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| UALR Program Core Competencies (bonus) |
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Identify as a professional social worker and conduct oneself accordingly.
Apply social work ethical principals to guide professional practice
Apply critical thinking to inform and communicate professional judgments.
Engage diversity and difference in practice.
Advance human rights and social justice and economic justice.
Engage in research-informed practice and practice-informed research.
Apply knowledge of human behavior and the social environment.
Engage in policy practice to advance social and economic well-being and to deliver effective social work services.
Respond to contexts that shape practice.
Engage, assess, intervene, and evaluate with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities. |
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| Where would you find social work values/ethics? |
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| Agency policy, licensing board, organization values |
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| Defense mechanisms (primitive) |
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Projection- The tendency to attribute to others unacceptable thoughts and feelings, who are then viewed as responsible for creating difficulties or problems
Denial- Involves the negation or non-acceptance of important aspects of reality, or of one's own experience
Splitting- Involves the tendency of the client to shift between "all good" and "all bad" ego states, unable to see in themselves, or others, both negative and positive qualities simultaneously
Primitive Idealization- Seeing others as totally good and needing gratifying. Acts to ward off feelings of anxiety associated with loss, abandonment, or vulnerability
Projective Identification- Projecting unwanted impulses-feelings onto another who then becomes feared and controlled by the person projecting
Omnipotent Control/Devaluation- Individual displays unrealistic, highly inflated sense of self in addition to an exaggerated, depreciated view of others and attempt to control others. Mechanism protects individual from feelings of abandonment
Introjection- Taking another person (object) into the self in order to avoid direct expression of love/hate, or to control the object. Acts as a self punishing, but seen as directed toward the inner object being introjected. |
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| Defense Mechanism (higher level) |
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Repression- Keeping unwanted thoughts, feelings, memories outside of one's awareness, or into the unconscious
Reaction Formation- One emotion is replaced by its opposite. It involves exaggerated and excessive responses of a person's effort to appear morally superior and beyond reproach.
Isolation- Feelings are separated from ideas, or memories of events and situations associated with traumatic events
Undoing- Nullifying or voiding, usually through some form of action, an unacceptable, or guilt provoking act, thought, or feeling
Regression- Returning to an earlier phase of development, or type of behavior in order to avoid the anxiety associated with what is occurring in the present
Turning Against the Self- Turning unacceptable impulses one has toward others against the self. One has unconscious anger toward another, then it is turned inwared toward the self, thus saving the person from guilt and at the same time releasing the anger.
Reversal- Turning traits, behaviors, or attitudes into their opposite. The individual is turning away from something threatening
Sublimation- Converting an impulse that was socially unacceptable, to one that is socially acceptable
Intellectualization- Warding off unacceptable feelings/impulses by thinking about them versus experiencing/feeling them
Rationalization- The use of convincing reasons to justify certain ideas, feelings or actions, so as to avoid recognizing their true motive which is unacceptable.
Displacement- Shifting feelings about one person/situation onto another
Somatization- Intolerable impulses/feelings are converted into physical symptoms
Idealization- The individual idealizes someone they are feeling angry or competitive toward
Altruism- Obtaining satisfaction through self-sacrifice
Asceticism- Involves the moral renunciation of certain pleasures in order to avoid the anxiety associated with impulse gratification
Compensation- Involves trying to make-up for, or ever-compensate for certain perceived deficiencies, or defects
Identification- Identify with others as a response to threat and conflict EX: an abused child who identifies with her aggressor in order to ward off anxiety |
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| Guardianship, financial, medication management, refusing treatment, where do they go when health is failing, funeral arrangements |
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| Gives primary attention to the rational part of the mind and the human capacity for adaptation. It recognizes conscious as well as unconscious attempts to cope, and the importance of both past and present experiences. Defense mechanisms, unconscious processes that keep intolerable threats from conscious awareness. Result of Freudian theory. |
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| Studies how people develop attitudes toward others in the context of early nurturing relationships, and how these attitudes affect the view of the self as well as social relationships. |
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| History of Psychodynamic Perspective |
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| Began by the work of Freud, and evolved through Jung, Klein, Horney, and Erikson to name a few. More recent formulations include ego psychology, object relations, self psychology, and relational-cultural theories. Concerned with how internal processes such as needs, drives, and emotions motivate human behavior |
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| Developmental Perspective |
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| The focus is on how human behavior unfolds across the life course, how people change and stay the same over time. Human development occurs in clearly defined stages based on a complex interaction of biological, psychological, and social processes. Each new stage involves new tasks and brings changes in social roles and statuses. Erikson proposed an epigenetic model of human development, in which the psychological unfolding of personality takes place in sequences. |
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| 6 Interior Environment Systems |
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| Nervous system, endocrine system, immune system, cardiovascular system, musculoskeletal system, and the reproductive system |
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| A feature that can be focused on separately, but that cannot be understood without considering its embeddedness with other features |
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| A process of changing one's culture by incorporating elements of another culture; a mutual sharing of cultural |
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| The process by which the world's people are becoming more interconnected economically, politically, environmentally, and culturally |
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| Patterns of group differences |
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| Individual-level variations, differences among individuals |
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| A method of reasoning that lays out general, abstract propositions that can be used to generate specific hypotheses to test in unique situations |
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| An approach that sees human behavior as the outcome of reciprocal interactions of persons operating within organized and integrated social systems |
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| A process by which information about past behaviors in a system is fed back into the system in a circular manner |
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| A process by which information about past behaviors in a system is fed back into the system in a circular manner |
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| An approach to human behavior that draws attention to conflict, dominance, and oppression in social life |
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| Rational Choice Perspective |
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| An approach that sees human behavior as based in self-interest and rational choices about effective goal accomplishment |
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| A theory in the rational choice perspective that sees human behavior as based on the desire to maximize benefits and minimize costs in social interactions |
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| A developing theory in the rational choice perspective that focuses on the pattern of ties that link persons and collectivities |
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| In cognitive social learning theory, a situation in which a person's prior experience with environmental forces has led to low self-efficacy and efficacy expectation |
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| What is the bio-psycho-social approach |
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| Its the approach of assessing the biology, psychology, and social history of the client |
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| Recognize values listed in the NASW |
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service
social justice
dignity and worth of the person
importance of human relationships
integrity
competence |
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| What theory consists of interrelated family structure, impacted external factors, different roles, and boundary violations? |
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| What theory discusses how changing behavior can change thinking, and changing think can change behavior |
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| What is the difference between spirituality and religion? |
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| Spirituality is more of a relationship or how you feel, Religion is more organized and formalized. |
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| Connections among individuals based on reciprocity and trustworthiness |
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| Who is in the family system |
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| What is the first basic need in Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs? |
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| Duties and positions, expected behaviors, society decides how it's played |
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| Who is the Father of Psychoanalytic? |
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| What are epigenetic theories? |
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| Development theories where one has to complete a stage in order to go on to the next one. A person is stuck in that stage if they do not complete it. An example is when people do drugs stay at the same developmental stage as before they began heavily doing drugs. |
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| What are boundary violations? |
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| Inappropriate behavior, keeping things in/out, penetrates boundaries such as affair, losing your job, and healthcare |
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| Which of the following is NOT one of Wilber's key components in his theory of integral consciousness? |
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| True or False: Spirituality is meant to include both concepts of religion and nonreligion to convey meaning for an individual |
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| Which two theorists developed the idea of spiritual/faith development? |
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| What is the basic working unit of the nervous system? |
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| What are the factors that affect the connection between lower income and poor health? |
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| People with lower income engage in disproportionately high risk behaviors and lifestyles, People with lower income are more likely to be exposed to hazards in the physical environment, People with lower incomes are exposed to more stressors and have fewer resources for coping with stress |
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| Systems framework describe and explain human phenomena as a set of which of the following? |
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| True or False: A exosystem are the linkages between a microsystem and a macrosystem |
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| True or False: Heterogeneity refers to the differences among groups. Diversity refers to patterns of individual differences. |
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| Which one of these is not a category of psychological stress? |
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| True or False: Our efforts to master the demands are known as coping |
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| According to social identity theory, what are the 5 stages of social development? |
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| Resistance, internalization, redefinition, acceptance, and naivete |
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| Focuses on the individual need to organize the personality into a cohesive sense of self and to build relationships that support this sense of self |
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| Began by Bowlby (used monkeys) and Ainsworth. Both discuss how the consistency of the nurturer is key to creating healthy future relationships |
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| Understanding that even if the object seems to disappear, it's still there (Peek a boo) |
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| Replacing an object such as a blankie for a caregiver |
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| Chemicals that harm the fetus |
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| Who develops more quickly? |
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| Imaginative play with 3 year olds, Adventurous play for 4 year olds, developing precision in fine motor skills play with 5 year olds, also there is social play, pretend play, fantasy play, symbolic play |
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| Ghost in the nursery discusses developmental risk factors such as? |
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| What does trauma cause in early childhood development? |
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| evidence that the structure of the brain changes, behavior changes |
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| What behaviors do adolescents display that lead to mental health problems? |
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| Isolation, risky behaviors, symptoms of depression, acting out, change in sleep pattern |
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| What are the key issues for adolescent homelessness? |
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| Malnourishment, not being able to do homework, increased chance of victimization, cognition problems |
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| Adverse Childhood Experience |
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| A will completed while the person is in their right mind |
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| What are some risk factors for late adulthood? |
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| Social isolation, spouse may die |
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| How people view their environment |
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| Erikson's Stages of Psychosocial Development |
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1 Infancy- Trust versus mistrust
2 Early Childhood-Autonomy versus shame and doubt
3 Play Age- Initiative versus guilt
4 School Age- Industry versus inferiority
5 Adolescence- Identity versus identity diffusion
6 Young Adulthood- Intimacy versus isolation
7 Adulthood- Generativity versus self-absorpotion
8 Mature Age- Integrity versus disgust and despair |
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| Kohlberg's Stages of Moral Development |
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Preconventional- Heteronomous morality. Accepting what the world says is right. Instrumental purpose. Defining the good as whatever is agreeable to the self and those in the immediate environment
Conventional- Interpersonal experiences. Seeking conformity and consistency in moral action with significant others. The societal point of view. Seeking conformity and consistency with what one perceives to be the opinions of the larger community.
Postconventional- Ethics. Observing individual and group societal rights. Conscience and logic. Seeking to apply universal principles of right and wrong. |
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| Piaget's Stages of Cognitive Operations- includes schema |
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Birth to 2- Sensorimotor stage, The infant is egocentric; he or she gradually learns to coordinate sensory and motor activities and develops a beginning sense of objects existing apart from the self
2 to 7- Preoperational stage, The child remains primarily egocentric but discovers rules that can be applied to new incoming information. The child tends to overgeneralize rules, however, and thus makes many cognitive errors
7 to 11- Concrete Operational Stage, The child can solve concrete problems through the application of logical problem-solving strategies
11 to adulthood- Formal Operational Stage, The person becomes able to solve real and hypothetical problems using abstract concepts |
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| What are some guidelines for praising children? |
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| Praise and discuss the particular behavior they accomplished that was positive. |
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| When is the functional age? |
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| Whenever a person can complete Adult Daily Living Skills |
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| A collectivity of people with a high degree of formality of strcture, working together to meet a goal or goals. Addresses three basic questions of how can we undrestand current changing organizations, how can we live in these organizations, and how can we more healthily live with these organization? |
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| Summary of Perspectives on Formal Organization |
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Rational Perspective: The organization is a goal-directed, purposefully designed machine (closed system)
Systems Perspective: The organization is in constant interaction with multiple environments
Interpretive Perspective: The organization is a social construction of reality
Critical Perspective: Organizations are instruments of domination |
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| 5 Theoretical Approaches to Community |
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Contrasting Types Approach: Communities can be dichotomized as either gemeinschaft (personal and traditional) or gesellschaft (impersonal and contractual)
Spatial Arrangements Approach: Territorial communities can be understood by considering their spatial arrangements
Social Systems Approach: Communities can be understood by studying their patterns of social interaction, their cultures and social structures
Social Capital Approach: Communities can be understood by examining their levels of social cohesion
Conflict Approach: Communities can be understood by examining their power structure and patterns of domination and coercion |
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| Cultural Framing (CF) Perspective on Social Movements |
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| A social movement can succeed only when participants develop shared understandings and definitions of the situation. These shared meanings develop through a transactional process of consciousness raising, which social movement scholars call CF. CF involves conscious strategic efforts by groups of people to fashion shared understandings of the world and of themselves that legitimate and motivate collective action |
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| Large-scale collective actions to make change, or resist change, in specific social institutions |
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| Exchange Theory (small groups) |
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| Focuses on power issues in small groups, who gets valued resources and how fairly they are perceived as being distributed |
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| Family Life Cycle Perspective |
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| An approach that looks at how families change over time and proposes normative changes and tasks at different stages |
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| The social science that studies human aging |
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| A search for purpose, meaning, and connection between oneself other people, the universe, and the ultimate reality, which can be experienced within either a religious or a nonreligious framework |
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| People bound either by geography or by webs of communication, sharing common ties, and interacting with one another |
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| Types of Groups (pg. 334) |
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Therapy- Groups for college students run by university counseling center; groups for male adolescents who engage in sexual harm
Mutual Aid- Groups for cancer survivors
Psycho-educational- Groups for couples preparing to adopt a child; groups to teach parents how to use adaptive equipment for children with disabilities
Self-help- Twelve-step groups
Task- A committee to examine low-income housing needs that is instructed to submit a report of their findings to the city council |
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| Social Capital Approach to communities in its simplest terms is community cohesion; based in dense social networks, high levels of civil management; a sense of solidarity and equality among members and norms of reciprocity and trustworthiness. Five components of the Social Capital approach are identified by the World Bank: |
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Groups and networks
Trust and solidarity
Collective action and cooperation
Social cohesion and inclusion
Information and communication |
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| While some people in the US think that social capital is declining in the US due to: |
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Pressure of time and money
Suburbanization community and sprawl
Electronic communication
Generation change
Others argue that instead of declining that community has been changing- networks remain large and strong |
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| A new theory was proposed called collective efficacy, which is the "capacity of community residents to achieve social control over the environment and to engage in collective action for the common good |
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| PSOC Psychological Sense of Community has 4 essential elements |
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Membership
Influence
Integration and fulfillment of needs
Shared emotional connection |
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| Social capital theorists acknowledge that social capital theory can be used for antisocial as well as prosocial purposes |
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| What is cognitive distortion? |
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| All or nothing thinking, JONAB Just Only Never Always But, Included in Moral Reasoning |
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| Overview of Psychoanalytic theory |
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Ego is the person's ideas, Id is the pleasure principle, Superego is the reality principle (angel)
Also include defense mechanisms
Began by Freud |
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| Who started epigenetic theories? |
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| What does play help with? |
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| social-emotional skills, cognition |
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| How do you know when a child is school ready? |
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| Language, social and emotional skills, and cognitive skills |
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| What does a child miss out on when going from homeschool to public school? |
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| Taking turns, lining up, sharing |
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| What does family of choice mean? |
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| Who you pick to be in your family |
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| What defense mechanism is used in the example, planning a graduation party even though the person is failing classes? |
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| What are some aspects of psychodynamic perspective? |
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| Pleasure seeking, not thinking at all |
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| When working with elders, look for __ which results in not being healthy |
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| What are some risks to look for in early childcare? |
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| Malnourishment and attachment issues |
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| When does word explosion take place? |
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| vocabulary increases at 18 months |
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| What would a cognitive psychotherapy type of relationship look like? |
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| Collaborative relationship |
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