Child and Youth Care Exam questions well
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core focus on CYC work as identified by CCCYCA - ANSWERtherapeutic
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 - ANSWERproposed 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 - ANSWERproposed 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 - ANSWERability to step inside and outside of yourself and
observe through 5 senses, is a critical self-inquiry process
self-inquiry - ANSWERgives 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 - ANSWERasking 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 - ANSWERintegration 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 - ANSWERoccurs when practitioners have prolonged and
repeated exposure to traumatized young people and families who are in crisis
compassion fatigue - ANSWERcontinuous 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 - ANSWERstate 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 - ANSWERchildren'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 - ANSWERimmediate systems the child is located in and the
people, activities and space
mesosystem - ANSWERrelationships between 2 or more microsystems,
development depends on quality of connections
exosystem - ANSWERoutside systems indirectly related to the child but
influence them
macrosystem - ANSWERbeliefs, values and rules of society and culture
chronosystem - ANSWERtiming of changes in individual and social ecology
participation - ANSWERyouth are there and working with or participating in
activities with adults
empowerment - ANSWERyouth 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 - ANSWERyouth 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 - ANSWERthe 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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core focus on CYC work as identified by CCCYCA - ANSWERtherapeutic
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 - ANSWERproposed 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 - ANSWERproposed 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 - ANSWERability to step inside and outside of yourself and
observe through 5 senses, is a critical self-inquiry process
self-inquiry - ANSWERgives 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 - ANSWERasking 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 - ANSWERintegration 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 - ANSWERoccurs when practitioners have prolonged and
repeated exposure to traumatized young people and families who are in crisis
compassion fatigue - ANSWERcontinuous 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 - ANSWERstate 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 - ANSWERchildren'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 - ANSWERimmediate systems the child is located in and the
people, activities and space
mesosystem - ANSWERrelationships between 2 or more microsystems,
development depends on quality of connections
exosystem - ANSWERoutside systems indirectly related to the child but
influence them
macrosystem - ANSWERbeliefs, values and rules of society and culture
chronosystem - ANSWERtiming of changes in individual and social ecology
participation - ANSWERyouth are there and working with or participating in
activities with adults
empowerment - ANSWERyouth 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 - ANSWERyouth 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 - ANSWERthe 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
