Bronfenbrenner

• Development is influenced by a wide range of environmental factors: parents, siblings, teachers, community, wider society and culture in which an individual lives
• his theory is often presented as a diagram
• microsystem- the most influential level- direct contact and influence on the individual/ immediate family and home environment
• meosystem- the different relationships between the elements of the mictosystem
• exosystem- one step beyond the meo system but would have an immediate impact on the child e.g. the parents workplace/ media influence
• macrosystem- economic and cultural environment surrounding the exosystem
• chronosystem- the history surrounding environments and traditions
• practitioners must recognise they are apart of the childs microsystem
• Act as a positive role model
• develop positive relationships within the microsystem