On the evening of December 23, the 9th Guangzhou Social Organization Venture Philanthropy event "Children's Spiritual Growth Camp" organized by Guangzhou Yuexiu District Qizhi Social Work Service Center held a family education lecture "My Family's "Bad Boy"——" "How to Actively Cope with Adolescent Depression in Families" is carried out through online live broadcast. This project is supported by Guangdong Zhongnong Enterprise Corporation, Guangzhou Huimeisi Crafts Co., Ltd., and Kapok Red Love Society. It is lectured by national second-level psychological counselor and specially appointed expert of Guangzhou Baiyun Psychological Hospital. Teacher Tang Li.
The social status of mental illness in my country
With the intensification of social pressure today, depression has become a common mental illness in modern society, seriously endangering people's physical and mental health. According to the "2022 National Depression Blue Book" data, depression patients under the age of 18 account for 30% of the total number, and 50% of depression patients are school students. Among them, 77% and 69% of student patients are prone to depression in interpersonal and family relationships; 63% of student patients feel harshness, control, neglect, lack of care and conflict, and domestic violence in their families. When faced with long-term low mood and suppressing negative emotions inside, people often fall into a state of depression and even cause depressive disorders.
Identification and prevention of depression
Depression has become one of the "hardest hit areas" of mental health problems, and parents are reminded to pay attention to the mental health problems of teenagers. At the beginning of the lecture, Teacher Tang Li introduced to us that depression refers to an unhappy diffuse state of mind. Every adolescent child may experience depression due to psychological and physical growth, poor communication with parents, or increased competitive pressure, but the difference is that not everyone is depressed. Depression is also called spiritual cold . In the face of depression, we face it tactically, treat it actively, and despise it strategically.
It is worth noting that depression in different periods has different manifestations. Infancy often manifests as restless sleep, refusal to eat, always having stomachaches or headaches, frequent aggressive behaviors such as hitting and biting, excessive fear of people around you, or not letting others touch you, being in a daze, crying often, etc. Young children are characterized by low mood, bad mood , easily angry, clingy, refusing to go to school, often feeling pain, and it is difficult to gain weight as expected. Adolescents are prone to insomnia, frequent nightmares, disturbed work and rest, irritability, sensitivity, depression or anger, low self-esteem, loss of interests and hobbies, poor school performance or low attendance, social avoidance, self-injurious behavior, etc.
A guide to coping and prevention strategies in the family
For every child, parents’ attitudes and practices play a vital role. When children When depression occurs, you can deal with it from eight aspects. First, parents must first adjust their emotions. Children's depression is an impact and crisis event for every family, but only when the parents' world is stable can they provide the most powerful support for their children. Second, the family system needs to be adjusted. Many children's deviant behaviors are a warning to parents. The family system needs to be adjusted; the third is to correctly understand the behavior of depressed children, and parents must realize that the child's poor performance is not the child's intention; the fourth is that parents must be aware of and accept the child, and accept the child's current behavior. Being accepted is an important factor in supporting the child to continue to face pain; the fifth is to accompany the child with boundaries, Parents' companionship needs to include real understanding and try to listen to their children; sixth, continue to lower requirements and avoid negative behaviors and emotions caused by criticizing children; seventh, accompany children to adhere to psychological counseling and accompany them to get out of the disease; eighth, strengthen physical exercise, which can produce dopamine in children, which is good for physical and mental health.
At the end of the lecture, Teacher Tang Li proposed ways to prevent children from developing depression in the family. For "little friends", you can use sports parent-child games to help children develop physical fitness while promoting family atmosphere; and for "big friends", he can lead family members to team-building, allocate all resources to provide children with the ability to plan challenging social activities. How to identify, prevent and deal with depression in teenagers is a topic of concern for every family. This lecture aims to guide parents to understand what depression is and how to identify and prevent depression. Attention and understanding are the keys. Only by paying attention can we maintain the parent-child connection. To love children, we must first love them, know how to respect and listen, and permission and acceptance are the only shortcuts to recovery.
As of December 23, all activities of the "Nursing Seedling Project-Children's Spiritual Growth Camp" have been successfully concluded. Since the launch of the project on July 23, a total of 6 family education lectures, 20 children's spiritual growth camp courses, 12 children's mutual aid groups, 3 red education base study tours and 1 Zhengjia popular science tour have been held, as well as case management services for 32 people.
In addition, Qizhi Social Work Service Center has also made many innovative moves in children's psychology science popularization, and produced 10 episodes of children's psychology science cartoon "The Growth Story of Qi Bao and Zhi Bao", which has been played on more than 10 self-media such as People's Account , Nanfang Account, Bilibili , Douyin , and video accounts, with more than 100,000 clicks to watch. Produced 500 volumes of the 24-page "Children's Psychological Growth Adjustment Manual", which introduces common psychological problems that children may encounter in their growth in an easy-to-understand and simple way. 200 sets of 54 children's emotion recognition cards were produced, designed based on the "Basic Emotion Category" theory proposed by psychologists, and selected 48 emotions that are most common in life and often felt by children, paired with vivid illustrations of "Qi Bao and Zhi Bao's Growing Little Emotions" emoticon pack illustrations to help children and parents recognize and identify these emotions more easily, so as to further learn to better express and manage emotions.
