Runaways/Thrownaways Children: Preventions

Is there any symptomps to detect a child who is about to runaway? How can adults detect these behaviours?
Parents who have experienced the loss of a child, who left home and decided to live apart, were usually spectators of specific behaviours shown by their children. According to Social Researchers, from Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, they suggest that societies and parents can detect and prevent young people from running away due their attitudes.

According to the Runaway/Thrownaway Children: Predictors and Preventions article, there are some issues that are highlighted as the common reasons of kid for running away from home. These are:

• Victimization and Neglect (physical and sexual abuse)
• Drugs and Alcohol

So Trauma produced in home environment could develop negative thoughts against family. In similar cases misuse of substances as drugs or alcohol may cause aggresive behaviours beetwen teenagers and adults, the ones which end in fight responsible of young people run away desire.
But, with runaways children, who has not decided their home leaving, it is complex to prevent an outside decision, normally taked by their parents.



References:

• Putt, G. (2018). Runaway/Throwaway Children: Predictors and Preventions.  Decoded Science. Available at: https://www.decodedscience.org/runaway-children-predictors-preventions/44560. Accessed 30 Apr. 2018.
• Slesnick, Natasha, et al. Intervention with substance-abusing runaway adolescents and their families: Results of a randomized clinical trial. (2013). Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. Accessed on April 30, 2018