impairment with his or her activities of daily living. The health of a primary caregiver is a key factor which can affect the health and wellbeing of the disabled child for whom they care. A primary caregiver of a child with disabilities has been defined as the person most responsible for the day to day decision making and care of that child which can be a mother or father‚ close relatives or professional caregivers. According to The International Classification of Functioning‚ Disability and Health
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notion of child abuse is socially constructed‚ in other words the definition changes over time and it may even be different from one culture/country to the next‚ it is ‘a product of a particular culture and context and not an absolutely unchanging phenomenon’ (Corby‚ 1993‚ p.39). For example‚ in the UK in the 1980’s there were four types of abuse‚ in 1988 there were five and in 1991 they were back to four. For example‚ work into child protection emerged in the 1960’s and so if this was the case Corby
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In the 18th Century Colonisation decimated Aboriginal communities with diseases‚ alcohol‚ and dispossession. In the 19th Century Australian colonies developed their own individual legislative mechanisms concerning child protection for their jurisdictions. In the late 19th to early 20th Century there was forced separation of Aboriginal children from their families under policies of assimilation this became known as ‘Stolen Generation.’ (Mary will be talking about) Also in the 20th Century‚ there
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Tutor Marked Assignment 03 What developmental models best account for the cases of developmental difficulties A large area of research in developmental psychology has been dedicated to identifying a primary cause for the development of disturbed and disturbing behavior as well as its comprehensive definition. Difficulties are due to the complexity of the several factors involved in its development and different models are used to account for causes including medical‚ social environment and transactional
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Developmental psychology Also known as human development‚ is the scientific study of systematic psychological changes that occur in human beings over the course of their life span. Originally concerned with infants and children the field has expanded to include adolescence‚ adult development‚ and the entire life span. This field examines change across a broad range of topics including motor skills and other psycho-physiological processes; cognitive development involving areas such as problem solving
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PSYC111 Dr. J. L. Taylor Case Study 2 I would begin to reassure Melindah and Jermain about their concerns for a healthy baby by explaining that their worries about the new child’s behavior ( shyness) is not genetic but behavioral and those characteristics that are believed to be genetic such as mental illness and addiction are often the result of environment and their expressions can be diminished or modified by warm and intelligent social interaction with parents and by
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PSY 2237 Online Unit 3 Observation Study For my observation study‚ I asked my cousin‚ Grace‚ if it would be alright with her to observe her oldest child. For the purposes of this paper‚ I will call her Jamie. Jamie is 17 years old‚ and will be entering her senior year of high school in the fall. Both of her parents have full-time jobs; her father is a salesman and her mother works as a manager at a hardware store. Economically‚ they do very well. The household
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The main goal of MDG no. 4 Child Mortality is to reduce by two-thirds the under five years old mortality around the globe. In comparison to many of the other millennium development goals‚ Child Mortality is easily measured. According to statisticians of the United Nations the goal of reducing by two-thirds the U5M (Under Five mortality rate) will not be accomplished by 2015‚ but it is in my opinion that this is not a reason to call this a failure. U5M has
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In the case‚ A Cursed Child‚ Ruby Malcolm had a meeting with a social worker at United Family Services. Ruby is concerned about her daughter who has violent outbursts with swearing‚ she says things to people that no one understands‚ sometimes she has crying fits‚ and she frequently skips school. Ms. Malcolm was beginning to feel like nothing she did made a difference. Ms. Malcom’s parents thought that she should physically punish her daughter however Ms. Malcolm did not believe in hitting her children
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Jamie Oliver Nick’s Plan My case study child is a young boy in the third grade. I will call him Nick. Nick is a student who has cerebral palsy. He remains in a wheelchair all day long while in school. Nick has poor fine motor control‚ for example he cannot write with a regular pencil‚ and even has a hard time with crayons. Nick is able to do some things with his hands‚ he can push larger buttons and he truly enjoys working on the computer. Nick has a hard time with talking and he talks extremely
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