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YMCA Child Care Licensing Exam Preparation for
2025/2026 Complete 500 Questions And Correct
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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
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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
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5 elements of the therapeutic milieu - CORRECT ANSWER=physical, emotional,
social, cultural, ideological
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
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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
YMCA Child Care Licensing Exam Preparation for
2025/2026 Complete 500 Questions And Correct
Answers |Already Graded A+||Brand New!!
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
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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
,3|Page
5 elements of the therapeutic milieu - CORRECT ANSWER=physical, emotional,
social, cultural, ideological
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
, 4|Page
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
