Center of Excellence for Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation, part of Georgetown University’s Thrive Center

Pretest

This pretest will help you assess what you already know about this topic. You can take it multiple times to inform your learning. The questions refer to the age at which children typically perform each skill.

  1. What is social and emotional development?

  2. Few infants are born biologically ready for relationships.

  3. How do mental health consultants promote young children’s social and emotional development?

  4. At what age do children experience intense feelings when separating or reuniting with parents sometimes called stranger anxiety?

  5. At approximately what age do children begin to cry to signal pain, hunger, or distress?

  6. At what age do children participate primarily in parallel play?

  7. Which scenario is a red flag for a potential social and emotional concern?

  8. There are so many influences in children’s lives that the loving messages that a primary caregiver sends to an infant or toddler cannot possibly impact that child for more than a brief time.

  9. Consultants do not need to be well informed of the array of community services available for young children and families because they themselves can provide most of what families will need.