M RAPAUNO MS.LCPC
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M RAPAUNO MS.LCPC

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Expert in: Child & Adolescent Health    
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Languages: English,Italian,Spanish
Professional Counselor,Working with Children and Adults w/ Mental Illness
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Degrees

AA-ECE,BA-Psy,M.S.-Psy

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I have an extensive backgroud working with children. For over 17yrs. I am advocate for children's rights. I love and enjoy working with children as well as helping them to confront the major challenges in their lives head on. Giving them the tools to work with, each chellenge one by one. Watching as they achive inner peace, knowing they are intelligent each one differently. I cannot discribe, the feeling it brings, to watch a child achive their goal,how wonderful it feels as a therapist, and the inner peace that child feels. The reason, I am here. Is to continue to make a difference.To help parents and caregivers with the help their children reach high levels no matter what their disabilities. The children are the future of tomorrow, let's get them on the right track to becoming productive adults. Learning how to cope and work with their disabilities. To know that children are not to be fixable. You can fix a door or you can fix a T.V. But children cannot be fix! We are have issues,learned behaviors. However, we can learn and move on. Every child learns differently, helping them through this process is the key. One step and a time,one day at a time. One Child at a time! My Education/Exp AA in ECE- Early Childhood Education BA in Psy/Italian lang study M.S. in Psy Early intervention is the key. Children at risk for future antisocial personality disorder are readily identified, but evidence on the long-term effectiveness of prevention and treatment programmes is limited. Some progress has been made in identifying subgroups of children with antisocial problems in which different causal processes operate, and therefore for which there are different treatment needs. The available research does not yet tell us whether differences in the patterning, or associated features, of childhood conduct problems are predictive of distinctive adult outcomes.

Experience & Qualifications

Early identification It may be that the problem will be solved simply through better treatment techniques; however, attention to six issues in early identification may also be of value in generating ideas for the development of interventions. First, conduct problems in young children are associated with many other adverse factors such as ineffective parenting practices, discordant and unstable families, poor peer relationships and educational failure. It is important to clarify whether it is the child's disorder that requires early identification, or these associated factors or both. Second, conduct problems in childhood are generally identified on the basis of a broad cluster of behaviours. The identification of subtypes may lead to a better understanding of underlying mechanisms, and hence to improved matching of treatment to clinical needs. Third, in approximately 50% of children with early conduct problems these do not persist into adolescence and adult life. Ways of distinguishing persisters and desisters are needed. Fourth, given the intractability of behaviour problems in some young children, we need to ask whether identification at an earlier age is possible. Fifth, the adult outcomes of children who show early conduct problems and then desist, and of those whose problems start in adolescence, need to be considered. Finally, we need to attend to the adult outcomes that we are attempting to anticipate. It may be that specific antisocial outcomes have different antecedents from those of antisocial personality disorder. Working with, Antisocial personality disorder is usually preceded by serious and persistent conduct problems starting in early childhood, and so there is little difficulty in identifying an at-risk group. Aims To address six key areas concerning the relationship between early conduct problems and antisocial personality disorder. Method Review of recent research into early identification of and intervention in child conduct problems, following up to possible adult antisocial behaviour. Results Conduct problems are predictive of antisocial personality disorder independently of the associated adverse family and social factors. Prediction could be aided through identification of subtypes of conduct problems. There is limited evidence on which children have problems that are likely to persist and which will improve; children who desist from early conduct problems and those with onset in adolescence are also vulnerable as adults. Conclusions The predictive power of the childhood precursors of antisocial personality disorder provides ample justification for early intervention. Greater understanding of subgroups within the broad category of antisocial children and adults should assist with devising and targeting interventions. Selective review of findings published over the past 10 years in childhood predictors of antisocial personality disorder, and consideration of issues still to be addressed in relation to early identification of individuals at risk.

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