Supporting Children's Mental Health: An Evidence-Based Report

This report focuses on the mental health of children aged 1-4, specifically addressing the impact of domestic violence. It highlights the prevalence of mental health issues such as anxiety, ADHD, and autism spectrum disorder in this age group. The report emphasizes the importance of parental support and the implementation of programs like Early Childhood Programs and Pediatric care. It suggests strategies such as promoting healthy eating habits, reducing domestic violence, raising awareness about abuse, providing counseling for parents, and directly addressing the causes of domestic violence to improve children's mental well-being. The report references Sayal et al. (2018) to support its arguments and provides a comprehensive overview of the challenges and potential solutions in supporting children's mental health in the context of domestic violence.

Lead the implementation of
evidence based practice to support
children or young people
experiencing transition

MU53-5.2 Lead the implementation of evidence based practices to support
children or young people experiencing transition.
Children of age group 1 to 4 years that are dealing with domestic violence who has
started facing number of mental health related issues, which results in raising their concern for
numerous issues in regards to mental health where they started going through different problems
like Anxiety disorders, Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), Autism spectrum
disorder (ASD), Eating disorders, Mood disorders and Schizophrenia. It is important for parents
to talk about mental health related issues to their children and should have to include negative
aspect in that conversation. Along with this, it is important for parents to support their children
rather than performing domestic violence on them as well as have to ensure that they are
supportive people (Sayal and et. al., 2018).
On the other hand, typically this stays on the adults over a child's life to identify whether
the child has a mental health concern. Unfortunately, many adults don't know the signs and
symptoms of mental illness in children. Even if they know the red flags, it can be difficult to
distinguish different signs of a problem from normal childhood behaviour. In present context, to
support children with the age of 1 to 4 that deals with domestic violence, there are ample number
of programmes that has been built and developed like Early Childhood Programs and Pediatric
care programme that needs proper implementation
There are some other technique also through which children can overcome with issue of
domestic violence but these steps are taken by mainly family members explanation of these are
as follows :-
 Eat well - The food individual eat has a serious impact on children's well being. Thus, by
ensuring that children is consuming a healthy given by their parents, nurses and so on like
well-rounded diet, result in both physically as well as mentally fit. It will result in
reducing the mental health related issues.
 Reduction among the presence of abuse between intimate partners could directly lead to
implement the Early Childhood Programs and Pediatric care programme at home and at
hospitals as well.
 Bringing awareness among physical threats, sexual violence, intimidation, emotional
abuse, psychological would help bringing positive results in an children dealing with the
issue i.e. domestic violence.

 Counselling of parents and other individuals that has found guilty of accusing their
children with domestic violence, where reduction within the unequal distribution of
power whereby one person has control over the other and uses domestic violence to
dominate and maintain that level of control, would directly lead individual to deal reduce
mental health related issues.
 Direct implementation of domestic violence considering the different elements like
causing fear along with psychological along with physical damage, interfering with the
children that are aged of 1 to 4 year's quality of life.
These factors would directly aid implementing the healthcare programmes like Early
Childhood Programs and Pediatric care programme that are directly helping and bringing
awareness among parents and other individuals so that domestic violence could effectively be
reduced to minimal. This will result into reduction among various mental health related issues.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Sayal, K. and et. al., 2018. ADHD in children and young people: prevalence, care pathways, and
service provision. The Lancet Psychiatry. 5(2). pp.175-186.