Deliberate self-harm (DSH) or self-injurious behavior (SIB) involves intentional self-poisoning or injury, irrespective of the apparent purpose of the act. (Vela, Harris and Wright, 1983) Self-mutilation is also used interchangeably with self-mutilat Continue Reading...
Ritalin: Good or Bad? Ritalin is a tradename for Methylphenidate hydrochloride, an antidepressant stimulant. It was created to stimulate the central nervous system and is used to treat increased compulsion to sleep and hyperactivity disorders in chi Continue Reading...
Children have amazing learning potential. In school and at home, children absorb information at rates faster than adults do. However, does the emotional development of a child give children a higher development potential than thinking does? Articles Continue Reading...
Breastfeeding and IQ Infants who are breastfeed tend to have higher IQ as they mature. This paper examines that phenomenon, which presents a complex set of cause-and-effect questions, including how long infants must be breastfed to receive any benef Continue Reading...
Pain, 56(1), 95-101. Andrews, K., & Fitzgerald, M. (1999). Cutaneous flexion reflex in human neonates: a quantitative study of threshold and stimulus-response characteristics after single and repeated stimuli. Developmental Medicine and Child N Continue Reading...
Prescribing Psychotropic Medications to Minors It is every parent's worst nightmare: the drugs intended to cure a child kill him or her instead. Since the development of drugs like Prozac and Paxil, drugs classified as SSRIs (selective serotonin reu Continue Reading...
Sometimes as the authors mention, could be done with looking at movies that are considered romantic or even things that are just on the television. Some even feel that being in a setting that feels romantic or just looking at somebody that might be Continue Reading...
Farris (1990) cites Glasser's Control Theory as a foundation for developing activities to motivate adolescent learners. Briefly this theory asserts humans have five basic needs: the need for survival, belonging, power, freedom and fun. Effective te Continue Reading...
Drinking in Australia Skeleton Brief Trends in Underage Drinking As children age the risk of alcohol use increases dramatically and by 16-years of age most have consumed alcohol within the last 30 days (Figure 1; Rowland et al., 2014). Percentag Continue Reading...
social networking has in the last couple of years stirred a lot of debate among politician and scholars alike. The level of risks and benefits associated with social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and MySpace especially to children and t Continue Reading...
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity disorder is a behavioral disorder that is mostly found in children. According to one research almost 7.5% of school-aged children are suffering from some kind of ADHD related behavioral problem in the United States. In Continue Reading...
Human Perception: Your perceptual systems can sometimes lead you to misinterpret objects and situations. What are some things you can do to help yourself reduce such misjudgments? The cliche is that 'seeing is believing.' But simply because the eyes Continue Reading...
Childhood amnesia, which is commonly known as infantile amnesia, is the scarcity or lack of autobiographical recollections among adults regarding incidents that took place in their early life, especially events that occurred before they turned 4 year Continue Reading...
Stress is an unavoidable fact of life, yet, what precisely is stress? It is essentially one of those things that we all have but that we all have difficulty defining and explaining. The one unarguable fact is that we all have it in our lives and, wit Continue Reading...
Drug Use Dealing the Straight Dope: The Physical, Emotional, and Social Effects of Drug Use and Abuse Many different things might come to mind upon hearing the word, "drugs." The harmful effects of drug abuse and the positive benefits of life-savin Continue Reading...
Helping parents understanding the infant's needs, development, and behavior, along with educating the parents in the area of proper parenting constitutes vital components for the prevention of SBS. In the article, "New programs target shaken-baby s Continue Reading...
Radio Frequency Exposure The world of electricity is wondrous in many ways. While mankind has somewhat grasped the ability to harness the power of electricity, new information and data is being understood to have new developments on how it may be ha Continue Reading...
Growth of a Child from Infancy to Adolescence When a child is born, it is virtually helpless and unable to complete any form of operational tasks. Though a superior being above many creatures, the infant will be able to grow from infancy to adulthoo Continue Reading...
Adolescent Depression The Family and Teen Depression Treatment Options for Teen Depression Adolescent Depression and the Family Teen depression is a serous condition that has been largely ignored until recent events in the media focused more att Continue Reading...
Addiction of Teenagers to Prescription Drugs Addiction of teenage prescription drugs The problem of addiction of teenagers to prescription drugs has been on rise in modern days. It is estimated that daily in the United States 2,500 youth abuse pres Continue Reading...
Lantern What do Babies Think? Psychologists and the rest of the world have always regarded babies as incomplete, merely forming adults whose thoughts can only be rudimental and purposeless. But Alison Gopnik explored deeply into this issue and cam Continue Reading...
Other Medical Issues While neurological issues delays are primarily responsible for the functional developmental delays in children other complications can also affect the development of a preterm child. These problems include: cardiovascular comp Continue Reading...
With the ADHD teen's short attention span and restlessness, this problem becomes crucial to solve. But how? The answer may lie in a framework and structure that allows the ADHD child to accomplish the homework throughout his or her school years (Ro Continue Reading...
Children Being Charged as Adults The Negative Consequences of Treating Minors as Adults in Criminal Cases "Old enough to do the crime, old enough to do the crime;" this is an old, yet still very controversial statement when contemplating whether or Continue Reading...
Nature of the ProblemPurpose of the ProjectBackground and Significance of the Problem Brain Development Specific Activities to engage students Data-Driven Instruction Community Component of Education Research QuestionsDefinition of TermsMethodol Continue Reading...
Infants Who Witness Violence: Effects and Treatments INFANTS WHO WITNESS VIOLENCE: EFFECTS AND 1 Age Span Differences Effects on Infants A Sleeper Effect Stunt Babies' Intellectual Development Cerebral Effects Disturbance of attachment and its Continue Reading...
Internal Validity Is maturation a possible threat to the internal validity of the study? Why or why not? For measures of academic achievement, six months (which is the intended length of the study) is not a long enough period of time to be very con Continue Reading...
Globus pallidusinterna (GPI) of the patient was treated through DBS. The internal pulse generators (IPG) helped stimulate the inner cognition area of patient's brain. Since the study employed Yale Global Tic Severity Scale (YGTSS) for assessing the Continue Reading...
human mind is not essentially a blank slate at birth, we can relate it to being much like a computer that has not yet been programmed (Pinker, 2001). While there is a potential "preparedness" for the young child to develop a number of skills based o Continue Reading...
young adult living with cerebral palsy functions in the world today and provides a transition plan for either college or work after high school. There are sixteen references used for this paper. People living with cerebral palsy face many challenge Continue Reading...
Human Behavior Theories Developmental psychology entails the changes that occur to human beings and their lives. Originally, it was concerned with children and infants: the field's expansion currently covers the entire life span of children. This fi Continue Reading...
Piaget believed in the child to society association whereby children have the skills to organization information they receive from the society. He felt that children make sense of the world around them with the innate organization skills they posses Continue Reading...
In an attempt to compete Wii, Microsoft put together all the features from its Xbox 360 gaming platform and offered the result in the shape of a bundle of two games at the price of $279.99 in which the following were included: five family-friendly g Continue Reading...
Satirical Pornography Pornography…what a wonderful concept. The idea of being as free in body as one is in spirit can be relieving, freeing, and bring exuberant amount of pleasure…just do not let anyone find out. The obsession with porno Continue Reading...
forgiveness on human health. In its simplest form, the purpose of the study is to evaluate human psychological stress that might constitute a risk factor for heart disease. Further, the study will also evaluate the impact of forgiveness on heart dise Continue Reading...
Secondly, the kid should be assisted in augmenting their reasoning and by making them know deaths with realistic information. Thirdly, the kid should attain consent to allow him/her do away with old lifestyle and come up with new lifestyle. An examp Continue Reading...
This had lead to a growing number of states segregating juveniles and adults within the adult prison. Judges are also taking into account the availability of beds when they determine sentences for juveniles that have been tried as adults and may go Continue Reading...
Breast Feeding In Favor of Breast Feeding Breastfeeding has become a political lightening rod, igniting debates across a wide spectrum of social issues. Sadly the critics of mothers' breast feeding their children have forgotten about the most impor Continue Reading...
PIAGET vs. VYGOTSKY Compared: Piaget and Vygotsky Piaget vs. Vygotsky: The role of language in cognitive development Jean Piaget's theory of human development is fundamentally a biological one: Piaget believed that all human beings go through a se Continue Reading...
