Understanding Sex Hormones: A Workshop for High School Students

Key Arguments for Viewing Young People as Sexual Citizens

Based on the reading, Young sexual citizens: reimagining sex education as an essential form of civic engagement (Illes, 2012), answer the following questions.

1. State the key arguments the authors make for viewing young people as sexual citizens

2. What are your thoughts and feelings about this view?

 

3. If you read this article before you completed your proposal and designed your workshop, how would it have impacted what you produced?

 

4. How could this framework impact CYC (child and youth care ) practice?

 

1. Topic is clearly defined, the textbook chapter you are covering and the specific topic you will be focusing on for your workshop and a list of group members (10)

Chapter 5, “The word of the hormone was coined in 1905 by Ernest Starling” I will be coving the topic of what hormones and sex hormones are and how the brain relates to sex hormones. It will cover the information on how hormones are related to blood stems. And explains the process.

? What are hormones (Pukall, 2020, pg.105)

 

- biological process of hormones

 

- Blood stems ( endocrine organ & gonada)

- endocrine system and its functions,

 

- How hormones are regulated by feedback signals from every organ affected

 

? Sex hormones (Pukall, 2020, pg.105)

 

- What are sex hormones

 

- What is the role of sex hormones

 

- How do they function

 

? The suxual brain (Pukall, 2020, pg.109)

 

- HPG axis

 

- The responsiveness of person’s brain to sex hormones

 

- How does our regions are affected by sex hormones

 

2. Who you will be presenting to (children, youth, families, or CYCPs)? Whichspecific age group are you focusing on? What ae the other specific demographics of your target group (e.g. cis females, gay males, whole grade four class…)? (10)

 

The presentations are most likely to have a friendly and informative tone, and this workshop is appropriate to any group of people and age. But I will be presenting it to high school students and focus on my workshop toward the age group of 12-14 years-old. students. The demographics of my target group are the whole grade 11 and 12 class students. I will be performing the workshop to all of the gender identities (male, female, gay, lesbian, trangenders) because i want all kind of genders to understand how hormones works.

Presentation Target Group and Location

 

3. Where will this workshop take place? Why or how would the target group participate? (10)

 

The workshop will take place in a school classroom. I target this age group of students because they need to understand how their  body functions. The young kids will be having body changes and reactions through this period (age of 12 - 14), For them,  this is an exciting time, or it can be unclear. Their emotions might shift swiftly as they learn to deal with school, friends, and the  environment around them. They will have many unanswered questions, so it is essential to have an adult who can answer their  questions and explain them.

 

The workshop will be held in the classroom. But it will be held in the classroom from TDSB. It will be a  seminar for these kids to get know about this information, I will start the workshop with the icebreaker activity for 5-10 minutes to  get to know the students and make them comfortable. The activity will be about getting to know how they feel and their basic  knowledge about sex hormones. And then, I will start my workshop in 30-40 minutes. Once I am done with the workshop/presentation, I will have a small quiz based on the workshop I did to summarize my presentation.

 

1st step - icebreaker ( 5-10 minutes), small survey

 

2nd step - the presentation ( minutes )

 

3rd step - small quiz based the presentation ( 5-10 Minutes)

 

4. Why this topic is a good idea for this particular group. Supported by 2 journal articles and the assigned textbook chapter (APA  style referencing), current and Canadian stats and knowledge from other CYC courses such as Child and Adolescent Development,  Group dynamics and therapeutic activity programing. If you have difficulty sourcing specific data from CYC journals, you can cite  sociology, anthropology, community development and some psychology journals.

 

You can cite newspaper, magazine and/or other  articles as supplemental pieces of data, but they cannot substitute the research-based journal articles. (50) This topic is perfect for  adolescents because sex hormones could be one reason they go through depression. The first article I choose to support my topic  is depression in adolescence by Prof Anita Thapar FRCPsych, Stephan Collishaw DPhil, Daniel S Pine MD, and Ajay K Thapar Ph.D (Thapar et al., 2012, ).

 

The article that I have found tells us how a family history of depression and exposure to psychosocial stress  are the two most powerful risk factors for depression in adolescents. Through hormonal factors and associated disturbed brain  pathways, inherited risks, developmental factors, sex hormones, and psychological trauma interact to raise risk (Thapar et al., 2012,  para.1).

Why Sex Hormones are Important for Adolescents

 

The article mentions the genetic factors psychosocial stress, sex hormones, and development Changes in inactivity in this  circuit have also been connected. (Thapar et al., 2012, #)The article mentions the genetic factors psychosocial stress, sex hormones,  and development Changes in inactivity in this circuit have also been connected. (Thapar et al., 2012, #). The article  mentions the genetic factors psychosocial stress, sex hormones, and development Changes in inactivity in this circuit have also  been connected (Thapar et al., 2012).

 

? High concentrations of sex steroid receptors have been identified within this circuit,23 and might provide a biological mechanism for why girls have higher risk of depression than boys (Thapar et al., 2012).

 

? gender differences in depression rates are unlikely to be attributed to differences in seeking care or reporting symptoms (Thapar  et al., 2012).

 

? Female hormonal changes are more strongly associated with adolescent depression than chronological age, implying that depression is directly linked to early puberty changes in hormone–brain connections (Thapar et al., 2012).

The second article that I choose to support my topic is sex hormones by Kayt Sukel. This article gives a lot of information about  how sex hormones and their connection to the brain. These articles explain hormones and brain development well, starting with genes present on the X and Y chromosomes (Sukel, 2019). This article will support me to get more information about how the  brain region is implicated in sexual and reproductive behaviours and shows differences between the sexes.

 

? These chromosomes define an individual's sex (Sukel, 2019).

 

? “Females are given two X chromosomes, while males have one X and one Y” (Sukel, 2019).

? During the first trimester, the Y chromosome carries a gene called SRY, which causes a torrent of androgens, a group of  hormones that includes testosterone, to flood the womb (Sukel, 2019).

 

? “the brain region implicated in sexual and reproductive behaviors, shows differences between the sexes” (Sukel, 2019).

? Hormones and experience work together to shape the brain, frequently in sex-specific ways, resulting in physical differences–but  also, potentially, gender roles shaped by cultural influences (Sukel, 2019).

5. Is this topic is covered in the NEW & Current Ontario Sex Ed. Curriculum or not. If so, where? Reference required (10) This topic  has not been covered in the new & current Ontario sex Ed curriculum. The Ontario government's revamped sex-education  curriculum for primary schools includes lessons on health, cyber-security, and consent, as well as a requirement that school boards  enable parents to choose their children out of some studies – but it's unclear how that policy would be implemented (Pukall, 2020,  pg.445-446).

 

6. List at least two relevant and well-suited resources where your target audience can access appropriate information  on this topic (websites, books, organizations etc.) (10)

 

One of the relevant, well-suited resources for my target audience is the study design and methodology for the ARCHER study -  adolescent rural cohort study of hormones, health, education, environments, and relationships. It gives most of the information   bout Puberty, Hormones, Adolescent, Cohort studies, Rural health, Behaviour, Wellbeing, Public health, Protocol, Paediatrics, which  can help adolescents answer their questions.

 

The second relevant, well-suited resource for my targeted audience is the adolescent brain: beyond raging hormones article  released by Harvard medical school. Which also talks about the adolescent feelings and answers to the questions they may have in  their ages. This is an appropriate website to gather information on this topic.