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Warning Signs to Look Out for in Your Child’s Behavior

Currently, when people learn you’re meeting a therapist, it doesn’t have that negative ring to it that it used to have earlier, when humanistic therapy was not yet a conventional way. Sand Tray Therapy is a dynamic type of psychotherapy that lets clients express their innermost emotions by means of metaphor and symbol. Given that humanistic therapy is more capable in its vision of human nature’s natural wish to be better, more parents are eased out of the previous way of thinking that only deranged people need therapists. It’s a fact that children these days face many stressors that children before didn’t have to face, especially since more children currently are exposed to stressors that didn’t subsist in the past. When a child’s behavior merit a visit to the therapist would depend on many distinct factors that may comprise of the following:

• Coping mechanisms that severely affect how the child executes everyday, or stunts his or her development significantly. An example of this is when a child begins to wet his or her bed, which can be considered a coping mechanism that is unavoidably disturbing, but becomes a concern for parents when it perseveres even when a child reaches the age when bed wetting is not considered fitting anymore.
• The child’s inability to cope with stressful situations is already affecting the family’s normal everyday functions. When a child is stressed at school, it may be expected for him or her to not want to go to school or throw a tantrum whenever his or her parents try to leave him or her in school; at certain point children do experience such issues with adjusting to school, but when it comes to a situation where the parents’ service has been endangered or comparable situations.
• When a child displays destructive behavior towards his self or towards other people or other people’s things, it’s better to mediate. Children who converse about hurting themselves, who often makes fun about committing suicide or talk about it when they are angry or aggravated, or who resort to bullying smaller children at school may be managing with emotional issues that they cannot verbalize effectively, much less contend with.

It is normally enhanced to seize the development of poor coping mechanisms at a young stage before it turns into something more alarming; dysfunctions that is not addressed ahead of time and successfully may become deep-seated psychological problems that are harder to treat than if they were treated earlier. Most enormously distressing psychological problems began with minimal things, like poor coping mechanisms that were not addressed or worse, were encouraged by the adults in a child’s life.

While it’s important to still express your care and devotion of your child while going through a difficult phase, it’s not a good idea to accommodate harmful coping mechanisms. At this time, parents will be glad to know that there are many improvements in terms of methods of therapy geared regarding helping children. Play therapy is an example of an effective way to help children voice out their feelings in an expression they are more familiar with.

Parental connection is critical to the success of the child’s therapy, no matter what kind of therapy that will be. These adults will possess the most influence in a child’s life and it would be beneficial if parents and guardians can understand what’s going on in the child’s life so that they can better tackle it.

Alyssa Tsoutsouras – Interior Design Student