In this Book the Author talks about tapping the Potential of a unique child, that needs positive and constructive guidance to nurture his/her strengths and interest, and eventually groom him/her to their Maximum Prowess of talent, gift and Potential. Considering their Mental age and chronological age. It highlights about Exploring the unique child and discovering what they love doing and building on that passion to develop their capabilities. It brings us to the types of play they need to engage in, to facilitate their hidden strengths. It elaborates on children's developmental abilities in areas of spatial awareness, bodily kinaesthetic, musical, interpersonal, intrapersonal and naturalistic. It points on these eight areas of intelligence where an individual child is bound to excel in one or more areas of intelligence. The book also talks about disabled children, because not all children will have the same ability. Variations in abilities render a fraction of the child population to have concerns. So the Author balanced the ordinary child with no or less negativities with children who are detected to have learning difficulties in their early age. It talks about related mental health illness that engulfs families if a child is finally diagnosed with the following; Autism, Aspergers syndrome, Attention deficit Hyperactive disorder and other related learning difficulty and disability problems. The individual adult in the family goes through a Phase of Denial and subsequent Depression that can be serious. This sometimes tend to affect family lives in terms of quality and standards of living. It explains all the Stages of Grieve by Kluber Ross and also gives a picture of how Mental Health plays an important role and dynamics in Exploring and Discovering the unique child in our care. It goes on to explain the types of Depression and some statistics surrounding it. It is alarming to read about some of the written statistics of suicide relating to Depression and how family battles it with the help of Professionals that are trained to assist and support individuals in such situation and conditions. It goes on to also throw light on Psychotic Depression and its symptoms. This is one of the enumerated types of Depression mentioned in the book. It also goes on to touch on one of the symptoms namely Hallucination. This area also describes more than six different types of hallucination that put emphasis on all the five human senses of touch, sight, smell, taste and hearing. Discovering at a later age of your special child that he/she is experiencing some sort of medical condition is a devastating situation to any parent but that is not the end of the world. An individual needs to adapt coping mechanism and move on with life given the best possible care to that unique child and still going along to tap their talent. This is because every child has a potential and it will amaze you to discover that, learning difficulty child is embedded with Talents. The book goes on to talk about unleashing that strengths through structured activities. These are activities that involve observation, planning and assessment to be able to ascertain the areas of interest of that particular child. Adults are to pick on their strengths in these activities by also asking constructive and meaningful questions to derive suitable answers that will enable evaluation in the near future. This book reiterates on linguistics. This is simply communication that is the core and fundamental crux of every child who is developing and growing into adulthood. A child develops language from 0 months through 24 months and onwards. This is the link of comprehension in our society. Communication skill is a vital component of our community and the very fabric of humanity. This book talks about the intelligent quotient and gives a brief history of those who started testing and measuring intelligence. It enumerates on the types of intelligence and concludes with safeguarding children.
Proceedings of SPIE present the original research papers presented at SPIE conferences and other high-quality conferences in the broad-ranging fields of optics and photonics. These books provide prompt access to the latest innovations in research and technology in their respective fields. Proceedings of SPIE are among the most cited references in patent literature.
This book is about Infant, Adolescent and Adult Mental health issues that rip families apart sometimes. The Author has elaborated on relevant areas that is educational, helping students and individuals to fulfil their assignment criteria and knowledge based evidence. It firstly explains Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder in a bit more detail, highlighting its associated Disorders like Oppositional Defiant Disorder and Conduct Disorder characterized by anti-social behaviour. This book goes on to reiterate about ADHD causes, symptoms and treatment. Some symptoms mentioned in this book include distraction, missing details, forgetting things, frequently switching from one activity to the other, having difficulty maintaining focus on one task, becoming bored with a task after only a few minutes, unless doing something enjoyable and other relevant symptoms. It talks about surrounding theories and diagnostic tools surrounding Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder. The Author referred to the International Classification of Diseases to give detail of Diagnosis and its Global understanding. It carries on to explain management of Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder linking its epidemiology and how to cope with ADHD. This brings us to the history of some theories that allows the reader to understand how this issue was brought to light, its investigation, research and evidence based trials and surveys that worked. Spirituality and health also played a huge part in coping with ADHD with individual faith and diet helping sufferers to constructively and positively deal with it. Survival strategies of children and teenagers is also explained to balance the coping mechanisms that are existing which then takes us to Temper Tantrum that are exhibited by individuals with ADHD. The Author gave detailed account of temper tantrums in Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder sufferers that uses this as a tool to get what they want or express their dissatisfaction of events. They use temper tantrums to either cause anti-social behaviour because they are not happy with what they are being offered or just to cause trouble to get what they are looking for. Anxiety Disorder is one of the associated disorders that comes with Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder. The term anxiety covers four aspects of experiences that an individual may have. This include Mental apprehension, physical tension, physical symptoms and dissociative anxiety. Anxiety disorder is divided into generalized anxiety disorder, phobic disorder and panic disorder. Each has its own characteristics and symptoms and they require different treatment. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder can also occur with ADHD and shares many of its characteristics. Substance use Disorders is also relative to ADHD. Adolescents and adults with ADHD are at high risk of developing substance use problem, most commonly with alcohol and cannabis. The reason for this may be due to an altered reward pathway in the brains of ADHD individuals. This makes the evaluation and treatment of ADHD more difficult, with serious substance misuse problems usually treated first due to their greater risks. This book also throws light on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. This is thought to be effective for the treatment of a variety of conditions, including mood, anxiety, personality, eating, substance abuse, tic, and psychotic disorders. The Breakdown of treatment include Orientation, Commitment to treatment, crisis response and safety planning, Means restriction, survival kit, reasons for living card, model of suicidality, treatment journal, lessons learned, skills focus, skill development worksheets, coping cards and many more. Depression is also an area that has been highlighted by the Author to in order to put the associated disorders into effective equilibrium. Depression sets in when ADHD is not managed properly and this can result in suicide. Depression is a severe despondency and dejection accompanied by feeling of hopeless.
This book is for students, teachers, healthcare workers that come into contact with children on a daily basis, social workers, parents, and individuals who want to know more about children developmental processes and how biological, physical, socio-economic, emotional, genetics, environmental, cultural, traditional, and ill health affect the smooth growth and development of children in different geographical areas and backgrounds. The Author elaborated on relevant theories of child development by some renowned pioneers in the game and touched on how family impact on children in the journey of growth and subsequent development. There is some relative reiteration on effects of abuse and neglect as a worrying concern of child development. The National Service Framework has been explained to highlight the support the Government renders to its citizens in order to give them maximum and effectual support, protection and treatment of children in hospitals. It goes on to explain about the policies, guidelines, procedures and measures that has been put in place to build up that fence of protection for the growing infants. This is in effect brings us to issues of child poverty that cripples and impedes growth and development of children. The Author also blended the Role of Fathers in the quest to pinpoint some of the family dynamics in modern societies. Fathers play vital and major role in bringing up children and therefore in this book, the author highlights the importance of Daddy's role in the developmental milestones of infants through adolescent to Adulthood. The Author also linked some of the difficulties and problems associated with growth and development to Post Natal Depression. This is because a healthy mother with no illness and stress has the ability and capabilities to nurture a child and help them grow through all the developmental milestones with probably less family dynamics and issues. That is why the Author addressed Post Natal Depression with some information for mothers in the global community, teachers, students, carers, social workers and all individuasl to have some insight into Post Natal Depression and how it affects child development. The Author begins with the Embryonic stage to 5years. This is when the zygote forms after conception and life begins almost immediately. The unborn Foetus develop through the trimester stages of pregnancy and is ready to be born into this world of uncertainties and unpredictability. Categories of development takes us through socio-emotional development, through language development with cognitive development as a central tool for growth and understanding of the world. Taking care of infants have been explained from feeding, through rest and sleep, bathing, suitable clothing and immunization. Behavioural issues has also been highlighted to balance the growth and developmental aspect. Psychoanalytic Theories by Sigmund Freud and Erik Erikson, Cognitive Theory by Jean Piaget, Behavioural Theory by B.F. Skinner, Social theory by John Bowlby, Albert Bandura and Lev Vygotsky. Stages of Cognitive development has been explained taken into account, Sensorimotor stage and Object Permanence. Personality has been explained in details as the above. What Personality is all about, components of Personality and some fundamental characteristics namely, consistency, Psychological and physiological. Psychosocial development by Erik Erikson and Sigmund Freud has been expanded bringing into play its stages like Trust and Mistrust. Causes of Psychosocial problems like poverty as mentioned before has been broken down for individuals to understand some of the core related issues like cultural values and societal roles. The Author made sure that most areas are covered for the purposes of assignment writing and knowledge based information to enrich the modern generation with some practical determinants of child development. It enlightens individuals in our Global community to understand child development
This self-assessment guide aims to help students pass tests or exams in electronic devices & circuits by providing an overview of the concepts, review material and hundreds of questions on the subject area's main topics and subtopics.
Proceedings of SPIE present the original research papers presented at SPIE conferences and other high-quality conferences in the broad-ranging fields of optics and photonics. These books provide prompt access to the latest innovations in research and technology in their respective fields. Proceedings of SPIE are among the most cited references in patent literature.
2005 : William « Bull » Preece, quarante-cinq ans, est découvert mort dans son mobile home rouillé d’une overdose à l’oxycodone, un opioïde puissant délivré sur ordonnance. Debbie Preece, sa sœur, se l’est juré : Bull ne sera pas un autre chiffre dans le bilan humain désastreux des Appalaches. Bébés nés dépendants, familles détruites... Le taux de décès par overdoses aux opioïdes a quadruplé en quelques années. 2013 : Eric Eyre travaille depuis quinze ans à la Charleston Gazette, dont la devise est « s’indigner sans relâche ». Il a reçu un coup de téléphone : des liens suspects existent entre le procureur général de l’État et l’industrie pharmaceutique. Comment sept cent quatre-vingt millions de comprimés d’oxycodone et d’hydrocodone ont-ils pu être déversés en Virginie-Occidentale sans que personne ne dise un mot ? Comment une pharmacie, celle où Bull se procurait ses comprimés, a-t-elle pu vendre plus de deux millions d’analgésiques, autrement dit d’antidouleurs, dans une ville qui ne compte que trois cent quatre-vingt-deux âmes ? Et si Bull avait été la victime, parmi tant d’autres, d’un vaste trafic, juteux pour les uns, mortel pour les autres ? Pablo Escobar et El Chapo n’auraient pas mieux organisé les choses. Eric le pugnace entreprend de remonter le fil, et ce qu’il découvre dépasse l’entendement.
Dalam buku ini, Eric Weiner melakukan perjalanan keliling ke beberapa tempat di dunia untuk mencari tahu hubungan antara lingkungan kita dan ide-ide inovatif. |a menjelajahi sejarah kota-kota seperti Wina, Florence, Athena, Hangzhou, dan tentu saja Silicon Valley. Masih dengan gayanya yang nakal, cerdas, dan humoris, Weiner menapaktilasi jalanan yang pernah dilalui Socrates, Michaelangelo, dan Leonardo da Vinci. Ia juga merenungkan sejarah teori Darwin, pemikiran Freud, dan berjalan-jalan di hutan seperti yang dilakukan Beethoven zaman dulu. The Geography of Genius meredefinisi argumen tentang bagaimana seorang genius muncul. Weiner mengevaluasi ulang tentang bagaimana pentingnya budaya dalam memantik dan memelihara kreativitas. “Weiner itu seorang filsuf, pemandu perjalanan, dan motivator, tentu saja dia juga kocak!" -Vanity Fair [Mizan Publishing, Qanita, Traveling, Budaya, Masyarakat, Indonesia]
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