Children and Families at risk quiz
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- Risk Factor
- Anything that increments the probability of a negative outcome
- Correlations
- 2 things that have to do with one another
- fixed factor
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risk factor that is unalterable
ie. age, race, gender - casual risk factor
- when altered it changes the outcome
- protective factor
- promotes wellness, protects in face of risk
- Human Behavior
- movement of body parts and environmental effect
- Maitenance/Stability
- Ongoing behavior
- amplification
- increase in behavior
- multi-dementiality
- surrounds all problems
- externalizing behavior
- aggression
- internalizing behavior
- depression
- Dimensional
- continum
- categorical
- DSM
- Equifinality
- similar outcomes are arrived at from divergent points
- multifinality
- people have same set of conditions but arrive at different destinations
- pathway predictable
- stable sequence of one thing to another; predictable sequence of behavioral and social phenomenon
- trajectory
- specific developmental route traversed by different individuals
- temperament
- highly inheritable, emotional base
- character
- social learning, not much inherited
- 4 temperment domains
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1. harm avoidance
2. novelty seeking
3. reward dependence
4. persistance
*these can all be measured by tempermant and character inventory - 3 character domains
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1. self directedness
2. cooperativeness
3. self transcendence - socio-cultural
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1. infrastructure
2. structure
3. symbolic ideationa - infrastructure
- casual center for societies
- structure
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consists of insitutions
i.e. family, school - symbolic
- religion, music, art, taboo's, philosophy, ideaology
- Remember
- A risk factor happens before behavior