CAFS Flashcards
What is Wellbeing?
The degree of satisfaction a individual or group feels when their needs are met
What is the opposite of Wellbeing?
Illbeing
Why do people have different understandings of Wellbeing?
Due to different life experiences, some people grew up with just basic necessities and no extras in life, whilst some grew up with necessities and more causing them to think they always need extras.
What is SPEECS?
Spiritual, Physical, Emotional, Economic, Cultural Social
What is Spiritual Wellbeing?
Relates to moral or religious areas. Including aspirations and personal values, identifying right from wrong.
What is Physical Wellbeing?
Relates to safety and health. Including adequate nourishment for growth, rest/sleep, health care, nutritious foods
What is Emotional Wellbeing?
Refers to our feelings. Including interactions with others, giving and receiving love and affection, feeling like you belong
What is Economic Wellbeing?
Relates to our finances. Including payment, bank accounts, inheritance
What is Cultural Wellbeing?
Relates to customs, beliefs, traditions. Including belonging to a cultural group, maintaining cultural heritage
What is Social Wellbeing?
Relates to our interactions with others. Including opportunities for recreation, relaxation, leisure.
Analyse the relationship between the factors and explain how they can impact on wellbeing.
If you keep fit, eat healthy, play sports, you will have a great social life. Always feeling good about yourself, making lots of new friends.
How can a person’s well being affect the wellbeing of others in a group?
If I call in sick to work, because my physical well being is low, this will cause my coworkers physical wellbeing to be low because they are a team member down and have to work harder.
What is a Need?
Things we need to sustain life
E.g food, water, shelter
What is a Want?
Personal preferences or desires
E.g TV, phone, car
What is SHESEAS (Specific Needs)?
Safety + Security, Health, Employment, Sense of Identity, Education, Adequate, Standard of Living
What is Safety + Security?
The desire to feel safe and protected from threat
E.g Installing railings in a elderly persons home
What is Health?
A holistic concept related to a persons perception of wellbeing
5 dimensions - Physical, Social, Mental, Emotional, Spiritual
What is Education?
Refers to the process of learning
E.g Tafe/High School/ Uni
What is Sense of Identity?
An individuals idea of who they are, influencing their self esteem
What is Employment?
One devotes time and energy towards a task in exchange for a payment, profit or commission
What is Adequate Standard of Living?
Refers to primary needs, clothing, shelter and food that are required to survive.
- Clothing to protect us from weather
- Housing needs to be affordable and accessible to individuals and families
What is Maslow’s Hierarchy?
You cannot meet your self-actualisation skills without completing every step of the hierarchy
What is Physiological Needs?
Food, water, shelter, rest
What is Safety Needs?
Protection, Security
What is Social Needs?
Sense of belonging, Love, Relationships with people
What is Esteem Needs?
Self-esteem, Recognition, Status
What is Cognitive Needs?
Knowledge, Meaning, Self-awareness
What is Aesthetic Needs?
Beauty, Balance, Decorating your home
What is Self-actualisation Needs?
Personal growth, reaching your full potential, self-fulfilment
What is Transcendence?
Helping others to self-actualise, helping people to reach their full potential
Satisfaction of needs and wants
- We meet our needs at different times
- Others can satisfy your needs
- We all have different needs
- Some people’s needs are more significant than others
What is goal setting?
- The objectives that we aim for in life
- Targets that direct an individuals activities and energies which often reflects the values and needs of individuals
What is SMART goals?
Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, Timebound
What is Specific Goals?
- Goals that are too general are more difficult to achieve
- E.g who, when, where, why, how
What are measurable goals?
- Quantity such as ‘how much’ or ‘how many’
- Easier to measure access in achieving goals
What are Attainable goals?
- Goals that are too easy will not improve you enough
- Goals that are too hard will lead you to giving up - Goals should be difficult but achievable
What are Relevant goals?
Make sure they relate to your life
What are Time-bound goals?
Make sure you have a time frame to complete your goal
What are short-term goals?
- Easy to achieve
What are medium-term goals?
- Achievable over many months
- Short-term goals must be achieved first
What are Long-term goals?
- Reflect values held as important by an individual or family
- Can take many years to achieve
How do you enhance wellbeing with goals?
When setting goals and achieving them, you satisfy your needs and wants
- Meeting your goals = enhanced wellbeing = SATISFACTION OF YOUR NEEDS
What are resources?
Things people use to achieve goals, to sustain life
What are specific resources?
HUMAN -
- Energy
- Knowledge
- Motivation
NON - HUMAN (TANGIBLE) -
- Food
- Clothing
- Money
What is interchangeability?
- One resource is exchanged for another
- E.g adolescent completes chores at home in exchange for parents taking them for driving lesson
What is Resource Sustainability?
Conserving a resource
Examples of resource sustainability?
- Conserving the resource of money by saving
- Using multiple use items over single use ones
- In times of drought, not washing your car and grass
How to conserve resource?
- Freeze food to last longer
- Donating old clothes to friends and family
- Paper bags instead of plastic
