Cognitive, Social and Emotional Developmental Theo

You will write a paper that helps you review the cognitive, social, and emotional developmental theories studied in this course. You will create a profile of a hypothetical client using one or two of the provided scenarios. The purpose of this paper is to challenge you to use your formal writing/thinking skills to evaluate your chosen scenario using the developmental theories you have studied. Your paper should be between 6 and 8 pages long (for the body) with a title page and a reference page (an additional two pages). Successful papers are written using proper English conventions, are in APA format, and include synthesis of theory and information from the scenarios. By using the scenario below for your paper and then write your essay to respond to the questions found below the scenario. Assume that you work for a child and family services agency in the family intervention division. Your job is to help families whose children are in state care to rejoin their parents in their home. Scenario 1: James (23-year-old father of two children) James comes to your office as part of his plan for family reintegration. A year ago, his two children ages 2 and 8 were taken from his home because he and the children- mother were abusive to each other and to the children. Both he and the mother of the children have completed mandatory domestic violence counseling and parenting classes. He should be ready to have his children return home; however, you still have some concerns based on James’ past. As a child, he was left with an aunt as an infant because his mother was incarcerated. He was the youngest of seven children in the home and was raised by the older children and various strangers who lived with them during his toddler years. He did not attend preschool until he was five years old and was already six years old when he entered kindergarten. Family services visited his aunt- house often while he was in elementary school because of reports of drug activity (his aunt and her friends used cocaine and marijuana) and abuse. His aunt- boyfriends for misbehaving often beat James. He did not trust adults and began to act out in middle school. He got into trouble in many of his classes as an early adolescent. He told his teachers that he was too stupid to be in school and was waiting till he turned 16 so he could drop out and get a job. His grades were too low for him to participate in sports, though he was one of the best athletes in his class. During his adolescent years, James skipped school a lot until he turned 16 and dropped out. He joined a gang and earned money robbing stores and selling drugs. By the time he was 17, he had fathered a child and, by 19, four children with two different women. He was arrested for armed robbery by age 20 and was in prison for two years. When released at age 22, the mother of his two youngest children asked him to live with them to help pay the bills. James was hired to work at the local grocery store and has done well in the last year and a half, receiving a promotion to Assistant Manager of the meat department. He has just finished probation for the robbery and is attending GED classes at night. However, as a young adult, he still suffers from deep anger issues that relate to his childhood and that continue to affect his actions as an adult.
Questions for paper Using scenario 1 explain how James current adult problems are a result of cognitive problems developed during at least one specific time in their lives (e.g., infancy, early childhood, middle childhood, and/or adolescence). Explain this using information from either Piaget- cognitive development theory or information processing theory. 2 How was your hypothetical client affected by social pressures from parents and peers during their early childhood through their adolescent years? How did your client- response to that social pressure create their current problems? 3. Using information from our readings and Discussions, explain how your hypothetical client mishandles his or her emotions. What problems is the client experiencing in his or her life now because of lack of emotional regulation? 4. Provide some suggestions for appropriate interventions that can be used to help your client to be a responsible adult and parent