ECOLOGICAL MODELS *A

*Allman, W.F. (1994). Earth, wind and fire - and ice. U.S. News and World Report, 116(4), 6-7.

This article discusses how the Northridge earthquake of 1994 brought home to millions of people the fact that the earth was not always nurturing to human beings. It is pointed out that geologic instability can be considered an Earth constant if the planet is viewed form the perspective of its entire 4.5 billion year history.

The article concludes with the notion that surviving geologic catastrophes requires that people help one another with their physical and emotional pain. This point is illustrated by noting that one of the findings of an ancient ecological disaster were the bodies of two people who had died together trying to help one another avert an ecological disaster.

* Berry, J.U. (1995). Families and deinstitutionalization: An application of Bronfenbrenner's social ecology model. Journal of Counseling and Development, 73(4), 379-383.

This article illustrates how what is essentially a model explaining physical processes in the environment (the biologic ecology model) can be adroitly applied to explain psychosocial processes in the family and the individual. Specifically, the article utilizes a social ecology model (a model that focuses on how the environment interacts with a developing person to effect either healthy development or the lack thereof) to explicate the situation of families with a developmentally disa

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Approximate Word count = 1171
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page)