Staff approaches during episodes of fear in children

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The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to investigate staff approaches to transient-developmental fear in children in a Cognitive Behavioral Inpatient Program. The study was important because transient-developmental fear in these children interfered with their participation in crucial program activities and diverted staff attention from other children. Disruptive fear behavior interfered with the progress and security of other children. The study used a cross sectional design to focus on fear in 5-to-11-year-old children with behavioral, interactional, and learning difficulties. Key elements of the framework of this study--adults' interpretations of the events and children's emerging cognitive competencies--emerged from the literature. In 1954 Florence Blake proposed that nurses clarify the nature of children's fear. Arthur Jersild, in 1935, introduced the notion that fear of specific objects/events in children was related to children's cognitive immaturity. Frances Holm

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