(Solved): Social Work With Children And Family Children And Adolescents 1: Counseling Children And Adolescent ...
Social Work with Children and Family
Children and Adolescents 1: Counseling Children and
Adolescents
Please provide a 5-page paper by answering the following
questions. One page per question.
According to the Surgeon General’s Report, approximately 20% of
children and adolescents are estimated to have a mental disorder of
some type. Please name at least two mental illness in childhood as
well as potential treatment options.
Factors that impacts mental illness in youth are as follows:
please discuss briefly how the factors below result in children
developing mental health issues
Vulnerability
Temperament
Family Dysfunction
Poverty
Caregiver Separation
Abuse
Discuss the preoperational stage in Piaget’s Theory: Discuss
the challenges and opportunities children have during this
stage.
Erik Erickson’s stages of development centers around a series
of psychological crisis. Please list these stages and briefly
discuss each stage has on childhood development.
Adolescence is referred to as the time of storm and stress
because this stage of life is often emotionally turbulent for many
individuals.
Expert Answer
ANS 1. There are a variety of mental illnesses that can occur in children and adolescents. The most prevalent of them are Learning disability (LD) and Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).