Exam 2: Chapter 4 Flashcards
What field promotes healthy social and emotional development for infants?
the zero to three diagnostic classification task force (1994)
What was the zero to three diagnostic classification task force (1994)?
This task force DEFINED infant mental health as developing the capacity from birth to 3 to:
- experience, regulation, and express emotions
- form close, secure interpersonal relationships
- explore environment and learn in the context of the family community, and cultural expectations fro young children.
The goals of the zero to three diagnostic classification task force (1994) were to allow infants to … (3)
- experience, regulation, and express emotions
- form close, secure interpersonal relationships
- explore environment and learn in the context of the family community, and cultural expectations fro young children.
What are some manifestations that an infant is experiencing poor mental health? (3)
- withdraw from interactions
- problems w/ eating, sleeping, and behavioral regulations
- depression like manifestations
What can cause problems in infant-parent relationships? (9)
- previous pregnancy loss
- postpartum depression
- infants medical/ developmental problems
- parent’s drug use
- abuse of infant
- prolonged separation
- family stress
- parent’s mental illness
- parent with attachment disorder
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What test can be used to assess an infants mental health?
AIMS
What is AIMS?
an instrument for assessing emotional well being of children from birth to 5 yrs. old
AIMS involves
Attachment
Interaction
Mastery
Social Support
What are some interventions that a social worker might implement for the emotional development of infants and parents.
- show admiration for baby in parents presence
2.point out parent’s ability to hear cries and to respond appropriately - discuss role of the other parent in care giving
- discuss upcoming stages of infant development
- comment on how proud parent must be to see baby/ child doing so well
What is the most common cause of death in the first year of life in an infant?
SIDS
(sudden infant death syndrome)
What is SIDS?
is the unexpected death of an infant for which no physical cause can be found
What are some believed causes for SIDS?
- infant sleeping on their stomach
- changes in infant’s airway
- viral infection
what campaign was developed to prevent SIDS?
the back to sleep campaign
what does the back to sleep campaign promote?
states that babies are safest when they sleep on their backs
what is object permanence?
when a child can hold an image/ person in their mind.
at what age does a child have full object permanence?
2 yrs old
How does cognitive learning occur?
through circular reaction develops from random reflexes to intentional goal-directed behavior
aka Piaget Theory
What does Piaget Theory states?
that children’s intelligence undergoes changes as they grow