One of Price's impressions from that research experience was that susceptibility to tooth decay resulted from the
absence of protective factors, but he didn't know what they were.
The goal of this project was to strengthen families of young children with disabilities through
promotion of protective factors at the family and community levels.
The results are discussed in
terms of the protective factor played by children's social competence reducing the impact of low self - concept on children's externalizing behaviors.
This paper provides a very good
summary of protective factors associated with resilience and outlines methods to enhance such protective factors in group intervention environments.
This factsheet is part of a series of five factsheets for practitioners exploring the importance
of protective factors in working with in - risk populations served by the Administration on Children Youth and Families.
This publication is part of a series of five factsheets for practitioners exploring the
importance of protective factors in working with in - risk populations served by ACYF.
Kentucky, Michigan, and New Jersey plan to integrate the Center for the Study of Social Policy's Strengthening Families strength based framework
of protective factors into their services and systems.
Therefore, it is the
presence of protective factors that distinguish Cycle Breakers from families who were referred to Child Protection professionals in the first year after birth.
Michigan sought to integrate the Center for the Study of Social Policy's Strengthening Families strength - based
framework of protective factors into their services and systems.
Her current research examines the relationship between risk and protective factors, preventive interventions, and youth outcomes; the design and evaluation of tools to facilitate the
use of protective factors in strength - based and evidence - informed practice; and the development of community - based infrastructures to promote and sustain the use of such tools in practice environments.
The SDS shows how three broad
categories of protective factors — healthy beliefs and clear standards, bonding, and individual characteristics — work together to promote positive youth development and healthy behaviors (Hawkins, Catalano, & Arthur, 1995).
What has changed in the modern era is not the introduction of chemical pollutants, but the
disappearance of protective factors abundant in traditional diets — which have protected us from pollutants throughout history — from the modern menu.
They suggest that this implies either a synergistic
effect of the protective factors in whole grains or an effect from other substances, as yet unidentified, in whole grains.
By claiming their roles as
agents of protective factors, educators (and all caring adults in schools) can create schools that are havens in which resilience can flourish.
One
of the protective factors highlighted in resilience theory is that if a young person has at least one caring adult who knows them, has high expectations for them, communicates a sense of belonging, recognizes their strengths, and gives them opportunities to be themselves, express themselves and their strengths, this builds resilience and the capacity to face challenges with self - awareness and confidence.
A good introduction, Protective Factors: Promoting Healthy Families provides information that supervisors, program managers and coordinators may find helpful in supporting and promoting the
integration of protective factors with frontline staff.
While KidsMatter Primary is not specifically designed to help schools prevent and address self - harming behaviour, the four components of KidsMatter Primary help schools to address many of the risk factors related to self - harm and build
many of the protective factors that prevent and reduce self - harm.
Resilience is a
combination of protective factors that enable people to adapt in the face of serious hardship, and is essential to ensuring that children who experience adversity can still become healthy, productive citizens.
We conclude that measures of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) represent an important construct for indicator systems; in addition, these findings indicate that
measures of protective factors represent important components of indication systems.
Programs or interventions that aim to improve or increase the number
of protective factors operate on the belief that if enough assets are added to the child's life development can be maintained at normal levels, as the increase in protective factors counterbalances the negative effects of the adversity.
A slightly different
pattern of protective factors resulted between gender and age, suggesting that the impacts of peer - victimization may differ between male and female adolescents and also between middle school and senior high school students.
They address the developmental growth of any child, describe strengths based approaches to support the
development of protective factors that keep families strong, depict parenting practices that support healthy child development, and encourage cultural sensitivity in parent educators / home visitors.
Toxic stress involves the experience of traumatic events in the
absence of protective factors, particularly supportive and loving relationships with parents and other adults in a child's life.
Abstract: BACKGROUND: Resilience benefits from the
use of protective factors, as opposed to risk factors, which are associated with vulnerability.
Although suicide in children is rare, research shows that children can and do present with suicidal behaviour, thus highlighting the need for early intervention including identification of risk factors and
promotion of protective factors, including adaptive coping skills.