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Chapter 1. Chapter 1

Human Development Case Study Exercise
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A young boy pouts on a swing in Dunbar, NE.

Case Study

A young boy pouts on a swing in Dunbar, NE.
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You are a graduate student of child development. Your cousin Irene and her husband are thinking of adopting a child who has been traumatized. You have studied the work of Dr. Bruce Perry, whose research in child trauma is breaking new ground for both child trauma and brain development. Go to www.google.com (search to read Dr. Perry's article entitled, "Maltreatment and the Developing Child: How Early Childhood Experience Shapes Child and Culture”).

Write a paragraph stating concerns for Irene and her husband to consider when adopting one of these children.

If the couple does adopt a traumatized child, what would you suggest that they provide for the child? Write at least one paragraph, including some of the systems covered in Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Model explained the textbook.