Children’s behavior problems social construction
Abstract
Childhood behavior problems have important effects on children and on the people in touch with them. These effects are more evident in family and educational contexts, which in recent months, have been seriously affected due to the pandemic caused by COVID-19, as well as the related social, political and economic repercussions. More than other times, talking about childhood behavioral problems have importance worldwide. Current experiences of families with early childhood kids will have repercussions on immediate future and its impact will be seen in areas of social and psychological domain. Coupled with this prediction it is the fact that appropriate attention to these problems remain a challenge, specially to developing countries like Mexico. There are social and structural elements that may be hampering early and intensive care for children. This essay will discuss about the social and structural elements that influence the treatment of children’s behavior problems. At the beginning of the document some statistical data are presented to allow the reader to assess the dimension of the problem. Subsequently, with the objective of facilitate a reflective positioning, some arguments are provided about the importance of contextualizing behavior problems and some examples are raised to this purpose. Next, an adjacent problem is exposed: the burnout in caregivers and the emerging telehealth treatment for the families. This essay concludes pointing out the urgency of directing efforts towards putting into practice interventions with empirical support such as applied behavior analysis.
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