...The Damages Bullying Has on School Aged Children Brandi GEN 499: General Education Capstone Instructor: Irene Robles-Huerta December 2, 2015 The Damages Bullying Has on School Aged Children Bullying is a widely known and seen epidemic that negatively impacts its victims, and even the person doing the bullying. Bullying is the act that causes harassment, embarrassment, humiliation, intimidation, and physical or emotional trauma, and is present no matter the age, race, gender, religion, or culture. Although society has seen the ever growing epidemic of bullying in school aged children, the argument of the damaging and everlasting psychological effects that bullying has on the victims are not always talked about or analyzed to show how the victimization impacts the child for much longer than just their childhood. This paper will analyze the long term damaging effects that bullying had on its school aged victims, while looking at the implications for therapists treating the victims, the therapeutic aspects related to bullying, and how the use of therapy can lessen the long term effects that bullying will have on the bullies and their victims. Although, there may not be a complete solution to bullying itself, there is a solution that will limit some of the damaging done to a person from victimization of bullying, by implementing anti-bullying programs in the school systems, and using therapists for all children involved to help the children process their thoughts...
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...factors might influence an individual’s defense mechanisms? Use examples from the case studies to illustrate your answer. Individuals who have experienced trauma develop their own defense mechanisms to cope with the intrusive recollections and increased physiological arousal. When people suffer trauma their choice of defense can be influenced by three factors, • Developmental stage • Temperamental factors • Contextual factors. Below I will use the case studies of Jane & Brendan to illustrate how these factors influenced their defense mechanisms to trauma. Jane experienced the death of her sister at age 7, her developmental stage influenced the type of defense mechanisms she used to cope with the trauma of witnessing her sister’s death. Jane blamed herself for the accident. Prior to the traumatic incident Jane was described as being a “happy – go – lucky child”, however during the following years she lost interest at school and acted out to receive attention, making up stories & fake accidents, including a fake suicide. Jane’s defense mechanism in this example is role playing through fantasy, this involves Jane creating an inner world when her world became too painful, difficult or stressful. Between the ages of 12 – 18 Jane began experimenting with alcohol and drugs, using them as a defense. Contextual factors primarily her friends, influenced Jane’s use of alcohol & drugs. The case study sites Jane began taking drugs at 13 with friends, at 14 she first tried heroin with...
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... as well as in the long term aftermath of exposure to trauma, children are at risk of developing disturbing and/or behavioral difficulties. The most detrimental types of trauma consist of sexual abuse, neglect, early physical and emotional/psychological abuse, along with direct contact to domestic violence, in the home. This paper will discuss the importance of why numerous services are available to and needed by the child and/or the family, for a suitable recovery. What is the problem being addressed? The problems that are being addressed at the moment are the level of trauma the client has endured and providing a certain type of service to him and/or her. One will identify the starting date, time, and location,...
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...Young and Middle Adulthood Case Studies Alicia Steele BSHS 325 May 26, 2014 Jeni Maijala Young and Middle Adulthood Case Studies Case studies will be an important part of the profession of human services. Not only is it important to keep notes on each client but also for future reference on a client, a case study will come in handy. This paper will illustrate an example of a case study and examine the following, family, social, and intimate relationships of the person in the case study, identify any role changes that may have occurred, and the immediate and future effect of healthy and unhealthy habits practiced by the person. My case study is on Jackson. A 25 year old male with a substance abuse problem. Upon graduating high school, Jackson attended college the following fall to obtain a degree in Chemistry. During his freshman year of college, Jackson suffered a head injury after a car crash and resulted in the loss of cognitive and analytical functioning skills. Thus began drinking alcohol and abuse of painkillers. Jackson has left college and now lives with his mother while he attends a substance abuse program in Chicago, Illinois. According to his mother, Jackson currently isolates himself in his room and refuses employment opportunities. Growing up in a single parent household with no father figure involvement, Jackson has trouble maintaining any type of relationship. Although he had relationships in high school that he considered serious, he became distant with...
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...The educator in a pastoral role Registration period: Semester 2, 2015 Student surname │ number: Mennell │ 50918818 TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE ASSIGNMENT RUBRIC 1 1 SECTION 1: BACKGROUND 2 2 SECTION 2: GUIDANCE FOR MARY 5 2.1 Concepts 5 2.2 Phenomenon of child trauma, and the effects of trauma on Mary’s life 6 2.2.1 Phenomenon of child trauma 6 2.2.2 Effects of trauma on Mary’s life 7 2.3 Parental involvement and parental counselling 8 2.4 An individual and learning intervention program for Mary 9 2.4.1 Important guidelines to take into account 9 2.4.2 Reference to the problems in terms of Mary’s subjects 9 2.4.3 Reporting the abuse, involving support services, and involving Mary’s mother 9 SOURCES CONSULTED 11 ASSIGNMENT RUBRIC According to Best, Lang, Lodge and Watkins (1995:63), one of the most important roles of an educator in a school is to assist learners pastorally. (See your study guide, p. 2) Read the following scenario: “I felt like nothing made sense… .” I am Mary. When I was 11 years old, my mum’s new boyfriend moved in with us. I thought it would be good for mum cos she had a drinking problem and was depressed, and I thought it would make her feel better having him there. At first he was ok and bought me presents, but then mostly he ignored me. Then after a few months he started doing things that made me nervous, like when I was ...
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...EMPIRICAL STUDIES doi: 10.1111/j.1471-6712.2012.01049.x Repressed and silent suffering: consequences of childhood sexual abuse for women’s health and well-being Sigrun Sigurdardottir RN, MS (Director) (PhD Student)1,2 and Sigridur Halldorsdottir RN, MSN, PhD (Med Dr) (Professor and Chairman)3 1 The Icelandic Research Center Against Violence, Akureyri, Iceland, 2Public Health Sciences, School of Health Sciences, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland and 3Faculty of Graduate Studies, School of Health Sciences, University of Akureyri, Akureyri, Iceland Scand J Caring Sci; 2013; 27; 422–432 Repressed and silent suffering: consequences of childhood sexual abuse for women’s health and well-being Research results indicate that psychological trauma in childhood caused by child sexual abuse can have serious and widespread consequences for health and well-being. The purpose of this study was to examine the consequences of childhood sexual abuse for women’s health and well-being. The research methodology was phenomenology. Seven women with a history of childhood sexual abuse were interviewed twice with 1–6 months interval. For all the women, the abuse started when they were between 4 and 5. All of them were repeatedly violated and traumatized ever since then and were even still being victimized at the time of the interviews. The main result of the study is that time does not heal all wounds. All the women described great repressed and silent suffering in all aspects of...
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...fifty percent of adolescents in this country’s foster care system are graduating from high school each year. In NYS, less than forty-four percent of adolescent’s in the foster care system graduate from high school yearly. The outcomes of youth who leave the foster care system between the ages of 18 and 21 are statistically grim; less than 50% of these youth are equipped with a high school diploma (Scannapeieco, Connel-Carrick, and Pinter, 2007), and with-in two years of leaving the system, 25% of them face unemployment, homelessness, and/or incarceration (Krinsky, 2007). For all children, especially children in foster care, having the proper advocacy, stability, educational coordination and guidance are vital in ensuring their academic success. Unfortunately, children in foster care are less likely to receive these components to assist them in becoming successful in academia, which in turn affects their chances to live a productive adult life. The needs of the children and youth in foster care are in need of reformation across each state throughout the nation. Since the development of foster care, the focus of intervention has and continues to be a reactive approach, instead of a tactical approach. The intervention of foster care seeks to ensure the physical safety and well-being of each child and youth, which oftentimes leads to a neglect of their emotional and intellectual needs. Studies conducted in New York, the Midwest, Chicago, Washington, and California have shown that...
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...This study was conducted to grasp a better understanding of the educational and occupational outcomes for children exposed to war-trauma. The above article expresses the research and findings of this study under multiple variables. The Gulf crisis of Kuwait (1990-1991) is the war-exposure that the 151 Kuwait participants experienced. It is hypothesized that war trauma in children will have a negative effect on their educational and occupational outcome. In order for the research to be conducted, because to know knowledge a study such as this has not been performed before, a test had to be established. To measure the trauma, a test used to measure trauma after a natural disaster was chosen. It was utilized to be remodel for this case...
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...disasters, crises, and other trauma-causing events have become a focus of the mental health counseling profession? In addition to social support, research shows that many people suffer severe trauma from a natural disaster that require will require mental health care. After a natural disaster, individuals may suffer from anxiety, anger, sleeplessness, hopelessness, and depression. As an example, Aten, Topping, Denney & Hosey (2011) conducted a study at a local church, and examined the psychological effects of Hurricane Katrina on the lives of African Americans. They found that many of the participants reported that they felt overwhelmed by the mental health problems that their congregation and community members were bringing to them for help. The majority of participants reported a need and readiness for education and training, targeting disaster mental health-related issues. However, in most cases mental health counselors are not adequately trained to handle such events; for the most part most counselors go to workshops to better equipment themselves for such cases. In most situations victims continue to live with these burdens and never seek help; for the most part it is all summed up by “pride”. Society prides them and seeks cover from behavior health because of the stigma that is put out from others. Whatever the case may be the growing number of needed crisis counselors is astonishing, but through Walden which offers a specialization in trauma and crisis counseling in...
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...Low risk youths are those who have more stable relationships with their families and school and tend to have to least likelihood to experience homelessness overtime (National Alliance to End Homelessness, n.d.). Transient youth refers to those youths who have less stable connections; they tend to move in and out of homelessness, and tend not to have any mental health or substance abuse problems (National Alliance to End Homelessness, n.d.). High risk youths are those who have already dropped out of school, there is an unstable relationship with family, they struggle with mental illness and substance abuse issues, and they are ‘professional’ homeless youth because of the amount of time they have been homeless (National Alliance to End Homelessness,...
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... and others with a history of repetitive brain trauma. In CTE, a protein called Tau forms clumps that slowly spread throughout the brain, killing...
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... D.L. James Editor-‐in-‐Chief Student Perspectives in Cognitive Neuroscience 1 August 2014 Dear Dr. James, I would like to submit my article entitled, “Recovery from Childhood Traumatic Brain Injury: Case Study-‐Susan” for publication as a review article in the Student Perspective in Cognitive Neuroscience. The article traces traumatic brain injury in an eight-‐year-‐old child with a premorbid Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and challenging family environment. With the aid of Luria’s conceptual approach to brain organisation and function, and Piaget’s stages of cognitive development, we are able to gauge the impact of the trauma on brain function and also the long term effects...
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...Case study: Erectile dysfunction from torture by Laleh Yaghoubi The following is a case study of a male client, Mubilajeh, suffering from a sexual disorder (impotence). Erectile disorder, the inability to have an erection or maintain one, is currently the most common sexual disorder among men (Hyde 468). One result of erectile disorder is that the man cannot engage in sexual intercourse. For many men, including this individual, psychological reactions to erectile disorder may be severe: embarrassment, depression, and anxiety. The client was diagnosed and given an assessment with the goal of determining the factors. Through a process of discovery, the client's history finally revealed that the impotence was actually a result of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) caused by a past experience. People with PTSD fear re-experiencing a traumatic event and sometimes are unable to remember certain aspects (Barlow 138). However, through psychoanalytic therapy, this client illustrates a successful recovery. Patient This section presents a brief patient assessment, including a case history of the client considered in the study. Mubilajeh, thin proportioned and nearly seven feet tall, is a thirty-year-old African male originally from Nigeria. He is a peaceful and proud African man. He has been married to his wife, Zhane, for nine years, and they hope to have children very soon. At the age of fourteen, Mubilajeh's father passed away, which left his...
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...Introduction Georgetown University is a private, research-oriented school. Students travel from across the United States and the world in order to receive an education from this institution of higher education. The undergraduate program here serves 7,319 students. Seven percent of these students are international students, sixty one percent of students come here from the east coast, ten percent originate from the central part of the United States, and twenty percent of students come from the west coast. Sexual assault and interpersonal violence happens to people regardless of ethnicity, race, gender, and culture. With 59% of Georgetown students identifying as Caucasian, 13% as Asian, 8% as African, and 7% as Latino, sexual assault and interpersonal...
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...developmental process,” art therapy can assist not only the psychological and emotional development of the client, but also the behavioral and cognitive development (Evans 101). What’s more, the pre-representational drawing activities involved in art therapy provide a child affected by ASD with a solid foundation of communicative skills, increasing the likelihood that the client will use verbal language (Evans 101). Caroline Case and Tessa Dalley, the authors of The Handbook of Art Therapy, claim that art therapy can help reduce the amount of anxiety surrounding social and emotional communication experienced by youth diagnosed with ASD when incorporated into their specialized schools or centers, as art therapy fosters a non-verbal and non-threatening environment (“Evidence In-Sight” 7). The increase in diagnoses of ASD “and the way art therapy allows for clients to express themselves without [using] words, has brought the disorder and treatment together in various studies,” including a study performed on 66 students with ASD (Cavazos 36, 37). The goal of the study was to improve the student’s social skills through the introduction of art and play therapy. This goal was met, as at the end of...
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