Child and Youth Care Exam questions
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core focus on CYC work as identified by CCCYCA - correct answer ✔✔therapeutic relationship,
focus on strengths and assets rather than pathology, application of theory and research about
human growth and development to promote the optimal physical, psycho-social, spiritual,
cognitive and emotional development of young people towards a healthy and productive
adulthood
social construction - correct answer ✔✔proposed by historians, sociologists, anthropologists
and cultural psychologists. member of society have collectively defined meaning of childhood.
construction is reflective of norms, values and treatment, all societies have childhood but how
its understood and children are treated is based on class, race, religion, etc.
psychological construction - correct answer ✔✔proposed by psychologists and biologists. belief
that childhood is a real, scientific concept that can be defined and described. childhood has a
beginning, an end and particular characteristics which present the average view of what
childhood is. involves sequential stages that lead to adulthood
self-observation - correct answer ✔✔ability to step inside and outside of yourself and observe
through 5 senses, is a critical self-inquiry process
self-inquiry - correct answer ✔✔gives you the tools to explore the hidden quadrants of your
being as well as those blind and unknown aspects of self and draw them into the open
relational-inquiry - correct answer ✔✔asking for feedback and disclosing to others your internal
being in order to reflect on their responses and learn more about yourself in the context of
relationships, giving and receiving feedback is an important aspect
,praxis - correct answer ✔✔integration of formal knowledge and theory with practice-based
knowledge. determine what actions to take in a particular situation. centre of knowing, doing
and being
vicarious trauma - correct answer ✔✔occurs when practitioners have prolonged and repeated
exposure to traumatized young people and families who are in crisis
compassion fatigue - correct answer ✔✔continuous work of processing the loss, grief and anger
of others who have been traumatized leads to the practitioner absorbing the life events and
feelings of those they are working with and experiencing their inner world vicariously
burnout - correct answer ✔✔state of physical, mental and emotional exhaustion results when
ongoing stress consumes the recourse present for coping with events in life. results from long-
term involvement with emotionally demanding situations. prevention is critical because
recovery is difficult
Bronfennbrenner's ecological approach - correct answer ✔✔children's development can only be
understood if the environmental context within which the young person was living and growing
up was considered. framework for understanding the environment including concepts related to
the microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, macrosystem, chronosystem
microsystem - correct answer ✔✔immediate systems the child is located in and the people,
activities and space
mesosystem - correct answer ✔✔relationships between 2 or more microsystems, development
depends on quality of connections
exosystem - correct answer ✔✔outside systems indirectly related to the child but influence
them
macrosystem - correct answer ✔✔beliefs, values and rules of society and culture
, chronosystem - correct answer ✔✔timing of changes in individual and social ecology
participation - correct answer ✔✔youth are there and working with or participating in activities
with adults
empowerment - correct answer ✔✔youth feel like they are participating and workers help them
to develop the skills to participate and to feel that they have equal influence in the decision-
making
engagement - correct answer ✔✔youth and adults participate equally and recognize the power
imbalance as well as the rights of youth to be treated equally
Burns definition of therapeutic milieu - correct answer ✔✔the milieus described are organized
around the various microsystems in which young people participate and are generally described
according to the character of the 5 elements of the milieu within that setting
5 elements of the therapeutic milieu - correct answer ✔✔physical, emotional, social, cultural,
ideological
physical - correct answer ✔✔nature of the physical environment ie. building, room, etc.
emotional - correct answer ✔✔emotional makeup of each individual and how it contributes to
the emotional environment
social - correct answer ✔✔social relationships and interactions within the milieu
cultural - correct answer ✔✔level of acceptance and celebration of difference, both cultural
difference and human difference
well answered already passed
core focus on CYC work as identified by CCCYCA - correct answer ✔✔therapeutic relationship,
focus on strengths and assets rather than pathology, application of theory and research about
human growth and development to promote the optimal physical, psycho-social, spiritual,
cognitive and emotional development of young people towards a healthy and productive
adulthood
social construction - correct answer ✔✔proposed by historians, sociologists, anthropologists
and cultural psychologists. member of society have collectively defined meaning of childhood.
construction is reflective of norms, values and treatment, all societies have childhood but how
its understood and children are treated is based on class, race, religion, etc.
psychological construction - correct answer ✔✔proposed by psychologists and biologists. belief
that childhood is a real, scientific concept that can be defined and described. childhood has a
beginning, an end and particular characteristics which present the average view of what
childhood is. involves sequential stages that lead to adulthood
self-observation - correct answer ✔✔ability to step inside and outside of yourself and observe
through 5 senses, is a critical self-inquiry process
self-inquiry - correct answer ✔✔gives you the tools to explore the hidden quadrants of your
being as well as those blind and unknown aspects of self and draw them into the open
relational-inquiry - correct answer ✔✔asking for feedback and disclosing to others your internal
being in order to reflect on their responses and learn more about yourself in the context of
relationships, giving and receiving feedback is an important aspect
,praxis - correct answer ✔✔integration of formal knowledge and theory with practice-based
knowledge. determine what actions to take in a particular situation. centre of knowing, doing
and being
vicarious trauma - correct answer ✔✔occurs when practitioners have prolonged and repeated
exposure to traumatized young people and families who are in crisis
compassion fatigue - correct answer ✔✔continuous work of processing the loss, grief and anger
of others who have been traumatized leads to the practitioner absorbing the life events and
feelings of those they are working with and experiencing their inner world vicariously
burnout - correct answer ✔✔state of physical, mental and emotional exhaustion results when
ongoing stress consumes the recourse present for coping with events in life. results from long-
term involvement with emotionally demanding situations. prevention is critical because
recovery is difficult
Bronfennbrenner's ecological approach - correct answer ✔✔children's development can only be
understood if the environmental context within which the young person was living and growing
up was considered. framework for understanding the environment including concepts related to
the microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, macrosystem, chronosystem
microsystem - correct answer ✔✔immediate systems the child is located in and the people,
activities and space
mesosystem - correct answer ✔✔relationships between 2 or more microsystems, development
depends on quality of connections
exosystem - correct answer ✔✔outside systems indirectly related to the child but influence
them
macrosystem - correct answer ✔✔beliefs, values and rules of society and culture
, chronosystem - correct answer ✔✔timing of changes in individual and social ecology
participation - correct answer ✔✔youth are there and working with or participating in activities
with adults
empowerment - correct answer ✔✔youth feel like they are participating and workers help them
to develop the skills to participate and to feel that they have equal influence in the decision-
making
engagement - correct answer ✔✔youth and adults participate equally and recognize the power
imbalance as well as the rights of youth to be treated equally
Burns definition of therapeutic milieu - correct answer ✔✔the milieus described are organized
around the various microsystems in which young people participate and are generally described
according to the character of the 5 elements of the milieu within that setting
5 elements of the therapeutic milieu - correct answer ✔✔physical, emotional, social, cultural,
ideological
physical - correct answer ✔✔nature of the physical environment ie. building, room, etc.
emotional - correct answer ✔✔emotional makeup of each individual and how it contributes to
the emotional environment
social - correct answer ✔✔social relationships and interactions within the milieu
cultural - correct answer ✔✔level of acceptance and celebration of difference, both cultural
difference and human difference
