There has been a rapid increase in the psychological problems of children, the main reason of which is the increasing violence against them in the society due to which they are suffering from various mental problems.
Recently this was highlighted in a seminar where the speakers highlighted the importance of mental health of children and the imperatives for future development. Considering the fact that children’s mental health is not discussed in the society due to which the awareness of taking care of children mental health is not being highlighted among ordinary citizens. It was also emphasized in the seminar that due to lack of awareness, most of the parents do not get timely treatment of children suffering from mental diseases and they also get little support from their families.
These types of children are more vulnerable because they are unable to identify their psychological symptoms until they are older when their condition often worsens and if the trauma of such children is not treated in time, it can lead to significant psychological problems in the long term can cause problems.
According to psychologists, by ignoring children’s mental health we are unconsciously creating a culture of aggression, violence and indifference. Children who have been traumatized at a young age have difficulty controlling and expressing their emotions and may react inappropriately in various situations, resulting in their learning and later they seem to struggle in their professional social life as well.
In the experts opinion such children often suffer from feelings of inferiority and fail to grow in life. On the other hand experts have also pointed out that modern technology has had a very bad effect on the psychology of children.
Such children should not be given unrestrained access to modern technology because excessive use of mobile and other modern technologies at a young age has bad effects on their mental abilities, so it is necessary that children need them.
Agreeing to this, they should be allowed to use technology so that they can participate in other healthy activities and be able to develop optimally. Experts have mentioned a very dangerous situation about the poor children who are victims of violence.
Those children suffering from psychological problems are more likely to fall into the hands of human traffickers and they can take extreme measures like suicide.
On the other hand experts have also suggested that modern technology can be used to keep such children in touch with their parents online. Also their location and presence information can be available in a few moments.
Apart from that if the modern technology is used correctly, parents can also get useful information online for the mental care of their children. Considering that a large part of Pakistani children are victims of various types of violence and trauma at a young age, there is a need for the federal and provincial governments to start a joint program for the treatment and prevention of children that should be implemented to help children more. It can be avoided from suffering from complicated problems.
Therefore, there is a need to create a comprehensive program for this purpose which works according to a method in all the four provinces and for this the federal as well as the provincial governments also contribute to make this whole process integrated.
If possible, it is hoped that the higher authorities will definitely pay attention to this aspect. Until this problem is not taken seriously by all governments and higher authorities our children will continue to suffer from problems. Especially parents have to pay attention to attract children towards healthy activities in the age of modern technology. Therefore it is important that parents set the time for children to use computers and mobile phones so that they can engage in healthy activities.
