There have been many theories and research conducted on mental illness and how it can affect a person and their development through childhood and adolescents and follow them into adulthood as well. Many factors can play a role in a person’s development or onset of mental illness. These factors can have correlation with the environment the person grows up in and is surrounded with, it can be caused by something biological, the people that they surround themselves with, their economic status, and if they have parental involvement or support as well. In the case of Wes Moore, it shows and gives a better understanding of the biological, psychological, and cultural factors that can influence a child and their development, thought process, and …show more content…
This could be the relationship that the child has with their parents and also the way their parents parenting style is. “Early on-set, persistent antisocial trajectories can be identified as young as 18 months, multiple family stressors, disrupted parent’s child attachments, parental maladjustments, nonresponsive, rejecting, or abusive caregiving” (Shepard & Dickstein, 2009). Many studies conducted have shown results about how important it is for a person to have a supportive support system in order to achieve a healthy life, physically, emotionally, and even mentally. Wes Moore had many risk factors during the crucial child development phase. Wes lacked parental supervision, attention, and motivation. These factors could have helped Wes to develop the motivation to better himself and his life. Wes also lacked having relationships in his life that are considered as healthy relationships, he also did not have positive role models, especially male role models that could have helped him learn and develop behaviors and traits that are seen as social …show more content…
Even though Wes’s mother worked a lot and couldn’t always supervised Wes, there were other alternatives or programs that she could have put Wes into in order to help keep him occupied and possibly stay away from the negative influences. Wes could have been participating in after school programs, sports, or attend the local YMCA or big brother clubs in his community. These programs could have kept Wes busy but also spent time with positive role models that could have helped him get motivate and show him the right path and provide him the tools and skills to do better and be better. There are programs that the schools or even diversion programs that are developed to teach children discipline, respect, leadership, and other skills to become a better individual and tools in place to help improve their life as well. Wes’s mother could of also try to put Wes, or the entire family into family therapy in order to learn ways to develop a strong support for Wes and even the family in general. Wes’s mother could have also put him into psychotherapy as well. In psychotherapy “psychologists apply scientifically validated procedures to help people develop healthier, more effective habits. There are several approaches to psychotherapy — including
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To begin with, the role models of both Wes’ has positively and negatively impacted their future. In regards to the author Wes, his mother, Joy, played a huge role in Wes life because she pushed and motivated Wes to do well in school regardless of the environment he was living in and the financial issues his family was facing. As Joy explained, “ ‘Well, your grades obviously aren’t bad because you can’t pick this stuff up or because you are stupid, you are just not working hard enough’ ” (The Other Wes Moore 76). When Joy started to notice that Wes skipped school, she needed to take action to prevent Wes from making bad decisions for his future, such as becoming a drug dealer.
The author Wes Moore success came from loving and supporting family, role models, and the opportunity for education. However the other Wes Moore didn’t have family support, good role models, and education which caused him to be
Because the author’s long-term thinking and determination helped him conquer the situational challenges he faced, unlike the other Wes Moore whose shortsightedness became his downfall, the purpose of the memoir is to persuade readers to work hard and overcome their obstacles. The other Wes Moore’s shortsightedness, especially regarding money, is what eventually led to his arrest and the end of his free life. One issue that contributed to Wes’s shortsightedness is that he was easily impressionable. Upon seeing another boy on the street, he was captivated by the “headset… [and] gold ring with a small diamond cut into the middle” (57) the boy proudly wore.
What Wes hadn’t realized was that his grandparents had given up years and years of savings and mortgage payments to be able to afford his schooling. Once Wes had succumbed to the fact he was stuck there and began to follow the military school practices and protocols he started to excel. Over his years of being there, he grew a great appreciation for reading and academics, he had matured and grown up a lot and had become a well-respected sergeant at a very young
Wes realized that his job wasn’t a real ‘job’, it was a source to feed addictions like Cheryl’s. In an attempt to revise his life, he entered the Job Corps program, sadly, it didn’t last very long. He wasn’t making much money from the low paid jobs that he was offered through the program, he needed to take care of his children with both financial and parental support, with all of these situations happening one after the other, he was feeling very overwhelmed. Although Wes knew he didn’t want to stray back to his old habits, it took the best of him, the one thing that Wes took away from his childhood was the easiest way to make money, and that consisted of one thing; the drug business, the chapter ends with him preparing a bag of cocaine with tears welling in his eyes, with disappointment for
For instance, Stacey stays at TJ’s house after the Wallace’s show up. Stacey also has to persevere through all the things that TJ does, and has to take care of him too. Another thing that he probably had a hard time with was being a good role model to his siblings, because he wanted to do stuff but he knew his siblings would copy him even though he didn’t want them to. He also has to own up to his mistakes like when he went to the Wallace’s store after TJ, and he had a choice to tell his parents or not, and he chose to tell them even though he knew he was going to get a beating.
In the book Surviving the Applewhites, written by Stephanie S. Tolan, a boy named Jake, who is an absolute delinquent, and recently burned down a school he was going to, is taken in by a homeschool in Wits End, ran by a creative yet crazy family named The Applewhites. Jake goes through the story meeting and gaining relationships with the whole family, then ultimately discovers he loves to sing, and that he doesn’t have to be a bad person. There are many different themes, but only one main theme. The main theme in Surviving the Applewhites is to always remember the importance of family. This is shown when Jake, an absolute delinquent at the beginning of the story who had no close family to help him be a good kid, met the Applewhites and slowly changed to become a very outgoing, smart, nice kid.
The Other Wes Moore illustrates the differences in upbringing between two Wes Moores. The differences drastically alter the outcomes of their lives. It is important to analyze the differences between the Wes Moores’ upbringing in order to identify what factors encourage a favorable path. Concepts from the Psychology 1100 Textbook can be used to explain the lives of the two Wes Moores.
In the midst of all of this he finds a balance by focusing on what really matters. At the same time this keeps him focused on his main goal which is education. Education will be his family's way out of poverty. Through seeing his younger brother that is unemployed and will be having a child soon he looks beyond this and is genuinely proud of where he comes from. He realizes how strong his family is when he seems them fighting through poverty and making things.
The Other Wes Moore reveals how intrinsic factors, mainly social relationships, play a significant role in establishing someone's success, based off of lack of emotional support and obedience. The other Wes Moore’s family lacked in emotional support and in positive influences, leading him to failure. Nurture refers to all the variables that impact who someone is. These variables include how someone was raised, their social relationships, and their surrounding culture.
Christopher McCandless, the main focus from Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild observes the factors that impacted Chris McCandless to his unfortunate death at the age of 24 in August of 1992 on Stampede Trail, Alaska in attempts to live off the land. Richard Russo who grew up to write his own memoir Elsewhere describing his “American childhood, as lived in the Fifties by a lower-middle class that seems barely to exist anymore” (Russo, 12, 2012). Russo grew up with his mother, Jean Russo, who had Obsessive compulsion disorder, which he tries make sense of the guilt associated with his mother after her death. The two had been impacted developmentally different by the chronosystem and interaction of the microsystems. The unalike interactions explain the differing outcome of the two.
REACTIVE ATTACHMENT: CAN THEY FEEL EMOTIONS? 2 1 Thesis statement: Research so far reveals that children with reactive attachment disorder cannot feel genuine emotion because they fail to develop a secure attachment which leads to underdeveloped primary emotions, neurological deficiencies all of which result in inappropriate emotional behaviors that follow them into adulthood. Introduction The doorbell rings and at the door is a caseworker with an adorable ten month old little girl in her arms.
We all know that parents, since the child is born, are always by their child’s side since they share a same home and should be the one to monitor their children while he or she is growing up. David P. Farrington (Farrington, n.d) stated that family factor, poor parental child-rearing methods especially lack of guidance and control from parents, is the most common answer when people are asked about the main cause of crimes. Moreover, according to Lieb Roxanne (1994), family components can predict an early sign of delinquency. Some weak way of predictions are based on the socioeconomic status of the family, and the less affection of the child to parents. However, the lack of guidance and letting the child to feel being unwanted is a strong predictor or root of