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This 11 page paper examines FAS and FAE and how it affects children in middle childhood. Implications for social work are explored. Psychological models that come from Piaget and Erickson and others, are discussed in depth. Bibliography lists 14 sources.
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new models that involve social problems and the ill effects of fragmentation. One situation that the social worker continues to come across is the child with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome or
Fetal Alcohol Effect. As children age, it is learned that perhaps there is something wrong, even if they were not previously diagnosed with a disorder. Adoptions involving FAE or FAS
can be difficult as well. In a recent Law & Order SVU episode, a pregnant woman was taken to court because she was drinking too much. It was revealed that
a child she had given up for adoption was in fact afflicted with fetal alcohol syndrome. Indeed, she had an FAS child she did not know about. Because of the
problems, the adoptive parents wanted to find the biological mother who resisted the contact. Clearly, there are social work implications as it respects children with the syndrome. Social workers
who handle adoptions must be on guard for this problem and school social workers will often come into contact with alcoholic families for which one or more children are afflicted
with either FAS or FAE. Indeed, some of he most important symptoms are most evident during middle childhood. Before delving into the intricacies of fetal alcohol syndrome and its manifestations,
middle childhood will be explored. II. Middle Childhood There is a great deal of knowledge about the life stage known as middle childhood which is between
six and twelve years old. Pillari (1998) evaluates a variety of changes that a person in the middle childhood stage encounters, inclusive of physical, cognitive, and moral development. The
theories that are reliant on such staging is related to Erik Eriksons model as well as literature produced by Jean Piaget and Lawrence Kohlberg. The body of knowledge regarding this
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