SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Case Study on Concepts of Social and Emotional Development



Case Study on Concepts of Social and Emotional Development

Introduction

The relationships between adolescents and their parents are often very conflicting. Most parents of teenagers complain that they do not listen, they do not listen, constantly changing mood, never know what they want or do not have any discipline. In some cases, life in the house becomes almost a daily battle and many parents do not know what to do. And meanwhile the whole family life is becoming hell with periodic flashes normally mild. But parents do not want only that oasis of tranquillity; they want their life to return to "normal", as when there was a teenager in the house. If your child is moody, isolated, not interested in sex or by social relations and displayed cold, surely he is the reason that your ADSL line is fuming at all hours. A new study finds that adolescents with certain personality disorders and relationship problems prefer virtual friends to real. Perhaps, in part, because in the Network, these children are not immediately excluded or rejected, due to their difficulty in communicating or making friends.

Vijay Mittal, Department of Psychology, Emory University (Atlanta, USA), has conducted a study that found that both adolescents with schizotypal personality disorder (PTSD), such as those with other mental problems, engaged little time to social relations, but in return, spend more time in chat rooms or online games compared to mentally healthy kids.

Objective

This paper would provide a case study on an adolescent who has shown hindrances in their social and emotional development processes. As such the paper would objectively examine the factors which have affected the social and emotional development of the individual under focus. Moreover, the effort would aim to demonstrate an understanding of the key theoretical perspectives that explain social and emotional development of a child.

Case Study

Ms. X is a young girl aged 17. She studies in a public school, near her parent's suburb home in the small town of Illinois. It is diagnosed that Ms. X suffers from PTSD. Ms. X has spent a troubled childhood where she experienced some harsh events. One of those events had deteriorated her mental capacity and encapsulated her personality such that she has changed into an altogether different person. That cheery, vivacious and gregarious Ms. X. becomes sullen, inactive, mute and sad. Her past events have thus led to her acquiring the symptoms of the terrible mental affliction. Moreover, Ms. X's mother has been assessed with neuroticism and it is widely believed that her affliction is triggered due to the existent hereditary links, to a very small extent.

Ms. X lives in a small town, with lots of farmlands. During one of her evening walks in the childhood, along the farm areas, she was kidnapped by a nearby resident. The resident was a prolific sexual offender. That degenerate person sodomized little Ms. X and left her in the night deep in the woods, alone and ...