Category 1
This factor helps parents bounce back from challenges.
What is parental resilience?
Supportive friends, family, and community members provide this protective factor.
What are social connections?
Knowing what to expect at each stage of development builds this protective factor.
What is knowledge of parenting and child development?
Families need access to this type of assistance when facing challenges.
What is concrete support?
This factor supports children's ability to express emotions appropriately and form healthy relationships.
What is social and emotional competence of children?
Give one example of a strategy to strengthen parental resilience.
Examples: Encourage self-care, normalize asking for help, help identify strengths.
Social connections help reduce this risk factor.
What is isolation?
Understanding developmental milestones helps prevent this common form of misunderstanding.
What is unrealistic expectations of children?
Give one example of a “concrete support” service.
Examples: Food banks, housing assistance, healthcare, transportation.
Name one skill that shows a child’s emotional competence.
Examples: Self-regulation, empathy, problem-solving.
Name one overall goal of the Protective Factors Framework.
What is to strenthen families and prevent child abuse and neglect?
Protective factors focus on building family strengths rather than identifying these.
What are risk factors?
The difference in the focus of Caregiver Protective Capacities from Protective Factors
Caregiver Protective Capacities focus on protecting children when child abuse or neglect has occurred while protective factors focus on prevention.
When a family’s basic needs are met, this stressor decreases.
What is parental stress?
Adults can model emotional regulation by doing this.
What is naming and managing their own emotions?