Foster care Flashcards
Common characteristics of foster care
Frequently moving schools, separation from siblings, high-risk behaviors
Foster care: Risk factors
History
Inconsistent management- irregular timely care
Education- r/f lower education, outcomes
Needs- child welfare, mental health, legal educational support
No matter how vulnerable a person is they have what?
STRENGTHS
-Choose to adopt a strength based practice
ACE’s and foster care
- Both + and - shape our brain and physiology- Neuroendocrine
ACEs include but are not limited too: - Divorce
- Household substance, sexual, emotional abuse
- Incarceration of family member
- Spouse violence
- Frequent moods
Stress becomes toxic when?
Toxic when there is “strong, frequent, prolonged activation of the body’s stress response in the absence of the buffering protection of a supportive, adult relationship”
T/F ACES: effects cannot be magnified through generations even if not addressed
False; effects can be magnified through generations if not addressed
ACES: Incarceration impacts on families
Financial cost to individuals and family, $$$$
-Multifactorial
T/F Toxic stress negatively impacts brain development
True
Traumatic stress
Effects multiply when trauma continues
Neglect (almost always chronic)
Exposure can begin early ( even during prenatal period)
T/F Effects of traumatic stress are severe when it involves the primary care giver**
True
Using trauma informed care to better address:
Take a step back and look at S/Sx of signs of stress, rather than focus on pathology.
Toxic stress can present as:
Attention deficits
Emotional dysregulation
Oppositional behaviors
(some of these can show roots of early abuse)
T/F in regards to toxic stress: Assessment is not necessary to appropriately understand the causes of a child’s symptoms.
False; We HAVE to assess appropriately to understand the causes of a child’s symptoms
Toxic stress: What do we ASK?***
What HAPPENED to you? rather than, what is the matter with you?
Brain development
The brain is not structurally complete at birth
Structural development is guided by: Environmental cues; physical & emotional environment which influence brain development
Effective stimulation/brain development requires….
Interaction with other people
**Caregivers must be consistent and predictable
T/F Consistency and predictability of caregivers is non-essential
FALSE; caregivers MUST be consistent and predictable
Brain development** A hidden aspect of human potential
Both + and - influence
T/F infants need at least 2 secure caregiver attachments
False; Infants need at least 1 secure caregiver attachment
T/F Gene expression determines neuroendocrine structure and is strongly influenced by experience
True
Epigenetic modifications
Cause changes in brain and can change development
Brain development cont.
The body’s systems are mutually interactive
–The more emotionally charged a learning situation is, the more likely it is to result in long-term modifications
T/F The more emotionally charged a learning situation is, the more likely it is to result in long-term modifications
True
Effect of trauma on parenting ability
- Adults who experienced ACE’s in their early years can exhibit maladaptive responses to parenting.
- ACEs increase the change of risk factors; abuse, risky behaviors
- All of these can affect parenting in a negative way and perpetuate a continuing exposure to ACEs across generations by transmission of epigenetic changes to the genome.
