Preventive interventions need to focus on building
protective factors within young people themselves, as well as creating health - promoting environments at home and at school.
The initiative focuses on building the following six
protective factors within families, which are linked with many positive outcomes including reductions in child abuse and neglect:
The risk and
protective factors within these areas, and their effects on children's mental health and wellbeing are outlined next.
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.
With KidsMatter, communities can work on strengthening
protective factors within their early childhood setting.
Protective factors within a child include:
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.
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
«The strategy is to identify important risk or
protective factors within a given group,» observes Dana March, a Ph.D. candidate in Susser's group.
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.
Not exact matches
Provision of mother's breast milk to infants
within one hour of birth is referred to as «early initiation of breastfeeding» and ensures that the infant receives the colostrum, or «first milk», which is rich in
protective factors.
Amie's research interests focus on the prevention of problem behaviors in youth, with a particular focus on identifying malleable risk and
protective factors associated with the development of problem behaviors, and examining the impact of evidence - based interventions on reducing or preventing the development of such behaviors
within low - income populations.
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).
Each topic
within the components highlight the
protective factors to support mental wellness.
The concept of resilience and closely related research regarding
protective factors provides one avenue for addressing mental well - being that is suggested to have an impact on adolescent substance use.8 — 17 Resilience has been variably defined as the process of, capacity for, or outcome of successful adaptation in the context of risk or adversity.9, 10, 12, 13, 18 Despite this variability, it is generally agreed that a range of individual and environmental
protective factors are thought to: contribute to an individual's resilience; be critical for positive youth development and protect adolescents from engaging in risk behaviours, such as substance use.19 — 22 Individual or internal resilience
factors refer to the personal skills and traits of young people (including self - esteem, empathy and self - awareness).23 Environmental or external resilience
factors refer to the positive influences
within a young person's social environment (including connectedness to family, school and community).23 Various studies have separately reported such
factors to be negatively associated with adolescent use of different types of substances, 12, 16, 24 — 36 for example, higher self - esteem16, 29, 32, 35 is associated with lower likelihood of tobacco and alcohol use.
For decades, many investigators have regarded the explanatory power of one of these two «main effects» perspectives as dominant over the other.11 An aim for this project is to move beyond «main effects» perspectives by utilizing a child by environment model in which risk /
protective factors are seen as originating
within the child and the relational environment.
Professionals and parents benefit from understanding the attributes of these five
Protective Factors and how they can utilize them
within their daily work, interactions and lives.
Of particular interest, risks associated with poverty were mediated by disruptions in the quality of the caregiving environment, particularly instability and disorganization of the family, while affectional ties
within the family and
within extrafamilial informal support systems acted as
protective factors.
Guided by this approach, researchers examine the ways in which risk and
protective factors interact with one another across and
within proximal social contexts and their reciprocal patterns of the association with adolescent sexual risk behavior over time.
For these reasons, whether
protective factors exert different effects
within the context of victimization in female versus male adolescents should be investigated.
Only one study has considered the family environment as a
protective factor, assisting coping
within families.
In the following sections, we review how each
factor impinges on HIV risk behavior of Latino adolescents
within the United States, consider implications for the design and delivery of HIV prevention interventions, and present suggestions for intervention activities to address these risk and
protective factors.