Childhood Aggression Strategies

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With the seemingly endless causes and proponents related to childhood aggression, it can be difficult to pin-point effective strategies to find resolutions before it progresses into active violence. Without proper treatment, childhood aggression will further develop into violent tendencies and peer bullying, creating a multitude of short and long-term difficulties for all of those involved. By remedying the underlying issues before it escalates, children can learn how to effectively prevent and manage their own emotions and aggression, while attaining the tools necessary to help others do the same. Providing anger management resources will allow students a safe space to divulge their feelings without fear of punishment. Bullying, and the aggression …show more content…

A necessary component to take into account prior to rectifying a problem, is to learn and understand the base causes of it. By doing so, adults can stop aggression at the source and prevent the child from harming themselves or others. Failing to approach such behavior will pose harmful physical and psychological ramifications to both the bully and the victim. Victims may suffer physical and emotional pain at their bully’s hands, including physical sickness stemming from stress, low self-esteem, and performing poorly academically. Victims of bullying may also seclude themselves from others, increasing their risk for mental illnesses such as anxiety and depression, as well as higher suicide rates. Those who experience bullying in their own life are more at risk to become bullies themselves as it is a high contribution to violence (Aronson et al., 2016). …show more content…

It has been proposed that the association between biased social self-perceptions and aggression is especially heightened when children are rejected by their peers. In situations where social dominance is highly valued, such as junior high schools, formed perceptions possess the power to boost or hinder the child’s social interactions as well as their aggression. Physical forms of aggression, in particular, is risked when such instances occur. It has also been found that peer rejection specifically elicits reactive aggressive responses due to negative social feedback, regardless of the type of bias. A positively biased self-perception is made when individuals overestimate their social competence, whereas those with a negative bias underestimate it. Those with such biases tend to become defensive over negative interactions and proceed with aggression in response, due to their inflated or deflated sense of self. Children are naturally highly sensitive to social rejection and are quick to assume they are being rejected by others, which forms aggressive response when such isolation occurs. Based on research from the University of Massachusetts, it has been concluded that “peer rejection may evoke physically aggressive responses in children with a positive or negative bias. Consequently, a focus on reducing peer rejection or increasing emotion regulation strategies

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