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The Cycle of Stress-Related Behaviours



                                6                                              Child struggles due                   1
                                                                               to low skills & high
                                                                                   needs
                                                            Poorer executive                       1. Negative adult
                                                            functioning skills                        response


                                5                                                                                    2



                                                          Higher sensitivity to                       2. Sanction:
                                                          challenge / stressors                    connections worsen

                                4                                                                                    3



                                                              Increase in stress                  Sanction: sense of
                                                                  levels                          control worsens
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