What Is Early Intervention ?
Early intervention is the process of approaching the children in school or those who are within their teenage years, appearing to be exposed to the risk of any unhealthy addiction, to prevent them from getting involved in that situation further. Thus, early intervention may act both as a preventive or a remedial therapy for the kids, depending upon the situations. |
Intervening early can include the counseling of both the child and the parents. Sometimes, the parents may not be aware of the potential risk of their child, and even if they are, may not know how to deal with the situation. Early intervention makes all of them aware of the position they are in or might land up in and what to do to get out of it.
Most of the time, it is seen that it is the parents who indirectly push their children to the risk of any harmful addiction, that leads to the need of intervention. Pressurizing the kid to perform and outshine, adding their stress and frustration on to them and peer pressure-all go into making the child resort to dangerous things. An interventionist must identify the cause of the child’s behavior, the ambience he is brought up in and also the background of him and his family before beginning early intervention.
Over fifty years of research shows that children and their parents, subjected to early intervention, are more likely to function well and bond together as a family. The children are also found to score highly in arithmetic, language achievement and reading tests than usual. Also, this method is found to be cost-effective, both in the short term and the long term period.
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