Contents:
- Medical Video: Part 1 Characteristics of Children with Emotional or Behavioral Disorders
- What are emotional and behavioral disorders?
- What should I do if my child has the characteristics and signs of emotional and behavioral disorders as above?
- Also consider a number of factors that might escape your parents' attention and awareness
Medical Video: Part 1 Characteristics of Children with Emotional or Behavioral Disorders
"Does my child experience emotional and behavioral disorders?" This question is sometimes asked of you. Parents who experience dilemmas see the behavior of your baby, which should look calm and sweet but instead behave otherwise. All children will basically experience a period of misbehaving, but what if their delinquency is beyond normal limits? Like angry with explosive emotions? Shout out to older people (especially parents themselves)? Or like throwing things, like toys at home and at school?
It's good to see an explanation of the emotional disturbance that might happen to your child as below.
What are emotional and behavioral disorders?
Children who experience emotional and behavioral disorders are also referred to as children with disabilities. When experiencing this disorder, the child experiences an unstable emotional state. When interacting and being in a social environment, behavior will be very disturbing in public.
There are 5 characteristics that describe children who experience behavioral disorders, including:
- Unable to learn which is not caused by health factors such as other sensory or physical defects. This child, on a physical basis is fine, the one who blocks is his psychological state
- Cannot establish relationships or friendships with peers, even parents and teachers at school. Because his behavior is unstable, emotional, and changeable, the child becomes individualistic because his environment cannot accept the child's condition.
- The juice likes to be abnormal, change is not clear without real and definite causes.
- Mood easily disturbed or distracted, sometimes angry, depressed, disappointed. The point is emotionally unstable.
- Tends to be afraid of yourself because of personal problems and at school, it will emit emotions and behaviors such as crying and raging. If asked for the reason, it will touch on personal matters and matters at school.
What should I do if my child has the characteristics and signs of emotional and behavioral disorders as above?
Before you take a thousand steps forward regarding the condition of your doubting baby, you should first evaluate the situation and environment of your baby.
- Either way, you talk and ask your friends, relatives or your child's teacher at school. Do they see the same behavior from your child?
- When in a difficult development period in a child, you must find ways to support the child through difficult times that should be able to overcome well in the normal stages.
- Pay close attention, and find out if your child's age is still quite normal and has emotional and labile behavior? Observe with children his age. At a normal stage, children aged 8 years and above should have enough volatility in their emotions and behavior.
Also consider a number of factors that might escape your parents' attention and awareness
Not necessarily the condition of your child's mental disorder and behavior is present and just appears without cause. Check, can other factors occur because of you, the environment or something else? Like the example below:
- His physical condition is indeed problematic, such as the presence of allergies that have an impact on his emotional stability. Medications that are consumed by children, in fact can also affect behavior.
- Problems at school sometimes get carried away to the house. When a child has difficulty working on a task or understands a lesson, it also needs to be observed, because it has the effect of causing additional stress on the child.
- Using drugs or alcohol. Make no mistake, any age can be polluted by this social aberration. Pay attention and monitor the environment.
- Your family has a problem. This factor is also a common common factor experienced by children who experience emotional and behavioral disorders. Like, divorce or separation of parents, jealousy has a new sister, feeling unfair parents give affection, and trauma to lose someone who means someone, or death.
If you really believe and realize your child is experiencing emotional and behavioral disorders, maybe this is the time for you to consult an expert or therapy that can be one solution to "cure" the baby. Treatment that you can do will depend on the conditions and factors of the child's disorder. Like cognitive behavioral therapy, with the aim of helping children control their thoughts and behavior.
Then there is also education that parents need to undergo, if these factors are caused by poor parental communication with the child. And finally with the help of drugs, if your child does experience impulsive behavior caused by mistakes in your child's body.
