Internalizing and Externalizing Behaviors
Often internalizing and externalizing behaviors may be the result of a child’s continuing emotional regulation development or a lack of positive coping strategies.
emotional regulation development
While some amount of internalizing and externalizing behaviors is fairly common over the life course for children and adults, for others, middle childhood can be a time when mental health risks and _________ are first exhibited and diagnosed.
Disorders
True or false-People with ADHD are more likely to have poor academic outcomes.
True
Caregivers of autistic children are likely to report higher levels of ______ than parents of typically developing children
Stress
Many individual differences, developmental diversities, and mental health risks may put some children at a higher risk of ___-term mental health problems and/or other maladaptive, or poor, health outcomes.
Long
While some children develop positive ______ strategies, others may struggle with negative ______ strategies that can in turn lead to some common behaviors that can be problematic for children’s socioemotional well-being.
Coping
Research also indicates that childhood onset of some of these diagnoses, specifically depression and anxiety, have increased over time and may increase risks for _________ struggles and/or suicide across the lifespan.
mental health
Children with ___ struggle to adjust to school and academic demands
ADHD
Caregivers often describe their autistic children as having difficulty with expressing ______ and poorer emotion regulation skills
Emotions
Another important context that can reduce risks, promote protective factors, and support resilience in childhood is the school and ________ .
teachers
When a behavior is negative or harmful and internal to a person, psychologists often call it an ______________.
Internalizing behavior
Children of marginalized races, including Black children, are more likely to be __________ when it comes to things like depression and anxiety
underdiagnosed
More than half of kids with ADHD struggle with making and maintaining_________.
Friendships
Socioemotional challenges often face children experiencing ASD which stands for ________.
Autism spectrum disorder
The first important context to promote protective factors in middle childhood is at the family or caregiver level, an important __________.
microsystem
When a behavior is negative or harmful and external to a person, psychologists often call it what?
Externalizing behavior
Middle childhood can mark the beginning of body dis_______ and body image issues that can lead to a higher risk of eating disorders as children enter adolescence and early adulthood
satisfaction
Children with ADHD are at a higher risk of increased ____________ difficulties.
Socioemotional
Diagnoses of ASD have ____ rapidly, and society’s response and understanding have varied
Risen
Many supports and _________ factors for promoting socioemotional health in middle childhood involve promoting certain skills in the individual child such as positive coping, social skills that improve friendships, and emotional regulation
protective
Often internalizing and externalizing behaviors may be the result of a child’s continuing ______________ or a lack of positive coping strategies.
Emotional regulation development
Some disorders such as anxiety, OCD, and depression not only start in middle childhood but are likely to be ________, or occur simultaneously
comorbid
Children with ADHD are also more likely to have a ______ disorder or a learning disability.
Conduct
Autistic children often show ______ attachment behaviors with their caregivers, though some may struggle with aspects of attachment, including using their caregiver as a secure base, using their caregiver as a source of support in emotion regulation, and/or forming mental attachment representation
Normal
Children can also benefit from improved resilience when interventions and support involve multiple community levels, often involving mesosystems and _______.
exosystems