CAMHS Definitions

Question 1

What is attachment?

Answer 1

Relationship between child and primary caregiver, and the behaviour of the child towards that caregiver

Question 2

What is temperament?

Answer 2

Differences in emotional, motor and attentional reactivity

Question 3

List the factors of family planning that make up the McMaster Model

Answer 3

Problem solving
Communication
Roles
Affective responsiveness
Affective involvement
Behaviour control

Question 4

What is meant by affective responsiveness?

Answer 4

Ability of individual to respond to emotional needs of another family member

Question 5

What is meant by affective involvement?

Answer 5

Degree and quality of concern and interest for one another

Question 6

Describe anxious avoidant attachment

Answer 6

Child avoids/ignores parent

Little emotional response

Question 7

Describe anxious ambivalent attachment

Answer 7

Child explores little, wary of strangers

Distressed without caregiver

Question 8

What is egocentricism?

Answer 8

Only able to consider their own point of view and see it as the only one possible

Question 9

What is animism?

Answer 9

Belief that everything has a consciousness + feelings