SAFE CHILD ENVIRONMENT

Importance of Creating & Maintaining a Safe and Protected Child Care Environment

Importance of Creating & Maintaining a Safe and Protected Child Care Environment

Introduction

Children need the environment which has wide exposure with the healthy, nutrient safe and creative environment. Since, children are in closer contact with their environment than adults. They crawl on the floor, put their fingers in their mouths and, because of their curiosity, they touch and taste everything without knowing if it's dangerous. They may be more sensitive to certain substances because of their stage of development. As a parent or person taking care of children, they have an important role to play in creating a healthy environment for them. Care means the time, attention and support that are sent (as in family and in society) out to meet the physical, mental and social needs of the growing child. It is necessary to distinguish between care and the ability to provide care, which refers to the potential of the family or society to provide care, but that does not mean that the care is really guaranteed.

All around the world, child protection is a set of services implemented by the governments of the provinces and territories which are sometimes in collaboration with private companies called child welfare in order to offer services to supplement or replace the care and supervision of parents. Every country now has a well established system of protective services for children to prevent or help correct situations where children are victims of neglect, maltreatment or exploitation, or have trouble with the law to provide care outside the home (e.g., foster care, residential care group home, residential care and services adoption ) children removed from their homes, and to offer various forms of support services to families who are struggling to care for their children. Modern services of child protection are not confined only to the behavior of children and parents, but also address various social and environmental problems that threaten the well-being of all family members (Tearfund, 2003, pp. 6).

Background

The practice of care may have consequences that are manifested for a long time in the life of a child. The way in care for a child - with love and sympathy for him - is critical to its growth and development. The will deal primarily using distraction techniques and play in situations of acute pain caused to the child (Haberman & Post, 1998, pp. 96-104). 

These techniques take place in the broader context of non-pharmacological approaches to acute pain of the child, which are very diverse. Nevertheless borders are sometimes tenuous with other approaches such as relaxation, biofeedback or hypnosis, which will not be considered here, or with the purely cognitive techniques. Pain, subjective experience and individual, can be influenced by the subject's suffering and by the context in which it is placed. Indeed, besides its sensory component, it includes other components on which it is possible to act: emotional components, cognitive and behavioral. Emotional factors (anxiety, depression, fears), cognitive (memory of ...