PS282 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Crisis Intervention, Experiential Knowledge, Community Psychology
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Community psych chapter 8 understanding stress and coping in context. Risk factors are characteristic of individuals and situations that are thought to increase the likelihood that a person will experiences problematic outcomes such as. An accumulation of many risk factors can create situations that make particularly vulnerable for developing problematic outcomes. A parent could be diagnosed with a chronic disease. Risk factors do not always lead o processes that result in problematic situations- the same risk factors may effect children in each family differently. Depending on the persons access to social support outside the family, relationship with peers. Protective factors provide resources for coping and often represent strengths of the person, family, or community. Personal qualities (parents optimism) interpersonal resources (good friends who offer help) community resources ( support from religious congregations) Macrosystem resources (access to affordable healthcare, child distal and proximal factors care, etc) Distal factors are more distant from a problem- they aren"t direct triggers of a problem.
