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A 4 page review of the damages that have been inflicted by this national disaster. The author contends that only if we analyze their situations from the Ecological Systems Theory perspective can we truly understand the depth of the scarring. That same theory, however, can serve as an outline in helping us pick up the pieces and trying to remold them into a functional whole. Bibliography lists 4
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Hurricane Katrina has done irreparable damage to the lives of thousands of children. According to the Ecological Systems Theory child development is
both directly and indirectly affected by their multilayered environment. For the children of Louisiana and Mississippi that environment was disrupted in a way that has seldom been matched before.
Homes were destroyed and loved ones lost. The structure that has previously defined these childrens lives no longer exists. The damage that has occurred can be specifically
defined under the Ecological Systems Theory, a theory that contends that the various layers of a childs life are quite distinct, distinct enough in fact to be assigned specific names.
The microsystem layer, as is defined by the Ecological Systems Theory, is the layer that shapes the relationships that a child has with
his or her immediate surroundings and the people in those surroundings (Paquette and Ryan, 2005). The relationships that occur on a microsystem level include those between a child and
their parents and between a child and other family members, the school, the neighborhood and perhaps their childcare facility (Paquette and Ryan, 2005). The mesosystem layer connects the various
components of the childs microsystem, perhaps a teacher with a parent, a church and a neighborhood, and other interstructural components (Paquette and Ryan, 2005). The exosystem, in comparison, is
the larger social system that affects the child but in which the child does not function directly (Paquette and Ryan, 2005). The exosystem interacts with the microsystem in a
complex way. Parents, for example, might interact with the community and the child is affected by that interaction (Paquette and Ryan, 2005). The macrosystem, in turn, is considered
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