Apa Case Conceptualization

From the day a child is born, they are considered a clean slate where their innocence is valued about all. In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, the child narrator, Scout Finch, is used to describe the innocence of not knowing the harms of the world. Childhood innocence doesn’t last forever and is only truly valued when it is gone. Scout lives in an old neighborhood filled with grown people. The only other children are Jem Finch, her brother, and Charles Baker Harris who goes by Dill. The small town of Maycomb, Alabama is known to be tired and old. There is little to none excitement and the town is known to be safe. This has a huge impact Scout which causes her to be naïve and innocent. The town consisting of old people causes the ones around

When thinking about an older woman in today’s pop culture, the first person I think of is Beverly Harris from the hit TV show Roseanne. Beverly is the mother of Roseanne and grandmother to her four kids. She is the exact definition of “Metaphor” of the older woman in the show; Myrna Hunt argues that the Metaphor for disease, isolation, worthlessness, vulnerability, dissatisfaction and decrepitude (Pg 12).

Jenny is being seen by a therapist because her husband has left her and relocated to another town with her children. Jenny would be categorized under the DSM-5 obsessive-compulsive-related disorder which includes hoarding. Jenny is suffering from several symptoms that would put her into this category specially suffering from a hoarding syndrome. Jenny meet all the 4’s of diagnosis; Deviance: it is abnormal to have a house overflowing with “stuff”. Distress: relationship issues, isolation. Danger: it is a fire and health hazard to have a house lived in under those circumstances. Dysfunction: Jenny is unable to carry out her duties as a mom and wife. This pattern causes the individual significant distress and may greatly impair their personal, social, occupational functioning (Comer, 2014)

Have you ever thought about your mental, social health and your mental growth? In the book Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, it is brought up that the people who are around the main character, Melinda, affect her mental, social health, and her mental growth. How family and friends or even the people we hardly know can make an impact on our lives in both negative and positive ways. Melinda demonstrates this throughout the entire book. “I bet they’d be divorced by now if I hadn’t been born. I’m sure I was a huge disappointment. I’m not pretty or smart or athletic. I’m just like them— an ordinary drone dressed in secrets and lies. I can’t believe we have to keep playacting until I graduate. It’s a shame we can’t just

The quality of one’s early attachments style as infants, determines the pathways of psychosocial development for the future as they develop in adults (Broderick & Blewitt, 2015). The correlation between psychosocial functioning, self-confidence, independence, and social skills, maybe due to the result of infants whom experienced medical problems and or environmental influences. Some of these influences may have negative impact as it may have developed deficiencies in their lifespan development

Taking your puppy to a good obedience school is a worthwhile investment in your dog’s life as well as yours. In the past, it was recommended by experts to start formal training classes when the dog was about six months old. However, today, animal behaviorists recommend starting much younger because by six months, bad habits can be formed that are difficult to change. If your dog doesn’t have any health problems, you can start formal classes as early as seven to eight weeks.

My daughter Jade is twenty three years old and has been in a common-law relationship for over two years. The man she is involved with is DJ and he has a three year old girl that lives in Ontario, that my daughter loves very much, from a previous relationship. In the recent past DJ had found a good job in Calgary Alberta and had decided to move for this opportunity even though it would be difficult for him to see his daughter. My daughter was committed to their relationship so she had moved to Calgary Alberta to be with him. In Calgary she had found a job at Walmart and quickly advanced to customer service representative. She was very content in Alberta for about eight months until her boyfriend DJ decided he could not live quite so far away from his daughter and informed her he was moving back to Ontario at the end of the month. My daughter 's world got turned upside down overnight,

The infant observation was of a baby girl named Zoie. First to be noticed was her full head of curly short black hair and thin black eye brows. Zoie also had very bright brown eyes, full round cheeks, small ears, and a small nose. She has a caramel skin tone and she also has a piercing in each of her ears. Zoie had nine teeth and was drooling immensely. Her body was proportional, her stomach was full and round, she had tiny feet, and short fingers.

One concept discussed in the reading and visualized in the movie What’s Eating Gilbert Grape is the fragility of our genes; one “mistake” in our coding can affect a person mentally or physically. Our genotype and phenotype guide what characteristics we inherit from our parents (like height and eye color) as well as our physical and behavioral characteristics. While genes can be a positive effect on our development, enabling us to become strong, tall people, it can also have negative effects. In the movie, Gilbert has a younger brother named Arnie. Although never explicitly stated, Arnie has a mental disorder of some kind. This occurs because of a genetic abnormality that can interfere with normal development. In the movie, this is manifested in Arnie’s maturity level, his speech and he walks somewhat oddly, with his leg turned inward and hanging behind. He often does not produce his own speech; he scripts what he hears others say. He also cannot process how to react to emotional news or control his impulsivity. (as seen by his reaction to his mothers death and his desire to climb the

Anxiety can end up becoming depression if they do not get it treated in time. Depression can happen when the person is constantly having anxiety related problems such as anxiety attacks and the constant feeling that they are not good enough for anything and everything they do. They may pretend to be happy by faking happiness while inside they are mentaling breaking down, ready to give up. Some can get by with faking, but some are lucky enough to have someone in their life that actually knows if they are okay or not. If they do not think they can not handle the constant fillings and they may decide suicide is their only way out from what they are feeling. If you know someone you believe is dealing with depression or suicidal thoughts, please

According to the DSM-/V, the essential feature of separation anxiety disorder, also known as SAD, is “developmentally inappropriate and excessive anxiety concerning separation from the home or from those to whom the individual is attached”. The DSM code for separation anxiety is 309.21/F93.0. Most children occasionally have mild worries about separating from a parent, but with separation anxiety there can be a dramatic affect in a person’s ability to engage in everyday activities. Children with this disorder become extremely upset at just the thought of being away from their primary caregiver. That person can be a parent, close relative, nanny, or any other caregiver that they are close with. Separation anxiety affects two to five percent of

Adolescence marks a period of transition in a teenager’s life,it marks a passage between childhood and adulthood. It is where we take what we have learned as a teenager and transition into an adult. At times, this is not the case.There are many reasons why a teenager would have trouble physiologically and emotionally going into adulthood. As is the case of Talia,she is a teenager who is nearing the end of adolescence but feels ill equipped to venture into adulthood. Erickson theory of psychosocial development to explain the struggles that Talia is experiencing. In addition, further exploration into race and culture provide some solutions which may assist Talia in improving her self-esteem.

Meet Alison Shepard. A 19 year old girl who is a sister and daughter, cousin, niece, aunt. Alison for most of her life growing up was a normal kid who did well in school excelled in sports and loved her family and friends. This all changed right around when she went into her second semester of high school at Carmel High School in Indiana. When she entered her last semester of school her attitude changed drastically in a bad way she went from a very lively out going type A person to someone who had anger outburst and just started to hate everyone. She even stops playing her favorite sport and stopped hanging out with her friends. When her parents started to notice this, they asked her why and what’s wrong

Recognizing the severity of the matter, UNEP initiated activities associated with marine litter in 2003 through the work of the Regional Seas Programme (RSP) and therefore the world Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine surroundings from Land-Based Activities (GPA). Activities at the regional level Regional Seas Programme of UNEP (RSP) UNEP’s Regional Seas Programme, initiated in 1974, provides a legal, administrative, substantive and monetary framework for the implementation of Agenda twenty one for the set up of Implementation of the world Summit on Sustainable Development (2002) and for the Bali Strategic set up (2004). The Regional Seas Programme aims

There are four ultimate concerns that existential therapists rely on in applying the therapeutic techniques being used. They are death, freedom, Meaning, and Isolation.