Parenting and Treating Callous-Unemotional Children

Jazz-Min Roberson

Rebecca Gaskins

English 1101 O

20 April 2017

Parenting and Treating Callous-Unemotional Children

“Born Psychopath.” Law and Order: Special Victims Unit. Writ. Dick Wolf, Julie Martin, and                                                                                      Warren Leight. Dir. Alex Chapple. 3 April 2013. Universal. 24 Sep. 2013.

The main focus on this episode of Law and Order SVU was mainly about a young boy with child behavior problems specifically being callously unemotional. The mother , father and siblings are all effected by this which later involved investigations. When professionals became involved they started to become concerned and recommended for them to get their son help as soon as possible.

This episode showed a lot of characteristics that family’s who are in this situation deal with. It definitely showed how the parents can be in denial and feel that they have to make excuses for their child’s behavior. When in reality they really need help because situations like this can  be fixed. That was the overall goal, them realizing that their son does need help before things worsen.

This source gave me many different ideas based around callously unemotional children, from how they are viewed and how they can be helped. Before this video I was not aware of callously unemotional children so watching this opened my eyes just because this mental illness exist.

“Child of Rage.” YouTube. 18 Oct. 2011. www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2-Re_Fl_L4&feature=youtu.be/.

She was traumatized at a very young age which caused her to act the way she does. How can someone so young be this aggressive ? or Have so much hate inside of them?. Both of her biological parents abused her physically and emotional which does play a huge role on her negative acts.

This source is useful because it gives us a clear understanding that children do go through these tragedies. Seeing that a young girl expresses what she went through and it not being scripted is an eye opener.

Seeing that the younger girl grew into a well put woman fits my argument perfectly. Simply because there is hope for the ones who deal with this tragic time in their life. This situation is also different in a way because she wasn’t born this way, she became like this due to her tragic past.

Kahn, Jennifer. “Can You Call a 9-Year-Old a Psychopath?” The New York Times Magazine, 11 May 2012, www.nytimes.com/2012/05/13/magazine/can-you-call-a-9-year-old-a-psychopath.html/.

The main argument is Can you really call a 9 year old a Psychopath ?. Some argue yes and some say maybe. This 9 year old would do disrespectful things, realize the consequences and still not care to suffer. That is an characteristic of a psychopath but since he is a little young they don’t want to assume that just yet.