Prevent Youth Slippage by Keith Torkelson MS, BS VTorkel

  

Contents

• Requirements
• Prosocial behavior - Social Behavior Questionnaire Scales I
• Address Adaptive Behaviors
• How things came to be and are…
• Social Behavior Questionnaire Scales - SBQ-T, SBQ-M
• Aggression-Disruptiveness (13 items)
• Anxiety (6 items)
• Prosocial behavior (10 items)
• Social Behavior Questionnaire (SBQ) II
• Divine Writer Hypothesis
• Tangent - What is Glorious Purpose?
• FYI - The Divine Timeline
• How many human beings are in the mix?
• Now (2026) number born = 117 Billion (Homo sapiens like)

Prosocial behavior - Social Behavior Questionnaire Scales I

The Social Behavior Questionnaire (SBQ) is a well-established behavioral assessment tool originally developed by Richard E. Tremblay and colleagues to evaluate social, emotional, and behavioral functioning in children and adolescents across different environments (such as home and school). When examining the SBQ in the context of SBQ-T and SBQ-M, these designations refer to the specific informant or respondent forms used to collect ratings:

SBQ-T (Teacher Report Form):

Completed by a teacher to assess a child's or student's behavior within the school/classroom setting (e.g., peer interactions, attention, or disruptive conduct).

SBQ-M (Mother / Maternal Report Form):

Completed by the mother or primary female caregiver to rate the child's behavior and emotional patterns within the home and family environment.

Core Structure of the SBQ

Original Item Pool (Tremblay et al.):

Typically consists of 38 items combining items from earlier behavioral inventories (such as the Preschool Behavior Questionnaire) and prosocial measures:

28 behavior-problem and emotional items

10 prosocial behavior items

Factor Structure:

Research (such as longitudinal population studies like the Quebec Longitudinal Study of Child Development) generally identifies a robust multi-factor model covering domains such as:

Disruptive behaviors / Aggression / Hyperactivity

Emotional distress / Anxious symptoms

Inattention / Withdrawal

Prosocial behaviors (e.g., helping, sharing, comforting)

Peer relationship difficulties

Note: In clinical literature, the acronym SBQ is sometimes also used separately for the Social Behavior Questionnaire measuring safety behaviors in Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD) (a self-report scale focused on anxiety-driven avoidance and monitoring) or the Sedentary Behavior Questionnaire (SBQ) tracking sitting time. However, in developmental and child psychology research, SBQ-T and SBQ-M specifically denote Teacher versus Mother informant ratings on the Tremblay Social Behavior Questionnaire.

 

FAQ – Is one antisocial incidence per category enough cause to think there is problem?

 

Address Adaptive Behaviors

Adaptive behavior refers to the collection of conceptual, social, and practical life skills that people learn and perform independently to meet the everyday demands of their environment. Unlike intelligence (IQ), which measures cognitive potential, adaptive behavior measures real-world functional competence.

Core Domains of Adaptive Behavior

Adaptive skills are generally divided into three main categories:

Conceptual Skills:

Literacy, self-direction, and an understanding of numbers, money, time, and functional communication.

Social Skills:

Interpersonal interactions, social responsibility, self-esteem, following rules, obeying laws, and avoiding victimization.

Practical Skills:

Activities of daily living (such as personal care and hygiene), occupational tasks, safety, health care, travel, and managing routines.

Why It Matters

Independent Living:

These skills allow individuals to function safely and effectively at home, school, and work.

Clinical and Educational Diagnostics:

Assessments of adaptive behavior are required alongside IQ tests to diagnose conditions like intellectual disability or autism spectrum disorder.

Life Changes:

Adaptive skills evolve as society changes—such as learning to navigate digital technology or smartphones instead of old systems.

Common Assessment Tools

Clinicians, educators, and psychologists measure adaptive behavior through structured interviews and standardized rating scales completed by parents, teachers, or caregivers:

Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales (VABS)

Adaptive Behavior Assessment System (ABAS)

Scales of Independent Behavior-Revised (SIB-R)

You can read more about definitions and criteria through the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD) or explore the breakdown on Wikipedia.

 

Divine Writer Hypothesis – At the End

 

How things came to be and are…

Promotion - Population Reference Bureau (PRB)

https://www.prb.org/

 

Social Behavior Questionnaire Scales - SBQ-T, SBQ-M
Second cycle of elementary School (9-12 years old)
Number of Items is associated with relative weight
All items except prosocial behavior are not beneficial
Buster scores Keith Edward
Target Kids and TAYs

Hyperactivity (2 items)

• 1 Restless. Runs about or jumps up and down. Doesn't keep still
• 2 Squirmy, fidgety child

 

Fighting (3 items)

• 1 Fights with other children
• 2 Bullies other children
• 3 Kicks, bites, or hits other children

 

Opposition (5 items)

• 1 Doesn't share material used for a task in the classroom
• 2 Irritable, quick to "fly off the handle"
• 3 Is disobedient
• 4 Blames others
• 5 Inconsiderate of others 

Inattention (4 items)

• 1 Has poor concentration or short attention span
• 2 Inattentive
• 3 Gives up easily
• 4 Stares into space

 

Antisocial behavior (3 items)

• 1 Truants from school
• 2 Tells lies
• 3 Has stolen things on one or more occasions

FAQ – Is one incidence of asocial behavior enough?

Note: Elementary Citizenship (Per teachers satisfactory and a few outstanding)

Proactive aggression (3 items)

• 1 He gets other kids to gang up on a peer that he does not like
• 2 Uses physical force (or threatens to use force) in order to dominate other kids
• 3 Threatens or bullies others in order to get his own way

 

Reactive aggression (3 items)

• 1 Always claims that other children are to blame in a fight and feels that they started the whole trouble
• 2 When he has been teased or threatened, he gets angry easily and strikes back
• 3 When a peer accidentally hurts him (such as by bumping into him) he assumes that the peer meant do it, and then overreacts with anger and fighting

 

Social Behavior Questionnaire (SBQ) II

The Social Behavior Questionnaire (SBQ) is a psychometric assessment tool used primarily in two distinct clinical and developmental contexts: measuring anxiety-driven safety behaviors in social anxiety disorder, or evaluating child and adolescent behavioral development (often divided into teacher/maternal ratings like SBQ-T for Teacher and SBQ-M for Maternal/Parent report).

1. Social Behavior Questionnaire (SBQ) for Social Anxiety (Safety Behaviors)

In cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and research on social anxiety disorder (SAD), the SBQ assesses the frequency of safety behaviors (avoidance, mental monitoring, and concealment) used before or during feared social situations.

Purpose:

Measures how often individuals engage in covert or overt actions to prevent negative evaluation or manage anxiety (e.g., avoiding eye contact, rehearsing speech, gripping cups tightly, using alcohol, or monitoring self-presentation).

Format:

Typically a 24- to 28-item self-report questionnaire.

Rating Scale:

4-point Likert-style frequency scale (Always, Often, Sometimes, Never).

Use:

Baseline assessment, treatment planning, and tracking progress during exposure therapy.
You can review sample items via the Social Behavior Questionnaire Database Profile or a Social Phobia Assessment Summary.

2. Social Behavior Questionnaire (SBQ) in Child Development (SBQ-T / SBQ-M)

In developmental psychology and longitudinal studies (such as the Québec Longitudinal Study of Child Development), the SBQ evaluates child and youth behavioral and emotional functioning from early childhood through adolescence.

SBQ-T (Teacher Report) & SBQ-M (Maternal / Parent Report):

Refers to the same core behavioral item set rated by different informants (teachers observing in school vs. mothers/parents observing at home) across different developmental stages.

Core Subscales / Factor Structure:

Validated models typically confirm a six-factor structure:

Emotional Distress / Fearlessness / Anxiety

Withdrawal (e.g., refusing to talk, social withdrawal)

Impulsive / Hyperactive / Inattentive (ADHD-related behaviors like not keeping still, running about, acting without thinking)

Disruptive / Externalizing Behaviors (conduct problems)

Prosocial Behaviors (helping, comforting, sharing, trying to stop quarrels)

Peer Relationship Difficulties (being teased, peer conflict)

Rating Scale:

Usually a 4- or 5-point frequency scale (ranging from never to very often / always).

Divine Writer Hypothesis

The Divine Writer (or Divine Author) Hypothesis refers to a group of theological and philosophical theories proposing that a sacred text—or by extension, the universe and history itself—is decisively authored, governed, or structured by an omniscient and omnipotent deity. In modern philosophy of religion and biblical hermeneutics, this hypothesis is evaluated through two primary frameworks: Scriptural Evidentialism (assessing the textual features expected from a divine source) and the Metaphysical Authorial Analogy (viewing God as the creative writer of reality).

1. Scriptural Evaluation: H_{D} vs. H_{H}

Philosophers often pit the Robust Divine Authorship Hypothesis (H_{D}) against the Ordinary Historical-Human Authorship Hypothesis (H_{H}) to evaluate the origin of religious texts like the Bible:

The Robust Divine Hypothesis (H_{D}):

Assumes an omniscient, omnipotent, and compassion-oriented deity governs the text's core message. Because a compassionate God prefers to reduce avoidable human suffering, H_{D}predicts that a divine text intended to guide human life would include compact, advanced, and unambiguous practical guidance (such as basic biomedical or sanitation protocols) ahead of its time.

The Historical-Human Hypothesis (H_{H}):

Views the text as a layered anthology produced, edited, and transmitted by human agents. Its practical, ethical, and scientific horizons are strictly constrained by the localized knowledge, genres, and cultural priorities of ancient Near Eastern communities.

This friction creates what philosophers call an "expectation gap." Critics of strict divine authorship argue that the lack of advanced scientific or moral foresight in ancient texts makes (H_{H}) a more statistically probable explanation than a robust, suffering-averse H_{D}.

2. Models of Divine Textual Governance

Theologians who maintain a divine origin theory generally reject the idea that a text must either be perfectly dictated by God or purely human. Instead, they apply three distinct models of authorship:

 

3. The Metaphysical Analogy: God as the Cosmic Writer

Beyond scriptural origins, the "Divine Writer" concept is used as a tool to describe the God-world relationship. In this philosophical analogy, history is a narrative and God is the ultimate cosmic author. However, this framework faces significant challenges regarding the problem of evil:

The Problem of Gratuitous Evil:

If God is the absolute author of the universe's timeline, why would He intentionally "write in" vast, purposeless human suffering, tragedies, and atrocities into the script?

The Author of Evil:

Critics argue that an unrestricted authorial analogy strips human beings of free will and inadvertently makes God the direct author and manipulator of moral evil.

Divine Hiddenness:

The analogy struggles to explain the "absentee author"—why the creator of the narrative remains silent or hidden when the characters within the story are suffering.

 

Tangent - What is Glorious Purpose?

In the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), the phrase "glorious purpose" refers to Loki’s obsessive search for personal destiny, power, and validation, which transforms completely over the course of his story.

The Evolution of Loki's Purpose

The Selfish Pursuit of Power:

Loki first famously utters the phrase ("I am Loki of Asgard, and I am burdened with glorious purpose") in The Avengers while trying to conquer Earth. At this stage, his "purpose" is purely narcissistic—a delusion that he is pre-ordained to rule over others, strip away free will, and claim a throne.

The Reality Check:

Through his journey in the Disney+ series Loki, his illusions are systematically broken down by the Time Variance Authority (TVA) and variants like Sylvie. He learns that his old path only leads to failure, loss, and pain.

Selfless Sacrifice:

In the series finale, Loki redefines the phrase. Instead of conquering a throne to be served, he assumes a heavy, solitary burden—holding and protecting the dying multiverse of timelines together so that others can live. His "glorious purpose" shifts from empty tyranny to the ultimate act of self-sacrifice.

 

FYI - The Divine Timeline

Divine timing refers to the belief that the universe or God orchestrates events according to a purposeful, orderly plan rather than a random human schedule.

Core Concepts

Sovereignty and Order:

Rooted in theological traditions, it holds that historical and personal events unfold at the exact right moment (pleroma kronu, or the full measure of time).

Active Alignment vs. Passive Waiting:

In spiritual and manifestation contexts, divine timing is viewed as an energetic frequency or readiness rather than an excuse for inaction. It emphasizes inner preparation (patience and clarity) meeting external opportunity.

Biblical Chronology:

Tools like Divine Timeline map out historical and biblical figures from ancient times (such as Elijah or Jonah) through early Christian history.

Pattern-Based History:

Theological frameworks often view history through a structured lens, such as the 6-day work and 1-day Sabbath pattern scaling into 6,000 years of human history followed by a millennial rest.

 

How many human beings are in the mix?

The current (2026) global human population is approximately 8.3 billion people. The "7%" figure in your premise refers to the percentage of all human beings who have ever lived that are alive at that moment. With the population increase over the last decade, that ratio has shifted slightly.

While the raw number of people has grown by roughly 700 to 800 million since 2017, the overall percentage of "all humans ever born" stays remarkably close to 7%. This is because the total estimated number of historical humans who have ever lived (stretching back roughly 200,000 years) is also massive—currently estimated at over 117 billion people.

Now (2026) number born = 117 Billion (Homo sapiens like)

Approximately 117 billion members of the human species have ever been born on Earth, according to updated estimates from the Population Reference Bureau.

Key Details

Historical Estimate:

The older 2011 estimate frequently cited was around 108 billion humans starting from roughly 50,000 or 190,000 BCE.

Updated Count:

Newer calculations (such as those by the PRB and discussed in Scientific American) place the total closer to 117 billion people (2026).

Current Population Share:

With global population surpassing 8 billion, roughly 7% of all human beings who have ever lived are alive today.

 

Entertaining Mistaken Beliefs

• Aside – Hypothesis – Dead people write scripts for the living.
• Aside – Hypothesis – Some people leave Earth space-time.
• Aside – Hypothesis – San Francisco is the Earth exodus point.

 

How my Dad “Jerry” Died and Lived VTorkel

  

Blog – The Torkel Saga and HealthMan

Published – November 1, 2026

Title – How my Dad “Jerry” Died and Lived

George Gerald Torkelson - CPO

Contents

• Findings before Reading Death Certificate
• Final Three Days
• Friday at The Pulmonary Surgeon’s Office
• Need For Oxygen
• Steroids
• Surgery to Remove His Pericardium
• Diminished Appetite
• The Year Earlier Loss of Strength
• Exposure to Second Hand Smoke
• Smoking
• History of Exposure with Asbestos
• Carrying Disease & Toxins
• Active Aerobic Youth
• Born In 1922
• Willed Body Program
• 1993 – Our Dad - My “god” = electric light
• Prose
• How my dad lived: A picture show

Findings before Reading Death Certificate

August 23, 2005 - I believe today would be my mother’s, June Elizabeth Stoutenburg-Torkelson, birthday.  Based upon what my father reported to me during his yearlong illness, my father died of suffocation.  He suffocated because he no longer could clear the thickened mucous from his lungs.  The doctor said the mucous was thickened due to dehydration.  I say that he no longer had the inter-costal and diaphragmatic muscle tone to generate a forceful sweeping action cough or a huff.  From progressive reports from his doctor I concluded that he had excess fibrosis in the thoracic cavity not just lungs.  Earlier in the year he had surgery to remove his now inelastic pericardium (constrictive pericarditis).

 

Final Three Days

Throughout my father’s life I remember him regularly doing huffs to clear his lungs.  Two days before he died he told me that he was unable to mechanize any clearing.  I took note yet did not see that this was the beginning of a fatal sequelae or downturn.  Some talk of drowning with regards to processes such as pneumonia.  In a manner my dad’s pulmonary respiration impacted with thick mucus.

 

Friday at The Pulmonary Surgeon’s Office

On the Friday before his death my sister, Christine, and I accompanied my father to the pulmonary surgeon’s office in Orange California.  He showed us another major problem; my father had a huge, over three inches in diameter, tumor in one lobe of his lungs.  The doctor told us that if he operated and tubed him for general anesthesia he would never be able to remove the tube again.  In less than gruesome language we got the message over to my father that the situation had worsened and had become untreatable.  I believe that it was at this point my father spiritually began to leave this life.  After the doctor we met my brother Kevin and his wife Aurora at the Black Angus for dinner.  I took a picture of my father.  In the photograph I notice later that his eyes are glassy and afar as if he was not here at all.  It was nice to notice that my dad had a glass of wine.

 

Need For Oxygen

The pericardial removal surgery was intended to give him back some strength.  The surgery failed to do so.  I believed that his lack of stamina and strength were due to low aortic oxygen partial pressure.  Even though his respiratory specialist did not agree he gave him an oxygen prescription anyway.  The oxygen may or may not have helped my father to feel more comfortable.  It is rather expensive to have oxygen at home.

 

Steroids

The doctor was reserved to give my father any cortical-steroids because they are not long-term solution.  Yet I discussed with him how I really do not think the long-term is an issue.  My father told me that he had a few better days after taking the cortical steroids.

 

At Respiratory Specialists

At the respiratory specialists my father was asked to perform some typical respiratory performance and integrity tests.  I remember my father trying so hard to the point of near unconsciousness doing the total lung volume assay.  At this point I told the doctor that it is obvious my father could not pass the assay and this testing was just causing him suffering and hardship.  At this point the respiratory specialist not only discontinued follow up testing he granted my father a handicap status.

 

Surgery to Remove His Pericardium

When my father’s doctors concluded that he had a damaged pericardium we temporarily believed that this might be the problem causing his lack of stamina.  The surgeon removed his pericardium and completely overlooked the probable tumor in his lung.  This surgeon did little or nothing to help with my father’s stamina problem.

 

Diminished Appetite

My father fell ill in one day, just over a year before he died.  Soon after falling ill he lost his appetite.  The lack of nutrition after a few months he began wasting.  I assume that this general wasting affected his muscle tone.  The muscles that lost the ability to function adequately were his intercostal and diaphragmatic muscles.  As I later thought that due to the thoracic fibrosis he could not expand about the chest yet he also had little ability to expand into his abdomen.  I believe this muscle wasting issue was progressive and integral to his ultimate suffocation.

 

The Year Earlier Loss of Strength

One day my dad came to my apartment in Laguna Niguel with my mother and cousin, Edward Stoutenburg.  My parents had bought me two pieces of unassembled furniture.  My dad said that just that day he was sick and could not muster any strength, that he could not help me carry the 100 plus pound boxes.  It was as if something acute had changed in one day.  I have no idea was system could be challenged in one day and then become progressively worse.

 

Exposure to Second Hand Smoke

In my parent’s household the whole of the time that I grew up my mother smoked cigarettes.  This second hand smoke could only complicate any pre-existing condition in my father thoracic cavity.  I haven’t read yet the pathology and progression of chronic long term second hand smoke exposure.

Smoking

When I was a child my father smoked cigars.  I remember him telling me on numerous occasions that I couldn’t remember because he quit before I was born.  Yet I remember clearly him saving and giving the cigar bands to Candace, my sister, so she could redeem some sort of gift with the bands.  The point is smoking could have aggravated a pre-existing thoracic challenge or be a primary trigger for excess thoracic fibrosis.

 

History of Enclosure with Asbestos

My father worked for two years in the bowels of the battleship Colorado from 1943-1945 during World War Two.  I am not certain yet it is very likely that there was asbestos within the ship.  My father's ship was hit many times at Tinian by Japanese shelling.  I also believe that one or more kamikaze planes hit the ship.  Huge impact shakes materials in the ship loose and cause fire.  It seems possible that my father had a history of asbestos exposure.  In his later life he had a history of chemical exposure both at work as a machinist and at home.

 

Carrying Disease & Toxins

Possible Corynebacterium tuberculosis Exposure

My father grew up during the depression, a time when the TB prevalence in the United States was greater.  The respiratory specialist that he saw in 1998-99 could not rule out a history of TB.  An early TB challenge could lead to some lung damage.

 

Active Aerobic Youth

On the other side my father indicated to me on several occasions that he was rather physically fit while growing up.  He mentioned some very strenuous jobs such as laying railroad track as he grew up.  Yet he never mentioned any aerobic events or exercise.  I think that his development favored health rather that work against him in his ultimate pulmonary fatal crisis.

 

Born In 1922

August 23, 2005 - Born in 1922 in Minnesota my dad saw and experienced one of the biggest changes in World History.  He survived birthing, the great-depression, prohibition, hard labor, Naval World War Two, migration from Minnesota to California for a better job, economic boom, having 9 kids, giving three kids away, conflict with his wife, conflict with his boys, social issues of the 70s as they infected his home, etc.  In the last month of his life with his wife now deceased for a year my father told me he was going to his Battleship (BB45) reunion in Texas.  I felt that he would die at some point away and told him to not go to Texas.  He didn’t go.  My father died while in his sleep period.  I know from myself that the suffocating event probably woke him up.  My sister says his eyes were open.  I almost did not go to see him before he was taken away.  I went and had my last goodbye to George my dad.  I cried and gave him a kiss on the forehead.  Unlike my mother he was already cold.  I went to the foot of his bed and massaged his stiffened feet.

Willed Body Program

My father donated his body to the University of California, Irvine’s willed body program.  My sister got his ashes back a couple years later.  He had been used to teach future doctors that he would have been very happy to know.  During his anatomical dissection not one report came back about his unique thoracic pathologies.  I remember in veterinary school that we were to bring attention to the instructors any abnormalities so the whole of the lab section could make note.  Though I would not have wished to participate in the whole of my father’s dissection I think back that the lab on the mediastinum and thorax would have been rewarding.  My father as of today lays to rest not next to my mother, yet in his old safe, probably in a closet at my sister Christine’s house in Huntington Beach California.  She tells me that she knows what he wanted and that was to do with him whatever he wished.  I personally wish that part of him were with my mother in Riverside California and another part spread on the Pacific Ocean that he may re-enter the food chain resume a part of life in an act nearly divine, just, and right.

Photo Gallery of George Gerald Torkelson (Dad)

I think this diagrams the BB-45's activity in the Pacific (1943-1945)

Certificate of Expiration

Navy - Main Engines

Candace gets married

With his sisters - Clarice and LaVina

My dad was a machinist (tool and dye maker)

Diagram - USS Colorado BB45

Dad didn't like the idea of crashing locomotives head-on

Dad and Mom

Ships of the Line

His battleship was there for the surrender in Tokyo Bay

Navy Dad

Young Dad

Looking good!

Christine gets married

Obama honors dad

Precision Work

Grieving my way - alone

Taking care of the grand kids

1986 UC Davis Graduation

Gave me my first PC (refurbished)

Mom's last year

Christine messing around

Weight Loss

Riding in my Dorothy the Car

Our last meal together - Black Angus

His tiny house he built himself

Desert with Kev and I

Feeding Myrtle the Tort

Dad's parents - George and Sarah

George and Pat

The End

999

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