Chapter 13: Factors influencing wellbeing and development in children and young people

1. The Assessment Framework (HM Government, 2015) states that when assessing family and environment, healthcare professionals should consider which of the following factors:

  1. Housing, family resources, family history, finances, boundaries, social relationships
  2. Housing, family resources, family history, employment, self-esteem
  3. Housing, family resources, family history, finances, social relationships,
  4. Housing, family resources, family history, finances, employment, wider family, social resources

Answer: D

2. The Assessment Framework (HM Government, 2015) states that when assessing parenting capacity, healthcare professionals should consider which of the following factors:

  1. Basic care, ensuring safety, emotional warmth, family and social relationships
  2. Basic care, housing, family resources, emotional warmth, family history, stability
  3. Basic care, ensuring safety, emotional warmth, stimulations, guidance and boundaries, stability
  4. Basic care, ensuring safety, education, employment, social resources

Answer: C

3.  DH (2006) states that good parenting consists of:

  1. Meeting basic needs and keeping children safe
  2. Demonstrating warmth and love
  3. Providing stimulation
  4. All of the above

Answer: D

4.  Joslyn (2015) suggests that there is a ‘group of positive characteristics’ or a ‘level of competence gained’ that individuals display even if they have experienced negative situations earlier in their life. These attributes can be utilised even in times of great stress. In order to develop resilience a child needs to:

  1. Be able to say no 
  2. Have a sense of security and empathy
  3. Have parents who are sociable
  4. Feel they are better than others

Answer: B

5. A household is in relative poverty or has a relative low income if:

  1. Their income is below 50 per cent of the median household income
  2. Their income is below 60 per cent of the median household income
  3. Their income is above 60 per cent of the median household income
  4. A family needs to use a food bank in order to adequately feed themselves

Answer: B