Summary: The Influence Of Stress On Child Development

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A. I believe that stress is influences development of the child 's brain. Child abuse and neglect constitute one aspect of these environmental influences, which present the maturing child 's brain with experiences that will crucially and potentially adversely affect the child 's future development and functioning (IPCE). YoungMinds, the children 's mental health charity, says nearly one million children between the ages of five and 15 now have mental health problems like depression and anxiety and the numbers look set to keep on rising. Gavin Baylis, a spokesman for YoungMinds, says, 'In the past 20 years, mental health problems have got worse, they are being shown in younger children and they are getting more complex (ROSALIND RYAN)
B. Babies have
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Today, lots of children are getting stress and suffering because of their environment. And these stresses will affect their development of the brain. 1. Example 1# Recent study carried out by the NSPCC found that academic worries were the biggest cause of stress for nearly 50 per cent of children. Further research has confirmed that exam worries cause children more stress than peer pressure to be 'trendy ' or find a boyfriend or girlfriend. The pressure to succeed at school makes children feel as if they are constantly doomed to failure. But children do not just worry about what happens at school. Family life and their lives outside school can all be sources of stress (Rosalind Ryan).2. Example 2# One million of the children between the ages of five and 15 now have mental health problems like depression and anxiety and the numbers look set to keep on rising.In the past 20 years, mental health problems have got worse, they are being shown in younger children and they are getting more complex (Rosalind Ryan).
A. When people who got lots of stress or not emotionally healthy on their childhood, later on they will have problems on their social life. So parents have to take their child to doctor and prevent their

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