Sentences with phrase «protective factors help»

Not exact matches

This would help show if breastfeeding is in and of itself protective, or just «along for the ride» with other protective factors.

Breast milk contains hormones, antibodies, and other protective factors that help babies fight infection and become stronger.

This gives me insight into the families protective factors [factors that help shield the family during times of stress] and risk factors [factors that exacerbate the stress of a family].

Knowing that all families have strengths and all families have needs, PAT parent educators help families access what they need to strengthen the protective factors within the family to provide for children's healthy development.

Be Strong, not stressed: Strong Families Brochure A new brochure from Center for the Study of Social Policy helps parents understand how to keep their families strong with protective factors explanations and «tune - up tips.»

Strengthening Families Center for the Study of Social Policy Describes an initiative to prevent child abuse and neglect by helping child welfare and early education professionals enhance protective factors in children, youth, and families.

Breastfeeding helps protect against these and other infections by providing antibodies and other protective factors, minimizing exposure to pathogens, and ensuring optimum nutrition.

«Mothers who develop postpartum depression often experience protective risk factors such as better access to resources, fewer children and are more mature, which helps them adapt to the stress of pregnancy,» Fisher said.

Scientists have long known that a bath of protective proteins in the brain, known as neurotrophic factors, can help curb the progression of Parkinson's disease by keeping those dopamine - producing neurons healthy.

Protective factors are highlighted and valuable exercises and worksheets for breast care are included, such as The Breast Health Balance Sheet, an extensive questionnaire that helps to determine risk factors.

Protective factors that help to preserve the freshness and viability of the probiotic strains in a supplement include refrigeration, resistant packaging, and storage in a cool, dry place.

For those suffering from lead or other heavy metal poisoning, a protective diet that avoids processed foods and emphasizes the central components of a nutrient - dense and antioxidant - rich WAPF - style diet is essential (see sidebar).21 Nutritional status shapes susceptibility to lead toxicity in important ways, affecting lead's intestinal absorption; its mobilization, distribution and retention in the body; and excretion.22 Because oxidative stress is a likely mechanism explaining some of lead's toxic actions, some investigators have begun to explore whether natural antioxidants and trace minerals may help mitigate lead - induced cell damage.17 Specifically, researchers in Spain found that administration of vitamins A, B6, C and E along with zinc modulated some of the negative effects of lead exposure in rat pups, confirming the influence of nutritional factors on health outcomes following lead exposure.17 Vitamin D also should be a major component of a protective diet.

It stimulates the expression of hundreds of protective genes, and creates Brain - Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF), which is necessary to grow new neurons and help them survive.

Trauma - informed strategies can also help to proactively establish protective factors.

Some protective factors are inherent to a child's nature or a result of early caregiving experiences, but we can teach coping mechanisms, help develop healthy self - image, and provide opportunities for practice in managing stress.

Successful high - poverty schools provide protective factors that help build a bond between students and school.

Having good friends at school is an important protective factor against bullying (Bollmer, Milich, Harris & Maras, 2005) and can also help students cope with emotional consequences of unkind behaviour of peers (Hodges, Boivin, Vitaro & Bukowski, 1999).

The high - performing / high - poverty schools we studied provided «protective factors» that help build a bond between students and school.

To help parents, we offer a three - part plan, based on the research around protective factors for kids, called PDF.

Lions Quest helps provide protective factors by creating a strong connection to school, involving parents in the lives of their children, and helping students gain the knowledge, skill, and commitment to make healthy choices when they face pressure to use alcohol, drugs, and tobacco.

Be Strong, not stressed: Strong Families Brochure A new brochure from Center for the Study of Social Policy helps parents understand how to keep their families strong with protective factors explanations and «tune - up tips.»

I can't say this was an easy read, yet trying make sense of this was harder... To open the door you're going to grab the door handle, it's one single action to unlock the vehicle... Most vehicles have settings, you can set the drivers door handle to unlock ALL doors if this helps... If one is uncomfortable with this feature, usually the keyfob holder grab the front passenger handle which can unlock all the doors... For the hands full in the trunk, a push button start isn't a factor here although more and more lower MSRP CUVs are gaining power tailgates where you can wave your foot or something under the bumper... I'm not sure how the MY17 Lacrosse fab is, perhaps they make a cheap protective cover, perhaps you have other things in your pocket... While there are small business rental car fleets who may take a different approach, almost all of the major rental car fleets cable tie both fobs together in the hopes you lose them and they can charge you for two replacements...

PREP emphasizes lowering risk factors and raising protective factors to help marriages succeed.

Strengthening Families Center for the Study of Social Policy Describes a framework for increasing family strengths and enhancing child development by helping parents build protective factors in their lives and communities.

In this article the authors present the core pillars of the Strong Military Families program and how they contribute to the strengthening of protective factors that help parents cope with stressors and promote family resilience.

Our FASD Parent Support Groups also follow the Circle of Parents model of mutual self - help, building protective factors in families, and are confidential and non-judgmental.

There is the need to attend to both common and GLBQ unique risk and protective factors within mental health interventions, recognising that the majority of GLBQ community members seek help in relation to concerns common to the mainstream community

An awareness of the protective factors that are present in children and families can help pediatricians to build on their strengths during health promotion conversations.

Pediatricians can strive to identify and build on protective factors within families, such as cohesion, humor, support networks, skills, and spiritual and cultural beliefs.96, 97 By approaching families from a strengths - based perspective, pediatricians can help build trust and identify the assets on which a family can draw to effectively address problems and care for their children.

FAF's service planning and case management features help build on and strengthen protective factors

However, there also exist various protective factors which help to lessen these negative outcomes.

EFFECT aims to improve children's wellbeing by helping fathers become more involved, responsible, and committed to their children through parent education skills, guidance, and support systems.17 Additionally, EFFECT aims to increase protective factors — family functioning and resilience, social support, knowledge of parenting and child development, concrete support, and nurturing and attachment — to reduce the risk of child maltreatment and to promote positive family wellbeing.18 In addition to investing in fatherhood programs through EFFECT, Texas is committed to considering a broader system of supports for fathers.

Every child and family will experience difficulties and challenges (risk factors) and each will have some resources and strengths to help through difficult times (protective factors).

Self - care and «going back to the basics» is also important because it helps parents and carers maintain positive family relationships, which is a key protective factor that can reduce the risk of infants developing mental health issues.

Butterfly Education has a unique range of workshops, presentations and educational resources to help all members of the community understand the risk and protective factors in the development of eating disorders.

Children can also learn skills for managing their emotions, and this helps to build up protective factors.

This approach helps understand the type, intensity, frequency and duration of anxious behaviours as well as predisposing (e.g. family history), precipitating (e.g. school stressors), perpetuating (e.g. avoidance) and protective (e.g. optimistic / hard working child) factors.

Though discussion of treatment issues is beyond the scope of this paper, early intervention and psychosocial assistance have frequently been reported as crucial protective factors PUNAMAKI (2001) despite low rates of help seeking behaviour in refugee populations (Howard & Hodes, 2000).

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.

A comprehensive assessment may include interviews with the family, early childhood educators and using standardised checklists to help establish the nature and extent of the anxiety, as well as risk and protective factors in place.

When it comes to mental health issues in young people, it can help to think about things in terms of risk and protective factors.

Schools and early learning services are well - placed to help promote protective factors that can reduce the risk children will engage in maladaptive coping strategies such as self - harm.

Preventive programs designed to assist children to develop coping skills for their situations can also help to build protective factors.

It supports students with the capacity to adapt and develop protective factors necessary to help them approach situations with confidence and enthusiasm.

Protective factors can help to reduce the likelihood of developing a mental health problem.

Protective factors also help people to have positive mental health and wellbeing even though risk factors may be around.

When protective factors are present they help to balance out the risk of developing mental health difficulties.

And like working collaboratively with parents, utilising KidsMatter principles, that sort of aspect, I know from working with you know sometimes challenging behaviour, I've always found it very useful when we can offer references from KidsMatter files or readings or the Framework around risk factors, protective factors, just to give them a bit more help and support and confidence sometimes in their role as parent, so yeah there's been numeral times numerous times sorry where you've sat alongside your parents and tried to collaborate strategies towards helping their child and the KidsMatter program has helped in a lot of aspects for me, when I've dealt with situations like this.

Research shows when families and staff work together it helps to create a positive sense of community - another protective factor.

The factors found to be protective of children's mental health are therefore critical for helping to build resilience.