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Case Study: was born while her mother was in a transition home and shortly that, her parents reunited. Hermother is Indigenous, her father Caucasian. Her parents only stayed together for a short time;her father disappeared as there were warrants out for his arrest. She has not seen her mom forthe past year. While in the care of her mom she moved around a lot and mom had manydifferent men in the homes.Strengths: Sophie can be engaging and smiles shyly upon first meeting someone new. She ismore social when she is comfortable with people and can be quite chatty and funny. She doeswell with colouring and painting. Sophie has lots of energy and loves to climb on the playgroundequipment. She likes to help younger children and often plays well with her younger cousins.Challenges: She tends to cling onto her Aunt Helen and does not want to leave her side. Sophieseems to relentlessly ask how long she will be allowed to live with Helen. She can be explosivewhen her needs are not met and when things do not go as she thought they were planned. Itcan take her a couple minutes to explode but hours to calm down. These meltdowns canhappen frequently. When she is in this state, she yells, swears, throw things and can destroythings around her. She does this both in home and in school. She has locked herself in thebathroom at school when she was triggered by something and a cousin had to be called to gether to come out. She often gets extremely angry and can be physically and verbally aggressivetowards others.Sophie gets overwhelmed by busyness and noises - like the school bell. She comes to schoolappearing tired and on high alert. She always seems to know what is happening around hereven if she is not directly involved. Helen says that Sophie has a difficult time sleeping and hasnight terrors. She can often be found twisting her hair and rocking. At times she hides in hercloset at home. When she's stressed, she will also suck her thumb. She seems to be hungry allof the time and takes others' lunches at school.While Sophie can be engaging with adults, she has difficulty making friends with peers as shecan be quite bossy and intimidating. She gravitates to younger children or children who havegone through similar situations. She pushes others around physically and emotionally, makingsure she is first in line. The students in her class don't seem too fond of her.At school she is often disruptive and gets easily frustrated. She is often defiant and refuses todo the tasks asked of her. Things are especially hard when there is substitute teacher. She iseasily distracted. While she appears to have good expressive language, she does not seem tofully understand what she is being told and is often a couple steps behind the class in tasks. Sheloses her school supplies and often things are spilling out of her desk. She often calls herselfdumb and compares herself to others.Case Study #1 QuestionsUsing the above case of Sophie, answer the following questions. Be sure to connect to thecourse content you have been learning in class. When you have finished, please submit yourassignment in the designated assignment drop box on LMS no later than 9:30am on October21st. Please follow APA formatting with this assignment.

Question 1.) What developmental considerations are there when looking at the case of Sophie? Giveat least one example in each of the domains we discussed in class: Cognitive, Physical,Emotional and Social.

Question 2.) Select one environment (either Sophie's home or her school) and describe a concernthat might require attention in her physical life space, her mental life space, and herrelational life space.

Question 3.) Describe an activity that you could do with Sophie, in her life space, utilizing heridentified strengths.