CD 450 Exam 1 Questions With Complete Solutions
1. What are some current issues surrounding children?: - #1 = poverty
- Child health
- Health care for all (including mental health)
- Separating families (immigration)
- Violence (gun control) + hate crimes
- Improve academic achievement
- Keep kids in school
- High quality early childhood education & care ages 0 to 5 (universal preschool,
early head start / home visiting)
2. What are some current child advocacy campaigns?: - America's Children (41
national indicators of well being)
- Child trends databank
- Children's Defense Fund
- Children Now (California children's report card,
,28 indicators by county)
- SRCD (society for research in child development)
3. How do professional/advocacy organizations (CDF, SRCD) educate the pub
lic and policymakers about conditions of children, youth, and families?: -
Publicize research
- Talk money, how much tax dollars would be saved
- Use media to tell about findings
- Statements of evidence
- Inform policy makers to in order to implement new laws and regulations
4. What do the national key indicators of child well being tell us about (cate-
gories?: - Demographic background
- Family + social environment
- Economic circumstances
- Health care
- Physical and environmental safety
- Behavior
- Education
- Health
5. What do the national key indicators of child well being tell us about childre
,today?: - Lots of poverty and extreme poverty (race is a huge factor)
- Health insurance continuity
- Homelessness
- Prescription opioid misuse and use disorders
- Residential placement of juveniles
- Academics are being neglected
, 6. How does the 'risk & resilience' framework described by Jenson & Fraser
(& Masten in the video) help to identify problems and potential interventions/
policies?: - Designs or selects interventions based on consideration of the pres-
ence or absence of risk and protective factors affecting youth outcomes, as well as
resilience
- Uses an ecological perspective --> social policies must consider the influence of
context (risk and protective factors may be interrelated or unique based on differen
environments)
- List of effective interventions made available to practitioners, educators, and publ
7. What are the steps of the 'risk and resilience' framework?: 1) Identify proble
domain
- child welfare, income support, education, mental health, health, developmental
disabilities, substance abuse, juvenile justice ----- >
2) Child and adolescent life course development
- identify key risk factors and protective factors ---- >
1. What are some current issues surrounding children?: - #1 = poverty
- Child health
- Health care for all (including mental health)
- Separating families (immigration)
- Violence (gun control) + hate crimes
- Improve academic achievement
- Keep kids in school
- High quality early childhood education & care ages 0 to 5 (universal preschool,
early head start / home visiting)
2. What are some current child advocacy campaigns?: - America's Children (41
national indicators of well being)
- Child trends databank
- Children's Defense Fund
- Children Now (California children's report card,
,28 indicators by county)
- SRCD (society for research in child development)
3. How do professional/advocacy organizations (CDF, SRCD) educate the pub
lic and policymakers about conditions of children, youth, and families?: -
Publicize research
- Talk money, how much tax dollars would be saved
- Use media to tell about findings
- Statements of evidence
- Inform policy makers to in order to implement new laws and regulations
4. What do the national key indicators of child well being tell us about (cate-
gories?: - Demographic background
- Family + social environment
- Economic circumstances
- Health care
- Physical and environmental safety
- Behavior
- Education
- Health
5. What do the national key indicators of child well being tell us about childre
,today?: - Lots of poverty and extreme poverty (race is a huge factor)
- Health insurance continuity
- Homelessness
- Prescription opioid misuse and use disorders
- Residential placement of juveniles
- Academics are being neglected
, 6. How does the 'risk & resilience' framework described by Jenson & Fraser
(& Masten in the video) help to identify problems and potential interventions/
policies?: - Designs or selects interventions based on consideration of the pres-
ence or absence of risk and protective factors affecting youth outcomes, as well as
resilience
- Uses an ecological perspective --> social policies must consider the influence of
context (risk and protective factors may be interrelated or unique based on differen
environments)
- List of effective interventions made available to practitioners, educators, and publ
7. What are the steps of the 'risk and resilience' framework?: 1) Identify proble
domain
- child welfare, income support, education, mental health, health, developmental
disabilities, substance abuse, juvenile justice ----- >
2) Child and adolescent life course development
- identify key risk factors and protective factors ---- >
