Mastering children's stress it is a full-fledged path and can be turned into an interesting adventure. But first you need to take care of yourself. After all, you remember, as they say on airplanes: help yourself first, and only then to the child. And not for nothing, because children pick up our mood and our states.
For that, for you to understand, how stress works and what are the methods of combating it, specialists of the psychosocial support program "Safe Space", NGO "Words help" and the Center for Mental Health of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy developed a series of short, bright animated videos with practical advice within the information campaign "Words help".
The first video tells parents, caregivers and teachers about effective ways to help children cope with stress. What questions should a child be asked every day? What to talk about? The roller will also offer practical exercises, How to arrange a fight with pillows together, find out, Whose cry is louder, just remember the spiritual hugs.
The topic second animation became physiology of stress in children and its impact on learning. Here specialists will tell and show, What hormones where are created, and what is affected. Stress can even promote age -related regression in children, which is poured into sucking fingers and urinary incontinence. Therefore, teachers and parents should first and foremost take care of the mental health of students, And then about their success in learning.
To be able to help the child qualitatively, must first get caught about yourself. Ago The third video The team of the project filled with practical recommendations and exercises to combat stress for adults.
“Because of the war, the psycho -emotional state of children and adolescents in Ukraine has deteriorated. Increased the number of applications for psychological support and providing psychological assistance. This is said. Teachers and parents are faced daily with manifestations of stress in children. Therefore, they are asked how to support the child and keep their own resources.
In two years of a full -scale war, the Safe Space Psychosocial Support Program has already joined over 2000 schools from all over Ukraine, close 8000 teachers and more 400 school psychologists. The program provides teachers with practical skills and knowledge how to take care of the emotional state of students and their own resources, and how to recognize signs of stress and injury in children. Within the program school psychologists conduct classes for students with symptoms of psychosocial stress, depression and anxiety. To do this, they are trained in group corrective work with children », - says Sergei Bogdanov, Head of the Mental Health Center of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and co-author of the Safe Space Program.
"Safe Space" program developed by psychologists of the Center for Mental Health of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and is successfully implemented with 2015 year. It is built as scientifically sound recommendations, recognized internationally, and on the practical experience of the authors' work with preschoolers, schoolchildren, their parents and teachers, who were in the zone of military conflict.
More about the "Safe Space" program here:
https://kmarehab.com/bezpechnyi-prostir/
The "Words Help" Information Campaign is held within the project "Safe Space: comprehensive psychosocial support of Ukrainian schools in the conditions of war", which is implemented by NGO "Words help" and experts The center of mental health of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy with support Plan International. The project is financed by the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation and Development (AECID). Videos reflect the position of the authors of the program "Safe Space" and do not necessarily reflect the position of Plan International.
