...Health of Children Jake Tucker February 19, 2013 English 305T Dr. Robert Goldbort INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND Physical and mental health of children and adolescents are becoming extremely important to many people, without the attention given to this matter we wouldn’t be benefiting the children right now who will one day be in charge taking our place. In this report we will look at what importance’s physical activity can have and what surroundings are affecting children’s physical and mental health. There are a variety of things that affect the health of children. One of my studies I found that different types of advertising greatly affect the physical health of children. Soda advertisements are greatly affecting children in highly populated neighborhoods (Lenard, et al. 15). The children don’t realize that the things that they are consuming at a young age can have serious effects on them as they grow older. Sleep deprivation is something else that can greatly effecting children. This lack of sleep isn’t coming from the children though, it is coming from the parents. Parent’s lack of sleep is affecting their moods and they may be taking out their frustrations either physically, mentally, or emotionally on their children (Chapman, et al. 33). There are many more ways that children’s health is being affected and everyone needs to be aware of what these things may be. Although some of these things may seem very harmless to us we need to know that they are greatly...
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...countries of the world mental health is a most important matter and is the second main cause for children and young people communicating child helpdesks from countries ordered in the top nine of the Human Development Index (HDI), with the development of science and the advancement of civilization, children's mental health difficult has achieved an increasing number of attention. In the past few decades, children's mental health difficult cannot get enough attention, which caused much irreparable damage to many family and society. When children's mental health problem cannot get the correct processing, is likely to cause much bad effect. For instance, some children with mental health difficulties may have the actions which is to hurt themselves or hurt other people. (Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care, 2000)Therefore, the government need to invest to found professional treatment child mental disease hospital and to establish the school to train the professionals to treat the children’s mental health illness. First, only the professional hospital can give children suffer from mental illness to provide the best treatment. Next, the professional psychological disease hospital need professional psychological doctor, and the doctor need the professional school. Finally, government investment to establish corresponding schools and hospitals are more prestige and more reliable. The first reason is only the professional hospital can give children suffer from mental illness...
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...ends meet. It can be seen in “The Health of Canada’s Children” by Dennis Raphael, (2010) many social determinants influence health. One of the major determinants of health is living circumstances. The many different qualities of living within Canada have resulted in the health inequalities among children. This article in particular gives the reader the information needed to understand how living circumstances come about as well as how they affect health. Infant mortality rate or the number of newborns who die within their first year of life is considered to be one of the best ways to judge how healthy a population is. Low birth weight is also very important because it is affiliated with a wide range of health problems throughout a person’s lifespan. While there are many circumstances that play a role in infant mortality and low birth weight, a major component is living conditions the expected mothers are exposed to. This can be linked to the financial status of the parents. In Canada, the infant mortality rate is 60% higher and the low birth rate is 43% higher in the poorest income quintile than the richest quintile (Raphael, 2010). The effects of income on health are best portrayed by the living conditions to which children are exposed to. Income not only has a direct relationship with children’s health but various developmental outcomes as well. Income is a great indicator for the quality of nutrition, clothing, and housing children receive as well as the opportunities...
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...should report suspicions to the principal and social worker, doctor, nurse, police so proper investigation can be done. »The teacher should never confront parents themselves, this could: •anger the parents •destroy the teacher-parent relationship •increase the abuse »Several critical things the teacher should provide so they develop a sense of wellbeing to progress beyond abuse. •Trust •Predictable routines •Consistent behaviour •Safe boundaries •Confidence •Good communication 2] According to Reddy and Tobias (1994:20), the term "Health Education" and "Health Promotion" are confused with one another. Provide a clear distinction between these 2 terms. Health Education is the "deliberate structuring of planned learning opportunities about health which are aimed at voluntary changes in health-related behaviours to give individuals the opportunity of achieving a more favourable position on the health continuum." Health...
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...Activity | Hazards | Likelihood | Severity | Controls | Drawing (Arts and craft) | Sharp pencilsPaper cuts | 22 | 44 | Make sure pencils are not too sharp.Cello tape paper down to tables | Dinner time | Chocking on foodSharp utensils | 31 | 35 | Make sure food is cut up small enough for child not to choke on itDon’t leave utensils out or misplace sharp ones | Reading to children | Fall asleep and suffocateTry eating books | 11 | 35 | Make sure child doesn’t fall asleep sitting upDo not let children read books unsupervised | Taking children to toilets | Not cleaning child properlySlip on water | 32 | 34 | Making sure the child has been cleaned properly to prevent cross contaminationMake sure children are supervised | Playtime | Eat sand Weather | 23 | 43 | Make sure child is supervised at all timesMake sure child is correctly dressed at all times | P3: Carry out a risk assessment in a health or social care setting. M2: Assess the hazards identified in the health and social care setting. D1: Make recommendations in relation to the identified hazards to minimise the risks to the service user group. In this assignment I will be talking about the risk assessment that I carried out in a nursery. I will be talking about the risks that could take place and how likely it would be of the risk to take place, also I will be talking about the severity of the risk. A risk assessment is simply a careful examination of what, in your work, could cause harm to people, so that...
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...Children’s Mental Health A recent report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ([CDC], 2013) provides one of the most comprehensive reviews of child mental health in the United States. Specifically, the report provides an overview of mental health surveillance in the US between 2005 and 2011, uncovering some shocking facts about the issue and how it is currently addressed. For instance, data provided by the CDC indicates that each year between 13 and 20 percent of children and adolescents are diagnosed with some type of mental health problem (“Mental health,” 2013). Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is the most common disorder diagnosed in children between the ages of three and 17-years-of-age (6.8 percent)...
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...Healthy Children.org Attention spans of 6- to 9-year-olds are still short (no joke), and there is difficulty trying to process information from many sources. Most of these children still need a more in-depth form of show-and tell for instruction. Do not expect them to remember long, detailed directions and carry them out completely, or you risk an episode of brain overload. Unrealistic expectations from instructors can lead to unpleasant situations if children are not able to complete a laundry list of plays. Visual and verbal teaching in short segments is a much more successful approach. Instructors and children feel a sense of accomplishment when many small tasks are completed successfully rather than partially completing a large, complicated task. Remember, some of us are still memory-challenged as adults and can’t even remember a grocery list without writing it down. Thank goodness for little sticky notes. Sports and activities with complex skills require quick assessment of a situation, rapid decision making, and mature levels of transitional skills. Examples of a few of these sports are the more advanced forms of soccer, basketball, hockey, volleyball, baseball, water polo, softball, lacrosse, and football. By all means, kids can be learning the basics of these sports at young ages, but do not expect high levels of performance in most kids in this age group because the development of their memory and complex thinking patterns is still limited. As usual, there are...
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...specific delinquency problem must accept the fact that it is a long and thoughtful process, often one of discouragement and delay. It is expensive in terms of money, time and effort. It need hardly be pointed out, however, that the results of delinquency are twice as costly. From all our knowledge of delinquents and delinquency, there is no reassuring evidence of a formula or recipe for prevention. What emerges clearly, from many studies and reports and surveys, is that delinquent behaviour must be the concern of the entire community, not just dismissed as a problem to be handled by local schools, churches, police courts or professional agencies. It should be recognized as their problem by the citizens of a community even when their own children are not remotely involved. But in many big cities in the world, the very word community is a mockery and without true meaning. Most urban centres are not communities in any real sense of the word. Therefore, in just such an instance, a beginning must be made at the very level where delinquency occurs-on the block, in a neighbourhood, in a district. The very lack of a community, a word...
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...because of the age of the offender. Various studies have revealed that there exist four pillars in a child’s life, which can help in scrutinizing, understanding, and addressing the issue of “child and youth crime”. These pillars include family, peers, school, and the community. In most cases, children reflect the behaviors they learn in their environment. For example, a child who has been nurtured on a diet of violence has a high probability of becoming a violent adult (Chambliss, 2011). This paper intends to discuss juvenile delinquency, factors that contribute to it, and the key strategies to embrace in curtailing it. Different aspects connected to juvenile delinquent behavior can be noted from the case study at hand. For instance, it is worth noting that a child who is brought up by deviant/violent parents will likely borrow the same traits in his/her youth and as an adult. This can be vindicated from the fact that Holly being born by a rebellious mother, who was once apprehended on a drug conviction, borrowed the same traits, and became mutinous, disregarding all the pieces of advice she received from her grandparents. Another aspect that can be derived from the case study is that children who have been rejected by their parents, who have been nurtured in families with considerable conflict or who receive inadequate supervision are more likely to become delinquent. This is evident from Sandy’s life. She was abandoned by her mother at the age of 15 months, and...
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...The Life and Teachings of Elders Nelson and Oaks Life of Elder Nelson I love how Elder Nelson set an example of the importance of family. His children shared Sister Nelson’s feelings. Over the years, they’ve never questioned their dad’s love for them, each feeling that she or he was the favorite child. Quote from his child “I never felt Dad was too busy for me,” “We spent lots of time together.” Even with a difficult schedule, he made time to establish a lasting relationship with each one. Since he had to travel extensively, he often took one family member with him, either Sister Nelson or one of the children. Rather than considering this an extravagance, he viewed it as a wise investment. Testimony of Elder Nelson Elder Nelson’s personal preparation, his many Church and family experiences, and his profession have all enhanced his testimony. Having spent his life dealing with medical law, he looks at his faith with the eye of a scientist, as well as with that of a disciple: “I think a surgeon is in a unique position to understand one of God’s greatest creations—the human body. Every segment of the body motivates me to faith.” Ask the missionaries! They Can Help You! October 2012 General Conference Saturday Morning Session Key Doctrines and Principles Elder Nelson tells how it is Christ's church that was brought back after the dark ages by Jesus and was restored and is functioning under His divine direction. He goes on to talk more about the missionaries...
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...knowing the causes of why so many youth end up in juvenile delinquency. Based on an Article back on 1999, students between the ages of 12 and 18 approximately 186,000 where victims of violence crime in school and 476,000 while away from school (National Center for Educational Statistics 2001). That is a situation that should have not be acceptable, one of the biggest causes of Juvenile Delinquency is the lack of attention that parents give to their children. There are parents who give poor directions to children, fail to structure their behavior and do not reward or punish appropriately. “…our prediction was that the highest levels of antisocial behavior would occur where poor attachment between parent and child was combined with poor controls.” (Hoge, Andrews, and Leschied, 1994, p. 547). Two other causes are a child being abuse physically and mentally at an early age, and low self-esteem. There are many much factors and causes that if we all take in consideration and with the help of the government we can help our youth to children of good and grow with being...
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...knowing the causes of why so many youth end up in juvenile delinquency. Based on an Article back on 1999, students between the ages of 12 and 18 approximately 186,000 where victims of violence crime in school and 476,000 while away from school (National Center for Educational Statistics 2001). That is a situation that should have not be acceptable, one of the biggest causes of Juvenile Delinquency is the lack of attention that parents give to their children. There are parents who give poor directions to children, fail to structure their behavior and do not reward or punish appropriately. “…our prediction was that the highest levels of antisocial behavior would occur where poor attachment between parent and child was combined with poor controls.” (Hoge, Andrews, and Leschied, 1994, p. 547). Two other causes are a child being abuse physically and mentally at an early age, and low self-esteem. There are many much factors and causes that if we all take in consideration and with the help of the government we can help our youth to children of good and grow with being descent. References Sharon Mandel Ilanna. (2008). what causes Juvenile Delinquency? Retrieved from http://www.filthylucre.com/what-causes-juvenile-delinquency Schaefer Schiumo, Ginsberg Kristin, Potraka Amy (Eds). (2003, Aug) The Effectiveness of the warning signs Programming Educating Youth about Violence Prevention: A Study with Urban High School Students. (Vol.7, Issue 1, p1-8....
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...Chapter 15 1. Father of the country 2. “houses of refuge” 3. reform school 4. Illinois Juvenile Court Act 5. • The state is the “higher or ultimate parent” of all the children within its borders. • Children are worth saving, and nonpunitive procedures should be used to save the child. • Children should be nurtured. While the nurturing process is under way, they should be protected from the stigmatizing impact of formal adjudicatory procedures. • To accomplish the goal of reformation, justice needs to be individualized; that is, each child is different, and the needs, aspirations, living conditions, and so on of each child must be known in their individual particulars if the court is to be helpful. • Noncriminal procedures are necessary to give primary consideration to the needs of the child. The denial of due process can be justified in the face of constitutional challenges because the court acts not to punish, but to help. 6. Status offenses 7. • Notice, to comply with due process requirements, must be given sufficiently in advance of scheduled court proceedings so that reasonable opportunity to prepare will be afforded. • The probation officer cannot act as counsel for the child. His role in the adjudicatory hearing, by statute and in fact, is as arresting officer and witness against the child. There is no material difference in this respect between adult and juvenile proceedings...
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...delinquent behavior in some form exists in the majority of the youth present in the world today. Why juveniles present such behavior is an ongoing topic of discussion for law enforcement officials and agencies. There are many programs geared toward helping juveniles to cope with their issues and receive the help and treatment needed to be successful in life. In the city of Petersburg, Virginia there is a Firesetters Program. This program addresses the problem of fires set by children. A Juvenile Firesetter is a child typically between the ages of 4 and 14 who exhibits an unusual interest or curiosity in fires, or a child with a history of fire play. This program also seeks to find the reason behind the setting of fires or what triggers the child to set fires. Some reasons could be the divorce of parents, frustration, anger, loneliness, a crisis at home, death, or issues or problems at school ( City of Petersburg, 2015). This program also meets with the parents and the child or children to conduct confidential sessions with the Public Educator or Fire Marshal. An interview is conducted to try to find out how long the problem has existed, the primary reason for it, and the dangers associated with it. An evaluation is done and follow up visits are scheduled for the child. Another diversion program in the state of Virginia is the Community Services Program. This program allows youth to work without pay in a government or non-profit agency and it is an ...
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...Juvenile Delinquency Every day child abuse and neglect takes it's toll on innocent young lives. Nearly five children die everyday in America from their abuse. ("National children," 2011) Not only does child abuse leave it's victims with physical and emotional scars, but it also cripples their chances of leading normal happy lives. Many of these children tend to lean towards unhealthy social behavior as a way to cope with their abuse, which in turn may make them a juvenile delinquent. Child abuse is not a recent development. It has existed for thousands of years. However parents and society from thousands of years ago saw no problem with the way their children and other people's children were being disciplined. In fact children in that time had little to no rights and were mostly considered a nuisance and unimportant. Luckily for children today that opinion has changed. Unfortunately there are still thousands of children out there who are considered a nuisance and unimportant to their parent or guardian. Although physical abuse is the most critical, there are other types that can be just as damaging and leave their own set of scars. Other forms of abuse include emotional abuse, neglect, and sexual abuse. It's hard to say whether one form is more damaging than another. All forms of abuse can cause a child to have difficulties later on in life. Some of these difficulties may include damage to a child's sense of self, their ability to maintain healthy relationships, and their...
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