Monday, April 9, 2012
Emotional Disorders
Hello everyone! I am very interested in psychology and wanted to learn more about children with emotional disorders. There are many different types of emotional disorders and most children (as well as adults) usually suffer from more than just one emotional disorder. Therefore, I wanted to keep my blog somewhat broad in the beginning, but I plan to turn my focus towards how teachers can best help students with emotional disorders in the classroom, both academically and emotionally, once I have aquired the general information about these disorders. I have read articles on emotional disorders and a common statement that really sticks out in my mind is "emotional abuse almost always causes more damage to the victim than physical abuse and can leave deep and ever lasting scars within the victims mind." I have done quite a bit of research on emotional abuse and disorders over the past few years, but most of this research was focused on adults instead of children. Some questions I have about emotional disorders in children are: What is the most common type of emotional disorder? What are the most common signs in children with emotional disorders? How does emotional distress affect a child's behavior in the classroom? How common are emotional disorders? Is the commonality of elementary children with emotional disorders rising or falling? Why or why not? I am very excited to answer these questions in the next few blogs and I look forward to coming up with much more questions unexpectedly through my research. Once these questions are answered, I will most likely be narrowing my topic down to one or two emotional disorders that are the most common with elementary students so that I can aquire a great deal of knowledge which will hopefully lead me to successfully help these students in the classroom.
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Megan-
ReplyDeleteI'm looking forward to following your blog as you delve into the topic of emotional disorders, especially since it's something I know virtually nothing about. I see that you mentioned emotional abuse in your post. Are emotional disorders caused by emotional abuse, or is this just one possible factor? Like I said, I have no knowledge or experience with this subject, so I think I will be able to learn a lot from your research.
Sarah
I had a child in my classroom that had a lot of emotional issues. Most of this stemed from being taken away from his family. This had major affects on this child. I noticed when I took over teaching full time, he had a very hard time with bonding with me. He hated change becuase he has a had so much of it in his life outside of school. He had many issues with trusting people. The child would typically act out in a very violent way towards me. This made it very hard for me to teach and remain control of the entire class. Im very interested in seeing your blog and learning more about emotional disorders and the affects they have on the families as well.
ReplyDelete-Amanda
Good work, Megan.
ReplyDeleteIt's always a good idea to start with a very broad topic and then let it come into focus as you find more information about it. I'm glad you realized that your initial inquiries will need to be narrowed down, but it's perfectly alright to start by examining emotional disorders as a whole. It will be interesting to see what you find about children and how this differs from what you already know about adults. Looking forward to reading it.
Gabe
Megan,
ReplyDeleteI think it will be really interesting to see what you find out about emotional disorders. Like Amanda have some experience with students who have some emotional disorders. I found them to be very challenging and somewhat all over the place. We had a student who would find his groove and then go back to old ways. I know the teachers and specialists and even the principal found it frustrating and were often clueless on how to help in the school setting. They often said he might benefit from being in a STRIDE unit but I didn't know what this was. You might want to look into it when you narrow down your focus of your blog and if you dive into what schools can offer children!
-Amy