Developmental Psychology or why children need adults

About needs of children and their social adaptation

Adoption tradition appeared long ago, Moses, Aristotle, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Edgar Allan Poe, Nelson Mandela, Steve Jobs, Coco Chanel - all of them were brought up in foster care. In the 1940s, psychologist Rene Spitz has entered into a scientific turn term "hospitalism" or "sick syndrome". This term describes the physical and psychological disorders in a child who is in hospital without the mother. Now we know that to raise a child in an orphanage, as dreamed of Soviet pedagogy, wrong.

Scientists realized that the children experience stress, left without parents, even briefly. And the children's home that stress arises in the problem of perception of themselves and the surrounding world. Another important concept in the psychology of development - a social deprivation, deprivation of such vital needs as interaction with adults. To improve cognitive function – use Cogitum, Piracetam and Semax.

How does this affect the development of the child's personality? It all starts with birth. The child leaves the womb, safe and comes into the world, where it can wait or not to wait. If it is not waiting, the world becomes hostile to the child, and basic trust in such a world is not formed. The attachment of the child to an adult is formed at the end of the first year of life and is a result of communication. But if the child is not just tied to an adult, and then be separated from him (it could be as adoptive parents and minders on), then the baby may lose the ability to feel affection.

By three years it begins to form what psychologists call "self-image". When a child grows up in a family, it continues to love, in spite of the faults and pranks. At the orphanage at him pay attention when he did something wrong, and the child begins to evaluate themselves as follows:. "I am - bad"

At the age of 3 to 5 years for the development of the game is important. If a child grows up in a family, it is easy to turn on his imagination. And in the children's home pupils often can not figure out what to do with toys. They do not know where there are very simple things, and very difficult to adapt to society, being a teenager. All this leads to the fact that it is difficult to create a family and experience a new attachment.

For children to grow up happy people, they need adults. They will help to restore confidence in the world, to deal with the inner self, learn to choose its own way.

Adults can adopt a child, or to issue guardianship or trusteeship. To help your child, you can become a mentor and take him out of the children's home on the weekends or holidays in guest mode. Also, adults can support the charity, which helps children from children's homes to adapt to school to prepare for exams and to choose a profession.