Recent brain research has established a foundation for many of the physical, cognitive, social, and
emotional difficulties exhibited by children who experienced maltreatment in their early years.
Not exact matches
«Does your child or teen lack motivation to achieve, have unresolved
emotional issues, deal with bullying and are unable to speak up, have
difficulty expressing their feelings in an appropriate way,
exhibit high - risk behaviors including sexual promiscuity, drug use or other self - harm, or simply need guidance through parental separation, divorce, loss or any demanding life situation?
Research has shown that children of divorce often experience
difficulties in school, and
exhibit more health, behavioral, and
emotional problems than children from intact homes.
There is a strong correlation between a child's total
difficulties scores at pre-school and primary school suggesting that the particular social,
emotional and behavioural characteristics which children
exhibit at pre-school remain, for the most part, at the point they start primary school.
Children who have disorganized attachment with their primary attachment figure have been shown to be vulnerable to stress, have problems with regulation and control of negative emotions, and display oppositional, hostile - aggressive behaviours, and coercive styles of interaction.2, 3 They may
exhibit low self - esteem, internalizing and externalizing problems in the early school years, poor peer interactions, unusual or bizarre behaviour in the classroom, high teacher ratings of dissociative behaviour and internalizing symptoms in middle childhood, high levels of teacher - rated social and behavioural
difficulties in class, low mathematics attainment, and impaired formal operational skills.3 They may show high levels of overall psychopathology at 17 years.3 Disorganized attachment with a primary attachment figure is over-represented in groups of children with clinical problems and those who are victims of maltreatment.1, 2,3 A majority of children with early disorganized attachment with their primary attachment figure during infancy go on to develop significant social and
emotional maladjustment and psychopathology.3, 4 Thus, an attachment - based intervention should focus on preventing and / or reducing disorganized attachment.
However, the association between measures of
emotional and behavioral problems in childhood and later psychopathology, while statistically significant, shows variation over time with evidence for a considerable portion of children
exhibiting emotional or behavioral
difficulties in early life, but without evidence of psychopathology at later ages [8, 9].