Chapter 37: Child and adolescent mental health care

1. Attachment is a ___driven behaviour as important as food and nutrition and ___for survival.

Answer: Biologically and essential

2. Understanding an individual’s attachment quality helps us to ____ relationships across the life span.

Answer: Understand

3. Emotional difficulties arise from a context of ____ and inherited characteristics.

Answer: Relationships

4. Infants are not ____ to experience mental health problems.

Answer: Too young

5. The risk and resilience model demonstrates how individuals are more………..to mental ill health but also how risks can be_____by resilience acting as a protective factor.

Answer: Vulnerable and mitigated

6. Resilience is a ____ evolving process over the life span providing opportunities to improve resilience; promoting a ___ or talent is an example.

Answer: Dynamic and skill

7. When working with parents in mental health services be ___of this as a risk factor for their children.

Answer: Aware

8. It is estimated that _____ children in every classroom have a diagnosable mental health condition; these figures are based on research now over 13 years old. These statistics are not expected to have reversed.

Answer: Three

9. _____ of lifetime mental health problems (excluding dementia) begin to emerge by age 14 and three-quarters by the mid-20s.

Answer: Half

10. Mental ill health arises from a _____ of variables; genetic biological factors (bio-medical) and psychological factors and how these articulate with lived experiences (psycho-social).

Answer: Context

11. When considering children and young people potential symptoms need to be considered from a _____ and contextual perspective; for example ‘risk taking’ behaviour could be considered part of adolescent pathology and therefore normal.

Answer: Developmental

12. Children and young people can experience the…….mental health problems as adults

Answer: Same