Developmental tasks of primary

school-age children:

Learning the physical skills

Building self-esteem and attitude
Learning to get along with ones
peers
Learning social roles
Developing fundamental skills,
necessary concepts &
conscience
Achieving autonomy
Developing rational attitudes

-secondary school-age
children experience
problems with identity and
social relationships

Valerie Thomas (G7.7)

Teachers need to:

Achieving mature relations & social

role
Accepting ones physique

-develop basic level of counselling

skills to help children with problems

Achieving emotional independence

-be aware of their personal boundaries

and values to use counselling skills
effectively

Preparing for marriage, family life

and making a living
Acquiring a set of values,
ethics/ideology
Developing socially responsible
behaviour

Developmental needs and task

of children at various ages

-primary school-age
children experience
problems related to
learning difficulties

16/01/15 EDU TASK

Developmental tasks of secondary

school-age children:

-maintain confidentiality to establish

their students trust

The benefits and difficulties of

teachers using counselling skills

Teachers and counselling

Problems exhibited by schoolage children

How teachers can develop

counselling skills?

A list of problems which children can experience:

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Generalized anxiety-headaches, stomach aches, restlessness

Depressive disorder-low self-esteem, poor concentration
Phobic disorders-sweating, trembling, nausea
Behavior disorder-aggressive behavior, frequently fighting
Attention deficit hyperactivity-fidgeting, restlessness
Eating disorder-anorexia, bulimia
Psychotic disorder-social withdrawal, incoherent speech
Substance abuse-drugs, alcohol
Effects of sexual abuse-fear of adults, frequent nightmares
Effects of physical abuse-bruises, burns or bite marks
Obsessive-compulsive disorder-obsessive thoughts
Psychosomatic disorders-facial tics, back pain
Personality disorders-lying and stealing, irresponsibility
14. Adjustment disorders-depression, anxiety

-counselling at various levels are now

available in most parts of the world
-teachers should ideally enroll in a
course teaching counselling skills
-teachers should observe skills
counsellors in action as well as to have
supervision from qualified counsellors
when putting their counselling skills in
practice