For Parents Particularly: Childhood Stress: A Creeping Phenomenon

A Stress Management Classroom Tool for Teachers of Children with BD

“…The most common of these include pressures to excel in academics, athletics, and student government (Mann, 1993); fear and uncertainty about living (O'Brien, 1988); mother beginning work, birth of a sibling, or death of a grandparent (Chandler, 1987); and community violence and parental stress, fear, and uncertainty about the future (Felgar, 1992;O'Brien, 1988;Stepp, 1993). Finally, more than ever, children are concerned about their &dquo;near en-vironments&dquo; (O'Brien, 1988).…”

“…The most common of these include pressures to excel in academics, athletics, and student government (Mann, 1993); fear and uncertainty about living (O'Brien, 1988); mother beginning work, birth of a sibling, or death of a grandparent (Chandler, 1987); and community violence and parental stress, fear, and uncertainty about the future (Felgar, 1992;O'Brien, 1988;Stepp, 1993). Finally, more than ever, children are concerned about their &dquo;near en-vironments&dquo; (O'Brien, 1988). They are affected by the growing number of homeless people, increased violence in the schools and neighborhoods, economic conditions of the country, problems of drugs, loss of friends, and divorce and parental separation (Stepp, 1993).…”