Aiden Carter Reverse Timeline

Aiden Carter Reverse Timeline
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Aiden Carter Reverse Timeline
Childhood Age
Throughout his childhood, Aiden suffered emotional abuse perpetrated by his parents. One such particular event occurred when he was only nine-years-old. As he was playing with his plastic army soldier dolls, his father accidentally knocked one over and almost tripped on it. His father yelled at him for apparently failing to take care of his puppets. He smashed some of the toys and tossed him into the wall. When Aiden began to weep, he grabbed and dragged him to the corner of his bedroom. He called him a loser, a statement that contributed significantly to the psychological problems that Aiden suffered during adolescence. Aiden’s parents unquestionably appear disturbed. The most appropriate intervention that could have changed the course of events, in this case, was first to address the parents (Lane, 2014). Aiden’s parents should have been encouraged to seek counseling help. Pecora, Sanders, and Wilson (2014) assert that parents who abuse their children tend to be low in discernment. Therefore, any form of therapy, which undertakes that insight will be valuable. In the case of Aiden’s parents, a non-verbal treatment that soothes their hyperactive emotional functioning would be critical.
Adolescent Age
At the age of sixteen, Aiden appears to be receiving antidepressants desired to boost his mood. As opposed to merely prescribing medication, the doctor should have sought to identify the real cause of Aiden’s emotional issues before recommending the most appropriate therapy.

Many people tend to assume that emotional abuse does not require therapeutic support. Children like Aiden who are victims of such maltreatment can benefit from family therapy, a psychological technique that can help ill-treated children and their families work through the impacts of mistreatment. According to Afroz and Tiwari (2015), emotional abuse results from a broad range of issues related to anger, rage, dysfunctional communication, and generational factors. Practitioners usually combine family therapy with individual psychoanalysis whereby they focus on helping victims rebuild autonomy and self-esteem. These sessions also enable therapists to understand the dysfunction in the parent-child bond (Afroz & Tiwari, 2015). After individual therapy with Aiden, the doctor should have later asked his parent to join the psychoanalysis sessions. Family therapy is critical in this case as it focuses on resolving problems within the family. After working through family issues, Aiden’s parents would have then focused on helping him heal from the abuse.
Parent/Guardian Interventions
Although parent management training (PMT) is often used to help parents whose children have been involved in gross destructive behavior, the approach would have also been successful in Aiden’s case (Pecora et al., 2014). Since childhood, Aiden has been struggling with emotional abuse and neglect. PMT is a beneficial intervention as it allows therapists to focus on the entire family, rather than the victims of abuse alone. Parents usually meet with trainers who teach them specific procedures to improve the outcomes of their children (Lane, 2014). The program would have enabled Aiden’s parents to learn positive parenting behaviors to Improve Aiden’s behavior problems such as hyperactivity.
Another critical parental intervention that would have changed the course of events in the case of Aiden is Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT). The program provides explicit coaching to parents regarding the use of a broad range of parenting skills (Pecora et al., 2014). PCIT is specifically important as it requires Aiden’s parents to demonstrate competency in the use of a variety of active parenting skills before concluding the program. The intervention whose aim is to improve the parent-child bond through interaction is essential to the development of effective parenting techniques and reduction of behavior issues.

References
Afroz, S., & Tiwari, P. N. (2015). Psychological abuse: Impact on children. Indian Journal Of Health & Wellbeing, 6(5), 526-528.
Lane, W. G. (2014). Prevention of child maltreatment. Pediatric Clinics of North America, vol. 61, no. 5: 873-888. doi:  10.1016/j.pcl.2014.06.002. Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4171685/Pecora, P. J., Sanders, D., Wilson, D., English, D., Puckett, A., & Rudlang-Perman, K. (2014). Addressing common forms of child maltreatment: evidence-informed interventions and gaps in current knowledge. Child & Family Social Work, 19(3), 321-332. doi:10.1111/cfs.12021