1. Anxiety hypochondria: Pay too much attention to the health status of yourself and your family, and when you are unwell, you will easily fall into the worry of being infected. Panic, restlessness, inattention and sleep disorders make it difficult for them to complete their studies or other tasks. Check epidemic information repeatedly, pay too much attention to epidemic changes, wash your hands repeatedly, etc.
2. Depression: Being at home for a long time leads to loneliness, depression, lack of interest in things and fatigue. Have nightmares, loss of appetite, irritability and other behaviors.
3. Internet addiction (game disorder) Family isolation, extended holidays, poor self-control and other factors lead children and adolescents to go online out of control and use the Internet frequently. When they are addicted to online activities, they are emotionally unstable and strongly eager to go online. This desire leads to their inattention, lack of persistence, poor memory, slow response, addiction to virtual worlds, disconnection from reality, indifference when doing other things, and lack of sense of time. In the contradiction between surfing the Internet and being afraid to face the reality, people are depressed, pessimistic and negative, seeking opportunities to play games on the Internet at all costs, unable to complete their study plans on time, poor eyesight, shoulder and neck pain, disorder of biological clock, loss of appetite, indigestion, decline in physical quality and immune function, and insomnia, headache, inattention and other symptoms will occur when they stop surfing the Internet.
4. Behavioral problems of young children: Some young children may have behaviors such as solidification of thinking or repetitive actions, clingy, fear of loneliness, and increased crying. Some even have retrogressive behaviors such as bed wetting and language delay.
Paying attention to the mental health of children and adolescents requires the joint efforts of parents, students and teachers. The following are the suggestions made by the psychological experts of children and adolescents in the psychological medical center to alleviate the psychological pressure of these three different groups:
Advice to parents
1. Take care of yourself and provide children with basic living security: keep a normal work and rest and maintain a stable life. Ensure a normal diet, sleep and living environment, and communicate with family and friends through telephone and social software. Pay attention to your emotional changes, accept your emotions, and ease your emotional fluctuations. For younger children, if their families maintain a normal life and maintain physical and mental stability, they can successfully survive the "epidemic" and respond to their negative emotional reactions with support and encouragement. At the same time, they will listen to their inner worries and open up a space to release anxiety.
2. Do a good job in the education of epidemic situation and protection knowledge to avoid information overload: try to control the time and way of receiving information every day and reduce noise. Parents should tell their children how to judge whether the information is right or wrong, and don't rush to spread it when the child can't judge it now. For younger children, you can tell them what novel coronavirus is, how to protect themselves and urge them to protect themselves through picture books. Some children are puzzled about not being able to go to school. Parents should tell their children why they can't go to school by telling stories and metaphors.
3. Reasonably guide work and rest and carry out family activities: urge children to make a good work and rest plan, ensure adequate rest, and also ensure a reasonable study plan to alleviate the anxiety caused by the delay in starting school. Combine work and rest to carry out parent-child activities, such as family movie time, board games, sports and other activities.
Advice for children and adolescents
1. Make good use of the Internet: Pay attention to authoritative media platforms, such as the official websites of the World Health Organization (WHO) or the National Health and Wellness Commission. Understand the epidemic situation correctly and properly, and don't overload the information at the same time.
2. Maintain normal work and rest, and make plans: make relaxation study plans, exercise plans, and social plans, and maintain normal work and rest and moderate interpersonal communication.
3. Tips for relieving emotions: To rationally respond to the emotional response in the epidemic, you can make a list of activities (such as exercise, yoga, listening to music, reading, etc.). ) to relieve your emotional stress.
4. When there is a serious reaction, you should seek help in time: when there is serious anxiety, worry and other emotions, you can't cope with your studies and have a great impact on your daily life, you should inform your parents or ask for help from a psychological counselor or call an authoritative crisis intervention hotline in time.
Advice to teachers
1. helps to understand the current situation correctly. For older children and adolescents, we can provide an authoritative information platform while emphasizing protection. Guide students to think dialectically and rationally about the two sides of this crisis, that is, to see the hidden dangers and opportunities in the crisis and avoid rumors. For younger children, through the safety education platform, parents will lead their children to watch videos and other ways to let them know the basic knowledge of novel coronavirus and the reasons for delaying the start of school.
2. Acceptance and understanding: Accept children's emotions, understand that children may have different degrees of emotional reactions after facing the epidemic, and do their own emotional adjustment.
3. Home-school cooperation: through the campus platform, send messages, realize home-school communication, and grasp the students' dynamics in real time.