Identify and describe key assumptions, concepts, and processes of each theory. The ecological systems theory, also known as the human ecology theory was created by Urie Bronfenbrenner, introducing a change in thought in the field of developmental psychology; leading to the creation of the head start program in 1965 (Kimball, 2014). In the ecological systems theory, there are 5 different environmental levels that affect a child (Kimball, 2014). At the core of this system is the child, each child has their own environment to grow up and live in; the attributes of each child are what makes the system unique: age, gender, health, and personality (Lester, …show more content…
You’ll want to create a case study of the family using one theory, then create a case study of the same family using the other theory. TIP: use the vocabulary of the theory to describe the