Tailor Support to Individual Needs

To effectively support children experiencing stress, it's crucial to customize tasks based on their individual stress profiles. This involves identifying specific triggers that lead to heightened stress levels. Recognizing that stress is a normal part of life, the second part of a beneficial strategy is teaching children how to handle dysregulation. Children need to learn to recognize their feelings of stress, understand its origins, and identify it by name. With this awareness, strategies can be developed to help manage stress. Traditional goal-setting may not be effective unless these foundational understandings are in place, as simplistic targets can be difficult for children to achieve without the necessary coping skills.