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Hope all
has gone well with your holiday season and you are all ready to welcome 2012. I
have included some information regarding new laws and regulations for this
upcoming year. I hope this helps and you enjoy. Happy reading, and as usual do
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fractured Identities "fractumIdentities" Today's topic is about fractured identities, or better known as "dissociative disorder " under the DSM - IV(diagnostical statistical manual for psychological diagnosis).However, the definition may be changing or has changed in the new DSM-V. Moreover our discussion today invites you to voice your opinion in regards to if and how how much influence a fractured identity comes into play with criminal behavior. I have cited some resources for your analysis and comparison of the effects of the failure to properly form an identity and would like to ask of you, if you think that the aforementioned maybe a factor to increase the likelihood of punishment or mitigate it. Do you think that most of our current societal criminal issues arise from a lack of family values, poor parenting or do you believe it is more of an environmental influence? Is there a causal relationship there? Or, as a great majority do , is it your opinion that a person can just be inherently evil and may just be suffering from anti-social personality? Please voice your opinion. My Best,
Dissociative disorders are defined as conditions that involve disruptions or breakdowns of memory, awareness, identity and/or perception. See also dissociation. ...
Dissociative identity disorder (DID) is a psychiatric diagnosis and describes a condition in which a person displays multiple distinct identities (known as alters or ...
"ipsa scientia potestas est" Knowledge itself is power.
Welcome, today I'd like to invite you to voice your opinion over education, Standardized tests? Would you say that the aforementioned are overrated by an elitist system? It is interesting to question how these tests are formulated and what specifically they are targeting. Why is it that although our society keeps pulling funding from public education, there is still a small group of people who are continued to be guaranteed their successful spot in society, regardless of their intellectual capacities? or may we surmise that perhaps, success within our society is solely based on capitalism and America offers the right and opportunity to achieve and maintain that status? Would it be plausible to consider that there is only a certain amount of social strata one can climb without the proper knowledge or channels? May entrepreneurship be the best way to go as opposed to "chasing the dream" (education) in what can perhaps may be viewed by some as a futile exercise in social mobility? With the cost of education rapidly rising and students graduating, saddled with loans can this be considered an issue of "indentured slavery"? please share your thoughts... My Best,
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Monday, December 19, 2011
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Saturday, December 17, 2011
YOUTH AND THEIR RIGHTS
"componere lites"
To settle disputes (Horace)
Today I would like to ask... How do you feel about children and their rights? Does our society consider them simply mini-adults who should be held to the same standards to Adults (persons over 18 years of age)? Do you believe that in some cases the authorities are going a bit far in enforcing rules? or are they possibly trying to avert situations by having drug sniffing dogs on campus to prevent drug use...or perhaps arresting these youths in front of they're peers (disrupting classes) is geared toward deterring the "Possibility" of future crime from these youths, (school shootings) or do you think the following scenarios/cases actually lack reasonable suspicion and the next thing that will probably come from this will be to have our schools run like prisons, with searches, metal detectors, drug sniffing K9;s or the like. Furthermore, are the parents of these alleged offenders being properly informed about their rights? or are theirs possibly being violated as well. Interesting topic... Please take the time to review if this is something that may interest you. Would love to hear from you.
My Best,
Links and information on the web;
Foster Youth Have Rights! ... your choice send and get unopened mail (unless a judge says someone else can open your mail) ... YOU HAVE SCHOOL RIGHTS. ...
Mar 13, 2007 – “This stuff can change who people are,” Fyke added. “And it's not fair for schools to have that power over children without parents knowing.” ...
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Quick View homeless children and youth have school rights under federal and state law (the McKinney act). Who Is A Homeless. Student? Which School Can A. Homeless ...
Education Under Arrest The Case Against Police in Schools, [PDF] Justice Policy ... that states spend billions to imprison youth in secure facilities, but could save ....California Youth Crime Declines: The Untold Story, [PDF] Center on Juvenile ...
by M Males - 1999 - Cited by 22 - Related articles Detractors warn that the arrest of youth for acts that would not be crimes if ... the adoption of curfew in October 1994) for school hours and nonschool hours. ...
Monrovia, California's curfew adoption was followed by a 32 percent decline in residential burglaries 1 ... of speech in schools 3 This case involved how school officials had forbidden a group .... However, arrest rates do have one inherent flaw. ...
Jun 6, 2008 – Children are far more likely to be arrested at school than they were a ... The explosion of school-based arrests cannot be attributed to an increase in youth violence. ... Resources that could be put towards improving under-resourced schools....California Northern, California San Diego, California Southern ...
Education Under Arrest The Case Against Police in Schools, [PDF] Justice Policy ... that states spend billions to imprison youth in secure facilities, but could save ....California Youth Crime Declines: The Untold Story, [PDF] Center on Juvenile ...
Jun 6, 2008 – Children are far more likely to be arrested at school than they were a ... The explosion of school-based arrests cannot be attributed to an increase in youth violence. ... Resources that could be put towards improving under-resourced schools....California Northern, California San Diego, California Southern ...
Urban Education Expert, Dr. Christopher Emdin, is a Professor at Columbia University Teachers College and is the Director of Secondary School Initiatives at the Urban Science Education Center in New York.
non teneas aurum totum quod splendet ut aurum Do not take as gold
everything that shines like gold
What do you think may be the end result/ ongoing effects of a foster care system which seems to be disorganized at best? Do you believe that there may be alternatives to foster care? Please comment and give me your opinion of the foster care system. Additionally, I have provided some links for reference/reading if this topic further interests you.
My Best,
The negative physical, psychological, cognitive and epigenetic effects of foster care have been established in innumerable studies in various countries. The Casey Family Programs Northwest Foster Care Alumni Study was a fairly extensive study into various aspects of the psychosocial effects of foster care noted that 80% of ex-foster children are doing "poorly".
"... all those experiences are of much significance which show how the judgment of the senses may be modified by experience and by training derived under various circumstances, and may be adapted to the new conditions..." - Hermann von Helmholtz, 1866
filius est pars patris
a son is part of the father
As a a former Social Worker, as well as worker in the Juvenile justice system, I find this information particularly useful for society that is not involved in the trenches with this issue. Social workers are expected on a daily basis to make decisions based on legal and moral judgment. The caseloads are already overwhelming and you can be ostracized by any party that does not agree with you. The goal of this system should be able to help those families in need and work conjunctively with community accessible resources to preserve families. Often, as Social Workers, you are playing the devil's advocate as well as the child's advocate. There appears to be no right or wrong and an expansive grey area.
What are your thoughts on this issue? do you think more services should be brought in to the families to help preservation? or do you feel that removal from homes is the only solution? Also. interesting to note; does there appear to be a causal relationship between at-risk ,delinquency, removal from a biological home or constant removal from failed placements (foster homes)?
Please feel free to read some of the origins of the mandated child abuse laws as well as some important topics on foster care and families.
My Best,
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat Child Abuse. & Neglect Reporting Law. Issues and Answers for Mandated Reporters. California Department of Social Services. Office of Child Abuse Prevention ...
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To enable States to provide protection to maltreated children, the reporting laws in ... Substance abuse counselors are required to report in Alaska, California, ...
Reports of suspected child abuse or neglect shall be made by mandated... 2 of the Health and Safety Code), the California Child Day Care Act (Chapter 3.4 ...
... certain individuals to report information required by law in child abuse cases. ... contact the Child Abuse Central Index (CACI) at: CACI-Inquiry@doj.ca.gov. ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - In the wake of child sex-abuse scandals at Penn State University and Syracuse University, states have jumped to toughen laws on who must report child abuse, sparking a debate about the effectiveness of such laws. In addition to the two states directly affected by the scandals -- Pennsylvania and New York -- legislators and prosecutors across the country have announced the need for a more expansive definition of so-called mandated reporters, who are required to report suspicions of child abuse. ...