Strength, honor, soldier, Olympian, and Christian are words that describe Louie Zamperini. Laura Hillenbrand writes about the life of Louie and the traumatic events that he endured through World War II. In Laura Hillenbrand’s novel, “Unbroken- A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption” readers will explore how Louie Zamperini’s character and inner strength helped him become an Olympic athlete, survive imprisonment as a Japanese Prisoner of War (POW) and turn his life around upon returning from war. The book begins with Louie as a young boy as a rebellious youth who liked to cause a lot of mischief around the neighborhood of Torrance, California.…
Aggressiveness is a behavioral trait where a person is unreasonably hostile towards others, often in an attempt to dominate and intimate those around them. The Buss-Petty Aggression Scale breaks up aggression into four categories: physical aggression, verbal aggression, anger, and hostility. While the conceptual definition did not specify different types of aggression, it did highlight hostility and allowed for intimidating or hostile ‘actions’ in a general sense. The conceptual definition further highlighted aggression as feelings and actions that arise due to or in interaction with other people. The Buss-Petty Aggression Scale questions seem to focus on the same interpersonal interactions a great deal.…
Laura Hillenbrand wrote the book UNBROKEN Louie who is the main character was a mischievous boy who eventually grew up into a more fuller person by going through WWII. Louie became an Olympian who was drafted to WWII became part of a pilot crew, crashed into the Pacific Ocean kidnapped by the Japanese he was eventually free got married struggled and became happy at last. Ironically war gives Louie the gift of maturity. According to Carolyn Kellogg “Zamperini was a tough kid, smoking, stealing, ditching school and headed for trouble” as a young boy who came from Italy it was hard he didn’t have any friends but his brother Pete; Louie was also this way because he got little to no attention from his parents he “craved attention”(Hillenbrand pg.13).…
An immediate intervention that could be used to mitigate Joey’s disruptive behavior is to establish a reward system. Joey’s disruptive behavior is motivated by a need for adult attention that manifests in the form of talking out of turn, loudly and off topic. The antecedents include: interrupting when the teacher gives attention to his classmates, talking louder if he feels he is being ignored, and off topic outbursts when he is disengaged or bored. Since this behavior persists all throughout the day, a reward system that focuses on reducing the frequency of his behavior would be most successful. The potential to spend one-on-one time with the teacher would be a reward that would eliminate the antecedents of this behavior, facilitate his need for adult attention, and have intrinsic value to Joey so that he is motivated to self-monitor his behavior.…
This investigation was surrounded around the child Ezra. It was reported that the mother was unable to address the child’s Ezra aggressive behavior in the home. The mother allowed Ezra to beat and bite his 15 year old girlfriend who resided in her home. During this investigation Freddie reported that they all witnessed DV in the home for over 10 years and Ezra Sr. beat the mother every chance he got. Freddie further reported the Ezra Jr. is just as his father as he is always beating his girlfriend up.…
Dementia related Challenging behaviour. Non compliance, Aggression and Violence - due to disorientation, confusion or fear. Mrs X who has dementia related challenging behaviours can become frustrated and non compliant which can often lead to aggressive and violent outbursts. Mrs X lives in a residential care home where she wanders around the building on a daily basis re-enacting her working life as a hotelier, drawing curtains and blinds, moving tables and chairs etc. These behaviours can pose a risk to Mrs X, the residents and carers as well as creating disruption and conflict.…
Oppositional defiant disorder is a continuing pattern of disobedient, hostile and defiant behavior toward authority which goes beyond the limits of normal childhood behavior. This disorder is usually diagnosed in childhood. Children and adolescents with Oppositional Defiant Disorder are more troublesome to others than they are troubled…
Identifying data: (Name, age, race, and marital status. Length of time in current shelter. Usual appearance including physical build, dress, neatness, any distinctive points. Type of Financial and medical benefits.) Ms. Roberta Yafie is a 70 year old single Jewish Caucasian female.…
Oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) is defined by the "DSM-5 as a pattern of angry/irritable mood, argumentative/defiant behavior, or vindictiveness lasting at least six months, unlike children with conduct disorder(CD), children with oppositional defiant disorder are not aggressive towards people or animals, do not destroy property, and do not show a pattern of theft or deceit (Mayo, 2016). " )" Bibliographic Information (APA format): Audience: This article seems to be address more to the professional types, Doctors, Counselors, and psychologist. Describe the purpose of the source: Research has indicated that parents pass on this tendency for externalizing disorders to their children and this may be why ODD is shown in multiple ways,…
Lauren has some problematic behaviours, one of them is irritation and aggressive to others include her friends, families and as well as the GP, Rob. According to the video, when Rob asks her to try to continue to play netball, Lauren gave the respond in an unpleasant mood. During two video recording, Lauren increased her volume many times when Rob asks her to do anything she is unwilling to do, especially in the second interview, when Lauren’s stepfather David gives his opinion which against Lauren’s thought, she tried to use yelling to interrupt David and let him shut up.…
The two main disruptive behavior disorders are oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorder. While criteria have been listed in the DSM, this article aims to look at how these diagnoses occur differently in girls. These disorders play a major role in the types of struggles these children will face as they grow up. Some of the main issues seen are social dysfunction, antisocial behavior, and poor adjustment (Kann, R. T. & Hanna, F. J., 2000). It is shown that both the male and female population has the same frequency ODD, but the female population has little to no information.…
ASPD: antisocial personality disorder also know as dissocial personality disorder and Sociopathy is a personality disorder that is oftentimes characterized by a pattern of disregard, or the violation of, the rights of others (Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, 2014). With this diagnosis usually comes an impoverished sense of moral conscience. Usually a history of violence, impulsivity, aggressive behavior, crime and legal problems are present. The often try to con or trick people for their personal gain while not thinking about the ways that their actions affect others--they have a very egocentric personality. They are highly impulsive individuals that lack planning skills and organization.…
When the average person hears the word deviance, negative thoughts would most likely come to mind. If a sociologist heard the word deviance they would disagree and recognize that deviance is not necessarily bad. In fact from a sociologist functionalist perspective, one of the positive contributions of deviance is that is fosters social change (Openstax, 2015). Defiant behavior wouldn’t necessarily be liked by anyone. Because sociologist find defiant behavior not bad, they use it to see the changes in the world around us.…
Just as every child with ODD is unique, no two cases of ODD are exactly alike. There are some variations of the disorder, however, that are more common and have become easily recognizable. For example, there are two sub-disorders within ODD: Childhood-Onset and Adolescent-Onset (Wicks-Nelson and Israel 229). The meanings behind the names are just like they sound; one type occurs during the patient’s childhood, around preschool age, and the other occurs during adolescence. There are also many disorders that are comorbid with ODD.…
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, was developed in 1993 by Marsha M. Linehan as a treatment for clients meeting the criteria for borderline personality disorder who are chronically suicidal (Linehan and Chen, 2004). Linehan developed this therapy out of the sentiment that there was an influx in borderline personality disorder diagnoses, and no successful treatment options specific to this diagnosis (Linehan, 1993). Linehan was influenced by behavior therapy and by Eastern mindfulness. The theory assumes that the DBT clinician is at a certain level of acceptance towards their client’s current distress (Linehan and Chen, 2004).…