1A - Dev. vs. Social Environmt Perspectives

Question 1

Human Behavior:

Answer 1

Dependent variable or construct related to human development, social environment, and life course influences

Question 2

Human Development:

Answer 2

Independent variable related to human behavioral, and variable or construct related to dependent social environment and life course influences

Question 3

Independent variable or construct related to human behavioral, human development, and life course factors

Answer 3

Social enviornment

Question 4

Independent variable related to human behavioral, human development, and social environmental factors

Answer 4

Life Course Perspectives (time-oriented)

Question 5

Distinct theories that help assess, understand, predict and modify human behavior

Answer 5

Human behavioral theories

Question 6

General perspectives or ways of thinking for observing, understanding and intervening in human behavior

Answer 6

Human behavioral perspectives

Question 7

Applications of human behavior perspectives and theories to the SW helping process

Answer 7

Applications to SW Practice

Question 8

Personality • Talents, inherent skills•Temperament • Weaknesses, challenges

Answer 8

Human Behavior: Key Influences: a) The Person:

Question 9

Family• Peers/friends • Experiences •Culture• Religious community • School/education•Social/Political environment • Society/Community

Answer 9

b) Social environment:

Question 10

Physical/Biological • Social • Family Stages•Cognitive/Psych • Emotional

Answer 10

c) Human Development:

Question 11

Motor skills• Physical abilities•Neurological• Language•Size, strength

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Human Development Influences:–Physical/Biological:

Question 12

Cognitive abilities or issues (i.e., problem solving)•Leaning abilities (i.e., attention span, learning challenges)•Psychological adjustment and development (i.e., personality development, identity development, coping/resilience/“hardiness”)

Answer 12

Cognitive/Psychological:

Question 13

Social skills, relationship formation, social cues/contexts•Cohort or era influences

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Social Development:

Question 14

How to manage emotions and emotional experiences•Insight or awareness to one’s emotions or emotional experiences

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Emotional:

Question 15

Distinct theories that help assess, understand, predict and modify human behavior

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Human Development Dimensions:–A) Human developmental theories

Question 16

General perspectives or ways of thinking for observing, understanding and intervening in human behavior from a developmental perspective

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B) Human behavioral perspectives

Question 17

Working knowledge of ages and stages•Working knowledge of key developmental milestones and the possible timing and sequences of them•Understanding of normative vs. non-normative development

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C) Key Developmental Knowledge

Question 18

Family environment influences–Cultural, ethnic, racial and other human diversity factor influences–Immediate social groups and systems interactional influences

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3: Social Environment

Question 19

Time progression influences on the individual or family system–Social Era influences–Social Cohort influences
Core Dimensions in Depth•#4: Life Course:–“A sequence of socially defined events and roles that the individual enacts over time.” (Giele & Elder, 1998)–Focuses on the connection between individuals and the historical and socioeconomic context in which these individuals lived

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4: Life Course Perspectives

Question 20

Related to duration of life and characteristics closely related to age but that vary little across time and place

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Life Span:

Question 21

Focuses on the relationship between a population and its environment

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Human Ecological Perspective:

Question 22

Competition•Segregation•Social class

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Key Concepts in Social Environment:

Question 23

certain cycles, patterns and stages that most people pass through in some form

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Developmental Focus: