Covid’s Future, Trauma’s Long Shadow and California’s Lessons:
California surgeon general Dr. Nadine Burke Harris and Ezra Klein discuss how Covid-19 and trauma are shaping children
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/09/podcasts/ezra-klein-podcast-nadine-burke-harris-transcript.html. (Please listen to just the first 35 minutes). You can access the podcast via the link provided, or you can access the NY Times via the library (libraries.rutgers.edu).
Using this podcast, students are to answer the questions below. Students should complete this assignment by developing well-formulated sections with respect to the following questions. No additional introductory or concluding sections are needed, nor are transition sentences between sections. The assignment should reflect students’ own thoughts and analysis—not that of classmates, work colleagues, or anybody else.
Section #1
View the podcast interview (first 35 minutes) with Dr. Nadine Burke Harris. Summarize the main point of the presentations as a whole. What is the main argument? Within this discussion, make sure to demonstrate your understanding of each domain of persons as biopsychosocial beings, integrating this understanding within key points from the presentation, and citing course materials with in-text citations as part of your discussion.
Section #2
To what extent did the interview with Nadine Burke Harris address each of the following levels of social environments in terms of their implications for development among children facing maltreatment: micro-social, meso-social, and macro-social? Using your own ideas, elaborate on one concept discussed in any one area of the social environment which resonated for you. Within this discussion, make sure to demonstrate your clear understanding of each level of the social environment, citing core course materials (with in-text citations) as part of your demonstration of understanding.
Section #3
Explain in your own words the concept of person-environment transactions, making at least one link to the core course material when describing this concept. Now, discuss two examples of how Burke Harris’ argument demonstrates the transactional relationship between each level of the social environment as you discussed in Section 2 above (micro, meso, macro).
Section #4
Based on your viewing of the interview with Nadine Burke Harris how did the presentation incorporate insights from a complex systems perspective? Describe at least one clear and compelling example—demonstrating your understanding of at least one specific and central concept from complex systems theory through in-text citations (e.g., probabilism, non-reductionism, non-linear causality, heterogeneity). Conclude with a discussion on how this insight from complex systems theory enhances your sensitivity to diversity among children facing maltreatment and overall implications for practice.