I, Monster: Positive Ways of Working with Challenging Teens Through Understanding the Adolescent Within Us

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Forming a union is a federally protected activity, so you are prohibited from sanctioning your employees in any way for their efforts to organize. In accordance with the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), most private sector employees are guaranteed the right to:

Janoff-Bulman R (1985) The aftermath of victimisation: rebuilding shattered assumptions. In: Figley CR (ed) Trauma and its wake, vol 1. Brunner/Mazel, New York The model presented in this paper is underpinned by the idea that humans have a tendency towards sense making and ‘processing’ of experience into full awareness that is advantageous to their evolutionary survival. Warner ( 2005) applies Tooby and Cosmides ( 1992) evolutionary perspective to understand our drive towards experiential processing and our tendency to experience psychological distress when this is inhibited. Developing a complex and nuanced understanding of our physical and social environment through a process of sense-making is an adaptation of some evolutionary advantage, to escape predators and remain within the beneficial environment of our social grouping. I extend this to an experiential-processing understanding of post-traumatic stress, noting that trauma presents us with experience so overwhelming that it can severely inhibit our capacity for processing (see also Hamilton, 2013). If capacity for processing is impaired, this in itself may become a source of psychological distress (Warner, 2005). Traumatic events can shatter our assumptions about self and world, presenting a need for personal sense-making and meaning making, culturally, psychologically, emotionally and existentially. Processing traumatic experience into awareness, while initially distressing, tends to reduce psychological distress and lessen trauma-related symptoms. This process is evident in trauma-informed therapy, where clients attach a coherent narrative to their trauma experience, processing it emotionally and psychologically, while learning to understand and manage associated intrusive psychological, emotional and physical affective states within a supportive therapeutic relationship.

The Old English word “Āglǣca” is used to describe Grendel (l.730). But its meaning is unknown as it is also used to describe Beowulf himself. It has been suggested that this word could mean both “monster” and “hero”. Is Beowulf the great hero the poem indicates? Or is his treatment of Grendel unjust? This could show that fundamentally, in every human being there is something deeply “monstrous.” Conclusion Create a committee made up of key managers, HR, and union reps that meets on a regular basis to go over concerns before formal grievances arise. The way of Old English monsters reflects the attributes of the nature of humanity and the consequences of pagan beliefs, the new way to understand and apply Christian beliefs to early medieval societies and a way of explaining the route to salvation through Christian theology. Notes

Kozlowska and Hanney ( 2001, p. 51) and Crittenden ( 1997), note that prior to developing language, memories may be ‘imaged’ as infant’s experience ‘perceptual sensory images of the contexts associated with safety or danger, such as sounds, darkness, smells, visual images and bodily states’. Clients may experience difficulty verbalising affective states in trauma therapy, and art therapy may better capture these early memories, stored and remembered as images. The ‘non-verbal medium’ of art can enable us to access and visually express imaged memories, symbolic of experience, allowing ‘exposure to conscious reflection and cortical processing’ and emergent images can be used therapeutically to symbolise and process trauma towards ‘adaptive integration’ of experience (Kozlowska and Hanney, 2001, p. 52). Clements ( 1996) noted monsters (or grotesque figures) frequently present in art therapy with children as metaphors to describe trauma or abusive adults (Kozlowska and Hanney, 2001, p. 52). Art can provide a ‘transitional space’ to ‘externalise’ a concrete representation of trauma experience and discussion of artwork can enable meaning and sequence to be attached through constructing a narrative. Indirect exposure to experience through symbolisation permits ‘anxiety to be tolerated and the unspeakable and unthinkable to be contemplated’ (Kozlowska and Hanney, 2001, p. 53). Symbolic imagery of trauma experience can in this way provide a more tolerable way to represent, process and integrate experience. Continuing to complain about a decision after it has been made is unlikely be constructive. Rather document anything relevant at the time so that you can refer to it later if needed. In the end, you may be proved right and the decision could be reversed. Seek amicable resolutions Hamilton J, Sullivan J (2015) Horror in therapy: working creatively with horror and science fiction films in trauma therapy. Createspace Asma ST (2009) On monsters: an unnatural history of our worst fears. Oxford University Press, OxfordSome workplaces are more volatile than others, but just about every group of people who work together face getting to boiling point. Even the most patient and conscientious group of colleagues can get upset and frustrated with one another. God specifically forbids this to Noah after the flood and this creates a link between the consuming of blood and the committing of sins. In the story of Cain and Abel when Cain murders his brother he buries him in the ground, which “consumes his blood”. Jorstad (2016) goes into more detail on this subject but the parallel with Grendel’s consumption reveals his monstrous nature and reinforces his status as an “enemy of mankind” and Grendel’s role in the breakdown of a society. The word monster originates from the Latin word monstrum, which means "to remind, warn, instruct, or foretell.” This indicates the literary purpose of a monster, they are what comes when societal laws are broken, when unnatural things occur (Dauber 2019). Rather than adopting an adversarial approach to working with unions on contract talks, consider employing interest-based negotiating, which entails trying to understand what the other side wants and why they want it. They then try to find solutions that can accomplish both sides’ goals. Working With Unions Can Be Complicated. Get All Your Management and Hiring Questions Answered

Once the NLRB is called in, employer interactions with employees who are working with unions to organize legally are constrained in several ways. Employers may not:The Old Testament biblical events found in the poem Beowulf are very sparse. This could mean they were added later to a mostly pagan poem. In Biblical references connected to Grendel the poet of Beowulf has used the two examples from right at the beginning of the Bible to allude to the beginnings of good and evil, right, and wrong and the difference between the hero and the villain. Descendant of Cain Should your attempts at reconciliation come to nothing, then you may need to take matters further. If possible, discuss matters with your manager. If that doesn't produce results, or if your boss is a part of the problem, then consider referring the matter elsewhere, perhaps to another senior member in the organisation with responsibilities in managing people. The refrain “glib and superficial” is overused to describe the two personality traits most common to the average psychopath. The irony that both these adjectives could be used to describe a decent chunk of human social interaction seems to be lost on Clarke. Murgatroyd, P., 2007. "Polyphemus." Mythical Monsters in Classical Literature. London: Bloomsbury Academic. Bloomsbury Collections. 165–186.