Compare and contrast adequate versus optimal adaptation. How might these approaches impact the outcome of youth who are experiencing mental health issues?
What will be an ideal response?
• Adequate adaptation – functioning at a basic level that is considered sufficient for development
• Optimal adaptation – functioning at the highest level possible for that particular child
• Outcome – prevention efforts could be time-limited or sustained or include a narrow or broad range of interventions depending on the belief about adaptation; focus of treatment could stop at a point where the child is functional or continue until the child is more than functional; broadness of perspective which could include only the child or the child, family, school, neighborhood
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