Amanda Gieseler
Dr. Walts
College Writing 2
Annotated
Bibliography
Children are the greatest contribution to our society,
they are quick to jump up and want to learn and discover more and more out
about the world. But there are those who
don’t quite get the picture on how to help the kids want to learn more. Many of the kids who are abused have learned
this internal notion of repression, in which they are able to hide and deflect
people’s curiosities. This is their only
defense mechanism so they believe, and they acquire this thing known as a
double conscious (dissociation) in which the children often continue to fight
themselves internally on what is right or wrong. Psychologists Freud, Janet, and Breuer also
display this theory known as seduction theory, in which their memories and
their own minds attempt to hide themselves in order to disfigure the internal
and external trauma from the abuse.
Many of these kids though do not realize that these
conditions that they face are not only life-threatening, but have a lot of
other mental defects that follow. How
does it affect their morals, they’re sense of loss, or how stress can play in
and shortly after reenter a whole bunch of memories they were trying to ignore
overall. But how exactly can these kids
heal from this? Do they go to therapy,
do they fight it themselves or do they give up or give in to the situation all
together? As a while there are 11
dimensions in which they must go through in order to overcome what they have
experienced. The source was a great
source of symbolic words and theories that you can relate to children even of
these days who encounter more and more of the same things than we would
like. We need to be able to understand
how to help them and allow them to heal and cope.
2.London, Kamala, Bruck,
Maggie, Ceci, Stephen J., Shuman Daniel W. "What Does the
Research Tell Us About the Ways That Children Tell?" DISCLOSURE OF
CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE March. 2005. Web. 20. March. 2015
Children can be masters of hiding their emotions and in
cases of abuse, depending on the type of abuse, they go through stages of
secrecy, helplessness, entrapment, delayed, and retraction. Many children deny the abuse that they
encounter and the most that they deny is sexual. There are things that can help them such as
the NCAC (National Children’s Advocacy Center) in which they try to help the
child cope and fix the problems that they are facing. What is truly fascinating though is that the
kids are able to deal with the amounts of stress that come with not only their
abuse but on top of it school, friends and still going home to that same
family. It truly is amazing, these experiences because of the ways that the
kids become effected from them and then how the children turn out over and what
happens after the post abuse.
Personally this article was very eye opening in the
respect of how the children are affected and then how they are able to cope
with a mixture of all the stress as well as the ability to want to continue in
their lives. The basis of abuse is so differentiated per a
person that many people aren’t even sure what to look for when it comes to
looking for abuse on children.
When asking adults how often they think children get
abused 57% of them thought it wasn’t their business to ask the children if
anything was wrong at home. So many
children have gotten so well at hiding abuse that many people cannot tell that
they are being abused. The main factor
is that these kids feel emotionally abandoned and physically neglected by the
people that are raising them. And many people believe that 1 child is abused
every 10 seconds.
Many people want to be able to learn the noticeable signs
of child abuse in order to help more and more kids but there are so many
different ways that they are hiding it they.
Plus since no one really knows what causes the abuse they don’t know
exactly how to approach the children about it.
There are numbers such as 1-800-4-A-CHILD and other classes as well as
books allow a bit of an insight. We need
to be able to figure out an effective way to help kids more with this abuse and
how to fight it.
These 10 main steps that can be observed through normal
school behavior or even from personally knowing the child, are key components
to knowing what may be going wrong in the child’s life. Such as a lack of attendance, a slip in their
grades, lack of overall trying and hygiene.
These are simple things to look for in order to help the child succeed
and grow but you need to be able to approach them in a way that does intimidate
them or make them even more uncomfortable then they may already be.
Sometimes though children can be very persuasive you need
to be able to make some sort of bond and establish a trust with them in order
to help them all together. I think that
this article will be a crucial part to my idea of wanting to figure out steps
to help the kids come to us but also to point out key things to look out
for. We all want the safety and happiness
of children, so we need to try to help them a 110%, they are our future.
In regards to therapy,
these children and teens need to recognize that they environment is protected
and abuse free of any harm of the parent.
The therapist is not there to become the new role of the parent, they
are just trying to amend a bond between the two counterparts. There are different phases that the children
go through in the therapy sessions, they establish a schedule that works to aid
them in their healing, as well as start to become happier and get their lives
more together and figure out what they want.
They may be hostile or lonely at first but the emotions after some time
will change.
These kids deserve a
childhood, every kid does and when they are deprived of one it can create
another abusive adult, not always but in some cases. We need to be able to change these kid’s
lives for the better and aid more and more of them. The article gives great examples of treatment
options and how the treatments work and goes through the steps of the sessions
the children would go through. The key
step by step procedure as well as the emotions the children may be feeling or
thinking which helps
6. MELISSA M. STILES, M.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical School, Madison, Wisconsin
Am Fam Physician. "Witnessing Domestic Violence: The Effect on Children" 2002 Dec 1;66(11):2052-2067
http://www.aafp.org/afp/2002/1201/p2052.html
Amanda Gieseler
Dr. Walts
College writing 2
Project
Proposal
Thesis: How can children be able to deal with the
abuse from their parents and continue on like nothing is wrong?
Questions: What can cause
the parent to abuse the child?
What reasons would the
child not want help from someone?
How does the child
recover from this?
Ideas: What I would like
to do is go through different reasons why children are abused, and explain
them. Then incorporate different
situations in which could be punishment for a child but may be abuse. Talk of some cases of abuse that came to
light through the media. Look through
some more sights to try to discover why kids may not ask for help from people
they should be able to trust. After, I
want to incorporate some psychology to this with different therapy methods, and
ways the children can constructively grow from this and twist it so it may
positively impact their lives.
mentally relate to these patients.
