Understand Your Child's Anxiety (Infographic) | Renee Jain. If you've never suffered from anxiety, it can be challenging to understand what a child is truly experiencing. In fact, excessive worrying may seem like a normal part of growing up and something kids just have to "deal" with. This infographic breaks down the very real and often debilitating feeling of anxiety. Recognizing how and why the brain and body transform in moments of anxiety is a first step in helping alleviate the condition.
Walk your child through this graphic. Kids love to understand that worry is actually a form of protection built into our systems by intelligent human design. Sometimes worry goes a little haywire, but there are ways we can come back from the frenetic "flight-or-fight" mode into a calmer "rest-and-digest" state. Course: e-Therapies Review. Introduction The combination of a high prevalence of mental disorder in childhood (1 in 10 children and young people has a diagnosable disorder) and a relatively low general understanding of child mental health issues has created a strong case for using electronic media to increase mental health literacy and empower those working with children and young people, their families and young people themselves to address problems associated with common mental disorders, particularly anxiety, depression, ADHD and eating disorders.
The MindEd portal is a Department of Health commissioned website aimed at adults with professional responsibilities for children and young people, which provides information relevant to assisting children and young people with mental health problems. In this context, e-therapies are clearly of great relevance. Fortunately, over the past two decades computer-assisted treatment protocols available via the internet or via electronic devices have been proliferating. Anxiety in children | Healthdirect. Brain development. Diversity and children's mental health. This material is also available in a PDF format: Diversity and children's mental healthpdf Diversity and children's mental health(content changes below) Australia is home to people from many different cultural, racial and ethnic backgrounds, bringing richness to our community.
This means that children today will form friendships, learn with and interact with people from many cultures different to their own. When children grow up to understand, appreciate and respect the cultural, racial and ethnic diversity around them, this builds a positive and accepting community. A community such as this supports children to develop skills and attitudes that will assist them in their relationships and contribute to their social and emotional wellbeing.
By working together, families and early childhood education and care (ECEC) services can create supportive environments for children from majority and minority racial and ethnic groups. Everybody needs to feel accepted, respected and included. Www.parentingideas.com.au/newsletter/pdf/Coping_Ebook.pdf. Delicate minds. Growing understanding that mental health disorders including anxiety and depression are just as real for children under five as they are for adults is driving a new push for concerned parents to seek help. Leading the way, the $11 million national Healthy Kids Check program was expanded in July to provide voluntary checks for families through their GP, with referral to mental health services as needed. An estimated 27,000 children are expected to be identified for extra support over the five years of the program. About half of lifetime mental health problems have their roots in childhood but early detection can prevent problems becoming worse and reduce the chances of poor mental health as adults, according to child development experts.
However, it is still a controversial area for some in the field, with many questioning whether infants or very young children can be accurately diagnosed with a mental disorder. New study says friends the key to childrens' happiness. The Queensland University of Technology has found that between the ages of nine and 14, a good friend is the key to a child's happiness. Source: Supplied FRIENDS are the key to kids' happiness, trumping families and toys as a source of joy, new research reveals. Girls are more cheerful than boys - but happiness starts to dive from the age of nine, when children become as miserable as the elderly and sick. Unhappiness among tweenagers has become so acute that schools are resorting to classroom psychotherapy to help students look on the bright side.
Students are being taught "gratitude, hope and serenity", in American-inspired programs used by some of the nation's top private schools - including Geelong and Sydneys Knox grammar schools - and spreading within the public system. Behavioural economists Tony Beatton and Paul Frijters, from the Queensland University of Technology, have found that extroverted and conscientious children are the happiest. Against Positive Thinking: Uncertainty as the Secret of Happiness. Information sheet index.