Essays on Bromfield

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According to Tregeagle and Orr (2003), they argued that there are many Australian children that at one point or another, during their influential years, are not be cared for adequately. For many, this is a brief period that passes however for some; this maltreatment lasts beyond theirtender years and impacts their life. The abuse of children can be defined as any non-accidental behaviour by any adult in the child’s life that causes physical or psychological harm. The behaviour can be intentional, such as abuse, or unintentional, such as neglect (Bromfield, 2005; (Christoffel et al., 1992). It was meant ...

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The therapeutic goals of play therapy within child counseling are to establish a basis upon which non-verbal psychological processes can be better understood and to enhance the capacity of the therapeutic counselor to provide effective treatment to those that they are working with. The way in which these treatments are developed can have a profound impact on the underlying capacity of the counselor to establish an emotion-based relationship with the child that they are trying to help. The therapeutic process by which this is done is through counseling sessions between professional play therapists and children who are believed to ...

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Child abuse is one of the main social epidemics in the United States. Annually, there are about more than 3 million reports of child abuse made in the country. However, this report consists of multiple children. In 2009, an estimated 3.3 million child abuse cases and reports were made. This constitutes to around 6 million children (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Administration on Children, Youth and Families, Children’s Bureau, p. 1). According to the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, child abuse and neglect are the least, recent action or ...