Child Case Study
Karen Pineiro Child Case Study - Michael April 16th, 2013 SOWK 1103: Human Behavior In The Social Environment
MICHAEL
Michael is a Caucasian five year old boy. He has blonde hair and blue eyes. He is the normal weight for a boy his age about 40 inches and 40 pounds. (kidshealth.org) When he smiles it looks like his teeth are slightly black and rotting. He is wearing a black shirt and Spiderman sneakers that are not in the best condition. He enjoys to play video games and watch TV. When playing his games he becomes fixated on them and gets very angry and starts crying in frustration when he loses. He lives with his mom and sister, Jill who is nine years old and very well-mannered. He attends a public preschool five days a week full-time. He also has to attend the after-school program offered at his school being that his mother is the primary caretaker of the household and has to work. Michaels father sees him and his sister about once a week for 5 hours, as they are not allowed to stay overnight due to some criminal activities that his father committed. When he goes to his father's house he is there with his father's girlfriend and his grandparent's. HEALTH Michael developed normally through prenatal, infancy, and the beginning of the toddler stage. When he was a toddler his mother noticed that he was having problems breathing. She took him to the pediatrician and that is when he was diagnosed with asthma. He was prescribed albuteral and was given a nebulizer to help with his breathing and it was to be administered at an at needed basis. At three years old he lost his front tooth. When he was four years old he lost
MICHAEL
Michael is a Caucasian five year old boy. He has blonde hair and blue eyes. He is the normal weight for a boy his age about 40 inches and 40 pounds. (kidshealth.org) When he smiles it looks like his teeth are slightly black and rotting. He is wearing a black shirt and Spiderman sneakers that are not in the best condition. He enjoys to play video games and watch TV. When playing his games he becomes fixated on them and gets very angry and starts crying in frustration when he loses. He lives with his mom and sister, Jill who is nine years old and very well-mannered. He attends a public preschool five days a week full-time. He also has to attend the after-school program offered at his school being that his mother is the primary caretaker of the household and has to work. Michaels father sees him and his sister about once a week for 5 hours, as they are not allowed to stay overnight due to some criminal activities that his father committed. When he goes to his father's house he is there with his father's girlfriend and his grandparent's. HEALTH Michael developed normally through prenatal, infancy, and the beginning of the toddler stage. When he was a toddler his mother noticed that he was having problems breathing. She took him to the pediatrician and that is when he was diagnosed with asthma. He was prescribed albuteral and was given a nebulizer to help with his breathing and it was to be administered at an at needed basis. At three years old he lost his front tooth. When he was four years old he lost