Screen for it
It is recommended that initial visit for adopted or fostered children ages 4-17y include this validated screening test.
What is a PSC-17?
A child is attached to someone when he is strongly disposed to seek proximity to and contact with a specific figure, notably when he is frightened, tired or ill. This is the definition of this theory of development.
What is attachment theory?
When parents respond immediately to attention seeking misbehaviors such as temper tantrums or screaming, they inadvertently do this to the behavior.
What is reinforce?
Although 35 % of children cannot easily be placed into one category, 40% of children- the largest grouping- are placed into this temperament type by researchers.
What is easy/flexible?
The word discipline is derived from the Latin word disciplinare and means this.
What is to teach or train?
The PSC-17 consists of 17 questions that assess 3 key domains. Name them.
What is: internalizing, externalizing, and attention?
When infants play and explore comfortably with their mothers present, become upset when their mothers leave, and calm when mother returns, they have this type of attachment.
What is secure?
Mothers who provide physical care, emotional communication, and affection to their children when they need it are termed this.
What is responsive?
The smallest category of temperament type is slow to adapt, easily irritated, easily upset, distractable, and sleeps irregularly.
What is the difficult/feisty child?
In 1989, The UN convention on the rights of the child called on all member states to ban this.
What is corporal punishment (spanking)?
Actions that are disruptive, impulsive, or aggressive, including hyperactivity, are associated with a + in this PSC-17 score.
What is externalizing?
When infants seek little contact with their mothers and are not distressed when they leave, they have this type of attachment.
What is avoidant attachment?
Parental insecure attachment styles produce children with higher scores on attention problems on the PSC-17 when the parent has this classification.
What is dismissing or avoidant?
Children with low activity levels, who adapt to things cautiously, withdraw, and are somewhat negative in regards to mood are known as this type of temperament.
What is slow to warm up/fearful?
Corporal punishment of toddlers is associated with subsequent this.
What is aggressive behavior?
These behaviors- emotional and psychological struggles- that may not be outwardly visible- are associated with anxiety, sadness, social withdrawal, and somatic complaints fall into this PSC-17 category.
What is internalizing?
When infants show anxiety with their mothers near, protest when mother leaves but are not comforted when mother returns, they display this type of attachment.
What is ambivalent?
Parental insecure attachment styles have a crucial impact in the development of psychiatric manifestations in school-aged children. Parents who are pre-occupied have children with more of these types of symptoms on a PSC-17.
What is internalized?
This, the most effective parenting style, is responsive to a child with respect. It promotes a child's ability to withstand potentially negative influences including stress and exposure to antisocial peers.
What is authoritative parenting?
After corporal punishment, it has been shown that within 10 minutes children do this.
What is resume misbehaving?
On the PSC-17, a + in this domain could be associated with frequent spankings by the caregiver.
What are externalizing behaviors?
(ODD, Conduct disorder, and ADHD-hyperactive type can result.)
Once a child experiences the security of physical closeness, he will develop the courage to explore away from the caregiver. The conversion of pursuing a closeness to moving away from dependence is the core of this theory.
What is attachment theory?
Avoidant attachment, when infants "avoid" their caregivers, comes from a dismissing, fearful, or avoidant parent and produces a child with these types of symptoms on a PSC-17.
What are externalizing?
The "Do As I Say" parenting style, authoritarian, is demanding but not responsive. These parents are likely to produce anxious children who are lacking intellectual curiosity (think: don't like school) and spontaneity. They also lack this.
What is Self-esteem?
Corporal punishment is associated with the following: aggressive behavior, altercations between parent and child, defiance, and this significant problem.
What is mental health disorders?