According to the recent estimates,17% to 22% of the children under the age of 18 years meet the diagnostic criteria for one or more mental disorders. Of these ,11 to 14 million children, that is at least half of them may be severely handicapped by this order, and half may have trouble coping with demands of community,family and school.Some behavioural disorder in childhood have long term effect. Maladaptive behaviour in childhood results from normal variations in the rates of development.Early childhood experiences which are negative can also lead to inadequacy and inferiority in adulthood.
Children who are unable to master academic work when their classmates are able to,it would indicate that these children are having some serious problem in learning. Learning is an integral part of life.We learn and unlearn many things from our day today experience. In today's scenario,counselling is not only advisable but has become the requirement of the individuals.If at any stages of development the problems and conflicts are not resolved,individual may develop all kinds of complexes,inferiority feelings,insecurities,low self esteem,depression anxiety becomes unsocial ,lacks decision making power etc. Not only the person who is suffering from any type of mental problem,but many times counselling is a demand by the persons who feel any type of stress,conflicts,pressure,frustration or any type of adjustment problems.So the counselor must keep in mind that if these childhood problems are not solved then there are chances that these children when they grow up as adults may suffer from many disorders and may develop some or the other personality disorder in later years of life.
Many of the untreated children are likely to progress into severely mentally ill adults.According to many researchers the factors include prenatal psycho pathology,family discord,divorce,low social economic status,child abuse,temperamental characteristics and stressful experiences.It has been stated that abused children have very high rate of psychological problems and these children require counseling as through counseling many of these problems could be sorted out and thus when they grow old and become adults, they will have a balanced personality and will be helpful for themselves,family and society.
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