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Effects of traumatic events on young children
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Dan Dallas’s Savagery Show and Tell (1978) article discusses the mental health efforts implemented to minimize trauma in young children and their parents after exposure to a homicide that occurred in public view. The murder took place in front of over 50 students of an elementary school in Illinois. Immediately, the elementary school was concerned with the possible psychological effects witnessing the murder could have on the students. In response, the school implemented various methods of processing and coping to minimize potential negative effects. Although Dallas covered an interesting and important topic in his article, there are many flaws with how the article was written. The six primary concerns with Dallas’s article are: ambiguity of …show more content…
Dallas’s abstract includes a description of the homicide that was witnessed by the students, a question posed by a student, and a breath of information regarding the immediate implementation of counseling services. Although some of this information is relevant to the article, it also leaves out several essential details. With that being said, the abstracts lacks a hypothesis and leaves the reader questioning the purpose and the focus of the article. For example, is the article about the effect of the trauma on the students, or parents, or is the article about the counseling efforts to avoid the effects of trauma before or after the onset of symptoms? Furthermore, the abstract does not indicate any methods or outcomes of the counseling efforts mentioned. Additionally, the already brief abstract includes an off topic question regarding what to do when a child asks questions about the acceptableness of murder. This question is only addressed briefly and is not a central theme of the …show more content…
The Dallas (1978) indicated once that the offender was 23-years-old, then directly addresses the offender six times as being a young man or a youth. Much like the misleading nature of the emotionally charged words, calling a 23-year-old a youth misleads readers and distorts judgements of the events. By wrongfully giving the impression that the offender is younger, the author makes the offender seem more innocent than he is, and in turn, makes the homicide seem more shocking and potentially traumatizing than it really
The Huaorani are the bravest people in the Amazon. It says so throughout Savages by Joe Kane. It is about the indigenous group called the Huaorani residing deep in the rainforest of the Amazon. They have their culture that struggles to maintain tradition, “Though Moi hit the streets of Washington D.C., at the evening rush hour, he walked in the city as he does in the forest-in slow, even strides “(Kane, Savages). The small indigenous group that reside in the Amazon are fighting against outer forces. The petroleum companies are destroying the land of the Huaorani people. Joe Kane who is the author and narrator of the book, tells the story of the Huaorani people and their struggles in the outer world
The video, A Savage Legacy: Apartheid, Jim Crow, and Racism Today, explains the concepts of discrimination, prejudice, stereotypes, cultural relativism, egocentrism, ethnocentrism. The video provides clips of the history of slavery among blacks and relates it to the racism of today. Even though there is only five genes that determines skin color, skin color continues to affect someone’s destiny.
I chose to do my paper on the movie, For Colored Girls, by Ntozake Shane (2010). In the movie For Colored Girls, I thought about all the Tangies who have not been professionally treated for their childhood rape. It is not an easy subject to talk about. The victims sometimes hide their emotions for years. Sexual abuse on a child is vulgar and according to Martin (2010), it is considered maltreatment and should be reported to authorities. Tangie knew her attacker, in fact he lived with them. He was a caregiver who was supposed to protect her. She held a lot of anger towards her mother because she felt that at least her mom should have protected her.
However, despite being regarded as unnecessary rumors by a section of the American society and government, many media people and houses reported harrowing incidents of murder, rape, carjacking and assaults. There were also media reports about a significant number of urban legends who sprouted at the height of the commotion brought about by Hurricane Katrina – systematic children rapists and a 7-year-old’s throat being slit. However, media reports aside, these contentions remain just that. Nevertheless, although a significant count of th...
A person experiences violence regardless of his or her geographical location. Violence is catastrophic, toxic and dramatically impactful on a community. Violence is a product of misbehavior and lack of emotional outlets. People bring violence to the streets of Chicago because they believe that actions speak louder than words. People solve confrontation on the streets with the pull of a trigger rather than taking a minute to talk it out. Many Chicagoans have become numb to the headlines that read- “40 shot and 4 killed this weekend” or “She didn’t have a chance.” Chicagoans shake their heads and scoff, while saying “There goes another one.” How could traumatic events become ordinary? Community members continuously march for justice and peace in their neighborhoods while city officials create new programs and jobs to keep young
Since violence had become part of every individual's life, they see it as a regular event, which reduces the hatred for violence. Nelson implies that when an individual get exposed to controversial violent acts such executions, those individuals are less likely to react and take action against this violent topic. Nelson argues that “Model of shaming-us into-action-by-unmasking-the-truth-of-our actions cannot hold a candle to our capacity to assimilate horrific images and to justify or shrug off horrific behavior” (Nelson 300). Desensitization to violence takes away the individual's senses of supporting “right” and “wrong” cause of violent acts. As a results, individuals either try to justify the violent acts or just ignore or deny. Likewise, instead of getting horrified by the news of the murder of Matt Shepard, some residents of Laramie became defensive, by attempting to deny the existence of intolerance in their town. Loffreda writes that‘“Hate is not a Wyoming value,’ residents kept telling each other, telling the visitor, telling the press. ‘We really take care of each other here,’ a woman told me one day in a coffee shop, echoing a dearly held ethos I’ve heard from many in Laramie ”(Loffreda 254). Media, through their twisting and manipulation of the murder was
Yet, as a profession (and a society) maybe a little shock treatment now and then is good for us, especially if we ourselves work in relatively “safe” schools and communities. Maybe it’s time to remind ourselves that one school’s problem can become every school’s problem if the profession at large is not watchful and careful. No school is immune to the potential of extreme violence, as many of us, without meaning to, have learned. If you’re a long-time, veteran English teacher, you may never have thought you’d see the day when an issue of English Journal would be devoted to school violence. The idea never occurred to me, either. But here we are, and here that issue is. And, what’s more, it’s high time. While none of us needs convincing that the violence problem is serious in a great many places, some of the statistics are sobering.
According to the FBI, more than 75 percent of all murder victims are women, and more than 50 percent of the women are between the ages of 14 and 29 years old. A part of that statistic is Kitty Genovese,a murder victim who is the focus of an editorial, “The Dying Girl that No One Helped,” written by Loudon Wainwright. Kitty was a 28 year old woman who was brutally stabbed to death while on her way home from work. The woman, named Kitty Genovese, lived in a pleasant, welcoming, residential area, in New York. There was at least 38 witnesses that came forward, and they all heard her cries for help, but no one came to her aid. Wainwright effectively demonstrates how society has started turning a “blind-eye” toward problems that can endanger someone's
In the non- fiction essay Savages author Carol Edgarian describes the relationship between herself and her two siblings from adolescence until adulthood. Edgarian writes a very descriptive informal essay about the ups and downs, in and outs of life, that draws the reader in and takes them back to reminiscing about childhood. The key symbols represented in this passage are the bond between siblings and how they behaved as “savages,” but also allies whom knew each other inside and out.
Asaro, M. R. (2001). Working With Adult Homicide Survivors, Part II: Helping Family Members Cope With Murder. Perspectives in Psychiatric Care, 37(4), 115-124.
In her article “Are We Desensitized?” Nastacia Goodwin expresses her frustration with the media and her peers by contrasting her own reaction to the Virginia Tech Massacre against the reactions of people she knew in school. Goodwin’s reflection on her experience brings her to the conclusion that the peoples’ mass exposure to violence has converted them into apathetic monsters. She starts by laying out expectations of her school’s reaction to the Virginia Tech Massacre, believing that the school will be troubled and paranoid, only for her to find that life is continuing as usual in high school. Goodwin goes through the rest of her day in a state of silent disgust while observing people’s lukewarm reactions to the massacre. Goodwin makes an appeal to pathos by refuting her friends’ statements with her emotions, rebuking them for their lack of genuine sympathy.
Robinson, Lori S, and Jimmie Briggs “Kids and Violence” Emerge November. 1993:44+ Seifert, Kathryn. A.
In today’s communicating environment, individuals are bombarded with mass media violence. Silver et al. (2013) argue that potential mental-health issues may arise due to vicarious media exposure to violence or disasters. Early research that looked at children affected by the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the 1990 Gulf War found a relationship between media exposure and trauma-related symptoms (Silver et al., 2013). Exposure to traumatic events may affect individuals’ physical and mental health. This includes individuals that are present during the trauma or those indirectly exposed to the stressor. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, traumatic events are a shocking, scary, or dangerous experience that can affect an individual
Meadows, R.J., Understanding Violence and Victimization, 5th edition, Upper Saddle River: Pearson Education, Inc. 2010
Television violence causes children and teenagers to be less caring, to lose their inhibitions, and to be less sensitive. In a study on the connection between violence and television done with 1,565 teenage boys over a six-year period in London, William Belson, a British psychologist, found that every time a child saw someone being shot or killed on television they became less caring towards other people (Kinnear 26). William Belson also discovered that every time a child viewed this violence on television, they lost a fragment of their inhibitions towards others (Kinnear 26). In addition to William Belson’s study, studies done by many scientists and doctors show that seeing violence on television causes viewers to become less sensitive to the pain of others (Mudore 1).