In the article “Methamphetamine: Are Tougher Anti-Meth Laws Needed?” Rusty Payne, spokesman for United States Drug Enforcement Administration, says, “Parents are consumed with getting their next high, they completely neglect everything around them, including their children.” When a meth user comes off of the high meth produces, often times they sleep for days on end. While in the process of coming off a meth high, a mother let her seven month old drown. Methamphetamine can enter a child’s bloodstream from coming in contact with someone cooking or smoking meth. When officers searched meth labs in 2003, seventy percent of children had toxic chemicals in their system. Children who come in contact with methamphetamine on a daily basis can develop cancer or liver, kidney, spleen, or brain damage.
For some reason unknown, the nurses and doctor were unable to perform this procedure at the time she arrived. Not knowing that during the time she was waiting in the hospital, her unborn son was losing oxygen. Their son suffered from loss of oxygen to the brain during his birth, and was born with severe and permanent developmental delays, severe and permanent brain damage, multiple physical and mental disabilities, and Cerebral Palsy (Wenger & Rector, 2012). Describe the issues of the legal case. Some issues that arose during this preceding were that the defendant, John Hopkins Hospital, did not think that they were responsible for the child’s brain damages.
This book is about a young woman suffering and trying to overcome her borderline personality disorder. It is here to declare that raging mental illness CAN be cured. A twenty-nine-year-old woman by the name of Rachel Reiland is an accountant, wife, and mother of two young children, Jeffrey and Melissa. In her early childhood Rachel grew up with a very strict and rude father, a dependent, weak mother, and a caring sister. Her parents never realized that after every meal Rachel would secretly go to the bathroom upstairs and throw up everything she had eaten.
Tenant has not paid rent for three months due to the fact that her landlord has not fixed several dangerous conditions at the apartment. She delivered a letter to her landlord a month ago complaining of the toilet overflowing that have caused the bathroom’s floor to rotten to the point where Ms. Tenant’s youngest child fell through the floor; also electrical wiring is exposed on child’s bedroom. Ms. Tenant also complains that even though she has notified on several occasions the landlord of the loitering and dangerous activities going on at the building at all times, the landlord has failed to do anything to improve the safety of the tenants. Also, two neighbors of Ms. Tenant and a police officer denied that she is the one bringing the loitering people or causing problems inside the building; furthermore, one of her neighbors states that this is an act of revenge against Ms. Tenant because she had been collecting signatures to press the landlord to provide security guards to improve the safety of the buildings.
Tracy has been crying frequently since her mother has returned, and Ben disappeared for two days without telling anyone where he was. Harold feels overwhelmed and does not know what to do. When he discovered some marijuana in Ben's room, he decided the family needed to see a therapist. Identify and evaluate specific methods you would use during the assessment and diagnosis phase with this couple or family. In the vignette, it was reported that, the Jones Family is
People need to be educated about the pain that can be caused by overzealous therapists. In June 1991 our then 30-yearold daughter began seeing a therapist for depression following her divorce. After seeing her for less than a month, this man analyzed her dreams and told her that the depression was from repressed memories of sexual abuse. Since then, she has broken all contact with us. Her siblings, however, do not believe the accusations.
The method of so-called therapy landed Andre McCollin in the hospital in a nonresponsive state for three days. Cheryl McCollin now has a civil suit against the Center for the damaging treatment against her son. Who is now diagnosed with acute stress disorder and to her will never be the same. Since the Center
My first report will be on the failure to protect Baby P. He suffered horrific abuse, yet the same social work department that was criticised in the Victoria Climbie case never took him into care despite a number of warning signals and injuries. The failure to protect Baby P was because of poor practice by health professionals, social workers, police and lawyers rather than systematic breakdown, a serious case review found. Professionals in the London borough of Haringey saw the boy 60 times before his death, caused by his mother and stepfather, and the inquiry found agencies communicated with each other and procedures were largely followed. However, there was a poor flow of information in some areas. Despite being on the child protection
Throughout the reading you will wonder how someone could treat their child the way he is treated and gives you a different perspective on child abuse. You feel sorry for him and disappointed at his mother’s parenting skills. Throughout the book David is abused by his mother. He is stabbed, starved to death, and even locked in a bathroom with just the smell of ammonia. There was times when David thought he would never make it and that he was going to die, because of all
Mr Ewell is a terrible father due to his abusiveness and neglect. He doesn?t care for or look after his children and so Mayella, his eldest daughter, has to carry out his job. ?Nobody was quite sure ho many children were on the place. Some people said six, others said nine? With lots of children to take care of Mayella was only able to get two to three years of education and she had no friends.