In chapter 7 of the Lifesmart text I was interested to learn more about attention disorders. On page 160 they explain Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder(ADHD) as a common diagnosis for children who are easily distracted, seem to fidget, and have a hard time focusing. This is a very common disorder that I have heard about for years. People talk about ADHD and ADD very often. I never really thought of this to be a serious condition until I started working at the Special Rec. center and I met a participant that has severe ADHD, although medication can help him a bit, he can not focus on anything for longer than a few minutes and is very hyperactive. Since meeting him I realized that this is much more serious that I had thought it was. Like the text on page 160 says, medication helps as well as a strict behavioral plan. To help him stay calm he focuses his energy on crossword puzzles, he can finish a whole book in one day.
Monday, March 28, 2016
Week four: Elliott: Reflection
After reading chapter 6 in the Lifesmart text, I found the different types of parenting styles on page 142, to be interesting. I was drawn to this because of a conversation I had recently with one of my clients,Tony who was talking to me about how his girlfriend is raising her children and how he does not agree with her style of parenting. She uses permissive parenting, she rarely punishes he children for bad behavior. The kids are very disrespectful to her and other adults. Tony would like to step in and be a father figure and try to help parent her children but he would use a much different style of parenting. He would be an authoritarian parent. He believes that the adult should make all of the decisions and the child should have complete respect for their elders.
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Caley,
ReplyDeleteParenting is very tough and if your friend wants to be the authority figure of these kids he needs to have his girlfriends 100% support. If she doesn’t support him, then his approach will never work. Whenever my son or daughter is disciplined by their mom, for example they didn’t do their chores, their punishment is that they are not allowed to watch TV and then they will try to pull a fast one and ask me if they can watch TV. Then I will ask them, “what did your mother say?” and if they say mom said we CAN’T watch TV then that gets reinforced on my end. If one of the parents give in, then this approach backfires! You need to have both guardians in agreement with one another for this approach to work.