TeachME Professional Development

1. Efforts to promote children's mental health need to be structured along a continuum that includes identifying problems early, intervening appropriately, and ensuring access to treatment and other recovery services.

2. Of children between the ages of 9 and 17, ______ percent have emotional disturbances severe enough to impair their functioning.

3. As part of SAMHSA's Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services Program for Children and Their Families, emphasis is placed on working with the family to discover its:

4. Children on reservations are often exposed to alcohol and drug abuse, domestic violence, and poverty, and experts label these experiences as "situational trauma".

5. Mental health promotion and mental illness prevention rest on the knowledge that mental health exists on a continuum, with neither health nor illness existing in pure isolation from one another.

6. In order to adopt whole health, person-centered health care strategies, states and communities must develop a multidisciplinary, high-tech, ____________ healthcare environment.

7. According to SAMHSA data, approximately 15% of adolescents who lived with a father who did not use alcohol in the past year reported past-year use for themselves, while 26% of adolescents who lived with a father with an alcohol use disorder reported past-year alcohol use.

8. A key factor in the prevention of substance abuse among young people is parental involvement, which SAMHSA measures by each of the following factors EXCEPT:

9. Recent National Surveys on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) indicate that in the United States, Utah has the lowest rates of underage drinking (14.2%), while Vermont has the highest (38.4%).

10. Research shows that states that do more than rely on reducing retail sales to prevent youth tobacco use, such as raising the excise tax, enacting clean indoor air policies, and creating media campaigns have better results with tobacco use prevention