NURS 3407 - Childhood and Neurodevelopment Disorders & Impulse
Co ntrol Disorders
1. T/F? more than half of all mental illness presents before age 14: True
2. What are the consequences of childhood disorders?: Academic, social, and psychological
functioning
3. Why are younger children hard to diagnose with childhood disorders?: Lim- ited language skills;
limited cognitive and emotional development; rapid psycholog- ical, neurological, and
physiological changes
4. What are risk factors for childhood disorders?: Genetics, dramatic brain or hormonal changes,
temperament, abusive, rejecting, or overly controlling parents, low socioeconomic status,
overcrowding, foster-care, criminality
5. ACEs include:: Abuse (emotional, physical, sexual), neglect, and household challenges
such as mental illness, spousal abuse, and substance use
6. As the number of ACEs increase, do do the following:: Alcohol use disorder Cardiac problems
Fetal death
Financial stress
Intimate partner violence
Liver disease
Major depressive disorder
Multiple sexual partners Poor
academic performance Poor
work performance Pregnancies
(unintended)
Sexual activity at a young age
Sexually transmitted disease
Smoking
Suicide attempts
7. The capacity to recover quickly from difficulties. The resilient child has the following
characteristics: Resilience
8. What is included in the assessment for childhood disorders?: Data collection from parent and
teacher questionnaires.
Observing interactions between child, caregivers, and siblings. Play
activities: therapeutic games, drawings, puppets.
Developmental assessment.
9. What are barriers to assessment and treatment for childhood disorders?: -
• Lack of consensus for screening children.
• Lack of coordination among multiple systems.
• Lack of community-based resources and long waiting lists for services.
• Lack of mental health providers.
• Cost and inadequate reimbursement.
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Co ntrol Disorders
10.What are 3 examples of a mentally healthy childhood?: •Trusts others and sees his or her
world as being safe and supportive.
• Correctly interprets reality and makes accurate perceptions of the environment and one's
ability to influence it through actions (self-determination).
• Behaves in a way that is developmentally appropriate and does not violate social norms.
• Has a positive realistic self-concept and developing identity.
• Adapts to and copes with anxiety and stress using age-appropriate behavior.
• Can learn and master developmental tasks and new situations.
• Expresses self in spontaneous and creative ways.
Develops and maintains satisfying relationships
11.Deficits in language, speech, and communication that create impairments in academic
achievement, socialization, or self-care.: Communication disorders
12.Difficulty understanding or unable to follow directions: Receptive language disorder
13.Difficulty in finding the right words and forming clear sentences: Expres- sive language
disorder
14.T/F? Communication ranges from mild to severe and tend to show up prior to age 3.: True
15.Problems making sounds. They may distort, add, or omit sounds: Speech sound disorder
16.Stuttering, manifested by hesitations and repetition: Child-onset fluency disorder
17.Problems using verbal and nonverbal (and written) means for interacting socially with others:
Social communication disorder
18.Impairments in motor skill development, coordination below the child's developmental age,
and problems interfere with academic achievement or ADLs: Developmental Coordination
Disorder
19. What are typical characteristics for developmental coordination disorder?-
: Delayed sitting or walking or difficulty jumping or performing tasks such as tying shoelaces, and
total avoidance
20.Repetitive purposeless movements for a period of 4 weeks or more (hand waving, rocking, head
banging (helmet?), nail biting, teeth grinding): Stereo- typic Movement Disorder
21. What population is stereotypic movement disorder most common in?: -
Boys, 16% have intellectual disabilities
22.What is the treatment for motor disorders?: Habit reversal techniques and naltrexone
23.Sudden, nonrhythmic, and rapid motor movements or vocalizations.: Tics
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Co ntrol Disorders
1. T/F? more than half of all mental illness presents before age 14: True
2. What are the consequences of childhood disorders?: Academic, social, and psychological
functioning
3. Why are younger children hard to diagnose with childhood disorders?: Lim- ited language skills;
limited cognitive and emotional development; rapid psycholog- ical, neurological, and
physiological changes
4. What are risk factors for childhood disorders?: Genetics, dramatic brain or hormonal changes,
temperament, abusive, rejecting, or overly controlling parents, low socioeconomic status,
overcrowding, foster-care, criminality
5. ACEs include:: Abuse (emotional, physical, sexual), neglect, and household challenges
such as mental illness, spousal abuse, and substance use
6. As the number of ACEs increase, do do the following:: Alcohol use disorder Cardiac problems
Fetal death
Financial stress
Intimate partner violence
Liver disease
Major depressive disorder
Multiple sexual partners Poor
academic performance Poor
work performance Pregnancies
(unintended)
Sexual activity at a young age
Sexually transmitted disease
Smoking
Suicide attempts
7. The capacity to recover quickly from difficulties. The resilient child has the following
characteristics: Resilience
8. What is included in the assessment for childhood disorders?: Data collection from parent and
teacher questionnaires.
Observing interactions between child, caregivers, and siblings. Play
activities: therapeutic games, drawings, puppets.
Developmental assessment.
9. What are barriers to assessment and treatment for childhood disorders?: -
• Lack of consensus for screening children.
• Lack of coordination among multiple systems.
• Lack of community-based resources and long waiting lists for services.
• Lack of mental health providers.
• Cost and inadequate reimbursement.
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Co ntrol Disorders
10.What are 3 examples of a mentally healthy childhood?: •Trusts others and sees his or her
world as being safe and supportive.
• Correctly interprets reality and makes accurate perceptions of the environment and one's
ability to influence it through actions (self-determination).
• Behaves in a way that is developmentally appropriate and does not violate social norms.
• Has a positive realistic self-concept and developing identity.
• Adapts to and copes with anxiety and stress using age-appropriate behavior.
• Can learn and master developmental tasks and new situations.
• Expresses self in spontaneous and creative ways.
Develops and maintains satisfying relationships
11.Deficits in language, speech, and communication that create impairments in academic
achievement, socialization, or self-care.: Communication disorders
12.Difficulty understanding or unable to follow directions: Receptive language disorder
13.Difficulty in finding the right words and forming clear sentences: Expres- sive language
disorder
14.T/F? Communication ranges from mild to severe and tend to show up prior to age 3.: True
15.Problems making sounds. They may distort, add, or omit sounds: Speech sound disorder
16.Stuttering, manifested by hesitations and repetition: Child-onset fluency disorder
17.Problems using verbal and nonverbal (and written) means for interacting socially with others:
Social communication disorder
18.Impairments in motor skill development, coordination below the child's developmental age,
and problems interfere with academic achievement or ADLs: Developmental Coordination
Disorder
19. What are typical characteristics for developmental coordination disorder?-
: Delayed sitting or walking or difficulty jumping or performing tasks such as tying shoelaces, and
total avoidance
20.Repetitive purposeless movements for a period of 4 weeks or more (hand waving, rocking, head
banging (helmet?), nail biting, teeth grinding): Stereo- typic Movement Disorder
21. What population is stereotypic movement disorder most common in?: -
Boys, 16% have intellectual disabilities
22.What is the treatment for motor disorders?: Habit reversal techniques and naltrexone
23.Sudden, nonrhythmic, and rapid motor movements or vocalizations.: Tics
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