Week 8- 12 EXAM 2 Flashcards

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The Changing American Family Video: What things have changed in relation to the family?

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  • Portraying families white families on TV
  • –> Today, TV portrays divers/multicultural families
  • 2 same-gender couples not being able to adopt/mary
  • ——>Today same-sex marriage is now legal/adoption for same-sex couples
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The Changing American Family Video: What things have stayed the same in relation to the family?

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  • Gender stereotypes

- —-> positions/jobs certain people are “supposed” to have

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What is men’s and woman’s spheres?

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  • It is the emergence of separate spheres
  • woman and men have their separate lives
    INDUSTRIAL IDEA
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What are the spheres of men and women?

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Men Speheres: Wprld outisde the home

Woman Spheres: Home, relatives, and children

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What is the Companionship Family?

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  • An IDEAL type of family characterized by the mutual affection, equality, and comradeship of its members
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What is Companionate Marriage?

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    • A view of marriage as companionship, a friendship, and a romance, rather than as a practical platform for cooperation and survival
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How is marriage typically viewed?

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  • As a buisness arangemnt

- Women need financial security, exchange goods/ favors between families

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What is the Birth Rate Plunge?

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  • Woman had an average of 1.8 children

- Both men and woman are delaying marriage

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What is cohabitation?

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  • Sharing of a household by unmarried persons who have a sexual relationship
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What were the effects of cohabitation ?

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  • Divorce rates doubled during the 1960s and 1970s

- Married woman continued to woke outside the home( “white woman”: POC were always working because of poverty)

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Change in one aspect of families Marriage

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  • In 1960, 50% of all woman were married before they turned 21
  • Today, less then 20% of woman are married before they turn 21
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12
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What is Implicit Bias?

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  • Attitudes or stereotypes that we develop toward certain groups of people can affect our understanding, actions, and decisions in an unconscious manner
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Is everyone biased?

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  • YES! even people who work on this, or think about it? why?
  • —> People are biologically programmed to put things into categories; to determine if someone is safe or not safe, discriminate, or to not discriminate, make decisions, etc.
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How can we overcome bias and stereotypes?

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  • Educate yourself
  • Questioning your own biases
  • Having discussions
  • Perspective-taking
  • Reflection Introspect
  • Recognition
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15
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What factors impact families?

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  • Discrimination and Microagressions
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What is Microagression?

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  • Backhand comments that people think are positive, but really are negative
  • Hostile communication; derogatory or negative racial insults towards people of color
  • daily occurrences; “put-downs”
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What are some exampled of microsgression?

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  • ” You are so articulate!”
  • Saying to an Asian person: “ Can you help me with this math problem?”
  • “you are not like the rest of them, you’re different, you work hard”
  • “Everyone can succeed in this society If they work hard enough”
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What is discrimination?

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  • Targeting someone
  • The practice of unfairly targeting a person/group of people diff. from other people based on certain characteristics
  • Historical patterns of discrimination in the U.S that have become systematic forms of oppression
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What are some impacts of discrimination on individuals and families?

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  • Racial discrimination is associated with mental health disorders (depression, anxiety, drug use,)
  • Increased stress in the body is associated with the decreased immune system, heart disease, and type 2 diabetes
  • The more young people felt discriminated against, the less they identified as American
20
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Implications for research?

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  • Discrimination and racism HAVE to be considered when working with families who ar remembers of ethnic-racial minority groups
21
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What is Racial Socialization?

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  • Set of parenting strategies designed to prepare children for the developmental challenges of being a person of color
22
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What is the development of collective identities?

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1) Emotional protection from discrimination
2) a sense of affiliation to an ingroup
3) A way to understand and relate to other cultures and groups
- Education
Understanding and open-mindedness

23
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What are the demographics of immigrant families over the life course?

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  • U.S foreign-born population= 44.9 million( 13.7% of the total population)
  • this includes documented and undocumented*
  • 23.2 million female immigrants in the U.S (51.8%) of foreign born
24
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How does immigration today compare to past years?

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  • 13.7 % in 2019
  • 4.7% in 1970
  • 14.8 % in 2018
25
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Immigration: What are the leading sending countries?

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  • Mexico: 25%
  • China: 6%
  • India: 6%
  • Philippines: 4%
  • El Salvador: 3%
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Immigration: What are the leading resettlement states?

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  • California: 24%
  • Texas: 11%
  • Florida: 10%
  • New York: 9%
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Immigrant Patterns over the Life Course?

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  • The life course state at which migration occurs can affect multiple and various aspects of family life
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First vs Second generation?

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  • Children with immigrant parents*
  • First-generation: Immigrants who are born outside of the U.S ( also known as foreign-born)

-Second Generation: U.S born children with at least one foreign-born parent

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What is 1.5 generation?

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  • Those who emigrate to the u.s prior to age 12ish ( or prior to adolescence)
30
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Children of immigrant youth?

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  • immigrant youth are the faster-growing population of children in the United Staes
  • In 201, 17.8 million children under the age of 18 lived with at least one immigrant parent –> 26% of all U.S citizens
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What is the immigrant paradox?

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  • Contradiction/ offset
  • As immigrant children and adolescents acculturate to the U.S( over time and generations) Their devolvement outcomes become less optimal
  • Most noticeable in education outcomes and hath outcomes
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Family Interactions?

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  • Many immigrant families are characterized by collectivist values and beliefs
  • Acculturation gap exists in many immigrant families
  • Children often serve as cultural brokers
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What is the acculturation gap?

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  • The group that exists among parents are their children in the level of acceleration to the mainstream culture
34
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What are the implications for research and practice?

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  • immigrant children and families have unique needs
  • cultural factors should be taken into account whenever possible
    • Strengths and resilient factors should be acknowledged
35
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Who is a refugee?

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  • A refugee is someone who has been forced to flee his or her own country because of prosecution, war, or violence( No preparation, very sudden)
  • War and ethnic, tribal and religious violence are leading causes of refugees fleeign their counties
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Refugees worldwide?

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  • One person becomes diplaced evrey 2 seconds
  • 84 million forcibly displaced individuals
    • 26.6 million refuges in the world, 48 million internally displaced people, 4.4 million asyum seekrs
  • 53% of refuges are school aged children under the age of 18 ( half are school aged children)
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Break down of displaced individuals?

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  • refugees: anyone who feels their own country into another country; crossing boarders
  • Dsiplaced people: A war/conflict happening that makes family flee aboher part of the country they are originally from
  • Asylum Seekers; Going to a diffenrt country because their life is at stake and cant return to their homeland
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Refugees in the United states?

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  • United States caps number of refugees it can admit per year
  • –> in 2021, 12500 refugees resettled in the United Staets
  • -> TX, CA, and NY resettle the most refugees ( and immigrants) about 25% of the U.S. total
39
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What is the refugee experience ??

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  • Pre migration
  • Migration
  • Post migration
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What happens during Pre Migration?

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  • Chaos, upheaval, violence, and trauma

- Disruption of schooling, very common fro refugee children

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What happens during Migration?

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  • Resettlement into a new country; lots of uncertainty
  • Seperation of Family members
  • Witnessing trauma and violence in refugee camps is common
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What happens during Post Migration ??

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  • Mourning the loss of home, family, an friends,
  • Expectations of the new country and the new environment
  • Children experiencing completely new school system
43
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Mental Health of Refugees?

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  • PTSD
    Depression and anxiety
  • Conduct problems ( behavioral problems such as aggression, fighting, hitting others, ect)
  • Peer problems; issues forming friendships and relationships
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Resilliance of refugees?

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  • refuges have been shown to have a remarkable degree of both resistance and resilience to mental health difficulties
  • not all refugees suffer from mental health issues!
  • Majority do not have a long term mental health issues
  • Factors that contribute to resilience: attachment relationships, soicla support, caregiver mental health, religious institutions, etc.
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Immplications for Practionioners and researchers ?

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  • refugee children and famlies have unique needs
  • Strenghths and resilent factors should be acknowledged and recognized
  • Provide culturally competent services
  • Integrate evidence based practices
    Address secondary trauma