The great turmoil that the Yom Kippur War brought about, the extended State of Emergency that had followed, the hostile terrorist and the uncertainty that had accompanied the steps of peace, brought the educational system onto confronting new challenges. Emotional pressures that related to the state of security, were no more the sole domain of the friction-zone residents. What I mean is the inevitable pressures our children were exposed to via the media’s description of the events, public mobilization exercises, Civil Defense exercises in the school, lethal terrorist activities, security checks at the entrances of amusement parks, the father’s departure for reserve service, conversations of adults in their vicinity, etc. Besides the threat in the form of physical strength in a period as such, the child experiences a threat, although less noticeable on the surface, but significant regarding his mental development: the dimness of the situation and the need to act in states of uncertainty. The effects of national stress situations on children were, mainly, diagnosed by Anna Freud and Dorothy Birlingham (1942), at the time of the Blitz in England, by Kleiman (1968) and Kleiman (1975) regarding the murder of President Kennedy in the United States of America. In Israel it was executed by Ziv et al (Ziv, Krogalensky and Shulman, 1972; Ziv and Israeli 1973), who examined the level of stress with children of bombarded settlements. Freud and Birlingham found that children who were disconnected from their families and had been evacuated to safe places out of London developed a higher level of anxiety than the children whom had stayed in town with their parents and had experienced and observed the bombardments and the devastation.
The Essay on Stanley V Illinois Children State Hearing
Stanley v. Illinois 92 S. Ct. 1208 (1972) Nature of Case: The plaintiff is Peter Stanley. He said that his rights to equal protection of the law under the 14 th Amendment have been violated. He believes that the Illinois law that makes children of unwed father's wards of the state upon death of the mother violated his rights. Facts: Joan and Peter Stanley lived intermittently together for 18 ...
Ziv et al found differences in the level of anxiety of children in bombarded townships and children, whose towns were not bombarded, but they did not find such a difference between children of bombarded kibbutz and non-bombarded kibbutz, and in a catharsis of stress situations that is enabled by discussions on the subject between the adults and the kids. From here stems the need for enforcing the level of the school’s level of organization, in improving the readiness of the educational staff in dealing with the predicted difficulties. As well as in insuring the readiness of the team itself in dealing with stress situations. The latter would all help in strengthening the system and assisting the teacher in being a source of support for his students. We must regard the preparation of the system with utmost importance. The students’ mental solidity depends on this preparation, as well as the success of the staff and students in effectively dealing with the actual state of emergency. More than a decade has passed since the appearance of the first prevention programs for states of emergency. Back then we were compelled to overcome the ‘Taboo’; barrier, which had denied, for a long time, treatment in states of emergency and loss.
In their effect on the children, family and the community, these programs were a breakthrough in the preventive conception and had enabled to cooperate it in the educational processes for the health and security of the whole population. The immunization programs that had been adopted by the educational system, placed in the hands of the counselors, psychologists and educators, efficient and creative tools for development of confrontation resourcefulness. Preventive preparation enables the outlet of positive and negative feelings that accumulate as a response to pressures, helps to strengthen self-image, which might get hurt in stress situations, and intensifies the unity of the social supportive system. Participating in such preventive programs decreases the risk of mental impact due to stress, both in the short and long run. This approach does not settle with only bandaging the ‘stress wounds’;. It deviates from the boundaries of the treatment of the results of states of emergency and wars, and is aimed at primary prevention of the pressures themselves, by canceling them or reducing them as much as possible.
The Research paper on How Stressed Children Are in a Primary School
The recent publication of a Cambridge research paper on high stress levels amongst UK primary school children made national headlines. It told parents of an uncomfortable truth that primary classrooms are not the places of fun and learning that typifies an idealistic notion of education in the UK. It spoke of stress, anxiety and worry in classrooms, where children show signs of distress due to ...
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