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- 1. Children’s Well Being Issues Amber, Brea,Lily, Kassie, Kiana
- 2. Inquiry Question... How areemotional and mental illnesses affecting children’s developmental growth?
- 3. Activity- You represent the6 year old kindergarten students who are suffering from one or more of the following emotional and mental illnesses: ● Dyslexia ● Anxiety ● Depression ● Language Delay ● Social Anxiety ● Self-conscious ● Shame
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- 5. Most Common illnessesand Statistics... General Anxiety - Everybody worries from time- to-time. It is considered a normal part of life, but when worry starts to interfere with life, a person might have generalized anxiety disorder. The disorder is characterized by chronic anxiety and worry. 18% of the US population is diagnosed with Anxiety Disorders. Bipolar disorder - Bipolar disorder can affect how a person feels, thinks and acts. It involves dramatic shifts in mood – from the highs of mania to the lows of major depression. More than a fleeting good or bad mood, the cycle of bipolar disorder lasts for days, weeks or months and is disruptive to work/social relationships. Bipolar disorder can rarely be overcome without medical treatment. 2.6% of the US population have been diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder ADHD - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hl7Ro1PUJmE 11% of the children in the US are diagnosed with ADHD Dyslexia - A common condition that affects the way the brain processes written and spoken language. It is primarily associated with trouble reading but it can also affect writing, spelling and even speaking. People with dyslexia can still understand complex ideas. They just need more time to work through the information. They may also need a different way to process the information, such as listening to an audiobook instead of reading it. 10%-15% of the US population are diagnosed with Dyslexia Depression - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOK1tKFFIQI 6.7% of the US population is affected by Depression
- 6. Differences... - A mentalor emotional illness can be defined as a health condition that changes a person's thinking, feelings, or behavior (or all three) and that causes the person distress and difficulty in functioning. - Behavioral disorders, also known as disruptive behavioral disorders, are the most common reasons that parents are told to take their kids for mental health assessments and treatment. - A personality disorder is a deeply ingrained and maladaptive pattern of behavior of a specified kind, typically manifested by the time one reaches adolescence and causing long-term difficulties in personal relationships or in functioning in society.
- 7. Least Common Illnesses... DissociativeIdentity Disorder Dissociative identity disorder, previously called multiple personality disorder, is usually a reaction to trauma as a way to help a person avoid bad memories. It is characterized by the presence of two or more distinct personality identities. Each may have a unique name, personal history, and characteristic. There are less than 100,000 cases per year. Avoidant Personality Disorder Someone who has avoidant personality disorder avoids intimate and social contact with others. People with this condition may be extremely shy, fear ridicule, and be overly concerned with looking foolish.There are less than 200,000 cases per year. Schizophrenia The exact cause of schizophrenia isn't known, but genetics, environment, and imbalanced brain chemicals may play a role.Schizophrenia is characterized by abnormal social behavior. In severe cases, patients may see or hear things that aren't real. It is uncommon with only slightly more than 200,000 cases per year
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- 9. Symptoms and indicatorsfor General and Social Anxiety. Symptoms: Children will be quiet, shy, cautious and withdrawn. Children also may have tension, stress, irritability, edginess, muscle tension, fatigue, and difficulty swallowing. Indicators: Children are refusing to go to school, throwing tantrums, clinging to parent and need for frequent urination, stomach aches and sleep difficulty.
- 10. Symptoms and indicatorsfor Bipolar Disorder. Symptoms: Excessive happiness, excitement, irritability, restlessness, increased energy, anxiety, sadness, loss of energy, increased need for sleep, change in appetite, less need for sleep and racing thoughts. Young children in the manic phase might experience hearing and seeing things that aren’t real. Indicators: drymatic or unpredictable mood swings.
- 11. Symptoms and indicatorsfor ADHD. Symptoms: Inattention, hyperactivity and impulsivity. Indicators: Children may have a hard time paying attention, are always on the go and have to continue moving and do things impulsively without thinking. Children may become easily frustrated because it takes longer to understand things.
- 12. Symptoms and indicatorsfor Dyslexia. Symptoms: A late talker, impaired ability to learn basics such as alphabet, colors and numbers, trouble making a connection between letters and their sounds, difficulty learning foreign language, trouble following a sequence of directions and telling left from right, problems handwriting and other fine motor skills. Indicators: Pronunciation problems, difficult rhyming words, trouble reading, writing and spelling words
- 13. Symptoms and indicatorsfor Depression. Symptoms: Irritability or anger, continuous feelings of sadness and hopelessness, social withdrawal, increased sensitivity to rejection, changes in appetite, changes in sleep, outbursts of crying, difficulty concentrating, fatigue and low energy, physical complaints, reduced ability to function during events, feelings of worthlessness or guilt, impaired thinking of concentration and thoughts of death or suicide (unusual for children under the age of 12) . Indicators: Loss of interest in activities, looks as though they have poor academic performance or change in appearance.
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- 15. Physical, Social/Emotional, Cognitive... Physical- “Poorphysical health can lead to an increased risk of developing mental health problems. Similarly, poor mental health can negatively impact physical health” (Mental Health Foundation). ● 67% increased risk of death from heart disease ● 50% increased risk of death from cancer ● three times the risk of death from respiratory disease ● Decreased desire or inability to be active-reducing the amount of endorphins released to the brain ● Poor Diet = Poor health Mental Illnesses can go undiagnosed in children, thus denying them the services they require to maintain their physical well-being. Living with an emotional or mental illness can be extremely expensive as a child’s family is likely to incur costs from doctor check-ups, prescribed medications, therapy interventions, counseling services, nutritional demands, and many other related expenses that can hinder a parent’s capability and/or decision to provide the necessary resources to keep their child healthy.
- 16. -Social/Emotional ● lack ofmotivation ● substance abuse ● harmful and/or suicidal thoughts ● violence ● risky behavior ● manic and depressive phases ● lethargy and fatigue ● paranoia ● lack of interest in socializing
- 17. -Cognitive Stage Characterised By Sensori-motor (Birth-2yrs) ● Differentiates self from objects ● Recognises self as agent of action and begins to act intentionally: e.g. pulls a string to set mobile in motion or shakes a rattle to make a noise ● Achieves object permanence: realises that things continue to exist even when no longer present to the sense Pre-operational (2-7 years) ● Learns to use language and to represent objects by images and words ● Classifies objects by a single feature: e.g. groups together all the red blocks regardless of shape or all the square blocks regardless of colour Concrete operational (7-11 years) ● Can think logically about objects and events ● Achieves conservation of number, mass, and weight ● Classifies objects according to several features and can order them in series along a single dimension such as size. Formal operational (11 years and up) ● Can think logically about abstract propositions and test hypotheses systematically ● Becomes concerned with the hypothetical, the future, and ideological problems Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Development
- 18. Effects on LanguageSkills Language delays can be one of the first indicators of mental or emotional illness in children. Language affects nearly every domain of childhood development and is crucial to children’s social development. It is estimated that as many as 5% of school-aged children have a language disorder. Language Disorders -Receptive Language Issues -Expressive Language Issues -Mixed Receptive-Expressive Language Issues Examples: -Limited vocabulary, leaves out key words, seems frustrated with with inability to communicate thoughts, speaks minimally
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- 20. Effects on AdaptiveSkills Adaptability is the ability a child has to adjust to changes in their environment. Children with mental and emotional health issues often have difficulty acclimating to different situations. When left untreated, these behaviours are likely to be repeated as the child ages.
- 21. Class Challenge http://geon.github.io/programming/2016/03/03/dsxyliea Please attemptto read this webpage.
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- 23. Meds or NoMeds?
- 24. Solutions... Choosing the rightmix of treatments and supports that work for you is an important step in the recovery process. Treatment choices for mental health conditions will vary from person to person. Even people with the same diagnosis will have different experiences, needs, goals and objectives for treatment. There is no “one size fits all” treatment.
- 25. Types of Treatment... Psychiatrists-Psychiatrists are licensed medical doctors with medical and psychiatric training. They can diagnose mental health conditions and prescribe and monitor medications. They can prescribe medications. Psychiatrists are also able to offer counseling and provide therapy. Some have special training in child and adolescent mental health or substance use disorders or geriatric psychiatry. Clinical Psychologist- Clinical psychologists with a doctoral degree in psychology are trained to make diagnoses and provide individual and group therapy. Some may have training in specific forms of therapy like cognitive behavioral therapy or dialectical behavior therapy, along with other behavioral therapy interventions.
- 26. Types of Treatment SchoolPsychologists- School psychologists with advanced degrees in psychology are trained to make diagnoses, provide individual and group therapy and work with parents, teachers and school staff to ensure a healthy school environment. They may also participate in the development of individualized education plans (IEP) to help improve the school experience of the student with a mental health condition.
- 27. Types of Treatment Typesof counselors Clinical Social Workers- Trained to make diagnoses and provide individual and group counseling. Counselors- Trained to diagnose and provide individual and group counseling but may focus on different areas. Peer Specialists- A specialist that has experience with living with a mental health condition and can assist in recovery.
- 28. General Coping Techniques 1.Give words to feelings- Strong emotions can be scary to children. Ask the question how are you feeling right now or what do you think caused it 2. Find your child’s triggers- figure out what caused them to have a reaction 3. Encourage healthy ways of coping- encourage things like riding a bike or swing or reading 1. Brainstorm specific coping strategies- Give them an out so they can calm down, such as when I am mad at another student i can play on the swings to recess. 2. Be present and understanding- focus on the child, model active listening and ask relating questions. 3. Seek help when needed- hire a tutor if a child struggles, or schedule an appointment with a counselor.
- 29. Coping TechniquesDyslexia: Slowdown when reading, read with a partner Depression: Confide in someone such as a teacher or counselor to talk about your feelings. Language Delay: use active listening, allowing more time to complete activities, have a quiet place to go Anxiety: Take a mental time out, and take long deep breaths in and out, count to 10 and do your best Social Anxiety: exercise, maintain routines- snack, lunch or classtimes. Eating Disorder- confide in someone, play with a pet or friends, use people to comfort you when you start feeling bad ADHD- develop a homework plan that suits child’s needs. remove distractions when trying to get something accomplished Self-Consciousness- recognize strengths and weaknesses, talk about and understand feelings Bipolar disorder- build a support system, develop a routine and schedule, keep a daily journal
- 30. Closing Activity- You representthe 6 year old kindergarten students who are suffering from one or more emotional and mental illnesses, but you now have solutions to help aid you.
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- 32. References... ● https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/a-to-z/p/physical-health-and-mental-health ● http://www.learningandteaching.info/learning/piaget.htm ●http://centerforparentingeducation.org/library-of-articles/child-development/understanding-temperament- adaptability/ ● https://www.understood.org/en/learning-attention-issues/child-learning-disabilities/communication- disorders/understanding-language-disorders ● http://www.kidsmentalhealth.org/childrens-behavioral-and-emotional-disorders/ ● http://web.a.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail/detail?vid=3&sid=0ecdaa21-e9c7-4f16-be19- 126d716e7ff8%40sessionmgr4003&hid=4207&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZSZzY29wZT1zaXRl#AN=11247 1330&db=a9h ● http://teenmentalhealth.org/learn/mental-disorders/
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Editor's Notes
- #4 You wake up and mom is passed out on the couch and has not made you breakfast and made you late to school. You leave the house and you have to wear the same clothes you wore yesterday because your mom didn’t have time to do the laundry causing you to be self-conscious about yourself. You have to read out loud to the class today and you have dyslexia. You are not confident in your reading abilities which causes anxiety. You think that you’re stupid because you don’t understand things like other kids do and that in turn causes you to have depression. Your teacher accuses you of not practicing or trying hard enough in the class, you’ve tried to tell her that you have been practicing all week but you cannot get the words to be right. Recess comes and you get to relax but you have no friends and have trouble talking to the students on the playground because you have social anxiety. You come back inside and go to lunch, you become distracted by something happening in the hall because you have ADHD and end up spilling your lunch. The nice lunch lady gives you another one so you can eat for the day, she even gives you a cookie. You sit down for lunch and one of kids next to you comments that if you eat the cookie that it would go straight to your butt and you will get fat, so you throw it away and what that child doesn’t know is that you suffer from an eating disorder. It’s finally the end of the day and you get to go home. You get home and all of a sudden you are so tired and your mood changes from depressed to very angry. You become enraged and start throwing things around the house and yelling. You feel like this because you have an untreated bipolar disorder diagnosis. Now try and write the answer the the problem on the board
- #10 Children with anxiety may be very compliant and eager to please adults or they may act out with tantrums, crying, avoidance and disobedience. Kids with generalized anxiety experience excessive, unrealistic worry and fear about every day things. They often anticipate disaster. The tension and stress is chronic and debilitating, affecting multiple areas of the child’s life. Just getting through the day can be a struggle. Though the child may recognize that his anxiety is exaggerated, he still has great difficulty controlling and managing it. There may also be restlessness; difficulty concentrating (even times when the child’s “mind goes blank”); irritability; edginess; muscle tension; fatigue; difficulty swallowing; a need for frequent urination; stomach aches; and sleep difficulties associated with the anxiety. Children with separation anxiety may experience fear when being away from their parents, caretakers or homes.
- #11 Many of the symptoms are too similar to ADHD and normal childhood behavior. Medications used to treat ADHD are a stimulant which can trigger mania in children with Bipolar disorder. During a depressive episode, they might be more likely to complain of physical symptoms, like aches and pains. One of the most notable differences is that bipolar disorder in children cycles much more quickly. While manic and depressive periods may be separated by weeks, months, or years in adults, they can happen within a single day in children.
- #12 Some children may have just one symptom. The symptoms should have been present for at least six months and before the child is 12 years old. If a child has a problem in just one area at school then you should look elsewhere for each. ADHD is more common in boys than it is in girls. When trying to focus, if the child isn’t originally interested or engaged it may take a while for the child to understand concepts because they have trouble getting focused.
- #13 Children with dyslexia have problems processing the information they see when looking at a word. Often a dyslexic child will have trouble connecting the sound made by a specific letter or deciphering the sounds of all the letters together that form a word. Given these challenges, children with dyslexia often also have trouble with basic skills like writing, spelling, speaking, and math.
- #14 Symptoms can vary child to child. It is often undiagnosed and untreated because they are passed off as normal emotional and psychological changes that occur during growth. Masked depression is a study where the child’s depressed mood causes them to act out or become angry. Most children display sadness or low mood similar to adults who are depressed. Not all children will have all of these symptoms.
- #19 -Language Disorders can be acquired at birth or developed over time. -Language Disorders are an impairment that makes it hard for an individual to find the right words and form clear sentences when speaking. -They can also make it difficult for an individual to understand what another person is trying to express. -If you were to be looking to signs of language disorders in children some signs of their prevalence include children speaking in short sentences, limited vocabulary skills, and challenges in mastering and applying the rules of language. -It is important to note that language disorders are completely different from any kind of hearing issue. -When a child has trouble with communicating it often leads to other emotional and mental issues, including anxiety and depression. Examples of Language Disorders -Receptive Language Issues involve difficulty understanding what others are saying. -Expressive Language Issues involve difficulty expressing thoughts and ideas. -Mixed Receptive Language Disorder involves difficulty understanding and using spoken language.
- #20 The girl in this video has been diagnosed with Mixed Receptive Language Disorder. She is going to reiterate a story she read. What did you notice? She has difficulty putting thoughts in sequence. She provides a lack of detail about the story and uses pauses and fillers often such as “um”. She seems to understand the story but has a difficult time verbalizing it. To someone not familiar with the disorder, it could be assumed that she maybe didn’t read the story.
- #21 -Some children are naturally more flexible with changes and schedules than other children, but emotional and mental issues can make schedules changes very hard for children to accept. -Adaptability is largely affected by the temperaments of individual children which are directly affected by children’s emotional and mental well being. -Gauging adaptability in children is largely about observing their behaviors, specifically their actions and behaviours when they are required to leave behind a new task and move on to another. -Some signs of struggling with adaptability include crying when asked to wrap up an activity, stress when moving onto a new task, and trouble making decisions. -While some of these signs are typical for children of a certain age, it is important to be aware if these behaviours seem to not be subsiding or are of extreme levels.
- #24 How many of you have taken Sped 363? Raise your hand, well as you know you talk about this and there are people who are for it or against it. Who here out of everyone is for children being on medication? Who’s opposed? My personal opinion changed after I started working in the field of special education. I was against it in my sped class and now I am all for them.
- #25 There is no one size fits all treatment. This is so vitally important to the understanding of mental illness. Just because one child is diagnosed with dyslexia does not mean that the same treatment will work for another child with dyslexia.
- #30 You wake up and mom is passed out on the couch and has not made you breakfast and made you late to school. You leave the house and you have to wear the same clothes you wore yesterday because your mom didn’t have time to do the laundry causing you to be self-conscious about yourself. You recognize the strengths that you have like you are kind to others and you talk to your teacher about how you are feeling. (Remove water bottle) You have to read out loud to the class today and you have dyslexia. You have learned to slow down when you are the reading outload and you become a better reader. (remove water) You are not confident in your reading abilities which causes anxiety. You stop and take a breathe and count to 10 in your head. (remove water) You think that you’re stupid because you don’t understand things like other kids do and that in turn causes you to have depression. You confide in the school counselor about the way you have been feeling and relieve some stress on you. (remove water) Your teacher accuses you of not practicing or trying hard enough in the class, you’ve tried to tell her that you have been practicing all week but you cannot get the words to be right, because you have a language delay. You have learned to use active listening and you talked with your teachers and she is now allowing you more time on assignments. (remove water) Recess comes and you get to relax but you have no friends and have trouble talking to the students on the playground because you have social anxiety. You start running around outside and some other children start running with you and invite you in a game of tag. (remove water) You come back inside and go to lunch, you become distracted by something happening in the hall because you have ADHD and end up spilling your lunch. The nice lunch lady gives you another one so you can eat for the day, she even gives you a cookie. You sit down for lunch and one of kids next to you comments that if you eat the cookie that it would go straight to your butt and you will get fat, so you throw it away and what that child doesn’t know is that you suffer from an eating disorder. You play with the friends you mad eat recess and start to feel better about yourself (remove water) It’s finally the end of the day and you get to go home. You get home and all of a sudden you are so tired and your mood changes from depressed to very angry. You become enraged and start throwing things around the house and yelling. You feel like this because you have an untreated bipolar disorder diagnosis. You built a support system and started keeping a daily journal on how you were feeling when those feelings changed and that has helped with your mood swings. (remove water) Now try and write the answer the problem on the board