TWO PARTS TO THIS POST!!!

I wrote my initial discussion post and my professor commented on it…I need you to reply to her comment with at least 200 words:

PROFESSOR COMMENTS:

This was a good post, because you tied your interest into current and very real problems our youth are facing. I can’t help but wonder about our young people who have faced more than 30 school shooting in this year alone. It seems it isn’t safe for them anywhere – so they need all the help they can get.

Dr. H

MY INTIAL POST:

Children are the basic unit of the family. They make a fundamental aspect not only for the family but also for the entire community. Human beings undergo stages in the life cycle, and every stage has both advantages and disadvantages. Additionally, some steps have issues and need formidable resolutions to handle them. Child adolescent development is one of the stages in human life. Any child in this stage has different behavior that sometimes leads to dangerous scenes when are not handled with care.

The adolescent is a stage that can endanger the lives of young people since they involve in different activities such as engaging in alcoholism, engaging in sexual behavior plus other many hazardous activities (Bundy, de Silva, Horton, Patton, Schultz & Jamison, 2018). I feel child adolescent development is essential in the area of psychology in many ways. In the scope of the psychology of human development, young people are part and parcel of the broader community (Stergiakouli et al. 2018). Therefore, understanding young people in their development is prudent in psychology and increases exposure to career development.

I choose adolescent child development and being excited about this area because understanding child adolescent development enable one to assist the community especially young people whose future is the building block of the community (Bergin & Bergin, 2018). Therefore, psychology is a field that relates to most aspects of daily life. This area relates to what is happening in the world in some ways; for example, currently, drug abuse and early marriage have become part and parcel of the contemporary world issues that affect young people. This is because young people are using most of their time involved in drug abuse and early sexual intercourse.

Bergin, C. C., & Bergin, D. A. (2018). Child and Adolescent Development in Your Classroom, Chronological Approach. Cengage Learning.

Bundy, D. A., de Silva, N., Horton, S., Patton, G. C., Schultz, L., & Jamison, D. T. (2018). Child and Adolescent Health and Development: Realizing Neglected Potential. Optimizing Education Outcomes: High-Return Investments in School Health for Increased Participation and Learning, 1.

Stergiakouli, E., Smith, G. D., Martin, J., Skuse, D. H., Viechtbauer, W., Ring, S. M., … & St Pourcain, B. (2017). Shared genetic influences between dimensional ASD and ADHD symptoms during child and adolescent development. Molecular Autism, 8(1), 18.

REPSOND TO MY CLASSMATES POST BELOW WITH AT LEAST 200 WORDS:

Psychology can relate to ABA and the world in many different ways. In order to be most successful it is said that ABA needs to be implemented as young as possible. According to Smith and colleagues, early intervention can help to prevent a decline in intelectual development (Smith et al., 20000.

There are so many instances that this is used in our world today. For example my job offers and early intervention ABA program to help children develop skills and maintain skills over time. It is important as these children will then be successful in the upcoming future and throughout their lives.

It is important that early intervention be implemented in today’s society as it is more successful and has been proven to be successful in studies done by those such as Smith and colleagues.

Smith, T., Groen, A. D., & Wynn, J. W. (2000). Randomized trial of intensive early intervention for children with pervasive developmental disorder. American Journal on Mental Retardation, 105(4), 269-285.

Thank you!