Chapter 2: Effective communication with children and young people
1. Intrinsic factors important in the child’s development of language include:
- Mother to child attachment
- The social environment in which a child grows up
- Pre-programmed, biological influences
- Family communication patterns
2. Which of the options below is particularly important when communicating with a child aged between 3 and 5 years?
- Spending time observing the child with their parents
- Using a soothing and calming tone
- Using simple, connected terms
- Using third party stories
3. Which of these is NOT one of the conflicting perspectives recognised by Lambert et al. (2010) in relation to children’s roles in healthcare interactions?
- Child as family member versus child as independent entity
- Toddler versus adolescent
- Child as powerless versus empowered child
- Child as becoming versus child as being
4. The term ‘passive bystander’ suggests that a child or young person is:
- Fully engaged in an interaction
- Not involved in an interaction at all
- Partly engaged in an interaction
- Marginal to an interaction
5. Which of the following best describes ‘associative play’?
- The child plays alone and maintains focus on their activity
- The child watches others at play, but does not join in
- The child is interested both in the people playing and in the activity they are doing, actively joining in with play
- The child is interested in the people playing, but not in co-ordinating their activities with other people