Mental Health Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 3. occurs when a person responsible for a child or adolescent’s welfare causes physical injury or harm to the child.
  2. 4. A neuro-developmental condition which is usually diagnosed in the first 3 years of life. Generally parents become concerned when their child has delays in speech development, limited social relatedness, and restricted interests and activities.
  3. 6. A trained professional who provides treatment to children with mental health issues.
  4. 7. A type of mood disorder characterized by low or irritable mood or loss of interest or pleasure in almost all activities over a period of time.
  5. 9. A form of psychiatric treatment that involves therapeutic conversations and interactions between a therapist and a child or family.
  6. 11. Unhealthy pattern of eating characterized by preoccupation with food and distorted body image.
Down
  1. 1. Disorder of thinking, feeling, and behaving.
  2. 2. A type of mood disorder characterized by low or irritable mood or loss of interest or pleasure in almost all activities over a period of time.
  3. 5. A type of mood disorder with marked changes in mood between extreme elation or happiness and severe depression during adolescence.
  4. 8. The fearful anticipation of further danger or problems accompanied by an intense unpleasant feeling (dysphoria) or physical symptoms. Anxiety is not uncommon in children and adolescents.
  5. 10. Use and abuse of drugs and alcohol.