Night Road Analysis
Make a Difference in the Life of a Mistreated Child Over the course of my short life, I have read tons of books. Of course a handful of those books were educational however, a lot of them weren't. It may sound crazy or weird but I absolutely love to read. Ironically enough my room mate does too. A week or so ago she encouraged me to read at least one of the many books that she brought to school with her. On the top of the stack of books within the box was a novel by the name of Night Road by Kristin Hannah. While it may be cliché, I was instantly intrigued by the cover and decided to embark on reading it. The contents of the novel and a majority of it hit home with the different situations and circumstances that the characters went through.
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From classical conditioning to the bystander effect. Of all of what we have learned I feel that what we have recently covered may be a way to ensure that children returning to once abusive parents won't have to go through being mistreated again. I'm not a psychologist but I doubt being an abusive parent is in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. However, that isn't to say that said manipulative parent doesn't have a chance of having a mental disorder within the book. Their acts of harm is unusual, compared to most parents, distressing, to the children of said parent, and harmful to their children, physically, mentally and emotionally. Their behavior towards their children can be therefore classified as abnormal. While going through the entire process of finding a disorder in specific is time consuming and in some cases unnecessary there is one way to reach out to these parents: therapy. Through the course of a few sessions the therapist can begin to identify some issues or traumas that the parent may have endured, talking about why they are abusive and overall just identifying if the parent is in fact in the state of mind to get access to their child or children again. If the parent does in fact have symptoms of a certain disorder, they can then go through the process of being diagnosed and getting treatment.This therapy can be one on one or incorporate the thoughts and feelings of the child in order to break through to the parent and help them acknowledge that what they are doing isn't right. Every day 5 children die from their, the parents, anger and frustration that is released in the form of abuse. If this isn't already a thing then it needs to be. All children matter and are special because life in itself is special. Abusive parents who have ended up killing their child or children took away the child who would have created a flying car, the cure to diabetes, or
From classical conditioning to the bystander effect. Of all of what we have learned I feel that what we have recently covered may be a way to ensure that children returning to once abusive parents won't have to go through being mistreated again. I'm not a psychologist but I doubt being an abusive parent is in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. However, that isn't to say that said manipulative parent doesn't have a chance of having a mental disorder within the book. Their acts of harm is unusual, compared to most parents, distressing, to the children of said parent, and harmful to their children, physically, mentally and emotionally. Their behavior towards their children can be therefore classified as abnormal. While going through the entire process of finding a disorder in specific is time consuming and in some cases unnecessary there is one way to reach out to these parents: therapy. Through the course of a few sessions the therapist can begin to identify some issues or traumas that the parent may have endured, talking about why they are abusive and overall just identifying if the parent is in fact in the state of mind to get access to their child or children again. If the parent does in fact have symptoms of a certain disorder, they can then go through the process of being diagnosed and getting treatment.This therapy can be one on one or incorporate the thoughts and feelings of the child in order to break through to the parent and help them acknowledge that what they are doing isn't right. Every day 5 children die from their, the parents, anger and frustration that is released in the form of abuse. If this isn't already a thing then it needs to be. All children matter and are special because life in itself is special. Abusive parents who have ended up killing their child or children took away the child who would have created a flying car, the cure to diabetes, or