To properly identify and understand Anne Marie and her behaviors, it is important that the people involved in her life and those helping her can distinguish the difference between what is a typical development, developmental disability, and an emotional disturbance. Knowing the differences between the three will provide a better understanding and equip Anne Marie’s parents, school, and mental health professionals of what is causing Ann Marie symptoms, actions, or behaviors and how to properly help her succeed and thrive in he relationships, school, and at home. In order to identify if Anne’s behavior is considered “normal” or typical behaviors found in her age group, professionals will identify if Anne is in need or need special education …show more content…
One bill that was developed to help ensure that any and all children who have a disability is given the proper education despite having a disability and that specific classes or programs are given to help with their needs in order to help them succeed and thrive is known as “The Individuals with Disability Education Act” (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), 2018). The second resource that can help identify Anne Marie’s behaviors and actions in order to see if she is suffering from a mental disorder is known as “The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder” (DSM). The DSM helps equips professionals with the tools to identify specific symptoms, behaviors, causes, characteristics, prognosis, and other helpful information for all mental illness/disorder for both children and adults (Dr. Heffner, 2018). Lastly, another thing that can help identify Anne Marie’s behavior problems is known as the Functional Behavioral Assessment. With this assessment, it will help identify the possible causes and reasons behind Anne Marie’s behaviors and help professionals come up with the best course of action and interventions to help Anne Marie in both school and home life (Hardman, Drew, & Egan, …show more content…
This includes her and her families background, culture, if there were any big moves, any high-stress situations, or if anything traumatic occurred in her life. All of these factors are vital in analyzing the possible reasons or cause for Anne Marie’s behavior. It is also important that Anne Marie’s parents have an active role in her treatment as well. Family therapy and other family interventions will help provide and educate not only Anne but her parents as well. In turn, the parents will have the tools to help Anne Marie when she is at
Anne Morell is a seventy-four year old female with a past medical history of hyperlidemia, hypertension, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, diabetes mellitus type 2, renal insufficiency, Charcot foot, and osteomosteomyeltits. Anne has a history of osteosarcoma treated in 1996 with surgery, chemotherapy and radiation. Anne also has a history of breast cancer, diagnosis in 2003 treated with radiation therapy. Anne past surgical history includes tonsillectomy in 1962, removal if osteosarcoma of left thigh in 1996 and lumpectomy of left breast in 2003.
Chapter thirteen has two subject matter that it discusses in some detail, mental illness and developmental disabilities. This review will be exploring the history, philosophy and theories of developmental disabilities. Social workers come in contact with many clients that have developmental disabilities, and the chapter gives a glimpse the history, problems, and theories related to developmental problems. Chapter thirteen explores the issues of dealing with developmental disabilities in the past and what is being done today to help social workers face the issues.
The story of Anne's childhood must be appreciated in order to understand where her drive, inspiration, and motivation were born. As Anne watches her parents go through the tough times in the South, Anne doesn't understand the reasons as to why their life must this way. In the 1940's, at the time of her youth, Mississippi built on the foundations of segregation. Her mother and father would work out in the fields leaving Anne and her siblings home to raise themselves. Their home consisted of one room and was in no comparison to their white neighbors, bosses. At a very young age Anne began to notice the differences in the ways that they were treated versus ...
Reports from Vera 's mother indicate that she cares deeply about alleviating Vera 's distress and that she is highly motivated to seek treatment for Vera. Although familial conflict is an issue, Vera reports having a relationship with her father; however, further assessment is needed to assess her father 's willingness to participate in Vera 's treatment and in PMT. Reports from Vera 's teacher indicate that she is attentive to Vera 's needs and may be willing to collaborate with clinicians on a treatment plan to help address Vera 's in-school symptoms. Vera 's ability to verbally express her emotions and thought processes will aid the CBT process by identifying the faulty cognitions and the negative emotional symptoms that the clinician should address. (Garcia et al.,
Patricia Bauer was a former Washington post reporter and one of the founders of the UCLA, a school for young adults with intellectual disabilities, although she gains most of her knowledge on the topic from raising a daughter with Down Syndrome. This article was originally published in The Washington Post, one of the most circulates newspapers in America. When this article came out in August of 2008, two major things were happening concerning mental disabled people. The first was a movie that came out
penalty will be severe. Any student refusing to sign will be sent to a German
Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, by Dillenburger, K., and Keenan M., published in 2009, summarized Nov 19, 2009
It's 8 o'clock in the morning and the corridors of Mill Road Elementary are busier than Grand Central Station. The only difference is that Mill Road students are about a foot shorter and ten times more energetic than your average Grand Central Station commuter. In comparison with the dorm room I have just left, these walls are papered with hundreds of drawings and paintings. The hallways could compete with any modern gallery in terms of sheer bulk and some critics might argue for their content as well. However, I did not wake up at 7 o'clock to view the Mill Road Elementary prized art collection. Instead, I am there to present the 3-step Disabilities Awareness program to several classes of supercharged fifth graders.
Graziano’s article over the handling of his son’s disability in the classroom also involves issues that relate to teachers detecting signs of mental illness in the classrooms, how teachers identify a behavioral troubled child, and training school counselors on the Section 504 policy that are all happening in the world today. Realizing these issues can help parents with giving their child the best out of their education and can also help teachers understand the importance of their relationship with students. Everyone should have the opportunity for a brighter future and having a learning disability should not be the end of the road for any student.
Amanda has a label of either mental retardation or cognitive disability. She appears to have spent years enjoying school, bonding, with friends and engaging in extracurricular activities. Lately, her demeanor has changed enough to warrant a meeting to discuss immediate and future concerns
Many individuals with mental retardation (MR) have mental health disorders that are undiagnosed and untreated (Reiss & Valenti-Hein, 1994). Individuals with MR experience the full range of emotional, psychiatric and behavioral disorders at higher frequencies than the general population (Kishore, Nizamie & Nizamie, 2010; Prout, 1993). Prevalence studies have shown that individuals with MR are three to four times at higher risk for psychopathology than are individuals without MR (Matson & Bamburg, 1998; Prout, 1993). This is known as a dual diagnosis, which describes the finding of MR in association with significant psychopathology (Prout, 1993). While, psychopathology is limited to those phenomena and disorders that are described in the conventional classification systems such as the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders IV (DSM-IV). Examples include anxiety, depression, paranoia, dependent personality traits, avoidant behaviour and thought disorder (Reiss & Valenti-Hein, 1994).
Alison’s story is the perfect example of what many families must go through when faced with the possibility of having a child diagnosed with a learning disability. Alison was not diagnosed with visual and auditory dyslexia until the summer before entering college. However, while still a toddler, her symptoms had been brought to her mother’s attention by her sister’s teacher. Alison’s mother then noticed her habits in repeating words incorrectly and how Alison would need tactile clues to follow directions. At the recommendation of her kindergarten teacher, Alison was tested for learning disabilities and the results from the school psychologists were that she was acting stubborn or disobedient. Her family did not stop with the school’s diagnosis. They had private testing completed that confirmed Alison did not have a specific learning disability. The final word came from a relative that happened to be a psychologist. He insisted Alison would grow out of her difficulties. So Alison continued on with her entire elementary, middle and high school journey as a student and daughter with an undiagnosed learning disability.
Anne Marie’s problems started at a young age. She got pregnant out of wedlock, which was considered disgrace. The community considered that one of the ...
This Paper is going to examine Autism. What is Autism? Autism is a disorder that affects an individual brain, impacting their development, causing delays such as cognitive, Language, and behavioral (Karst & Vaughn, Van Heck, 2012). Autism is classified as DSM-IV-TR disorder (Blewitt& Broderick, 2015). Autism does not discriminate it can affect anyone regardless of their race or social background. The probability that a child may be impacted from autism is 1 out of 110 (Blewitt& Broderick ,2015). Child development is important to the field of human service. Autism is a disorder that signifies a child development is not progressing. Dating back to the 1960’s many social scientists such as Sigmund Freud and Piaget began to study the development
The problem not only affects the family’s life but it also affects the child’s ability to learn and be productive at school. Children requires a lot of attention and love on a daily basis, however, having a child that has a disability requires extra attention and love because they are trying to understand the world through a different set of lens. This could become a problem especially if there are multiple children in the household. In often cases, the amount of attention that the parents give to the child in need obstruct the family dynamic because of the pa...