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Bronfenbrenner’s bioecological model explores the relationship between a child's environment and that child's development. In his theory, Urie Bronfenbrenner defines several layers that make up the overall system in which the child functions. These layers are known as the Microsystem, Mesosystem, Exosystem, Macrosystem, and Chronosystem. Each of these layers plays a role in influencing the development of the child as well as each other and the child, in turn, has an impact on these layers. This process is referred to as a bi-directional influence. The actions of the parent affect the behavior and beliefs of the child while the behavior of the child affects

The lives of children are greatly influenced by the environment they grow up in, and the people they come in contact with. For years, psychologists, researchers, and social workers have studied children, and why they do what they do. All have developed many different perspectives on how to view social problems and the development of individuals.

It is difficult for researchers to isolate specific causes of child behaviour because each child’s environmental settings and values are different from one to another.

Child development is the genetic and internal changes that occur in children during early years. There are many internal and external factors that affect a child 's growth and development. The connection between a child’s environment and a child’s development are explored in Heather O 'Neill 's lullabies for little criminals where a child named Baby becomes a product of her environment. This is explored through the early death of Baby’s mother, her being raised by a young father and her father 's drug addiction. Baby’s bad decisions and choices come from a lack of guidance necessary for a child’s social growth and development.

As a preschool director, a newly licensed teacher, and community volunteer, with many years of experience working with children, I am very much involved with their social, emotional and behavior development. Currently, I am enrolled in a human development course at Capella University and have learned a great deal about my students’ developmental differences. Studying the various developmental theories with Bronfenbrenner Ecological System of Development being my favorite, has allowed me to observe and apply the various theories to the developmental stages of my students.

There are many environmental factors that can affect a child’s behavior such as poverty and maltreatment. Poverty can have an impact on a child’s overall well-being, academic success, and social behavior. The environment these children are raised in can cause challenging behaviors due to the neighborhoods they live in and the lack of appropriate social behavior they observe. Child maltreatment, which consists of physical abuse, sexual

In children and adolescents, there are usually two types of age-related problems that can occur. Firstly, there are difficulties inherent in the reliable assessment of psychopathology in this age group, and secondly, there are those related to the strict application of existing diagnostic criteria.

Today schools are taking a much more effective role in detection of depression in the younger generations. Because school is like work for adults and is where children spend most of their days, I thought it would be appropriate to discuss a model developed by Urie Bronfenbrenner and Morris in 1979, which addresses the totality of the child’s life up to the present moment. This model gave school counselors a tool to work from while assessing the children. This model puts every aspect of the disorder on a continuum that professionals can use as a guide during questioning and diagnosis. Due to the fact that depression is hard to detect in young children, this process allows the counselor to see all symptoms present even if they don’t fit the DSM IV criteria to comprise a diagnosis. The Ecological Model takes a look at the child as a whole. This includes, home,

Many of the scales used to rate a child’s behavior were completed by the parent or were based on a parent view of child behavior. While this makes sense for very young children, who may not be able to communicate what they are experiencing, for older children, this example of adultism leaves a gap in our knowledge about the disorder. Many of the studies treat the problems that children are facing as purely “behavioral” and focus more on how the child’s behaviors affect those around them (mainly adults) rather than how the child feels themselves. There is reason to believe there is a privileging of the wishes of adults over the child’s own perceived

This book provides a good understanding of the teenage mind, how so many parents assumes that their children are definitely facing a psychological disorder when it can just be adolescences and their hormones are giving them mixed signals and they are not behaving the way they are supposed to. This novel also helps us figure out that there can be so many other psychological disorders that are faced by many teenagers and they never speak about it. This book is very helpful for the adulthood as well as the teenagers.

Another weakness and debate about the DSM is that it is an unscientific system and it is the opinion of a few powerful psychiatrists. This has raised a lot of questions and have caused people to question the validity and reliability of the diagnostic categories as well. The validity and reliability were especially questioned after the Rosenhan experiment in the 1970s in which it was concluded that the sane could not be distinguished from the insane in psychiatric hospitals. Thus, even though the reliability and validity has improved now when compared to the 1970s, it is still a weakness which I believe could not be entirely fixed. However, validity problems of the diagnostic criteria especially arise when children or adolescents are involved. For

Psychology involves studying the mental functioning and general behaviors of both humans and animals. Social behavior and mental functioning of an individual are explained by exploring the neurological and physiological processes. These include emotions, cognition, perception, motivation, attention, brain functioning and personality. Child psychology is as well stated to be the application of psychological techniques to children where it involves carrying out research on mental states and development of children. The development of the child both physically, mentally and emotionally, with the help of a parent allows the identification of helpful information to any evolving challenges in child’s behavior and

     Two critical problems for child psychologists are (1) to determine how environmental variables (such as parental attitudes) and biological characteristics (such as health) interact and

Conclusion- Give my opinions about which cause and effect is the most serious. Repeating the thesis statement along with all the parenting methods in summary.

The suggestions the theory is not criticized for are ensuring the child has a good environment to develop in. The importance of health and nutrition are stressed. Programs are mentioned for expecting parents to receive advice on what parenting style they should try. There is not a universally correct way to parent a child so basically being a good parent is what is suggested. Staying involved, meeting the child’s needs, and most importantly not abusing them in any way. Technically anybody who can achieve that is a decent parent. Nobody is perfect and there is no one who is a perfect parent. Not to frighten you but even good parents have a bad seed. Sometimes it happens, which is where other biological and environmental factors step in to try and explain the behavior.