Final Exam Flashcards
What are the three key principles of Resilience?
Dynamic process
Equifinality and multifinality
Differential impact
What needs to be explored before exploring the power of resilience?
Trauma and the role of self-care
True or False.
Practicing self-care is a selfish act only practiced by people of privilege.
False.
Self-care is not a selfish act, but in fact, it is our responsibility as helping professionals in carrying out our duty of care to clients and in our advocacy work with communities.
True or False.
It would be unethical to work with survivors in their healing process or to engage with marginalized groups if we are not also taking care of ourselves.
True.
What are structural and contextual approaches to self-care?
Structural and contextual approaches focus more on the work environment (policies and practices that support manageable caseloads, responsive supervision, teamwork, and so on)
What does an individualistic approach to self-care focus on?
An individualistic approach to self-care focuses primarily on
factors at the individual level (personal past history, age, coping skills) and personal care practices (daily meditation, mindfulness exercises, connecting socially)
Define Resilience
Resilience is a process of navigating through adversity, using internal and external resources (personal qualities, relationships, and environmental and contextual factors) to support healthy adaptation, recovery, and successful outcomes over the life course
____________ ______________ entails using collective mobilization to focus on changing environments—social contexts, organizations, institutions, policies.
Radical resilience
Name three religions encourage the submission of a wife to her husband.
Christian, Jewish, and Muslim
True or False.
European courts are hard on honour killings and crimes of passion
False.
European courts lenient on honour killings and crimes of passion.
Until _________, _________ still had a law against a husband beating his
wife after 10:00 PM or on a Sunday.
1981
Pennsylvania
What year did South Dakota make spousal rape a crime?
1975
In Canada, Bill C 127, passed on _____________, finally made sexual assault against one’s wife a criminal offence.
January 4, 1983
What is Bill 43?
THE DISCLOSURE TO PROTECT AGAINST
INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE ACT
What is the purpose of Bill 43?
The purpose of this Act is
(a) to give a person a process to make enquiries
about an intimate partner’s history, when the person
is concerned that the partner may pose a risk to the
safety of the person or the person’s child; and
(b) to assist the person with assessing that risk and
planning for their safety and to provide them with
relevant supports.
What year was the Royal Commission on the Status of Women created?
1967
What did the Royal Commission on the Status of Women do?
Recommended steps that the federal government should take to
ensure equal opportunities
Name 3 findings that were released when the Royal Commission on the Status of Women report became public in 1970.
- In 1970, only 3.9% of managers were women.
- Although 8 out of 10 provinces had equal-pay laws, women were still paid less than men for doing the same work.
- Two-thirds of people that were on welfare were women.
Name some of the 167 recommendations the Royal Commission on the Status of Women had.
*“Gender” and “marital status” be prohibited as grounds for discrimination by employers
*Birth control
*Training programs offered by the federal government be made more open to women
*Pensions
*The federal government name more women judges to all courts within its jurisdiction
*Daycare
*More qualified women from each province be appointed to the Senate as seats became vacant, until a more equitable balance between men and women were achieved
*Educational Opportunities for Women
*Employed women be granted eighteen weeks of unemployment benefits for maternity leave
In 1973, where were the first women’s shelters opened?
Interval House in Toronto
the Ishtar Women’s Resource Society in Langley BC
the Edmonton Women’s Shelter
What are the four stages in the cycle of abuse?
- building tension
- an incident of abuse
- reconciliation
- calm
Name the Ten Ways to Provide a Trauma-Informed Response to Gender-Based Violence Disclosures
- Understand it is a process.
- Validate that it is not easy to come forward to speak about the violence.
- State limits of confidentiality in privacy.
- Engage in active listening.
- Provide culturally safe and culturally based responses.
- Take a nonjudgmental stance.
- Convey that the violence is never the fault of the survivor.
- Believe, empathize, and normalize the survivors’ reactions to the violence.
- Support this survivor to have control over their disclosure - what to disclose and how much to disclose.
- Provide survivors with information and resources in a safe manner.
__________________ threatens injury, death, or the physical integrity of
self or others. Causes horror, terror, or helplessness. Sexual abuse,
physical abuse, domestic violence, community and school violence,
medical trauma, motor vehicle accidents, acts of terrorism. War
experiences, natural and human made disasters, suicides, and other
traumatic losses.
Traumatic events
__________________ is not the event! It is the individual’s response to the event!
Trauma
This type of stress occurs when an extreme experience overwhelms
and alters the individuals stress related psychological systems in a
way that results in functional compromise in any of the widely
distributed stress response systems.
Traumatic stress
Name the 6 of the groups deeply affected by COVID19
- Seniors
- Women
- Children
- Racialized individuals
- People excluded from government relief measures
- Under resourced First Nation communities
Daily transitions that collectively influence our bodies and brains.
Stress Response Systems
5 Factors that predicts one’s capacity to cope
biological, psychological, interpersonal, and sociocultural
What are the 4 “R”s of Trauma informed practice?
Realizes the widespread impact of trauma and understands potential paths for recovery
Recognizes the signs and symptoms of trauma in clients, families, staff, and others involved with the system
Responds fully integrating knowledge about trauma into policies, procedures, and practices
Resist actively RESIST re-traumatization
“any active gender-based violence that results in physical, sexual or
psychological harm or suffering to women, including threats of such
acts, coercion, or arbitrary deprivations of liberty, whether occurring
in public or private life.”
United Nations definition of violence against women
“violence that is committed against someone based on their gender identity, gender expression or perceived gender.”
Gender-based violence
What are the two things infants, toddlers, and preschoolers need to thrive and meet their individual potential?
Good relationships and good nutrition
What is Infant and early childhood mental health (sometimes referred to as social and emotional development)?
The developing capacity of the child from birth to age 5 years to:
*Form close and secure adult and peer relationships
*Experience, manage and express a full range of emotions
*Explore the environment and learn - all in the context of family, community and culture.
