Better Way to Tackle Child Depression
‘Child Depression’ has been identified as one of the most significant social and family problems that has been going upwards in recent years. Though this problem is crashing the lives of many children gradually, people can hardly realize its existence. Seriousness of this problem can be received from a paper by Irina V. Sokolova from “Depression in children: what causes it and how we can help” (www.personalityresearch.org/papers/sokolova.html). According to Sokolova, one in five children has an apparent mental, emotional or behavioral disorder. Also one in 10 may suffer from a serious emotional disturbance. One in every 33 children and one in eight adolescents may have depression. Not surprisingly, suicide is the third leading cause of death for 15 to 24 years olds and the sixth leading cause of death for 5 to 14 year olds. The number of attempted suicides is even higher. Sadly, seventy percent of children do not get proper mental health treatment. So let us discuss the causes and ways to deal with it.
2. The psychology of the children is greatly hampered by parental conflicts like divorce.
3. Also, delinquency might become a big factor in the mental development of a child. It is often found that some parents neglect their children or favor one child over others. In these cases, the child might totally detach himself or herself.
4. Parents wanting their children to excel in all fields of life may also put undue pressure on them knowingly or unknowingly. These burdens in respect of game, study, music, drawing automatically lead to the break down of a child’s mental capacity and put him or her into deep depression.
5. A child spends as much time at home as in school during formative years. In academic institutions a teacher has to look upon 50 to 80 students in a single class. So it is not at all possible for him or her to pay a careful attention to individual student. It is natural for a child to be unmindful in the class. But the child can not escape the busy homework. This results in the depression. Failures in examinations or in competitions cause to the feeling of shame and guilt. Too much anxiety about the future, too many big books, over much expectation of the parents and teachers may increase the depression of child. Although student counseling regarding mental health should be made in school, it is quite a dream for many schools where basic necessities are rarely accommodated or provided.
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