Module 6: The Concept of Social Self PDF

The Concept of Social Self MODULE 6  Objectives At the end of this lesson, you are challenged to: Understand the influence of culture towards self development Make your own genogram family tree and be able to trace your genetic inheritance and character traits...

The Concept of Social Self MODULE 6  Objectives At the end of this lesson, you are challenged to: Understand the influence of culture towards self development Make your own genogram family tree and be able to trace your genetic inheritance and character traits Describe the family system and recognize your own Internalize functions of family in shaping the self and its role to society  GENOGRAM OF A THREE GENERATION FAMILY Genograms often give families their inkling of intergenerational family relationship patterns. Genograms are relatively emotion freeway of collecting information that makes sense to the family and connects them to the therapeutic exploratory process. Source: Goldenberg and Goldenberg, 2002  FAMILY SYSTEMS Families form a system of interacting elements. Parents and children influence one another. Parents inf lu ence their children both directly and indirectly. Children influence their parents.  FUNCTION OF FAMILIES Survival of offspring Children survive to maturity by attending to their physical needs, health needs, and safety. Economic function Provide children to acquire the skills and other resources they need to be economically productive in adulthood. Cultural training Teach children the basic values in their culture.  PARENTAL SOCIALIZATION Parents as direct instructors Teach their children skills, rules, and strategies and explicitly inform or advise them on various issues Parents as indirect socializers Provide indirect socialization in the course of their day-to-day interactions with their children Parents as providers and controllers of opportunities Manage children’s experiences and social lives  PARENTAL DIMENSIONS General Dimensions of parental behavior: The degree of warmth and The amount of control parents exert responsiveness that parents show their over their children; children; Effor ts to supervise and monitor their Parents are openly warm and children’s behavior affectionate with their children. Effective control Parents are relatively uninvolved with ✔ Setting standards that are appropriate for the child’s age their children and sometimes even hostile ✔ Showing the child how to meet the toward them. standards ✔ Rewarding the child  Parents should enforce the standards consistently ✔ Children and adolescents are more compliant when parents enforce the rules regularly Effective control is also based on good communication ✔ Parents should explain why they’ve set standards and why they reward or punish as they do  PARENTAL STYLES (BAUMRIND) Authoritarian parenting - High parental control with little warmth Authoritative parenting - A fair degree of parental control with being warm and responsive to children Indulgent-permissive parenting - Warmth and caring but little parental control Indifferent-uninvolved parenting - Neither warmth nor control  HOW CAN PARENTS INFLUENCE THEIR CHILDREN? ✔ DIRECT INSTRUCTION Telling a child what to do, when and why Learning by Observing (modeling) Learning what to do by watching Learning what not to do (counter imitation) ✔ FEEDBACK Parents indicate whether a behavior is appropriate and should continue or should stop  Reinforcement ▸ Any action that increases the likelihood of the response that it follows Punishment ▸ Any action that discourages the reoccurrence of the response that it follows PUNISHMENT WORKS BEST WHEN: After undesired behavior occurs Explanation of why the child was punished and how can be avoided in the future. The child has a warm, affectionate relationship with the person administering the punishment. MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE  IMPACT OF DIVORCE ON CHILDREN Children whose parents had divorced fare poorly compared to children from intact families in: ✔ School achievement ✔ Conduct ✔ Children adjust to divorce ✔ Adjustment ✔ Children benefit from joint ✔ Self-concept custody if parents get along ✔ Parent-child relations CHILDREN AND THEIR PEERS: PLAY Peer Relations ▣ Children’s skills at interacting with peers improves rapidly  WHAT ARE SOME BENEFITS OF PLAY? ✔ Play and social development go hand and hand. ✔ Play offers many opportunities to be with other children and to share, take turns, disagree, and compromise (Mitchell and Davis, 1992). ✔ Increases self awareness and more involved in cooperative play.  BENEFITS OF PLAY ▣ According to Huffnung (1997) children will develop empathy or the ability to appreciate the feeling of others and understand their point of view. ▣ Mildred Parten (1932) was one of the early researchers studying children at play. She focused on the social interactions between children during play activities. ▣ Recent research suggests that children do not necessarily spend more time in social types of play as they get older, but rather their play within each category becomes more cognitively mature (Berk, 2004) Onlooker behavior ▣ Playing passively by watching All by myself play… ▣ Solitary independent - Playing by oneself. Cooperative play ▣ Children organize themselves into roles with specific goals in mind Thankyou ! B Y : K A R Y L N A M B ATAC B AR B IE AMPAN G NINCHEL QUINONES