Essays on Child Page 4

Developed in 2001, the Test is a psychological testing tool created by Judith Beck, Aaron Beck, John Jolly, and Robert Steer. Its main purpose is to measure distress in children and adolescents (Flanagan & Henington, 2005). The Test consists of five self-administered scales collectively called the Beck Youth Inventory: the Beck Depression Inventory, Beck Anxiety…

This comprehensive essay and research paper presents a thorough examination of the history and potential future of violence on television. Children and the Media Examining the past and future of televised violence. While telecasting may have negative effects on some children in certain situations, it can also be beneficial for others under different circumstances. However,…

Spanking, which is a type of child abuse, has been historically employed as a means of discipline. Corporal punishment, another term for spanking, entails causing physical pain to a child in order to enforce discipline. This can be accomplished by patting the buttocks, employing a belt or paddle, or smacking the hand or mouth. Straus…

Walden Two, a spinoff of Henry David Thoreau’s Walden, was published by the Macmillan Company in 1948. It is an extended exploration of the establishment of a Utopian society, created by T. Under the guidance of E. Frazier, Professor Burris is prompted by a former student to search for information about Walden Two. As a…

Transitions of all kinds will almost certainly have some effect on children and young people and many are an inevitable part of a young person’s development. Sometimes this effect could be a positive one, but often the effect can be far reaching throughout interlinking aspects of a child’s development. If a child has moved to…

Within the first few hours after conception a phenomenon takes place in the one-cell human embryo that has awed scientists and philosophers for more then a century. The genes of the mother, carried by the ovum, and the genes of the father, carried by the sperm pair up. At that moment, when the paring is…

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY  Since Israel’s 1967 occupation of the West Bank, including Jerusa- lem and Gaza, it is estimated that Israeli civil and military authorities have destroyed 24,000 Palestinian homes in the occupied Palestinian territory (OPT). The rate of house demolitions has risen significantly since the second Intifada began in September 2000 and, as this study…

Current legislation, guidelines , Policies and procedures. The following is an outline of current legislation, guidelines, policies and procedures within own UK Home Nation for safeguarding children The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child 1989 was approved by the UK on the 16th December 1991. This includes: Children’s rights to protection from…

The theory of neurosis. In developmental psychology, Karen Horney emphasized the significance of childhood perceptions of society, particularly involving parents. She introduced the notion of neurotic needs in daily life and took a more relaxed stance on neurosis. The later neurotic tendencies seen in adults can be traced back to the indifference that parents with…

The parenting style a parent decides to use to discipline the children can have either a positive or negative effect on the children. In the story The Ditchdigger’s Daughter by Yvonne S. Thornton, Thornton tells the story of how her parents parented her throughout her childhood. Thornton’s parents use a parenting style called authoritative parenting…