The APA cannot regulate a person’s domain. In both senses, I agree with the APA. As much as I want to disagree with the APA, my research and life experience shows otherwise. As a pseudo-parent, I have no problem with spanking my children. I also have no problem using whichever method of correction/ reinforcement best suites the situation. One child learns better through positive reinforcement, and a tiny amount of correction will send her into a spiral. She is my child that can be talked to and corrected. However, I am not so lucky with the others. Each has their unique quirks, and each requires different discipline each time. As a parent is is hard not to take “aversion therapy” into your own hands. If conducted wrong, it can have detrimental consequences and adverse reactions. I can see that throughout my childhood. However, there is a difference between corporal punishment and spanking a child. Spanking a child needs to be reserved for the hand or belt across the bottom, nowhere else. In my professional career, the majority of people I deal with do not spank their children, or they go to the extreme of inflicting corporal punishment. I suppose they do not know how to keep their cool when disciplining children. In both cases, the children become my problem. I am the one who gets called because their five year old won’t eat dinner or won't quit throwing the temper tantrum. I am the one who is called because the thirteen-year-old just hit mom as mom hits her. I am the one called when the spanking is out of control and is now abuse. In both my personal and professional life and unprofessional psychology student opinion, I believe that all forms of therapy are necessary depending on the person and the
The APA cannot regulate a person’s domain. In both senses, I agree with the APA. As much as I want to disagree with the APA, my research and life experience shows otherwise. As a pseudo-parent, I have no problem with spanking my children. I also have no problem using whichever method of correction/ reinforcement best suites the situation. One child learns better through positive reinforcement, and a tiny amount of correction will send her into a spiral. She is my child that can be talked to and corrected. However, I am not so lucky with the others. Each has their unique quirks, and each requires different discipline each time. As a parent is is hard not to take “aversion therapy” into your own hands. If conducted wrong, it can have detrimental consequences and adverse reactions. I can see that throughout my childhood. However, there is a difference between corporal punishment and spanking a child. Spanking a child needs to be reserved for the hand or belt across the bottom, nowhere else. In my professional career, the majority of people I deal with do not spank their children, or they go to the extreme of inflicting corporal punishment. I suppose they do not know how to keep their cool when disciplining children. In both cases, the children become my problem. I am the one who gets called because their five year old won’t eat dinner or won't quit throwing the temper tantrum. I am the one who is called because the thirteen-year-old just hit mom as mom hits her. I am the one called when the spanking is out of control and is now abuse. In both my personal and professional life and unprofessional psychology student opinion, I believe that all forms of therapy are necessary depending on the person and the