Adolescent Mental Health Review
Questions and Correct Answers -NURS
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(6)Characteristics of mentally healthy young person ✅-Trusts caregivers - views the
world as safe
-Age appropriate sense of reality
-Handles age-appropriate stress and frustration effectively
-Shows age-appropriate coping skills
-Demonstrates mastery of developmental tasks
-Communicates or expresses himself has useful & satisfying relationships.
Behavior assessment is looking for behavior that: ✅-inappropriate for age level,
- deviant when compared to cultural norms, and that
-creates deficits or impairments in adaptive functioning (cognitive, learning disabilities,
social interactions, peer relationship and mood disorders, .....often irritability in children
and adolescents... conduct disorders for example
10 events that impact a child's mental health ✅verbal abuse,
physical abuse or threatening,
sexual abuse,
feeling unloved or not supported,
not having enough basic care or a parent who was too high or drunk to provide basic
care,
parents separated or divorced,
physically threatened or mistreated by a mother or stepmother,
living with someone with alcohol problem or used street drugs or
living with someone who was depressed or mentally ill or attempted suicide, or was in
prison
6 risk factors for mental health problems ✅-Low birth weight
-Health and physical problems
-Family history of mental or addictive disorders
-Multi-generational poverty
-Separation from Caregivers
-Abuse and Neglect
6 characteristics of Trauma informed care ✅Safety,
Trustworthiness/tranparency
Collaboration and mutuality
Empowerment/voice/choice
Cultural/hitorical/gender sensitivity
, Commonalities with children that have high levels of resilience (3) ✅-More available
resources than non-adapting children
-Good parenting or mentoring figure
Neurologically less vulnerable to stress
Characteristics of conduct disorder ✅-Repetitive, persistently disruptive, and willfully
disobedient behaviors, including violations of age-appropriate norms and social rules.
Aggressive behavior that is a hallmark of conduct disorder (9) ✅Child fights, bullies,
intimidates, assaults others physically and/or sexually.
stealing,
lying,
running away,
truancy,
substance abuse,
setting fires,
other forms of vandalism,
cruelty to animals,
Risk factors for conduct disorder (4) ✅Parental rejection
Inconsistent, unsupervised child rearing
Inconsistent or punitive discipline or limit setting
parental modeling of defiant interactions with others
Disrupted child care with a succession of different caregivers
Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) ✅a disorder characterized by age-inappropriate
and persistent displays of angry, defiant, and irritable behaviors occuring in >1 setting
-Milder form of conduct disorder that includes less extreme behaviors.
-Do not violate the rights of others to the degree seen in conduct disorder
Assessments for ODD ✅Lags or deficits
Quality of child-parent/caregiver relationship
Parent or caregiver's understanding of growth and development and parenting skills:
History of violence
Seperation Anxiety Disorder ✅Excessive anxiety over separation from home or whom
attached, must last 4 weeks and begin before age 18.
Leads to disability in sleeping, school attendance and socialization.
Treatment for separation anxiety ✅Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Generalized anxiety disorder ✅characterized by a pre-occupation with a range of
worries that impair concentration and involvement in activities, often leading to
psychosomatic symptoms and distress.
Questions and Correct Answers -NURS
647
(6)Characteristics of mentally healthy young person ✅-Trusts caregivers - views the
world as safe
-Age appropriate sense of reality
-Handles age-appropriate stress and frustration effectively
-Shows age-appropriate coping skills
-Demonstrates mastery of developmental tasks
-Communicates or expresses himself has useful & satisfying relationships.
Behavior assessment is looking for behavior that: ✅-inappropriate for age level,
- deviant when compared to cultural norms, and that
-creates deficits or impairments in adaptive functioning (cognitive, learning disabilities,
social interactions, peer relationship and mood disorders, .....often irritability in children
and adolescents... conduct disorders for example
10 events that impact a child's mental health ✅verbal abuse,
physical abuse or threatening,
sexual abuse,
feeling unloved or not supported,
not having enough basic care or a parent who was too high or drunk to provide basic
care,
parents separated or divorced,
physically threatened or mistreated by a mother or stepmother,
living with someone with alcohol problem or used street drugs or
living with someone who was depressed or mentally ill or attempted suicide, or was in
prison
6 risk factors for mental health problems ✅-Low birth weight
-Health and physical problems
-Family history of mental or addictive disorders
-Multi-generational poverty
-Separation from Caregivers
-Abuse and Neglect
6 characteristics of Trauma informed care ✅Safety,
Trustworthiness/tranparency
Collaboration and mutuality
Empowerment/voice/choice
Cultural/hitorical/gender sensitivity
, Commonalities with children that have high levels of resilience (3) ✅-More available
resources than non-adapting children
-Good parenting or mentoring figure
Neurologically less vulnerable to stress
Characteristics of conduct disorder ✅-Repetitive, persistently disruptive, and willfully
disobedient behaviors, including violations of age-appropriate norms and social rules.
Aggressive behavior that is a hallmark of conduct disorder (9) ✅Child fights, bullies,
intimidates, assaults others physically and/or sexually.
stealing,
lying,
running away,
truancy,
substance abuse,
setting fires,
other forms of vandalism,
cruelty to animals,
Risk factors for conduct disorder (4) ✅Parental rejection
Inconsistent, unsupervised child rearing
Inconsistent or punitive discipline or limit setting
parental modeling of defiant interactions with others
Disrupted child care with a succession of different caregivers
Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) ✅a disorder characterized by age-inappropriate
and persistent displays of angry, defiant, and irritable behaviors occuring in >1 setting
-Milder form of conduct disorder that includes less extreme behaviors.
-Do not violate the rights of others to the degree seen in conduct disorder
Assessments for ODD ✅Lags or deficits
Quality of child-parent/caregiver relationship
Parent or caregiver's understanding of growth and development and parenting skills:
History of violence
Seperation Anxiety Disorder ✅Excessive anxiety over separation from home or whom
attached, must last 4 weeks and begin before age 18.
Leads to disability in sleeping, school attendance and socialization.
Treatment for separation anxiety ✅Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Generalized anxiety disorder ✅characterized by a pre-occupation with a range of
worries that impair concentration and involvement in activities, often leading to
psychosomatic symptoms and distress.
