Pressure Stres And Childrens Behaviour At School: Fixed rewards and sanctions (although hopefully more rewards than sanctions!) do not deal with the causes of challenging behaviour. There is an obvious link between stress and its emergence in challenging behaviour. There are also many children who are quietly suffering and trying to succeed in a school system that does not acknowledge individual or emotional needs. The psychogenic effect of schools (McGuiness 1994) is a nettle that remains to be fully grasped (see Figure 6.2).
Political drums, personal battles.
Some children will have constitutional difficulties that can turn the normal Pressure Stres and Childrens Behaviour at schools of school life into extremely stressful situations Other children are the victims of conditions brought about by adults through their inability to cope with their own lives, to moderate their own behaviour or to understand a child's viewpoint. These assumptions about model childhood are very much linked with a readiness to dismiss young people's behaviour as 'naughty or 'bad'. These behaviours could be regarded as symptoms of stress (see Figure 6.2) and as a normal, emotional or even rational response to impossible circumstances. |
