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Family Challenges

Family Challenges. How do you think children at different ages deal with stress?. Regression – temporary backward movement to earlier states of development. Ex. Toilet – trained child begins to have accidents. Situational stress

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Family Challenges

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  1. Family Challenges

  2. How do you think children at different ages deal with stress?

  3. Regression – temporary backward movement to earlier states of development. Ex. Toilet – trained child begins to have accidents. • Situational stress • Stress that comes from the environment a child lives in or from certain circumstances and changes. Some of these stresses include: Moving Divorce Financial problems Substance abuse

  4. Illness Death of a loved one • Death of a parent Suicide • Death of a loved one • Children under three – may react to a death in a same way they react to a parent’s week long vacation • Children ages 3 – 5 – think that death is like sleep • Children ages 6 – 9 – fear of being abandon. May believe that angry words or thoughts caused the death. • Preteens – maybe angry with the person who died. May still feel that a bad deed caused the death.

  5. Teens – assume too much responsibility. They understand the finality of death. How could you help children deal with these stresses?

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