HLTC23H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Chaos Chaos, Romanian Orphans, Explanatory Style
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Lecture 6: chaos and resilience in child development. Chaos is a fast-paced environment that is: hard to define, out of our control shifts and changes rapidly, defies routinization, gives random or confusing feedback. Chaos can involve the child"s: neighbourhood physical environment, neighbourhood social environment, family structure, pattern of attachments of their life, lack of routines, lack of people to rely on/or regular activities, transience in school. Chaos can be located in child, family, neighbourhood or an interaction of all of the above. Chaotic environments are usually described as overstimulating however no chaos, structure, predictability and routine can be chaotic in a sense as well. Chaos might also involve environments that are chronically under-stimulating or events and happenings that are so routine that there is so little interaction or novelty that the developing brain stagnates terrible lack of input. This can be termed extreme neglect (as in the romanian orphans) Or perhaps a too ordered existence regardless of ses.
