Essay about Theory and Client System Assessment

His mother treats him like a slave, giving him daily chores and unbelievably ruthless punishments. He has become inhuman to her as she refers to him as “It.” The only hope of survival relies on his dad, in God, or in a miracle. His story promotes the courageous human spirit and the determinate to survive.

“Joel is a 36 year old man who has come to counselling because he feels unhappy and unsatisfied in his life. Joel’s mother died when he was 12 and Joel grew up with his Father, who he describes as a good man, who worked hard to support his son, but struggled with anger and alcohol issues and was never able to fully recover from the death of Joel’s mother. Joel felt that his father was distant and so caught up in his own grief that he was never able to love Joel. Joel describes himself as a rebel in his teens, who gave his father a hard time but that he worked hard and went to university, which he saw as a way out of the small town he grew up in and a way to escape his father. He now has a successful career in corporate law and

The importance of Childhood Trauma is associated with the way children react later on in their life, as it plays an important role. There are several different types of maltreatment that are associated with abuse that can harm the child in the long run. Any type of physical abuse, emotional abuse or sexual abuse contributes to the negative affects that can change the child’s personality. If the child’s parents obtain physical neglect or emotional neglect, it can factor in changing a child’s moods, as it causes them to change into a different person. This experience causes them to develop different types of personality disorders such as Antisocial, Borderline, Narcissistic, Paranoia, Schizoid, and Schizotypal. Many children are affected through the terrible experience which develops mistrust in the world, and later causes them to turn against society because of the constant neglect that is inflicted onto them.

24 year old, Chris McCandless, is a man born into a wealthy family from Washington D.C. Chris is almost “born” into the wild, he goes on an adventure in Alaska, leaving all his possessions behind, even all his money. About 4 months of adventuring in Alaska, Chris’s body is found dead. Throughout the story, the reader learns more about Chris’s family and their relationships with eachother. The relationship that stands out to the reader most, is the relationship between Chris and his father. His father is abusive and not truthful towards his family members, which is not a healthy relationship that Chris and his father have.

His mother basically used him and abused him for her own amusement. She treated him as if he was her personal slave boy. She made him do all of the work around the house and even some work that made no sense for him to be doing. She made him do some really unnecessary task. She did not allow for Dave to speak or be around anyone but her and the time he spent with her mainly consisted on her torturing him. His mother did not always allow him to eat but when she did he was only allowed to eat the scrapes from the trash as he cleaned. Dave had no one to turn to. Even his father who tried helping him in the beginning gave up fighting the mother. Dave was truly alone and the abuse was simply excused by Dave’s mom as punishment for him for being such a bad kid. Dave’s father once tried to safe him and remove him from the clutches of his mother but this only made the abuse worse. She moved Dave out to the garage where he was made to sleep and she took away all his possible means of getting food. The only place she could not control his food was at school because of this Dave began stealing food from his classmates’ lunch boxes. When he was caught his mom was outraged about having to meet with the school and this only fueled her outrageous abuse towards him.

Within the United States, child maltreatment is becoming more and more commonly reported as there is over 3 million reports each year. Due to the constant increase of child maltreatment reports, society has become more aware of the issue, which has led to awareness campaigns. (Payne, 87). Even with societies’ knowledge of such abuse there are still serval child maltreatment cases that are not reported. The children that are victims of maltreatment pertains any sort of harm to the child whether it is by injury, neglect, physical, emotional, or even sexual abuse by someone who holds a major role in the child’s life, a parent or guardian figure (“What is Child Abuse”).

“Battle Royal” conveys different socio economic issues. Though Ellison may be talking about the world around him, I think he may be relaying it to some personal issues, he dealt with. Either way they both intertwine, to form this character, this man with no name. The man seems to be a rather bright individual who seems to get caught up in ongoing situations causing the man to suffer tremendously. The situations test inequality, humiliation, and even conformity; the keys to the ongoing issues of the man.

Problems that comes up in this case study appears to child; physical, emotional, mental, verbal and personal abuse, along with environmental factors that created the initial “family secret,” that Dave talks about throughout the book. His parents have their own personal conflicted problems, along with their abused in substances like alcohol. The family social economic status seems to range in the lower class, as Dave’ father occupation was a firefighter and his mother’s occupation is unknown. Physical abuse of children is a nonaccidental injury inflicted on a child (Crosson-Tower, p.180, 2013). Dave’s mother made him sit at the bottom of the stairs with his hands under his bottom, starved and slept with no blanket in the cold basement. His mother’s alcoholic problems made him, his mother’s sole target for frustration and anger, basically as his mother’s punching bag. Neglectful mother were more than likely to used words like shame and sad more than non-neglectful mother during the study (Camilo, Garrido & Calheiros, 2016). Dave’s mother called him “it,” while his

The novel A Child Called “It” by Dave Pelzer is about his abusive childhood at the hands of his own mother. Pelzer recounts his horrible childhood through his own point of view. He goes through how his once nurturing mother changed into a vicious tormentor and how he became a “prisoner of war” within his own home. David is exiled from his own family and dehumanized by his mother to the point that she refers to him as “It” rather than her son. However, his astounding will to not let his mother “beat him” gave him the strength to withstand every form of punishment inflicted on him. (Pelzer, 1995, pp 91) His story stands as a testimony for those who suffered from child abuse in silence.

Two factors correlating mental health and child development are abuse and neglect. All forms of abuse from physical, sexual, and emotional have a great impact on the consciousness of a child. Due to the damage abuse causes in their psychological development, children express themselves through their emotions and behavior (Mondal & Das, 2014). The physical aspect is the first thing that comes to mind when we come across the word abuse. It does not only stop at the visible scars and bruises, children can also be abused emotionally. Naturally, a child gravitates their biological mother, when the love and nurturing is absent and instead the void

As Keller (2011) argued, children suffer what is called ambiguous loss when they have a guardian that suffers substance abuse and is physically or psychologically absent. This is a relational problem that occurs when there is no set ritual or public validation for the loss felt. The activities that Trenise associated with a family became nonexistent, as her oldest two siblings became the ones responsible for feeding her. Her attachments and social networks were disrupted upon entry into foster care, and abruptly one day she goes home to her mother, significantly older. Trenise has not properly developed a sense of identity and has not properly grieved her feelings. Even though she loves her mother, there is confusion in her role as to what she thinks and feels, as she struggles to socialize in her environment.

Have you ever experienced being sexually abused, violated, and maltreated by the own people you consider or was grown to love? Well, stay tuned because that's exactly what Ellen Foster goes through with her alcoholic of a father. Ellen Foster is a headstrong eleven-year-old girl who suffers much abuse in her young life, she is sexually abused by her alcoholic father and, as he is unemployed and very seldom at home, she must adopt all household responsibilities, such as paying bills, shopping, and cooking. Through the use of first person, tone, and flashbacks the author shows that Ellen, Foster had a very difficult childhood even after she moved from what happened but the past comes back to haunt her.

In keeping with evolving understanding of child maltreatment from research and clinical experience, Belsky (1993) expanded this ecological perspective and introduced a developmental-ecological analysis of child maltreatment. This approach included the “developmental context”, the “immediate interactional context”, and “the broader context”. Belsky made a distinction stating that aspects within the child, innate and or biological, play a role in the child’s experience of maltreatment and developmental dysfunction. These include aspects such as the child’s age, health and behaviors. Belsky further determined that parent-child interaction was a key factor related to child maltreatment and occurred within the immediate interactional context. Concurrently, community,

Active communication between siblings revealed, Keith informed each sibling that no one ever telephoned whatsoever, no one in the family, although it was true in mother’s case. This was an ongoing cycle Keith had manipulated with siblings, knowing the family was never close. Therefore, he was grazing in cash, gift cards, and calling cards. There no way to describe how I feel other than laughing, Keith played this game perfectly with family members and maybe others. There are favorite stories he shared, after receiving his prosthesis and therapy, up walking around and backward into the drinking stage with people he met and precisely known around the vicinity. One night while out with a few questionable individuals, another male approached who didn’t know Keith, they were having a contented, flying high party, talking and drinking. A brick wall ran alongside of this elementary school close to where mother lived, Keith sat up on this brick wall when suddenly his leg fell off, clattering as it hit the ground! The newcomer began screaming, until another grabbed him to quiet him down. I'll bet that was a thunderclap! I asked Keith, “What did you say to that guy.”

Child abuse is a term impacted by copious multidimensional and interactive factors that relate to its origins and effects upon a child's developing capacities and which may act as a catalyst to broader, longer-term implications for adulthood. Such maltreatment may be of a sexual, physical, emotional or neglectful nature, each form holding a proportion of shared and abuse-specific psychological considerations (Mash & Wolfe, 2005). Certainly in terms of the effects / impairments of abuse, developmental factors have been identified across all classifications of child abuse, leading to a comparably greater risk of emotional / mental health problems in adult life within the general population