Jimu news reporter Zheng Jingjing Li Manying
Correspondent Deng Shengqiang Zhou Qishu Chen Zhi
10 October is the 30th World Mental Health Day, with the theme "The Mind of Youth, Youth of Youth", which focuses on the mental health of children and adolescents.
The reporter learned from the interview that in recent years, among children and adolescents, the problem of learning difficulties or learning disabilities has become more and more prominent, such as dozing off when seeing textbooks, how to learn, and suddenly unwilling to go to school when learning is good. Yesterday, some hospital psychologists in Jiangcheng reminded that some children suddenly have learning difficulties, and beware of psychological problems in the police.
Junior high school students suddenly can't learn
Tong Tong (pseudonym), a 14-year-old whose family lives in Hankou, is a junior high school student. Before, her academic performance was not bad, but I don't know why, starting 1 year ago, she began to resist going to school, and she couldn't pay attention to the lectures in class, and her grades plummeted.
After several communications, the child's state did not improve, but became more and more serious, and finally simply refused to go to school, no matter how the parents coaxed it to have no effect. Later, Tong Tong sometimes shouted and lost his temper with his parents. The child's parents can only ask the school for leave to let their daughter stay at home and study on her own. However, instead, children often surf the Internet and play games in the room, their schedules are becoming more and more irregular, they often stay up late at night, do not get up during the day, hide in the room and do not go out, and rarely communicate with their parents.
Her parents felt that Tong Tong seemed to have changed as a person, and they became cautious in talking to her. Once, after his father forcibly unplugged the network cable, Tong Tong suddenly became very grumpy, smashed objects, and even slightly self-harmed. Tong Tong's parents felt that the child was wrong, and heard that the Psychology Department of Wuhan Wuchang Hospital had opened a learning disability clinic, so they took her to the hospital for treatment. Dr. Jiang Zhendong of the psychology department of the hospital learned through detailed inquiries that a year ago, Tong Tong gradually became reluctant to go to school because of conflicts with his classmates at school. After careful analysis, the doctor diagnosed the child with depression accompanied by network dependence. After nearly 3 months of systematic treatment in the emotional stabilization period, cognitive behavioral correction period, and classroom regression period 3, the child meets the discharge conditions. From playing games alone in the room all day at home, to now being able to use the Internet correctly and have confidence in learning, I have now returned to school to study normally.
Dr. Jiang Zhendong introduced that in recent years, in the mental health problems of adolescents, the problem of learning difficulties or learning disabilities has become more and more prominent, according to the American Psychiatric Association survey, 5% to 15% of the population suffers from developmental learning difficulties.
There are often psychological reasons behind learning disabilities
"Behind the learning disability, sometimes accompanied by some psychological problems." Yesterday, Li Wentian, head of the clinical medicine department of the Wuhan Mental Health Center, said that more and more children with learning disabilities are being treated in the clinic. Some children have learning disabilities because of pathological reasons such as ADHD, attention deficit, autism, etc. When they are not found at the beginning, parents will think that children are disobedient or do not study hard, in fact, this is related to some pathological problems of his own. There are also some children who are diagnosed with learning disabilities, but also accompanied by anxiety and depression, which especially need to be paid attention to.
Li Wentian said that learning difficulties are often just a manifestation of behavior, but often some of their initial situations start from emotions, such as depression and anxiety just described, which is very common. For example, the child is very anxious before the exam, but the exam is not good and very depressed, this kind of case, in the outpatient clinic, see more. Some situations are more serious, and there will even be self-harm or even suicide, so the child's emotions cannot be ignored.
He reminded the majority of parents that if they find that their children have some problems in terms of emotions, do not just blindly persuade and hope that the children themselves will adjust, but to listen to what they say, because some children are difficult, they are not willing to take the initiative to communicate, if parents just blindly educate, with some big truths to suppress them, children will often only retreat more and more, refuse to communicate and communicate with adults, and even indulge in the online world, through the virtual world to alleviate some of their emotions.
He also advocates that the majority of parents should not make a big deal of their children's affairs, but should return their children's initiative to their children. Once the child is found to have emotional and behavioral abnormalities, the child should be taken to a regular medical institution in time to avoid delaying the condition. Solving the reasons behind children's learning disabilities requires parents, schools, and medical institutions to work together.
The reporter also learned that such as the Wuhan Mental Health Center and wuhan Wuchang Hospital, there are relevant psychological clinics that can help children overcome learning difficulties. So, is it not that if you come to the learning difficulty clinic, your child's grades will improve immediately? Dr. Jiang Zhendong of the hospital said that the child's rehabilitation is a systematic project, in addition to direct system treatment of the child, it is also necessary to intervene in the entire ecological environment where the child is located, so as to maximize the guarantee that the child's state can continue to improve after returning to school and family.
The learning difficulties clinic is mainly through the screening method, these children with learning disabilities or even children who have already suffered from learning diseases are identified, and then psychological interventions and behavioral interventions are carried out, such as psychotherapy, knowledge and practice function training, biofeedback training, etc. They have also opened a parent class, and professional psychologists and psychotherapists have discovered cases of children with learning difficulties through outpatient clinics to communicate and communicate with parents to promote the change of these children. "This process is certainly not something that can be done by visiting an outpatient clinic or two and attending one or two training sessions, but requires a long-term persistence."
Source: Jingchu Network