Children's Responses to Stress and How to Address Them

Abstract

The current study aimed to estimate the different responses that appear on the school child after being exposed to chronic stressful conditions, and to try some methods to deal with them in order to extract which method is the most effective. The application was carried out in several stages (five) on a sample of 75 schoolchildren. The Castaneda inventory scale was applied, as well as Rey's test (A),then the treatment modalities were tested on a sample of 21 children chosen from the large sample.The results of measurement and experimentation showed that anxiety, school performance, and illness are all possible responses for the child, and there is no specific pattern. Conversation-based psychological support was also found to be more effective than cognitive assessment.