age of four years old when my grandmother died. At that time I lived in the Queen Louise homeless shelter on Saint Croix for six months with mother. My father is an immigrant and my mother was a foster child. My mother was also in an abusive relationship for six years of my childhood. Six years that felt like a century. My parents would not be who they are today without the help of Social Workers. My mother had her first child at sixteen. Due to this she was kicked out of her parents’…
her culture disrupted her mental illness. This blog is part of a series titled “You are Not Alone,” which gives individuals who have mental illness the opportunity to share their stories and impact the lives of others, whether that impact be to professionals (i.e. doctors, researchers, therapists), those who can relate to the situations (i.e. others with mental illness or those who know others with mental illness), and those who are unaware of the authentic impression of mental illness. Over…
followed since childhood and now interfere with their functionality. Systems Training for Emotional Predictability and Problem Solving (STEPPS) is a form of group therapy that is also used to treat BPD. It consists of 20 two-hour sessions led by a professional social worker, and may reduce behavioral problems and depression while improving quality of…
“Problematic use”, triggers adverse consequences to occur, in some instances, the direct link with substance use and the consequence is not visible to the individual. Some of the examples of these adverse effects are failure at school, relationship issues with peers or adults, injuries, motor vehicle accidents, legal problems and assaults. Also changes in behaviour patterns and peer groups are significantly noticeable at this stage but it is easy to treat individuals at this stage by adapting…
homes of suicide attempters” (Egendorf, 2005). When guns are present in the home it is required that it be locked and secured away from any children. There have been numerous cases where children or teens have accidentally or purposely fired a gun in the home, just because it was not in a secure setting. Studies argue that “guns do not kill people, people kill people”. This statement simply says that the gun is not responsible, the shooter is. With that being said, it is likely that the gun…
Transgender: Rejection of Ego or Rejection by Society What is transgender? You may not be familiar with what being transgender means, so to explain, we first we need to look at the concepts of sex and gender. Sex is biological; it refers to your biological status at birth and is associated with physical anatomy, hormones and chromosomes. Gender, on the other hand, refers to social roles, behaviors and attributes that a society deems appropriate for males or females (Transgender FAQS). It is…
maids and its results on children development even though research has shown that good optional childcare when the children are young can bring good results as well as good effect on children’s growth. This article reviews the widespreaddesignation of early childhood care to domestic workers (maids) in United Arab Emirates Janice (2015). For a long period of time there has been rising concern among professionals about this means of child care. Observation by teachers of children in nurseries…
introducing the reader to the increased number of adolescent cell phone users, which in turn means that the level of radio frequency has also increased. This is of some concern due to the fact that “radiation exposures are higher for children than adults because children have thinner skulls” (Rosenberg 67). The article then goes on to introduce current and past research studies that are working to find a correlation between cell phone usage and brain cancer. In one of these…
Tasiemski University of Detroit Mercy Family Assessment – Applying the Calgary Family Assessment Model Family is such a simple word which has multiple meanings. Family is a unit of parents and their children, when two or more people share goals and values with long term commitments, or when two or more people live in the same home. These are all definitions of family. However in today’s society, family is whatever one says it is, from blood relatives, to friends, to pets, or a combination…
underage teen drinkers because they have to help their intoxicated friends most of the time, which can also lead to sleep or study time disruptions (Crowe 7). Underage drinking can negatively affect a young teen’s family life and cause serious harm to family relationships at home. For example, a young adolescent struggling…