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Resilience and stress
Stress can be caused by external or internal influences and disrupt well-being. During childhood, school is a major source of stress through homework, tests, grades, and social comparisons. Stress can also result from moving to a new culture or experiencing community violence. There are three types of stress: positive stress from short-term challenges, tolerable stress from more intense but brief challenges, and toxic stress from prolonged, intense challenges over weeks or months. Physical symptoms of stress include changes in appetite, headaches, and sleep issues, while emotional symptoms include anxiety, worries, anger, and inability to control emotions. Children can cope with stress through emotion-focused strategies like managing feelings or problem-focused strategies like addressing the stressful situation directly.
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Resilience and stress
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- 2. STRESS Stress isan external or internal influences that disrupt an individual’s normal state of well being.
- 3. During Late childhood,school increasingly becomes a source of stress. Stressors– in the form of homework, tests, grades and comparison with others. stress related to peer relationships. Stress also may be produced when people move to different culture. Acculturative – a type of stress associated with marking a transition from one culture to another. Community violence is a major source of stress for many children.
- 4. Positive Stress:results from adverse experiences that are short-lived. Tolerable Stress: refers to adverse experiences that are more intense but still relatively short-lived. Toxic Stress: results from intense adverse experiences that may sustained over a long period of time—weeks, months or even years.
- 5. PHYSICAL SYMPTOMS • Decreasedappetite, other changes in eating habits. • Headache • Bedwetting • Nightmares • Sleep disturbances • stuttering EMOTIONAL or BEHAVIORAL SYMPTOMS • Anxiety • Worries • Inability to relax • Fears • Clinging, unwilling to let you go • Anger • Crying • Inability to control emotions • Aggressive behaviors • Stubborn
- 6. COPING SKILLS Emotion-focused copingstrategies - Efforts to manage or reduce the emotional distress that is aroused in stressful situation. Problem-focused coping strategies - Efforts to manage or modify the source of the stressful situations, such as finding a solution to the problem.
- 7. When a childgets upset because his bicycle is broken ..
- 8. Helping children copewith disaster. Whatever the child’s age or relationship to damage caused by the disaster, its important that you’ll be open about the consequences for your family and that you encourage the child to talk about it. Children may complain of stomachaches or headaches and he is reluctant to go to school. It is important to remember that these children are not “being bad” School-age children may ask many questions about the disaster. Be careful about providing false assurances. Remind children that disasters are very rare. Do not be afraid to say “I don’t know”, to some of the questions children will have.
- 9. RESILIENCE Stress –Resistant Children The capacity to bounce back or recover from a stressful situations. Resilience reflects healthy functioning despite exposure to stressful events.
- 10. Resilient children: Exhibitabove-average intelligence. Posses attractive qualities that elicit positive responses in others. Have a positive place in the family.