Anxiety of psychologists is treated as emotional discomfort, which persists for a long time. The main causes of anxiety in children are manifested in the rejection of everything new. For example, a schoolboy after several days of illness does not want to go to school. Many anxious children are prone to manic order, capricious, quickly tired, with difficulty switch to a new type of occupation. The first unsuccessful attempt to do something leads them into confusion, and in all the troubles around the child blames himself. Such children seem to get infected from others by anxiety and nervousness.
How to help your child overcome anxiety?
To know how to help an anxious child, first you need to find out the type and causes of anxiety. This condition can be a consequence of a particular situation or the quality of a person. In addition, anxious children are divided into types: neurotics, disinhibited, shy, withdrawn. All the recommendations to the parents of anxious children begin with the fact that they understand and accept the anxiety of the child. He must feel the support, attention, care of mom and dad. The most effective will be the withdrawal of anxiety in children on a personal example - show how to behave in a frightening kid situation. But do it not instead of, but with the child! Activities in the form of games are most acceptable. It's great if the child knows in advance what action will follow.
Optimism is the key to success
The most effective way to get rid of anxiety is optimism. It is this vital position that a child should feel in the family circle. Kisses, mother's embraces, father's handshakes - that's what will make a child self-confident. And never compare it with other children. As a comparison, you can only use the child's previous achievements.
Help of specialists
If anxiety has deeper roots and to cope with this the condition of the child alone fails, the help of specialists is necessary. Children with anxious psychological and mental disorders are advised to undergo treatment with a certain type of therapy in combination with antidepressant drugs. It is impossible to turn a blind eye to anxiety, because in the future the child will have difficulties with building relationships, his social individual functionality will decrease.
In some cases, the withdrawal of anxiety in children is carried out according to one of four schemes that have proved effective:
- the use of sertraline - an antidepressant (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor);
- behavioral cognitive therapy, based on the decision of children structured tasks;
- taking placebo (sugar tablets);
- behavioral cognitive therapy in conjunction with sertraline.
Each of the above treatment regimens for anxiety in children is usually used for three to four months. The highest rates of cure are observed when using a combined scheme (more than 80% of cases).
An unconventional method of correcting anxiety in children is hypnotherapy. With her help you can improve the emotional state, reduce anxiety, save the child from deep feelings. The doctor at a subconscious level determines the causes of acute or latent anxiety, and eliminating the causes is the direct way to solve the problem. It is believed that the hypnotic trance itself, into which the child is injected, is a therapy, because it helps to relax, restore the body. In addition, in the hypnotic state, the reserve resources hidden in the child are awakened.
Whatever it was, but to relieve the child of anxiety is necessary, because neglected disease can not only negatively affect the state of the body, but in severe cases lead to attempts at suicide.