Positive mental health in children & adolescent
Positive mental health in children & adolescent
Positive mental health is a state of wellbeing in which we realize our abilities, can cope with life’s normal stresses & uncertainties and can work regularly & productively. It’s the foundation for person’s effective functioning, learning, emotional expression, forming good relationship with others, and not merely the absence of diagnosable psychiatric disorders.
Child & adolescents are future of our society. But they are also considered weaker both physically & cognitively. So we have a tendency to decide on behalf of them. In this context we need to review our ideological position.
Historically laws across the world do not allow children equal position in decision making as per adults. Hence the justification of child rights movement arises, which claims child as a separate individual, not a sub-person, and have equal rights in every aspect along with education, nurturance, care & protection etc. These benefits not dependent on others sympathy or good will, those are their rights.
Consequently, children should have right to make choices & informed decisions. Not merely the ‘sense of ownership’, child must also have the ‘sense of agency’ of any action or decision, which is the mastery of initiating, controlling & executing one’s own decision or action.
Hence it’s our responsibility to provide the holding environment & nurturance that empower our young ones with the reflectivity, thinking & morality to reach that efficiency.
It also develops positive self-concept or identity, which is collection of beliefs about oneself or self-esteem that is evaluative and opinionated view of these beliefs. Parenting practices can affect these parameters handsomely.
Among the four classical parenting styles, authoritative, characterized by both high parental emotional responsiveness & behavioural expectations considered to be most effective in producing happy & successful kids. Authoritarian style differs in having low
Positive mental health is a state of wellbeing in which we realize our abilities, can cope with life’s normal stresses & uncertainties and can work regularly & productively. It’s the foundation for person’s effective functioning, learning, emotional expression, forming good relationship with others, and not merely the absence of diagnosable psychiatric disorders.
Child & adolescents are future of our society. But they are also considered weaker both physically & cognitively. So we have a tendency to decide on behalf of them. In this context we need to review our ideological position.
Historically laws across the world do not allow children equal position in decision making as per adults. Hence the justification of child rights movement arises, which claims child as a separate individual, not a sub-person, and have equal rights in every aspect along with education, nurturance, care & protection etc. These benefits not dependent on others sympathy or good will, those are their rights.
Consequently, children should have right to make choices & informed decisions. Not merely the ‘sense of ownership’, child must also have the ‘sense of agency’ of any action or decision, which is the mastery of initiating, controlling & executing one’s own decision or action.
Hence it’s our responsibility to provide the holding environment & nurturance that empower our young ones with the reflectivity, thinking & morality to reach that efficiency.
It also develops positive self-concept or identity, which is collection of beliefs about oneself or self-esteem that is evaluative and opinionated view of these beliefs. Parenting practices can affect these parameters handsomely.
Among the four classical parenting styles, authoritative, characterized by both high parental emotional responsiveness & behavioural expectations considered to be most effective in producing happy & successful kids. Authoritarian style differs in having low