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Abstract. In this article we will explore a case study as seen at a psychological health clinic in Shanghai. The presenting case will probably look at the ramifications of China's one-child-policy, but in particular the approaches employed by parents to control children not living up to their expectations from an early age.

We will also consider parental guidance in keeping with established treatment masking behaviourism and transactional analysis methodology. Introduction.In China so as to control a growing population and the danger of economic and social meltdown the administration of China regulate birth rates throughout the country. To be able to supervise the population there is a law enforced under the one child policy.

Though human rights groups and Western ideology of freedom conflict with the Oriental population control methods such as induced abortion, abandonment of female children and the major reason for child kidnapping and trade the Oriental recognise the need for this policy or future starvation and social breakdown via over-population in the future is inevitable. Even at its present growth rate at one child per family, China will still have the greatest population in the World with limited recourses to support such an expansion rate. However for boomers that the interest is more focused on the social consequences of this policy to the emotional health of children born into homes with only adults for company and no siblings to interact with and learn from.

In a former paper we researched the issue with under-developed skills in empathy, social communication and relationships. In this paper we will concentrate on a single kid as a case study which has generalised to a population that's now obsessed with educational attainment and social monitory success. Case Study. A Chinese mother brought her nine year-old boy to a psychologist practicing in Shanghai as a counsellor and psychology professor. The mother explained the boy's issues in the following manner. Mother - "my son eats very gradually at supper times, the family all eat together, but that he can take almost one hour to eat and frequently only plays with the meals pushing it about his plate.

He does not finish his homework for college and the instructor frequently complains to us about his slowness in class, his lack of friends and inadequate performance on tasks usually throughout his slowness to start and finish. In addition to this he frequently falls asleep at his desk in the home and I have to wake him to be able to get him to his bed. ".Psychologist: "how do you deal with his behaviour and what will be his teacher's normal response to his own behaviour on class? ".Mother: "both the father and that I shout and scream at him to finish his supper or homework.

We tell him what the instructor says about him and the way he is creating his parents lose face in front of her. When he is in class his instructor shouts and complains to him all the time - and frequently the other children think he is dumb and unfriendly to them. Psychologist: "What is the boy's reaction to all this shouting and screaming that happens at home and school? Mother: "he does not seem to care. He carries on in his slow fashion. If we try to hurry him he will go into a tantrum before we abandon him to continue with his meal or play. Further information. Although the meeting moved into further details about the boy's behaviour the psychologist was more interested in the behaviour of those the boy interacts with on a daily basis.

The family is an extended household with the father's parents living in the identical apartment with the kid and mother. The mother is a professional who works ordinary day-time hours along with the father works full time at a government post. The grandparents have been retired and look after the boy as far as taking and picking up from college and feeding on the boy when it comes home with snacks. When the boy takes home from college he watches TV while the grandparents give him junk-food snacks before the mother arrives home from work and then with the grandmother cooks the evening dinner.

Following the meal the boy plays with computer games before his mother insists that he starts his homework that frequently takes the boy until 11pm when his mother then forces him to bed. In this particular case study it is important to get the help of the grandparents as they might see the initial suffering of the kid going hungry and not able to use his games or watch TV as unkind. This may lead to subversive behaviour by the parents to give the kid key snacks and therefore endanger the process. Teachers at China while very capable in their subject areas have very little child psychology comprehension and in line with Chinese civilization feel suppressive control of children though intimidation and threats of violence keeps good order in the class, similar to the wider society here.

Learning is largely old-fashioned style that is rote by fear of failure to be able to repeat via memory all of aspects of a subject with very little insight into the application of learning. This goes right up and beyond University instruction in China. Outcomes.In this particular case study the kid didn't improve, but over a longer time scale than was initially envisaged from the psychologist, largely due to 3 factors, the initial the parents had become habituated to crying at the boy and took some time to switch to a warmer setting. Second as expected that the grandparents fought against the procedure wanting to spoil the kid at every opportunity.

Finally the college instructor failed to comprehend the procedure and through dependence and bad teacher instruction continued to shout and yell at the students for failures in obedience matters. Despite this as the psychologist indicated there was transference of learning from the meals to other tasks along with the boy actually after a few weeks completed his meal at the identical time as everyone else in the family. This transferred to his homework and the connecting of his games to some withdrawal procedure when he failed to finish in a reasonable time. The case is on-going with issues in the class-room persisting mainly to the absence of cooperation by the teachers. Summery.In this case study we've tested out the idea out of Eric Berne that a chid will alter approach in order to maintain attention seeking behaviour during the psychological act of his "little professor" finding the most efficient means to receive that attention he craves.

Though this case was in China the process of class is universal and works perfectly well in most societies. Withdrawal learning is based on the work of B. F. Skinner and operational behaviourism from the 1960's. It is the understanding from Transactional Analysis combined with behaviourist techniques of positive reinforcement which enable parents to change disruptive behaviour to child rearing.

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