Psychological resilience

Hitting Home Clever title More than 3 million children witness domestic violence in their homes every year (“Domestic Violence: Statistics & Facts”). All children, whether they are a young child in preschool or a teenager in high school, face challenges when exposed to domestic violence. Seeing traumatizing events involving violence can affect their ability to do everyday tasks and can alter their success of their future. Children who are exposed to domestic violence are more at risk to be…

Murshid, 2016). This can be accomplished by ensuring confidentiality, providing clear information and giving the patient control over their medical care. The model also focuses on the strength of the individual, their ability to adapt and their resilience. Understanding a symptom as an adaption reduces the survivor’s guilt and shame, increases self-esteem, guides new skill and better adaptions (Elliott et al, 2005). The goal is to reduce the change of retraumatization, so staff needs to be aware…

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…

behavior disorder, NOS and speech delay can be explained by his exposure to domestic violence, physical abuse and neglect. Research indicates that family violence not only affects children’s physical health and safety, but also may affect their psychological adjustment, social relations, and academic achievement (Roberts, Campbell, Ferguson, & Crusto, 2013). Correspondingly, the values, attitudes, and interpersonal skills that are established early in a child’s life play a significant role in…

parent to a sudden or violent death. The incidence of CTG and PTSD did not differ in children who experienced sudden/violent loss of a parent from those who experienced an expected loss. Ravels, V., Siegal, K., & Karus, D. (1999). Children's Psychological Distress Following the Death of a Parent. Journal of Youth and Adolescence , 28 (2),…

Brigid’s Hope is an arm of agency program developed by the Cathedral Health and Outreach Ministries. It is an umbrella of non-profit organization organized by Christ Church Cathedral to operate several health social services outreach programs. Brigid’s Hope mission goal is to “providing services that help restore dignity, self- respect, and hope to Houston poor and homelessness”. This is carried out by providing support and assisting incarcerated women from age thirty-five and older that are out…

During the interview with Veronica, she was un able to describe the alleged incident of inappropriate sexual behavior, as reported in the referral form. Given her age and developmental level, she was not pressed to speak about sexual issues. According to Ms. Rockwell, in February of 2016, the youth was allegedly observed by her teacher showing her private parts while playing a game at school. Ms. Rockwell reported she was notified by Veronica’s school that the youth pulled her underwear down,…

This discursive paper describes and examines the Sinovuyo Caring Families Programme as an intervention used to strengthen families through the development and reinforcement of positive parenting practices and enhancing parent-child relations as a strategy to help prevent abuse and neglect of children. The Sinovuyo Caring Families Programme is designed as group based intervention with the goal of preventing and reducing child maltreatment using a model which involves the reduction of parental…

From age four to age twelve Dave endured physical abuse, neglect and psychological maltreatment. The book provides a poignant example of a human being at his best in the face of exceptional circumstances. Dave offered many examples of the most rudimentary form of insight-sensingthings that were not as they should be. Dave had…

older adult residents of long-term facilities (Lam, Cervantes, & Lee, 2014). Utilizing theories such as resilience theory and Erikson’s psychosocial theory, social workers…