CD 450 MIDTERM 1 questions with
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How does the "risk and resilience" framework help to identify potential problems and
interventions/policies to support children, youth, and families? - ANS ✔✔-The risk and
resilience framework is an integrated person-in-environment that draws on concepts and
tenants from a variety of disciplines, including public health, psychology, social work, and
sociology.
-A young person's life is nested within levels of influence that are characterized by physical and
social environments; these environments are purported to have proximal and distal effects on
children's lives.
-This framework also posits that the relationships between children, youth, and families and
environmental systems are interactive and bidirectional.
What are some common risk factors? - ANS ✔✔-Risk factors are "any event, condition, or
experience that increases the probability that a problem will be formed, maintained, or
exacerbated"
- Risk factors can include individual factors, family and household factors, school and peer
factors. and community and societal factors
- Individual factors: Genetic predisposition, low self-worth, difficult temperament, chronic illness
etc.
-Family and Household Factors: Housing instability, food insecurity, family economic hardship
etc.
-School and peer factors: Low academic performance, bullying or rejection by peers,
unsupportive school climate
- Community and Societal Factors: presence of toxins, hazards and health threats, blocked
opportunities for socioeconomic advancement etc.
What are some common protective factors? - ANS ✔✔Individual Factors: High intelligence, low
childhood stress, easy temperament etc.
, Family and Household Factors: Adequate socioeconomic resources, low parental conflict,
attachment to parents or caregivers and positive parent-child relationships
School and peer factors: Support for early learning, positive teacher expectations, ability to
make friends and get along with others
Community and societal factors: Opportunities for education, employment, and other prosocial
activities etc.
What is the "ordinary magic of resilience"? - ANS ✔✔Ordinary magic is common protective
factors that can be found everywhere and within everyone (promotive and protective factors)
How does poverty play a role in increasing risk? - ANS ✔✔In more unsafe communities, can't
afford basic needs, isolated, schools get money through property tax so not as good, less
cognitive stimulation at home, parental stress, poor executive functioning, poor socioemotional
behavior, can't sustain full time career
What are some ways to protect children from the risks of poverty? maltreatment? School
failure? Or enhance outcomes for children with disabilities? - ANS ✔✔Create a strong sense of
community, more intervention programs, strong school bond, provide better resources
-Teaching self efficacy: The belief that you can successfully perform a set of tasks and attain a
goal (or control outcomes in a certain context)
-Universal Child Benefit
-Help low-income households build financial assets
-Expected to lead to positive changes in self-efficacy, civic participation, child well being
-Build integrated and systems-level-approaches- communities
-Align Federal Child Welfare funding to prevent maltreatment and keep families together
-Children with disabilities need early diagnosis & Intervention, as well as case managers and
caregivers that are competent and can be advocates for their children
How does developmental science inform/ and how is it informed by social issues and policies/
practice? (Refer to examples from Huston) - ANS ✔✔-Huston talks about how his
correct complete solutions
How does the "risk and resilience" framework help to identify potential problems and
interventions/policies to support children, youth, and families? - ANS ✔✔-The risk and
resilience framework is an integrated person-in-environment that draws on concepts and
tenants from a variety of disciplines, including public health, psychology, social work, and
sociology.
-A young person's life is nested within levels of influence that are characterized by physical and
social environments; these environments are purported to have proximal and distal effects on
children's lives.
-This framework also posits that the relationships between children, youth, and families and
environmental systems are interactive and bidirectional.
What are some common risk factors? - ANS ✔✔-Risk factors are "any event, condition, or
experience that increases the probability that a problem will be formed, maintained, or
exacerbated"
- Risk factors can include individual factors, family and household factors, school and peer
factors. and community and societal factors
- Individual factors: Genetic predisposition, low self-worth, difficult temperament, chronic illness
etc.
-Family and Household Factors: Housing instability, food insecurity, family economic hardship
etc.
-School and peer factors: Low academic performance, bullying or rejection by peers,
unsupportive school climate
- Community and Societal Factors: presence of toxins, hazards and health threats, blocked
opportunities for socioeconomic advancement etc.
What are some common protective factors? - ANS ✔✔Individual Factors: High intelligence, low
childhood stress, easy temperament etc.
, Family and Household Factors: Adequate socioeconomic resources, low parental conflict,
attachment to parents or caregivers and positive parent-child relationships
School and peer factors: Support for early learning, positive teacher expectations, ability to
make friends and get along with others
Community and societal factors: Opportunities for education, employment, and other prosocial
activities etc.
What is the "ordinary magic of resilience"? - ANS ✔✔Ordinary magic is common protective
factors that can be found everywhere and within everyone (promotive and protective factors)
How does poverty play a role in increasing risk? - ANS ✔✔In more unsafe communities, can't
afford basic needs, isolated, schools get money through property tax so not as good, less
cognitive stimulation at home, parental stress, poor executive functioning, poor socioemotional
behavior, can't sustain full time career
What are some ways to protect children from the risks of poverty? maltreatment? School
failure? Or enhance outcomes for children with disabilities? - ANS ✔✔Create a strong sense of
community, more intervention programs, strong school bond, provide better resources
-Teaching self efficacy: The belief that you can successfully perform a set of tasks and attain a
goal (or control outcomes in a certain context)
-Universal Child Benefit
-Help low-income households build financial assets
-Expected to lead to positive changes in self-efficacy, civic participation, child well being
-Build integrated and systems-level-approaches- communities
-Align Federal Child Welfare funding to prevent maltreatment and keep families together
-Children with disabilities need early diagnosis & Intervention, as well as case managers and
caregivers that are competent and can be advocates for their children
How does developmental science inform/ and how is it informed by social issues and policies/
practice? (Refer to examples from Huston) - ANS ✔✔-Huston talks about how his
