Homework Handler

Mr. Joseph Trimble

10 October 2015

Abandoned Children-Annotated Bibliography

Donlon, Lake, Pope, Shaw, and Haskett M. Community Action Targeting Children Who Are Homeless (CATCH): Addressing the Mental Health and Developmental Needs of Children Experiencing Homelessness. Families In Society [serial online]. July 2014; 95(3):163-170. Available from: Academic Search Complete, Ipswich, MA. Accessed October 14, 2015.

The authors of this journal article are interested in a collaborative community project whose main aim is to help abandoned children of children who are homeless and they are facing mental health problems. The idea here is that these children are faced with the double burden that is to overcome the mental problem which they are undergoing and secondly the problem of homeless. The authors argues that, though abandoned children face a number of risk factors outside there, limited attention from the government as well as from members of the society is paid so as to understand these children and above all to help these children address their individual needs which are totally different from the needs of other children who are not abandoned.

The authors of this journal article give an example of the Community Action Targeting Children whose main aim is to meet the needs abandoned children and those children who are homeless. According to the authors of this journal article, the Community Action Targeting Children was established purposely to help in the overal development of children who are homeless or those who have been abandoned by their parents cum guardians. Generally, the authors of this journal article give a brief discussion on the rational for the establishment of the Community Action Targeting Children which has played a vital role in helping abandoned children. Similarly, the author of this journal article do give a detailed description of some of the goals of the Community Action Targeting Children as well as the main strategies which should be implemented by stakeholders in order to ensure that these goals are met. Lastly, the authors of this journal article gives us a brief analysis of some of the lessons we can learn from the Community Action Targeting Children project especially when it comes to the issue of abandoned children.

Nelson Iii , Fox , and Zeanah . Anguish of the Abandoned Child. Scientific American [serial online]. April 2013; 308(4):62-67. Available from: Academic Search Complete, Ipswich, MA. Accessed October 14, 2015.

The main theme for this journal article is psychological impact of institutionalization of abandoned children in Romania. In addition to this, the authors of this journal gives a comparative study on the emotional well-being of abandoned children that are raised in a foster care and those children who are brought up by their parents in the United States of America. Furthermore, the authors of this journal article give a closer analysis of the impacts of 1966 mandate from Romanian president Nicolae Ceaușescu. According to the journal article, President Nicolae Ceaușescu of Romania banned the use of contraceptives as well as abortion and this led to a significant increase in the number of abandoned children in Romania.

For the case of US, the authors of this journal article states categorically that, there is a big disparity in terms of brain development between abandoned children who are raised in a foster care and those children who are brought up by their parents. Accordingly, abandoned children who are raised in a foster care do experience slow brain development as compared to their counterparts who are brought up by their parents. On the same note, children in the foster care units do experience mental health problems at a high rate as compared to those ones who are raised by their parents in their homes. It is quite evident from this essay that abandoned children are disadvantaged as compared to their counterparts who are brought up by their parents or guardians as per the constitution or as per the law. This journal article proposes that parents or guardians who are guilty of abandoning their children should be held responsible for this and they should face the full force of the law in order to make them responsible and to enable them to bring up responsible citizens who will help our country as well as our neighboring countries and the whole world at large.

Suárez D, Marshall J. Capacity in the NGO Sector: Results from a National Survey in Cambodia. Voluntas: International Journal Of Voluntary & Nonprofit Organizations [serial online]. February 2014; 25(1):176-200. Available from: Academic Search Complete, Ipswich, MA. Accessed October 14, 2015.

The authors of this journal article argues that capacity has been the main them in different literatures presented by on nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in the last few years. The authors of this article conduct a critical analysis of local and international Non-governmental organization that are working or which are offering their services to abandoned children in Cambodia. The main interest of the authors was to get a clear understanding of organizational dimensions associated with local and internal nongovernmental organizations that are tasked with taking care of abandoned children in Cambodia. Some of the issues highlighted in this article include: concrete management practices and structural characteristics of these non-governmental organization in relation to issues such as abandoned children in Cambodia. Generally, this article has highlighted a number of issues and problems that are faced by abandoned children as well as those who are termed as homeless not only in the United States of America but also in other countries outside North America.

According to the authors of this journal article, the international non-governmental organizations ate better placed in such a way that they are in a position to help or to handle issues of abandoned children. Generally, as per this journal article, non-governmental organizations are categorized into four distinct classes on the basis of their capacity to handle abandoned children as well as their ability to provide additional insights to the societal needs especially the needs of abandoned children so as to gather for diversity in the society. The authors of this journal article concludes their study by mentioning that non-governmental organizations are key stakeholders when it comes to helping abandoned children in the society. Therefore, there is an urgent need for these non-governmental organizations to come up with capacity-building programs that will help abandoned children. On the same note, there is an urgent need for non-governmental organizations to design an agenda that will be used as a guideline in monitoring the overal progress of those children who are abandoned in our society.

Van den Berg R. Providing a containing space for unbearable feelings. Psycho-Analytic Psychotherapy In South Africa [serial online]. July 2014; 22(2):1-18. Available from: Academic Search Complete, Ipswich, MA. Accessed October 14, 2015.

The authors of this journal article explore therapeutic intervention process that is geared towards the overal establishment of a group of support staff group. This support staff group is tasked with the responsibility to ensure that abandoned children are provided with the needed care and support. On the same note, the authors of this journal article have identified resistance of staff support group in an attempt to equip these individuals with adequate knowledge on how they can help abandoned children in our society. In addition to this, the authors have make it clear that defensive practice to contain feelings of anger, anxiety, and sadness among the abandoned children poses a great challenge to personnel who are tasked with the responsibility of ensuring that the needs of abandoned children are met with immediate effect by the personnel concerned. It is very clear from this journal article that the problem of abandoned children has become universal and in fact statistics shows that there is a sharp increase in the number of abandoned children in the entire globe. The question is who is to blame for this problem? Is it the government? Is it the church? Or is it our society that has lost its virtues of valuing a child as a lifelong asset? These questions have remained a mystery because neither the above mentioned organs are ready to carry the blame, thus there is an urgent need for all the bodies to sit down in a round table and come up with amicable solution that will ensure that all children are brought up in a suitable living environment.

When it comes to intervention, the authors of this journal article puts a lot of emphasis of psychotherapist whose main work is to take the abandoned children to a kind of therapy that will enable him or her to adapt to the new changes in the environment. In addition to this, the authors of this journal article argues that there is an urgent need for the employment of experts who are equipped with knowledge and skills on how to handle abandoned students or students who are depressed. In addition to this, the author of this journal article emphasis the importance of government in ensuring providing training to clinical experts or psychotherapists who will help the abandoned children with the necessary therapy. In addition to this, the government plays a vital role in providing training and training facilities to counselors whose responsibility is to guide and provide counseling services to the abandoned children.