Theories
This tool helps social workers organize, explain, and predict human behavior.
Theory
A child’s emotional well-being is strongly influenced by their daily interactions with their parents, siblings, and close friends. This is an example of which ecological system?
Microsystem
This hypothesis says that the more the body encounters chronic stress the more likely it is for it to age quicker than its chronological age, causing wear and tear on the body.
The Weathering Hypothesis
True or False: Children can have multiple attachment figures
True
A teenager’s move from high school to college, which comes with new responsibilities and independence, represents this type of change in the life course.
A transition
This broad level of theory provides overarching perspectives but is not specific or testable.
Frameworks
A teenager’s cultural beliefs and societal attitudes about gender roles influence their career aspirations and educational choices. This is an example of which ecological system?
Macrosystem
True/False: Protective factors always prevent exposure to risk
True or False: Internal working models of a child are not impacted by their own caregivers attachment style
False
This model looks at the interaction between biological processes, psychological processes, and social, societal, and environmental processes.
The bio-psycho-social-spiritual model
This concept describes the degree to which an individual's characteristics and values align with their environment, creating either a positive or negative fit—like a polar bear thriving in Antarctica but struggling in Jamaica.
Person-Environment (PIE) fit and Goodness of Fit
A child’s academic performance is affected by frequent conflicts between their parents and teachers. This is an example of which ecological system?
Mesosystem
This term refers to the cumulative, physiological burden on the body when the body does not get back to homeostasis. The impact increases with age.
Allostatic Load
A child with this attachment style presents as though they have no interest in their caregiver, tends to play alone, and doesn't speak with their caregiver when they are spoken with.
Insecure Avoidant
This stress perspective is focused on how we subjectively perceive and appraise events.
The psychological perspective
This theory helps social workers understand the complex interactions between individuals and their environments but is sometimes criticized for being too broad and difficult to apply in practice.
ecosystems theory
A factory closes in a town, causing a child's parents to lose their jobs, leading to financial stress at home. Overall this impacts the child's wellbeing. This is an example of which ecological system?
Exosystem
This type of stress is always there/lasts for a prolonged period, and arises from social roles and positions.
Chronic Stress
Children with this attachment style may display attention seeking behaviors such as anger toward their caregiver and are difficult to comfort after being separated.
Insecure ambivalent
This term causes your response system to be always on high alert. There is an overactivation of the biological stress systems that is prompted by chronic adverse social conditions and lack of supports.
Toxic Stress
This life course perspective theme says that the life course perspective is not deterministic, humans have the ability to change the trajectory of their life course within the constraints and privileges afforded to them.
Human Agency in Making Choices
A family immigrates to a new country, and the child struggles with adjusting to both a new school and a new cultural environment over time. This illustrates which ecological system, which considers the influence of time and life transitions?
The Chronosystem
Daily Double
In coping strategies, __________ involves gaining mastery over a situation through problem-solving, while __________ involves avoidance, denial, wishful thinking, or distraction to cope.
Primary control engagement coping vs. disengagement coping
Insecure-avoidant children are likely to have what type of caregiver?
Dismissive caregivers
This LCP term refers to what we believe is the appropriate time for certain life events/development stages to happen.