Human Life Journey
A time when major change occurs in the life course trajectory; also known as a defining moment
What is a turning point?
When a baby is born showing no signs of life.
What is stillbirth?
Skills that require use of small muscle groups such as hands, wrists, and fingers
What are fine motor skills?
Children with this diagnosis struggle with paying attention and controlling impulsive behaviors
What is Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)?
This action, often utilizing toys, is crucial to child development, enhancing motor, cognitive, language, emotional, social, and moral development
What is play?
Changes in roles and statuses that represent a distinct departure from prior roles and statuses. One example is leaving home to go to college.
What are transitions?
The inability to produce a viable embryo after one year of intercourse without contraception.
What is infertility?
This type of aggression occurs while fighting over things such as toys and space; is it instrumental, hostile, or relational?
What is instrumental aggression?
This type of education commonly consists of curriculum that teaches moral and social values such as kindness and respect
What is character education?
This reference book published by the American Psychiatric Association is used to help professionals diagnose clients
What is the DSM-5? (Diagnostic Statistical Manual)
A group of people who were born during the same time period and experience particular social changes within a given culture in the same sequence.
What is a cohort?
She stays with a woman for the entire labor, assisting with the nonmedical aspects of delivery, including encouragement and comfort measures.
What is a doula?
The ability to generate a memory of a stimulus that was encountered earlier without seeing it again; is it recognition memory, autobiographical memory, or recall memory?
What is recall memory?
One in this number of children in the United States lives in poverty?
What is five?
A child lacking appropriate clothing for winter is a sign of this type of child maltreatment
What is neglect?
Involve relatively stable long-term processes and patterns of life, including multiple transitions.
What are trajectories?
Also called short-term memory, this holds and processes information that is worked on in some way; is it sensory memory, working memory, or categorization?
What is working memory?
Autonomy versus shame and doubt and initiative versus guilt are two stages of emotional development proposed by this theorist
Who is Erik Erikson?
IEP, a collaboratively developed course of action that focuses on responding to the unique needs of a child with a disability in the school setting, stands for this:
What is Individual Education Plan (or Individual Education Program)?
This type of parenting style is warm and accepting with few rules and expectations; is it authoritative, permissive, or disengaged?
What is permissive parenting?
Use of personal power to achieve one's goals
What is human agency?
This rate measures the death of a child before their first birthday
What is infant mortality?
Social workers will encounter this type of factor when working with toddlers, young children, and their families; examples include ineffective discipline and divorce
What is a risk factor?
This term describes the feeling that one's emotional and psychological identity as male or female is the opposite of one's biological identity
What is gender dysphoria?
The study of changes in gene expression that occur without changes to the genetic code. Research is looking for the role it plays in intergenerational trauma.
What is epigenetics?