T-test Analysis on Group Home behavior between boys and girls . According to the Child Welfare League of America, about 16 percent of foster children reside in group homes or institutions. (Matthew, 2003). In order to discuss the difference of behavior between girls and boys in a group home setting, I will focus on wither behavior is worse in a boy’s home or a girl’s home. My target audience will be 50 boys and 50 girls who are between the ages of 13 to 17. I will do my research and analysis over a 3-week period, however, depending on the population samples, more time may be required for a accurate determination. The outcome will help better determine which group home has the better setting. I will be choosing five different homes at random and will take 10 participants from each. For optimal results, I will choose two participates from each age group from the ten group homes to participate in the study, which will consist of five individuals from each age group. Common behavioral disorders within these group homes are oppositional defiance disorder, bipolar disorder, conduct disorder or have made suicide attempts. (Conner-Knox, 2009). Mingling the different ages within the homes are also concerns. Several activists are calling for countywide evaluations of …show more content…
(Jones, Onslow el, 2006). Having enough individuals in each group will allow data to be more accurate. Two occasions when this is not the case are when model number is small, with fewer than 20 in each group, or when sample sizes and variances of the groups are clearly different, the study should be based on standard methods, with a suitable conversion performed prior to analysis. (Jones, Onslow el,
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This paper will view two theories as it pertains to human behavior and the development of adolescent youth who are in the foster care system. The two human behavior theories, which will be discussed, are the psychosocial theory and the labeling theory. The key concepts of each human behavior theory will be compared and contrasted, as it relates to the marginalized population, adolescent youth in foster care. The purpose of this paper is to view how youth in foster care interact in their social environment, at the adolescent stage of development where forming their identity is pertinent to completing that stage. While adolescents in their normative stage of development deal with identity formation, adolescents in foster care have to deal with
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“About two-thirds of children admitted to public care have experienced abuse and neglect, and many have potentially been exposed to domestic violence, parental mental illness and substance abuse” (Dregan and Gulliford). These children are being placed into foster care so that they can get away from home abuse, not so they can move closer towards it. The foster children’s varied outcomes of what their adult lives are is because of the different experiences they grew up with in their foster homes. The one-third of those other foster children usually has a better outcome in adult life than the other two-thirds, which is a big problem considering the high percentage of children being abused in their foster homes. Although, the foster care system has most definitely allowed children to experience the positive home atmosphere that they need there is still an existed kind of abusive system in the foster care program that is unofficial but seems to be very popular. Foster care focuses on helping children in need of a temporary stable environment; however, foster care can have negative impacts to the children and the people around them concerning the foster child going through the transition, the parents of the foster child, a new sibling relationship, and problems that arrive later influencing the foster child long-term.
Another obstacle Olivia and Sabreen encounter is the lack of adult support in the foster care system. Family support is a crucial variable mediating the influence of neighborhood on a child’s development (Burton & Jarrett, 2000); nonetheless, Olivia and Sabreen receive little support and guidance and must quickly survive on their own.
Though foster care was originally established to help children who were orphaned, abandoned, neglected or abused, it has also caused problems for children. Agencies often have difficulty providing adequate, accessible, and appropriate services for the families in their care. (Chipungu and Goodley, pp. 76, 2004) This paper will examine the negative impact of foster care on children as a social problem and how it is viewed and understood. Also this paper would point out the key figures and groups that are affected by problem. This paper would analyze past attempts to better the foster care system and current policies that exist to face this problem. Throughout this paper the goals and objectives of the current polices would be addressed.
Tom has struggled through the move from one facility to another, as he has had huge difficulty adapting to the changes within the group home. These include, environmental changes, carers, facility members and normal routines. Tom is not familiar with the environment of his group home as he has been in an institution since he was born. Tom feels disorientated and confused with his new placement which causes him to retaliate and act out. He also feels as though the carers within the facility are ignoring his needs as he has impaired mobility and communication skills. These needs are important for his overall wellbeing and he believes they are being over looked, which affects his behaviour. Watching other members within the facility take in guests makes him feel upset, as none come to the group home to visit him. This may make him feel disconnected and depressed which influences his lack of motivation and his further behaviour. The changes in Tom’s normal routine and things he enjoyed doing in the other facilities have also influences his behaviour. Tom enjoyed current affairs and accessing the internet in his old facilities’ library. He may not have the same opportunities in his new group home. All the factor mentioned have a great impact on Toms behaviour as it all contributed to how he feels within the
The study consisted of 3200 participants (all men) .They all were given questionnaires and from their responses and their manner, each participant was put into one of two groups:
At the group meeting, 11 foster care youth attended; between the ages of 14-19. One participant brought her 10 month old baby. The race of the group was mixed; however, it was more predominately African-American. As well, there were more males in attendance than females.
In this case, the investigators would have to come up with some sort of random code with which the study participants are then randomized to either the intervention or control group. They should stick to this randomization code despite issues with self-selection or differential selection. Additionally after using a randomization code, the code should be adequately concealed in order to prevent the investigators and the participants from being able to tell what the group that the next participant will land. The investigators should also make efforts to blind the participants, investigators and those involved in assessing outcomes. This generally ensures that there is no way in which the effect estimate can be influenced by external factors. In this study it may be difficult to ensure blinding (Mislevy, 2007). However, it may be attempted by choosing nurses in different shifts or those in different facilities who may not have time to meet and discuss about the study. Blinding of outcome assessors such as those performing fitness evaluations in this study can be ensured by making sure they test the participants without knowing which group they are
In order to determine the gender differences in behavior in boys and girls, I observed seven activities for ten minutes, taking a total of five observations of the numbers of boys and girls each activity. This experiment took place on October 9th from 4’ o’clock to 4’ ten at County Elementary School. I performed this experiment in the school’s After School Program because having a smaller sample size is easier to keep count and observe. From the beginning of this experiment, there was a total of twenty-two boys and thirty girls, age ranging from six to eleven. Seven activities I recorded were basketball, four squares, jump rope, sliding, swinging, talking, and tetherball.
This study had a few strengths and weaknesses. One strength was further separating the children into groups based off of sex. This further exemplifies that boys are more aggressive than girls, and that gender does affect how a child thinks they can behave. Another strength was including verbal aggression and not just showing physical abuse. This showed that girls are less are more willing to say verbally aggressive phrases than physically act
Sampling is the framework on which any form of research is carried out. A suitable sample that meets the inclusion and exclusion criteria of a research design must be chosen from a given population to carry out studies. In this essay comparison is made between stratified random sampling and convenience sampling. The population on which the researcher is interested in carrying out his or her research may be too large, therefore a suitable sample which can represent the population in correct proportion must be chosen. Restraints such as limitation of time, resources and many other factors necessitate the selection of a sample for research purpose so that better quality data is obtained from it and that the researcher can make statement about the population he or she is interested in (French,S et al.,2001,).The method of sampling should be cost effective, less time consuming and be simple in design to attract participants but care should be taken that accurate and valid data can be collected. The sample on which the study is actually done is derived from the population which is accessible to the researcher; the study sample may include all of the accessible population or a fraction of it and this accessible population is a part of the target population. The target population is the collection of cases to which generalization can be made and on which the researcher is ultimately interested in (Sim,J and Wright,C. 2000). Hence the entire process of collection of samples for the indented study can be termed as sampling. Sampling is broadly divided into probability sampling; in which the selection of samples are done at random and non- probability sampling; where selection of samples is entirely dependent on the researcher’s choice and ...
In Barnett and Hurst (2004) study females in both 8th and 10th grades were found to have average scores than males and over 8th graders scored higher than 10th grade students. Males were more likely to let their infant cry and there was a larger variation in response times than with females. Males were also more likely to handle the infant simulators roughly. 10th graders showed more variability in their care than 8th graders as well as 8th graders were more lik...