Exam Specific Flashcards
What are the five principles of life-course theory?
- Human development and ageing are lifelong processes (lifespan development)
- Agency
- Time and place
- Timing
- Linked Lives
Life-course theory: Human development and ageing are lifelong processes (Lifespan development) (hint: 3 points)
- humans develop in biologically, socially, and psychologically meaningful ways beyond childhood.
- new situations are shaped by earlier experiences and attached meanings
- the relationships, events and behaviour of earlier life stages have consequences for later life relationships and well-being.
Life-course theory: Agency (hint: 2 points)
- Individuals active agents in construction of their lives.
- make choices within opportunities and constraints provided by family background, stage in life-course, structural arrangements, and historical conditions.
Life-course theory: Time and place (hint: 1 point)
- Importance of social and historical context in shaping individual lives.
Life-course theory: Timing (hint: 2 points)
- Importance of transitions and their timing relative to social contexts in which individuals make choices.
- consequences of life transitions, events and behaviour patterns vary according to timing in person;s life.
Life-course theory: Linked lives (hint: 3 points).
- lives lived interdependently and reflect socio-historical influences.
- integration of social relationships beyond family
- social links shape how individuals interpret life events
social determinants of health
- conditions in which we are born, live, grow, work, age; and the inequities in power, money and resources that give rise to inequities in daily life.
what are the causes of the causes of health gaps (hint: 4).
- psychosocial and environmental factors (income, poverty, employment, education, access to community resources)
- Demographic factors (gender, age, ethnicity)
- Degree of social integration and social capital
- Political aspects (funding and resource distribution).
What interactions must be considered when dealing with social determinants? (Hint:3)
- Social determinants
- Health behaviours
- Biomedical factors
Main social determinants to remember: (hint: 7)
- socioeconomic position
- early life
- social exclusion
- social capital
- employment and work
- housing
- residential environment.
homelessness definition
- no suitable accommodation
- inadequate dwelling
- no tenure or insecure tenure
- no control of/and access to space for social relations
social determinants relevant to homelessness (hint: 3 categories)
- life circumstances (e.g. family breakdown/DV, release from prison, substance abuse, psychiatric illness, eviction, housing un-affordability)
- unmet welfare and health needs (affordable housing, medication, counselling and support)
- absence of protective factors (employment, strong social support network, literacy, affordable housing)
How would a SW prepare for practicing in the bush-fire affected area? (hint: 4 points).
- Look towards policies and structures available to help me understand what the best practice is (e.g. big organisations such as red-cross).
- Research! Read academic journals, use AASW.
- Draw on theories (trauma, grief and loss).
- Draw on how SW has worked in this sphere (what has been effective/what mistakes have been made?
Steps/application of evidence-informed practice:
- Start with practice-related problem (what’s the nature of the problem?)
- Searching and appraising the best available evidence to frame and decide on options (what’s the most beneficial intervention to address the problem?)
- Change through implementation.
6 Domains of transition:
- Physical
- Psychological
- Social (identities)
- Emotional
- Individual factors, physical
- Social (personal meanings)