Student slideshow for Mr. Stennett's Human Development class, Spring 2015

1. The Invisible Girls:
A Memoir
Author: Sarah Thebarge
Presented by Nikkita Scott
Human Development
Athens Technical College

3. All About Me
• Sarah Thebarge
• Breast Cancer Survivor
• Ivy League Education
• Christian Woman

4. Strangers to You…
…Friends to Me
• Somalia Family:
Hahdi and her 5
girls
• Refugee
• Train Ride
• Abusive Husband
• 8 children total
• Cultural
Differences

5. Visual Identity
• Connectivity through
images
• Sending photos
• Perception
• What you see is what
you get
• Person’s Identity
• Society sometimes uses
the visual to determine a
person’s identity, and
how they view them
• Seeking Acceptance

6. Activity as a Tool in Language
• Getting Familiar
• Things that they
are already
familiar with
• Daily Activities
• Basic chores
and day to day
activiites.

7. Mooovvveeeee
• Relocation more than 3 to
4 times within an allotted
time
• Affects Family
• Parents and siblings
• Behavioral Problems
• Problems Developing
Socially
• Strained Relationships
• Negativity
Effects of Residental
Instability

8. Spousal Abuse
• Private and Personal vs
Public and Open
• A personal matter that
affects the community
• The victim
• Preventative Measures
• Studies show how utilizing
different resources and
organizations to support the
victims decrease the chance
of reoccurrence.

9. To Be or Not to be…
• Relationships after
Breast Cancer
Diagnosis
• Self-Esteem
• Self-Love
• Confidence
• Femininity
• Appearance
• Studies prove that the
separation rate is
greater in a relationship
over the formation of
women with breast
cancer
• Sarah struggled with
these factors
significantly. She felt
she would never be
able to feel the love of
another being.

10. Gender Roles
Marital Quality
• Being Equal
• Life Satisfaction
• Femininity
• Traditional Values
• Women: birth children,
cook, clean
• Men: Work, bring home
the money

11. Dealing with an Illness
• Different with the
diagnosis
• Circumstances
• Overwhelmed
• If no support, instability
• Friends and Family
• Sarah’s reoccurrence
• Emotional Breakdown
Breast Cancer Survivor

12. During Recovery: Religious
Support
Positive Effects of
Spirituality with a mental
illness
• People with higher
understanding and
guidance of spiritual growth
are able to cope and
recover within their illness.
• Sarah was able to regain
focus and understood God’s
work and the will he had for
her.
Negative Effects of
Spirituality with a mental
illness
• Emotional desolation
(emptiness)
• Anger

13. Spirituality
• Religion, and Beliefs
• Growing up
• Spiritual environment
• ¾ Fulfillment, happy
• Depression
• ¼ Depressed, mental disorders
Spirituality
Believers
NonBelievers

14. How Do I Move On…
• Parents coping with the death of a child
• Hahdi had 8 children, 5 girls and 3 boys
• Her boys died in Somali due to the poor conditions there
• Step System
• Parents go through a series of steps
• Devastation, Denial, Depression, Reconstruction
• Parenting
• Responsibilities as a parent
• Protectiveness
• Strength

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16. Questions??
Comments??
Concerns??