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Can Children Become Depress During The Corona Pandemic Lock-down?
Yes! Children and adolescents can experience high rates of depression and anxiety during the current lockdown due to social isolation....

Geraldine Garwood
Aug 13, 20201 min read


Will Hitting Children Scar Them For Life?
Many parents rely on physical punishments to achieve teaching children acceptable behaviours. Most of these parents do not intend to harm...

Geraldine Garwood
Aug 5, 20201 min read


Give Me Back My Childhood (Child Labour)
There are many reasons why children engage in child labour. Three of such are poverty/neglect, violence/trauma experienced, and losing...

Geraldine Garwood
Jul 31, 20201 min read


“You Are Ugly, Dumb, Stupid (Verbal Abuse)
Name-calling does hurt children especially when the person doing it is a parent, teacher, or someone they look up to. Calling children...

Geraldine Garwood
Jul 27, 20201 min read


"Stop Hitting Me" (Physical Abuse)
A number of our children are crying out as they experience severe physical abuse in the name of corporal punishment from...

Geraldine Garwood
Jul 22, 20201 min read



Geraldine Garwood
Jul 18, 20201 min read


Language Disorder
Do you know a child struggling to understand what is being said? Having difficulty speaking? This child needs help – he/she may not have...

Geraldine Garwood
Jul 13, 20201 min read


Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD)
We have often heard the terms; “bad pickney” or "ill-mannered” pertaining to some children who are generally non-compliant to...

Geraldine Garwood
Jul 6, 20201 min read


Stuttering
Many children stutter when they speak and are often teased by peers. But did you know that stuttering is a disorder? Stuttering is a...

Geraldine Garwood
Jun 27, 20201 min read


Intellectual Disability (ID) Domains and Specifiers
There are three domains when assessing children with ID. These include: 1. The Conceptual Domain: this is where children are assessed in...

Geraldine Garwood
Jun 25, 20201 min read


Intellectual Disability
Intellectual disability is a neurodevelopmental disorder in children that predisposes them to serious health problems and occurs in all...

Geraldine Garwood
Jun 20, 20201 min read


A Socio-Cultural Perspective of Abnormal Behaviour
This view look at the social world in which an individual lives and from which they learn skills, values, beliefs, attitudes, and other...

Geraldine Garwood
Jun 18, 20201 min read


A Bio-Psychosocial Approach to Abnormal Behaviour
This is a prominent interactionist model which is also alluded to as the diatheses stress model. The model proposes that some people have...

Geraldine Garwood
Jun 14, 20201 min read


A Behavioural and Experiential Perspective on Abnormal Behaviour
Those endorsing a behavioural and experiential view of abnormal behaviour contend that environmental variables and experience observed...

Geraldine Garwood
Jun 11, 20201 min read


Understanding Abnormal Behaviour
Abnormal or maladaptive behavior is largely perceived as behavior that violates a norm in a given society. Therefore maladaptive is...

Geraldine Garwood
Jun 8, 20201 min read
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