Singapore Elementary School Psychology Case Study

In the early 20th-century, interest in the field of child development emerged. Researchers and theorists studied the ways in which children grew, learned, and, in some instances, were shaped by societal influences (Weiland, 1993). The study of child development enables us to appreciate and understand the social, emotional, physical, educational, and cognitive growth that children go through from birth to early adulthood. Grand theories attempt to organize and arrange concepts and aspects of development using a step approach. Such as that of Erik Erikson’s theory, the Psychosocial Identity Development theory, in which he addresses the development of personal, emotional, and social progression in an individual through stages (Pretorius et al., 2015). Erikson’s model for the approach of development involves the focus of overcoming conflicts that individuals encounter over the span of their childhood that influence their ego identity, or the conscious sense of self that develops and constantly changes due to new experiences and information that is acquired through daily interactions with others and events. In Erikson’s theory, he believed that each person experienced a conflict that served as a defining moment in their development that essentially shaped who they would become later on in life; he believed that unresolved problems of adult life echoed unresolved conflicts of one’s childhood (Berger, 2011).

John is a loyal person, and has a very assertive mindset. He seems to want to have social attention, because of the neglect he faces at home. John has a very hard home life, with an abusive alcoholic father. Other than him having an alcoholic father, John and I are very different. I am not, and never have been neglected in any way, and I do not choose to have the trust and friendship of people around me.

John's life seemed to be one major drama after another; he didn't have a good male role model as a kid, and it seems he never was able to get on track. What was amazing about his life was the number of problems that he seemed to get into and how he wriggled out of them (with the help of a friendly person who just happened to meet him) only to run into more problems.

In 1957, John was born in Athens, Georgia (Robison, 1). When he was born, both of his parents were in college and his dad was also a preacher (Robison, 1). They moved to different areas until they finally settled down in Amherst, Massachusetts and his father became a professor in Philosophy (1). Throughout John’s childhood, he was always different from his classmates and brother (2). He said he was always sad, a loner and had few friends (Robison, 2). His parents recognized this and tried to help him by having him see therapists and guidance counselors (Robison, 2). At this point in time, Asperger’s Syndrome was not diagnosed yet (Robison, 3). Some therapists thought he was a psychopath because he did not make eye contact with them (Johnelderrobison, 00:00:45-00:01:00). Others said he was lazy or chose to misbehave, when he did not have control over his actions (Robison, 3). Due to all of this negativity and people telling him something was “severely wrong” with him, John dropped out of school in tenth grade (Robison, 3).

Having knowledge and understanding of psychological perspectives allows me to understand John’s needs, and current behaviours and how they may be related to past events and needs unmet.

Jon’s was mad his first impression seeing his parents. Jon was in his crib and nonverbal. Jon’s mom was terrified and sister thought he was ugly and still in diapers at age 7. Jon had an IQ of 20-40. Jon did not know how to feed himself or self-care skills.

John's father was informed about this accident and punish John by whipping him with a razor strop. Later on this year John had an experienced in which a family friend harass him and will take John to a truck and have sexual interaction with him. John never shares this experience with his father because, among all his bad relationship with him, he knows his father would blame him for this incident. When John grew up and was attending school he suffered from a heart condition that led him to avoid any sports activity this generate an overweight appearance. John was not a popular kid he was only and average student with a few friends and was bully among his classmates. Indeed his quietness he joins the boy scouts. When John was eleven he had an accident with a swing set when he was playing that caused him a blood clot in this brain that was not discovered until he was 16 years

Gacy lost confidence in himself due to his father never having a connection that he long strived for, but never once did he say that he hated his father. If Gacy Jr. were to ever make a disapproving choice in front of his father, his father would not only beat him as punishment but would call him names such as “queer.” Not long after the sexual nicknames began, Gacy Jr. and a friend were caught trying to perform sexual acts on a young girl, but Gacy thought it was okay, after being a victim of sexual assault himself. A friend of the Gacy family would get John Jr. alone in his truck and perform sexual acts on him, but Gacy never told anyone because he thought it would get back to his father who would proceed to call him names such as “queer.” John did not want to disappoint his father any more than he already had, so he kept it a secret, saving himself from the blame his father would have put on him. John tried to replace his loneliness with being a teacher's pet, by helping with errands and handing out papers, but it soon led to him being bullied and mocked by his classmates. To make his school matters worse, John started having health problems in the fourth grade when his appendix burst, and he started blacking out

His father John was a veteran who participated in World War I and worked as an auto repair machinist, but the father wasn’t as innocent as everyone thought it seemed. He also had a terrifying temper and was a very abusive alcoholic that mistreated and “berated” his family but Gacy was his main target. He didn’t have a good relationship with Gacy at all. The mother tried her hardest to protect john from his father but it was only so much she could do, he abused her as well. childhood was very ruff for someone his age suffering deeply from being molested by a family friend, along with his ill health which prevented him from doing well at school. he lacked good behavior and was overweight and was often mocked at by his neighboring bullies. Gacy family issues interfered with school. He dropped out of school his senior year leaving his family home and fleeing to Las Vegas working as a mortuary attendant in Nevada where he came upon a strange incident that happened one day while working--- he hugged one of the dead bodies and was very terrified and confused all at

John talked about high school he told me that he was never a school person. So he would cut class ,stay at home I miss school and have girls over the house. John told me never had favor subject his hardest subject was languages. John told me his favorite teacher was the art teacher because she let him touch her. John didn't have any role models growing up John said he got too caught up with thing not positive. John said in high

First, John Barton has multitudinous social pressures that have impacted him by ruining his true identity, not being able to make friends without his parents’ expectations being broken, and having to deal with occhiolism. To begin with, John has been ruining his identity because of his school reputation. He is the captain of St Anthony, popular, and good-looking. So, everyone expects him to act a certain way when really John is a depressed kid who isn’t ambitious. Therefore, when others want him to act a certain way he forgets his true personality and identity and acts the way others demand. Moreover, another pressure that impacts John is not being able to make friends because his parents expect different qualities in a friend than John. His

John’s drinking problem tears his family apart actually, it excludes him from his family. While his children and wife can bicker and love each other again, John finds himself an outcast to his family and jealous of how his wife can connect with their son. Johnny and his mother are shown during a usual quarrel of how well the boy should be kempt. However, the father does not care to quarrel over his best interests, as John sees things, he knows when he needs food and how to take care of himself. John can often find himself reaching for the bottle to bring back a buzz when his wife tries to take care of him. Despite being estranged from his son, John still has the opportunity to try to fix their relationship. As an effort to be in his son’s life, John reluctantly agrees to go to a scout meeting with Johnny. Scout meetings can be a terrific bonding experience. However, they can take a turn towards a disaster when you make the decision to drink for your gain and not think of the others around you. After making a scene and putting Johnny on the spot, John created a bigger rift in the already fragile relationship and likely ruined all hope of ever connecting with his son. This is shown after the scout meeting when Johnny runs from his father and his father’s futile apologies. John’s drinking breaks down his family’s bonds and leaves him excluded from his former love and

In middle childhood (aged 6-12), the child will experience the Industry vs. Inferiority stage. This is the fourth stage of Erikson’s psychosocial stage. With the previous three

I first learned of one of the many flaws that John so very well hid one day when we driving to go skiing. I was remarking how good he looks on paper and how he is basically a “ the perfect guy”. After casually expressing my opinion John said that he suffers from anxiety and anger management issues. He currently took medication and attended sessions to control his behavior. This shocked me because he never showed signs of either. He said that his father used direct aggression with his siblings and that his fathers strict Italian values were dredged into his head. His father was an ethnocentrism person and so was John because his he was surrounded by Italian culture and old values. I am Italian as

John, age three illustrates tremors and cries uncontrollable. John look as if he is not speaking as he should for his age. His vocabulary is very limited as if he is behind for his age. He is at this time not walking on the level that he should be. John lived with both of his biological parents. In addition, John has not had much structure in his life because he did not have many rules to abide by. Due to the lack of structure, John did not have a set routine of what time to go to bed and he could wonder the house freely. John’s father has had several job. In addition, John’s father also stays out late at night, selling drugs and manufacturing methamphetamines within the home. Even though John’s father sold drugs, there is no reports on him using drugs. In addition, manufacturing drugs in the home may have lead John to be exposed to drugs, which can have an effect on the child’s development. Due to Johns father’s actions, he was arrested leaving John not having a father figure in his life.