Sentences with phrase «protective factors in their lives»

No, because I was privileged to have myriad protective factors in my life that buffered life's challenges: parents who provided steady and consistent unconditional acceptance, a strong spiritual identity that allowed me to look beyond current circumstances, and teachers who practiced cultural sensitivity before such a thing knew to exist.

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.

Adolescents who manage their parents» divorce well enough tend to have greater rather than fewer protective factors in their lives.

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Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 23, 101 - 120 Buchanan, A Flouri, E & Ten Brinke, J. (2002) «Emotional and behavioural problems in childhood and distress in adult life: Risk and protective factors».

Social and emotional problems in young children can be traced to mothers» prenatal health, 1,2 parents» caregiving3, 4 and their life - course (such as the timing of subsequent pregnancies, employment, welfare dependence).5, 6 Home visiting programs that address these antecedent risks and protective factors may reduce social and emotional problems in children.

Breastfed babies can gain «lots and lots» of weight in the first year, explains Gourley, but they'll still have a lower risk of obesity later in life, because of the powerful protective factors of breast milk.

She shows us how to shift our focus from the excesses of hyper - parenting and our unhealthy reliance on our children for status and meaning to a parenting style that focuses on protective factors known to contribute to both academic success as well as a sense of purpose, well - being, connection, and meaning in life.

As you become more active and start including exercise in your daily life, you will most likely reach a healthier body weight, serving as an additional protective factor against cancer development.

The benefits of fasting and calorie restriction also has some nice little research such as: — increased longevity — reducing oxidative stress — reducing inflammation — reduce risk of heart disease — improving neuroendocrine responses — increasing GH secretion — protective effects on heart, lung, brain — decrease in insulin resistance and other overall disease prevention and life extension factors....

It's important for students and the adults in their lives to know that family time is a «significant protective factor,» the authors point out, and results in positive mental health and fewer at - risk behaviors for young people.

Successful high - poverty schools provide a protective factor when they find ways to ensure that their students living in poverty will be able to participate in extracurricular activities.

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.

In a world - first, nib foundation's funding support will enable Smiling Mind to conduct the largest evaluation of an app - based mindfulness intervention program - to measure the impact of their program on increasing the protective factors associated with mental health and wellbeing such as social connection, sleep quality, and developing personal coping skills and resilience to deal with the stresses of everyday life.

Additionally, the findings of the current study permitted to think about the role of educational programs based on the development of life skills, demonstrated as widely efficient in various areas of well - being promotion in adolescence, including positive affectivity and resilience as protective factors in different way for boys and girls.

Given the influence of positive affect both on resilience and perceived self - efficacy in life skills and the significance of educational programs focused on the increasing of self - efficacy in life skills, future investigations could better understand the functioning of «protective factors» actively involved in the transition from childhood to adolescence, in line with the flourishing approach developed by Positive Psychology (Seligman, 2011) in supporting the promotion of psychological well - being and the increasing of individual's bio-psycho-social skills.

In partnership with the Colorado Department of Human Services Office of Early Childhood, Illuminate Colorado is awarding mini grants to support three curricula to prevent child maltreatment: Nurturing Healthy Sexual Development, Darkness to Light's Stewards of Children, and Bringing the Protective Factors to Life in Your WorIn partnership with the Colorado Department of Human Services Office of Early Childhood, Illuminate Colorado is awarding mini grants to support three curricula to prevent child maltreatment: Nurturing Healthy Sexual Development, Darkness to Light's Stewards of Children, and Bringing the Protective Factors to Life in Your Worin Your Work.

The current study involved in - depth qualitative file audit of 299 non-heterosexual counselling clients who attended drummond street (within a 3 year period from 2008 - 2011), with 220 risk and protective factors identified relating to the individual (cognitive and coping styles, physical health and health risk behaviours), family of origin, couple relationship and parenting, stressful life events, school and work factors, social connection to mainstream and queer communities, and queer - specific factors (such as exposure to homophobia and being currently in a «questioning» stage regarding sexual identity formation).

Corey is also a Certified in the National Alliance of Children's Trust and Prevention Fund's Bringing the Protective Factors to Life in Your Work.

The purpose of this study was to identify risk and protective factors for suicide attempts in a large sample of American Indian and Alaska Native youth living in reservation communities.

Program evaluation has supported this multifaceted approach in multiple countries and settings.83 Analyses by Nobel Prize — winning economist James Heckman reveal that early prevention activities targeted toward disadvantaged children have high rates of economic returns, much higher than remediation efforts later in childhood or adult life.84 For example, the Perry Preschool Program showed an average rate of return of $ 8.74 for every dollar invested in early childhood education.85 Targeted interventions foster protective factors, including responsive, nurturing, cognitively stimulating, consistent, and stable parenting by either birth parents or other consistent adults.

Social and emotional problems in young children can be traced to mothers» prenatal health, 1,2 parents» caregiving3, 4 and their life - course (such as the timing of subsequent pregnancies, employment, welfare dependence).5, 6 Home visiting programs that address these antecedent risks and protective factors may reduce social and emotional problems in children.

parent café A forum for holding structured conversations — either online or in person — about protective factors led by parents who relate the information to their own lives.

Some examples of children's mental health protective factors include: a stable and warm home environment, having supportive parents or carers and early childhood services, achieving developmental milestones, routines and consistency in life and having support from a wide circle of family, friends and community members.

Key relationships in a child's life serve as protective factors for children's mental health.

Children benefit when the significant people in their lives work together, and having supportive parents / carers and educators are two of the major protective factors that decrease the likelihood of mental health difficulties developing.

The risk and protective factors present in a child's life increase or decrease the likelihood of whether or not they will experience a mental health difficulty.

Building and maintaining positive relationships is an important protective factor that can support you in the every - day challenges life throws you.

FAMILY LAW — CHILDREN — Parenting — Parental responsibility — With whom the children shall live and spend time — Separation of siblings — Where the two eldest children have been living with the father and the youngest child has been living with the mother — Where both parents seek sole parental responsibility for all three children and for the children to live with them ---- Where there are concerns about the mother's parenting capacity in relation to the two eldest children — Where the mother's relationship with the youngest child is a protective factor for the child — Orders made for the father to have sole parental responsibility for the two eldest children and the mother to have sole parental responsibility for the youngest child — Orders made for the two eldest children to live with the father and the youngest child to live with the mother — Orders made permitting the children to determine when to spend time with the non-resident parent on reaching age thirteen.

Glenda Grummet and Sandy Clark explore how using the KidsMatter framework can support us in filling the little, and BIG transitions, in a child's life with protective factors for their mental health.

Protective factors such as living in a supportive and nurturing environment assist children to be able to manage stressful events and can decrease the likelihood of ongoing impact, such as mental health and behavioural difficulties, after children have been affected by trauma.

The Framework is divided into four Components; these guide ECEC services in ways to strengthen protective factors and minimise risk factors in children's lives.

KidsMatter concentrates on strengthening these protective factors within an early childhood setting; this in turn promotes resilience and helps to reduce the impact of any risk factors and stressful life events on children.

Risk and protective factors can be identified in three main areas of a child's life, specifically:

So all children have some risk factors, because that's just what happens in life, but what you're hoping is that there's enough protective factors to balance out the impact of that risk, and to give children another kind of experience to draw on as they're growing up.

So one of the things that certainly this program tries to do is look at the ways in which we can boost protective factors, promote social health and emotional wellbeing so that kids in a sense are a bit more resistant to the kind of stresses or the risk factors that they might experience in the course of their lives.

Recognising children who have mental health risk factors in their lives and providing them with support to build on the protective factors may prevent them from having mental health difficulties later in life.

These developmental assets essentially parallel the protective factors in the risk and resilience model, aiding youth to positively adapt to adverse life stressors, such as those found among youth in care.

The first 5 years of life are critical for the development of language and cognitive skills.1 By kindergarten entry, steep social gradients in reading and math ability, with successively poorer outcomes for children in families of lower social class, are already apparent.2 — 4 Early cognitive ability is, in turn, predictive of later school performance, educational attainment, and health in adulthood5 — 7 and may serve as a marker for the quality of early brain development and a mechanism for the transmission of future health inequalities.8 Early life represents a time period of most equality and yet, beginning with in utero conditions and extending through early childhood, a wide range of socially stratified risk and protective factors may begin to place children on different trajectories of cognitive development.9, 10

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In comparing competent children with less competent children from highly stressed families, researchers found that a history of early attachment - related competence proved to be a major protective factor against the adverse effects of stressful life events.

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.

She is also a National Alliance of Children's Trust and Prevention Funds Certified Trainer for Bringing the Protective Factors Framework to Life in Your Work.

Findings suggest that for genetically susceptible children who are raised in low - risk environments, attention control may provide a protective factor against developing internalizing problems across early life.

Grounded in the Strengthening Families Protective Factors Framework that aims to reduce the potential for child abuse, MPAP helps parents gain the tools to manage their own life challenges while developing skills to nurture the physical, social, emotional, and cognitive development of their children.

There is a lot of work to be done to spread the message across the globe and develop new resources that support families in strengthening themselves by getting real, living the protective factors, and waking up to their potential.

This workbook contains a 7 - week program with daily activities that will help you live the protective factors in your family.

Results for both groups showed positive changes in protective factors (parenting attitudes, parenting competence, and social support); diminished risk factors (depressive symptoms, parenting stress, life stress); improved safety (physical and psychological care of children); and improved behavior (decreased internalizing and externalizing).

The Rhodes lab focuses on two distinct, but interrelated, programs of research: (a) informal and formal mentoring in the lives of adolescents and young adults and (b) risk and protective factors in young adult survivors» responses to natural disaster.

Becoming aware of certain early - life experiences that may serve as buffering (protective) factors that promote better health outcomes later in life, even when early adversity was experienced.

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.