Friday, April 3, 2015

Annotated Bib and Project Proposal


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.

  3.Anonymous.  "Witnessing child abuse" Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences 93.1 (2001): 20-21. Web. 20. March. 2015.

            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.

4. Anonymous. “10 signs of child abuse.” Safe Horizon. Web. 26. March. 2015. 27. March. 2015.  http://www.safehorizon.org/page/10-signs-of-child-abuse-58.html

            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.

5.  U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. “Treatment for Abused and Neglected Children: Infancy to Age 18.” Therapy.  Web.  1994.  27. March. 2015.  https://www.childwelfare.gov/pubPDFs/treatmen.pdf#page=49&view=Therapy

            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.
 
 

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