Quiz 3 Review: Economic Stress

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Quiz 3 Review Economic Stress
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What weve covered

• Economic distress
• Poverty
• Human Services

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Course MaterialsMake sure you have covered

• Videotape Struggling and Surviving (faces of
  poverty)
• MP Ch. 11-Economic distress and class notes
• Unemployment video and discussion
• Poverty notes
• B. Ehrenreich article (packet), Nickel and Dimed
• Human services web sites
• http//www.state.fl.us/cf_web/
• http//www.nohse.com/hsworker.html
• Speaker on Human Services Tom Barnes Handouts
  and notes

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Course MaterialsDo not worry about

• Other web sites not listed above
• Anything TBA up to now

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Summary

• The impacts of economic stress and poverty on
  families.
• Human services available to help families in need.

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Definitions Economic Stress

• Economic stress
• Normative and non-normative economic stressors
  and examples
• 3 lifecycle stages of normative economic stress

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Definitions Poverty

• Poverty
• Poverty thresholds
• Juvenilization of poverty
• Working poor
• Poverty guidelines

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Definitions Human Services

• Human services
• Department of Children and Families
• Welfare
• TANF and AFDC
• Welfare reform
• Disabled adults
• Tacachale
• Community based services

• Protective investigations and supervision
• Adult protective investigations and services
• Family safety
• Privatization
• Deep end services
• Florida Abuse Hotline

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Study questions Make sure you know

• In the videos on unemployment and poverty, the
  stressors in the families lives, resources they
  used to cope, and how perception of the situation
  affected their coping.
• Individualhealth and education
• Socialsupport
• Relationalfamily and marriage/partnership
• Psychologicalcoping
• Materialhousing, car, savings, income

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Study questions Make sure you know

• 4 reasons why people experience economic stress
• unstable income,
• unstable jobs,
• inadequate earnings,
• economy bad
• Dont have enough money to meet expenses

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Study questions Make sure you know

• the impact of economic stress and poverty on
• adult individuals unemployment video, Nickel and
  Dimed, notes
• Anger, hostility, depression, anxiety
• Substance abuse
• Physical complaints
• married couples unemployment video and reading
• Relationship problemsarguing over money
• More hostility
• Withdrawal, loss of self esteem

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Study questions Make sure you know

• the impact of economic stress and poverty on
• Familiesunemployment video and reading
• Poorer parenting practices, more family
  disagreements
• Childrenunemployment video, notes
• Depression, lower self esteem, aggression
• Physical and health problemshunger, stunted
  growth, lead poisoning, death
• Difficulty in school

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Study questions Make sure you know

• Factors related to vulnerability to economic
  stress and poverty
• Marital status
• Gender
• Race/ethnicity
• Age
• Region
• Metro/rural residence
• Employment status
• Education

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Study QuestionsMake sure you know

• 5 major areas of services provided by DCF
• Welfare and welfare reform
• Recent trends in the welfare caseload
• Reasons people use welfare
• Monthly welfare check for a family of 3
• 2 major changes in welfare under welfare reform
• Economic self-sufficiency assistance provided by
  the state to people on public assistance