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The following study discusses the risk & resilient factors in the life of Pauline, a 16 year old NZ European/Maori teenager.
These factors involve her family life and its importance to her: the value of education and the consequences of leaving school without qualifications; how activities such as church participation can be helpful and the problems involved with having nothing to do; the effects of substance abuse; early sexual involvement and its risks; the risk of suicide, suicide attempts & ideation. The likely impacts of all of these factors on her current & future health status will be considered. Key words or concepts: resilience or protective factors: is factors that buffer young people from risks & promote
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Pauline expresses that there is a lot of arguing with her Dad & Stepmother. This provides risk for her as serious conflict between caregivers and children can put them at the risk of the problem behaviours (Channing Bete Company 2004). The separation of a child’s parents can put him/her at risk especially if there are a lot of changes or that the child does not have a good relationship with at least one parent (Burt 2002). It has been indicated in a study that girls in two parent families are less likely to act out risky behaviours than those in single parent families. (M.D. Resnick et al 1993). Children or adolescents who are well reasonably well adjusted after divorce nearly always come from an environment where there is a firm, responsive, nurturing, supportive adult (Henderson 2002). Pauline’s recent history is shows this sort of environment has not been there for her. A factor that protects an adolescent is having an adult in her life she can trust and with whom she can confide. The presence of an adult Mentor in an adolescents life helps reduce the participation in risk taking behaviours. (Beier et al 2000). Pauline reports having a close relationship with her Aunty Sarah who lives down the road with her Nan. She is able to confide with Aunty Sarah and feels close to her. This is a significant protective factor for Pauline.
This paper will examine the concepts of risk, protective factors, and resiliency. The paper will start with defining and elaborating on the concepts of risk and protective factors and examine how the latter promotes or hinders an individual’s capacity for resiliency. The paper will expound on the concepts of risk, protective factors and resiliency, by integrating the terms into the case study of Will Quinones. Lastly, the paper will conclude with strategies that can be used to promote resiliency in children that are deemed at- risk.
The issue of risk scenario carries immense importance for most of the hospitals that are part of the healthcare setting. However, there is not only one scenario that can affect the hospitals but
The risk assessment tradition according to Walker is what is relied upon to make any predictions on future criminal behavior for an offender. He mentions the importance of what factors a risk assessment should include such as personality, substance abuse, and relationship with others (2015, p. 82-84). All of these factors in the risk assessment test can help make a prediction and allows decisions made by judges or the courtroom workgroup to be a bit more accurate according to what offenders score on assesssments. The individual’s criminal history alone should not be the only think a judge should look at when making a decision. The risk assessment is often used to determine things such as the sentencing, if they should be on probation or not
Considering Rod and Rachel have not updated their Wills, this presents the issue of the assets of their estate potentially no longer going to the beneficiaries that they would currently like or intend to receive.
1. Trauma/Psychological issues due to loss of a loved one ( She lost a child in the refugee camp in Nigeria)
The Resiliency Quiz allowed me to practice personal reflection and self-correction in hopes of assuring continual professional development. As an individual this quiz encouraged me to use the skill of being able to readily identify resiliency to myself and those around me with ease. As an inspiring Social Worker this assignment reiterated to me the importance of being aware of resiliency and how it may have different meanings to people. As related to the actual quiz my analysis of my answers, combined with understanding the sections of “The Resiliency Wheel" and how they work together as machine to build resiliency while assisted me to helping to other with coping with or avoiding trauma with a learned form of awareness. This quiz also encouraged me to learn how to recognize the extent to which culture 's structure and values may oppress, marginalize, alienate or create or enhance privilege and power. In addition, this assignment helped me with reminding myself that I need to constantly work on at the minimum decreasing or ideally eliminating my personal biases so that they will not hinder me from working proficiently with diverse groups.
“Ryan, the experiment involves putting dangerous things into your body to make you stronger, thus getting rid of the disability, but the experiment also can be fatal,” my father said.
Question: Discuss the impact of chronic medical conditions on adolescents and identify ways of promoting resilience or positive development.
Risk and protective factors have cumulative effects; that is, the risk of poor life outcomes increases sharply as the number of risk factors increases and it varies according to a function based on the interactive relationship between one’s risk and protective factors (Rutter, 1985). For example, a child who was raised in a family living in an area associated with low socio-economic status will not necessarily develop a mental health disorder. However, if there are other risk factors involved, such as the father being involved in criminal behaviour, the mother suffering from a mental health disorder, or the child being neglected, when combined with a lack of protective factors, these additional factors increase the child’s likelihood of developing
Children and adolescents with complex trauma history may function well in certain areas while exhibiting some problems in other areas Cook et al. (2005). In this sense, Mister has several noteworthy strengths, which promote his functionality in certain areas, whereas he displays aggressive behavioral pattern at times. In the literature, the source of resilience is categorized into three main domains, which are individual, biological and environmental-systemic factors (Herman, et al., 2011). Similarly, Masten (as cited in Feeny & Zoellner, 2014) identified five basic adaptation domains for resilience, which are attachment relationships; intelligence and information processing; motivation to adapt and opportunities for agencies; self-regulation; religious-cultural systems and positive school and environment. In terms of these factors, individual factors especially come into prominence for Mister. Intelligence, positive personal traits, self-efficacy, self-esteem, adaptability, active coping skills are significant individual factors for him. On the other hand, Herman at al. (2001) indicated that these individual factors are associated with early positive life experiences. For example, mother drug use from pregnancy to adolescent period negatively impact on developing neurobiological systems. Similarly reachable and sensitive caregiver in childhood fosters
Simply the health is affected by age, gender and genetic factors that she gets from her parents, which is affected by lifestyle factors such as how much she has exercised, what food she normally eats and unhealthy habits such as smoking and access of drinking (Bartley 2016; Rubin, IL 2016). The other factors included social relationships with her friend and within her community, how much her family’s income, what level up education she and her family have, if she is able to perform her duties as previously, location, what is her families’ socioeconomic situation, home environment, culture, medical factors, self-ability of money, access to seek health care (Bartley 2016; Rubin, IL
There are a myriad of potential threats and vulnerabilities that leave a system open to malicious attack, anytime you have a computer network that connects to the internet there is a potential for malicious attack so it is important that you know the vulnerabilities of a system to protect it from potential threats and malicious attacks.
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This following research proposal will ascertain and explain aspects of research concerning risk communication in post-conflict environments. The purpose of this paper is to conduct a research proposal that will outline and ascertain theories, methodologies and research methods that will be applied in order to better understand the framework of the research problem.
Credit risk has been the subject of considerable research interest in Banking and Financial communities, and has recently drawn the attention of statistical researchers. The exposure to credit risk continues to be the leading source of problems in the banking industry and as a result needs to be managed. Credit risk is identified as a core pillar for the viability of banks and credit institutions (Michael et al., 2011)