoes. The mother and the child play together, with each finding joy and laughter in the
actions of the other even when they are simple and not necessarily meaningful. They enjoy the
company of each other.
As Maslov (p. 86) suggests, one of the reasons that babies are loved and wanted so much must
be that they are without visible evil, hatred, or malice in the first year or two of their lives.
Most interestingly to note in this form of relation is the fact that the child is without (for lack of
a better word) hypocracy and prejudice. He or she acts out and speaks their minds without fear
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of judgement. They may show uncertainity towards things and people they are not familiar with
but they do not withhold their curiosity in paying attention to them.
“No infant is born with a propensity to repress the expression of emotion. If an infant is
uncomfortable or unhappy, she’ll cry, show sadness, show anger. Anything that we do to hide
pain or sadness is an acquired response. We repress our emotional intelligence in order to avoid
an ongoing war with the crucial people in our lives, a war we cannot possibly win” (Mate, p.
200 – 201, 254, 267).
We may hypothesize that it is not until they have been prejudiced that babies develop the
character of repressing their intentions or emotions, saying things they do not mean and so on.
Perhaps it is at this point in life that a disconcerting split occurs within them; that they are one
thing yet they are expected to be another, a burden they have to carry hence forth.
As a result, the parent-child relation may transition to friendship, neighborly or other low level
relations depending on the reciprocity exchanged by the two as the child approaches
adolescence and seeks independence.

2. Love-Sexual
This relation, we may say, is a foundation for the highest form of human relation: the
parent-child relation. In addition to the various values exchanged and experienced in friendship
and neighborly relations, the love-sexual relation surpasses these two specifically in one aspect:
it leads to the gratification of sexual needs, which are considered important for the human
organism, at least in Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.
A difference (and perhaps an important one) that may be noted between the love-sexual
relation and other high level relations is that while you can be a parent to many children or be
friends or neighborly to many, cultural/state/religious/ideological arrangements have at some
point suggested or dictated that an individual only love one and not many. Why has this been
the case when we know in practice it has not been so? Why have the social, economic and
political institutions suppressed the expression and satiation of a basic human need? Why is the
sex need, out of the many, singled out to have this limitation?

3. Friendship
Friendship may be described as a long term relation between individuals, with respect,
understanding, enjoyment and caring for each other as its main aspects. It may also involve love
for each other but not necessarily with a sexual aspect.
Friendship mainly differs from the neighborly relation in the dimension of time; in
friendship the striving to be the guardian of the other is long term while in a neighborly relation,
it is short term – it happens only in the moments of contact without necessarily being future
oriented. It may however, be said that friendship transmutes from the neighborly relation and in
turn it – friendship – can transmute to a love-sexual relation.

4. Neighborly
Simply put, a neighborly relation involves a striving of one to be the guardian of the
other. Not in the sense of running their affairs but in safe guarding their well being (in the
moments of contact) as if it was one’s own. It is best expressed in non-commodified social
transactions such as giving a seat to an elderly in a bus, or helping a child cross a road, or
noticing someone is experiencing a problem and attempting to help them. It is not necessarily
determined by the familiarity of each other but the acting of each other as humans – the
acknowledgement of human vulnerability depicted by developing, declining or weakened
human capacities. Neighborly relations are however endangered and are quickly getting
replaced by the strangerly relation.
Low level relations
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Bachelor of Science in Medical Laboratory Science Level II-B
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5. Strangerly/Proximal abandonment
Just as it sounds, this is a strange form of relation. One way in which is it is expressed is
in the feeling of loneliness in the midst of other people. This form of relation is weird as it
appears to be neutral – there are no negative attitudes towards others even though genuine
concern for others is usually subdued – yet it bears negative results; that of feeling alone.
Inescapably, since there is no relation with others, there is no gratification of human needs that
only other humans can fulfill.
The phrase proximal abandonment has been used to refers to the strangerly relation –
where people in the same physical location – whether it be in a house, car, office, or whatever –
do not interact with each other for whatever reason. Mate (p. 208) calls it proximate separation
and defines it as “the phenomenon of physical closeness but emotional separation.
Perhaps proximal abandonment can be seen as an inherent characteristic of social
institutions. Urbanization, schools, businesses, health institutions; hospitals, nursing homes etc
separate generations and tear familial and high level relations for various reasons (Mate, p. 223).
Children are kept separate from adults and their parents, in schools or daycare, adults are locked
in offices, the old in nursing homes, the disabled and the sick in hospitals or in special schools
and homes. This means that no generation can withstand, understand or know how to interact
with the other. The young cannot stand adults. The adults do not stand the young. No one
understands or can stand the old, the disabled, the sick and so on, and they in return are unable
to stand other generations. A household may physically appear to be but its members could be
emotionally detached. Every generation is a waste to the others. And so, like the garbage they
are, they have to be placed out of sight of each other (Carse, 1986 p.133). The resulting society
is one whose members are maladjusted to dealing with their own human condition.
The danger of proximal abandonment has to be taken seriously, as it is now
acknowledged, the lack or denial of physical or emotional contact is detrimental to health
(Mate, p. 199 – 209). Proximal abandonment is the case where what is supposed to happen –
social and emotional attachment, gratification of social needs – does not happen. Mate (p. 187-
198) describes in detail how these contributes to reduced immune systems leaving individuals
susceptible to stress and illness. He (p. 211 -225) strongly cautions on the neglect to resolve
social-emotional stresses as this are easily transmittable across generations as has been
demonstrated with the Adult Attachment Interview and Strange Situation studies.
Particularly and increasingly, urban dwellers are not part of any reciprocal, continuous,
well-articulated community and are profoundly alienated from their own human interests –
those of interacting, relating and having genuine concern for each other. It may also be said that
the ubiquity of communication technology is contributing to the rise of proximal abandonment:
increasingly, people are tending to technology rather than to their fellow beings next to them.
In contrast to other low level relations, in proximal abandonment, what is supposed to happen
does not happen, while in the other low level relations, what is not supposed to happen, happens
(Mate, p. 202).

6. Master – slave
This form of human relation is mostly found in commodified interactions. I.e., where the
basis for relating and interacting are on the one hand exploitative – one party gets more than
they give back – and on the other hand are structured in such a way that the dependence recurs.
As Dr. Richard Wolff [Youtube] illustrates, exploitative-dependence is the hallmark of leading
economic paradigms.
It is through this type of relation that the modern society has achieved the 1% – 99%
split among other socially stratifying and disintegrating elements. This form of relation impedes
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the realization of the high human relations especially when it replaces genuine social
transactions with commodified ones.
A fundamental aspect that may be observed in exploitative-dependence relations is that
they start out with seemingly good intentions but end up as undesirable. For instance with
fractional reserve banking, loans may be seen as good, except the end result is an exploitative
dependence.
By this measure, the exploitative-dependence relation can be described as addiction if addiction
as Mate defines it is any pattern or behavior that you crave that gives temporary pleasure or
relief in the short term but negative consequences in the long term, that you still persist in
despite the negative consequences. And in turn by this measure, the exploitative-dependence
can also be termed enslavement.
In schooling, emotional and intellectual dependencies (both effects of the invisible
curriculum) impedes the growth and development of children. Inevitably, they become
maladjusted for their own futures. Governments and corporations may also be observed as
institutions that cement and promote this relation; whether it be the in cases where a minority
govern the majority or the business owner gives less to the worker than he gets from the worker.
For economic institutions to promote high level relations, Dr. Richard Wolff suggests
cooperatives as alternatives.
Another main aspect of this relation is that the individuals involved in them do not voluntarily
choose each other, unlike in the high relations such as friendship or love. Maslow (p. 101)
argues that human relations aimed at improving the health of individuals should be based on
participants selecting each other where the choice should be made not solely on the basis of
reputation, size of fee, technical training, skill, and the like, but also on the basis of ordinary
human liking for each other.
Vigilance is a necessity in the design of social, political and economic institutions, else
they result to and nurture exploitative-dependence relations whenever applied.

7. Enmity
This human relation strives to find, expose and exploit the vulnerabilities of one by
another, so that the one is diminished and the other exalted. Sibling rivalry may also be seen as
a competitive or combative relation (Maslow, p. 87). When the competitive-combative relation
takes place over long periods, it may impede or inhibit the coming into being of the high levels
of human relations. Enemies, as the opponents they are, either come together with the intent of
defeating or destroying each other.
While the intent of relating to each other is of this kind, any high relations that may form
are likely to be factitious. Potentially this form of relationship can transmute to ethnocentrism.

8. Ethnocentric
Ethnocentrism can be said to be the lowest form of human relationship. It is built on the
premise that one’s culture – beliefs, customs, and traditions – are better than those of others. By
default ethnocentrism seeks to belittle, demean, disregard and even to outright eliminate the
other.
No need to point fingers on this as most societies have histories laden with ethnocentric driven
atrocities. Unfortunately this is also evident in the present. To sidestep a bit, Stephen Hawking
have warned us against making contact with aliens; he believes that what happened to the
natives in the Americas with the arrival of the Europeans would be a likely occurrence were
aliens to visit earth. (https://touchedspace.wordpress.com/2014/07/09/8-forms-of-human-
relations/)
Examples of Public Relations:
 media relations.
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 community relations.
 corporate and social responsibility.
 public affairs.
 crisis management.
 social media.
 employee relations.
 integrated marketing and communications.
(https://www.brightnetwork.co.uk/career-path-guides/marketing-pr/different-types-pr/)