Childhood psychiatric disorders

In the last years our news media has been bombarding us with reports of crimes of our youth. We have had teens walking into schools and movie theaters going on shooting rampages. We have watched helplessly while kids that are not old enough to vote, use shotguns and automatic rifles with precision and accuracy. We have tried to find someone to place the blame of these horrific crimes. It is easy to blame the parents for not rearing the children correctly. We do not look at the fact that the…

Berk (2012) shows that each type of child rearing style follows specific patterns and behavioral forms of parenting; consequently, each style influences the psychological and emotional growth of the child during middle childhood, adolescence, and emerging adulthood, differently. Like children who were reared by authoritarian, permissive, and uninvolved parents, children who are bullied can develop anxiety and substance abuse problems into adulthood. Bazelon argues that parents…

There was few children who had a play shopping cart, they were filling the cart up with blocks and pretending the blocks were groceries. They would go from one side of the side walk to the other pretending it was a grocery store. Thus showing a form of Dramatic and Symbolic Play. There was another small group of children making a tire chip hill. Next to them a few feet away was another little boy putting some chips onto a play shovel. At first I wondered if he was making his own tire chip hill…

Occupational Therapy for Pediatrics Occasionally, life takes us through unexpected paths. When my son was a three years old, I began to notice that his development did not correspond to his age. My son could not trace straight lines in any direction; he also had difficulties with drawing and holding a crayon. At the beginning, I thought it was normal, but still, as a mother, I started paying more attention, and soon I realized that it was not normal, and I began to worry. I came to the decision…

The stages that the child meet are the early childhood: autonomy versus shame and doubt and the play age: initiative versus guilt. The way Vantinrem meet the second stage of Erikson’s theory of psychosocial development is that the child is able to walk without help, get things off the shelf, feed herself…

play on the iPad. Another challenge with the technology, is that kids are not getting the exercise they need that play offers them. For this reason, the obesity rates are on the rise in middle childhood. The next challenge I see is that many schools are taking play out of their curriculum. Middle childhood children spend a majority of their day at school, so play isn’t even becoming a part of their everyday life. The challenge that goes along with this idea, is should play be a part of…

From the following news article titled “Experts link teen brains’ immaturity, juvenile crime,” I have found key, main points from this news article detailing’s relating teen’s brains’ to juvenile crimes committed. What I took from the news article: - “Youths are more likely to show “a lack of maturity and an underdeveloped sense of responsibility” than adults.”…These qualities often result in impetuous and ill-considered actions and decisions.” - “It does mean, particularly when confronted with…

logistics of cancer the social and emotional effects can lead to so many subcategories such as depression and bipolar behavior and violent mood swings and resentment of others because of all the suffering they endure.(One of the last major effects of Childhood Cancer is the physical side of things, most patients need to get pumped with many drugs and treatments in order to merely survive. Experiencing any of these effects can be a difficult thing to deal with because schooling is a big part of…

Open your eyes and focus on all of the women working in today’s society. Now imagine the identity that most women have placed on their heads…the role of a mother. Most mothers set off to work to bring in more income for their household. Most mother’s in today’s world deal with the daily tasks of waking up before the household in order to wake the children up on time and prepare breakfast and lunch for the day, all to have her child ready on time. Meanwhile, the mother may have little time to…

In designing a three-week menu for a group of children aged from three to five years old there were several factors to be considered. These included whether any of the children had food allergies of any kind, whether there were children form different ethnic backgrounds and whether any of the children were known to be fussy eaters. In this group there is a child who is allergic to egg, some children from Indian and Chinese backgrounds and also some who are perceived as fussy eaters. There have…