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What Psychological Problems Can They Encounter?

What Psychological Problems Can They Encounter?

Sometimes genetics and sometimes negative life events can trigger the emergence of mental illnesses in children and adolescents.
What Psychological Problems Can They Encounter?

Sometimes genetic inheritance and sometimes negative life events can trigger the emergence of mental illnesses in children and adolescents. The resulting psychological symptoms may be exacerbated by inappropriate parental attitudes and negative life events.

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

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  • conduct disorder
  • tic disorder
  • autistic disorder
  • developmental delay
  • Sleeping disorders
  • Depression
  • bipolar disorder
  • Suicide
  • obsessions
  • substance use
  • Eating disorders
  • Anxiety disorders (timidity, anxiety, inability to separate from mother, school phobia, panic disorder)
  • post-traumatic stress disorder
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Substance use disorders etc. Mental disorders negatively affect the child and young person's adaptation, relationships, academic skills, and the life of the family.
In order to understand whether their children have psychological problems, families should pay attention to whether they have different characteristics from their peers, and if they notice these, they should get help from child psychiatrists to solve these problems.

Do the Mental Problems of Children and Adolescents Affect the Family?

When children and adolescents have problems with their developmental characteristics or psychological reasons, their family, school and social relationships are negatively affected. Coping with these problems becomes difficult for the child and the family. The situations caused by these problems affect parents and other siblings. Families may feel helpless, exhausted, and experience intense conflicts with their children. These developmental and psychological problems can turn into a tangle of family conflict and relationship problems. Informing the family about these problems, providing guidance on appropriate approaches, and solving the psychological problem will also solve the problem of the family's relationship with the child and the child with the family.

When is Child Psychiatry Support Required as Children Grow?

Children show different characteristics in different developmental periods, starting from the time they are born. During these periods, they acquire certain abilities and skills. When parents know the child's characteristics in these periods and act accordingly, the child's spiritual development continues in a healthy way. However, without appropriate support and approaches, problems may arise in spiritual development. These problems:

 
  • fears
  • Stubbornness
  • speech delay
  • Mobility
  • failure to comply with the rules
  • eating problems
  • sleep problems
  • pee-poop incontinence
  • tics
  • It may occur as stuttering.
Child mental health specialists guide parents in solving problems during problematic periods and ensure that the child's development gets back on a healthy path.
 

Children Having Academic Success and School Problems
School-related problems may arise in children starting primary school. These;

Difficulty following rules at school
Not wanting to go to school
Not wanting to separate from mother
Carelessness
inability to learn
exam anxiety
lack of self-confidence
Shyness
There may be problems such as fears.
In the presence of these problems, conflicts may occur between the child, family and school. Mothers and fathers should be aware of these problems and get support from child psychiatrists in understanding the causes and solving the problem.