Wednesday, March 28, 2012

How to recognize that a child needs help?


As for optimal physical development of children requires favorable environmental conditions, such as the proper and psychosocial development of the necessary conditions. In this primarily refers to the child's family and social environment in which it lives. For a child is an important harmonious development, which includes an appropriate intellectual, social and emotional development. That is an important family support, contact with peers and appropriate curriculum. 

For a child's development is important and that there is an organized extracurricular activity, and this is also the prevention of undesirable behavior. Children and youth should be designed and leisure activities outside of school.

Inadequate family conditions such as alcoholism in the family or abuse within the family leave lasting effects on children.

The full family is extremely important for the child and family relationships. The child is required for proper development of security and safety both in the family and the wider community. If these conditions are violated in any way, for example. violence and / or abuse in the family, the absence of one or both parents for any reason, the child may appear different psychosocial problems.

How to identify given the child needs help?

A child with mental health problems will usually show one or more of the following symptoms: • Sleep disturbances (difficulty uspavijivanja, night fears, nightmares, bedwetting, night, etc..), Feeding (refusing food or eating excessively), and other physiological functions

• increased aggression or anxiety, or the opposite extreme stillness

• disturbances in speech

• Disturbance of concentration

• various types of phobias

• Withdrawal from peers and family

• problems in contacts with peers at school and / or outside school

• self-harm and accidents are generally more

• poorer performance in school, running away from school

• anti-social and / or delinquent behavior

Should talk to your child about what bothers him, give him to talk about their thoughts and feelings, to calm him, help him to a rational level, recognize their problem. Adults who surround the child and care for him, and especially parents should pay attention to the expression of their own psychological problems and control their own reactions.

If you have problems or disorders in children more pronounced, distract the child in daily life or longer, you should contact for advice psychologist and physician. It is important the child's sense of confidence and protection and confidence in the adults with whom he lives.

With a child to talk.

Children sometimes need help because of difficulties with learning at school, difficulties in learning self-control due to emotional problems, adjustment, or the adoption of coping and social skills among peers. Talk with your child about his feelings is necessary, verbalising feelings a child learns to recognize and correctly interpret their own feelings and easier to identify the problem.

Sometimes parents can not talk about any feelings of lack of time, failure to recognize the importance of conversation to the child or because of their own difficulty in expressing emotions, which in any case prevail for their own benefit and welfare of the child.



A child's age depends on which way you talk to him.

• Young children under 5 years can tell us a little, but it is well expressed in play and drawing, and will thus express their feelings and problems; playing with it, a parent can help the child to relieve emotional.

• children aged 6 to 9 years, but can itself draw conclusions on the basis of information obtained

• aged 10 and over, children are talkative

• Teens are ready to talk, but they have to be treated with respect and listen to them.



Areas of psychosocial support:

• difficulties in emotional development

• difficulties in social development

• difficulties in adjusting to school

An important aspect of psychosocial care are good role models that influence the development of children. A special role as a middle school where the child spends time and adopt new behaviors. The task of schools is not only transmit knowledge but also the monitoring of child development and detection of possible deviations from normal development. The role of the teacher who may at times have you noticed any problems duets with time and can meet the parents and refer them to a possible professional help.

Who all can go for help?

Professional helpers:

• psychologist

• Social Worker

• special education teacher

• Educator

• a family physician

• Pediatrician

• the school doctor

To help parents and children can turn itself primarily services that care for children (eg, a psychologist at the school or health center, family medical clinic, specialized health care facilities - a pediatrician, speech therapist, special education, social center).

There are also special services that can turn into a crisis (eg, Center for Crisis) and may be called by telephone, for example. phone for psychological help, there are special telephone line to which the children appear to like the "Blue Phone". Addresses and phone numbers of such services are usually found in the local media.
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