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Physical abuse |
Characterized by infliction of physical injury that harms the child |
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Child neglect |
Failure to provide childs basic needs. Educational and emotional abandonment. Most common form of abuse. |
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Emotional abuse |
Acts or omissions by parents that have caused behavioral, cognitive or emotional damage/issues. Is usually present with all forms of identified abuse. |
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1) intervent + try to help siblings resolve conflict 2) punish + threaten them 3) Do nothing |
The 3 ways parents react to siblings having a physical/verbal confrontation |
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1) emotional quality of relationship 2) familiarity and intimacy of relationship 3) variation of sibling relationships |
Judy Dunns 3 important characteristics of sibling relationships |
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Working families |
Parents bring experiences at work into house. If parent is dealing with shitty work environment, they are likely to be irritable and less effectice parent at home. |
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Divorced Family effects |
Children from divorced family show poorer adjustment. Children experiencing multiple divorces are at greater risk |
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Advantages/disadvantages of Divorce |
If stresses caused by unhappy family lessen up by becoming a single parent family, it can be advantageous. If theres risk of diminished resources, sustained or increased conflict, it may be better for parents to stay in unhappy marriage. |
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Divorce: how to help childrens adjustment |
When divorce parents relationship with each other is good and authoritative, childrens adjustment improves. Natural disequilibrium occurs for a year after divorce, 2nd year restabilization occurs. Frequent visits by noncustodial parent is usually beneficial. |
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Child/parent adjustment prior to divorce Childs personality, temperament, gender, custody situation |
Factors that influence childs vulnerability to suffering negative consequences from divorce are |
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Mothers in divorce lose 1/4 to 1/2 predivorce income, versus fathers 1/10. Increase in workloads, job instability, residential moves by mother. |
Role of socioeconomic status is divorce |
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Ethnicity |
Vary in size, structure, composition, reliance on kinship networks, levels of income and education. Large extended families more common among minority. Single parent families common in black/latino families Characteristics of families social context also influence adaptation. Immigrated families adapt bicultural orientation. |
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Low income parents |
Less access to nutrition, health care, protection from danger, enriching educational and socialization opportunities (tutoring and extracurricular activities) |
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Advantages of Play |
Play helps children master anxieties and conflicts. Tensions released through play and better coping skills learned Excelent for cognitive development. Its practice! |
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Sensorimoror play |
Behavior engaged by infants to derive pleasure from excersizing existing sensorimotor schemas. |
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Practice play |
Involves repetition of behavior when new skills are being learned or when physical, mental mastery and coordination of skills are required of games or sports. |
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Pretense/symbolic play |
In which child transforms the physical environment into a symbol |
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Ages of play |
Sensorimotor skills-infancy Practice play- can occur throughout life Preschool years- golden age of symbolic play. Starts at 18 months, peaks at 4/5, slow decline |
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Social play |
Play involving interactions with peers |
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Constructive play |
Combines sensorimotor skills and repetitive activity with symbolic representation of ideas. (Kinds like a combo of all of em) Occurs when children engage in self regulated creation or construction of a product or a problem solution. |
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Games |
Activities engaged for pleasure that include rules and often involve competition between two or more individuals |
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Positives are cognitive, learning about world, social reasoning and attitudes towards out groups. Negatives are making child passive learners, teaching stereotypes, violent models of aggression and unrealistic views of world |
What is important about screentime? |
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Helps child master anxieties and conflicts. Tensions released during play, thus can better cope with lifes problems |
What is important about play? |
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Provides a source of info about how world functions outside of family. |
What is important about peers? |
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Socioeconomic affects |
Lower income families have less access to resources than higher income families. Nutrition, health care, protection from danger, enriching educational/socialization opportunities. |
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Timeouts |
When child is removed from setting that offers positive reinforcement. (No tv for today ect) |
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Corporal punishment |
Spanking, yelling, other physical acts. Can lead to imitation of behavior fear/anger/avoidance of parents.
Teaches what not to do instead of what to do.
Parents may unintentionally become so angry it becomes abusive |
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Key role in managing demands/conflicts in interacting with others. Linked to social competence |
More on emotional regulation (2) |
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Play therapy |
Allows child to work off frustrations and to analyze childs conflicts and ways of coping |