Why Did Regen Fail

Pauline and her siblings lived a life filled with fear. She was taught at a very young age about the challenges that her parents had gone through in order for her and her sibling to lead a better life. Pauline and her siblings faced physical abuse from their demanding and controlling father. Only the letter ‘A’ was accepted on their school report caard… anything below that deserved a wack with a stick from their abusive father.

A mentally ill teenage named Jessica Roger was born to Joan and Kevin Roger. As a young girl Roger’s mother was verbally abusive to her and her sister, she even went as far as trying to kill her husband. When little Roger was about eleven years old her mother left them with their alcoholic father. Roger ended up in prison for biting her sister and other acts because of her disorder, eventually she committed suicide while serving her time in a place where she just didn't belong. Although her mother showed remorse after her death and said, “she accepts blame, maybe too much, for what happened to her Jet”. On the other hand her father was unapologetic for his drinking “I still drink. It’s legal”. Roger sent her parents countless letter of how she was feeling but they didn’t do anything until after her death. Are you wonder how a mentally ill sixteen year old girl ends up on prison?

Tanyia also presents with oppositional behavior (verbal and physical aggression, fluctuating moods-anger outbursts, defiance), truancy from school in the 2015 school year, running away from home on numerous occasions for two days at a time when mother is out of town working, sexual behaviors, and substance use (Marijuana). Tanyia has also experienced multiple traumas of being sexually victimized at the age of 12 by a neighbor, forced to pose for sexually explicit photos, and physical abuse in the home (as evident by numerous marks on her torso). When first counseling with Tanyia, she had limited insight as to the seriousness of her behaviors and the causes of her behaviors. Through further exploration, Tanyia was able to process through her traumas and verbalize her feelings of abandonment by her mother whom is always “traveling for work” and always having to care for her siblings one of which has a physical handicap and needs 24 hour care. In discussing Tanyia’s behaviors with her parents, her mother, Ms. Jones, believes that

Rhaheim is in the 4th grade. He stated that he is in Mrs. Krump’s class. Rhaheim is nine years old. He stated that he ride the bus to school. He commented that sometimes his mom drops him off. He stated after- school, he goes to the Boys and Girls club. He commented that his mom and dad picks him up from there. Rhaheim lives with his mom, dad and brother. He confirmed that both of his parents work. Rhaheim’s mom works at the hospital. He described that his mom goes to work in the morning and sometimes at night. Rhaheim’ father works for DISH.

Katya is a thirteen year old girl who started eighth grade year at Martin Van Murrin middle school. She left early during the day because she hated school so much. She wanted to be a naturalist after going to a summer camp. She created an essay for a scholarship to the wilderness camp. She won the scholarship and went to the camp against her parent’s wishes. She loved the camp and she hated school. She did not like school because it did not have anything to do with the outdoors. She made a binder filled with information about homeschooling. She had some example lesson plans, good reasons to be homeschooled, and bad reasons to be homeschooled. She spent a lot of time on the binder. She also made a five page essay about how good homeschooling was. She came up with schedules and told her parents it would

Sarah Burke was a 16 year old who was brought into the clinic by her distressed mother. Sarah’s attitude and behavior had been getting out of control and worsening. Fights with her mother, sister, and friends and outbursts/tantrums for her own reasons or no reason at all were a commonality. Mother was worried about her academic future and preexisting social relations. From her past, we learn that she has had a traumatic first few years with parental fighting involved and maltreatment. She lived with her mother because her father abused alcohol, drugs, and them verbally. Sarah’s fearful, nervous habit to be reticent around her father caused a hindering in her speech development during important developmental years.

Although the physical abuse left scars, the verbal abuse was frequently thrown at her. Whether it was from her father, or her classmates she is consistently reminded what an outsider she was.

Margaret L. is like any other teenage girl today: she talks on the phone, deals with the stress of schoolwork, and has a boyfriend. Unlike many of her peers, however, Margaret takes medication as part of her morning routine; and the time she spends in the school bathroom is not devoted to fixing her hair.

Adults connect with her also increased the exposure to risk factor: illicit drug and tobacco use, for examples Mr. Dunn (her history teacher) found in the girls’ school restroom smoking drugs, Mike (her older brother) got caught with the illicit drugs dealing, and Frank (Mike’s partner in drug dealing) asked her to deliver drugs. Although facing these risk factors, Drey shaped resilience through several protective systems including her social supports and relationships. Drey forms attachment bonds with Mr. Dunn, her history teacher. Drey and Mr. Dunn formed a peer attachment relationship which characterized by an equal balance in the protected-protector role. Sensitive caregiving from Mr. Dunn has regulatory functions, serving to decrease arousal levels in Drey to moderate stress. Mr. Dunn provides the emotional security and tries to isolate her from the risk factors by asking Frank to not see Drey again. Moreover, Drey provided a window of opportunity for positive change. He is identified as the "late bloomer" in "Resilience over the lifespan: Developmental perspectives on resistance, recovery, and transformation" written by Masten and Wright. He tried to be a qualified teacher by isolating the possible danger to her development process. Before Drey becomes the window for his "turnaround", he acted as disqualified teacher violating the school rules by chewing gums, letting the student to directly copy other's test, using inappropriate languages and having several sexual

When all the kids sigh and all the teachers slightly grumble, I can pinpoint who has just walked through the door. Some days she goes by queen, other days diva, but I just call her Isabella. Isabella is a third grader that attends Seminole Heights Elementary School. She has a reputation of stealing clay and mats during art time. She has even stolen money from her so called best friend Kelci and when asked why she stole it, her rationale was “she should have been paying attention.” She doesn’t limit her actions to the students, she also disrespects the Instructors art by touching it and even painting her work with-out her permission. I am speaking about a third grader. This is a child that should know better and do better. But yet, she acts nothing like any of her peers in the class. I contend that the Permissive nature of parents ultimately influenced Isabella to lack self-control (Influences on Self Control, pg.353).

Elizabeth is now seventeen and finishing her junior years of high school; however, Elizabeth is in a juvenile corrections school instead of her usual public school. The past school years have been very rough on Anna and Elizabeth’s relationship. The problems began towards the end of her sophomore year. Elizabeth had a couple of teachers that did not communicate well with IEP team meetings and couldn’t quite understand Elizabeth’s struggle with depression. Elizabeth began falling through the crack of the public school system and felt forgotten so Elizabeth sought out attention another way. Elizabeth's grandparents also decided to buy an RV and travel the states, leaving behind Anna and Elizabeth. Elizabeth's grandparents try and be supportive from a distance, but her recent behavior has pushed them away. Mr. Phil has worked hard to keep Elizabeth on track but without the whole team working together, the planning process is falling apart. Because of this failure, Elizabeth began having trouble with underage drinking and smoking marijuana excessively.

During week two, Cheyanne only took karate class on Wednesday. She started off her week by giving her mother trouble while getting ready for school in the mornings, and an overall lack of discipline and focus at home. On Wednesday her mother recorded that Cheyanne knew she was going to karate class that day, and her focus and studies show great improvement. Her mother also recorded that her respect, discipline, and control had greatly increased on Wednesday compared to the start of the week. It was also recorded that the day after she took her class, Cheyanne showed great improvement in her behavior. Towards the end of the week, Cheyanne’s behavior slowly began to drop back to arguing with her brother and not complying with instructions given by her parents. It is obvious that since she took the class in the middle of the week it made her behavior those days much better than the beginning and end of the week.

When Bobby reached puberty he was in ninth grade an issue occurred of violence; and inappropriate physical behavior forced on a female his age (Poulton, Melzer, Tait, Garnett, Cowell, Baur, & Clarke, 2013). Behavior he had not given into prior or since. Bobby’s parents had divorced when he turned 13; but the parent’s attention toward the children had not increased. Need for a home life, starvation, drugs, and hormones placed Bobby in an awkward mental state. He stopped going to school from this point forward.

She found herself trapped in her own home with the two people she hated, who had been waiting for her to arrive. She quickly walked down the stairs without saying a word to her parents. She finally emerged from her grey painted room to see them sitting on the coach with a pair of boxers on the table. Last week Anzlee had Sawyer, who is Anzlee´s boyfriend, and a couple of her friends over. A small get together you could call it, with alcohol, drugs and movies. Turns out she failed to clean up everything. Anzlee had forgotten to look under her bed. Such a rookie mistake, that will now cost her everything. She sat down in a chair across from her parents and cleared her brain. She sat there ignoring everything they were saying, she didn't care. As she sat there hearing nothing her parents were screaming their heads off. ¨ Anzlee what the hell were you thinking? Sleeping with a boy, under our roof . in our household!¨ she continued to sit there with a look of annoyance on her face. ¨you need to get your *** together, you don't do anything for this family, your grades are horrible, you dress like you should be standing on the corner, what do you even have going for yourself

For the purpose of this assignment, I interviewed my close friend, Mango. Mango’s younger brother, Kale, is a 21-year-old high school drop who lives at home with his parents and has been in and out of inpatient rehabilitation centers for the past two years. Although Kale has not been diagnosed, Mango shared that Kale is a slow learner and had been retained when he was in the first grade. Mango also shared that other then the first time Kale was retained in first grade, from what she can recall, she remembers other teachers advising her parents to retain Kale or put him in summer school. Mango stated that Kale had difficulty learning in school, which resulted in Kale getting angry with his siblings because they who would make fun of him for not understanding how to solve what they would considered simple math problems or write essays. Eventually, Kale started to skip classes and befriend friends who introduced him to drugs. Currently, Kale has been found using drugs such as marijuana, ecstasy, and