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Protective factors buffer individuals from risks, promoting resilience despite adversity. Strong coping skills, positive relationships, and supportive adults serve as protective factors. Poverty is a risk factor. Cultural assimilation and maladaptive coping are unrelated here.

Major Depressive Disorder requires 2+ weeks of low mood/anhedonia with at least 4 additional symptoms. Persistent depressive disorder requires 2 years. Adjustment disorder involves milder symptoms tied to a stressor. Bipolar II includes hypomania.

Maslow’s hierarchy outlines needs from basic survival to self-fulfillment. Adolescents often seek peer acceptance and belonging. Gang membership, though maladaptive, fulfills the love and belonging need. Safety involves protection from harm. Physiological includes food and shelter. Self-actualization reflects reaching potential.

Trauma-informed care emphasizes stabilization (grounding, safe visualization) before exposure to traumatic material.

Behavioral activation is a CBT intervention for depression, focusing on increasing positive reinforcement through planned activities. Desensitization treats phobias, psychoanalysis explores unconscious drives, Gestalt emphasizes awareness.