Case Study
John is a 34-year-old father of one child, Oliver. John married Lilly when he was 22-years-old and she was 20-years-old. John and Lilly were high school sweethearts and attended Texas Christian University. John received a degree in business administration and Lilly majored in psychology. Lilly later attended University of Texas in Austin for her graduate degree in clinical psychology. At the age of 26, Lilly was pregnant with Oliver. She had just opened her private practice in Fort Worth after moving back to the area and everything seemed to be falling into place. John was a general manager of a local business in Fort Worth and spent many hours at work and away on business trips. He was very excited for their first child and knew Lilly would be a wonderful mother because of her empathetic and authentic personality.
Oliver was born on April 24 and was healthy and full of life. Lilly and John were overjoyed by their new blessing. As Oliver was growing up, Lilly made it a point to use her child psychology knowledge on him to foster a secure attachment, autonomy, and prosocial behavior. John continued to be gone on business trips often but Lilly seemed to be handling motherhood very well on her own. Lilly’s private practice career allowed her to have flexibility and be with Oliver often, only leaving him with a babysitter or at day care for a few hours a day. Oliver was growing up quickly and seemed to be a very intelligent child. He had many friends and loved spending time with his parents, but seemed to be much closer to his mother. Unfortunately, at 6-years-old Oliver had to witness his mother’s murder in their own home. John was away on a business trip and the holidays were approaching. Crimes such as aggravated assau...
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...g able to attend group therapy, which Oliver does from experiencing it firsthand. Oliver and John would then attend group sessions monthly or bi-weekly, Oliver in a children group and John in the parent group. The general grief activities that Oliver would participate in would discuss how the death happened, the funeral service, any changes in the family dynamic, and talk about happy or sad memories shared with his mother. Oliver would also talk about feelings such as fear, anxiety, worry, anger, and sadness. John would practically do the same types of activities, just on a different developmental level. Telger mentioned that parents are required to be there in order to get help themselves. A staff counselor tries to stay very involved with parents and is in touch with them in between group sessions for any updates or referrals to other professionals if necessary.
Kathy Harrison starts her personal story happily married to her childhood sweet heart Bruce. Kathy was living a simple life in her rural Massachusetts community home as the loving mother of three smart, kind, well-adjusted boys Bruce Jr., Nathan, and Ben. With the natural transitions of family life and the changes that come with career and moving, she went back to work as a Head Start teacher. Her life up until the acceptance of that job had been sheltered an idyllic. Interacting in a world of potluck suppers, cocktail parties, and traditional families had nothing in common with the life she would choose after she became a Head Start teacher.
In contrast to Joy, the other Wes’ mom Mary played a much weaker parent’s role. This is primarily due to the fact that Mary did not finish college and became pregnant at a very young age. She was her children's sole provider but was not ma...
An outline of current legislation, guidelines, policies and procedures within own UK Home Nation (England), affecting the safeguarding of children and young people.
There are many flaws throughout the childcare system, which can alter the overall goal of protecting children. Today, there have been several such cases in child protection that resulted in tragedy. This may happen in the foster care system itself, or in the child’s primary home.
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I am a 15 year old student from Waukon High School in Iowa, and I wanted to talk to you about child abuse. I think that child abuse is a terrible thing, and the people that do it should be sent away for a long time. The people that do it are terrible people because they abuse children that did not do anything to them. They should never gain their right to see their children, or be able to go near any children, and be with them by themselves, or with anybody else that wants to hurt children. The people that hurt the innocent children should be questioned and accounted guilty for child abuse. They could not be ruder and treat the children with more disrespect than they already do.
...Having this shred of freedom in choosing who would be the father of her children was important to Linda Brent and she risked shaming her family to do it., and she had found some individual freedom in doing so.
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Childhood trauma can have a profound impact on the social development of adults. Childhood trauma victims should be handled with care by social work professionals when they are seeking assistance to resolve disruptions in their life that stem from devastating events of their past. The level of care that this population needs to receive should involve utilization of well-developed practice considerations to ensure problem areas are being appropriately addressed. The presence of physical, psychological, personality, mental health disruptions are compelling area that should be needs to be examined amongst childhood trauma survivors. The in depth inspection of these different areas will reveal how the social development of this population is affected
Before learning about early childhood in this class I never realized all the way children at such a young age are developing. From the second part of this course I learned how much children are developing at the early childhood stage. I never realized children learn how about their emotions, having empathy, and self-concept at such a young age. I thought children had it easy. They play with friends, start school, and just be kids. One important thing that stood out to me in this chapter is that children’s self-esteem starts at this stage. According to Berk (2012), “self-esteem is the judgments we make about our own worth and the feelings associated with those judgments (p. 366)”. Self-esteem is very important for a child to have and it can
A child with a mental or physical disability may not be able to think, work, play, and function like other children of the same age. Someone working in the special needs career will be able to assist these children to function in their everyday lives and to meet goals to encourage them to thrive. In order for someone to work with special needs children, they need to understand the factors involved in a child’s improvement, have a heart for helping others, and be properly educated and trained.
Child abuse is a very serious problem that continues to happen all over the world. The Federal Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, defines child abuse as a failure to act as a parent or caregiver which results in physical/emotional harm, sexual abuse, and in some cases death. There are many different types of child abuse such as emotional, physical, neglect, and sexual. With each type of abuse there are warning signs you can spot before it is too late. When a child is abused there is a huge possibility that it can cause them to have many long term effects.
As I personally take the time to have a reflection over the course of “Child and Adolescent Development” I find myself intrigued with the amount of knowledge I gained during this course this semester. I wanted to take the time to concentrate on three specific areas in which I felt I had the most growth, but also came as a challenge to me as well. It is important when reflecting over a course that I look at what I found to be challenging, as this was an opportunity of growth for me individually. In this paper I will review some of the main topics that I found to be interesting but also resourceful for my future aspiration not only as a family life educator but also a mother one day.