Plus, a stressful family environment may cause a child to experience learning disabilities and possibly be of a high risk of a stress related illness. At the same time, various other elements within a child’s background may affect behaviour and development, these being; divorce, a new baby, diet, poverty and media to mention a few. Children of one parent families may suffer as the parent may work long hours leaving the child with very little support and possibly no role model to look up to. Divorce also can be very traumatic for a child. Children whose families have joined with another family and therefore have ‘step-family’ may experience unhappiness due to the child being picked on or feeling left out, this would lead to low self-esteem and they would quite possibly result in lack confidence in their own abilities.
It can be a scary experience as children often become confused at the changes to their bodies. It is common for young people to feel self-conscious due to peer pressure and comparing their body changes, to that of their peer group. Children may become argumentative and dismissive as feel they have no control over what is happening to them. Starting a new School is a definitive transition that children make. Whether it’s a nursery, primary or secondary School there will be many feelings of anxiety.
Describe the different transitions children and young people may experience. • Start Nursery: Starting nursery is very daunting for some children. They may not have been left by their parents or carers before and some children will show real distress. Children show distress at being separated from their carer by crying and refusing to join in with activities. • Change of school: Changing school is more likely to affect children’s feelings and emotional development.
This can cause feelings of jealousy as they fight for the attention of their parents. It may even make the child have bad behaviour as they feel it is the only way for their parents to notice them. The child may also feel pushed out as other family members who are visiting focus all their attention on to the new baby too. 3) Moving home/school – Changing schools and homes can affect children and young people in different ways. Children who are outgoing and have confidence will find the transition easier as they may make friends and settle in at a faster pace.
If a child isn’t supported through emotional transitions such as a new baby this could lead them to become jealous of the child and may be the cause of unwanted negative behavior, this could be because it hadn’t been explained that they were going to get a new brother/sister. This would lead the child to be confused why hasn’t mom got as much time for me any more? Why am I being told to be quiet more? The child could display more negative behaviour as an attention seeking ploy or even revert back to some of their more babyish behaviour in the bid to get more attention it could also lead to them hitting out at or hurting the baby from jealousy but if handled correctly the child may be very proud of their younger sibling and take great pride in helping mommy look after them buy doing small but important jobs to help with the care of the baby. If for instance one parent leaves to go on business for a longer than normal period of time this needs to be explained to the child so that they understand that the
Another example could be a language barrier between the child and their peers making the child feel isolated so all four types of development can affect the child when starting school. 2. Puberty Going through puberty can be very different for girls and boys. Girls experience body changes, periods, feelings, self-conscious, self-image and go through a big hormonal changes and boys experience body changes, facial hair, voice breaking, feelings, self-image and both have to deal with peer pressure .So puberty can affect social and emotional and physical development. 3.
Task B A.) Personal factors Health, a child who has ill health may spend time in hospital and miss schooling, this would affect the child in education on all levels including emotional & social aspects of making friends etc. also conditions like asthma which can be triggered by certain conditions could affect a child’s physical development. Influences before and at birth, a babies development can be affected whilst still in the womb of the mother i.e. if the mother smokes, drinks or abuses drugs the baby could be harmed at this time or even if the maternal anxiety & stress could influence development.
(Freud and daughter in Gross 1992). On the other hand a teenager could cut all parental ties and become more dependent on their friends, as their friends could be going through similar experiences and their parents may describe their behaviour as “just going through a stage”(Offer et al 1981, in Gross). However if an adolescent is going through a family crisis at the time of puberty for example, a divorce between their parents, then the pressure on the teenager will intensify. (Rutter et al 1976 in Gross). This may cause the teenager to become more independent as they may resent their parents, for getting divorced, and leave home.
Transitions Transitions Are Significant Stages Or Changes And Experiences That Can Affect The Behaviour And/Or Development Of A Child Or Young Person. Most children and young people will experience the following example transitions: Toilet training Starting School Separation from parents Puberty Changing to secondary education Learning to travel around independently. Some children and young people will experience some of the following example transitions: Bereavement Moving house Parental separation Illness or injury Going to University Below are some examples of how transitions could affect the behaviour/development of a child. Bereavement If a child or young person loses someone, this can be very traumatic for them
If the child has had to change nurseries numerous times they could feel disorientated, they could become withdrawn and they could even regress. It is important to limit such changes in a child’s life at a young age as they are so easily effected by it. Supporting children correctly within their few days and/or weeks of transition into nursery is of utmost importance. Children may become very stressed and anxious during this time and in these cases tend to cry, be withdrawn and refuse to be involved in play and activities. There are many ways to assist the child to have a smooth