Interventions

Question 1

Risk-focused programes

Answer 1

Intervention programmes that attempt to reduce risk exposure

Question 2

Asset-focused programme

Answer 2

Programmes that attempt to directly provide higher quality and or more quantity of assets in children’s lives

Question 3

Process-oriented programme

Answer 3

Programmes that attempt to improve the most important adaptational systems for children such as key relationships, intellectual functioning and self-regulation systems

Question 4

Moderator (interactive) models

Answer 4

Models based on interactive relationships between protective/vulnerability factors and risk factors.

Question 5

Main effect model

Answer 5

models of resilience in which single factors are identified as determining whether a given child exposed to a risk

Question 6

Mediator effects models

Answer 6

Models that explore the role of intervening or intermediate variables on the effects of risks. Can’t show resilience, but can show the pathways through which risk factors are related to outcomes.