1) Childhood Depression:
For at least two weeks;
- Stagnation or extreme depression in children mobility
- Reluctance, low energy or meaningless energy
- Inability to enjoy things he used to enjoy
- Not playing games
- Decline in school success, Not wanting to go to school
- Sleep disorders
- It may occur with symptoms such as overeating or not eating;
- Excessive activity, moodiness
- Childhood depression, which can also be observed with irritability and behavioral disorders, can also be heralded with psychosomatic symptoms, as in adults.
Abdominal, back and shoulder pain, nausea, vomiting, joint pain and headache. The underlying cause of various physical complaints such as pain
may be depression.
2) Anxiety disorders
Anxiety protects the person from danger when necessary, sleep or life. Although it is a signal to
stay, it is an emotional state that appears as a symptom of many different mental disorders.
Depending on the way anxiety is felt and whether it is functional or non-functional, anxiety can be defined as
normal or abnormal. We can evaluate it as . Although the place, time, form and content of anxiety
are important, it is of great importance that the child's defense mechanisms and ego strength used against anxiety are evaluated by the therapist.
In cases where defenses are inadequate, anxiety disorders occur. Links related to anxiety continue to exist in the child and
they do not develop and disappear completely as the child grows; these links are triggered again when he/she encounters a stressful situation.
Anxiety problems in children; strong>
- Separating from the mother and not being able to go to school, not being able to stay at school
- Wanting the mother in the classroom
- Assuming that the mother does not exist when she cannot see her, frequently looking out of the classroom window
- Anxiety about something happening to him at school, worry about losing his mother after school, and not being able to find her
- Creating disaster scenarios that could happen on the street
- Difficulties in breathing and eating; Fear of being stuck in the throat
- Extreme fear of the dark
- Not being able to stay home alone (after 9 years of age)
- Special fear of elevators or certain objects
- Can be observed in the form of phobias.
- Social phobia (extreme shyness)
- Panic Disorder and Panic Attack (accompanied by physical symptoms
- Coping with Test Anxiety
- Selective Mutism
Underlying all these symptoms are the problems of not feeling safe and not being able to separate from the parent.
These kids always need a security guard. Mom or dad is the immediate security provider. Skills for coping with the problem are not developed.
Anxiety disorders in children can often be a result of parents' perception of the world as threatening, and it can also be related to the feelings of incompleteness, fear of making mistakes, falling out of favor and guilt that over-sacrificing parents impose on children. .
It is possible for the child to feel unsafe in cases where the mother cannot calm her own emotions and experiences intense emotional fluctuations.
Family dynamics, the child's position in the family, the mental state of the parents; The level of anxiety should be evaluated within existing family relationships.
It should be determined which need the child's anxiety meets.
After analyzing the child and family dynamics, serious improvements can be achieved with structured play therapy sessions with the child and family psychoeducation.
At the same time, Communication should also be established with the child's school and teachers, and he/she should be made to feel safe in his/her basic living spaces.
The healthy defenses and positive self-perception that the child will develop during this period will help overcome dysfunctional anxiety.
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