Throughout the book, “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot, it was evident that Deborah Lacks was curious to find out what happened to her mother, Henrietta, and her sister, Elsie. For her mother, she wanted to find out how she died and what happened to the HeLa cells. For her sister, Deborah wanted to know how she died and what kind of life she had at Crownsville. These questions concerning Elsie and Henrietta took such a toll on Deborah that she became physically ill and suffered extreme stress. In order to find out what happened to her sister Elsie, Deborah and Rebecca went to visit Crownsville where Elsie was staying before she died.
Building the Bonds of Attachment Awakening Love in Deeply Troubled Children by Daniel Hughes I. Issue of Child Abuse a. Fictional case study of Katie that follows her from birth through eight yrs. b. Parents of Katie—Sally and Mike and their relationship c. Neglect of infant but Sally provides basic needs but not on a regular basis d. Age two—physical abuse of Katie starts with father hitting her and shoving her away and verbal abuse from both parents e. Age three to five—physical and verbal abuse from both parents, Katie is not getting her basic needs meet on a regular basis f. Age five—after a severe beating , neighbor calls police to report and Katie is placed into permanent state custody II. Summary of the book This book follows the neglect and abuse of Katie and is told in story format for parts of the book.
Damage to the central nervous system caused by the disease led to poor attention, impulsivity, and over activity in children who survived, researchers began to look for signs of brain injury in other children who had similar behavioral profiles. By the 1950’s, researchers began to refer to this disorder as “minimal brain damage,” which was
The reader can hear a child’s reaction to the situations that plague her life. She describes numerous childhood experiences that are valuable to children of a young age such as when she says, “Or maybe some days you might need to sit on your mama’s lap because you’re scared...” these expressions help to display the speaker’s age in the story. To continue on, Rachael uses numerous similes to describe her crying like uncontrollable hiccups, drinking milk too fast, and little animal noises. Conversely, while Rachael diction often reflects her age her diction sometimes takes a turn to reflect her inner intellect. “…The sweater that smells like cottage cheese,” shows that while Rachael is still only a child her personality is one that posses age.
In her essay “Kiddy Thinks,” Alison Gopnik discusses the importance of the cognitive development of children in the first few years of their life. She also attempts to break the traditional view that children, in their early stages, think quite differently than adults. Gopnik uses a logical standard of evaluation to provide information on the different stages children go through when developing important cognitive skills. She supports her information with a variety of experiments as a researcher, and personal experiences as a parent. Unfortunately, she concludes her essay with political and social issues, which weakens her argument as it drifts away from her purpose.
It came back a year later that only 60% of these children that were treated were successful, while the rest failed, but it is stated that this medication is not for everyone and does have severe side effects. Some of the side effects are that of more sleep for the medicated, where as the unmediated can get less sleep. With Ritalin a child can become more depressed, but the pro would be the ability to focus more in school. In my personal opinion, you can medicate a child to death, but you need to understand the cause of the behavioral problem, before you can remove the cause. Just proving a child with medicine but not really knowing for what is not the answer.
Who is the woman behind the yellow wallpaper? A woman who had depression, anxiety and delusions of herself. You try staying in a room with completely nothing to do for hours and hours a day at a time. It’s exactly what the woman behind the yellow wallpaper did. Her husband John made her depression worsen.
In Laura’s case, I can’t imagine the anxiety that she must feel from not knowing. Even after doing her part as a parent and having her son tested for possible lead poisoning after seeing him eat paint of the hotel walls, she now cannot read the letter from the hospital telling her that he in fact does have dangerously high levels of lead in his system and needs immediate treatment. The same is to be said about the situation with her infant daughter. Kozol (2011) explains “she got something under her skin. Something that bites” (p. 253).
Early depressive symptoms were formed in the children but did not forecast current sleep problems. The families still function well with or without the dilemma. The article’s conclusion stated that persistence or recurrence of infants with sleep problems as toddlers is frequent and is linked to vaguely higher child behavior problems and depression among mothers. The outcomes propose
•Vulnerable mothers and children As I was watching the video about premature babies I did not see many factors that were leading to the premature babies. TO me this was more of the cause and effect of the babies being pre mature. However I did notice that many of the ladies that they were mentioning that were having the pre mature babies were very young. With this I think that two factors that are present in this video that can increase the mothers and babies vulnerability are age and education. In our text book it says that premature babies have a higher risk or health problems and death.