What is oppositional defiant disorder? Parents usually feel the brunt of their child's ODD behaviour. Oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) is a disorder where children have disruptive and oppositional behaviour that is particularly directed towards authority figures, such as parents or teachers. ODD is less severe and more common than conduct disorder. Children with ODD are constantly defiant, hostile and disobedient.
Social Difficulty can lead to inapropreate social skills, social isolation, inaccurate social perceptions. In the school setting children can expearnce difficulty concentrating, poor academic performance, absenteeism, overall school climate and breakdown of school connectedness, escalating school violence. The problem has become so serious that bullying has been increasingly considered as a public health issue plaguing our entire society. More then half of the boys in 6-9th grade that are classified as bullies are later convicted of at
Being a victim of bullying is a very difficult and painful experience and while a child is in attendance at school they should be clear from harm and danger. The imbalance of power associated with bullying obtains the components of physical, verbal or psychological violent behavior (Pranjić & Bajraktarević, 2010). Studies have shown that symptoms with bullying in primary school children, has revealed a considerable connection between victimization and signs that indicates victims of bullying suffers from sleep difficulties, bed-wetting, headaches, stomach aches, fatigue, and school-related problems (Brown, Birch, & Kancherla, 2005). This paper examines the effects that bullying has on the health of school-aged children. In particular, concerns addressed are depression, suicide ideation, mental health risks, and violent behavior.
Child abuse has created massive sufferance of children and can cause negative outcomes through emotional instability in the mind and heart, painfulness of physical wounds, and can cause traumatic distress in the future. Although each parent and child may have their own problems, it is not fair if we let child abuse to happen because it can create senseless and complicated issues. Child abuse has created invisible pain to children’s emotions. According to the National Child Abuse Statistics in 2006, “80% of children getting abused can easily develop psychiatric disorders at the age of 21 such as depression, anxiety, and eating disorders.” The outcomes of a child being abused can create profound sadness, attempts of suicide, and can affect on his/her social life with others. “In Los Angeles 2003, Richard Jr. suffered abuse during high school at Don Boscov Technical Institute and resulted in depression and suicidal.” (Quinn) As a result, child abuse can bring down children’s self-esteem low and emotional instability in the mind and heart.
Most children are experiencing verbal assaults that are mainly insulting their outward appearances, threats from bullies who want to inflict the pain they feel on someone other than themselves, pushing, shoving, grabbing, and slapping from children who are more than likely physically abused at home, threats involving the intended use or actual use of knives and guns which are usually gang related, and theft. There are many students that are experiencing emotional, sexual, and other abuse in schools, where the crimes should have, and could have been prevented. There are different types of threats also; there are direct threats, indirect threats, veiled threats, and conditional threats. The consequences of the threats should be ranked by the levels of low, medium, or high. There are also many ways in which schools are trying to prevent a violent incident.
There are many negative situations which often happen in a structured setting, such as the classroom, that causes teachers to have to do more than just teach. Teachers should have their classrooms set up with ideas and learning centers that will help students with their learning. There is not just one guideline on how the classroom should be set up. Different teachers have different learning techniques. Most teachers find what works for them and this is how they teach.
The food shortage had caused many children to suffer from chronic malnutrition and anemic. Many of these children are physically and nutritionally stunted. The children also suffer from emotional problems as they have to live in constant fear for the safety of themselves and their family members as many Palestinians are being killed. Many children in Gaza strip are suffering from post traumatic stress disorder, anxiety disorders and mental health problems as they are being exposed to bombardment, shelling and witnessing others being killed. While children under siege mainly has been affected from shortage of food and medical supply, children living in West Bank which under occupation have to live in pressure as the curfews forces them to stay at home for days and weeks.
Bullying and Strict Disciplinary Actions Have you ever been bullied? More importantly, have you ever been the bully? Over 54,000 children ranging from the ages of 5 – 18 get bullied every day. However, there are some disagreements on the disciplinary actions that should be taken. Despite the disagreements, strict disciplinary actions need to be enforced in schools to avoid bullying; because, it disrupts the learning environment, causes future disadvantages, and makes the victims become emotionally unstable.
I am writing about an issue that occurs within broken families and is a form of child abuse. This little known form of abuse is called Hostile Parenting, formally called Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS). Hostile Parenting is a group of behaviors that are damaging to the children’s mental and emotional well-being and can interfere with a relationship between the child and either parent. These behaviors most often accompany high conflict marriages, separation and divorce. The behaviors whether verbal or nonverbal, cause a child to be mentally manipulated or bullied into believing a loving parent is the cause of all their problems, or the enemy to be feared, hated, disrespected and avoided.
Effective Disciplining in Public High Schools: How to Deal with Students Considered to be Constant Trouble Makers Name: Institution: Disciplining students in public high school is one of the main challenging issues facing teachers and school administrators around the world. High school students engage in disruptive behaviors such as tardiness, physical and verbal attacks, substance abuse, stalking and intimidation. These behaviors if not rectified escalate to intolerable and dangerous levels that affect the performance of an individual at school. This paper discusses some strategies which public school should use to improve behavior among students who cause trouble. First, it is imperative that teachers should understand the cause of student’s behavior.