Children’s Anxiety Solutions

Children’s Anxiety

 

One big problem that many children have is anxiety.

 

 

They feel anxiety

when they go to school

when they are in front of a new situation

when they meet a dog

when they visit a new place.

 

Anxiety is conquering their life and is limiting their actions and possibilities of the life.

They cry,

they are refusing to go to new places

they are staying only with their parents avoiding playing with other children

 

The situation is really stressful the same for parents and for children

Why is it happening?

Stranger, social

According to Cutting[i] social phobics do not fear the crowd but the fact that they may be judged negatively,

feel may be judged negatively (rejection)

they do not have enough time

Factors for creation

Poor coping skills

(e.g., rigidity/inflexible problem solving, denial, avoidance, impulsivity, extreme self-expectation, negative thoughts, affective instability, and inability to focus on problems) are associated with anxiety.

Anxiety is also linked and perpetuated by the person’s own pessimistic outcome expectancy and how they cope with feedback negativity

social family factors

Social risk factors for anxiety include a history of trauma (e.g., physical, sexual or emotional abuse or assault)

early life experiences and parenting factors (e.g., rejection, lack of warmth, high hostility, harsh discipline, high parental negative affect, discouragement of emotions, poor socialization, poor attachment, and child abuse and neglect),

What can we do to eliminate the problem?

we have to give acceptance

communicate effectively

positive  modelling to new stressful conditions

give the opportunity for many ways to test an drive its abilities

through play

though drawing

through stories

 

Prevention

can help play therapy

sand tray anthropocentric S.core play

filial play therapy

art therapy

narration and writing techniques

change of the behavior and emotional state of the parents and the families

stability

love

connection

communication

not higher expectations than those that the child can handle

expectations that are nor connected  with the children needs

[i] Thomas B, Hardy S, Cutting P , eds. (1997). Mental Health Nursing: Principles and Practice. London: Mosby. ISBN 978-0-7234-2590-8.

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