...Res/531 June 19, 2011 Dr. Ed Yancey Topic Childhood Obesity in the Mid-South is a growing disease. Description of Childhood Obesity Childhood Obesity is defined as children having the condition of being excessively overweight (The American Heritage, 2002). The Centers for Disease Control reports that this country has been struggling with obesity for well over 20 years now and regarding childhood obesity, it is no less daunting. Data from their surveys comparing the 1970's to the 2000's show that the prevalence of obesity has increased for children of all ages at least 3 times over to about 20% of our population less than 19 years old (adult obesity approaches almost 35% in some states). There is an eye-opening depiction of U.S. obesity trends by state and race/ethnicity over the past 4 years. Obesity appears to be most commonly seen in the African American, Hispanic, and Native American populations and in lower income families (CDC, 2009). Why this Topic This topic was chosen because there is an overwhelming increase of children who are suffering from this disease. Obese children are also more likely to become overweight adults. 70% of obese children had at least one Cardiovascular Disease risk factor, and 39% had two or more (Freedman, 2007). This paper will show why childhood obesity has become such an epidemic and what can be done to counter this disease. Description of Childhood Obesity Childhood obesity is a serious medical condition that affects...
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...Childhood and adolescent predictors of alcohol use and problems in adolescence and adulthood in the National Child Development Study Explain why you choose this topic and article. - I choose the topic about childhood and adolescent predictors of alcohol use and problems in adolescence and adulthood in the National Child Development Study because I am interested how there can be a connection between the different ages and the possible affect of alcohol in their lives. - I choose this article specifically because it has very interesting fact and research that indicates that in the early childhood of a person there are roots that indicate that there can be a link in alcohol when they are adults because of their behavior. Keypoints of the article - Aim- to identify childhood and adolescent predictors of alcohol use and harmful I adolescence and adulthood. - Participants- childhood and adolescence predictors and alcohol use data from at least one adolescent or adult wave were available from 7883 females and 8126 males. - Conclusion- Results demonstrated that the early roots of adolescents and adult alcohol use behaviours begin in childhood. If you had to write a research paper on this topic; would you use the article you selected? Explain why or why not? - I would use this article if I needed to write a research paper on this topic because it provides very interesting facts and research that helps the article provide the answer that its looking...
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...ECE 313 WEEK 2 ASSIGNMENT To purchase this visit here: http://www.activitymode.com/product/ece-313-week-2-assignment/ Contact us at: SUPPORT@ACTIVITYMODE.COM ECE 313 WEEK 2 ASSIGNMENT Resources Short Essay As an early childhood educator, it is crucial to identify resources around the community to create a quality early care and education program. Our communities provide resources for families and early care and education programs to support children’s development. The Internet is a virtual tool that provides access to many resources. As a professional, you will need to evaluate the resources for quality and credibility. For this assignment, you will write a three- to four-page paper providing a review of a community resource and two virtual resources that are available to you. Please include: 1. One community resource to share with parents and to use as an early childhood professional to support children’s development. 2. One virtual resource to share with parents. 3. One virtual resource that you can use as an early childhood professional. For each of these resources, please provide the following: 1. A summary of what the resource includes and how it supports children’s development. 2. A rationale explaining why this resource is valuable to educators and to parents. 3. An explanation of how you will use this resource as an educator or how you will encourage parents to use this resource. Your paper should be three to four pages in length (not including the title...
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...Importance of Early Childhood Education Abstract Within every moment that passes, our country is falling behind educational standards in comparison to the rest of the world. America prides on their education, but as a country the standards are not raising for students as they are in other places of the world. We now have things like the No Child Left Behind Act that inadvertently passes children to the next grade level when they do not deserved to be passed. The corruption behind our educational system must be changed, and to be changed it must begin at the beginning with the youngest children, those who can be easily taught the rewards and enjoyment of learning quicker than the older children who were never taught those things. This needed education reform must most importantly be a collaboration of school workers and parents, whom happen to be the most influential adults in childhood. Importance of Early Childhood Education Children, as the saying goes, are the key to our future; the knowledge they possess will directly affect our future. America as a whole needs to put more emphasis on young childhood education, because at a young age children are more likely to develop better educational skills and are more likely to be able to learn to enjoy education and everything it can do for an individual. The necessity and importance of early childhood education stems from our country’s need to rank higher against other countries, from education needing to be the responsibility...
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...rise of childhood obesity and how it has doubled in children and tripled in adolescents in the past 30 years. Lowell (2004) has studied and shown how the fast food is major factor in childhood obesity in the United States. There is emphasize on the fact that fast food and snacks with high amount of fats and sugar are the major role of obesity among children. Prevention and treatment programs has the opportunity to influence the health of children and decrease the rise of obesity by providing effective tools in nutrition, education, and physical activities (Cohen, Hazell, Vanstone, Plourde, Rodd &Weiler, 2013). In lowering the rise of obesity in children the fast food industry should begin to take on a responsible attitude towards how the food is prepared, pricing of vegetables labeling of salt, fat sugars levels particular; portions sizes (reducing them), and how its market (Lowell, 2004). Fast food restaurants serve more processed foods, which consumes more fats, sugars, and carbohydrates. The fast food industry provides less fruits and non-starchy vegetables. The food industry felt it is a personal responsibility not the industry. However, the industry must review how the obesity in children is a factor and threat within the United States. The fast food industry can see to find a way to eliminate the increasing number by providing accurate truthful information on their labels, and this can begin by making small changes to its products. The purpose of the study is for...
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...Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse | Generalist 241 | Mandie Boster | 4/21/2014 4/21/2014 There have been an increasing number of reported child abuse and child neglect cases rising in the United States. We see them in the headlines and hear of them on the news but very rarely do we hear of stories of adult survivors of child abuse and the treatment or theories that have helped them overcome the trauma. This paper will look at child sexual abuse victims and the adult survivors that have had positive outcomes after treatment or therapy. According to Karakurt and Silver (2014), “childhood sexual abuse (CSA) is any sexual abuse with a child through the use of force, threat or deceit to secure the child’s participation, or any sexual contact with a child who is incapable of consenting by virtue of age, disability, or power differential”. The Social Work Dictionary states (1995), “victims often cannot or are unwilling to understand or resist the advances of the abuser”. Child sexual abuse happens to children of every race, age, and socioeconomic background; perpetrators do not discriminate. According to an article in Healthcare Risk Management (2012), “about 95% of the reported abuse is perpetrated by someone the child knows and trust”. When children are abused by people they love and trust many times they are afraid, ashamed or do not understand how to report the abuse or to whom they should report it to. The cases that are reported are sometimes not reported...
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...| Early Childhood Qualifications Fund | | Application Form | Personal Information | Title: Family Name: Given Names: | | Date of Birth: / / Gender: Male Female | | Are you an Australian citizen or a permanent resident of Australia? Yes No | | Are you of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander origin? Yes No | | Do you speak a language other than English at home Yes No No | | If yes, what language do you speak? | Address and Contact Information | Postal Address | | Address: | | Suburb: State: Postcode: | | Permanent Address Same as above | | Address: | | Suburb: State: Postcode: | | Home Telephone: Work Telephone: | | Mobile Telephone: | | Email Address: | Details of Current Employment | Current Position Title (e.g. early childhood educator): | | What is your employment status: permanent full-time permanent part-time contract casual | | Name of Service: | | Service Telephone Number: | | Service Email Address: | | Service Address: | | Name and Title of Contact Person at your service(e.g. centre coordinator) | Application Form (cont.) | Details of Employment | What date did you commence your current position? | | How long have you worked in your current position? | | How many hours per week do you work at your current service? | | Over your entire working history...
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...charming, manipulative, deceitful, ruthless--and very, very destructive” (n.p.). When you think about these qualities does anyone come to mind? Maybe the person is not a technical psychopath, but putting it into perspective like this helps to see how common these characteristics are. Chivers (2014) raised the issue that you could possibly work with a psychopath and not even be aware of it. He went on to summarize a study done by criminal psychologist, Robert Hare and stated that Hare and “another researcher looked at 203 corporate professionals and found about four percent scored sufficiently highly on the PCL-R to be evaluated for psychopathy.” The PCL-R is a test created by Hare that evaluates a person to “determine whether someone is a psychopath” (n.p.). As far as the four percent goes, that means that about eight out of those two hundred and three people is a psychopath. This research proves that a person can have psychopathic traits and not be a serial killer. Although it has been proven that psychopathy can be genetic, it does not prove to be the only reason of why a person comes to be a serial...
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...Daniela Magana Professor deCastro English 101 December 16, 2013 The Solutions to Childhood Obesity “Over the past three decades, childhood obesity rates in America have tripled, and today, nearly one in three children in America are overweight or obese. Children with childhood obesity face many health problems like type two diabetes, high blood, pressure and are at risk for many types of cancers. The lack of children’s physical activity today is one of the major factors that lead to obesity as well as eating unhealthy diets, the increased food portions and the lack of information about healthy choices. Dr. Anand, the Executive Director for the Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion, describes the prevalence of obesity as being “at epidemic proportions” (Center for Nutrition Policy & Promotion, 2008, pg. 2). This statement was made in 1998. Since then, the rates of obesity have continued to rise dramatically and if we don’t do anything to stop it these numbers will keep rising. Many people think that dealing with obesity is only the parent’s responsibility, but what we need to realize is that it is not only the parents responsibility, fighting this epidemic has also become the responsibility of our schools and communities. Obesity education needs to be in our homes, schools and our communities to raise awareness of the causes, as well as the risks. We need to take action in helping reduce this health problem which is affecting more and more children each day. Parents...
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...I was slightly torn on which topic to choose, I had a hard time deciding between drug trafficking in the United states and childhood obesity. I think that both of these topics are very important to everyone in many ways.I have chosen to go with childhood obesity because I think that people need to be more informed about this topic. I think that childhood obesity is often a form of child abuse. It is very sad. People need to be more informed of the current health problems and the potential future health problems that childhood obesity pose on the child. I plan to limit my topic by researching my topic on google and other such search engines. This way I can get a better understanding and more deeper look into what I want to base my paper on. There are so many angles that you could go on for childhood obesity; who's fault is it? whys does this happen? what are the statistics? is it a disease? I think that the main focus for my paper will be What causes childhood obesity, or who's fault is it. As well as the statistics, why has the number of obese children more than doubled in the last 20 years? I think that I have had a pretty easy time so far in limiting my topic. I am going to try and find more information to try and limit my topic better. So far tho I think that the web sites that I have found are giving me some good and accurate information. Some of the web sites that I found that I will use for further research are: http://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/obesity/facts.htm http://aspe...
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...Core State Standards on Developmentally Appropriate Practices in Early Childhood Classrooms Effects of Michigan Common Core State Standards on Developmentally Appropriate Practices in Early Childhood Classrooms Introduction As an early childhood teacher in 2013, I am constantly feeling challenged and overwhelmed by mandated curriculum from the State of Michigan. With the recent implementation of Michigan Common Core State Standards, I began to feel the pressure of teaching curriculum that the children do not seem to understand. I began to wonder why? Is it because I failed to deliver the lesson? Is it due to concepts being too difficult? Are the standards appropriate for all learners and where they are in their development? During my career spanning over twenty years, I have believed and am dedicated to providing a classroom environment that is developmentally appropriate for my early learners. I believe the problem is that Michigan's Common Core State Standards are causing early childhood teachers to teach in ways that are not developmentally appropriate. These beliefs brought me to this topic and caused me to ponder if others feel the way I do. Are the Common Core State Standards mandated by the state of Michigan are creating early childhood classrooms that are not developmentally appropriate as perceived by myself and my colleagues. I believe that early childhood classrooms should be free of mandates from the state when those mandates...
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...Epidemiology Paper on Childhood Obesity Obesity is a global epidemic affecting millions of the world population. Childhood obesity is especially worrisome as it is linked to higher incidence of health issues in adulthood (Lakshman, Elks, & Ong, 2012). There are many factors to look at when assessing the prevalence of childhood obesity, including culture, socio-economic status, food availability, activity, and genetics. To better understand this problem, it is essential to understand the factors that lead to obesity, how obesity is studied, and what are ways to help reduce the occurrence of obesity. Through epidemiology, this health concern can be better understood and provide the information needed to generate a plan of action to help reduce the risk factors that lead to childhood obesity. Epidemiology is “the study of the occurrence and distribution of health–related states or events and specified populations, including the study of the determinants influencing such states, and the application of this knowledge to control the health problems” (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2012, pg 255). Through epidemiology the questions of who, what, where, when, how, and why can be investigated to offer information about the dissemination or patterns of health measures. The Epidemiological Triangle allows epidemiologists to understand the relationships between agent, host, and the environment when looking at a specific health concern. When considering childhood obesity, the agent could be viewed...
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...of experiment and studies about four causes of homosexuality. The main point of this essay will be discussing and comparing between present and past, why today people now more convert themselve to be homosexual. The question why only needs causes, if comparing with the past about twenty to thirty years ago, there were less people who are homosexual or bisexual than now. This research essay will provides five sections which are five main causes, it includes psychology, experience(social environment), cultural influences and individuals liking due to differences between homosexuality and heterosuxaulity Psychology and Biology The focus on brain and behavior study shows us many evidence that homosexaulity is definitely related to psychology and biology. Could homosexuality be illness if it is only about psychology because human has different idea in everything and also has difference in mental health. However, there are several studies could not find any conclusion that being homosexual is considered an illness or not. “Although dispassionate scientific research on whether homosexuality should be viewed as an illness was largely absent from the fields of psychiatry, psychology, and medicine during the first half of the twentieth century, some researchers remained unconvinced that all homosexual individuals were mentally ill or socially misfit” (Berube, 1990). In the other hand, there are many studies about genetic behavior...
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...What is Psychology? Psychology – the scientific study of the human mind, mental states, and human behaviour. History of Psychology • Like Anthropology, Psychology is not very old • Born in the late 19th Century in Germany • Root word of Psychology is “Psyche” meaning “soul” Why did it take so long for Psychology to develop and be created? • Religions stood as an obstacle to the development of psychology Psychology became divided due to the fact that people disagreed about… 1. What to study 2. Methods of study – how to study psychology (experiments/interviews) 3. What the goal of psychology was (treatment/way to understand people) Branches of Psychology 1. Psychoanalysis – studies where it all came from/originated • Believes it is unconscious thoughts that make you who you are – Helps to predict behaviour • Unconscious Thoughts – thoughts you are not aware of • Childhood is the key to life and who you are • Children have natural desires • Childhood desires get “bottled up” • Believes that childhood memories that get “bottled up” come back to haunt you later in life • Sexual desire is “bottled up” in teens • Believes that troubled adults are people who have not approved of their childhood • Not very scientific Ways of Study • Dream Interpretation • Hypnotism • Free Association 2. Behaviourism – studies conscious thoughts and actions • Also believes childhood is crucial • Takes what you say seriously • Believes that you learn to behave in a certain...
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...Childhood Obesity ENG122 Matthew Fox July 23, 2012 Childhood Obesity Childhood obesity is a serious concern for youth today. Within the past 30 years childhood obesity has more than tripled. Four out of ten children are considered to be obese (Ogden CL 2010). Often when one sees overweight children, one will hear parents making excuses for why their child is overweight. For example one will hear a parent say “she is just big boned, or she will grow out of it, it’s just baby fat” these are nothing but excuses. Parents are in denial when it comes to their child being overweight or even obese. If parents today do not start taking this issue seriously, then that could be taken as a form of child abuse due to the long term health factors that childhood obesity can cause. A main claim that researches are finding is that parents are a cause of childhood obesity. In an article on ABC News by Alyssa Newcomb 2011 she followed a story about a 200 pound third grade boy that officials took from his mother and placed in foster care. Officials learned of the case after the mother took her son to the hospital for breathing trouble. What parents do not understand is that this condition can lead to serious health factors if not death in an obese child. Authorities are starting to become aware of the families and are charging the parents with abuse. Parents today have become fearful that their children will be taken from them if they are severely overweight. A three-decade...
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