Child and Youth Care Exam Questions with complete solution
2025/2026
1. core focus on therapeutic relationship, focus on strengths and assets rather than
pathology,
CYC work as iden- application of theory and research about human growth and
development to
tified by promote the optimal physical, psycho-social, spiritual, cognitive and
CCCYCA emotional development of young people towards a healthy and
productive adulthood
2. social proposed by historians, sociologists, anthropologists and cultural
construc- tion
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
3. psychologic treated is based on class, race, religion, etc.
al
proposed by psychologists and biologists. belief that childhood is a real,
constructio
n 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
4. self-observation ability to step inside and outside of yourself and observe through 5 senses
is a
critical self-inquiry process
5. self-inquiry 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
6. relational-inquiry 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
7. praxis integration of formal knowledge and theory with practice-based knowledge
,Child and Youth Care Exam Questions with complete solution
2025/2026
determine what actions to take in a particular situation. centre of knowing,
doing and being
8. vicarious trauma occurs when practitioners have prolonged and repeated exposure to
traumatized young people and families who are in crisis
9.
,Child and Youth Care Exam Questions with complete solution
2025/2026
compassion fa- continuous work of processing the loss, grief and anger of others who have
tigue been traumatized leads to the practitioner absorbing the life events
and feelings of those they are working with and experiencing their
inner world vicariously
10. burnout 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 crit- ical because recovery is diflcult
11. Bronfennbre children's development can only be understood if the environmental
n- ner's context within which the young person was living and growing up was
ecological considered. framework for understanding the environment including
approach
concepts related to the microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem,
macrosystem, chronosystem
12. microsystem immediate systems the child is located in and the people, activities and
space
13. mesosystem relationships between 2 or more microsystems, development depends
on quality of connections
14. exosystem outside systems indirectly related to the child but influence them
15. macrosystem beliefs, values and rules of society and culture
16. chronosystem timing of changes in individual and social ecology
17. participation youth are there and working with or participating in activities with adults
18. empowerment 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
2025/2026
1. core focus on therapeutic relationship, focus on strengths and assets rather than
pathology,
CYC work as iden- application of theory and research about human growth and
development to
tified by promote the optimal physical, psycho-social, spiritual, cognitive and
CCCYCA emotional development of young people towards a healthy and
productive adulthood
2. social proposed by historians, sociologists, anthropologists and cultural
construc- tion
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
3. psychologic treated is based on class, race, religion, etc.
al
proposed by psychologists and biologists. belief that childhood is a real,
constructio
n 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
4. self-observation ability to step inside and outside of yourself and observe through 5 senses
is a
critical self-inquiry process
5. self-inquiry 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
6. relational-inquiry 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
7. praxis integration of formal knowledge and theory with practice-based knowledge
,Child and Youth Care Exam Questions with complete solution
2025/2026
determine what actions to take in a particular situation. centre of knowing,
doing and being
8. vicarious trauma occurs when practitioners have prolonged and repeated exposure to
traumatized young people and families who are in crisis
9.
,Child and Youth Care Exam Questions with complete solution
2025/2026
compassion fa- continuous work of processing the loss, grief and anger of others who have
tigue been traumatized leads to the practitioner absorbing the life events
and feelings of those they are working with and experiencing their
inner world vicariously
10. burnout 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 crit- ical because recovery is diflcult
11. Bronfennbre children's development can only be understood if the environmental
n- ner's context within which the young person was living and growing up was
ecological considered. framework for understanding the environment including
approach
concepts related to the microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem,
macrosystem, chronosystem
12. microsystem immediate systems the child is located in and the people, activities and
space
13. mesosystem relationships between 2 or more microsystems, development depends
on quality of connections
14. exosystem outside systems indirectly related to the child but influence them
15. macrosystem beliefs, values and rules of society and culture
16. chronosystem timing of changes in individual and social ecology
17. participation youth are there and working with or participating in activities with adults
18. empowerment 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
