Emotional and behavioral disorders in childhood and adolescence

Client Thelma will be visiting the office today for continued therapy. The session will be held in the New York office instead of the New Jersey office. Thelma used to live in New Jersey and the city has become a huge trigger for her. Thelma is a 48-year old African American and Hispanic woman who has never been married. She identifies as a heterosexual female but struggles with her gender and identity. Thelma is an identical twin and has two older brothers and an older sister. Her father was…

A person is rewarded for desired behavior by having something unpleasant removed. This removal is the reward. For example, in the workplace a person may find it undesirable to be monitored closely. If a person is doing their job to the held standard, they may not be monitored as closely anymore. This removal of the monitoring is the reward for consistently doing their job well. B.F. Skinner used the rat to demonstrate positive reinforcement, but he also utilized the same test to prove negative…

Witnessing a violent act can affect people in a variety of ways, it can create feelings of helplessness, anxiety and can even cause post-traumatic stress disorders. An adult may overcome the emotions and visual experiences that can accompany witnessing violence. Such things as therapy, medication and also learning coping strategies can assist in the healing process. However, what about children who witness violence? Children who see and hear violence on a daily basis in the home are at a…

penetration of the child’s private areas, and child pornography. These terrible acts are all sexual child abuse some of the signs to watch for of a child being sexual abused is: problems walking or sitting, pain or itching in private area, having eating disorders, having a sudden drop in grades, sexual knowledge that exceeds there age, aggression and having poor peer relationships. “If anyone causes one of these little ones those who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for them to have…

withdrawal (Rubin & Coplan, 2004 ) , has been shown to increase the risk of socio-emotional difficulties later in life ( Rubin, Coplan & Bowker)Socially withdrawn children frequently refrain from social activities in the presence of peers. The lack of social interaction in childhood may result from a variety of causes, including social fear and anxiety or a preference for being alone. From early childhood through to adolescence, children with socially withdrawn…

focuses on the health citizenship in the eighteenth century as the right of man within democratic states. Through the centuries health efforts were tilted to benefit the elite class more than the sick poor. In the medieval period the panic, civil disorder and social breakdown caused by anti-plague resulted into civil administrative structures which became the model for European public health which is followed even today. Health was identified as a pursuit of happiness in the nineteenth century…

is responsible for the child’s welfare under circumstances which indicate that the child’s health or welfare is harmed or threatened” (Child Welfare Information Gateway, 2014, p.1). Under the umbrella of child abuse there is child physical abuse, emotional/psychological abuse, sexual abuse, neglect. Neglect refers to the deficit of meeting a child’s basic needs and those…

recently, Obsession Compulsion Disorder was considered a rare disorder for an individual to be diagnosed with. In previous DSM’s, Obsession Compulsion Disorder was classified as an anxiety disorder; however, recently in the DSM-V, Obsession Compulsion Disorder and anxiety were removed from the same realm, giving OCD its own section. Added to the DSM-V section of OCD were many sub-groups, such as body dysmorphic disorder, trichotillomania, and excoriation disorder (Stein et al, 2010). In…

Research shows that secure attachment is vital to the formation of a Childs sense of self and others that pave the way and sets up the course that guides the emotional and behavioral reactions that follow him through life (Hornor, 2008). It has been shown that failure to have positive experiences as well as abuse and neglect causes the memory systems to be filled with fear, mistrust and rejection (Mikic & Terradas, 2014)…

Children’s response to trauma differentiates in accordance to age (as cited in Wright & Seymour, 2015). Their evidence found disorganized feelings and behaviors in early and later childhood and maladaptive behaviors in later childhood. Maladaptive / anti-social behaviors include lying, stealing, aggressive or isolated behavioral disorders and depression. Among older children, sexual misconduct, absenteeism, delinquency, substance abuse and gang activity were constant. Additionally, children’s…