What are protective and risk factors?
Risk factors are characteristics at the biological, psychological, family, community, or cultural level that precede and are associated with a higher likelihood of negative outcomes. Protective factors are characteristics associated with a lower likelihood of negative outcomes or that reduce a risk factor’s impact.
What are internal protective factors?
Internal/Personal Protective Factors Dominant attitudes, values, and norms prohibiting suicide, including strong. beliefs about the meaning and value of life. Life skills (i.e., decision-making, problem-solving, anger management, conflict. management, and social skills) Good health, access to health care.
How can we reduce the risk of suicide?
What You Can Do
- Ask someone you are worried about if they’re thinking about suicide. (While people may be hesitant to ask, research shows this is helpful.)
- Keep them safe. Reduce access to lethal means for those at risk.
- Be there with them.
- Help them connect with ongoing support.
- Stay connected.
How do you identify protective factors?
Protective factor examples
- Positive attitudes, values or beliefs.
- Conflict resolution skills.
- Good mental, physical, spiritual and emotional health.
- Positive self-esteem.
- Success at school.
- Good parenting skills.
- Parental supervision.
- Strong social supports.
What is the difference between protective and promotive factors?
The compensatory model describes a process in which promotive factors counteract exposure to risk through an opposite, direct, and independent effect on outcomes. The protective factor model refers to processes in which promotive factors moderate the negative effects of risks for predicting negative outcomes.
What are 4 protective factors?
Protective Factors to Promote Well-Being and Prevent Child Abuse & Neglect
- Protective Factor 2: Knowledge of parenting for child and youth development.
- Protective Factor 3: Parental Resilience.
- Protective Factor 4: Social connections.
- Protective Factor 5: Concrete supports for parents.
What are promotive risk factors?
Protective and promotive factors are conditions or attributes of individuals, families, communities, or the larger society that mitigate or eliminate risk and promote well-being. Research indicates that: Families “thrive when key protective and promotive factors are robust in their lives and communities.”
Which of the following is a protective or promotive factor?
Protective/Promotive Factors They are characteristics or conditions that buffer the effects of risk, stress, or trauma. Some examples: A skill, personal attribute, or supportive relationship. A community that offers supportive services.
What is a promotive factor?
Promotive factors have been identified as assets or resources (Fergus & Zimmerman, 2005). Assets are factors within individuals such as efficacy, identity, and orientation to the future. Resources are factors that are external to the individual such as adult mentors and opportunity structures.
What is the difference between protective factors and promotive factors?