The researchers found children who were spanked as 1-year-olds tended to behave more aggressively at age 2, and didn’t perform as well as other children on a test measuring thinking skills at age 3. Children’s Hospital Boston’s Jayne Singer, PhD, clinical director of the Child and Parent Program and a clinical psychologist for the Brazelton Touchpoints Center says, “The results of the study make sense. Spanking a child does show the child that the parent is bigger and stronger and can take control of the child. But, it doesn’t show the child how to learn to develop control of themselves. Spanking may stop the child then and there, but there’s a cost emotionally and cognitively to a child, and over the long run, it doesn’t usually lead to the child learning not to repeat the behavior that resulted in the spanking in the first place.
For example ‘if the worst happened is it true that I would not be able to handle it?’, this would enable negative and irrational thoughts to be dispelled. Cognitive therapy alone only addresses the obsessive component of the disorder, not the compulsion component. However, when used alongside behavioural therapies (it is then known as CBT) it is found a fairly effective method of treating OCD. Graziano and Mooney demonstrated the effectiveness of CBT; 17 children with a fear of the dark were taught self-relaxation techniques, self-reinforcement and to recite brave self-statements. This group was compared to a group with no treatment.
At the scheduled interview of a parent with a Learning Disable child, the term was explained in content to the disability diagnosed as ADHD. The term learning disability is best defined by IDEA of 2004 as the inability to understand or in use language, spoken or written, becoming apparent through an “imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or to do mathematical calculations” (U.S. Department of Education, 2013). The parent was assured that this was no reflection on the child’s cognitive abilities since most children diagnosed with ADHD were of average and above intelligence. The child merely thinks differently than the average child and with the help of an Individual Education Plan can succeed to complete his education to the fullest as so desired. Typical characterizes of ADHD were noted in the following interview.
The Effects of Divorce on Children Terry Means Palm Beach State College Author Note This paper was prepared for Human Growth and Development, DEP2004, taught by Dr. Michael Miles. The Effects of Divorce on Children Introduction Divorce relates to a life-transforming experience that affects children once it occurs. The impact is significant and psychologists advise parents considering divorce to assess and consider the impact that divorce presents to their children. It is therefore evident that any effect on the life of the parents impacts the children, either temporary or in the long-run. Some parents remain unaware of the impacts of divorce among children aged zero to three years or infants (Levin, 2013).
The researchers questioned “What affects improvisational music therapy had on improving joint attention behaviors of children with autism, and how the improvements will be used to benefit their communication, language, and social skills?” Limited joint attention development in children with autism, is the dependent variable of this study. Improvisational music therapy and play therapy are the independent variables of this study. The study was conducted in a controlled setting; a comparison was made on the behavioral changes exhibited during both music and play therapy sessions. Thirteen boys and two girls with autism who were between the age of three and five, who had never received music or play therapy, were chosen to participate in the study. However, due to health issues and the length of the travel requirements, five of the children dropped out, and the study only involved ten boys with autism.
Some schools banned pagers and cell phones starting a decade ago because of their connection to drug and gang activity, as well as due to the disruption to classes. The focus on their disruption of the educational process has come into conflict with cell phones becoming a convenience items over recent years. However, parents have increasingly lobbied boards to change policies primarily based on the argument that phones will make students and schools safer in light of national tragedies. Kacie Tampen, 18, sat in math class as she began getting call after call from her Uncle Jim. Curious, she answered as she feared something terrible happened, resulting in her getting her cell phone taken away.
We never considered the mere fact that the kids were close by and that they are like little sponges that absorb anything they see or hear and that this affects them the way they grow up. It is said by some researchers that it depends on the stability of the home how it affects the children that come from split homes. Last year a research from the U.S. Department of Education’s National Education Longitudinal Study which followed about 7,000 kids of ages 12 and over turned out fine as long as the divorce home environment was stable. (http://www.babble.com/kid/child-development/effects-of-divorce-on-children-parents-separated/) Another research of the same kind found that when the home is not stable and is not home like environment kids might turn out with a lot issues such as low self-esteem, aggression, and school problems. In my separation with my kids’ father it affected my children negatively.
Each day, students are given homework assignments, which are usually due the next day and if it is not turned in the child is penalized. At least once a week students take quizzes and test, if the child studies they will pass the test, if not they will get a failing grade. My son is in elementary school, he has special needs, Joshua is currently failing in his classes, I have talked to his principal and teachers on and off for two years about his grades and discipline problems, well, I have concluded that the public school system is not big on helping special needs students. In a recent interview I conducted, Mellissa - a current homeschooling mother, says that her son Timmy has learning problems and was treated badly and unfairly by his teachers, which in her opinion made him depressed and was a cause of his grades dropping dramatically. On the upside, there are positive roles that public education plays in your child’s life.
“ Medicating our children will have a devastating effect on their development.” Discuss. In the last decades, medicating children has become a fashionable trend in most Western countries. Lacking the ability to focus and concentrate on learning tasks at school has been prescribed as a psychological illness which can be treated by means of behavior-modifying medication. But what are the side-effects of providing our children with this medicine? Is it the case that all children who do not pay attention at school should be medicated?
I would go try to take the test and never finish because I felt I couldn’t do it. Until December 2011 I keep telling myself that if I didn’t go get it my kids would never have anything and I would be forced to live off the state or my mom. So December came along and I forced myself to go take that test. I was surprised to say I passed everything except my essay part. It took me two weeks to study for the next essay test and I passed with flying colors.