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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
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
1. harm avoidance
2. novelty seeking
3. reward dependence
4. persistance
*these can all be measured by tempermant and character inventory
3 character domains
1. self directedness
2. cooperativeness
3. self transcendence
socio-cultural
1. infrastructure
2. structure
3. symbolic ideationa
infrastructure
casual center for societies
structure
consists of insitutions
i.e. family, school
symbolic
religion, music, art, taboo's, philosophy, ideaology
Remember
A risk factor happens before behavior

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