Emotional and behavioral disorders that may occur in children

"Is my child experiencing emotional and behavioral disorders?" This question is sometimes asked by you parents who have a dilemma seeing the behavior of your baby, who should look gentle and sweet but instead act the opposite. All children will naturally go through periods of delinquency, but what if the delinquency falls outside of normal limits? Like being angry with explosive emotions? Yelling at older people (especially your own parents)? Or like throwing things, like toys at home and at school?

It's a good idea to consider the explanation of behavioral emotional disorders in what might happen to your child as below.

What are emotional and behavioral disorders?

Children who experience emotional and behavioral disorders are also referred to as children with disabilities. When experiencing this disorder, children experience an unstable emotional state. When interacting and in a social environment, his behavior will be very disturbing in public.

There are 5 characteristics that describe children who experience behavioral disorders, including:

1. Unable to learn which is not caused by health factors such as sensory or other physical defects. This child is basically physically fine, what's hindering it is the psychological state
2. Cannot build relationships or friendships with peers, even parents and teachers at school. Because of their unstable, emotional, and changeable behavior, children become individualistic because their environment cannot accept the child's condition.
3. Feelings like not normal, change is not clear without a real and definite cause.
4. Mood easily distracted or distracted, sometimes angry, depressed, disappointed. The point is emotionally unstable.
5. Tend to be afraid of being alone due to personal problems and at school, it will cause emotions and behaviors such as crying and tantrums. If asked the reason, will mention personal problems and things at school.

What should I do if my child has the above characteristics and signs of emotional and behavioral disorders?

Before you take a thousand steps forward regarding your baby's doubtful condition, it's a good idea to first evaluate your baby's situation and environment.

• It's good, you talk and ask friends, relatives or your child's teacher at school. Do they see the same behavior in your child?
• During times of difficult development in your child, you have to find ways to support the child through difficult times that should be handled well at a normal stage.
• Pay attention, and find out if your child's age is still quite normal to have behavior and emotional instability? Observe with children his age. At a normal stage, children aged 8 years and over should be quite emotionally and behaviorally unstable.

Also consider some factors that may escape your attention and awareness of parents

It doesn't mean that your child's mental and behavioral conditions are present and just appear without cause. Check, can other factors occur because of you, the environment or others? Like the example below:

• His physical condition was indeed problematic, such as an allergy which had an impact on his emotional stability. The drugs that are consumed by children, in fact, can also affect behavior.
• Problems at school sometimes carry over to the house. When children find it difficult to do assignments or understand lessons, this also needs to be considered, because it has an impact on causing additional stress on children.
• Using drugs or alcohol. Make no mistake, any age can be tainted by this social deviation. Pay attention and monitor the environment.
• Your family is in trouble. This factor is also a common factor experienced by children who experience emotional and behavioral disorders. For example, divorce or parental separation, jealousy of having a new sister, feeling unfair that their parents give love, and trauma to the loss of a significant other, or death.

If you really believe and realize your child is experiencing emotional and behavioral disorders, maybe it's time you consult a specialist or therapy that can be a solution to "cure" the baby. The treatment you can take will depend on the condition and factors of the child's disorder. Such as cognitive behavioral therapy, with the aim of helping children control their thoughts and behavior.

Then there is also the education that parents need to undergo, if this factor is caused by poor communication between parents and children. And finally with the help of drugs, if indeed your child is experiencing impulsive behavior caused by mistakes in your child's body.

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