Hi catlover,
I had a look at your survey and wanted to ask a question and make a few observations.
Have you had your CAFS teacher look at this particular survey? It has been a few years since I did my own CAFS IRP but I have had to devise surveys for primary research for uni since and was wondering if some of your questions are perhaps the best for gathering the research that you want.
The first thing that struck me was the lack of demographic questions. Demographic questions (such as age, gender) can be used to look at the difference in responses between different groups and I have never seen any surveys without them. Has your teacher mentioned this? I remember my CAFS teacher mentioning using them, so I would have thought that it was only necessary for uni work.
Second, regarding your second question, I'm not sure how anyone could answer that. How can anyone know if they were born with a particular mental health issue? I would have thought that it would only become apparent when the symptoms of the mental health issues because known to the individual.
I think that the possibility of trauma bringing on mental health issues verses things like physical systems in the body affecting people in different ways is valid, but I am not sure if people are even "born with" mental health issues is possible. I'm aware from previous studies on a subject such as this and from a quick google on the subject that certain people may be predisposed to a certain issue, a vulnerability, but I'm not sure if this can be classed as "born with it". I am guessing that you are more referring to genetic vulnerabilities but it's quite vague.
The whole survey seems a little bit broad and vague in what you mean, and I couldn't fill it out myself. So I just wanted to let you know my thoughts because it might be worth asking your teaching about it, just in case.
Good luck with your project
