Final Outcome Two

I printed out my cards to see how they look and I believe it came out really well, looks like it was made for young children which I am pleased about. I like that the colours are really bold and easy to look at and read. I put the questions in the order and the answers in the right place to show what it will look like. 

I am pleased with the results of the design and also pleased with the brain puzzle, I couldn't pick just one final piece because believe both methods are really good ideas for young children, I really want them to understand this problem because I have experience and to this day, it still bothers me, so I want children to get help early so they don't have to live with it. The outcome was very successful and will be good for children to get through this issue without any compilations. 

Designing my cards for the Final outcome two

Designing my cards, I wanted to continue with this because I believe this will also help children to communicate with anyone for example, a social worker, the social worker will use the cards to help find out what is wrong with the child, to make the child feel less scared because it's always frightening talking to a random adult. 

I wanted the question cards to be simple and to have really big bold text to show the children. I didn't want the cards to look too complicated as my aim is towards young children. 

I have different coloured backgrounds for the answer cards because I wanted each card to look different, Designing the icons, again wanted to keep it simple so that the child understands the questions and answers.

I really liked how the cards came out because I feel like this will really help to get young children to communicate because it will look like a game to them. 

Final outcome Brain Puzzle

Here is my Final piece, My brain puzzle, showing the front, side and back view. I really like how my puzzle came out because I wanted it to be simple and bold because my aim is towards young children from the age of seven to ten, I believe the age group I'm hitting for is good because this issue starts from a very young age. I want young children to understand these words that I picked to use to create this puzzle, I believe the words I picked were reasonable, by going through my research, a lot of these words came up on leaflets, stories etc. 

Designing the shape of the brain wasn't too bad as I search many images of the brain to get the shape right. I didn't want it to look too realistic as I wanted to be an experience of learning for young children, didn't want it come across frightening. 

I used a bold colour of pink for the puzzle, again I didn't want to go to detailed with the use of colours as I wanted to look like a brain and using one colour will really make it come across clean and bold. I want it to be easy to work with and not be distracted by different colours.

I believe this will help young children because when they learn to understand these words and what they mean, they shouldn't be afraid to express what there feeling inside and should feel ok to get help and speak to someone, whether it's a parent, friend, teacher etc. 

Brain Puzzle Wireframe

Here is another idea of a plan I'm thinking off, its a brain puzzle, the reason why its a brain is because emotional and mental abuse is all to do with the mind. I like the idea of having words on the puzzles and when the children pick up a piece it will explain what that word means behind that puzzle piece. The words I'll use will be to do with emotional abuse, for example emotion, trauma, violence etc to get children to understand what these words mean and to not be afraid to speak out if they feel like they have been through something that is wrong. 

Image of Abuse

I really like this image because it shows so much emotion, the shadow of a parent or relative bullying the young child by shouting at her, probably treating her like she's nothing to him. The image is really eye catching and should show people that this is wrong, clearly the child is going to suffer from fear and anxiety. This child looks really young and is probably to scared to tell any one about this issue, this is what I want to fix, to find a solution to stop this happening to young children. 

Leaflets and Posters of Emotional Abuse

Researching some images of leaflets and posters to see what information they display and what images they use to try and convey a message to help people with this problem. 

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/health/leaflets-help-spot-emotional-abuse-8195448

Looking at this link, helps me as I was reading a lot of information, this is launched by NSPCC. Its really good seeing what there doing to try and fix this problem. They won't stop until this issue is fixed and dealt with right. 

Paper prototype of my design of cards

This is a paper prototype of my cards, I am creating five questions.

First Question:What emotion do you feel?

Second Question: Where do you feel this emotion most?

Third Question: Who makes you feel this emotion?

Fourth Question: How often do they make you feel this emotion? 

Fifth Question: Do they make you feel this emotion when your on your own or in front of others?

Answers:

One: Happy, Sad, Worried, Angry and Scared

Two: School, Home and Playground

Three: Parents, Relatives and Friends

Four: Every day, Few days and Once a week

Five: Own or Others

Five questions and multiple answers for each question. A child talking to a social worker, the social worker should start of with these questions and let the child pick the answer to the question, gets them to interact with the social worker and make them feel more comfortable and less scared. This is to help the social worker to see what the problem is and what there working with. 

Children with Depression

http://www.webmd.com/depression/guide/depression-children#1

I was looking at this website, to help understand how children suffer with depression, what is the early signs and how do parents deal with this issue. There's many reasons for depression and it's horrible to think that children at so young has to deal with this problem. A lot of people can be cruel and they don't even know there doing it to people, being mean and hurtful. 

Emotions

I was looking up emotions to help me with designing my final piece, I was thinking of designing cards with five simple questions for children to answer, to help children communicate better with speaking to social workers, to help them find out what this issue is. 

Ways of children to communicate

Children use different ways to communicate to people, mainly with doing art, it expresses what there feeling by what they paint or draw. Its a good way of getting children to communicate when they don't want to speak. Also when children dress up as characters or something else, it also shows who they are and who they want to be like, this will also show how they feel inside by how they act on the outside. 

Emotional Abuse can be worse than Physical Abuse!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LsaaUTyc2E

Looking at this video, I feel like there isn't much that is being done to fix the problem of emotional abuse. Viewing the video, its interesting to see that emotional abuse can be worse than physical abuse because it's hard to see in people because it doesn't involve having scars or bruises. It's more than likely people with this problem will have depression and anxiety. This is why this problem needs to be dealt with as soon as possible, this is why I'm aiming towards young children because it can start from an early age, and children are very hard to talk to about what there feeling.  

What a Social Worker does?

http://www.prospects.ac.uk/social_worker_job_description.htm

Looking up at what a social worker does to help me with there problems, from my experience, I had a social worker since I started living with my god mother till I was sixteen. Social workers are to help and try and fix the problem. My situation was complicated as a child and when talking to social workers, it was really hard because I kept having different people and had to restart talking about the same thing and it was hard to talk about certain things because I was a child, I was afraid of what will happen. 

From my experience, I want to create something that will help children communicate better with social workers , so that they won't be afraid to speak about there problem. 

Website, About what people can do to help stop emotional abuse towards children

http://www.sociology.org/the-emotional-abuse-of-our-children-teachers-schools-and-the-sanctioned-violence-of-our-modern-institutions/

Looking through this website, gives me a nice feeling inside as it gives direction on what people can do to help children with emotional abuse.

From the website:

What can you do?

Since writing this article I’ve got a lot of email from parents whose kids are experiencing emotional abuse at school, and teachers witnessing their colleagues perpetrating abuse. If you are a parent, here are some things you can do.

1. First thing you should do is educate yourself about the horrible consequences of all forms of child abuse. The internet has made that sort of thing easy, and I regularily post articles on this site discussing the consequences of what I would call Toxic Socialization. See for example this article on the long term consequences of child abuse.
2. Second, talk to the teacher. If that doesn’t work, talk to the principal. Teachers and administrators often don’t see their actions as harmful so part of your job is to educate them about it. Print out this article and show it to them. Be confident when you approach them and make it clear to them that you feel they are hurting your children.
3. Pay attention to the initial reactions of teachers and principals. In some cases they’ll be sympathetic, but in other case they will react in strange ways. If you sense a note of weirdness, I strongly recommend recording any conversations and keeping any email transcripts you have. Tell them you want to record. If they refuse, refuse to meet or insist on email. And don’t let them tell you that email is no good, and they’d rather do it in person, because in person is better, because it is not. Email is the best way to discuss things happening at school because it allows you time to calm down, think, and consider, and it provides you with a legal record of anything they say to you.  It is because of the record it provides that some school administrators, the ones who act weird, don’t like it. At some level they know what they are doing is wrong, don’t let them hide that reality away.
4. If the school doesn’t allow you to record the conversation, do it anyway, but check your provincial and state laws first. In many locations it is totally legal to record conversations as long as one person knows about it. In some states, no. Don’t do anything illegal in your area, but do whatever it takes to protect your kids.
5. If you can’t get no satisfaction, and if you are able, or if your kids are old enough to be home alone, pull your kids out of school temporarily. Send an email to the principal telling them what’s happening. Tell them to arrange for your child’s work to be sent home and then allow your kids to do the work at home.  Tell the principal and the teacher that your child won’t be coming back until they have sorted out their abuse. If the principal threatens you with truancy action, tell him to “bring it on.” Say you’re happy to go talk to a judge and tell the judge why you’re pulling your kids out. Nothing stops an an abuser faster than the possibility they might have to explain their abuse to others.
6. If that doesn’t work, and you have the option, pull them out of school permanently and home school them. You’ll have to check the options that are available to you but it is becoming more and more of a viable possibility. My kids are now fully home schooled and they love it. They aren’t exposed to the abusive students or the abusive teacher, they are happier, healthier, and are doing way better than before. There are challenges, of course, and as a parent you have to have the time and the resources to do this, but if it is an option, consider it. The more people who do this, and the more we are vocal about why we are doing it (abusive schools), the more schools will be forced to think about, and change, their actions and behaviours.
7. Publicly humiliate your school. Download this article, write a short paragraph about what is happening to your children, and send it to your local media outlets. We all know the outcome of chronic bullying can be horrible violence, either self inflicted in the case of suicide, or inflicted on others in the case of school shootings. Remind your media contact of the long term consequences of emotional abuse and see if a little media attention doesn’t shame the bullies into stopping. At the very least the media attention will draw other concerned parents and teachers out of the woodwork.
8. If you have the resources, talk to a lawyer. It is becoming increasingly easy to build a case for serious long term damage caused by teachers abusing in schools. It will take just one successful lawsuit against a teacher that abuses your child, or a school that enables it, to really start to change things.
9. Build a website and sue the schools. The quickest way to stop all this is to build a website and populate it with articles and research that proves damage. Once this is done lawyers and litigators have a resource they can use to argue for damages! It won’t take more than a law suit or to force legislators and lawmakers to make it illegal for schools to abuse our children. It can cost as little as 20 dollars a month for a website, and research assistants tasked with collecting, collating, and summarizing articles  can be had for $20.00 an hour or so. A few thousand dollars is all you would need. I will personally help anybody who has the time and resources to do this in any way I can."

I would really like to see people coming into schools and talk about there own experience with emotional abuse to tell children what it means and to get children who feels like they have this kind of abuse to step out and tell someone like a teacher or the parents if there not the abuser. 

I really want to design something simple for children to understand what emotional abuse means. 

Video Research

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t59pOR76-xs

This is a video made by two guys that did a social experiment. Pretending to beat up kids in front of people to see what people's reaction's are in public. Looking at the video, 35% of people didn't do nothing to stop the beating, my thoughts on that is disgusting, I don't understand how people can look at what is happening and just walk on, it's ridiculous. I believe this video is a good idea because it shows how many people care about what is happening, to see how people has the guts to try and stop the violence. 

Starting to come up with Design ideas!

I made a list of design ideas by looking through my research, I still believe I still need to do more research and come up with more ideas, but so far the Brain puzzle idea is looking good as I am trying to aim more to children. 

Dr Chris Williams Books

I was reading through these books by Dr Chris Williams, The title's of the books were interesting to me, talking about depression, Anxiety etc. I really liked the design of the books, the images I took were inside the book, it was the first page of them all, it caught my attention with all the text, the words look so powerful, looking at them, it has so much meaning to me I think as words can trigger some people. I believe reading through these books is being helpful as Im getting a lot of information about emotions especially. 

Emotional Abuse/ NSPCC Website

https://www.nspcc.org.uk/preventing-abuse/child-abuse-and-neglect/emotional-abuse/

Looking at this website, was very helpful as I got to read about what the NSPCC does to help children. I believe this site is helping me to think of ideas of what to design to fix the problem. 

Research - Starting to look at what Emotional/Mental does and what's the effects of this issue

Looking at my research, I wanted to look at all the effects of what the problem does to people, Short term and Long effects of emotional abuse are horrible to read because it makes the people who have this problem really depressed and hard to trust other people. I believe it's hard for adults but even harder for children who is going through this issue because if children don't get help as soon as they can, they will have this issue for the rest of their lives because it will always be something in there mind that will think of what happen to them and what they been through. Looking at this research, it will help me understand the problem more and find a really good solution to fix it. I also was looking at images of children conveying sad emotions, A image can say a lot by how it looks, it's interesting to see what children would think of these images. 

List of Problems

First thing I did was list some problems to help me figure out what problem I want to pick to help find a solution to fix it. Looking at my list of problems, I have a good idea of what one I want to chose. I believe I will pick the emotional/mental abuse because it is a big problem especially for children as children is hard to talk to about this certain problem, I would like to find  a way to communicate with children without frightening them with scary questions, my age range I want to work on is aged between seven to ten. 

Brief - What's your problem?

Brief

What is the problem?

The problem I'll be focusing on is psychological abuse which is known as emotional or mental abuse. This form of abuse characterised by a person subjecting or exposing another to behaviour that may result in psychological trauma, including anxiety, chronic depression, or post-traumatic stress disorder. 

The reason why this is a problem is because a lot of people are affected by this issue and don't know how to solve it. A significant amount of people have been affected by bullying at some stage of their life which can leave a negative lasting impact. Sometimes people don't know how to express how they really feel inside but can show the emotion outside, in some cases, some people don't know where to go to seek help. 

Main issues with this problem:

• Effects more in young children.
• No clear way to get help as people may be embarrassed to go to counselling as they don't think there is a problem but there is.
• Can impact someone's life if they don't get help which involves them feeling worst and can lead to other issues if the case is very bad.
• The person feels more worried or concern because they feel like there's no loved ones to talk to when in need of support. 

All these different issues and more need to be dealt with as this type of abuse isn't acceptable, in my past I have went through a emotional abuse, it isn't a nice feeling having people shouting and torturing you which they think would be funny, but it isn't fun being on the other side. To this day it still impacts my life, it is a struggle I have and hard to get on with when myself has such a supporting family that love me very much for who I am but yet I would still have troubles communicating my feelings I have. I want to find a way to solve this problem as I know the feeling and I know many others has been affected by this problem and can't get it fixed.

What's your way of solving the problem?

Solving this problem I will be doing a lot of research on this and see what is out there that is trying to help people with this problem, to see if I can advertise this issue more by my use of graphic work, to let people know this is a real concern issue and needs to be sorted out as it will never get better. I know people come into schools to talk to primary or secondary's pupils about bullying and what it can affect but I believe there should be people coming from the counselling side to talk more into detail about this problem as I believe this problem hasn't been talked about much and young children need to understand this situation so if any child or young adult is feeling emotional and don't know what to do, to get help by talking to the teacher or parents because I know this problem isn't easy to talk about. I believe there should be more advertising about this issue, more leaflets about this problem, I want to get the message across more that people aren't alone in this situation and not feel embarrassed to seek help.