...Casual Factors “Emotional/behavioral disorder (EBD) is a condition in which behavioral or emotional responses of an individual in school are so significantly different in degree and/or kind from his/her accepted age appropriate, ethnic, or cultural norms that they adversely affect educational performance in one or more areas: self-care, social relationships, personal adjustments, academic progress, classroom behavior, or work adjustment” (Level 1V: Program Planning, n.d.). Emotional/behavioral disorders are the most under diagnosed and/or misdiagnosed group of disorders that students may have. The signs and symptoms of emotional/behavioral disorders can be missed, mimic other disorders and some cases emotional/behavioral disorders coincide with other disabilities. There are a few categories that must be taken into consideration when assessing a student for emotional/behavioral disorders as well as implementing interventions that will meet the specific needs of EBD students. The categories that the following essay will discuss are biological, family, school and culture. Within each category are a few factors that need to be fully understood and considered in order to have a clear, complete and concise view of the student’s emotional and behavioral needs and the causes of it. Biological Factors Biological factors occur naturally and within the child. According to the article Biological Issues Related to Emotional/behavioral Disorders (2014) biological factors includes...
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... Nurture theories. Being that do we inherit traits from our biological parents or does the environments in which we are raised contribute to how we turn out as adults. Sometimes it seems that that there is no black or white answer to the age-old question of what contributes to human behavior, personality, and psychopathology. There are common traits within biological parents that children can pick up but it seems that in some cases, children can be adaptive to their environment. So we shall examine this curiosity that takes us into finding out whether we are genetically inherit to some of the biological traits of our parents or if living in certain environments develop our social well being. There have been studies into schizophrenia and the genetic traits that may be passed on to the children. The study was conducted to observe children who had biological parents who suffered from schizophrenia and their adoptive parents showed no signs of the illness. The study was also conducted on children from biological parents who showed no signs of schizophrenia adopted by a parent who later showed signs or family history of the illness. The research showed that although there is no definitive answer for what causes schizophrenia, children whose biological parents that suffered from schizophrenia had a higher recidivism rate for contracting the disease. “This study also showed that the adoptees whose biological parents suffered from schizophrenia had a higher likelihood of...
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...earliest years of life (Blah Blah). However, once the child is born their developmental journey begins to be influenced by a serious of factors affecting the experiences and events around the child (blah blah). How these factors interact with the child’s self, family, community and culture can positively and negatively affect the overall health and development of the child. From birth to three years of age some of the most fundamental and significant development takes place and this can be heavily influenced by internal and external forces affecting the child. Forces such as biological, environmental and social factors as well as the practises put in...
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...nurture are the two factors that determine human personality. First, the genetic code of a human being, which is unique and based on hereditary and other factors, will be an indicator of personality. For example, some very young babies will already clearly be "shy" or "extroverted". However, the personality of a baby will be vastly modified by a child's upbringing, and the way they are nurtured by his or her mother and father, or legal guardian. Nature • One example of the way nature affects a baby is brain disorders who are inherited, and which will affect personality. For example, psychological problems related to brain chemistry, such as schizophrenia, are believed to have a strong genetic component. These diseases will be present as mutated genes in a baby, and, over time, they will create behaviour problems that may manifest themselves as a child grows into adulthood. However, the way a child handles their genetic difficulties will be affected by the child's upbringing. Nurture • A child with a genetic disorder that affects personality will handle things better when they are loved, hugged, and well taken care of in the formative years. From babyhood, children require affection, warmth, intellectual stimulation, and respect in order to develop to their best possible potential. Children who lack nurturing in the formative years will suffer from issues, such as poor self-esteem, that affect their ability to socialize and make friends. Children who are overindulged...
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...The nature versus nurture debate has been an ongoing debate. The debate is regarding are human culture, behavior, and personality based on genes or environment. Nurture is the environmental factors, which includes our upbringing and experiences. In contrast, nature is biological factors and genetic inheritance. To demonstrate, nature and nurture plays a significant role in deciding if adopted children have more traits in common with their biological/ adoptive family or why some humans commit criminal activity. Jean- Jacques Rousseau, was a French philosopher believed that humans are people were born good, but become corrupted by the society and civilization. In that case that mean people become criminals due to nurture, so their experiences...
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...This case study is based on Theodore (Ted) Bundy, who suffered from antisocial personality disorder. Every aspect of Ted Bundy’s life will be on display, from his background to his emotional, biological, cognitive and behavioral factors, to understanding the criteria of antisocial personality disorder and how it played the role in Theodore’s life. Background Theodore (Ted) Bundy was born in Burlington, Vermont on November 11, 1946. Ted was labeled as a bastard child due to never knowing whom his biological father was. His grandparent’s raised him, for the longest time he thought they were his biological parents. Ted’s biological mother was believed to be his sister until she took him away from his grandparent’s house and remarried and then the story came to light of who she actually was to him. Bundy resented his mother due to her taking him away from his grandfather whom he adored above all. Ted’s mother married Johnnie Bundy and had three other children by him. Theodore Bundy did not like his new arrangements and resented his mother for having more children and marrying Johnnie. Ted would lash out and react with anger and hatred and jealousy toward the other children, all he knew was that when his mother had a new baby it was because of Johnnie. Ted found solitude in school work and did very well at it, he felt like school was were he could actually go and get away from home life. Bundy’s has a crush on his first grade teacher; he was upset when she went on maternity...
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...Children’s Well-Being John Pass Western Governors University---Washington Some have argued that the disparities in life outcomes are primarily determined by characteristics of the family. Family structure is a fundamental characteristic of the family. This fundamental characteristic has significant and sustaining effects on children. The traditional family structure can be defined as a family that has children living with both biological and married parents. The trend for family structure is moving away from the traditional family to various other types of family structures. Today, children are increasingly growing up in single-parent, step, and grandparents-only families. Recently, there has been considerable research examining whether correlations exist between family structure and children’s well-being. Research suggests that the loss of traditional family structure negatively affects children’s well-being in academic achievement outcomes, overall physical and mental health, and increases the likelihood of at-risk behaviors. There are negative educational consequences for children that grow up in nontraditional family structures. A great deal of research on the correlation between family structure and academic achievement has results that are similar. According to Sun and Li, “most previous studies have concurred that growing up in various alternative family structures has negative educational consequences (2011, p.542). Also,...
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...DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN SEXUALITY NaShawn Edwards July 10, 2013 DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN SEXUALITY A young boy sits and watches children playing on the playground, trying to see which activity he wants to engage in. He sees a group of boys playing basketball on one side and down the way he sees a group of girls playing “double dutch” jump rope. Off to the side of them are some boys watching and talking to them, flirting. The young boy decides he wants play jump rope with them. The young man approaches the girls and they invite him to join them. The young man makes his first attempt to jump in the ropes. As soon as he is ready to jump in, he’s pushed from behind. The push is so forceful that he stumbles into the ropes, tangling them around him and falls to the ground, scraping his knee badly. He looks up and sees one of the boys that was watching the girls play jump rope, had pushed him. He started shouting obscenely things at the young boy and soon begin punching hitting and kicking him. The young boy didn’t know what he did wrong and why he was being treated this way. An adult saw what was going on and ran to stop it. He then took the young boy home with the little boy asking “Why?” See the young boy didn’t know that jump rope was known as “femininity”. He was raised to be open-minded and androgynous. The other boy was raised and taught the masculine gender roles and what he is appropriate and inappropriate behavior. Somehow, the other boy felt that the young boy’s behavior...
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...Schizophrenia and Psychosis and Lifespan Development Schizophrenia and lifespan developmental disorders reduce the normal functioning of individuals suffering from them. These disorders consist of components that vary extensively; therefore defining and understanding each component within the individual’s circumstances is of extreme importance. This is especially true when diagnosing childhood disorders. Identifying and understanding these components assists in creating more effective therapeutic applications, intervention, and prevention of these disorders (Hansell & Damour, 2008). Schizophrenia Biological Components Evidence suggests the predisposition of schizophrenia is inherited, however the genetic factor must also interact with environmental factors such as viruses, toxins, drug use, or injuries sustained prior to birth (PubMed Health, 2010). Biological components of schizophrenia consist of brain structures and functions. Several abnormalities in brain function appear to be associated with schizophrenia. This disorder is better understood by its complex neuro-developmental basis instead of a dopamine hypothesis. This hypothesis claims that there is excessive dopamine in the neural system that is the reason for schizophrenia to develop. Emotional Components Studies on the effects of expressed emotion (EE) on schizophrenic patient’s social functioning show that when their relatives (EE) decreased, the patients’ social functioning improved. When the...
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...childhood, characterized by difficulty in communicating and forming relationships with other people and in using language and abstract concepts. Biological Components – Many experts feel that Autism is caused by biological factors. The cause of Autism has yet to be identified and a cure had not yet been discovered. As the years have passed important information in regards to the source that Autism has some biological components has emerged sparking the hope for a cure. Genetic factors “studies of monozygotic and dizygotic twin pairs show that autism has an extremely strong genetic component” (page 517 Hansell, Damour). In some studies it is shown that Autism may be linked to having an older father, Autism appears in equal number of sons and daughters of older fathers. Anatomical Anomalies – researchers have shown that it appears to be a disruption in people suffering from Autism (chapter 13 page 517). Children who suffer from Autism according to Dr. Eric Courchesne. “In addition to anomalies in brain size the white matter of people suffering from Autism grows excessively and asymmetrically” (page 518 Hansell, Damour).White matter shows the communication function in the brain, persons suffering from Autism display less white matter in their brain then in someone who is not suffering from Autism. Prenatal, Birth and neuro-chemical factor, there is a list of prenatal birth complications that have been linked to Autism but nothing is said to be the 100 percent cause of Autism. Maternal...
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...distinguish the reasons why this occurred initially in children. Some Sociologists and Psychologists believe that this was due to biological factors, while other Sociologists and Psychologists believed that Sociology factors were the main influences that brought about the changes. Though the general belief in how and why this occurs is different, the great majority of Sociologists and Psychologists all believe that they are not born with the preconceived notion that they are homosexual, bisexual, or heterosexual themselves; their sexual identity evolves slowly, over a period of time. In the earlier decades, the main concern about the biological basis of sexual orientation was initially brought up when British sexual liberators named Havelock Ellis and Edward Carpenter argued that laws against same-sex sexual activities should be dropped because people engaging in such activities were biologically different from those with opposite-sex partners: they called such people “inverts”. The use of the word “homosexual” as a noun designates a certain kind of person-rather that an adjective referring to specific activities- dates from that period. However, the creation of this new, presumably biological, typology did nothing to reduce prejudice and bigotry (Milt. F., 2013). Human behaviors like sexual orientation are experienced in complex and various ways. Both are agreeably influenced by biological and social factors. Through trying to define the basis...
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...social factors (Glick, 2004: 69).” The school of thought that believes in behaviour primarily being attributed to inherited predispositions and genetic influences is the Positivist school (predestined actor model). The predestined actor model has three basic formulations:...
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...showing a strong positive correlation between the two. One might argue that by reducing levels of child mortality fertility will become an economical burden on these developing countries due to an increase in fertility rates and population growth. I disagree with this argument; I argue that as child mortality rates decline or rise so does the fertility rates due to underlying biological and social factors. Breastfeeding is an example of these biological factors that has an effect on fertility; which in turn has an effect on child mortality rates. During the period of breastfeeding a woman experiences a change called postpartum amenorrhea in which the female body comes to a pause with the processes of ovulation and menstruation. Since the death of an infant would affect the lactation period (breastfeeding) this in return will cause the duration of the postpartum amenorrhea to shorten, and the processes of ovulation and menstruation returns which increases the woman's chance of immediately conceiving again and raising the fertility rates. Not only is breastfeeding a biological factor it is a social factor as well. Up until recently in many developing countries, if the husband engages in sexual intercourse with their wives during the lactation period it is considered taboo. This is looked down upon and is considered to be completely...
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...Biological Motivation and Prudence: A Research Essay Obi Ubani-Ukoma Psychology 213, section CE Professor Marla Maynard December 7, 2013 Biological Motivation and Prudence Motivation can be defined as the compulsion that makes people to behave, think, and feel the way they do (King, 2013). While biological motivation deals with those instinct in animals that moves them to behave the way they do. This Motivation can arise from drive which can lead to need in other so satisfy the urge. Prudence is the capability to dictate and discipline oneself by the use of reason. Prudence helps the individual in making informed choices that will benefit him and the society at large. Prudence can also be attributed to self-control, since the later also deals with self-restriction on things that one feels should be curbed. Factors encouraging Imprudent Indulgent of Biological Urges There are factors that encourage the imprudent indulgent of biological urges, and is not good to Christians as well as non-believers. The factors will be critically analyzed in other to portray the dangers involved in these urges and also recommendations to curb these deviances. The factors as discussed below; ...
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...This is because the words have not been established correctly. Sex is defined as the biological and psychological characteristics that differentiate male and female. Gender is defined as a well-being influenced by social and cultural beliefs. Previously in-depth research has been done based on gender and sex differences but very few are based on the current evolutions. This essay will further look into the factors involved in differentiating sex and gender as well as further development of them. Three main factors are involved in...
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