In America today, there are many children who live in a household that could be considered a foreign nation to another child who lived is the same neighborhood. In the book Hillbilly Elegy, author J.D. Vance gives the reader an inside look at growing up in the Appalachian Hillbilly culture that deals with not only poverty, but domestic violence as well. Vance also explains how he overcame the stereotypical “hillbilly” lifestyle into maturity. Vance explains how he grew up in an atmosphere that is not ideal to achieve the American Dream. Vance’s mother was in and out of marriage quicker than Vance could comprehend.…
ESSAY 1: What Would You Do For A Crying Baby? Ng Xin-Ru, Victoria 1403271H Crying suggests a physiological maturational development, which requires adjustment and adaptation. Crying is not a signal for help or relief, as it does not require intervention (Thomson & Leeds, 2014). Infants communicate their needs to their caregiver through crying (Soltis, 2004), thus, being able to evaluate the infant’s cries is an important skill for caregivers to develop.…
Dawn’s behavior from an attachment point of view According to Ainsworth (1967, p. 429), an attachment is more than overt behavior, it is internal, "being built into the nervous system…” and Bowlby conceptualized attachment as a biologically based repertoire of organized behaviors (eg, infants’ crying, smiling, clinging and proximity seeking). The unfamiliar environments for Dawn having to share her mother with the new baby have left her alone, directing her to certain behaviors toward the parents to gain attention, protection and feeling of safety. Dawn has presenting unwanted behaviors to master the new environment. The parents are unavailable and the harsh rejection is associated with the child’s insecurity and attachment difficulties.…
Junior’s parents are both alcoholics, though they are always encouraging of their son, as he compares them to Rowdy's parents “my mother and father are drunks, too, but they aren't mean like that. Not at all. They sometimes ignore me. Sometimes they yell at me. But they never, ever, never, ever hit me.…
Throughout this essay I will be discussing the significance of attachment theory for social work practitioners and how they can implement this to develop emotional functioning with younger children. In addition I will examine how the theory has changed and progressed since John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth first “attempts to examine the psychological effects of early relationships” ( Goldberg,2000, pg3) to more contemporary approach such as Michael Rutter’s book on “Maternal Deprivation reassessed” critiquing Bowlby and the development in neuroscience. Attachment theory can be defined as a “lasting psychological connectedness between human beings” (Bowlby 1969, p. 194). John Bowlby, “a British psychoanalyst’ work attempted to understand the…
He also has not experienced what it’s like to have an adult like Mr. O’Leary to care about him and for him to show interest in him. As Mr. O’Leary shows more interest and support, this confuses Tran because he’s not used to someone like him in his corner. Identify what you perceive as problematic (Mr. O’Leary-Tran’s relationship, Tran’s behaviors, or systemic factors) in the vignette. Explain. —> Mr. O’Leary is trying to be the parental figure that Tran has never had and Tran doesn't really know how to deal with him as an authoritative figure.…
Starting the Virtual Life Simulation, I gave birth to a male baby named Leo. Prior to the simulation, I completed a questionnaire about my temperament, emotional wellbeing, as well as my educational strengths and weaknesses. Leo inherited my timid shyness, slow-to-warm up temperament, rapid mood swings, and poor mathematical skills. Consequently, I used an authoritative parenting style which promotes independence but under guidance. My goal was to help Leo achieve his individualistic goals and mitigate negative stresses implemented from genetics and the environment.…
Michele takes an important step in his quest where he is able to balance both the female and male in his life. Michele, seeing that the adults aren 't around to look after their kids, assumes the role of a protector for his sister. At that pivotal moment, he transforms into a balanced human that is able to later become a responsible adult and father. First, in a society where there is a clear distinction between men and women, it practically impossible to find a person who is able to have both female and male traits well-balanced. In this community, a man is supposed to be this strong, invulnerable and impervious, while the woman is known to be weak, a caretaker, and most importantly, inferior to the man.…
The topic of ageing is extensively integrated as an overlying theme in Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller and “The Dump” by Donald Hall. In Miller’s play, Willy slowly begins to lose his grasp on rational thinking in his old age. He puts himself in danger as a result, but Miller also emphasizes the toll it takes on his family. In “The Dump”, ageing is portrayed in a solitary and resigned nature. It represents the last years of one’s life as a mere gateway to inevitable death.…
The development of the brain is critical during adolescence. “The emotional well-being is directly tied to the dynamic of family. When these relationships are abusive, threatening, chronically neglectful, or otherwise psychologically harmful, they are a potent risk factor for the development of early mental health problems” (Developing Child). John Fowles, the author of The Collector, introduces a character who recalled traumatic experiences in his childhood and over analyzed his future and past actions that formulated into quilt. It is evident that Fowles relies on these events such as the death and absence of a parental guide as well as the dramatic lack of social interaction to convey his social dilemmas and unhealthy way of thinking that…
This patient was able to make long relationships with men, which initially were fulfilling. This implies, when considering the nature of the ego in Fairbairn’s theories, that her central ego is developed sufficiently to facilitate this but that she is clearly driven by her libidinal ego in choice of partner as it seeks out an attachment with an exciting object. Fairbairn’s theories are based around the maternal relationship in early infancy but this patient is seeking male relationships and therefore can it be surmised that her paternal relationship is the basis of these actions? Her parental situation in infancy is not known so an assumption is made that her primary care giver was her mother but that she was aware of her father. When an infant is faced with a paternal relationship similar in experience to its maternal one “he naturally employs similar techniques – with the result that two internalized figures of his father, as (a) exciting object, and (b) rejecting object, become established” (Fairbairn 1951 p.174).…
“Three Little Words” is a memoir that shares the story of a girl named Ashley Rhodes-Courter, who spent 10 years in the foster care system. Ashley and her younger brother, Luke, were removed from their birth mother, Lorraine, when Ashley was only 3 years old. She was placed in 14 different homes before she had a permanent address. There was a lot that could be absorbed from Ashley’s story, but one thing that stood out to me is how heavily childhood experiences impacted the lives of many characters in this book. In the late 1960s, John Bowlby proposed his theory of attachment.…
Lost Child J. Ham was born and grew up in South Korea in the 1960s, when the country was in poverty followed by the Korean War in the early 1950s. Her parents’ only interest was on making money and supporting the family financially. Her mother did not send her to the semi-annual school picnics because she thought of a picnic as a waste of money. This was one of the “bad” early memories that she cried a lot and hated her mother. She stated that she often doubted her mother as a stepmother because her “own” mother was not loving or caring.…
Is it necessary to have a strong parental bond in childhood to become successful in adulthood? Neurobiologists say yes. They have located regions within the amygdala and cortex that facilitate in social recognition and impede stress responses. In this paper, I will first give a brief introduction to Jojo and explain why he stood out to me above the rest of the characters, I will then explore what Zobel was expressing with Jojo’s character about the social and cultural values of the Haitians in the story and the importance of parental bonding. Joseph Zobel’s novel, Black Shack Alley, contains many characters, but the one that stood out to me, and one I believe had a profound impact on the protagonist, José, was Jojo, also known as George Roc.…
Consequently, separation from family was one of the main things that makes her sad. Because of this separation from family, Beth is striving to form a support system at college. She says making friends and meeting people is very important to her. This is an example of Erikson’s stage of intimacy vs. isolation, in which young adults are challenged to form deep connections which others. (Berger, 2016)…