Article Critique Assignment 1. The type of research used in this study was quantitative. Quantitative research compares outcomes, measures using numbers, tests a hypothesis, and requires a larger sample. The article being critiqued, used standardized clinical tools, the CAFAS and the CBCL, and standardized measures to generate numeric scores. The type of research used in this study is explanatory.…
Symptoms of peri-natal depression include sleep disturbances,changes in appetite, mood changes, and difficulty concentrating. There are many risks associated with untreated depression during pregnancy. They include preterm labor, growth retardation, decreased prenatal care, poor weight gain, and increased substance use. Depression during pregnancy is very common, but also under diagnosed because women feel they should be joyous since they are having a baby. Depression is very different from the "baby blues," which is very common after the baby is born.…
There are many factors which can affect children's health and well-being throughout their lives. Such as the use of drugs or excessive alcohol, the child may become physically and emotionally neglected. Which can result to the child having low self-esteem, causing the child to become shy and not take part in activities? If alcohol is consumed throughout pregnancy, there may be complications at birth. "…
Transitions often refer to the changes that take place in out lives. When moving from one stage in our life to another through an emotional, physical, intellectual or in some cases physiological change, children or a young persons go through periods of transition. They are an extremely important part of developing and growing up and can occur all throughout ones life. As mention before, the four most common types of transitions are that of physical, physiological, intellectual and emotional.…
School counselors have an ethical responsibility to ensure that selection, administration, and interpretation of assessment measures are within the scope of their practice and that they are competent and trained (American School Counselor Association [ASCA], 2010). Therefore, it is essential that school counselors are able to understand the applicability of assessments with specific populations so that they are used appropriately. After you have read Arbisi and Farmer's reviews of the Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II), compare each author's evaluation of assessment applicability to specific populations. Arbisi (2001) and Farmer (2001) both state that there are improvements to the Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II) as compared to…
he article I picked was the columbine catastrophe: it is an article that Andrew Gumbel (2009) will always remember it was the principal consistently shooting on a school grounds. On April 20, 1999, two teens went on a shooting binge at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, slaughtering 13 individuals and injuring more than 20 others before turning their firearms on themselves and committing suicide (Gumbel, 2009). The crime was the most exceedingly terrible high school shooting in U.S. history and incited a verbal political confrontation on weapon control and school security, and additionally a noteworthy examination to figure out what spurred the shooters, Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17 (Gumbel, 2009). It's been more than a…
Depression in childhood normally refers to the kids that are in elementary. Depression is also a common mental health problem in young kids. Anxiety and depression affect children’s quality of life and are a risk factor for several life outcomes, such as poor academic and professional achievement, substance abuse, anxiety, depression and other mental disorders, and suicidal behavior. In this reading it talks about how they develop a group to help kids with their depression and anxiety. The program was called The FRIENDS for Life program which a protocolled preventive intervention for childhood anxiety and depression based on cognitive behavior therapy program that taught children how to recognize symptoms of anxiety or depression, how to…
Medicated Child Response After watching the vast majority of the documentary The Medicated Child, I am torn on the subject of medicated children. I think that pediatricians need to either have more training on mental health in regards to children or should be mandated to automatically refer potential mental health cases to psychiatrists. The video had stated the main individuals diagnosing these children are pediatricians and as a result, children are either misdiagnosed or heavily medicated. Both outcomes are unacceptable in my opinion.…
Depression among adolescents has slowly started to become an epidemic in the United States. Studies show that one in eight American teenagers will experience any form of depression. That 's estimated at about 15-20% of the teen population. Looking at adults, only 5-10% experience any form of depression in their adult lives (¨Depression and Mood¨). Depression comes in an abundance of shapes and forms.…
This assignment is based on how grief and bereavement can affect children. The assignment covers how grief and the different stages and symptoms of grief can affect children, this can then be compared to the previous deductions we have made in other assignments about adults and how we as counsellors should act in the different circumstances that can occur as we cannot assume that the child will need the same type of counselling as an adult and we will need to learn and understand children's views and understanding of death and how as parents/counsellors we can affect them and their perception of death by what we say and how we act in such…
Hello, good afternoon, my name is Tyler Dorsey. The name I go by is Tyler. Some interesting facts about me are that I enjoy writing short stories and poetry. My future occupation is to become a children-centric psychologist because children have a harder time to get their emotions across without outbursts and tantrums being involved. The reason for taking this course is that I want to experience my first time online and discuss the reading more than just blatantly reading it.…
In this essay, “The Burden of a Happy Child,” by Mary Cantwell, that was published in The New York Times, the author goes into detail about her house when she was a child growing up. Cantwell loves this living space. She is so heartbroken when her parents sell the house even though she is already grown up and moved out. In the United States of America, “14.2% of people move from their house each year” (Avrick, n.d). There are many reasons as to why people like to change locations.…
The Impact of Social Media: What Role does it play on a Child’s Mental Health? Social media has taken over the entire world in a large way. Social media Web sites, such as Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, have become basic regimes of day to day modern life, particularly for kids.…
Many people believe that mentally ill is something you became rather than something you are from the beginning; the idea that children may suffer from a mental illness must mean that something terrible has happened to speed a younger person toward this because it could not have been there all along. But if we recognize that mental illness is something that can affect a person at any age, even without any distinguishable trauma or environmental trigger, might we be able steer a child toward health just as piano lessons can steer a child toward skill? In exploring this idea and some of the challenges facing child mental health, I spoke with Carnation Elementary School counselor, Leanna Koenigs I asked Ms. Koenigs what her expectations were going into mental health.…
Depression in youth is common and treatable and responds best to multimodal treatment combining patient and family education, cognitive behavioral therapy, and antidepressant medication. The potential benefits of antidepressants outweigh the risks for adolescents. Family and psychotherapeutic interventions are most effective for teens. Teens with depression may not want help, but when or if they get it they can live a normal…