Object Permanence

In the movie My Girl, Vada Sultenfuss models the symptoms commonly used to diagnose Illness Anxiety Disorder. However, she does not possess this psychological abnormality. As portrayed in the film, Vada exhibits thoughts and behaviors that are not typical of an eleven year old girl. At first glance, she may seem mentally sick to the viewer. Upon further examination however, it is clear to see that is not the case. The odd behaviors modeled by this young child are actually a cry for attention, and there are many aspects of this film that lead to this conclusion.

It seemed like she liked playing with others more than just playing by herself. When the little boy came over to knock the blocks over she started laughing, because she thought it was so funny. Also, when she was in her crib after she got in trouble, and the child approached her again to play she quickly stopped crying and began to play with him. Even when she was walking with the walker she wanted someone to play with her and when she started “chasing” the other child with the walker she laughed again. This shows me that she is very social and plays well with

At the age of three, Olivia was having emotional outbursts, such as temper tantrums, when she did not get what she wanted at stores or local restaurants, which was so embarrassing. I really wanted to start to go to family-style, more elegant restaurants, but I did not know if she was going to break into an outburst during dinner. So we could only go to fast food-style restaurants for the longest time. She would never sit still and would become squeamish and loud during dinner. After some time, an event changed the way she was acting. My husband and I were having an argument about something, and Olivia witnessed it. She began to cry as my husband walked out the door and she thought he was running away. After reassuring her that he would never run away from her, she started to act better and began to listen to our requests of how we wanted her to behave, with stricter rules. She might have also had some emotional issues, since she was shy and reluctant to be a leader in a group. I witnessed this when some of the other children were pushing her around, since she always was real passive in certain situations. So to fix this emotional deficit, my partner and I started to have play-dates at our house, where other children could come over and play with

*We will work also on Vera’s core beliefs that may be underlying her dysfunctional behaviors and thoughts. Vera will Keep a notepad with her and attempt to list automatic thoughts that she has during the day.

To sum up, during my naturalistic observation I applied Piaget’s theory of cognitive development and Erikson’s theory of emotional and social development. Both of these theories gave me the opportunity to understand the subject better. According to my observation, all physical skills of the girl were developed properly. After analysis I came to the conclusion that the subject is on the

An individual can always learn new aspects of life when they are observing an infant. This observation took place in the home of the participant. The participant is familiar with the house. During the observation the child played with her toys in the living room. The participant was a 12-month-old girl who is cared for by both her mother and father. Other participant included the child's mother and the child's aunt. The mother is a teacher, so during this observation and in the summer, they both stay at home. The participant is the only child in the household. After an afternoon nap and snack, the child sat in her mother's lap on the couch in the living room. While she was with her mother, she stayed close to her mother and made eye contact with everyone in the room. The child then got down and played with her toys in the floor of the living room. She began with the toy closest to her and began pushing the buttons while singing along with the different rhythms. The next toy she found was a child's magazine and she quickly flipped through the pages and found pictures of other infants similar to her. After a quick look around the room, she proceeded to crawl over to the nearest shelf in the living room. She began to pull her self up to a standing position and began pulling items off of the shelf and putting them on the floor. The mother quickly diverted her attention by

Margaret Mahler’s theory of separation-individuation suggests that healthy psychological development is based on the child’s ability to gradually separate his or herself from the mother to form an individual identity (Flanagan, 2011). There are four phases of development that a child will go through to attain this individuation: the autistic phase, the symbiotic phase, and separation-individuation proper (Flanagan, 2011). The author can assume that Antonio completed his autistic phase successfully, as he can successfully distinguish between pleasure and pain (Robbins, Chatterjee, & Canda, 2011). In addition to this, the case vignette states that he was a healthy baby to whom Hilda was very attentive. Antonio’s symbiotic phase, when the child and the mother are at their most complete union, seems to have progressed without major incident as well; Hilda was attentive to Antonio’s needs and would respond positively to her voice with a head turn and a smile (Flanagan, 2011).

I observed Harper, a 23 month old little girl that is full of energy. Also participating in the interaction with Harper was her mother and five year old sister, Mya. Harper is very friendly and outgoing. She is very interested “reading books” and loves to be read to. She enjoys helping her mother clean and do simple tasks. She seems to be very confident with and without her mother in her sight. Harper’s father is not actively involved in her life because he lives in another state.

She couldn't really talk to anyone and when she did she didn't know how to express herself or carry on a conversation very well. Her family never really talked to her or even tried to help her with her social life. Just talking to your child can make a huge difference in the way they act and live. When the incident of the rape at the beginning of the book happened she couldn’t speak out loud to tell him no because of the inability to be social and verbal with how she felt and what she thinks. The fact that all she ever wanted to do was go home and sleep shows that she isn’t very social.

recuperate from her “nervous condition” where she is told to rest in an old nursery room with

I begin observing Faith Sanchez a six-year-old, who is in the first grade at Emerson Elementary School on November 7, 2017 over the course of three days. The observation took place at the child’s home, where we had access to the materials needed for the different set of skills that I would be conducting during the observational period. The reason for observing Faith was to see if her Physical, Cognitive and Psychosocial domains are developing at the average range for a school age child or if she was showing signs of atypical development.

As Blair gets older she is adapting to and coping with different social situations in and outside of home. At home Blair has been giving a lot more attitude. When she doesn’t understand my directions she often gets frustrated and throws a tantrum. I try to give Blair many opportunities to express herself and make

EI clinician observed Sarahia moving around the house without difficulty. Mom expressed that Sarahia understands the dangers of, “hot”. She will blow on her food if it’s hot before eating and will say, “hot” when she knows something

Amelia’s Childhood Development Amelia, a sweet and shy little girl, is 3rd grader who is 8 years old. She lives with her birth parents and older brother of 2 years. She is from Denmark and recently moved to Shanghai. According to Erik Erikson, Amelia has already gone through three stages of identity development.

While a mother was escaping an abusive relationship in search of welfare assistance, she took her thirteen-year-old daughter along with her. “Genie,” as she was called, intrigued the social worker in the welfare office. She was mesmerized by Genie’s posture, size, and stance. Curiously enough, the worker thought Genie might have been a case of unreported autism in a possible six- to seven-year-old (Rymer 1993). As a result, the worker notified her supervisor, who contacted the police.