AREAS OF DEVELOPMENT
The progressive changes in mental processes due to maturation, learning, and experience
What is mental development?
Any disturbing experience that results in significant fear, helplessness, dissociation, confusion, or other disruptive feelings intense enough to have a long-lasting negative effect on a person’s attitudes, behavior, and other aspects of functioning.
What is trauma?
Asking for support from a friend, creating a to-do list, establishing boundaries, walking away.
What is problem-focused coping?
Distinctive facial features, learning disabilities, bone and joint deformities, heart defects, and hyperactivity are some symptoms.
What is FASD?
A temporary service provided by States for children who cannot live with their families.
What is foster care?
The advancements and refinements of motor skills, or, in other words, children's abilities to use and control their bodies
Failure to provide for the basic needs of a person in one’s care.
What is neglect?
The use of religious beliefs, attitudes or practices to reduce the emotional distress caused by stressful events of life, such as loss or change
What is religious coping?
Headaches, vomiting or feeling sick, seizures, feeling very irritated, abnormal eye movements.
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What is the amount of children in foster care in Arkansas?
A gradual increase in the capacity to experience, express, and interpret the full range of emotions and in the ability to cope with them appropriately.
What is emotional development?
Interactions in which one person behaves in a cruel, violent, demeaning, or invasive manner toward another person or an animal. The term most commonly implies physical mistreatment but also encompasses sexual and psychological (emotional) mistreatment.
What is abuse?
Journaling, mindfulness meditation, forgiveness, acceptance, talking to someone you trust.
What is emotion-focused strategies?
Slow reading progress, difficulty blending letters, poor comprehension, hesitant and labored reading
What is dyslexia?
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What is the amount of foster families in Arkansas?
The gradual formation of an individual’s concepts of right and wrong, conscience, ethical and religious values, social attitudes, and behavior.
What is moral development?
A situation (e.g., a traumatic change) that produces significant cognitive or emotional stress in those involved in it.
What is crisis?
This can include providing loans of monetary gifts, but it can also involve offers to share childcare duties, helping a friend move, or even bringing a casserole to a grieving family.
What is social support?
Being unable to sit still, constantly fidgeting, unable to concentrate, excessive talking, acting without thinking.
What is ADHD?
Out-of-home care by foster parents with specialized training to care for a wide variety of children and adolescents, usually those with significant emotional, behavioral, or social issues or medical needs.
What is Therapeutic Foster Care?
The gradual acquisition of certain skills (e.g., language, interpersonal skills), attitudes, relationships, and behavior that enable the individual to interact with others and to function as a member of society
An evidence-based treatment approach shown to help children, adolescents, and their parents (or other caregivers) overcome trauma-related difficulties, including child maltreatment.
What is TF-CBT?
Seeking the benefits that come out of misfortune, whether they be growth in wisdom, patience, and competence, greater appreciation for life, better sense of what really matters, or stronger social relationships
What is meaning making?
Not responding to their name; avoiding eye contact, repetitive movements; not talking as much as other children; getting very upset if they do not like a certain taste, smell or sound
What is autism?
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