Exam 3

Question 1

About ___ amount of children have experienced the incarceration of a residential parent at some point

Answer 1

5 million

Question 2

What happens when a report is screened in?

Answer 2

• CPS caseworkers, often called investigators or assessment workers, respond within a particular time period
• They may speak with the parents and other people in contact with the child such as doctors, teachers, or child care providers
• They also may speak with the child, alone or in presence of caregivers, depending on the child’s age and level of risk

Question 3

Economic stress can be

Answer 3

normative

non-normative (situational)

Question 4

What is normative?

Answer 4

expected milestones: marriage, birth, retirement

Question 5

What is non-normative?

Answer 5

short term job loss

long term job loss or disability

Question 6

What is Financial strain

Answer 6

• how individuals perceive their financial insecurity

- worries and pressures

Question 7

economic conditions in the American family

Answer 7

many American families are struggling

Question 8

Net worth

Answer 8

higher net worth= greater financial security

Question 9

There is an alarming disparity between ___ and ___

Answer 9

low income net worth and wealthy households

Question 10

What is the racial/ethnic disparity

Answer 10

Caucasian: households had median net worth of $142,000 vs. non-White or Hispanic households with $18,000

Question 11

Home ownership

Answer 11

the 2007 burst in the housing bubble left 1 in 4 homeowners with more debt on their house than it was worth

Question 12

What is income

Answer 12

what people earn

Question 13

What is wealth

Answer 13

the value of everything a person or family owns, minus any debts

Question 14

The family economic stress model

Answer 14

predicts that economic hardship will lead to child and family outcomes through adverse changes in mental health, relationship quality and parenting

Question 15

Enduring Characteristics for when a spouse is ill

Answer 15

• age
• ill spouses perceive higher relationship quality than well spouses
• gender is a factor
• SES, religiosity, social support impact the link between illness and adaptive processes

Question 16

Enduring characteristics for when aging parents are ill

Answer 16

• gender
• age
• ethnicity

Question 17

“invisible death”

Answer 17

death much more sequestered, privatized invisible now

Question 18

bereavement

Answer 18

state of intense grief, as after the loss of a loved one

Question 19

5 stages of grief

Answer 19

• denial
• anger
• bargaining
• depression
• acceptance

Question 20

resources during grief

Answer 20

tangible (money)

intangible (friendship)