Sentences with phrase «child vulnerability factors»

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Additionally, women subjected to FGM are usually less than fourteen years old which means that they are still children or teenagers that in most cases are not properly aware for the procedure and its consequences on their health, an important factor that significantly contributes to their vulnerability.

Significant investments may be required to ensure that power generation keeps up with rising demand associated with rising temperatures.38, 39 Finally, vulnerability to heat waves is not evenly distributed throughout urban areas; outdoor versus indoor air temperatures, air quality, baseline health, and access to air conditioning are all dependent on socioeconomic factors.29 Socioeconomic factors that tend to increase vulnerability to such hazards include race and ethnicity (being a minority), age (the elderly and children), gender (female), socioeconomic status (low income, status, or poverty), and education (low educational attainment).

Vulnerability, Risk, Protective Factors, and the Quality of Child - Parent Attachment in Foster and Adoptive Families (PDF - 308 KB) Gomez & Brown Illinois Child Welfare, 3 (1 - 2), 2007 Uses the theoretical perspective of attachment theory to examine key factors in the parent / child relationship in foster and adoptive faFactors, and the Quality of Child - Parent Attachment in Foster and Adoptive Families (PDF - 308 KB) Gomez & Brown Illinois Child Welfare, 3 (1 - 2), 2007 Uses the theoretical perspective of attachment theory to examine key factors in the parent / child relationship in foster and adoptive famiChild - Parent Attachment in Foster and Adoptive Families (PDF - 308 KB) Gomez & Brown Illinois Child Welfare, 3 (1 - 2), 2007 Uses the theoretical perspective of attachment theory to examine key factors in the parent / child relationship in foster and adoptive famiChild Welfare, 3 (1 - 2), 2007 Uses the theoretical perspective of attachment theory to examine key factors in the parent / child relationship in foster and adoptive fafactors in the parent / child relationship in foster and adoptive famichild relationship in foster and adoptive families.

Risk for negative outcomes may be modified by both genetic and environmental factors, with the quality and availability of social supports among the most important environmental factors in promoting resiliency in maltreated children, even in the presence of a genotype expected to confer vulnerability for psychiatric disorder.

Vulnerability to trauma differs between children and depends on a variety of factors, especially a child's age and past experiences.

For example, in the NSCAW study, foster children with experiences of severe maltreatment exhibited more compromised outcomes.32 Other scholars suggest that foster care may even be a protective factor against the negative consequences of maltreatment.33 Similarly, it has been suggested that foster care results in more positive outcomes for children than does reunification with biological families.34 Further, some studies suggest that the psychosocial vulnerability of the child and family is more predictive of outcome than any other factor.35 Despite these caveats, the evidence suggests that foster care placement and the foster care experience more generally are associated with poorer developmental outcomes for children.

Emmy Werner's (1992) seminal research has demonstrated that children's participation in a non-sextyped hobby serves as a protective factor, decreasing their vulnerability to risk and promoting positive outcomes.

Many factors may contribute to a child developing conduct disorder, including brain damage, child abuse, genetic vulnerability, school failure, and traumatic life experiences.

The results of the correlational analyses indicated that behavioral inhibition was associated with higher symptom levels of social anxiety, other anxiety disorders, and SM, which is in agreement with a vast amount of literature showing that this temperament characteristic is a vulnerability factor for the development of anxiety pathology in children [16, 25].

The continuity, co-occurrence, and co-development of child internalizing and externalizing problems have been extensively studied and considered to be causally related either directly (directional model) or indirectly through an underlying shared or related liability factor (common vulnerability model).

Specifically, findings suggest that although anger can increase children's vulnerability to problem behaviors, it can also be a motivating factor for self - regulation in the presence of supportive parenting.

Examine factors that influence an individual child's vulnerability to suffering negative consequences of divorce if it occurs.

In Towards a Resources and Stressors Model: The Psychological Adjustment of Adult Children of Divorce, I also note that gender, financial hardship, and a parenting plan which limits access to both parents are risk factors impacting an offspring's vulnerability to divorce.

These data are in accordance with a previous study from our group in which the role of attachment on children's migraine features and psychological profile were explored (14); in this previous paper, the hypothesis that a dysfunctional relationship between children and their mothers could be a vulnerability factor in young migraineurs was suggested.

These findings supported the hypothesis that a dysfunctional parent — child interaction may be a common vulnerability factor for both psychological symptoms and headache severity in children / adolescents suffering from migraine (14).

Perhaps these mothers with internalizing symptoms might have compromised IS themselves and consequently transmit this vulnerability factor to their children, hereby increasing their offspring's risk for developing maladaptive ER (and possibly psychopathology).

The present study examines whether cognitive and interpersonal vulnerability factors to depression contribute to stress generation in children, independent of their current depressive symptoms.

During an initial assessment, children completed self - report measures assessing cognitive and interpersonal vulnerability factors to depression.

A clinical sample was used to investigate whether second - generation Afro - Caribbean children differed from other British - born children in their psychiatric presentation or vulnerability to risk factors.