Janet is a thirty-year-old mother of three young children. She is currently struggling with multiple stressors (divorce‚ social support‚ financial problems). At this point in time Janet’s suffering results from a combination of these life stressors and her maladaptive thought processes. Janet reported feeling sad‚ discouraged and overwhelmed since her divorce a year prior. She felt burdened by her three children while also withdrawn from friends. She ruminated over her divorce‚ which led to worsening
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imagery therapy is a cognitive-behavioral technique in which a child is guided in imagining a relaxing scene or series of experiences. RATIONALE Guided Imagery is similar to hypnosis and various relaxation strategies. Guided Imagery lies somewhere in the middle of a continuum consisting of standard relaxation techniques on one end of the spectrum and hypnosis on the other. As used by the author‚ guided imagery involves the child engaged in some sort of focused relaxation exercise followed
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Following news that singer Janet Jackson has given birth to her first child at the age of 50‚ stories of women above 40 delivering babies has come to public attention. Such a phenomenon is actually not unusual. Thanks to scientific advances‚ women aged 55 or even 65 years old can now become pregnant and give birth to healthy children. As reported by kompas.com‚ according to records‚ the oldest woman who has delivered a baby was an Indian named Rajo Devi Lohan at 70 years of age‚ who reportedly
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research involving child play and its importance in understanding children’s emotions and behaviors. This topic interests me because I have noticed that most of the mothers I know don’t supervise their children at play. Usually that’s because they are busy with careers and house work. I believe observing children at play could offer caregivers insight into what that child is thinking or feeling. I was able to find four peer reviewed articles that focused on children’s play narratives to examine
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In her essay “A Feminist Primer for Philosophers of Science‚” philosopher Janet Kourany describes science’s ugly history with women. From perpetuating androcentric societal biases to neglecting women’s health needs‚ science‚ Kourany argues‚ has been instrumental in decelerating feminist social progress. Now‚ in a social rebirth of feminism‚ does science have an obligation to undo its harms by joining the feminist movement? To answer this question‚ I first explain how science has slowed the progress
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The video‚ "Module 1: When a Child Doesn’t Play‚ Identifying Play Problems and Teacher Interventions" from the video file of Hand-in-Hand: Supporting Children with Play Problems‚ produced by Educational Productions Inc. (1992)‚ informs the importance of playtime for young children because the playtime is the learning time for them; therefore‚ if a child does not play‚ early childhood educators must carefully conduct an observation of the child‚ reflect gathered information‚ and set a goal of the
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Artist Report I chose was Janet Fish. Janet Fish is a contemporary realist painter and printmaker who was born in Boston‚ Massachusetts in 1938‚ and raised on the island of Bermuda. Her grandfather‚ Clark Voorhees‚ was an American Impressionist painter who inspired Janet. Her father was an art history teacher‚ and her mother‚ Florence Whistler Fish‚ a sculptor and potter. She went to Skowhegan Summer School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine‚ and studied sculpture and printmaking at Smith College
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Dramatic play enhances child development in four major areas. Social/Emotional: When children come together in a dramatic play experience‚ they have to agree on a topic (basically what “show” they will perform)‚ negotiate roles‚ and cooperate to bring it all together. And by recreating some of the life experiences they actually face‚ they learn how to cope with any fears and worries that may accompany these experiences. Children who participate in dramatic play experiences are better able to show
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‘preoperational stage.’ The preoperational stage consists of children from the ages of 2 to 7 years old. At this stage‚ the child is able to talk and communicate and can also think in symbols and images. They have a good imagination but are unable to manipulate information given to them. They have egocentric thought‚ meaning that they cannot think from another person’s point of view. “The child is incapable of assuming another person’s point of view and they believe that everyone else perceives the environment
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in those they prefer. LEARNING OUTCOMES: On completion of the module‚ students will be able to: demonstrate an understanding of a range of therapeutic uses of play and insight into their differences demonstrate competence in play-related skills appropriate to one or more therapies assess children’s play needs and utilise‚ or advise on the utilisation of‚ appropriate therapeutic techniques INDICATIVE CONTENT: Theories covered will focus on the depth psychologies and
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