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specific protective factors that carry moderate or strong association with improved well - being for pregnant and parenting teens.
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specific protective factors that carry moderate or strong association with improved well - being for victims of child abuse and neglect.
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Understanding the impacts home visiting programs have had on children's social and emotional development begins with identifying those programs that have affected antecedent risk and
protective factors associated with child and emotional development in addition to
specific social and emotional outcomes.
In this study, the researchers found that a
specific population of immune cells called macrophages have the ability to secrete or produce a
protective or healing
factor known as Interleukin - 10 (IL - 10), which can interact with receptors on intestinal epithelial cells to promote wound healing.
Myelin is the
protective sheath that insulates nerve fibers in the brain, and it is the primary site of injury in MS.. What's more, the scientists were able to pinpoint a
specific protein in the blood, the blood - clotting
factor fibrinogen, as the trigger for the disease - causing process.
While the authors argue that legislative and contextual interventions can be effective prevention strategies, they also recognize that there is an unmet need for behavioral change programs designed to pinpoint the most at - risk groups, identify their risk and
protective factors, and then design effective interventions tailored to their
specific needs.
Furthermore, they can express transgenes encoding
specific neurotrophic
factors that have
protective effects on neighboring host neurons [11], [12].
The packet includes suggestions for enhancing each of the five
protective factors in families; tip sheets in English and Spanish for providers to use when working with parents and caregivers on
specific parenting challenges strategies; for sharing the message about child abuse prevention in communities; and information about child abuse and neglect.
The project does however provide some illuminating findings in relation to risk and
protective factors specific to GLBQ clients, and the nature of
factors» mediating roles in mental health and illness.
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).
Advances in prevention in public health2 provide a model for prevention of adolescent health - risk behaviors by focusing on risk and
protective factors predictive of these behaviors.3, 4 Research on the predictors of school failure, delinquency, drug abuse, teen pregnancy, and violence indicates that many of the same
factors predict these different outcomes.5, 6 Recent research has shown that bonding to school and family protects against a broad range of health - risk behaviors in adoles cence.6 Yet, prevention studies typically have focused narrowly on a
specific outcome, such as preventing substance abuse, and on attitudes and social influences that predict that outcome.7, 8 Previous studies on prevention have not sought to address the shared risk and
protective factors for diverse health - risk behaviors that are the main threats to adolescent health.
Notwithstanding these gender -
specific risk and
protective factors, in most cases, the same
factors — ADHD, negative temperament, impulsivity, compromised intelligence — predict antisocial behavior in both males and females, as suggested by the substantial overlap shown in figure 4.99 Although some analysts have argued the need to concentrate on the commonalities in predictors of male and female offending, it is also important to note the areas in which risk
factors differ by gender.100 Even if the differences between male and female offenders are confined to only a few key areas, the differences in these areas — for example, sensitivity to victimization, timing of onset of persistent offending, prevalence of mental health problems — can be substantial and can profoundly influence the effectiveness of risk assessments and treatment programs.
Understanding the impacts home visiting programs have had on children's social and emotional development begins with identifying those programs that have affected antecedent risk and
protective factors associated with child and emotional development in addition to
specific social and emotional outcomes.
Risk and
protective factors also can include
specific life events and the social environment.
While there are issues such as housing, employment and education that affect everyone, there are also
specific protective and risk
factors that have a high impact on the social emotional wellbeing and rates of depression among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Maybe using different engagement strategies based on each family's
specific needs, if they don't already think about those five
protective factors for strengthening families.
As evidence accumulates about parent - child connectedness being a
protective factor for the prevention of a variety of health and social problems (e.g. drug use, violence, unintended pregnancy), attention naturally turns to the
specific mechanisms by which this connectedness works, so that it can be promoted more deliberately, systematically, and proactively.2 Download details of the clinical benefits of Hand in Hand Parenting here.
The findings suggest that nurturing parenting may be a
specific, rather than global,
protective factor for peer victimization in child anxiety.
This class explores personal, political and clinical issues of race and gender in eating disorder treatment including differences between gender roles, sexual orientation and gender identity as well as
specific risk and
protective factors, the impact of oppression and assimilation stress on identity development, and culturally relevant treatment implications.
He has led numerous NIH and internationally funded research projects designed to examine risk and
protective factors involved in linking acculturation to education and behavioral health outcomes for Latino children and families and to develop and test culturally
specific interventions for at - risk families in the U.S. and in Latin America.
This review will summarise the findings of risk and
protective factors identified in McCubbin and Patterson's model, with a
specific focus on how these
factors may be impacted across the developmental trajectory.
In the present study, we examined the dimensions of parenting practices that have an impact on
specific dimensions of child social skills, in order to explore in more detail the potential early
protective factors that can influence diverse developmental pathways in child social skills.
Although rigorous randomized controlled trial research shows that the program in its current form appears highly efficacious in altering adolescent substance use outcomes (delaying onset of use, reducing abuse) and building
protective factors in the form of youth competencies, the only effects on parents that have been demonstrated are increases in the use of
specific parenting behaviors (Spoth and Redmond 2002; Spoth et al. 2002, 2004).
Experts generally identify four areas of parental capacity for measurement: parent - child attachment, the presence and growth of
protective factors,
specific parenting skills and knowledge, and general parental efficacy.