In Scars That Won’t Heal: The Neurobiology of Child Abuse, the damaging effect of child abuse and neglect is looked at in more ways than behavioral, personality and functioning problems. The premise is less cognitive and more physical. This article explains findings of the brain being physically altered by these traumatic childhood events. When helping those personality disorders, the other thought that perhaps that their early traumas led to the developing brains to alter their growth, particularly the hippocampus and the amygdala.…
Childhood Physical Abuse (CPA) occurs far more frequently than many would like to acknowledge, in roughly 25% of the population as Andrew Subica records in his article: Psychiatric and Physical Sequelae of Childhood Physical Abuse And Forced Sexual Trauma Among Individuals With Serious Mental Illness” (Subica 1). Many previous investigations and correlational studies have linked CPA with a highly increased risk of developing mental disorders. The severity of these future mental disorders can vary based on the severity of the physical abuse and the age when the child was abused. A human’s brain is not fully developed until he or she is 25 years old (Subica 2).…
The injuries can go unnoticed or be diagnosed. However, in both cases there can be effects that develop after time has passed. According to a study done by Cornelius Van-Neil, there are many long-term effects that are associated with minor brain traumas (1). A group of 186 children who had a minor brain trauma were studied under an MRI, and the image showed fifty eighty percent of the children had brain abnormalities six to twelve months after being cleared of a concussion (Van-Neil 1). In addition to the abnormal imaging, there were both cognitive and somatic effects that were noted of (Van-Neil 1).…
The Effects of Childhood Maltreatment on Adults In the United States alone, 6.6 million children are subjected to childhood maltreatment, behavior toward a child that is outside of the norms of conduct and entails substantial risk of causing physical or emotional harm (“Child Abuse Statistics”). Maltreatment is categorized in four types: Physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse (psychiatric abuse), and neglect (“Overview of Childhood Maltreatment”). The myriad effects of these abuses are: victims of childhood maltreatment have less ability to express themselves and their feelings in their controlled environments, the high stress level put on a child in this type of situations may disrupt early development, by mixing the architecture…
Reoccurring or repeated concussions may lead to more serous problem like learning disabilities and psychiatric problems. According to Leon-Carrion (2003), “Pre-adolescent youth with a traumatic brain injury may never fully develop the social and cognitive skills characteristic of adults and may be more violent than those without such an injury”. Moreover, concussions range from a brief period of neural dysfunction (bell rung) to loss of consciousness or semi-lucent and more serious amnesia (per cited Roberts, 1996). It is important to understand that signs and symptoms presented at the time of injury may disappear quickly, or they may linger for longer periods of…
The New Walking Dead: Memory Impairment with Traumatic Brain Injury Memory impairment can be a negative handicap to an individual’s quality of life. The incident rates of traumatic brain injuries (TBI) have been increasing each year. TBI has been associated with memory and neurodevelopmental impairment. Lack of research into understanding, diagnosis, and care are all factors that are limiting the outcomes of TBI patients. More effort needs to be placed in research and development of care plans and resources for TBI patients.…
Youth clinics in 35 states have opened, In the youth clinics are kids dying of pain, complaining of headaches and dizziness. The cause, football (Pennington pg. 3) This is because too many kids aren't being taught how to properly tackle and instead just figure out how to get him “on the ground”. Parents are scared after a concussion Parents get scared of how their kid will act and think once they hit the age of 50 (Pennington pg. 4) This reason is often correct because there have been many reports of CTE and once there kid has one they fear immediately what their future would be.…
Children who suffer concussions suffer concrete physical symptoms, which can persistent anywhere from five days to over a month. Depending on the severity of the brain injury, children could face an increased likelihood to commit suicide at some point later in life. With the amount of children who play sports, or even just fool around with their friends, the implications of these findings is concerning. More research is vital to further understanding of these effects, so that doctors can develop safe and effective treatments for concussion in the future. It needs to be mentioned,that a key battle for doctors and researchers is not only the effects of concussions, but also the recognition of concussions.…
“Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression” (Ginott, 1972). Many people in our society believe a single traumatic event can have lasting effects on even the youngest of children. In this paper, I will look at how a child, more specifically, Amarika, can display a varying range of reactions after exposure to a traumatic event. Core Concept Reflection of Case Study…
Trauma comes in many shapes and forms across the board. Trauma, or a deep distressing or disturbing experience, is experienced by everyone at some point in their lives. Children coming from hard places sometimes experience more trauma in their few years of life than some adults experience throughout their entire lives. Examples of trauma can be anywhere from sexual abuse, to living in poverty, moving from place to place, and even the death of a loved one. These traumas mold and shape the child emotionally and sometimes physically if the child as suffered neglect or physical abuse.…
Abusive head trauma is well-known as a brain injury caused by external mechanical force to infants or young children, resulting in permanent or temporary impairment of cognitive, physical, and psychosocial functions 1,3. Recently, abusive head trauma has…
Introduction In the United States alone, approximately 1.7 million individuals sustain a traumatic brain injury (TBI) each year (CDC, 2006). Of those 1.7 million, approximately 700,000 are adolescents, making them the age group most prone to experiencing a TBI (Ettel, Glang, Todis, & Davies, 2016). A TBI occurs when traumatic force causes damage to the brain whether it occur from the head hitting an external object, or when an object hits the head forcefully and potentially punctures brain tissue (NIH, 2016). Effects of a TBI can occur immediately, or develop over time, negatively impacting the individual’s cognitive, academic, physical, and social/behavioral aspects of life (Davies, Trunk, Kramer, 2014).…
Introduction Approximately 1.7 million people acquire a traumatic brain injury in the United States every year, impacting millions of people’s daily lives (Powell, Rich, & Wise, 2016). A traumatic brain injury (TBI) occurs when an external or internal force impacts the brain, which causes physical and chemical alterations in the brain. In recent years, rates of TBI have increased dramatically; however, more people are receiving treatment after a TBI, so mortality rates are decreasing (“Rates of TBI-related emergency department visits, hospitalizations, and deaths,” 2016). According to Andriessen et al. (2011), the leading cause of a TBI is motor vehicle accidents, followed by falls, assaults, and sports.…
Avoidance has been largely related to the onset of DID. For instance, Dorahy et al. (2014) explains how clinicians, researchers, and victims naturally attempt to avoid recognising great trauma by minimising its severity or denying its occurrence. Accordingly, children who experience severe trauma first hand have been understood to mentally escape this trauma by dissociating their identity and retreating to psychological safety within a new identity (Gartner, 2015; MacIntosh, 2012; Maiese, 2016). Furthermore, this not only has a reinforcing effect – reducing pain via mentally escaping from the trauma (Savoy et al., 2012), but many people with DID are also conditioned to not tell other people about the trauma they endure, further pressuring them into avoiding aspects of their identities by escaping to alternative identities (Dorahy et al., 2014).…
There are certain types of play that are more likely to lead to unintentional childhood injuries and there are some challenges associated with the prevention of these injuries. Brussoni, M., Olsen, L., Pike, I., and Sleet, D. (2012) suggest that Free play, an activity that all children do in their daily life, has been classified as the importance source of children’s growth and education. Through playing, children are able to learn how to be creative, how to communicate socially and improves their competence physically (Brussoni, M. et al., 2012). However, there are risk that are associated with free play that will challenge the children’s knowledge in managing all sorts of new situation and learning how to overcome the barriers that they might…