Tag: protective factors

  • Resilience

    Resilience

    Brief description: Children and youth can experience many forms of adversity. Sometimes mild, like not being understood by adults when trying to express their needs, sometimes severe, like being exposed to poverty, domestic violence, and war. Faced with heightened adversity, some children will develop negative outcomes whereas other children will stay on a healthy course…

  • Child and youth development

    Child and youth development

    In this training, we explore the different concepts relevant to child development (including abnormal development). We introduce a model of resilience and risk and protective factors to assess children’s situations and how to use that to develop appropriate interventions. We also look at ways cooperation between different stakeholders in child care can be improved to…