Middle childhood and adolescent is a challenging time for most children. Stuck in the zone of not being a little child anymore or being an adult quite yet. For some children, this time is filled with a lot of new territories to explore, their social web is expanding, hormones start up, and their brains and psyche are still in development. Many children can have a less than remarkable time in this developmental phase. Those who suffer from Oppositional Defiant Disorder, or ODD, or Conduct Disorder, can have many problems to face. On the other side, children and adolescents in the wake of their peers with ODD or Conduct Disorder, can have their own psychological complications to have to conquer too. According to Wicks-Nelson and Israel (2014),
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For instance, within the video, “Conduct Disorder,” Beth’s causation of her conduct behavior was from the trauma of being abused by her birth father. Even though she was adopted into a balanced family who showed her loved and compassion, Beth could not return these feelings, because she never felt them within a critical period of her life. Instead of feeling love and trust, she felt rage and quite possibly a sense of isolation from the world. Having the one person who was supposed to love and protect her, turn out to be a monster had detrimental effects on her development. With strict therapy lasting months, Beth helped control the anger that caused her to want to abuse others. This case can show how easily parental abuse can alter a child’s development that sometimes therapy won’t fully fix and that child may have to learn ways to coup for their lives. Abuse can be a very lasting effect on children, lasting to beyond childhood. I remember a seminar I went to a few years back (2014), where the guy telling his life story said he was in group counseling with a biker style guy in his sixties who still has yet to get over the neglect by his father. I find that event an excellent way to showcase how permanent abuse can be. The guy in his sixties couldn’t let go of the abandonment he felt from his father, even if it wasn’t physical abandonment. Even with therapeutic help, I don’t believe abuse scars, mental, …show more content…
In the article, Aggressive behavior increases adolescent drinking, depression doesn’t (2014), more aggressive adolescents consume more alcohol and use alcohol in a much larger amount than non or less aggressive peers. Many may think that adolescents with more depressive or anxiety tendency may use alcohol to help deal with their external and internal problems but there isn’t that strong of a link. Although there are always other factors leading to alcohol use among adolescents, smoking can easily be a causation, along with adolescents seeking attention. Within the article, it’s stated that alcohol and aggression is a more common occurrence in adolescent girls than boys. There might be a link in the fact that perhaps these girls may see drinking, along with their aggression, as stronger or more powerful. In theory, these girls might see drinking, partying, and fighting as very masculine things, and if you are tough enough than no one will mess with you. The need to appear and feel tough, even in a false perception, could very well be a way to coup with one or multiple forms of past or present abuse, or even to retard the effect of bullying towards them. Bullying falls into the aggressive classification. Not only are the bullies suffering from a disorder but the victims themselves are at considerable risks. The article, Sense of
For instance, within the video, “Conduct Disorder,” Beth’s causation of her conduct behavior was from the trauma of being abused by her birth father. Even though she was adopted into a balanced family who showed her loved and compassion, Beth could not return these feelings, because she never felt them within a critical period of her life. Instead of feeling love and trust, she felt rage and quite possibly a sense of isolation from the world. Having the one person who was supposed to love and protect her, turn out to be a monster had detrimental effects on her development. With strict therapy lasting months, Beth helped control the anger that caused her to want to abuse others. This case can show how easily parental abuse can alter a child’s development that sometimes therapy won’t fully fix and that child may have to learn ways to coup for their lives. Abuse can be a very lasting effect on children, lasting to beyond childhood. I remember a seminar I went to a few years back (2014), where the guy telling his life story said he was in group counseling with a biker style guy in his sixties who still has yet to get over the neglect by his father. I find that event an excellent way to showcase how permanent abuse can be. The guy in his sixties couldn’t let go of the abandonment he felt from his father, even if it wasn’t physical abandonment. Even with therapeutic help, I don’t believe abuse scars, mental, …show more content…
In the article, Aggressive behavior increases adolescent drinking, depression doesn’t (2014), more aggressive adolescents consume more alcohol and use alcohol in a much larger amount than non or less aggressive peers. Many may think that adolescents with more depressive or anxiety tendency may use alcohol to help deal with their external and internal problems but there isn’t that strong of a link. Although there are always other factors leading to alcohol use among adolescents, smoking can easily be a causation, along with adolescents seeking attention. Within the article, it’s stated that alcohol and aggression is a more common occurrence in adolescent girls than boys. There might be a link in the fact that perhaps these girls may see drinking, along with their aggression, as stronger or more powerful. In theory, these girls might see drinking, partying, and fighting as very masculine things, and if you are tough enough than no one will mess with you. The need to appear and feel tough, even in a false perception, could very well be a way to coup with one or multiple forms of past or present abuse, or even to retard the effect of bullying towards them. Bullying falls into the aggressive classification. Not only are the bullies suffering from a disorder but the victims themselves are at considerable risks. The article, Sense of