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ben.fi.ial

a..uire

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including throughout development developmental develop

As children … from infants to teens and to adults they go through a series of … stages that are important to all aspects of their personhood … physical, intellectual, emotional and social. The proper role of the parent is to provide encouragement, support and access to activities that enable the child to master key developmental tasks.

A parent is their child’s first teacher and should remain their best teacher … life. Functioning as a coach, the parent exposes a child to age appropriate challenges to encourage … as well as to experiences that allows the child to explore on their own and learn from interacting with their environment. 

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Lon.l.ness

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interpersonal relationships cultural norms

risky behavior youth at risk inherited traits

… can be defined as individuals between the ages of 12 and 24 who face environmental, social, and family conditions that hinder their personal development and their successful integration into society as productive citizens. They have a greater propensity than their peers to engage in or be subject to risky behavior, including school absenteeism, risky sexual behavior, delinquency, violence, and substance use and abuse.

What factors influence … ? Factors at the individual level are related to the cognitive, physiological, and behavioral nature of the individual, much of which is determined in early childhood. While some individual risk factors are biological — such as race, sex, ethnicity, and mental or physical disabilities — many are strongly influenced by a person’s environment and by the interaction between this environment and the individual’s … .

The micro level refers to the institutions and individuals with which a young person interacts on a personal basis, generally at the community level, including families, peers, schools, teachers, neighborhoods, the police, and health personnel. … such as these play a crucial role in influencing a young person’s choice to engage in risky behavior. Of these relationships, the family seems to be the primary source of both risk and protective factors.

The macro level refers to the systems and institutions that affect an individual but with which he or she has no direct contact, such as overall economic conditions, income inequality, the media, laws, and … .

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hom.osta..s e..retion ..tonomic

paras.mp..hetic

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ask mean care feel be

inferring suggesting feeling

When one feels empathetic one is not really feeling any particular emotion. To claim to be an empathetic person, for instance, is more a claim about your abilities than your mood or likely emotional state. So, to say I feel empathy for you means I feel what you … . We might … how that is even possible. Being an empathetic person may … that you are capable of picking up on the expressions or behavior of someone and … enough about them so that what happens to them is almost as if it were happening to you.

So to be empathetic requires caring, but with the addition of the language of emotions one has an extra-mechanism for … what the feelings of another might be like. What I am … is that if we clearly understand the beliefs that a person has and the preferences that they enjoy and we can see enough connection of those beliefs and preferences to similar beliefs and preference that we could have, then if we care about the person we will feel similar … . Clearly this can be a painful experience but it can also … an important one. For it is through experiences like this that we can feel close or connected to another person.

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