Last updated October 24 2010 9: 52 pm PT
The true victims of homelessness are young children, who have no control over the decisions that place and no power to change their situation.
The typical homeless families in the country are led by young women in their twenties, usually with two children. Almost half of these children are less than 5 years old.
The consequences of homelessness can be devastating and lasting for young children.At the age of 8 years old, one in three children homeless has a mental health problem that affects their functioning, said Karen Hudson, social worker with the children's Hospital of Philadelphia and a national expert on homeless children.
More than three quarters of children aged 5 have delays développement.Et 40% have emotional and behaviour problems she .this problems early can decoration for problems, including homelessness, later in the vie.Des investigations found that more than a quarter of the adult homeless experienced homelessness when they were young.
Children who have not stable face housing a crowd of challenges that highlight their systems under development, including lack of sleep, hunger, fear and high levels of hormones such as cortisol, stress can wreak havoc on the young brain.
Sleep deprivation or disturbance can make a child look and behave as if it has serious such as blurred opposition Oppositional Defiant defiant behaviour problems, said Dr. Ben Danielson, Director medical clinic Odessa Brown children from children's Hospital and Medical Center in Seattle.
(Disorder is as a mental disorder is displayed as a "model in insubordinate, hostile and rude behaviour toward the authority, which goes beyond the limits of normal behaviour of children".)
Symptoms resulting from stress of homelessness can include anxiety, depression, extreme withdrawal, lack of concentration or various forms of "respect," such as anger.
"See us the attachment disorders big time," said Danielson.
Serious mental disorders can go non-treated, because they are difficult to diagnose.
"Depression can look significantly different children," said Danielson. " A child could not say, "I'm depressed", but could have real problems, maintain relationships with friends and execution at school.?
Children go through specific developmental stages between birth and 5.Ces steps prepare their spirit of learning, says Jill Klenota, who oversees the parent-child services for the Wellspring, a Seattle based non-profit that works with homeless families family services.
"We have mothers living in motels by themselves, the suffering PTSD," she says."They are terrifiés.La question becomes how mother attend a baby under these conditions?
Most homeless families suffered a majority of homeless women traumatisme.La is victims of violence, and one-third of mothers have post-traumatic stress disorder, three - times the rate of female population, said it .more 50% experience major depressive episode, while homeless.
In these circumstances, the brains of infants flood with the hormone cortisol, stress.
If the crisis happens when a child is a child, it can do more in the form of more frequent or extreme anger or defiant behavior, difficult.
Older children can become very introverted. "They can be shy, reserved, calm, do no difficulty, said Burr-Chellin. "Essentially they are trying to be invisible.?
The first sign of trouble is often when family life seems if improve .Klenota recently worked with families where the child started after that MOM had obtained housing shoplifting.
Now that the child feels safer, it works. "It is showing that it is an 8-year-old troubled.?
Wellspring therapists and also stressed the work with the entire family as a way to help children get back on the good voie.Aider parents to see what is to keep them from meeting their children's needs and how to modify their behaviour are a étape.Souvent they must help child development and parenting skills practice understanding well-behaved.
It is essential to build confidence.
Parents who are homeless are often demoralised and depressed, said said Judy Burr-Chellin, Director of parent/child Wellspring. "But whatever, they are still the most important person in their child's life.?
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