childrens perspective on health and the body

Question 1

4 catagories of children in studies used and the results of finding these

Answer 1

1) children as the objects of research
2) proxies used on behalf of children
3) children as the subjects of research with some involvement
4) children as active participants

Children seen as objects, not actively involved

Question 2

Traditional views of the child philosophy

Answer 2

• hobbes (believed in original sin, so children are born into sin)
• rousseau (children are inherently good/innocent but society corrupts them)
• locke (children as blank slates or ‘tabula rasa’, scribed over time) – this is the empirical view
• kant (children born with mental structures but develop in interaction with their environment) – idea of actively involving children in research – this is the transactional view

Question 3

tranditional view of the child psychology

Answer 3

• freud (the unconscious child, to do with the developing relationship with adults and effect on how children develop)
• piaget (the naturally developing child, similar to kant) childhood is a transactional thing

Question 4

Things to consider when researching with children

Answer 4

Power imbalance

• language
• settting
• analysis
• quality of data
• ethical concerns

Question 5

research techniques that can be used with children

Answer 5

children centered questionnaires
images
time lines
life grids
drawings

Question 6

key areas to improve on in child dental services

Answer 6

1) dental caries
2) malocclusion
3) defects of enamel
4) trauma
5) dental anxiety
- often treated by general aesthesia
- therefore treated as objects, therefore they cannot interact with their health
- goes back to blank state, controlling the child, not present during treatment
- evidence is such approaches do not reduce children dental anxiety
- cost per case of this is 273-720 per child(i.e. expensive)

Question 7

applicaiton of child centered approach

Answer 7

self helpCBT guide for dental anxiety