Using Bronfenbrenner’s Human Ecological Model, you will personally reflect on your growth as a sexual person and discuss how each system has impacted your values, beliefs, behaviors, expectations, and

Using Bronfenbrenner’s Human Ecological Model, you will personally reflect on your growth as a sexual person and discuss how each system has impacted your values, beliefs, behaviors, expectations, and perceptions of sexuality.

Throughout your degree plan in Child and Family Sciences, you will be learning guiding principles of your professional organization. The principals will guide your professional practice when working with children can families in the “real world”. This assignment is related to the important Body of Knowledge (BOK) integrative element, Human Ecosystems. A second important Body of Knowledge (BOK) core concept is Basic Human Needs.

What Basic Human Needs are related to Sexuality?

• Part of an individual’s basic human need is to be able to have freedom of sexual choice and action, social well-being, including self-respect, dignity, peace, harmony, and good relations with family and community, and psychological well-being, including peace of mind, happiness.

How does the Human Ecosystem influence our sexuality?

• The body of knowledge ties individuals, families, and communities together through the family ecosystem theoretical model. Ecosystems within which families function include: (a) families, (b) the physical environment of space and the natural environment, (c) the human-built environment of housing, constructed facilities and equipment, and the application of technology to materials from the natural environment, and (d) the social regulatory environment comprised of the non-material culture, religion, and educational, political, legal/judicial, economic, and social systems. All the ecosystems influence our sexual values, beliefs, perceptions, expectations, and behaviors.