Urie Bronfenbrenner developed the ecological systems theory. If someone were to fail a test this theory would look at the socioeconomic factors such as family, intelligence, ethnicity, and other factors. Bronfenbrenner’s theory examines how an individuals self -perception can influence their behaviors. He developed a chronosystem to show the influences with the other systems. The macrosystem is the largest sector and describes the culture of how an individual lives. The exosystem is interconnected with the macrosystem and the mesosystem. More importantly, friends, family, media, neighbors, agencies, and local services affect the exosystem. An example of this system would be where a parent loses their job and causes conflict with the other…
In Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems Model he describes 5 different stages of development. Stages in which he believes affect people through social context as well as interpersonal interactions. Bronfenbrenner’s first stage is Microsystem, Which is each person’s immediate surroundings such as; family members, classmates, and/or church groups. Growing up my parents made sure me and my brother attended church every Sunday morning. For years we were one of the first people in and one of the last to leave. The people I met during my years of attending have become lifelong friends and inspirational role models in my life. I believe my experiences attending a Christian church has not only made me a devote Christian, but also a kind hearted and understanding person.…
The purpose of this assignment is enable learners to gain an understanding of the importance of infection and control in health and social care settings. Learners will be able to investigate the cause and spread of infection, the legislation associated with implanting infection prevention and procedures for controlling their spread.…
The purpose of this paper is to critically critique and evaluate the study: Parenting a Child With a Disibility: The Role of Social Support for African American Parents, written by Jung – Hwa Ha, Jan S. Greenburg, & Marsha Mallick Seltzer. This paper will critically apply the Ecological Perspective and Systems Theory, to the social concern as it addressed in this study. This paper will accomplish this critique by assessing the hypothesis, evaluating the method of study, and critically discussing the results of the study in question by using the key concepts of the fore mentioned theories. Upon the completion of this paper, the reader will have a full understanding of the study, and how it may relate to field of Social Work using a Systems Theory perspective.…
The sociocultural theory states that substance abuse is a result from stress as well as environmental factors. When there is low socioeconomics and unemployment is high, drugs may used to relieve stress. The behavioral/cognitive viewpoint sees the situation as contributing to the use of substances. This viewpoint shows that substances abuse patterns are developed through operant conditioning when the person uses to relieve stress. The relief of stress through using a substance eventually turns into a habit as the person expects the reward when they use. This…
The Social Ecological Model is the network of interactions between an individual and the influences around them. According to Walsh (2003), resilience and risk are influenced by individuals, families, and social systems, which results in problems such as a family’s vulnerability to stressful experiences and social perspectives (p. 3). While in some instances, a family’s social ecological influences can have an adverse effect on resilience, Ungar (2013), argues that research shows that a family’s social ecology has the ability to provide resources that are culturally significant (p. 256). Social ecology is an important factor that not only helps to explain the phenomenon of homeless veterans, but also how service providers…
This paper will attempt to prove my view of the exchange of hypodermic needles and its consequences in today's society. This practice is legal in some states and has reduced the spread of HIV but is it our job to provide this service to junkies? I will try to prove my point.…
The needle exchange program is a social service program which is aimed at allowing the drug syringe users to have free or cheap access to hypodermic needles. The idea underlying the program is to realize the concept of harm reduction i.e. to reduce the harm and to reduce the risk associated with the use of syringes. It is because the syringe users who use syringes for drug administration into their bodies can harm their bodies by re-using the same syringe or using the syringe which has been used by someone else. Therefore, in order to eliminate the risk of HIV and AIDS associated with such usage of syringes, the needles…
explain the potential impact of an outbreak of infection on the individual and the organisation…
The needle exchange program is very vital, and throughout this paper I will discuss the pros and cons about the program and I will discuss the reasons surrounding why the program was started. AIDS has been a growing epidemic through the 1990’s and it was estimated by the World Health Organization that the number of people infected with HIV or AIDS would reach thirty to forty million individuals by the year 2000 if nothing was done (Health and Disease). In Africa and parts of Asia, heterosexual sex was the primary factor in the spread of HIV, but in the United States and Europe, intravenous drug use was one of the leading factors in the spread of HIV/AIDS. The government decided that something needed to be done, so they created AIDS education programs, and they put into operation the use of needle exchange programs to help reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS.…
Harm reduction was a “worldwide public health movement”, modeled in Holland based on a “hepatitis A” prevention initiative for heroin injections (Bourgois & Schonberg, p. 106). The outreach program sought out to rehabilitate drug addicts. It was created on the basis of being “pragmatic and reasonable”, and not to be confused with the “ encouragement of drug use” (Bourgois & Schonberg, p. 106). The harm reduction movement “advocated nonjudgmental engagement with active drug users and hoped to lower the cultural and institution barriers to medical services” (Bourgois & Schonberg, p.106). As previously mentioned the moral economy of sharing was crucial to the survival of the homeless drug users living on Edgewater Boulevard. Under this moral economy of sharing laid the common practice of sharing needles amongst the drug users. With that said harm reduction initiatives clearly did not support or encourage needle sharing for it completely went against their purpose and what they stood for. However, the drug users saw this differently, as Frank explains, “if you’re sick, you’re not going to worry about it, when you gotta fix, you gotta fix” (Bourgois & Schonberg, p. 107). Frank goes on to mention that him and fellow users worry about AIDS however when they are sick their main focus is geared towards “getting well” (Bourgois & Schonberg, p.107). It is…
Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Theory and Family Ecological Model can be used to talk about alcohol and substance abusing parents and their children to demonstrate the bi-directional influences between the parent’s alcohol or substance abuse and the system’s in the family’s environment. This theory views families and their surroundings as a family ecosystem in which the family or an individual are influenced by the “systems” in that environment and the family or individual’s interactions with the systems (Edwards, 2017). The family is essentially a “system nested within larger systems” (Edwards, 2017). A bi-directional process can occur with the family or individual affecting the systems and the systems affecting the family or individual (Edwards, 2017). The first system, which is the most influential system is the microsystem. The…
For every test, there should be a set reproductive rate for predators based on the amount of prey they get…
A microsystem is represented as the first environmental an individual encounters, for example a child’s family, teachers, and friends at school. Relationships in this system are bi-directional. In the book Readings on the Development of Children, authors Mary Gauvain & Michael Cole explains Urie Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Theory further into detail. The chapter “Ecological Models of Human Development” the authors explain that a child’s reaction to the people in their microsystem will affect how they are treated in return. (Gauvain, 2008) At the Center for Child Development, the student’s microsystem consists of their parents, the teachers, volunteers and lab students. The interpersonal connection that they have with each group of people takes place on a day to day basis.…
This is one of the few things that I agree to be the most correct term and ever applicable in everyday life. Well aside from I need to eat of course and that this world is full of all kinds of things, from small to big, to living to nonliving. Seemingly that here, everything is interconnected, in a way that everyone needs everything to survive. More of a give and take relationship. I thing that is what ecology is all about, to live in harmony with others despite natures will and challenges.…