Child Behavior
Toddlers are free comedians at home and as they growing up their behavior becomes more and more difficult to understand. Child behavior refers to the actions and reactions and functioning of children in response to everyday situations. It is shaped by age, gender, developmental stage, temperament and environment.
Most behaviors that al, involving a combination of genetic, neurobiological and environmental factors. Early identification and intervention are crucial for managing and preventing long-term consequences. re appropriate for child’s age. During developmental stages there may be shift in behavior patterns which parents may face many challenges to cope with. Some children may need more help in managing strong emotions or disruptive behaviors and others may be struggling to become overly aggressive, or impulsive. Early identification is important to prevent transitioning to adulthood. Exact causes of behavior issues are complex and multifunctional,
involving a combination of genetic, neurobiological and environmental factors. Early identification and intervention are crucial for managing and preventing long-term consequences.
Knowing Emotional Child
The world of Children revolves around feeling/emotional mind. It is influenced by a combination of genetic, environmental, cultural and psychological factors. Providing a conducive atmosphere in the early brain development and social learning play critical roles, with culture and language uniquely shapes human actions in way that is not available to other species. There are two main reasons for this phenomenon.
First, the stress response area is highly active and has a lower cognitive understanding of control over their environment, so they often feel helpless and afraid in front of elders. Primarily because the logical, rational part of their brain is still developing, making them rely on emotions to navigate, survive, and communicate.
Secondly, the prefrontal cortex and other brain lobes grow at different paces, & with the prefrontal cortex having the most extended, slowest maturation timeline, not reaching full maturity until the mid-w20s. This developmental lag characterized by uneven brain maturation leads to risk-taking and impulsivity, impaired executive functioning, emotional regulation issues, high sensitivity to social peer influence and vulnerability to environmental stressors.
Behavior is Complex and Multifunctional
Children’s behavior can be difficult to understand because it often serves as a form of communication, rather than mere disobedience. Some behaviors are part of normal development such as (occasional defiance, or mood swings), persistent or severe patterns such as aggression, defiance lasting for several months. Behaviors that disrupt school or home life may indicate a need for root cause identification and characterization in the context of
- Physical and mental development
- Temperament and Perceptual process
- Emotional relationship with parents, teachers and peer groups
Children's behavior can be difficult to understand because it often serves as a form of communication, rather than mere disobedience, which parents try discerning with rational mind and question why does it happen.
Feeling Mind
Though not all childhood behavioral conditions are neurobiological disorders because children can be naughty, defiant, and impulsive from time to time, and it should wane away as the age progress. Continuous challenging behaviors when it becomes outside the norm of their age and can be either temporary stressors in the child’s life genetically inherited phenomenon, or they might represent more enduring, then it can be of neurobiological origin.
A child sees the world from feeling mind, and the behavior may be driven by emotional state of mind, caused by social interactions, Environmental conditions such as trauma, or social deprivation.
Continuous challenging behaviors when it becomes outside the norm of their age and can be either temporary stressors in the child’s life genetically inherited phenomenon, or they might represent more enduring, then it can be of neurobiological origin.
Interpretation of Behavior
Some children display extremely difficult and challenging behaviors that are outside of their norm of age. These problems can result from a host of temporary stressors during the span of their childhood and overflow into adolescents and in some cases, become more enduring disorders. The most common disruptive behavior disorders include Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD), Conduct Disorder (CD), attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and most common what we hear is autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
When you notice some of these Behaviors
- Easily angered, annoyed or irritated
- Frequent temper tantrums
- Argues frequently with adults, particularly the most familiar adults such as elder siblings or parents
- Refuse to obey rules
- Seems to deliberately try to annoy or aggravate others
- Display low self-esteem and low frustration threshold
- Child seeks to blame others for any misfortunes or misdeeds
- Frequent refusal to obey parents or other authorities
- Repeated truancy
- Tendency to use drugs including cigarettes, alcohol or other substances
- Lack of empathy
- Being aggressive & sadistic behaviors including bullying and physical violence
- Frequent lying
- Early criminal behaviors such as vandalism, lighting fires
- Tendency to run away from home
- Depression, suicidal tendencies
- Delayed speech or language development
- Limited verbal communication or being nonverbal
- Difficulty understanding tone, sarcasm, or body language
- Trouble in understanding social cues
- Challenges forming or maintaining friendships
- Strong reaction to lights or sounds or textures or smells
Clinical Approach
These behaviors clinically identified as either Autism, Oppositional Defiant Disorder or Conduct Disorder. Neurotransmitter imbalances caused by serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine play a significant role in the neurobiology of ODD, CD, Autism. Imbalance in these neurotransmitters contributes to core symptoms involving impaired punishment processing (deficit in learning from negative consequences), hyposensitivity to reward (reduced responsiveness characterized by diminished motivation) and cognitive control.
RGB Analyzes on the other hand identifies these anomalies as dysfunctional traits rather than classify into a particular category of behavioral disorder. This helps to pick the trait/s that causes such disfunction and can be modified to effectuate cognitive control.
Identify the Root Cause
RGB Analyzes defines these behaviors from a point of view Static state and Fluid state traits where Two or more traits cross-modulate to form an observable behavior.
Static Traits
- Perception,
- Brain Orientation
- Perception
- Intelligence
- Habitude
- Personality
- Function Style
- Learning & Working Style
- Frame of Mind
Fluid Trait
- Speed of thinking,
- Speed of expression
- Mental Fatigue
- Memory – not about academic persuasion
- Listening Style
- Articulation
- Logical / Sequential style
- Tact & Tactfulness
- Artistic / Rhythmic
- Physical Activity
- Self-Management
- Space Management
- Concentration
- Convergent / Divergent
- Spatial Perception
- Anger / Temperament
- Resentment
- Deep Bitterness
- Auditory / Visual / Kinesthetic
RGB Analyzes approximates the root cause to the formation of problematic behavior from the traits of Mental State Formation in such behavioral challenges.