B ronfen bren nels p rocess-person-ca

n:ext-ti me mode r i s u sed

exa m i n e t h eo r i e s to
.t
d e p rivat i o n o n c h,
h.a.t ex p I a i n t h e- i d ve
d re ni t ii
; ri"*
rs ;;, n o * ,

moder' each of five ilruures ""ii o n, t d ever o p m e nt. t n h i s

",io,
of thi ecotogicar environment_
microsystems, mesosystems,
exosystems, macrosystems,
chronosvstems-is tuutumii and
rheories of the
*J'n the next higher tevet.
microsystem of the "tr:r": :l i:i"ii')ir"p_**at processes in the
famity have ihe or, ,rrrorch support,
processes in other.microsystems but
sutch o, ,n"- pii,
schoot and in other ,:n:,,
,rillrrtrirrl environment ay atso ii ,ra
explain the reration between
,ioiiii'arprvation
-wo and chirdren s
s oc i oe m oil o n ar
fu-n ct i o n n g. s oiii i r k p ra ct i ce a n d po t i cy
implications are drawn n-,
rom the analysis.--
Key wo rd s : b e h a v ior ro b m ; yco I
I
soc t oe^pm ot i o n a I1 d evel 9g_i1I
I s.yste m s ; p ove rt y;
o p m ent

espite a recent rwo-percentage_point

cljne in child poverty, approximately de_ ine major theories of the
processes by which
lf rtve children in the Unlted
States L
one ecoomic deprivation ..*lt. ir .t ir"":, "
poor ( Lamison-White, r ssz). socioemoonal problems.
cop"r.J rn ff,. nrrtr.Joo
briefl y discusses'the assurnpons
children who live in families
wt,#;;.;;;_ Bronfenbrenner,s model.
of
cial resources Door children
., , ijgi.. ;rk uses his strucrures of
ifr,,..rr section
of developing variety of
socioemotional prob- the ecologi;J;;r.*'
ment as a framework fo this
Ierns. These include a.p..rron i ;r, r_ "d' uiJL*,
uury.i,
I11t::1",1,,
tss.z), iniernatizins-arJ'"_"i"1- social work practice,na
The final section ru.."iir.,
pori.yffi;;il;"
mng sFmptoms (Duncan, Broos_Gu";:
Klebanov, I994), Iorver .r.1, "' the practice and
hil;;;;;;;
'v'v ss
uf .oJriiiiir"a
pocy i*pti"utioir.r
initia.tive ( Hanson, Mclanahai,
I il;;'i;l Process-person{ontet_Time
Model
:?^1?,
p robt em a ti c p"., ..ruti*;il ;ir* Jr. Bronfenbrenner (1977) proposed
classroom behaviors I patterson, X rp.^.ri an ecological
Vaden, t990). A systems model of the lifelong
progr.r.ir. oil
commodations individuals
This article uses Bronfenbrenner,s
( 1995) ;k. ;;,h;';;;r-
p rocesri-persor__con text_tine
model ; ;;;;_
ing environmenrs in *f,.r,
referred to the most recent
,iii;;;:ri:t
conceptualization of

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