LIFESPAN DEVELOPMENT STAGES
Session 7 covers this stage focusing on marginalization at birth and generational trauma transmission.
Birth and Infancy
Kimberlé Crenshaw coined this term in 1989 describing how race, gender, class, and other identities combine multiplicatively.
What is Intersectionality?
Social work's core perspective emphasizing the relationship between individuals and their environmental contexts.
What is Person-in-Environment (PIE)?
Aguilar & Counselman-Carpenter edited this 2024 main textbook for the course.
What is Multidimensional Human Behavior in the Complex Social Environment?
If Arnett's emerging adulthood applied universally, undocumented youth would have equal access to unpaid internships and gap years. True or False?
What is FALSE (structural barriers prevent this)?
Sessions 10-11 address this developmental stage with topics like identity formation, racial identify formation and queer theory.
What is Adolescence?
This framework examines how racism is embedded in legal structures and institutions, not just individual prejudice
What is Critical Race Theory?
Bronfenbrenner's theory places individuals within concentric circles including micro, mezzo, and macro levels.
What is Ecological Systems Theory?
Valdivia's 2020 chapter examined undocumented young adults' vulnerability during which presidential administration?
What is Trump Era?
MYTH: "Development follows the same timeline for everyone."
REALITY: Development varies by what social factors?
What are Race, Class, Gender, Immigration Status, Disability, Ability Access (any valid systemic factor)?
Sessions 12-13 cover these two consecutive life stages involving identity exploration and sandwich generation responsibilities.
What are Emerging Adulthood and Middle Adulthood?
Menjívar & Abrego's 2012 article describes how immigration law creates harm through constant threat—they coined this term.
What is Legal Violence?
Dunbar-Ortiz's "An Indigenous People's History" examines this system that shaped American settlement and displacement. What is the term?
What is Settler Colonialism?
These are the theories Lau most frequently relies on when making sense of human behavior.
What is Psychosocial development Theory ( Erikson), Attachment Theory (Bowlby & Ainsworth )?
TV SHOW: Many sitcoms portray middle-aged parents with perfect marriages, financial security, and no caregiving burdens. What critical lens reveals this excludes most people's reality?
What is Intersectionality (or Critical Race Theory / Class Analysis)?
Chapter 10 explores marginalized social identities in this final life stage covered in Session 14.
What is Late Adulthood?
Cedric Robinson's concept describing how capitalism developed through and depends on racial hierarchies.
What is Racial Capitalism?
Unit 2 examines how this economic system, combined with race, creates unique vulnerabilities for workers and migrants.
What is Capitalism (or Racial Capitalism)?
Garcia's 2026 work describes undocumented middle-aged adults simultaneously caring for children in the U.S. and parents abroad. What is the term or title of the reading.
What is "Caring Here and Caring There" (or Undocumented Sandwich Generation)?
MOVIE CLICHE: An older adult "finds themselves" through retirement travel and self-care. What does Lamb (2014) critique about this narrative?
What is It ignores economic precarity, chronic illness, and unequal access to "successful aging" (or Privileged definition of successful aging)?
According to the critical lifespan framework, earlier experiences like ACEs and early marginalization have this cumulative effect across stages.
What is this called?
What is Cumulative Advantage/Disadvantage (or Intergenerational Trauma Transmission)?
This decolonizing approach challenges Eurocentric dominance in social work knowledge and centers historically excluded voice
What is Decolonizing Framework (or Decolonizing Curricula)?
This level of ecological systems refers to organizations, institutions, and community settings affecting individuals.
What is Mezzo Level?
Rothenberg & Hsu Accomando's textbook provides an intersectional study of these three overlapping systems of inequality. What are they?
What are Race, Class, and Gender?
SOCIAL MEDIA: Instagram and TikTok shape identity development for adolescents. What theory explains how algorithms can reinforce bias and affect teens?
What is Social Cognitive Theory (or Digital Literacy Infusion / Algorithmic Bias)