Human Growth and Development Flashcards
Systems
Systems are made up of interrelated parts, each part impacts all other parts, as well as as a system as a whole. Space the dynamic interactions within, between, and among systems produced, build stability and change.
Conflict
Clients try to advance their own interest over the interest of others as a compete for scarce resources. Power is unequally divided in some social groups, Omni others. Members of non-dominant groups become alienated from society. Social changes driven by conflict.
Rational choice
Clients are rational and goal directed in human interaction involves exchange of social resources such as love, approval, information, money, and physical labor. Clients have self interest and try to maximize rewards and minimize cost. Power comes from unequal resources and exchanges.
Social constructionist
Social reality is created when clients, in social interaction, develop a common understanding of the world. Clients are influenced by social processes that are grounded in customs, as well as cultural historical context.
Psychodynamic
Unconscious, as well as conscious, mental activity serves as the motivating force and human behavior. Early childhood experiences essential in clients may become overwhelmed by internal or external demands. Defense mechanisms are used to avoid becoming overwhelmed.
Developmental
Human development occurs in defined, age related stages that build upon one other artist distinct. Human development is a complex and her action biological, psychological, and social factors.
Social behavioral
Human behaviors learned when clients interact with the environment through association, reinforcement, and imitation. All human problems can be formulated as undesirable behavior and can be changed through techniques such as classical and operant conditioning.
Humanistic perspective
Each client is unique and is responsible for the choices here she makes clients have a capacity to change themselves because human behavior is driven by a desire for growth, personal meaning, incompetence. Behaving ways are not consistent with the truth of causes clients anxiety.
Social development, Erik Erikson
Interested in how children’s socialize and how this affects your sense of self. There are eight distinct stages.
Trust vs. Mistrust (Infancy, 0-1 year)
Developing trust when caregiver needs are met; mistrust emerges when needs are not consistently fulfilled.
Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt (Early Childhood, 1-3 years):
Fostering autonomy through independence; failure may lead to feelings of shame and doubt.
Initiative vs. Guilt (Preschool Age, 3-6 years):
Encouraging initiative by exploring and taking on new tasks; guilt may arise from overstepping boundaries.
Industry vs. Inferiority (School Age, 6-12 years):
Mastering new skills and tasks; feelings of inferiority may occur if one struggles with competence.
Identity vs. Role Confusion (Adolescence, 12-18 years):
Exploring personal identity and forming a sense of self; confusion may arise from lacking a clear direction.
Intimacy vs. Isolation (Young Adulthood, 18-40 years):
Forming intimate relationships with others; isolation may result from inability to connect deeply.
Generativity vs. Stagnation (Middle Adulthood, 40-65 years):
Contributing to society and helping the next generation; stagnation may occur if one feels unproductive.
Ego Integrity vs. Despair (Maturity, 65+ years):
Reflecting on life with a sense of fulfillment or regret; integrity leads to wisdom, while despair leads to bitterness.
Piaget -Moral Development
Stage1: Sensorimotor, age 0-2,
retains image of objects, develops primitive logic and manipulating objects, begins intentional actions, plays, imitative, singles, meaning, infinite invest, meaning in event, example: babysitter, arriving means mother is leaving, symbol, meaning language begins in last part of stage.
Piaget-Moral Development
Preoperational Ages 2-7 Years
Progress from concrete to abstract, thinking, can comprehend pass, present, and future, nighters, acquires words and symbols, magical thinking, thinking is not generalized, thinking is concrete, irreversible, and egocentric. Cannot see another point of view, thinking is centered on one detail our event, imaginary friends, often merge during the stage and may last in elementary school. Although children do interact with them, most know that their friends are not real and only pretend they are real. This having an imaginary friend and childhood design indicate the presence of a disorder. Is a normal part of development and social workers normalized behavior with parents who are distressed about this activity during his developmental Stage
Piaget-Moral Development
Stage 3: Concrete Operational 7-11 years
Beginnings of abstract, plays games with rules, cause-and-effect, relationship, understood, logical, implications, are understood, thinking is independent of experience, thinking is reversible, rules of logic are developed.
Piaget- Moral Development
Stage 4: Formal Operations Ages 11 through Maturity
Higher level abstraction, planning for future, things, hypothetically, assumes adult roles and responsibilities.
Kohlberg
Kohlberg believe that moral development pearls Congress development. Kohlberg‘s theory holds at moral reasoning, which is a basis for ethical behavior, has six identifiable developmental, constructive stages, each more adequate at responding to tomorrow’s llamas in the last.
Kohlberg -Six moral stages of development
Preconventional
Preconventional - Elementry school level before age 9.
Stage 1: child obey, and authority figure out of fear of punishment. Obedience/punishment.
Stage 2: child acts acceptably as it is in her or his best interest. Conforms to rules to receive rewards.
Kohlberg -Six moral stages of development
Conventional follow stereotypic norms of morality, early adolescence
Stage 3: person asked to gain an approval from others. Good boy/good girl orientation.
Stage 4: obey laws and fulfills, obligations and duties to maintain social system. Rules or rules. Avoids censure and guilt.
Kohlberg -Six moral stages of development
Postconventional this level is not reached by most adults. -Adults
Stage 5: genuine interest in welfare of others, concern with individual rights and being morally, right
Stage 6: guided by individual principles based on broad, universal ethical principles. Concern for larger universal issues of morality.
Behaviorist (Pavlov, Skinner)
Learning is viewed through change in behavior and the stimuli in the external environment are the locus of learning. Social workers seem to change the external environment in order to bring about desire change.