Sunday, July 1, 2007

Assignment 4: Interesting Career-Related Topics




What career-related subject or topic have you been working on or studying this term?

I like the psychiatry class and related topics, because it is really interesting and funny for me. I am charmed with understanding people with this type of diseases. Now I am in third grade and I have a child and teenager psycopathology class in the university psychiatric clinic, but I don't like so much these class, on the other hand, in second year I was a Adult psycopathology class, and I really like it. I think that the teacher of these class is very intelligent and wise, she was delivering all the necessary information to understand the different pathologies of form clear and tidy that the teachers that we have this year.
In addition, last year we had the majority of the classes practical with patients, supporting a more nearby contact with them, which was allowing us to learn of better form the seen in the class.
In the class of last year I learned on the disorders of the spirit, the nourishing ones, on the schizophrenia, the bipolarity, the consumption of substances, among others.
And in this year, we have seen pathologies as the autism, the disorders of the language, of the voice, of the writing, the depression, on the Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (SDA), etc.
I would like to know more it brings over of these diseases and as treating them from the occupational therapy, that activities are more appropriate and beneficial for them and which turn out to be more interesting.
Of all the mentioned diseases those that more are called me the attention they are the autism, the depression and the disorders of personality. Principally because a relative has these diseases and I would like to be able of help.

This page belongs to the American psychiatric association and in her you were finding everything it brings over of this topic, it is articles, researches and relevant information.

This page has important information about all the diseases of the children, especially the link is for the
infantile depression .

Assignment 5: Summary Writing


WHEN A CHILD OUTGROWS THE SAFETY NET

By LISA ROMEO

Published: May 13, 2007

When Sean was 12, he started to leave the land of special needs that he and I had inhabited for a long time.
Sean’s preschool teacher had suggested he should be evaluated for developmental issues.
My amateurish research suggested the end of the autism spectrum.The experts agreed on a list of therapies.
I kept reading, about mothers who improvised at-home behavior reinforcement and therapy.
He’s been telling me that his music teacher is the coolest playing the drums and for the first time at the School concert, beginning drummers, including Sean, would perform as a group.
Sean may not be so different now, but I will always be a different mother, with memories of an adolescent with an amazing vocabulary, recovered of a thousand traumas,
Mostly, I hope Sean, and others, will not remember all I did.
At the school concert I notice, abruptly, that Sean does not stand out. They make novice mistakes, until the final song is played, everyone in rhythm, in sync.
I smile at Sean and he smiles back — not at me, but at the girl, the one he unwittingly bumped off the jungle gym in kindergarten.


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