Early childhood stress and neurobiological effects
Автор:Jesse Russell Год: 2013 Издание:Книга по Требованию Страниц: 120 ISBN: 9785508337407 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Early childhood is a critical period in a child’s life that includes ages from birth to five years old. Although stress is a factor for the average human being, it can be a molding aspect in a young child’s life. Characteristics of stress include the outcomes that arise when people cannot manage internal or external difficulties. Internal stressors include physiological conditions such as hunger, pain, illness or fatigue. Other internal sources of stress consist of shyness in a child, emotions, gender, age and intellectual capacity. External stressors include separation from family, exposure to family conflict, abuse, divorce, a new home or school, illness and hospitalization, death of a loved one, poverty, natural disasters, and adults’ negative discipline techniques. Additional external stressors include prenatal drug exposure, such as maternal methamphetamine use, other maternal and paternal substance abuse, and maternal depression. A few...
