PTSD in Children Imagine not having control of your emotions‚ at times feeling like you’re under attack. Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in children and adolescents occurs as a result of a child’s exposure to 1 or more major traumatic events‚ whether from an objective event like a car crash or sports injury to trauma involving loved ones‚ such as domestic violence‚ abuse‚ or neglect. These factors and many other can lead to acting out in young children. According to U.S. Department of Health
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neglect make today’s families more susceptible than ever to splitting apart (Kirst-Ashman‚ 2013). In this chapter there is so much information to try and share. Social workers bring their unique skills to helping two increasingly vulnerable groups: children and families. Families structure is the “the nuclear family as well as those nontraditional alternatives to nuclear family which are adopted by persons in a committed relationships and the people they consider to be ‘family’ (Kirst-Ashman‚ 2013)”
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Jonathon Kozol‚ the writer of Illiterate America in 1985‚ takes time to study Illiteracy and poverty in America and he wrote a Novel in 1988 called “The Homeless and Their Children” where He told a story of a woman and her four children called Joanne (Kozol‚ 1985). Jonathan spent a lot of time to get to know Rachel and her children who lived in a homeless hotel in New York called the Martinique‚ which was located at Sixth Avenue and Thirty Second Street. This hotel was known to be the largest hotel
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reading this sentence‚ 2.3 children have died somewhere in the world from malnutrition.” (Malnutrition Statistics‚ Para 1) All the malnutrition in the world can be solved. “The planet creates enough food to meet everyone’s needs in the world. But there are still about 925 million hungry people in the world and about 180 million preschool children that do not get the nutrition that they really need.” (Malnutrition and Hunger Paper‚ Para 1) Helping malnourished children will help improve a child’s
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Aggression in Children To answer the question if a child is more likely to exhibit aggressive play after watching two hours of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles my answer is yes. I am currently having this issue with my nephews trying to be Mighty Morphing Power Rangers. I gave them the DVD as a Christmas present and I had to take it back within that same week. Every day there were issues with one kicking or punching the other. The media has a big influence on aggressive behavior in society. It can come
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Alex Kotlowitz’s book‚ There are No Children Here‚ is a story about two boys‚ Pharaoh and Lafeyette Rivers growing in the late 1980’s in Henry Horner‚ a housing project in Chicago. The boys try to retain their youth while they see constant gang violence‚ death of close friends‚ their brother in jail and their dad struggling with a drug addiction. In Horner‚ there are two gangs that claim it as their turf‚ and the Rivers family is constantly ducking from shots of gunfire there. They live in
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for it. When a parent is consistent with the spanking it let’s the child know that this action that they keep doing isn’t ok and thus enables them to not do it again. Ruben Navarrette‚ wrote in his CNN article that “Fear is essential to respect. Children won’t do what we tell them to do‚ unless -- at some level -- they fear the consequences that will come from not doing it.” Parents need to understand that they have a duty to raise their child the right way and that they are a parent first and a
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In the article entitled "Unmarried with Children" the authors present the findings of a study which they spent years interviewing 162 low-income mothers in eight poor neighborhoods in Philadelphia and its suburb‚ Camden‚ New Jersey. (Edin and Kefalas‚ 34). "We spent five years chatting over kitchen tables and on front steps‚ giving mothers like Jen the opportunity to speak to the question so many affluent Americans ask about them: Why do they have children while still young and unmarried when they
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For the Children of the Infidels: Precis and Evaluation In “For the Children of the Infidels”?: American Indian Education in the Colonial Colleges‚ Bobby Wright argues against contemporary historian and literary glorification of colonial colleges’ attempt to educate Indians and convert them to the Christian faith. Instead‚ Wright claims that colonial colleges used the guile of educating and converting Indians to perpetrate their own success. In support of his claim‚ Wright referenced the Virginia
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Unit 201 – Understand employment responsibilities and rights in health‚ social care or children and young people’s settings. Outcome 1; know the statuary responsibilities and rights of employees and employers within own area of work. The aspects of employment covered by law. Employment of any kind is covered by law and legislations that are set out to protect the rights of those who are contracted to work. When you become an employee in a work setting you will be given a contract
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