Vocab and Terms Flashcards
Define Readiness
Determines a person’s stage of preparation for a transition or shift in their life.
Define maturation
Implies that the individual is moving up to the next, higher level of development. A person does this by learning from their past and adjusting to the demands of the present and future.
Define crisis
Describes periods when a person must face an important decision and make a decision that could cause that person to move forward, backward, or remain the same. The presence of a crisis is referred to as a challenge
Define growth
Implies that the individualsare moving forward toward maturity with greater complexity and differentiation.
Define challenge
May occur in one or more areas of life that could include family, school, work, or other situations.
A challenge arises from new or changing circumstances combined with an individual’s internal reactions (thoughts, feelings, attitudes, and reactions).
Define dissonance
The discomfort and anxiety you feel when the status quo is disrupted.
Often experienced when behaviors and actions do not match your beliefs or values
Define Implicit Bias
An unconscious association, belief, or attitude toward any social group.
Define Discrimination
The unequal treatment of members of various groups based on race, gender, social class, sexual orientation, physical ability, religion, and other categories.
Define Microagressions
The everyday verbal, nonverbal slights which communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative messages about marginalized identities.
Define Privilege
an unearned advantage you have over a person or a group of people.
Define Intersectionality
Intersectionality is the interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender as they apply to a given individual or group, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage.
Define Oppression
A system that maintains advantage and disadvantage based on social group memberships and operates, intentionally and unintentionally, on individual, institutional, and cultural levels
