Caregiver Protective Capacities
The personal and caregiving behavioral, cognitive, and emotional characteristics that specifically and
directly can be associated with being protective to one’s children. When the caregivers responsible are able to effectively manage negative family
conditions in the home for the long term, the child is safe. Protective capacities are personal qualities or characteristics that contribute to vigilant child
protection.
Behavioral​
Cognitive
Emotional
Case Management Scaling
Behavioral CPCs
This refers to people who are deliberate and careful, who acts in managed and in self-controlled ways. People who do not act on their urges or desires and do not over-react as a result of outside stimulation.
This refers to people who are action oriented as a human being, not just a caregiver. People who perform actions when necessary.
This refers to people who can delay gratifying their own needs, who accept their children’s needs as a priority over their own. People who do for themselves only after they have done for their children. People who sacrifice for their children and can wait to be satisfied.
This refers to people who can feed, care for, supervise children according to their basic needs. People who can cook, clean, maintain, guide, and shelter as related to protectiveness.
This refers to people who adjust and make the best of whatever caregiving situation occurs. People who come up with solutions and ways of behaving that is new, needed and unfamiliar but more fitting.
This refers to people with many experiences and events in which he/she has demonstrated clear and reportable evidence of having been protective. Other reliable people can describe various events and experiences where protectiveness was evident. People who have raised children (now older) with no evidence of maltreatment or exposure to danger.
Cognitive CPCs
This refers to people who understand the cause & effect relationship between their own actions and results for their children. People who are open to who they are, to what they do and to the effects of what they do.
This refers to people who know enough about child development to keep kids safe and who have information related to what is needed to keep a child safe.
This refers to people who recognize threatening situations and people. People who are alert to danger about persons and their environment. People who are able to distinguish threats to child safety.
This refers to people who know what children of a certain age or with particular characteristics are capable of. People who recognize the child’s needs, strengths and limitations. People who can explain what a child requires, generally, for protection and why.
This refers to people knowing there are certain solely owned responsibilities and obligations that are specific to protecting a child. People who value and believe it is his/her primary responsibility to protect the child.
This refers to the thinking ability that is evidenced in a reasonable, well-thought-out plan. People whose awareness of the plan is best illustrated by their ability to explain it and reason out why it is sufficient.
Emotional CPCs
This refers to the parent/caregiver satisfying their feelings in reasonable, appropriate ways that are not dependent on or take advantage of others, in particular children.
This refers to people who recover quickly from setbacks or being upset. People who spring into action.
This refers to people who can let things pass. People who don’t overreact to mistakes and accidents. People who are able to endure trying circumstances with even temper, understanding, express forgiveness under provocation, and patient as a caregiver.
This refers to the mental health, emotional energy, and emotional stability of the parent/caregiver in providing for protection of children. People who are not consumed with their own feelings and anxieties. People who are mentally alert, in touch with reality.
This refers to active affection, compassion, warmth and sympathy. People who relate to a child with expressed positive regard, feeling, and physical touching/attachment.
This refers to a strong attachment that places a child’s interest above all else. People who order their lives according to what is best for their children because of the special connection and attachment that exists between them.
This refers to people who spend considerable time with a child filled with positive regard. People who take an obvious stand on behalf of a child. People who consider their relationship with a child as the highest priority.
