Domestic sheep

Overview Oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) is a mental health condition that affects children and is characterized by extreme disobedient and defiant behavior towards adults in positions of authority. The first signs typically become apparent before the child is eight years old and continue throughout their teenage years. These behaviors cause a disruption in the child’s normal daily routine. In many cases, children with ODD are also diagnosed with additional behavioral disorders like…

Statement of intent I decided to do a opinion piece on the contemporary social issue of asylum seeker, and or the closure of Manus Island. The purpose of my piece was to inform the reader about the situation on Manus Island and to persuade the reader that legitimate refugees who were held on Manus Island deserve to be granted asylum. The intended target audience is young adults, 19-30 years old. As they will one day be the leaders in our society and actually have the power to create change one…

Violence in this world has been a topic that has been researched from every angle, taking in count the different variables around it. Every research made can end with different conclusions, depending on how specific the research is. Also, taking in mind that violence is a very broad topic and it all changes depending om what part of the world is being studied at. This specific research is on males, and how they are more violent than women. Some of the reasons why men are more violent than women…

David was a ‘looked after child’, this according to the NSPCC (2016) is any child in the care of the local authority for a period of 24 hours or more. It was the potential care providers duty to assess David’s suitability for entering the service. David was currently being held in a secure children’s unit after being sectioned for violent behaviour. David was deaf from birth, but had the use of a cochlear implant which he had implanted at the age of nine. David also had a diagnosis of Autism…

Most of us are aware that things that happen in early childhood may impact us throughout our lives. This is especially true when it comes to homelessness. In the United States, many children experience homelessness. As a result, these same children experience stress, which causes cognitive and emotional damage. Due to this damage, the children may display behavioral issues. We will examine the effectiveness of Play Therapy with homeless children who have such issues. In addition, the…

EREPORT # 19278 stated the following: The fist incident was November 2015 the second incident was the weekend before Martin Luther King holiday (2016). During the first incident Savannah reports that Corbin was spanked with a flyswatter by Debra. At the time of the incident, Corbin was only 11 months old. Savannah reports that the flyswatter was green and had a pink handle. She reports that Corbin was spanked with green part. Corbin was spanked "real hard." Corbin had red marks. Corbin did cry.…

There is an open case on the family. The biological mother had a period of time where she had no visitation with the children. Within the last 2-3 weeks, the boys started seeing the mother again. There is a history of violence in the home with mom and her boyfriend. That is the reason the case was opened. Since the children started seeing the mother, there has been a traumatic change in both children's behaviors. Per reporter, the behaviors coincides with when visitation was reinstated with the…

The term paedophilia brings a meaning of a psychiatric disorder where an individual (16 years old or older) experiences sexual urges or attraction towards children (aged 11 years old and lower). Due to this psychiatric disorder, the count of victims by paedophilias is approximately 260 children in the paedophile’s lifetime. Based on Ernie Allen, the President of the National Centre for Missing and Exploited children, out of the 400,000 registered sex offenders in the United States, the…

In the article I chose the researchers were trying to determine what the internalized and externalized symptoms of PTSD were in women who have been rape victims. They tested the women who had been raped and compared their symptoms and the severity of the symptoms. There were two hundred and sixty seven rape victims who were first initially in the trial, but sixty-four of them did not fall into the PTSD category. Then twenty-two other women were not allowed to continue the study for various…

There are different types of crisis that individuals experience on a daily basis. Two such crisis that will be discussed is the scope of suicide crisis among teenagers and bereavement in school-aged children of the loss of a parent (James &Gilliland, 2013). The American foundation for suicide prevention (2013) reports that adolescents and young adults aged 15 to 24 had a suicide rate of 10.9. This is suggesting that mental health counselors must engaged in schools and community projects to try…