Chapter 16: Preparing children and young people for hospitalisation
1. The final stage of unrelieved separation anxiety is:
- Anger
- Denial
- Protest
- Despair
2. How could the behaviour of a child in this situation be described?
- Playful
- Naughty
- Hilarious
- Apathetic
3. What factors about hospital care do children often find uncomfortable?
- The food
- The clowns
- The smell
- Disruption of their routine
4. Right up to the 1970s:
- Parents’ visiting to children’s wards was restricted
- Children’s nurses were not allowed to speak to parents
- Parents were not allowed to go home
- Parents were held responsible for their child’s health problems
5. In the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, the term ‘promotion’ means:
- Offering children a better part-time job
- Advertising the benefits of childhood
- Aiming at improving children’s situation
- Identifying super-parents