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Chronically sick child
Stresfull events Data from literature show that the prevalence of chronic diseases in children is 10-15% in the world and, equally so, in Croatia. Most often it is insulin dependent diabetes, epilepsy, bronchial asthma, locomotor system diseases, cardiac diseases, chronic colon inflammations and leukaemia.
Published: 02.05.2012. | Read more >
Stress in childhood
While caring about all children, it is especially important to take care of those who have experienced more stressful events during their development or who have even had traumatic experience.
Stresfull events Both in adults and in children stress is recognised as emotional reactions (sadness, anxiety, panic, mood changes, anger…), cognitive reactions (self-criticism, impaired concentration, forgetfulness, intrusive thoughts…), physical reactions (palm sweating, heart beating, flushed face, abdominal pain, headache…) and behavioural reactions (crying, stamping, aggression, uncontrollable fits of rage, withdrawal…)
Published: 02.05.2012. | Read more >
How to explain to a child that parent lost a job
The child should, on a daily basis, regardless of the crisis, learn understanding the concepts of saving, helping those who do not have enough and the spending control.
Stresfull events Explaining that you have been dismissed from work or that your salary has been reduced to your child, is a question bothering the majority of those who have been made redundant or whose income has been reduced.
Published: 16.04.2008. | Read more >
The mourning child
In the mourning situation all child's reactions are acceptable.
Stresfull events In the situations when the child encounters the death of a close person, it is important to take care of child's age and the way the child conceives death. In order to help a young child, it is important to know which conception of death the young child has.
Published: 16.04.2008. | Read more >
Written by: Assoc. Prof., PH.D Gordana Buljan Flander
Marking the 50th anniversary since dr Kempe defined the battered child syndrome
Director's note This year is the 50th anniversary since American pediatrician dr. Henry Kempe and his collaborators published the paper about the battered child syndrome on 7 July 1962 in the Journal of the American Medical Association. He defined the battered child syndrome as "the clinical condition in young children who have received serious physical abuse generally from a parent or foster parent".
Published: 30.04.2012. | Read more >
Children and pets
Family time Topics The majority of children want a pet and such a need should not be neglected. Habits and obligations of the family and the family conditions, as well as the natural needs of the chosen pet should be considered in the process of making a decision to take a pet.
Published: 01.05.2012. | Read more >
The Brave Phone
The Brave phone (“Hrabri telefon” in croatian) is an NGO which was registered in 1997, and the main aim of this NGO is protection of the children from abuse and neglect. Visit Brave Phone website.
A parent places a child in the middle when the child is asked to be a carrier of adult messages, asked to keep secrets, or asked to serve as a spy in the other household. When a parent trashes the other parent to the child, half of that child is being trashed also. Such issues take their toll on a child's self-esteem and sense of well-being. Any movement along the continuum from conflict to cooperation, no matter how small, is a move to benefit the child.
Good to know From the Book: Working with high-conflict families of divorce