Exam Preview for 1089: Positive Solutions for Families: The Power o

Positive Solutions for Families: The Power of Routines

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1. What are the core principles for parent-guided behavioral care? agency collaboration, community action, school goals, and family networking social service systems, crisis intervention, family planning, and long-term benefits internal communication, health-care reform, caregiving, and marriage equality trauma-informed, strengths-based, family oriented, and culturally sensitive principles
2. What are four major contributors of parental burnout strongly indicating a need for families to adapt? changing parental and caregiver roles, career and professional development plans, early childhood learning centers, sleep deprivation feeling restless, easily fatigued, irritable, and difficulty concentrating unwanted thoughts, difficulty tolerating uncertainty, asking for reassurance fear of abandonment, difficulty managing emotions and behaviors, ongoing feelings of emptiness, and changes in self-identity
3. Which of the following is NOT an essential component of successful routines? Research child and brain development and secure attachments between children, parents, and caregivers. Establish a predictable routine and follow it consistently. When changes are necessary, prepare your child ahead of time. Offer positive feedback and encouragement for successes.
4. When embedding children’s preferences into routines, what are best practices for maximizing ownership and positive behaviors? Incorporate children’s planning sheets and first-then statements. Incorporate children’s schedules and routines based support guides into routines. Incorporate children’s preferences and interests into routines. Incorporate children’s support plans and cue charts.
5. What is the significance of consistency in successful routines? Consistency creates a conditioned response from a different stimulus. Consistency enhances habituation, classical conditioning, and cognitive learning. Consistency fosters a perception of helplessness that has been learned over time. Consistency boosts awareness and preparedness prior to changes and transitions and engaging in new activities and events.
6. What are three evidence-based prevention strategies for implementing routines? delayed interventions, detention, and progressive discipline visual supports, scripting stories, and allotting choices ground rules, community feedback, and rewards for challenging behaviors time constraints, consequences, and reflection forms
7. In terms of prevention strategies, what is the significance of pairing visuals with words? When pairing visuals with words, children exhibit learned helplessness and an inability to achieve success. When pairing visuals with words, children experience deferred receptive and expressive language skills. When pairing visuals with words, children develop difficulties with social communication and interactions. When pairing visuals with words, children start to make language connections.
8. In regard to proactively preventing challenging behaviors, younger children should only be offered _______ choices. Choices should be ________ _________. fewer; tallied immediately two; honored immediately three; halted immediately minimum; recorded immediately
9. As it pertains to transitions as routines, change can be _____________ and seem ____________ for your child, especially when they are not ready to move on to the next place or activity. teachable; dutiful manageable; controllable overwhelming; unpredictable adaptable; acceptable
10. If children are discouraged or reprimanded for their efforts and attempts for accomplishing the routine, then what would most likely be their reaction or response? disengaging in future attempts to practice and perform the routine and rapidly increasing the occurrences of challenging behaviors requesting validation to feel good about themselves to avoid further conflict intensifying their efforts to earn words of praise from parents and caregivers readily accepting blame for their failed attempts and accommodating the family
11. Which of the following statements best describes why routines are important for children's development? Routines allow children to be more independent and self-sufficient. Establishing routines helps children learn time management skills. Consistent routines promote development and daily consistency for children. Routines prepare children for transitioning to different activities.
12. Which of the following is an essential component of establishing effective routines for children? Routines should be flexible and open to constant changes. Children should learn routines through trial and error. Routines should have clear beginnings, expectations, and ends. Feedback and praise are unnecessary when teaching routines.
13. According to the course, which of the following is a key reason that consistent routines are essential for children? Routines teach children time management skills. Consistent routines can prevent challenging behaviors. Routines allow children to be more independent. Routines prepare children for transitions.
14. Which of the following statements is true about using transitions as routines for children? Transitions are easy for most children to handle. Transitions allow children to choose their next activity. Transitions are considered a type of routine. Parents rarely struggle with transition times.
15. When using timers as warnings for routine transitions, which of the following should be done? Set timers randomly without informing children. Use inconsistent timer types without explanation. Determine the most effective timer and explain time remaining. Keep the same timer type even if ineffective.