Please respond to one of the following:
(a) One of the topics we will cover in chapter 8 is child maltreatment and prevention. The author of your text describes three levels of prevention. If you had limited funds and could only afford to support a primary, secondary, or tertiary prevention program (regarding maltreatment), where would you target your money? Why?
(b) Think back on your childhood and the peers/friends you had at the time. Based on what you read in the chapter were there any examples of maltreatment that you recall? Why was it maltreatment?
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If I had limited funds I would apply them to secondary prevention. I think this would impact the child in immediate risky situations and have quicker success. Some risks are higher than others, so you could choose which is the highest priority and children who are in immediate danger.
ReplyDeleteb) Looking back on my childhood, I did not have any friends that were physically abused but definitely emotionally abused. Some of my friends parents would get so mad if their child did something wrong.
ReplyDeleteNow my parents were not happy when I did something wrong and would punish me;however, my friend's parents would insult my friends and it was hard to see. One of my friend's parents would favor one of the kids and so my friend was left feeling inadequate. I think parents need to be more careful because they think kids aren't listening but they are and what they say can hurt a child for a long time.
I believe like many of my class mates i would support primary prevention, for the main reason taht it does reach a broader spectrum of people as well as the fact that many of the implementations of it would be seen and have a psycological effect on people to make them feel safer. as well the fact that secondary prevention requires a certain amount of faith in people reporting problems, and tertiary is almost insulting. its reactive, when we need to attempt to be proactive.
ReplyDelete-Darius Walker
From the friends I had when I was younger, I know that some of them definitely went through maltreatment. One family was being raised by only their mother as they rarely got to see their father. Eventually the mother cracked from stress and began dealing with drugs and would leave the kids for periods of times and they would not know where she was. Even when she was at home they most generally cared for themselves as well as when she wasn't there. This is a form of child neglect.
ReplyDeleteI can't recall any of my friends going through maltreatment growing up. However my bother is 5 years older than me and I would be almost certian that one of his friends was maltreated. His friends parents were never around to take care of him, or to see what was even going on in his life. My brother's friend turned to drinking and party because he wasn't getting any attention from his parents. His father ended up selling all of his friends drugs also.
ReplyDeleteIf I had unlimited funds I would focus my prevention on primary prevention. This prevention provides support for a wider range of subjects and would create a safer environment as a whole. It does not focus solely on minimizing the impact of maltreatment or avoiding anything, however it does create a goal of reducing everyone's possibly chance of injury, therefore creating a safer environment for everyone.
ReplyDeleteIn reply to Erin:
ReplyDeleteI had a few guy friends who were great kids up until Junior year of high school. This is when they were cut from the sports teams because they weren't 'varsity' material. Their parents stopped showing any interest and they turned to drugs and alcohol as well.
In reply to Darius:
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with your statement saying that we need to be proactive instead of reactive. In so many situations it is almost to late when someone decides to react. We need to do everything we can to prevent the situations from even occurring.