Emotional Development Flashcards
Factors contributing most to resilience in child patients?
Family level of function
Which describes a holding environment for infants?
Parent’s task of providing stimulus modulation and protection
Response of classmates/friends after 9 y/o dies in car accident?
Fears about safety of themselves and family
Ways to foster resilience in children and adolescents?
Achieving developmental competencies over time
Capacity for shame develops?
3 y/o
Child feels angry but accuses parent of being angry at him. Defense mechanism?
Projection
High school senior diagnosed with brain tumor, undergoes radiation and months of chemotherapy. Patient and family informed it is terminal an have few months to live. Pt does not appear upset and asks parents to go to Asia to celebrate graduation. Explain this response
Normal adolescent thinking
Type of emotional development process when a 6 y/o child talks about a nanny several times in a month that they last saw 3 y/o?
Reworking separation from the nanny
4 y/o child who lost dog 3 weeks ago, continues to ask about the dog’s whereabouts and is sad. What is this?
Normal grief reaction
Reason for less physical agression in elementary kids compared to preschool kids?
Better at describing feeling with words
Adolescent child minimizes losing a parent.
Internalized developmental conflicts about separation from family
Best way for parents to help child avoid inappropriate guilt when child blames himself for cousin’s death after fighting with him prior to death?
Provide accurate information about the cause of death and encourage questions
Best way for parents to discuss adoption with their child?
Start conversation when child is young and continue to revisit the subject
Psychological reason for school age children’s fantasies about superheroes?
Allow them to manage fears related to world’s events
How do divorced children’s outcomes in early adulthood differ from peers?
No significant difference in well-being
