Human Development Index

Family and support are imperative in childhood development, as they help young people develop interactive skills, which determine how well they communicate later on. However, childhood trauma and a lack of affection can halt positive growth, which Ma in Room by Emma Donoghue, and Victor in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein experience. What further conflicts developing minds is an overlapping of roles in a family environment, where one member will assume multiple responsibilities at once. Romantic…

Neurofeedback Training for Reactive Attachment Disorder Reactive attachment disorder typically involves infants and children in their early childhood years. The disorder is generally in response to the lack of interactions and bonding that should occur in the infancy and early childhood stages of a child’s life (American Psychiatric Association, 2013, p 265). The child experiences social neglect and is deprived of the initial and ongoing bonding that occurs by having their basic emotional and…

We as teenagers are allowed our freedom or are we not? Yes if we were to have a curfew rule that is against our freedom, for we have so many rules we have to follow and passing a new one is unreasonable. Violence that happens at night or past midnight isn't necessarily due to the fact that we are out in the streets at the time, but it’s due to those who are much older than us that start it. If violence occurs police should stay vigilant and watch over what we do so nothing happens. No curfew,…

How development can affect one another and be interconnected. Children develop and learn in different ways and at different rates. All areas of learning and development are equally important and inter-connected. Children learn from everything they do; skills are developed in day-to-day activities and achievements. While children will need to be taught new skills, these should always be balanced by opportunities for them to independently apply. For example; if a child has a physical achievement…

1. What were some of the physical problems Genie had when she was discovered? Were any of them related to her lack of social interaction? Based on the stories of Genie Wiley, a girl who is raised in extreme isolation by her parents, there are some physical problems that she had when she was discovered whereby she is not able to express herself which means that she couldn’t talk and had the language as the baby. This indicates that she is not being exposed by her parents to any significant…

anything, and applied that thinking to everything. Just a couple of years ago I went through Piaget’s Formal Operational Period (Berger, 2011), where I was more interested in abstract and hypothetical thinking. Now I use both periods of cognitive development to enhance my knowledge I am learning from school. Psychosocial…

Attachment parenting is nurturing a strong, secure parent-child relationship by allowing the child to choose when to stop engaging in acts such as skin-to-skin contact, co-sleeping, babywearing, and breastfeeding (“Attachment Parenting Pros and Cons”). In recent news mothers have been degraded for breastfeeding in public or carrying older children. However, doing so creates a positive atmosphere for both mother and child. Parents should use the attachment parenting method because it affects a…

they go through more challenges in life and at home?Although these questions can be asked, adolescent children with only one parent are also some of the brightest kids. Their experience has put them through more obstacles that can make them better humans in the long run. A child coming from a single parent home can be just as advanced with…

If someone asked us what our parents have pass down to us, surely we would point out something that we have observed in our own parents behavior regularly such as primary socialization which include values, beliefs, norms or conflicts in life. Divorce is one of the traumatic situations that a child might experience in early life. From the child’s point view, divorce is a devastating experience that usually has life- long effects. If the child does not get the support he/she needs during this…

TJ is a 20-year-old single African American female born April 3, 1995. TJ was born and raised in Queens, NY, where she was raised by both her mother and father. TJ is the middle child out of two sisters and one brother. TJ reports not having a good relationship with her siblings and feels more close to her maternal cousins. TJ resides at Services for the Underserved (SUS) which is an Apartment Treatment Program (shared housing). Apartment Treatment is geared towards providing transitional…