CLD 231 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Bipolar Disorder, Welfare Trap, Visible Minority

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Early Childhood Studies
• Course: CLD 231
• Professor: Audrey Huberman

Document Summary

23% of canadians indicate that most days are stressful. Perceptions of stress peak for people between the ages of 35 and 44 and are generally higher for women. Effects on children when parents have a special need. Exposure to stress and anxiety can trigger extreme prolonged activation of the stress response system: it anticipates everything as threatening, so the child responds to every event in his or her environment as potentially harmful. Or the body habituates so that the child comes to see nothing as threatening, and so responds inappropriately to danger. 24% of adults with cancer are parenting children under the age of 18 and that up to one-third of these are children under 6. Chronic health conditions - when symptoms have lasted three months or more and/or there is persistent pain. parents with chronic illness are likely to be experiencing stress from worrying about how their condition is affecting their children.