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What are the issues that surround the identification of children as 'disturbed'?
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ED209 TMA 03 What are the issues that surround the identification of children as 'disturbed'? Many educationalists and politicians are beginning to support the notion that 'Yob parents are to blame for child crime' and child disturbance, according to Ahmed and Bright (2002). This emphasis on external influences upon the child, advocates a behaviourist perspective of child development, with little or no emphasis on biological or individual responsibility, Bijou and Bauer (1961). For many years psychologists have investigated and tried to tease out how development is influenced by nature or nurture. Rigel (1978) has suggested four different models concerning the significance of external and internal influences. The models range from a passive person and passive environment, to a model that perceives development through an active person and active environment. The latter model implies a transactional process involving the interplay between the individual and social influences that are fluid and continuous....
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