Sensory integration

drugs, the greening of hospitals, and promotion of environmental based therapies for mental disorders. Clinical psychology is a field that helps the mentally ill heal and live a better life through psychotherapy and the use of medication. With integration of the environment in therapy techniques and improvements within the pharmaceutical and hospital industry, psychology can help make the environment cleaner and help decrease harmful pollutants in the…

children with an Autism Spectrum Disorder, “it is a widely held belief that early intervention is crucial” (Wiseman, 2015, p.7). While it has been difficult to measure the effectiveness of music as an intervention, it is important to think about sensory sensitivity. According to Darrow, “children with autism might be particularly sensitive to high or loud sounds, when presented with this type of sound, they will shriek, hold their ears, or be aggressive in some way” (Darrow, 2009, p. 3).…

For many years, the greater number of children with Severe Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) has been educated in special schools, excluded from their non-disabled peers. It is only in the last few years that this has started to change as more children with special needs are increasingly being given the right to a mainstream education. Parents of these children now have the choice about whether they want their child to attend a mainstream school, or a special needs school. Some people argue that…

Science fiction as a literary genre has come a long way from Verne's search for the center of the earth and Wells' travel through time in his time machine. Contemporary science fiction is more willing to challenge the limits of possibilities and more eager to push the boundaries of human imagination. More importantly, science fiction often acts as a precursor to scientific thought, and forebodes new research; projects such as Google Glass can be traced to similar ideas presented much earlier in…

In the mid to late 1800’s, there were many issues surrounding human equality, both in and out of the educational system. The struggles over social class, social status, race, and gender equality helped shape the educational system between 1850 and 1900. Through external factors, foreign influences, educational movements, progressive leaders, and legislative acts, vocational education began putting its roots deeply into American soil. Several external factors led to the need for new ways of…

Perception and expectation of citizens is an important factor in urban planning, settlement and management. Hence, there is a need of a participatory citizen centric planning of urban settlement based on spatial data. These perception and expectation may be represented in terms of emotions. Determining Urban Emotions is an approach which can be used to map different types of emotions associated with urbanization. In the recent years, some new methods have been presented for the area of urban and…

This period emphasized the self, creativity, imagination and the value of art. It was a movement that strongly emphasized emotion. It also legitimized ‘individual imagination' as a major authority. Which in turn gave rise to ‘free expression' in art. With such an emphasis on feelings and imagination many thinkers of this period introduced philosophies and theologies of their own on this topic. Richard Kearney in The Wake of the Imagination, explores the various concepts of imagining from the…

health or complex medical needs. Specialist services involve looking after children or young people with specific needs. A suitable example of this is ‘Sense’ which is a service for children and young people aged 0-18 years who are deafblind or multi-sensory impaired (MSI). This means that “children have problems with sight and hearing and occasionally learning or other additional disabilities and also medical conditions that are likely to cause problems with sight and hearing as they grow…

CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION Background of the Study “Believing that you can accomplish what you want to accomplish is one of the most important ingredients in the recipe of success” (Maddux, 2002). Indeed, believing in one’s capability is very important in gaining self-efficacy. Unlike self-esteem, which reflects how a person feel about their worth or value, self-efficacy reflects how a person believes in his own capabilities in performing a specific tasks. According to Albert Bandura (as cited in…

greatest being the establishment of nurse training schools, including the first school of psychiatric nursing at the McLean Asylum in Massachusetts. These nurse training schools taught custodial care of the mentally ill and did not include the integration of psychological theories until the 1950’s (Townsend, 2015). Since then, many theoretical frameworks in psychiatric nursing have drawn from theories in the social sciences. For instance, Hildegard Peplau was impacted by the work of Dr. Henry…