CHI 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Generation Gap, Theoretical Ecology, Homicide
30 May 2018
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5/3/18 – RAISING HEALTHY LATINX AND CHICANX YOUTH
To Promote Mental Health in Children
• Ideally caregivers have permeable boundaries.
• The family structure and its level of organization is clean and flexible.
• As children grow they learn that they have voice and their opinions matter.
• Caregivers protect them from adverse experiences
• Ioulate agaist iss.
• Teach culture and promote strong ethic identity.
To Promote Mental Health among Adolescents
• Caregivers support increasing independence.
• Guide and monitor w/o being rigid and overbearing.
• Build upon the foundation of trust they nurtured in childhood.
• Rules need to be clear flexible.
• Parenting efforts should be geared to build resilience.
Resilience
• Dynamic ad multidimensional process by which individuals experience positive outcomes
despite exposure to significant adversity.
• Result of normative adaptive processes through which individuals maximize the efforts of
protective factors to minimize risk exposure.
• Active process by which youth generate opportunities for themselves by connecting w/ positive
caregivers, mentors, adults in their network or community.
• Seen as multilevel system concept spanning biological, social and cognitive processes in
transaction w/ factors in the family, neighborhood, school, and societal ad cultural levels of
analysis.
Building Resilience
• Measuring adaptability
• Impersonal relatedness
o Quality of relationships w/ parent, extended family, and peers.
• Self-definition
o Perceived self-efficiency
o Self esteem
• Processes of relatedness and self-definition contribute to academic achievement and low
psychosocial maladjustment.
• Changes in quality of relations over time contributes to greater risk of maladjustment for Latino
and African American youth.
• Negative changes in self-definition increased vulnerability to maladjustment among white
youth.
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Document Summary
5/3/18 raising healthy latinx and chicanx youth. Youth interaction with environment: macrosystemic process, quality of schooling. Immigration policies: policies related to social justice, protective processes may offset risks associated w/ macrosystemic processes, exosystem. Lack of participant in ed. enhancement programs (head start: under-resourced school, subtractive schooling all contribute to poorer academic outcomes. Ex: telling students to not speak spanish at school. Weakens ethnic identity: protective processes, parental involvement, parental monitoring, family connectedness all contribute to reduce risk of maladaptive behaviors, participation in educational supports improves educational outcomes. Perception of usefulness and fairness of helping reduces psychological distress and acing out. Family in transaction: macrosystem, protective processes, cultural values place parents in a culturally consonant position to provide guida(cid:374)(cid:272)e a(cid:374)d e(cid:373)otio(cid:374)al support for youth"s de(cid:272)isio(cid:374)s to avoid su(cid:271) Latinx youth at risk: their profile appears contradictory to some researchers in that their alcohol and drug use is lower than african american or ea youth.
