Jill's Case: Proper Parenting Needs

(1) Engage critically with psychological and/or sociological theories across the lifecourse which are relevant to your chosen perspective. (2) Demonstrate the ability to identify characteristics of ‘normal’ or average development in childhood, together with a critical analysis of the potential impacts of change, loss, abuse and disruption (3) Identify key learning from working with a service user, which explains both the service user perspective and your own reflections and responses to this. (4) Produce a clear, well-written assignment which explores and accounts for the relationship between childhood experiences and adult development

Jill's case

Proper parenting needs a well developed understanding about the child growth. We will see that
what are the normal child development character and how it can be identified. Child
development begins from as early as the baby took his first breath and till the age of around
18years as per the experts.
New born baby:
At the early ages child physical development is very important. As per medical experts, within
the time fame of first two weeks child should gain 1 ounce of weight, an inch growth in head in a
month average length of 21 inches in a month etc. Baby mostly sleeps for 16 hours a day but
there are certain reflexes which baby generates involuntarily and baby pays attention to sound
and voice. Crying is only form of communication until he develops understanding and trust
slowly. To do so one must reply quickly to baby cries, sing next to baby, talk to baby etc(Care,
Parents and Characteristics, 2020).
1 to 3 months
Baby grows an inch every month. At this age baby starts to bring hand and object close to mouth,
closes and opens hand, makes little leg movement, try to imitate sound these are certain common
character of the baby at this age. At this age parents should call baby by name, make baby listen
different sounds, talk making eye contact etc(Baby Growth and Development: 1-3 Month
Milestones, 2020).
4 to 6 months
This age is characterised by tonic neck reflexes, full colour vision, Swimming motion of hands,
most important baby tries to make syllable sound like ma, da, ba. Baby Should be shown his

reflection in mirror, should be taken outside to see and experience new thing. (What
developmental milestones is your 6-month-old reaching?, 2020)
Moving further …
2 years old
At this age your child has well developed motor muscles allowing him to walk and run. Child is
able to throw, kick, catch ball etc. Will have capability of speech, child need enough sleep and
nutrition at this age(Developmental Milestones: 2 Year Olds, 2020).
4 to 5 years old
This age can also be said to be exploration age for a child as a significant sign of a health child at
this age is lot of questions. Child begins to understand pros and cons of thing upto a extent,
ability to sing a song, starts to make friends and compare their life with their friends, a better
understanding of time. This phase of child marks the beginning of complex phase (4-5 years:
preschooler development, 2020).
School Age (6 to 12 years)
Well developed reading and writing, able to write stories, ability understand shapes and numbers,
paining and drawing, collecting objects etc. This is most important age for socialization and
making friends which might stay with the baby through the entire life. Physical activity and
behaviour development is another aspect of this age. Emotional and mental understanding plays
a vital role in development and personality traits (School Age Children Development &
Parenting Tips (6-12) -, 2020).
Adolescent (13 to 18 years)

This age marks puberty changes in the young ones. These changes are gradual in both make and
female and parenting has to be done so that children can have proper understanding about it.
Onset of this age led to abstract thinking, long term goals, romantic and sexual relationship etc.
Understanding of all these ages are very important and each has its own share of values they
impart to the child in its proper development. We will try to understand then better by jill’s case.
Jill’s case research
The study of jill's case shows a complex psychological display of events. Jill is a single parent to
her two children Luke and Mark. Luke is the older son and is suffering from schizophreniadue to
which he was not able to think clearly and regulate his behaviour. A better understanding of case
requires us to understand jill’s childhood first. She described her early childhood to be full of
“eccentricities” and that she accepted many things which she didn’t understood completely. As
per the attachment theory we understand that it important for child to be under strong protective
nature to form a bond with the help of which they can learn, now in her case she lacked that
bond. Definitely she didn’t lacked it completely but it was not significant enough because she
further adds that at the age of only 8 years she decided that her mother lack of trust, choice of
people and her mood swings were not normal. She was very young and undoubtedly this was the
turning point due to which she secretly kept meeting her father and step-mother Lorna. The gap
which was created was completed by Lorna.
Before the discussion of jill’s parents separation it’s important to draw attention to the fact that
jill mentioned she do not have a lot of close friend which implies she has no close friend. If we
take it back to her childhood we can discover that she never formed a strong bond with her
mother or father, she kept changing places which would have made it hard for her to learn to
develop a intimate friendship, she missed her schools on the top.As per the psychosocial

Developmental theory it can be drawn out that she lacked social interaction at her child hood
which demoted her growth and it has made her isolated. Like has a serious condition for 10 years
without any professional help and jill never attempted to seek help from CMHT or AOT until it
went way off the hands, now this shows at some point even she lacked at points because CMHT
and other help organization hardly have any charges. She has already been cared for Lorna and
her mother to understand that these things require high serious attention and they grow worse
with time. She has already been through a lot so pointing her wrong is not the key but to
understand that what led to these delays. As the case reflects she had hard time dealing with the
metal sickness in the past and when she encountered it again she was not ready to accept that
what she considered as a nightmare has came back to her again(Understanding Erikson's Stages
of Psychosocial Development, 2020).
An Evolutionary theory put forward that people suffering from schizophrenia are highly likely to
transfer these genes to future generation. Now these transferred gene showed no effect on jill’s
health but her older son Luke gets effected as these genes expressed themselves. As one of the
common symptoms of schizophrenia luke seem to forget his past and live in a delusion. Luke
condition can be better described by cognitive developmental theory which tells that the every
individual is different and there development depends on how their thought process works. Luke
understanding of things have been challenged and he can only interact in very simplistic way
possfactor. Jill has been fighting for her son and she finally understand the importance of social
interaction and awareness.

ible. Luke condition would have been better if there were early actions to improve his condition,
a Swedish study shows that lack of awareness in schizophrenia has led to increases symptoms in
multiple cases in past as well(Evolutionary developmental psychology, 2020).
It has been seen that around less than 1% people suffer from schizophrenia in the world and the
studies conducted are not enough to provide concrete measures to be taken. As it involves with
gene mutation there is no certain cure for it instead of long term medication and theoretical study
of the patient situation. The case here clears many misconception about schizophrenia and
explains the patients live with there family not necessarily in medical facility. There behaviour to
is not violent in most of the cases and they have little understanding about things. It can be easily
understood that jill’s mother schizophrenia was diagnosed in her 50s but in her son it showed
effect in his 20s only. And as per the study as well it shows that schizophrenia have early
symptoms in males as compared to females. Earlier studies have revealed that the disease early
symptoms show effect in adulthood which are not very complex and early diagnosis can really
be helpful for the patients. Once a schizophrenia has been diagnosed at early stage and treated to
control the symptoms, the medication with different therapy is the best way to treat the patient
for further better results.
The case reflects low awareness as it’s important for the families with a past schizophrenia or
any kind of mental disorder should be cautious about the reappearance of the situation.
Avoidance of Luke’s early stages put the complete thing in a complex situation. But as the
symptoms are cognitive many times it’s hard to distinguish. Among the many symptoms of
schizophrenia some seems to be very common such as sensing things which are not present like
hearing voices, feel touch or experience danger from others etc. Although these behaviour are
very prominent but we should understand that it’s completely different from multiple

personality. Chances of one becoming schizophrenic is 1% but if you have a relative history
chances bounce to be 20% or more (Schizophrenia - Symptoms and causes, 2020).
Jill understand that this disease will stay with her son till the end of his life and he will require
support to fight it. Her concern that her younger son and Likes brother Mark will have to take
responsibility is completely genuine. As from the jill’s childhood she has experienced a social
distancing, it’s important for her to be able to talk to his younger son to address her all issues.
Against all the odds jill seems to have formed a strong bond with her son's. Luke being mentally
disabled have shown less interaction but Mark have gone young to be a fine man who has been
taking care of her mother and trying to makes things positive for her and being a support. We can
encounter two important things that she lacks trust in Mark when it comes in taking care of his
brother and that Mark is now trying to keep jill in happy mood while jill remembers doing the
same for her mother. Hence she needs to discuss things in more detail with Mark. So that Mark
does not have issues dealing with his own psychological pressure, as he said that it’s
unbelievable for him to see his elder brother change so much.
Jill’s current age is 75 years and her older son’s age is 56 years which reflects that she got
married in the age of 19 to 21 years. Which is quite early as per the current understanding we
have, as per today’s scenario it suggested that age for marriage is 25 years. It can be seen that she
is now trying to understand the true need to bond with her son Mark further. She has been on
many trips to different countries which has increased her way of thinking and she understand
need to stay fit which is again a important.

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