Module 2: Some Major Concepts in the Ecological Perspective Flashcards
involves the conditions, circumstances, and human interactions that encompass human beings.
includes the actual physical setting that society provides.
Social Environment
is the natural power of active involvement between people and their environments.
Energy
is the capacity to adjust to surrounding environmental conditions. It implies ongoing process of change.
Adaptation
is the extent to which “an individual’s or a collective group’s needs, rights, goals, and capacities” match or fit the environment’s abilities to meet that person’s or group’s physical, social, and cultural needs.
Person-in-environment fit
is the resulting physiological and/or emotional tension produced by a stressor that affects a person’s internal balance.
Stress
include any of a wide range of variables and circumstances: traumatic events such as sudden deaths or discovery of fatal disease.
Stressors
is a form of adaptation where “efforts to regulate immobilizing, negative feelings” and problem-solving strategies are applied “to handle the demands posed by the life stressor.
Coping
Enumerate the three main Administrative Group
(1) Clusters of Supervisors and Administrators
(2) Board of Directors
(3) Advisory Boards
one common type of administrative group “is composed of supervisors, department heads, or other administrative staff”
Clusters of Supervisors and Administrators
is another type of administrative group. It is a group of people authorized to formulate the organization’s mission, objectives, and policies and to oversee the organization’s ongoing activities.
Board of Directors
another type of administrative group which group members are recruited because of their expertise and interest in the agency’s services.
Advisory Boards
Enumerate wide range of professional roles
(1) Advocate
(2) Mediator
(3) Integrator/Coordinator
(4) General Manager
(5) Educator
(6) Analyst/Evaluator
(7) Broker
(8) Facilitator
(9) Initiator
(10) Negotiator
(11) Mobilizer
one who steps forward on the behalf of the client system in order to promote fair and equitable treatment or gain needed resources.
Advocate
one who resolves arguments or disagreements among micro, mezzo, or macro systems by assuming a neutral role.
Mediator
one who oversees the process of assembling different elements to form a cohesive whole, product or process.
Integrator/Coordinator
one who assumes some level of administrative responsibility for a social services agency or other organizational system.
General Manager
one who gives information and teaches skills to other systems.
Educator
one who determines the effectiveness of a program or agency for an organization or community.
Analyst/Evaluator
one who links any size system with community resources and services.
Broker
one who guides a group experience.
Facilitator
one who calls attention to an issue or problem.
Initiator
one who acts to settle disputes and/or resolve disagreements, acting on the behalf of one of the parties involved.
Negotiator
one who identifies and convenes community people and resources and makes them responsive to unmet community needs.
Mobilizer
is the condition of being attached to others in friendships, social networks, kinship, and other positive relationships in the social environment.
Relatedness
the mutual reliance of each person upon each other person.
Interdependence
is the careful scrutiny of what is stated as true or what appears to be true and the resulting expression of an opinion or conclusion based on that scrutiny.
Critical thinking
Enumerate the Triple A approach to seriously examine and evaluate its validity
(1) Ask questions
(2) Assess the established facts and issues involved
(3) Assert a concluding opinion
Enumerate the four Focus on Empowerment and the strengths perspective
(1) Positive sense of self worth and competence
(2) Ability to influence the course of one’s life
(3) Capacity to work with others to control aspects of public life
