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.
3. Emotional difficulties arise from a context of ____ and inherited characteristics.
4. Infants are not ____ to experience mental health problems.
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.
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.
9. _____ of lifetime mental health problems (excluding dementia) begin to emerge by age 14 and three-quarters by the mid-20s.
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).
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.
12. Children and young people can experience the…….mental health problems as adults