Family Based Interventions

In low- and middle-income countries, complications from pregnancy and childbirth are the leading cause of death among girls 15-19. Social workers play a vital role in preventing this issue. They can bring about various projects for the awareness of early marriage, early child rearing and hygienic methods that should be implicate d during pregnancy. Also they can provide them proper nutrition diet with the help of PHC’s. most of these maternal deaths can be prevented through skilled care and proper

It is proven that “children’s poor academic performance and high level of behavior problems are least partially related to lower levels of parental support and involvement” (Thomson et al., 1994). The reason being is because children tend to worry about their parent’s happiness and if there are arguments involved, it is likely that children’s emotional development will increase. Children are worried about their parents’ well-being and this could affect their childhood

According to WHO, about fifty million people have epilepsy around the world. Traditional medical care to patients for control their seizures include drug therapy and surgery. But recently acknowledged that the comprehensive epilepsy treatment beyond these treatments. Adherence to medication and behavioral factors irrelevant to medicine Such as personal information management, management of seizures and lifestyle, play an important role in the success of epilepsy treatment. In other words, self-management as the core of treatment and management of epilepsy.

For adolescents it appears that family-based approaches are effective in engaging substance abusers in treatment and in reducing drug use. However, the clinical significance of these changes, and whether they are maintained is less clear. Evidence for the effectiveness of family therapy for adult substance abusers is weaker. A variation on family therapy is multiple-family therapy in which a number of drug addicts’ families are treated conjointly.

It may be turned to dangerous uses if it is not properly handled (Wu Ting-Fang). Like this, parenting can be either positive or negative factor toward delinquency. Therefore,

For faltering families the marital relationship is the most important locus: marriage counseling or marital couple therapy may be useful. For families with more serious problems, self-help groups such as Alcoholics Anonymous, Parents Without Partners, and Parents Anonymous are available in most communities. Child psychiatrists deal with the range of child, adolescent, and family problems. The fit

I will be elaborating on the 2 main concepts of this theory. Triangles When 2 individuals start to face issues and conflicts, there is a tendency that a third person will come into the picture in an attempt to reduce the tension. In the long run, the tension from this triangulation relationship may contribute to the development of clinical problems in the long run. For example, if parents are too involved in their conflicts, young children may start to act out and some may even develop ADHD.

It has emphasized on the process which the child learns antisocial behavior through parents-child exchanges and how families train children to be antisocial through coercive cycle. Coercive cycle happens when parents put demands on children in a negative and aggressive way and child learns to avoid the demands through a process of negative reinforcement (Krol, Morton, & Bruyn, 2004). Through repeating this cycle, coercive behavior become an internalized, learnt and automatic pattern for children to gain control over the unpleasant or chaotic situation. Over a long period, children will progress from displaying coercive behavior in family and revealing similar patterns with other people in other situations or engaging in social behavior such as stealing, lying or aggression. As coercive behavior gets reinforced, children will bring them into middle childhood, in this time children will have trouble with meeting the demands of school and will lead to poor academic results, which will again reinforce the cycle (Patterson, 1982).

Introduction Personality is a broad feature in the field of psychological individuality. One of the most extensive and prominent topic under personality is the personality-trait extraversion. Even before, there are some people who are talkative, bold and assertive than other people and this has been thought to have a biological basis and social importance. This behavioral consequence of trait dimension has come to be known as extraversion. Extraversion is one of the fundamental dimension of personality (Costa & McCrae, 1992a; Digman, 1990; Eysenck & Himmelweit, 1947; Goldberg, 1990; Norman, 1963), it is used to explain the wide variety of behaviours which is the main concern of personality (Funder, 2001).

Among all forms of attachments, parental attachment, or family attachment, is the most frequently researched element, looks into parental supervision, time spent between parents and children and parent’s understanding of friends of their children (Booth, Farrell& Varano,2008). The tendency to commit delinquency is found to be negatively associated with the dissemination of prosocial values and quality time spent together with parents (Wright, Cullen & Miller, 2001). Peer attachment is considered as another decisive social bond that alters one to be delinquent or not. Jang (2002) revealed a decrease in parental attachment during adolescence might enhance peer association. Hirschi (1969) recognized the notion as “peer effect” as influential in the way that it could turn individual into delinquents.

As a mental health and substance abuse provider for the last fifteen years, knowing the history, judicial content of our federal laws, as it relates to Connecticut’s policy will be important. Policies have a big impact on people’s mental health and addictions services. They control how much we have to pay for treatment, what providers are available, and how our care is coordinated and supported(Karger, & Stoesz, 2014) . In addition, policies also control important accommodations and supports in areas like employment, housing, criminal justice, and education. Consequently, mental health and substance abuse are major public health problems,and a large portion of drug treatment is funded by local, State, and Federal governments.

The University of Washington School of Medicine is the leader in scientific research of FAS. The school/students have done many controlled research study’s. The Study on Alcohol and Pregnancy, Neuropsychological Analyses of FAS/FAE Deficits, Parent-Child Assistance Program , and the FAS Follow-up Program. One of the many problems of misdiagnosis, and is shown in this study is that, the birth rate of FAS children is nearly 1 per 100 births (ACBR). The problem is this, alcohol-affected children and adults are often denied services when they lack the characteristic FAS face and or mental retardation as defined by a standardized IQ score of less then 69.

The Occupational Therapist looked at who students struggled with focusing, transitioning, and more. The OT worked with our Birth to 3 Program as well. Referrals to the Occupational Therapist for fine motor skills and sensory processing difficulties increased tenfold over the last three years. A majority of the students are qualified and serviced for sensory processing difficulties not for there being a deficiency in their fine motor skills. Schools around the nation are seeing an increase in the amount of students being born drug effected.

The study also found that positive parenting may moderate children’s association with intimate partner violence. The results from this study show that it is imperative that parents practice positive parenting and children not be exposed to situations where violence or abuse take places because these can cause profound effects on children psychologically, whether it is dealing with stress, coping with trauma, perceiving threats, hyperarousal, avoidance, fear, security, interpersonal relationships, and negative self-attributions. All of these things can follow and often do follow children into adulthood. Also, children may repeat the same cycle they experienced with their own

Over the past two decades, increased cases of domestic violence and children as witnesses have led to agencies developing practices and programs to reduce cases of system-related trauma among children (National Institute of Justice (U.S.), American Bar Association & American Bar Association, 1999). These programs have proven to be multidisciplinary and aimed at reducing anxiety and depression among kids. The programs also touch on various areas that include preventing future cases of victimization, coordination of the responses of agencies dealing with child victims, access of treatment to children who have been victims of domestic violence and facilitate representation and support for child victims in both juvenile courts and the criminal justice system (Law.lclark.edu, 2015). The other innovative strategies that can reduce trauma among children include the preparation of children for the witness stand in a manner that considers the child’s mental health and is developmentally appropriate. It is at this point where a clinician is required to assess the psychological condition of a child and determine whether it would be appropriate for them to testify or not.