How to Approach the Introverted Child?

While some children exhibit a social and extroverted nature, some children experience quieter, calmer, introverted emotional processes. Child-Adolescent Specialist Clinical Psychologist Elvin Akı Konuk, who states that the child who has a weak relationship with his environment is excluded from social environments after a while, says that this situation causes him to miss many interaction-based opportunities in the friend environment and lowers his academic success. The guest emphasized the importance of developing healthy bonds with introverted children and said that sensitive and compassionate approaches towards the child would make it easier to manage this process.

Üsküdar University NPİSTANBUL Brain Hospital Child – Adolescent Specialist Clinical Psychologist Elvin Akı Konuk shared important information about the factors that cause children to be introverted and how parents should approach.

Parental attitudes and environment influence

Child-Adolescent Specialist Clinical Psychologist Elvin Akı Konuk stated that while some children exhibit a social and extroverted nature, some children experience quieter, calmer and introverted emotional processes, and said, “Every person can reveal their temperament characteristics from birth. Introversion may be a temperament feature for a child, as well as a result of environmental factors. In children, these temperamental features may become more evident or decrease with the influence of the parents' attitudes and the environment. said.

These clues point to introversion

Child – Adolescent Specialist Clinical Psychologist Elvin Akı Konuk expressed the symptoms of introversion as follows:

Behaviors such as difficulty in making friends, avoiding crowded environments, having difficulty in adapting to new environments, wanting to be alone all the time, having difficulty expressing their wishes and needs, avoiding communicating with both relatives and strangers, and not being able to fully express their feelings and thoughts There can be clues to introversion.”

The child with a weak relationship is excluded

Child-Adolescent Clinical Psychologist Elvin Aki Konuk emphasized that introverted children need to weigh their thoughts and words before communicating with others, overthinking and internal filtering. can cause serious problems in the life of the child. In particular, a child's poor relationship with his peers causes him to be excluded from social environments after a while and to miss many opportunities based on interaction in the friend environment. However, it can also cause a decrease in academic success, and the inability to perform in reality because he avoids revealing his skills and talents.” used the phrases.

Compassionate approach will facilitate process management

In addition, Child-Adolescent Specialist Clinical Psychologist Elvin Akı Konuk stated that situations such as internal depression, mourning, trauma, and anxiety in children can be the precursors of many psychological problems, and said, “Parents' sensitive and compassionate approaches to the introverted child will make it very easy to manage this process. As a parent, observing the child's repetitive behaviors and noticing how they react is very important to learn how to meet their needs.” said.

A strong and secure bond should be established with the child.

Child – Adolescent Specialist Clinical Psychologist Elvin Akı Konuk, 'It is important to develop healthy bonds with introverted children.' he said and concluded his words as follows:

“The quality of the bonds formed is directly related to the child's future emotional health. The strong and secure bond established between the parent and the child basically gives the child a sense of trust both in himself and in his environment. In this way, as the child grows, he learns to cope with the outside world. In addition, it is necessary to prepare the environment and the child in advance in order to enable them to gain new experiences in safe environments and to communicate with their peers. It is very important to display an over-protective parental attitude and to encourage instead of avoiding and guarding all possible negative situations, to accept their feelings instead of ignoring or ignoring them, to create solution suggestions and problem-solving methods together with the child, to make them feel that you are with them as a parent and to be supportive. ”