Assignment 2
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Assignment1.edited.docxASSISTING CHILDREN WITH CHILDHOOD TRAUMA 2
ASSISTING CHILDREN WITH CHILDHOOD TRAUMA 2
Recommendations for Improving Assistance to Children with Childhood Trauma
at Celebration High School
Student
School of Education, Liberty University
INTRODUCTION
Overview
This study aims to analyze the challenges faced by students who had childhood trauma. In addition to provide appropriate recommendations to improve on ways of correcting the students’ performance and the educational environment. The area of focus of the study is the Celebration High School, where will describe the role of the teachers in attending to the concerned students at length. This introduction provides detailed information on the organizational profile, an introduction to the problem and its significance or the benefit in addressing the issue.
Organizational Profile
The study's educational institution was a suburban public High School based in Celebration, Florida, United States. The learning institution's motto is power, pride, and perseverance, where it was established in the year 2003. It offers a four-class system: regular, advanced, placement, and International Baccalaureate, with English being the language used. It has an enrollment of 2,663 students in grades 9-12, with the student to teacher ratio being 20.80.
The department focused on the study is the student services department, mainly focusing on mental health services. The department is regulated and coordinated by the school district of Osceola County, Florida, which focuses on enrollment and management of the students' mental health. The department ensures hotlines are provided on the school website for the concerned parties to access the student staff directories. The department also offers mental health education based on the health education standards adopted in rule 6A-1.09401 (Doss, 2017).
Introduction to the Problem
The problem is that approximately 6% of students at Celebration High School below the age of 17 years suffers or were exposed to some type of childhood trauma. Childhood is caused by one stressful or dangerous event that occurs during the student's tender ages or from exposure to a stressful situation for an extended period of time (Siverns, 2019). The effects of such events during childhood include depression, making it difficult for the student to concentrate in class. As a result, poor self-regulation, hypervigilance, negative thinking, and trouble forming relationships become common among the students. Teachers being a critical part of the students' development process have a role in helping them overcome these challenges (Chafouleas, 2019).
Significance of the Problem
The benefits of analyzing the challenges that children with childhood trauma suffer in schools would help create a baseline for implementing new programs to reduce or eliminate the long-term effects in students’ school performance. Integrating the teachers' role in assisting the students would benefit in determining ways to develop a self-sufficient institutional program that embraces both skills and meets the basic needs of the learners (Smith, 2019). On the other hand, this study would translate in improving students’ performance in a school environment and help assess the possible grounds of students drop out of school (McFarland et al., 2020).
References
Chafouleas, S. M., Koriakin, T. A., Roundfield, K. D., & Overstreet, S. (2019). Addressing childhood trauma in school settings: A framework for evidence-based practice. School Mental Health, 11(1), 40-53.
McFarland, J., Cui, J., Holmes, J., & Wang, X. (2020). Trends in high school dropout and completion rates in the United States: 2019. Compendium report. NCES 2020-117. National Center for Education Statistics.
Siverns, K., & Morgan, G. (2019). Parenting in the context of historical childhood trauma: An interpretive meta-synthesis. Child Abuse & Neglect, 98, 104186.
Smith, T. (2019). Electing or appointing school district superintendents in the state of Florida: A comparison of characteristics and performance of districts led by elected superintendents versus districts led by appointed superintendents. Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2004-2019. 6579. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/etd/6579.
