On January 7, 2016 CM went to unit #222 to meet with Client Tianna Footman who return to the facility after has her new baby boy, new born babe name is Tre’maine Corey footman and his D.O.B was 1/4/16. CM asks mother who she was doing, she stated that she feels fine, the baby was sleeping in the crib and her other children s were quiet one sleeping and the older playing with his toys, mother provides CM with discharges papers from Jacoby medical center.…
An Autumn Homicide Riding my bike to a friend’s house on a late fall day in October just before the clocks are set to fall back, a day that I remember so vividly. The transition of shorter days and longer nights where the leaves are changing to a reddish brown color just before falling with the sight of dusk upon us. It was on this day that my life almost ceased to no longer exist. On this day, my friend and I decided after school we would ride our bikes to her house to play video games just before choir rehearsal.…
Male victims of sexual assault in childhood often suffer extreme psychological damage and lead a negative life path from there forward. Due to a variety of emotions like guilt, shame and anger, male victims often turn to self-destructive behavior after the attack. This self harm generally takes form through substance abuse. Another commonly seen post-attack behavior is significantly increased aggressiveness. As a result, all forms of relationships tend to deteriorate, leading to increased risk for depression.…
Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer, more infamously known as the “Milwaukee Cannibal”, is considered one of the America’s most notorious lust serial killers. Dahmer spent over a decade terrorizing the city of Milwaukee with his horrendous killings. Because of the torturous manner in which he committed his murders, Dahmer landed himself a spot at the highest level on Dr. Michael Stone’s Gradations of Evil Scale ("On The Scale of Evil, Where do Murderers Rate?", n.d.). He not only murdered 17 men, but also engaged in necrophilia, cannibalism, and zombieism after drugging, molesting, and strangling the men to death (“Jeffrey Dahmer Biography”, n.d.). Though the crux of his killings occurred during the 1980s, Dahmer claims that his urges to kill and fantasies…
Adolescents tend to take extreme steps such as severely hurting themselves or even suicide when they are emotionally unwell. The ratio of suicide occurrence on the basis of gender as has been provided by Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), 2012, as follows, Various Government organizations as well as other research bodies are actively involved in the well-being of the Australian adolescents, such as, The Victorian Child and Adolescent Monitoring System (VCAMS), The Australian Child and Adolescent Loss, Trauma and Grief Network, The Australian Infant, Child, Adolescent & Family Mental Health Association…
“Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression” (Ginott, 1972). Many people in our society believe a single traumatic event can have lasting effects on even the youngest of children. In this paper, I will look at how a child, more specifically, Amarika, can display a varying range of reactions after exposure to a traumatic event. Core Concept Reflection of Case Study…
Herman argues that the symptoms of survivors that endure perpetual, chronic trauma are far more intricate. This intricacy comes in the forms of characteristic personality changes in addition to relationship and identity issues. In terms of childhood abuse survivors, they too suffer from these problems, along with their susceptibility to self-harm as…
1.) Biological (including neurobiological), psychological, social, and developmental factors that are important for understanding the child’s behavior. Some of the biological and neurological factors that would be considered in this case are the effects of trauma on the child’s brain development. Applegate& Shapiro (2005) explained, “Thus, while the brain is thought to remain plastic and responsive to new experience throughout life, early childhood experience is particularly salient because the neuronal organization and structure of the brain is still in its formative stages” (p. 15).…
A study conducted for the American Journal of Psychiatry uncovers the relation between childhood abuse and the increased risk of developing Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Causes of PTSD involve, exposure to trauma, such as, death, threat of death, serious injury or sexual violence, all of which residential school students likely experienced during their attendance. The study’s results conclude “Childhood victimization was associated with increased risk for lifetime and…
Catherine Player Criminal Justice October 9, 2015 National Organization for Victim Assistance National Organization for Victim Assistance The History of the Program The National Organization for Victim Assistance was established in 1975.According to Tolley (1996, “Since it first opened its doors in 1996, “founded in 1975, NOVA is the oldest national victim assistance organization of its type in the United States as the recognized leader in this noble cause. NOVA is a private, non-profit, 501(c)(3)…
The psychological effects of school shootings are vast and irreversible. Often times, when a child witnesses and survives a school shooting they are forced to endure emotional, psychological, and even physical effects. Researchers have evidently demonstrated that the psychological issues a child faces after school shootings have irremediable damages on the human mind. A teacher named Karen Elaine Smith was shot and killed by her husband, Cedric Anderson in San Bernardino.…
The issue that was given out that antidepressants led to an increased risk of suicidal thoughts, actions, and behavioral patterns was accompanied by an increase in adolescent fatality caused by depression (Friedman 1). This warning came at the expense of depression running its course ill-treated in adolescents. Depression is also known to resurface in children in the following years without the use of antidepressants. While therapy can help a patient learn to cope with the symptoms of self-loathing and lingering sadness, it can not prevent the disease from resurging in the case of another tragedy since the chemical imbalance is never addressed and…
The specific aims of the study are: 1. To determine the effects of gun violence among urban youth in Jersey City. 2. To determine if gun violence cause mental health behavior problems among the youth in Jersey City. 3.…
Mental health is a growing concern for college students that is very underestimated. Many college students face mental illnesses, some of which go unknown, undiagnosed or simply do not receive treatment. Unfortunately, this affects students and their academics in an extremely negative way. There are many major mental health illnesses that affect college students. From: addiction, stress, anxiety, eating disorders, suicide & depression, and so many more.…
Victimology Life Style Exposure The life style that the three victims, Byers, Branch and Moore had would have put them in minimal amounts of situations where they would be exposed to victimisation. As eight year old children they would have had School Monday to Friday, where they would have been overseen by a number of adults and be in the company of numerous children. This means that most days of the week and most hours of the day the victims would have had low risk of exposure to criminal behaviour. There is also little evidence to suggest domestic violence in the homes of the victims, as however, there is only Byer’s fathers transcript in the Case Materials (1993)…