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Working with Families to Support Self-Esteem

Question 1 of 9

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What does a person with high self-esteem look like?

Select one of the following:

  • Their self-confidence shows in the way they dress, groom themselves, walk and talk.

  • They are secure and happy.

  • They are more likely to be himself or herself.

  • They are outgoing, strong, proud, motivated, successful, independent and assertive.

Explanation

Question 2 of 9

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What is self-esteem, anyway?

Select one of the following:

  • Talent, good looks and financial success bring high self-esteem.

  • Values resulting from an ongoing self-appraisal in which traits and abilities are acknowledged and evaluated.

  • Having constant sunshiny happiness is the definition of high self-esteem.

  • The same values each person in all cultures has of oneself.

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Question 3 of 9

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How does a family promote self-esteem?

Select one of the following:

  • They help the child learn to draw boundaries and discover her/his separateness.

  • They encourage a close interdependence between child and adult.

  • They encourage the child to decide s/he is great as s/he is and to give that message to the world.

  • They help the child find ways of feeling worthy in their own culture.

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Question 4 of 9

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How can a person' self-esteem change?

Select one of the following:

  • through collaborative effort between the individual, culture and community

  • it is up to the individual to develop a new perception of herself or himself

  • his or her family must create the change

  • the individual must be removed from negative media influences

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Question 5 of 9

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How can self-esteem defining messages from home counteract messages from outside home?

Select one of the following:

  • It's not possible to counteract the negative messages that may be encountered outside the home.

  • Children can be taught by parents how to survive and stand up to racism, sexism or ableism.

  • Parents can teach children to accept differential treatment and a feeling of inferiority.

  • Self-esteem doesn't begin to develop until adolescence, so parents need not be concerned with it during childhood.

Explanation

Question 6 of 9

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What is one way to promote self-esteem?

Select one of the following:

  • Vow always to be positive and praise children at every possible opportunity.

  • Comment on how and why the child is better than other children.

  • Be a cheerleader for everything the child does.

  • Give more honest feedback and encouragement than praise.

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Question 7 of 9

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What is anther way to promote self-esteem?

Select one of the following:

  • Just talk to the child about her or his success.

  • Make every task easy enough for the child to experience constant success.

  • Challenge children so that when success comes they've worked for it.

  • Make sure that the child is never forced to take a risk.

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Question 8 of 9

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What is the antibias approach to gender, race, class and ability differences?

Select one of the following:

  • Being blind to differences

  • Having special events that celebrate population groups, such as a Japanese "tea party"

  • Responding positively and appropriately to individual differences

  • Accepting that bias is natural and there is no hope for change

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Question 9 of 9

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Affirmations, or positive messages that validate the person or the family,

Select one of the following:

  • have nothing to do with the way the adult sees herself or himself

  • encourage people to change themselves

  • can only be effectively used between members of a family

  • focus on strengths and encourage parents to see how they can be while accepting how they are at the present

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