1A - Dev. vs. Social Environmt Perspectives Flashcards
Human Behavior:
Dependent variable or construct related to human development, social environment, and life course influences
Human Development:
Independent variable related to human behavioral, and variable or construct related to dependent social environment and life course influences
Independent variable or construct related to human behavioral, human development, and life course factors
Social enviornment
Independent variable related to human behavioral, human development, and social environmental factors
Life Course Perspectives (time-oriented)
Distinct theories that help assess, understand, predict and modify human behavior
Human behavioral theories
General perspectives or ways of thinking for observing, understanding and intervening in human behavior
Human behavioral perspectives
Applications of human behavior perspectives and theories to the SW helping process
Applications to SW Practice
Personality • Talents, inherent skills•Temperament • Weaknesses, challenges
Human Behavior: Key Influences: a) The Person:
Family• Peers/friends • Experiences •Culture• Religious community • School/education•Social/Political environment • Society/Community
b) Social environment:
Physical/Biological • Social • Family Stages•Cognitive/Psych • Emotional
c) Human Development:
Motor skills• Physical abilities•Neurological• Language•Size, strength
Human Development Influences:–Physical/Biological:
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”)
Cognitive/Psychological:
Social skills, relationship formation, social cues/contexts•Cohort or era influences
Social Development:
How to manage emotions and emotional experiences•Insight or awareness to one’s emotions or emotional experiences
Emotional:
Distinct theories that help assess, understand, predict and modify human behavior
Human Development Dimensions:–A) Human developmental theories
General perspectives or ways of thinking for observing, understanding and intervening in human behavior from a developmental perspective
B) Human behavioral perspectives
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
C) Key Developmental Knowledge
Family environment influences–Cultural, ethnic, racial and other human diversity factor influences–Immediate social groups and systems interactional influences
3: Social Environment
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
4: Life Course Perspectives
Related to duration of life and characteristics closely related to age but that vary little across time and place
Life Span:
Focuses on the relationship between a population and its environment
Human Ecological Perspective:
Competition•Segregation•Social class
Key Concepts in Social Environment:
certain cycles, patterns and stages that most people pass through in some form
Developmental Focus:
