Parents today face the dilemma of having a child with emotional or behavioral disorder. For small children, to have it is one thing, but to detect it is another. Since they are still growing up and going through stages such as the “terrible two’s” and adolescence, you’d think that some of their behavior is normal and it’s all a part of child development. It all depends on how one may look at it. If a small child were to have a severe tantrum and rip their toys apart, one parent may see it as a serious behavioral problem, while another may look at it as their child showing independence or leadership skills. Before seeking mental health assessment, parents must first look at the whole picture. Is the child having social issues at school? Are there any family problems such as divorce or death occurring? Alternatively, may be a specific condition the child has may be affecting their behavior? Whatever the situation may be, parents should first try and understand and be aware of the problem that is going on.
All toddlers, behaviors range differently and may be considered normal for their age. Yet, if there is a delay in language development, in which an infant who is unresponsive to his her environment (doesn’t show emotion such as pleasure or fear that is developmentally appropriate, doesn’t look at or reach for objects within reach or respond to environmental changes such as sound or light), who is over-responsive (easily startled, cries), or who s...
The mind of an infant and toddler is a sponge to language. Whether or not the child is able to speak, their brain is rehearsing and affirming the linguistic structures they hear, and the period of baby talk—called “babbling”—is a crucial time of experimentation with sound. During this time, the child will babble while in social situations in order to see which phonological structures receive positive responses from their parents—i.e. which combinations of sounds elicit responses. If a child cannot hear the sounds that their language offers, the child does not have the opportunity to babble. A child with significant hearing loss will still make sounds in infancy, but will quickly cease due to the lack of response and the fact that they cannot hear the sounds they are making and so cannot affirm them for themselves.
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As well as encouraging them instead to think about what their child is going through by themselves. By them taking a more active role as a parent and supporter, they are able to notice the changes in their child. This would allow them to be there as a supportive member in their child’s life. They would also be able to assist them in understanding what they are going through, while getting them the psychiatric help that they need to be able to move forward in their life, and to be successful in what they choose to be. The idea of a perfect child does not have to go out the window when you find out that your child has a mental illness. They are still the child you have loved their whole lives the illness just adds one more piece to them that you never realized was there
Goldstein (1995, as cited in Gol & Jarus, 2005) and Cantwell (1996, as cited in Gol & Jarus, 2005) explain referral to mental health services is prevalent for children with this chronic behavioural problem. For parents needing guidance in addressing concerns, a first point of contact may be a General Practitioner where symptoms can be discussed and referral to an appropriate service considered. As Laver-Bradbury (2013) states, clinicians within a children’s mental health service or paediatric setting are recommended, although McGonnell, Corkum, McKinnon, MacPherson, Williams, Davidson, Jones, and Stephenson (2007) suggest waiting lists for services can be detrimental. Child, Adolescent and Family Services (CAFS) is a mental health service specifically aimed at targeting the needs of children 0-19 years of age. Medical and health professionals wi...
Bill Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe III on August 19, 1946, in the small town of Hope, Arkansas. He was named after his father, William Jefferson Blythe II, who had been killed in a car accident just three months before his son's birth. Needing a way to support herself and her new child, Bill Clinton's mother, Virginia Cassidy Blythe, moved to New Orleans, Louisiana, to study nursing. Bill Clinton stayed with his mother's parents in Hope. There his grandparents, Eldrigde and Edith Cassidy, taught him strong values and beliefs such as "equality among all and discrimination to none". This was a lesson Bill never forgot. His mother returned from New Orleans with a nursing degree in 1950, when her son was four year old. Later that same year, she married an automobile salesman named Roger Clinton. When Bill was seven years old, the family moved to Hot Springs, Arkansas for it offered a better employment opportunities. Roger received a higher paying job as a service manager for his brother's car dealer-ship and Virginia discovered a job as a nurse anesthetist. In 1956, Bill Clinton's half-brother, Roger Clinton Jr., was born. When his brother was old enough to enter school, young Bill had his last name legally altered from Blythe to Clinton.
As many as 19 million Americans million are affected by mood disorders ( The two main types of mood disorders are bipolar disorder and major depressive disorder which are described as disturbances in mood, behavior and emotion.“ Bipolar disorder is a complex disorder in which the core feature is pathological disturbance in mood ranging from extreme elation, or mania, to severe depression usually accompanied by disturbances in thinking and behavior, which may include psychotic symptoms, such as delusions and hallucinations” (Craddock, Jones 1999). Major depressive disorder or unipolar depression is characterized by a consistent low mood and lack of interest in things typically enjoyed .A second classification of major depressive disorder, is dysthymic disorder which is a chronic but less severe form of major depression (John W. Santrock 2007). Also major depression has many subgroups including seasonal affect disorder and postpartum depression. While there are many treatment options for the symptoms of mood disorders and promising scientific research, much is still unknown about a disorder that affects so many lives.
Tolan, P. H., & Dodge, K. A. (2005). Children's mental health as a primary care and concern: a system for comprehensive support and service. American Psychologist, 60(6), 601.
Tolan, P. H., & Dodge, K. A. (2005). Children's mental health as a primary care and concern: a system for comprehensive support and service. American Psychologist, 60(6), 601.
Abortion has been a controversial debatable topic for years. Should women and young teens have the final say in if they feel the need to keep or abort an unwanted baby. In the case Roe v. Wade marked the legalization of abortion by a supreme court, which started the debate over abortion. Educating women and young teens on the dangers of abortion will help them make safe sound decisions on abortion and the many alternatives to consider before aborting a baby. The pros and cons of this debatable topic raises some serious issues of why women and young teens consider abortion to what time frame after conception is the embryo considered a life..
When most people think of the process of language development in “normal” children, the concepts that come to mind are of babies imitating, picking up sounds and words from the speakers around them. Trying to imagine that a child who cannot hear one single sound a person makes can learn to speak a language is absolutely fascinating. These children range from amazin...
Mood Disorder is an example of any kind of long-lasting emotion that becomes a chronic problem in the normal life style active and at rest. People and patients stuffing between bipolar (happy, sad, excited and depressed) you learn to realize there’s no control, like a person has a disability Tourette syndrome. This feeling goes with the expression “he / she woke up on the wrong side of the bed “in actuality theirs know better nor the bad side of the bed, I had a Science teacher once explain to my class years ago; just because that express is tossed around does not mean the feeling is a realist. Coping with this problem is much more difficult. People who have altered feeling all the time, does that put them in the “Mood Disorder category?” I wonder, do they just categorize people just to make them feel special. So what is the major mood disorder?
People spend thousands of dollars on the works of treatments medicines and services for their children. We need to increase the availability and accessibility of treatment centers for children who develop these disorders. Pediatricians, teachers and mental health specialists should inform children on mental health so they are aware. Some programs and services that parents have available should include therapy, the National Institute on Health, Mental Health Programs, Family Health Services and Health maintenance organization to help parents in case they notice behavioral difference in their child.
Soderstrom, M. (2007). Beyond baby talk: Re-evaluating the nature and content of speech input to preverbal infants. Developmental Review, 27(4), 501-532.
Encourage parents to be patient with their children throughout the healing process. Counseling of mental health disorders are normally not a “quick-fix”. These things take time and it is up to the child and family to demonstrate patience during the process.
What is abortion? Often defined as the immediate termination of a pregnancy in its first stages. There’s a saying, “the earlier the pregnancy the easier the abortion.” (gynmed. Par.1) There are so many different reasons as to why women get abortions, but to me they’re just excuses. No reason is legitimate enough to kill an innocent child. Some argue that the child isn’t a human yet or has yet to develop at the time of termination, others argue that they have been raped and can’t bear the stress of keeping the child. And others are just too irresponsible to take care of a child. (Flanders Par.1) Even so these reasons still aren’t valid enough.