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TRUE/FALSE?
1A. A majority of people diagnosed with mental illness in adulthood had difficulties identified by the age of three years.
TRUE/FALSE?
1B. Children with conduct disorder are more likely to have future psychiatric problems with mood, psychotic, anxiety, substance use and eating disorders.
TRUE/FALSE?
1C. Adolescents who present with irritability without feeling depressed can still have a major depressive disorder.
TRUE/FALSE?
1D. School refusal is a distinct, well validated, childhood psychiatric disorder.
TRUE/FALSE?
2A. When considering a mental health screen in a child or adolescent, you should discuss confidentiality with the young person only if they are mature enough.
TRUE/FALSE?
2B. When considering a mental health screen in a child or adolescent, a screen should always be done by a psychiatrist or a youth mental health service because there isn’t enough time in a general practice setting.
TRUE/FALSE?
2C. When considering a mental health screen in a child or adolescent, potential drug and alcohol misuse is rare in children and therefore should not be asked about in case it gives them ideas about maladaptive coping skills.
TRUE/FALSE?
2D. When considering a mental health screen in a child or adolescent, the family’s experience of receiving care can affect their willingness to participate in screening and treatment.
TRUE/FALSE?
2E. When considering a mental health screen in a child or adolescent, developmental disability does not have any meaningful psychiatric implications.
TRUE/FALSE?
3A. A mental state examination of the younger child should consider their behaviour with their parents, and also how the parents behave with the child.
TRUE/FALSE?
3B. The psychiatric diagnosis alone largely determines your management plan.
TRUE/FALSE?
3C. Thinking about parents’ mental health needs is essential when assessing a child for mental health problems.
TRUE/FALSE?
3D. Any one factor in a child’s biopsychosocial formulation can only be considered to be either predisposing, precipitating, perpetuating or protective, but not more than one.
