Please answer all the questions properly.
Discussion: Exploring Traumatic Influences.
Select the topic area that brings you discomfort or that you might have perceived notions or bias.
Select one article from at least two subcategories.
Living in Poverty:
Flouri, E., Tzavidis, N., & Kallis, C. (2010). Adverse life events, areas socioeconomic disadvantage, and psychopathology and resilience in young children: The importance of risk factors'' accumulation and protective factors'' specificity. European Child Adolescent Psychiatry, 19 (6), 535-546
Kalil, A, & Ryan, R.M. (2010). Mothers'' economic conditions and sources of support in fragile families. The Future of children, 20(2), 39-57. Note: You will access this article from the Walden Library databases.
- Aspects of this week''s reading that challenged your thinking with regard to trauma and other disruptive life events and the ways in which trauma impacts children''s identities and continued development. Provide examples, including what surprised you and it relevant, what preconception were dispelled.
- The similarities and differences you found amongst the categories of traumatic influences you explored.
- Your definition of resilience and any factors of resilience you found in the articles you selected.
- Any connections you made between Quinn''s story (from "Learning from Another''s Life Story). Disruptive/Traumatic Influences on Children''s Identity Development.
Resources:
Reading fro Diversity and Social Developing Positive Identities: Diversity and Young children. Achieving a Resilient identity, pp. 48-51
Early Childhood in Focus 6: Culture and Learning. Enabling conditions for development and learning p6.
Rethinking Early Childhood Education