{"id":4158,"date":"2020-10-26T20:57:24","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T20:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dementes.programate.pe\/?p=4158"},"modified":"2026-07-09T19:37:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T19:37:47","slug":"salud-mental-de-ninos-ninas-y-adolescentes-el-enfoque-de-la-disciplina-positiva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.dementes.org.pe\/en\/2020\/10\/26\/salud-mental-de-ninos-ninas-y-adolescentes-el-enfoque-de-la-disciplina-positiva\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental health of children and adolescents: the positive discipline approach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"translation-block\"><span style=\"color: #2289a3\"><strong>Adult leadership and guidance in the education of children and adolescents is essential<\/strong><\/span>. However, it is very important to <span style=\"color: #2289a3\"><strong>always seek to maintain an environment of mutual respect and collaboration<\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\"><strong><span style=\"color: #2289a3\">Positive discipline is an educational approach based on communication, understanding, and empathy<\/span><\/strong>. It seeks to promote a balance between kindness and firmness, with the goal of understanding the behavior of children and adolescents, even when it is inappropriate, and guiding them back toward respectful behavior based on mutual respect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">This approach does not involve excessive control or excessive permissiveness; instead, <span style=\"color: #2289a3\"><strong>it seeks to balance kindness with firmness<\/strong><\/span>. Kindness helps counteract the problems that excessive control may bring, such as low self-esteem, rebellion, resentment, among others. On the other hand, firmness helps prevent the problems that excessive permissiveness may cause, such as being spoiled, entitlement, or insecurity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Being kind means being respectful and understanding of another person\u2019s emotions and feelings, while being firm means knowing how to set boundaries and establish agreements. Within this approach, it is very <strong><span style=\"color: #2289a3\">important to involve children and adolescents when establishing limits; this way, they will understand that these limits are necessary<\/span><\/strong>, take responsibility, and be more willing to follow them (for example, discussing limits regarding television use or cellphone use).<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Another important pillar of positive discipline is emotional connection in education. <strong><span style=\"color: #2289a3\">This involves establishing horizontal communication with the goal of listening to and understanding the other person\u2019s emotions, without judging or questioning them<\/span><\/strong>. It is very important that we help children and adolescents reflect on their behavior, so that they become aware of their actions and take responsibility. Using the following questions can be helpful: What do you feel? What do you think? What do you decide to do?<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #2289a3;\">These actions can help us discover what is behind the behavior of children and adolescents, allowing us to find solutions.<\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #2289a3;\">#EveryoneForMentalHealth<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\"><em>If you would like to learn more about positive discipline, contact <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.educamemas.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ed\u00facame M\u00e1s<\/a><\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>La disciplina positiva es un enfoque educativo basado en la comunicaci\u00f3n, la comprensi\u00f3n y la empat\u00eda, que equilibra la amabilidad con la firmeza. Conoce m\u00e1s sobre \u00e9l en esta nota.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-4158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-articulos-noticias"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.dementes.org.pe\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.dementes.org.pe\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.dementes.org.pe\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.dementes.org.pe\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.dementes.org.pe\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4158"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/staging.dementes.org.pe\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6417,"href":"https:\/\/staging.dementes.org.pe\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4158\/revisions\/6417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.dementes.org.pe\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.dementes.org.pe\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.dementes.org.pe\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.dementes.org.pe\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}