Focus on child abuse.Focus on child abuse Child psychiatrist child psychiatrist Psychiatry A psychiatrist specialized in mental, emotional, or behavior disorders of children and adolescents; CPs are qualified to prescribe medications stresses need for educating parents in the use of positive non-violent discipline techniques Hitting is not the answer to child discipline, said Dr Hala Hammad, a child and teenagers psychiatrist addressing a Bepanthen Women Only seminar for mothers held at the Cultural Palace (Qasr Al-Thaqafah ) in Sharjah yesterday (09/06/08). The seminar, sponsored by the Supreme Council for Family Affairs Family Affairs is a British soap opera. The flagship soap on five, it was the first programme to air on the channel on March 30, 1997, the channel's launch night. The serial was broadcast in half-hour episodes, screening each weeknight. and General Administration of Children and Girls Center and Bayer HealthCare, aimed to educate mothers on understanding their child's behaviour and cognitive development, particularly during the crucial first five years of life.Dr Hammad, who specialises in early childhood development and hosts the television programme Beit Sgheer (Little Home) stressed that understanding a child's behaviour was the key to moulding all aspects of their development and socialisation.She said: "Families frequently hurt and abuse their children in the misguided mis·guid·ed adj. Based or acting on error; misled: well-intentioned but misguided efforts; misguided do-gooders. mis·guid belief that they are guiding and disciplining them." Dr Hammad said that the lack of information and education on proper child-rearing practices was found to be a major inducer inducer /in·duc·er/ (in-dldbomacs´er) a molecule that causes a cell or organism to accelerate synthesis of an enzyme or sequence of enzymes in response to a developmental signal. in·duc·er n. of child abuse and neglect. To overcome this ignorance it was important to raise awareness about the ineffectiveness of corporal punishment corporal punishment, physical chastisement of an offender. At one extreme it includes the death penalty (see capital punishment), but the term usually refers to punishments like flogging, mutilation, and branding. Until c. , since many parents justify using violence by saying it is the only effective way, and teaching parents positive non-violent discipline techniques instead.She said it was also important to provide parenting education on children's sexual, cognitive and emotional development before becoming parents, and in some cases to provide anger management counselling.Over the coming weeks Dr Hammad will be giving similar lectures to mothers across the Middle East in the Bepanthen Women Only road-show, which has been organised and sponsored by Bayer Healthcare, manufacturers of the Bepanthen range of skin healing and protection products.According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a World Health Organisation study about violence against children, 80 to 90 per cent of all children suffer varying degrees of physical punishment in their homes, of which a third or more is inflicted with instruments. The worldwide study said that over 50,000 child a year die from such abuse.The latest scientific research confirms that 90 per cent of the growth of the human brain occurs in the first five years of life. Newborn newborn /new·born/ (noo´born?) 1. recently born. 2. newborn infant. new·born adj. Very recently born. n. A neonate. babies have approximately 200 billion brain cells but have very few connections between these cells in their forebrain forebrain: see brain. . How these connections are formed will determine the emotional and social intelligence of the child, and it is over these connections that mothers and other carers have a great deal of influence. [c] 2008 Al Bawaba (www.albawaba.com) |
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