According to the Search Institute, children from ages 3-18 need at least 31 of the 40 assets. Also according to the research, the more assets possessed by the individual the chances of alcohol and drug use, violence and sexual activity dramatically decrease. While looking at the charts and graphs of youth 6th-12th grade, I noticed something very interesting. It seems that violence is about 20% higher than every other high-risk behavior. I also noticed that in the chart based on percentages of youth that experience the assets, the following assets we below 30%; Positive Family Communication, Caring School Climate, Community Values Youth, Youth as Resources, Creative Activities, Adult Role Models, Reading for Pleasure, and Planning and Decision Making.
Women’s fear comes mostly from their vulnerability to sexual aggression; women are ten times more likely to be sexually assaulted than are men (Crowell & Burgess, 1996). Women are born with this fear. Parents, peers and media reinforce fear toward women into thinking that they’re vulnerable for an attack if they go out alone at night. Another suggestion why women are more fearful is irrationality, great concern for their children which ignites fear and less control over public and private spaces than men (Gilchrist, et al. 1988).
More than half of those divorces will be witnessed by children under the age of 18. Those who divorce once double the likelihood that they will divorce again meaning children involved are more likely to experience subsequent divorces. Divorce can be devastating and create unhealthy and inappropriate norms in children such as aggression, withdrawn behavior, depression, risky behaviors and attitudes, and most significantly interruption of healthy, normal growth and development. Some research suggests that children from divorced homes experience more psychological trauma than those who experience the death of a parent. Divorce impacts the emotional wellbeing of children and adolescents under the age of 18 in multiple ways depending on their
Some of the things that women have or do face and cause them to abuse drugs are being physically or sexually abused as a child or even as an adult, being victimized as an adult by some sort of domestic violence, and having a spouse or partner that also partakes in abusing drugs. In todays world most recovery programs are designed for the male process of recovery and there are numerous problems with accessing programs for women; especially women with minor children. Although a study found that white women and women of color abuse substances at similar rates; women of color are disproportionately tested for drug use and receive more child protective services interventions. Prevention of substance abuse by women will take more than just education; it’ll take a conscious effort to take control of this problem. Women who abuse drugs usually abuse more then one.
Although the most common effects of stress are insomnia, stomachaches, headaches, anxiety, and irritability, stress can also be a major factor in depression and eating disorders. Michael Simon, an East Bay psychotherapist, estimates that 60 percent of high school students have their eating habits disrupted in some way by stress and that 20 to 30 percent of teenagers have their mental health affected negatively by stress. Most teenagers worry about issues that are much more serious than cliché high school problems such as homework and popularity. According to Bay Area psychologists and teenagers interviewed by the Daily Planet, high school students often worry about being successful, both in the immediate future and later i n life. Barrows said teenagers often fear that they won’t make it in a competitive society.
Traub (2009) discusses the reliability of Dissociative Identity Disorder identification and categorization. Many believe that the DID is a symptom after a traumatic event, he states that “… the disorder is a defensive response that results naturally from continuous and tremendous childhood trauma, particularly from physical and sexual abuse” (Traub, 2009, p. 348). He talks about different sections, addressing whether Dissociative Identity Disorders are reliable diagnosis.. In the category of childhood trauma, Traub (2009) talks about how many psychiatrists believe the cause of many of the DID cases are due to trauma when they were children, especially in those that deal with an accumulation of traumatic events. People that advocates for DID states that it is necessary for childhood trauma to be predecessor and cause of this particular disorder.
Family studies carried out by Gottesman in 1991 helped to look into this further. His studies concluded the following: Throughout the general population, 1% had the disease, 13% of children of people with it suffered but the highest family group connected to the person who suffered from schizophrenia was identical twins with 47%. This information proves that there is obviously a link between genetics and schizophrenia as it would seem the more genetically linked you are to a person suffering from schizophrenia, the more likely it is for that person to suffer from it themselves. However, the highest percentage of people most likely to inherit the disease from another person, identical twins, only account for 47% which is less than half of the population who could inherit, meaning that genetics are not entirely to blame and cant be seen as a completely accurate explanation for schizophrenia. The current belief is that there are a number of genes that contribute to susceptibility of schizophrenia, but none exhibit full responsibility for the disease.
Disruptive Behavior Disorders are often diagnosed during early childhood and associated with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. (Felix, 2004). The Disruptive Behavior Disorders are the most common psychiatric disorder of childhood, with a prevalence of 4-9% of the entire pediatric population. (Felix, 2004) Disruptive Behavior Disorders in children are characterized by poor social relationships due to extremes of aggressiveness, lying, defiance, irritability, blaming others, cruelty, stealing, destructiveness, and rage. ( Keith,n.d)The child has show some of these symptoms, and that has cause me to worry about him.
Although some stepparent-child bonds become extremely strong, the hurt, uncertainty and hesitation that many experience is undeniable. This awkward stage may even develop into full fledged animosity especially if a child feels that a potential stepparent is trying to replace a biological parent. Stepparents and their legal stepchildren may indeed experience many of the broad stages of interpersonal relationships, but the unique circumstances of remariage complicate every aspect of the process. The introduction between a child and a potential stepparent is different from many other relationships, because it may make the child feel that the situation
parenting skills and support parents in coping with extremely distressing emotions and obstacles. (Kourkoutas, et.al., 2012) The results in the study conducted by (Gray, 2002), indicate that a majority of the parents experienced both types of stigma, but that mothers were more likely to do so than fathers. It was especially true in the case of enacted stigma, where a majority of mothers, but only a minority of fathers, encountered avoidance, hostile staring and rude comments from others. The child's type of autistic symptoms was also related to the stigmatization of their parents, with parents of aggressive children more likely to experience stigma than the parents of passive children. The study also found that the distinction between felt