How Divorce Impacts Children
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8 pages in length. Through a child's eyes, divorce is nothing short of a disaster. To them, it symbolizes the complete destruction of their family unit, forcing them to choose sides in a game they never wanted to play in the first place. The stress that accompanies divorce cannot help but infiltrate the child's every waking moment, eventually detrimentally affecting school work, social relationships and issues of self-esteem. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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How I Survived Being Sexually Abused as a Child
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A 3 page insight into the horrors of child abuse and what one individual did to survive. Abused as a seven year old, the author encourages others to not keep silent. No sources are listed.
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How Necessary is Discipline for Children?
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A 6 page paper analyzing child-rearing advice found in a syndicated newspaper column for validity and applicability to a broad range of families. John Rosemond, psychologist and author of all three of the articles examined here, appears to be a voice of reason, standing firmly midway of those who advocate worshiping the child and those who hold to the repressive views of past times when children often had no rights at all. He advocates common sense over learned authority and diagnosis, as he describes in his article 'To get child's attention, be as outrageous as child is,' in which he tells how parents of an unruly fifth-grader gained their son's attention and enabled him to change his behavior. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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How Punishment Harms Children
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This 6 page paper examines studies on punishment and evaluates how punishment psychologically impacts children in America. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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How Young Children Learn Social Skills
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A 5 page paper which examines how children develop social skills and what support can be provided to parents to enable them to raise their children to understand and respect others. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Human Development, Goffman’s Total Institutions,” and Survival
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This 5 page report briefly discusses both Erik Erikson and Jean Piaget’s theories of child development and looks at Erving Goffman’s concept of “total institutions” such as prisons, mental hospitals, and other closed environments. The information is then applied to what a person would need in order to survive his or her time in a prison camp by using that information along with the account of Viktor Frankl’s own experiences in a World War II prison camp. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Hyperactivity Research Proposal
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An 8 page hypothetical research proposal that outlines the parameters of how a student might address researching an aspect of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children. The writer suggests exploring ADHD children who are not on medication as the proposed topic. The majority of this paper consists of roughly a six-page literature review. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Hypothesis Concerning Child Abuse
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A 2 page research paper that focuses on presenting a hypothesis, which is do children who have been sexually abused become abusers themselves, in terms of what are the dependent and independent variable in this proposed study. These terms are defined giving several examples of what constitutes a dependent and independent variable. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Ideas That Influence The Understanding Of And Response To Psychosexual Development Of Children And Youth
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6 pages in length. Sexuality is an ever-evolving human behavior; from era to era and society to society, this particular aspect of humanity continues to reinvent itself as trends and disease dictate the path people take when it comes to sexual activity. Children and youth - who are only just beginning their entrance into sexual understanding and exploration - have also undergone considerable change in the way in which each group associates itself with sexuality, a continuously changing perspective that is influenced by myriad social elements. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Impact of Domestic Violence on Children
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This 8 page research paper examines the long-term effects of domestic violence on children. Specifically discussed include signs and symptoms of behavior exhibited by children who have witnessed acts of domestic violence and what can be done to help them. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
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Implications of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome in Middle Childhood
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This 11 page paper examines FAS and FAE and how it affects children in middle childhood. Implications for social work are explored. Psychological models that come from Piaget and Erickson and others, are discussed in depth. Bibliography lists 14 sources.
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Infant Attachment: Influence on Later Behavior
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An 8 page review of the phenomenon of parental child attachment. Emphasizes that this attachment extends from the womb to later life and can affect many aspects of a child’s behavior. Indeed, the degree to which a child attaches to a parent during the early months of his or her life can determine subsequent behaviors as diverse as language acquisition to the formation of healthy adult relationships. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Infant Attachment: Theories
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6 pages in length. Cognitive and emotional growth does not exist at birth; rather, each one requires the presence of security from and bonding with parental figures to nurture development. If an infant is not provided with the love and connection inherent to this bonding period, the very real potential exists for the child to have developmental problems of stability that impact his entire life. Understanding the fundamental principles behind attachment theories allows for a greater realization of just how critical a human-to-human bond is for an infant who, in essence, is a clean slate of cognitive and emotional proficiency requiring the one-on-one experience and connection in order to cultivate them. Piaget and Vygotsky are two developmental theorists who provide their respective philosophies to illustrate how vitally important the notion of attachment is during infancy as well as into the first years of life. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Infant Awareness
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A 6 page paper which discusses infant awareness as it is proposed by Locke with theories of blank slates and the theories of Chomsky who believed that infants are born with a sense of awareness. The paper argues that Chomsky is accurate in his theories. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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INFANT LEARNING AND THE WELL BEING OF A CHILD
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This 7 page paper discusses the way parents over emphasize learning with their infants to the detriment of overall development and well being of the child. Quotes cited from texts of experts in field. Bibliography lists 6 soruces.
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Infidelity: The Cultural and Psychological Basis
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A 20 page discussion of infidelity in relation to marital commitment. Discusses the variation in views of infidelity across culture and time. Asserts that while infidelity is a more acceptable behavioral component of some cultures, these cultures are most often viewed as being primitive and inferior by "mainstream" white culture. Infidelity is viewed by mainstream society therefore as an aberrant behavior, a behavior which is a reflection of the growing immorality of our society. Concludes that there are a number of formative traits which are acquired in childhood which impact our adult perceptions on infidelity. While these traits vary according to our culture and also according to time they are not in themselves any sort of aberration but simply a reflection of a child learning from its culture. Bibliography lists 14 sources.
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Intervention - Recovered Memories And Trauma
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This 6 page paper begins with an introduction to the study identifying independent and dependent variables and comments on the difficulties of validating recovered memories, which are the dependent variable. The paper identifies the target population and the two types of therapeutic approaches that would be used with victims of recovered memories of child sexual abuse. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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