History and Presenting Problem Mister is a single, fourteen-year-old, African American male who lives in the inner city of New York. He is a high school student who passionate about acting. While Mister was living with his young single mother, Gloria, and her friend’s seven-year-old son, Pete, Gloria was arrested due to the drug problem. Before being arrested, Gloria had worked as a sex worker and suffered from severe drug use problem. At those times, Gloria’s functionality was fully impaired due to substance use. After she disappeared, two children tried to survive with no money and adult monitoring and they supported each other in this poor and dangerous neighborhood all over the summer. They struggled with poor nutrition, hygiene, health …show more content…
The first risk factor is his age. The stage of adolescent refers the time of construct an identity, rapid change and immature social and cognitive skills to regulate interactions and experiences, which make them more vulnerable in the face of trauma (Blaustein and Kinniburgh, 2010). As stated, Mister had hard times to regulate his emotions and control his aggressive behaviors at times and this caused new risky situations. Particularly, in this unsafe district, unrestrained aggressive behavioral pattern put him at great risk and can produce a new traumatic incidence, which may result in long-term consequences. Another significant factor is the role that Mister took over after his mother’s leave. He felt that he was responsible for their caring. He made a great effort to survive, but this role almost led him into engaging in some criminal activities and gang groups. Lastly, all these adverse conditions impaired Mister’s academic functioning, which is one of the main domains in assessing adolescents’ mental health (Borofsky, Kellerman, Baucom, Oliver, and Margolin, 2013). As Borofsky, et al. (2003) indicated, school is primary area where the adolescents perform. Therefore, academic failure can cause significant long-term consequences in adolescents’ …show more content…
For example, he can be very empathic, warm and cooperative toward people under the normal situation. He typically attempts to communicate with people in a positive way and tries to make an agreement in the fist place. Moreover, Mister and Pete survived by means of Mister’s high level of problem-solving skills. Although this inevitable “caregiver” role has a risk for him, his social abilities and problem solving skills assisted him to deal with all the obstacles they faced. According to Nader (2008) in the case of traumatic situation, active problem solving is one of the most significant coping mechanisms in order to deal with stressful events for children and adolescents. Similarly, his moral development played an important role in their survival process. He searched the each possible option to survive and did not simply engage in some type of illegal gang groups. So, he is good at evaluating other perspectives and making judgment by considering his complex situation, which refers Kohlberg’s post-conventional stages (Hess, Mangnuson, and Beeler, 2011). Lastly, Mister is passionate about acting and pursues acting opportunities. This is a protective factor, since it indicates that he will consume his energy to reach his goals. In this essence, he knows what he wants to be within the society, which is an important feature in establishing a sense of
A young boy gets older and even though they struggle financially his parents make sure they teach him the honest values of life. But in this film George Jung is a high school football star and wants to see other options and forget what values his parents have taught him. The young man from a small place gets millions from distributing cocaine and ends up losing it all. The behaviors of George Jung become intense with curiosity as he arrives in California to attend college with his friend Tuna.
There are many causes on why a child or teenager may misbehave. There could be issues at home, with family, other kids, peer pressure, and the list goes on. This can affect family, friends and their own lives in a negative way. “Understanding why children engage in bad behavior is critical to curbing it”, illustrates Harvey Karp, M.D, a pediatrician and author of the book and DVD “The Happiest Toddler On The Block”. In that case, there is a lot to be learned about the cause of misbehavior.
common theme to his writing is that he want to have a self-reliance of own to the people
Drugs is one of the themes in this story that shows the impact of both the user and their loved ones. There is no doubt that heroin destroys lives and families, but it offers a momentary escape from the characters ' oppressive environment and serves as a coping mechanism to help deal with the human suffering that is all around him. Suffering is seen as a contributing factor of his drug addiction and the suffering is linked to the narrator’s daughter loss of Grace. The story opens with the narrator feeling ice in his veins when he read about Sonny’s arrest for possession of heroin. The two brothers are able to patch things up and knowing that his younger brother has an addiction. He still buys him an alcoholic drink at the end of the story because, he has accepted his brother for who he really is.
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Chris a sixteen year old African male enter into therapy seeking professional help. Chris grew up in an urban neighborhood in New York, together with his mother and father. Chris develop problems due to longing attention. He begins to act out, hang around with the incorrect crowd, and get into fights.
Thereby, institutions that were intended to nurture youth (schools) have been collapsed into the practice of surveillance and criminalization, often acting as the behest of police and probation officers. In the case of Spider, he was isolated from “regular” school and sent to EOCS, which was a school for students who had already been officially labeled as deviants and delinquents by the school district. There, many of the teachers had a common practice that whenever any student misbehaved, the teachers would threaten either to call the police, to send them to jail, or call their P.O. (sometimes, even for students that weren’t on probation). In the schools attempt to main social order, it used the full force of criminal justice institutions to regulate students’ behaviors with constant threats. Also, Rios accounts that Slick’s beating, a student at an EOC, was the result of the schools impeccable communication between a security officer, the administrators, and police officer Miles. At these types of teaching facilities, stigma, labeling, detention, harassment, and humiliation are just about the only consistent experience that adolescents could count on as they entered the school. If students attempted to resist criminalization by acting up, a police officer lurked nearby ready to pounce. In essence, school was simply an extension where young people were criminalized for their style and culture. As a matter of fact, many of the boys Rios describes, saw no distinction between the school and police officers who constantly lurked around them, like a “zookeeper watching over animals at all times.” Police officers played a crafty “cat and mouse game” in which adolescent boys remained in steady trepidation of being humiliated, brutalized, or detained. Hence, this sort of control is created by a
The stand or fall of social environment has a strong impact on the formation of a child’s behavior. Wes P had begun selling drugs, which was making him plenty of money. He explained his cash flow and expensive purchases by telling his mother he had become a successful DJ in the neighborhood. “ Tony found his younger brother and asked for an explanation for the learning tower of Nikes. Wes stuttered out a story: he’d became a popular DJ and was making incredible loot DJing parties.”(69) While Mary believed him, Tony did not. One day he came by the house and noticed Wes P’s room had changed a lot, and a tower of new shoe boxes convinced Tony that Wes had gotten into the drug game. Under the influence of society and vanity, Wes P chose a wrong to making money to sell drug. Throughout the current juvenile crime is visiting trend and the situation of the children more and more to discipline. I believe that in addition to the existing school education way and the modern social development also does not adapt and family education also has a larger error, largely due to social bad education caused by environment factor. Society environment is also equally important, and a good society environment is more conducive to the healthy growth of children, but no more important than family and school environment to the
John Singleton’s view of social problems in South Central Los Angeles happens in a tale of three friends growing up together. Doughboy and Ricky Baker are half-brothers and have opposite personalities. Ricky is a football player who hopes to win a scholarship and spends most of his time playing football. On the other hand, Doughboy is a young man who looks upon his environment for guidance. He is involved in violence, abusing drugs, and participates in violence. In between is their friend Tre, who actually has a father to teach him what is right from wrong. Furious Styles, who is Tre’s father in the film does everything in his strength to keep his son from becoming another startling statistic. As you can see, it is always important for parents to be a part of their child’s life because it can make a big difference not only in their life but also their child’s future.
Holzer has Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder that was never treated, due to his parental situation. With the absence of his mother, and his father failing at his parental duties, Holzer felt neglected, and frequently ran away from home. Leaving home also caused Holzer be a truant,which influenced him to be more involved in the streets. Thus, in order to fill the emptiness in his life, he resorted to a group of people who shared similar circumstances with him. With the correspondence in the situations, the negative influences upon each other only inclined. Thus, a gang was formed, and was accompanied by illicit activity. The crime Holzer committed was ascribed to his ADHD, which if treated, would have prevented the his delinquent acts. He the lack of guardianship in Holzer’s life was also perceived as a contribution to his gang participation. As a conclusion, Peraino recommended residential treatment and therapy for his disorder. His reasoning was based on the belief that, confining Holzer in an adult prison, would only supplement his behavior, making him a bigger threat to the community once released. The crack epidemic was on account for the increase in juvenile gangs and drug use, as children were seen as instruments. With drugs in the play of delinquency, territorial monopoly was exercised, which caused violence to transpire. Generally once one is
Laub, J, & Sampson, R. (2003). Shared beginnings, divergent lives: delinquent boys to age 70. The President and Fellows of Harvard College.
Young boys and girls around the age thirteen through nineteen find themselves facing different developmental stages because they are at their adolescent stage. In this stage, they tend to engage themselves in activities that the majority of their friends engage in, even if those activities might land them in trouble. In this case, the case to be analyzed is on a 13-year-old boy whose friends are Mall Rats. The group engages themselves in antisocial behavior such as being rude to their elders, swearing, smoking and vandalizing properties in the stores. The biggest question is why would a young boy engage in such activities and feel comfortable? The answer to this can be answered using the developmental theory as established by Erik Erikson. His experience in the past could affect and induce his behavior and emotions. The chances are the boy is not happy with his childhood, which makes it more difficult to mature and become an adult. All in all, the past shapes our future.
Hill, P. (1993) Recent Advances in Selected Aspects of Adolescent Development Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. Department of Mental health Sciences, St. George’s Hospital Medical School, London, UK
Emotional and behavioral disorders manifest from various sources. For some children, the core of these disorders is rooted in such factors as “family adversity...poverty, caregiving instability, maternal depression, family stress…marital discord…dysfunctional parenting patterns…abuse and neglect” (Fox, Dunlap & Cushing, 2002, p. 150). These factors are stressors that affect children both emotionally and behaviorally. Students have their educational performance and academic success impeded by such stressors once in school, which creates even more stress as they find themselves frustrated and failing. As a result, problem behaviors may manifest that can be described as disruptive, impulsive, pre-occupied, resistant to change, aggressive, intimidating, or dishonest. Such behaviors may also inflict self-harm.
He thinks and acts, whether that is as an individual or as a group who share interests, with foremost regard to his own interests. Self-perpetuation is the number one rule. He therefore possesses his own interests, ideas and preferences, which may