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Family systems approach

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approach to understanding family functioning that emphasizes how each relationship within the family influences the family as a whole.

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Disequilibrium

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in the family systems approach, this term is used in reference to a change that requires adjustments from family members

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Caregiver relationship

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one sibling that acts as parent

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Buddy Relationship

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friends

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Critical relationship

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conflict, teasing (mean)

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Rival relationship

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in direct competition

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Casual Relationshoip

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@ a distance

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Authoritative

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parenting style in which parents are high in demandingness and high in responsiveness, i.e., they love their children but also set clear standards for behavior and explain to their children the reasons for those standards

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Authoritarian

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style in which parents are high in demandingness but low in responsiveness; i.e., they require obedience from their children and punish disobedience without compromise, but show little warmth or affection toward them

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Permissive

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Parenting style in which parents are low in demandingness and high in responsiveness. They show love and affection toward their children but are permissive with regard to standards for behavior

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Neglectful/Disengaged

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Parenting style in which parents are low in both demandingness and responsiveness and relatively uninvolved in their children’s development

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Emotional Responsiveness/ Warmth

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The degree to which parents are sensitive to their children’s needs and express love, warmth, and concern for them

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Demandingness/ Control

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The degree to which parents set down rules and expectations for behavior and require their children to comply with them

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Reciprocal effects

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In relations between parents and children, the concept that children not only are affected by their parents but affect their parents in return. Also called bidirectional effects.

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Family process

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The quality of relationships among family members

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Family structure

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The outward characteristics of a family, such as whether or not the parents are married

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Peers

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share some aspect

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Friends

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valued mutual relationship

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Informational Support

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advice

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Instrumental support

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help w/ specific tasks

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Companionship support

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who sits next to you

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Esteem support

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they cheer for you

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Cliques

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voluntary, have rules

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Crowds

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peers, some characteristics in common, may not be friends (ex. Jocks)

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Relational aggression

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“relational aggression”: a form of nonphysical aggression that harms others by damaging their relationships, through gossip, rumors, excluding them from cliques 
-Can be a way of asserting dominance 
-The aggressors, those using relational aggression, are prone to depression and eating disorders

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Social skills

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social information processing: the interpretation of others’ behavior and intentions in a social interaction 
-Having social skills allows ppl to give others a chance and avoiding the tendency to interpret their actions as hostile like with those who lack social skills
-“controversial adolescents”: adolescents who are aggressive but have social skills, so they have both positive and negative emotions from their peers

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Rejected adolescents

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decrease positives, increase negatives (can band together)

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Neglected adolescents

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adolescents- decrease both positive and negative (worst outcome completely looked over)

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Controversial adolescents

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you like or hate them and increase both (strong sense of self)

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Popular adolescents

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high positive, low negative (can be or go on to be good)

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Bullying

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“bullying”: in peer relations, the aggressive assertion of power by one person over another 
-Three components to bullying: aggression, repetition, and power imbalance

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peer pressure

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friend influence can be positive or negative

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Dating scripts

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the cognitive models that guide dating interactions

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Proactive scripts

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Males Only
 intiate date
decide where to go
control public domain (drive and pay)
initiate sexual contact

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Reactive scripts

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Females only
private domainn (grooming and dressing)
responding to males gestures in the public domain
responding to his sexual initiatives (gate keeper)

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Empty love

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Empty (C)

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Romantic love

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Romantic (P, I)

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Companionate love

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Companionate (C, I)

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Fatuous love

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Factous (C, P)

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Consummate love

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Consummate (C, P, I)

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Asymptomatic

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manageable, passing on (curable, treatable)

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Latency period

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when you have something but it doesn’t come out right away

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Sternberg’s triarchic theory of love

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three dimensions (passion, intimacy, commitment)

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Sexually transmitted infections

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peak in early @ HPV

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School Climate

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best in warm environment and it’s the quality of interactions

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Engagement

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best learning environment

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tracking

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sending children on learning path concerned with what they’ll eventually do, professional, vocational, college prep

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Characteristics of giftedness

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precocity, independence, drive for mastery (perfectionism) excellence in information processing

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SES & school achievement

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lower income less engaged and vice versa

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Academic subculture

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drawn to the world of ideas, study hard and get to know professors

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Collegiate subculture

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center on fraternities, sororities, dating, drinking, big sports events, and fun; do enough school work to get by

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Vocational subculture

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practical view; college is to get a job

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Rebel subculture

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deeply engage in ideas but aggressively nonconformist; selectively studious and will respond if they like the subject and the professor

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Dropout

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school is hard, repeated grades, behavior probs

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Debt bondage

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arrangement in which a person who is in debt pledges his labor or the labor of his children as payment

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Retention rate

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in a longitudinal study, the percentage of participants who continued to take part in the study after the first year

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Occupational deviance

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deviant acts committed in relation to the workplace, such as stealing supplies

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New basic skills

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skills identified by Murnane and Levy that are required for high school graduates who with to be able to obtain the best jobs available in the new information based economy

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Adolescent work in traditional cultures

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cross-culturally: hunting and gathering, farming, child rearing
U.S.: 16 yrs and up. Child labor laws

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Optimum # of work hours per week

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10

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Pros and cons of work in adolescence

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Pros: Organization and Structure
Fiscal Responsibility
Promotes “getting along”
Learn New Skills
Gain Confidence
Cons: Fatigue
Distraction from school
Occupational deviance ie steal, call in sick
Higher use of alcohol, drugs, cigs
Increase in psychological symptoms i.e. depression, anxiety, etc 
Sexual Harassment

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Media Practice Model

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identity, selection, interaction, application (back to identity). Most important part is that is it interactive! The adolescents identity motivates the selection to pay attention to certain media types, so they apply that kind of media, which then circles back around to their identity.

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Sensation seeking

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a personality characteristics defined by the extent to which a person enjoys novelty and intensity of sensation

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Cathartic effect

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Effect sometimes attributed to media experiences, in which media experience has the effect of relieving unpleasant emotions

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Social learning theory

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Bandura (is you value a person, you might act like them (16 and pregnant lowered preg rates and others made packs), The theory that we learn social behavior by observing and imitating and by being rewarded or punished

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Uses of media

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Entertainment, Sensation Seeking, Coping, Youth Culture ID, Identity Formation

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Cultivation theory

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mean world syndrome (mean tv is mean world)

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TV and aggression

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Chicken or Egg First. Violent kids are attracted to violent shows. Violent shows encourage violence in kids

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Controversial music

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Rap, heavy metal, rock and roll. This has all been accused of promoting suicidal and violent tendencies. However, adolescent heavy metal fans generally report that the music has a cathartic effect on their anger

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Uses and gratifications theory

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we might toward certain types of media (same product, different reactions should we put this in movies)

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Video games and aggression

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studies do show a link, Huesmann, age of exposure, desensitizing

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Internalizing

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problems such as depression and anxiety that affect a person’s internal world. ex: depression, anxiety, and eating disorders problems

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Externalizing problems

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problems that affect a person’s external world, such as delinquency and fighting

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Risk behavior

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problems that involve the risk of negative outcomes, such as risky driving and substance use

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Problem behavior

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behavior that young people engage in that is viewed by adults as a source of problems, such as unprotected premarital sex and substance use

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Status offenses

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offenses such as running away from home that are defined as violations of the law only because they are committed by juveniles

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Violent crimes

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crimes that involve physical harm to others, for example, assault and murder

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Property crimes

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crimes that involve taking or damaging other’s property, for example, robbery and arson

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LCPD’s

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In moffitt’s theory, adolescents who show a history of related problems both prior to, during, and following adolescence. “career criminal”

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ALDs-

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in moffitt’s theory, delinquents who engage in criminal acts in adolescence and/or emerging adulthood but show no evidence of problems before or after these periods. do “dumb” stuff

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Delinquency

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violations of the law committed by juveniles

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